Please talk about how much you love rby here:) have fun yall
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been playing in uu crossgen tours for about 2 years so time to do some shoutouts
Maris Bonibelle: i seem to win a lot so no need to explain why or how(i write got lucky on every winpost!)
Melbelle: Might be the longest time RBY UU player among these. Mel has consistently innovated this metagame in the builder and compliments that by just clicking very well. She's a fun team presence too, remember Free Him? I'd argue she has the most adaptable builder out of everyone here without overcooking and ive learned a lot from her over the years. She's had plenty of 6-1s to show for it over the years, so this is not unwarranted glaze. She deserves it
Fc: Fc is the rare example of a player who is not an rby mainer consistently showing up to play RBY UU in crossgen tournaments where it is featured, in spite of changes to tiering itself. He performs well and definitely knows the rby mechanics so id say he's a good value buy for a team. Impossible to ignore. There are some tendencies in his builder id rate him slightly lower for but everyone at his level and below has those in different facets so he is still a strong choice.
ThatOneApple : Apple is definitely a fresher face among the rby uu crowd, having debuted on this tier roughly a year and a half ago. He's appropiately made a name for himself with very solid clicking. Ive certainly noticed his motivation waning slightly but hopefully he's aiming for good games this season and he should do well.
GirlsSeeGhosts : in a rare moment, after his first time SPL dayview playing RBY OU, GSG has signed up to play RBY UU to grace us with his smash melee AND pokemon skills. In spite of my unserious glaze, he has actually played this tier before, last year, never in a teamtour environment to my knowledge, but the clicking ability should be there. He tends to be fairly conservative in the builder in RBY OU which may translate to his team choices and building tendencies, but again, i trust him to diversify if he sees fit
Theycallmephil and magialice have both played this tier as of late in crossgen teamtours and theyve done fine. I rate magialice higher than phil due to her builder tendencies but they both have a bit of work to do in my opinion. The main benefit of these players is that they are competent in rby and are flexible enough to play others, like GSC for phil and GSC(<@201656791291920384> can you add that i went 4-0 in gscuupl) and BW.
PHB11677 has played in plenty of rby teamtours and individuals as of late for rby lowers. Ive never seen him play rby UU in a teamtour , but i think he'd perform well. I can consider him an RBY mainer at this point. I would trust him to hold his own.
pac I was far too harsh on pac in my previous shoutout post. I'd argue the low prices he ended up getting as a result actually made him better value than you'd imagine. He's historically done fine, and ADMITEDLY, i think any issues with him have primarily come from activity. Without those issues, he is a perfectly competent pickup.
KeshBa54 this guy has been grinding RBY OU pretty hard this year and been pretty successful. I imagine he could do it with an RBY lowtier much easier but ive never seen him play one. He's no gsg but i think he'd be interesting. Though maybe better slotted into gsc lowers where he's actually played and seems to perform well.
EDIT: tree told me this guy played RBY NU vs me and he actually did pretty good. oops sorry that i forgot this. moving him up for this alone
BigFatMantis would like to play each tier in this tournament at least once and i can definitely somewhat vouch for his rby ability. He made top 4 for the RBY UU Cup in 2025 and he clicks solid. Maybe there's one rby mechanic that could fly under him but that's easy to fix. Definitely good enough to play 1 game and then some more, even if he'd probably only like one set of RBY
Proszz Taka and
Ryzzantheguy :Similarly to PHB, Ive seen Proszz play RBY PU , Taka play RBY Ubers , and Ryzzan play PU in crossgen teamtours in 2026. The clicking was plenty fine, and i do have to admit that willingly taking the step into RBY Ubers is a good sign, as RBY Ubers is hell on earth even for plenty of RBY Mainers, so that's a good sign for mental, which is arguably more important than anything else when the main flaw of nonmainers stepping into rby is an unwillingness to take the game seriously beyond full paralysis fishing and thus giving it the same amount of effort. Granted im assuming a lot here but hey wanting to play the tier is a good sign. Ryzzan in particular is clearly very motivated and hungry for results, so id trust him to be highly motivated.
Soda Eesti unfortunately locked out of RBY. Sad! Please remove the rby tierlock so you can play RBY!
Tree69420 did not lock out of RBY UU so you should slot him in RBY , he retired from RBY lowers but he was good at one point and still would do well but also he will certainly lock himself out of RBY once he gets pinged here