how do you stand being such garbage?
I've learned from example by my good friend
Audiosurfer that bein trash doesnt mean you cant have fun
how have you been faring in gen 6 doubles now that you can't use your rain team?
better than u obviously since i didnt end up quittin in shame.
I really like Gen VI's meta tho.
will your promotion to mentor/mod make you decent or will I have to come back and take over leaderboard again?
(BAN ME PLEASE) pls but if you could come back and tell
Pocket that leaderboard cant be used to determine the equitable distribution of food to third-world countries id be appreciative.
what is the appeal of asb for you?
ASB is a very different game from mons, but it attracted me for the same reason: because it was a competitive strategy game. ASB though as opposed to mons, there's no hidden information and you take turns sequentially. Also obviously the strategies are way different. If you get into asb thinking it's like mons you're going to be disappointed, but if you go in with an open mind it's just an entirely different but still fun game. I don't like the raising pokemon mechanic but i understand we can't get rid of it without losing all motivation to ref so i guess its just gotta stay.
would you be interested in cap doubles?
IDK what you mean by this. If you mean in making a CAP for doubles, I would have huge personal interest but understand why it's bad for CAP since not as many ppl play dubs as ou so wed get less participation (tho a LOT of #cap regulars play lol). So that's a pipe dream I wish could happen.
If you mean a doubles metagame with the existing CAPs thrown in, that sounds kinda fun. Obviously it would go against the spirit of the CAPs, since theyre all made in consideration of a single phase of OU. But then again so is our singles CAP meta lol. There would be some pretty good shit there tho, like Prankster After You Tomohawk O.o
why did you compromise your principles and change your avatar?
I didnt realize anyone actually disliked my avatar until I was modded and people started saying it. I figured the eel had had a good run, six months on xenforo and another ~6 on vBulletin iirc. So i figured now would be a good time to change.
what direction would you like to see doubles go in the new year?
My big goal for doubles has always been / will always be that we're as competitive as worlds-tier vgc players, because i think until then nobody takes us seriously. We've got a good shot to prove this in SPL, and i trust my niggas
Mizuhime,
Arcticblast, and
Laga to pull thru. Apart from that I want to see us remove sleep clause :>
worst set you've ever tried?
Im actually not one for thinking of really shitty sets. Most of the time i prefer to stick with tried and true or at least plausible. Usually when im running bad shit it's some lure set that doesn't even ohko what it's supposed to lure. If we're restricting it to dubs, the very first stages of whitewater had some bad shit, like heal pulse twave stoss rocks blissey. Nothing else is coming to mind atm so i'll say that.
do you like stuff involving doubles forum more or doubles c&c?
I really don't like either that much because I'm a guy who enjoys chatting more than posting, but that's something i'm trying to force myself to get over. Since I've been modded I've really felt like the pressure is on to make only rock-star posts in the Doubles forum so i tend to avoid speaking my mind a lot more than I should, so I'd say that I prefer C&C more lately. Besides, C&C is sheltered from 99% of the just plain dumb posts that the main forum gets, so it's a lot more relaxing to read without going "ugh do i delete/respond with a one-liner correction to this obvious wrongness"
your custom title says you're not a fish enthusiast but your last pic was an eel, care to explain?
The eel was actually from my very old days when i was just a shitty a forum poster. Some mod changed my avvie to bad joke eel. The jigglypuff i had for a while came from a user named CBMeadow, but I lost the file and she disappeared so I couldn't get it back when we went to XF, so I took the avatar i had had before that. When everyone started telling me to change my avatar i was like "all right, what image is really similar so i can troll them," and i remembered
Yilx had spammed #cap with this adorable fish he made a while back so i asked him if i could use it as an avatar.
If you were to get picked up for SPL mid season what team would you want to buy you and why?
I'd want the team that was going to win obviously B)
why has no one just written an asb calculator program or something to make reffing easier?
many have tried, many have failed. I think four people at one point or another have attempted to put together a calculator but none even got past constructing a database. I don't blame them; that sounds like hella boring work.
if you could get any badge right now what would it be and why?
Forum Admin obv, then I could give myself all the other badges and nobody would even check to make sure I'd actually earned them (see user Bloo for details on how this process works).
In seriousness... probably CAP contrib. I've been doing CAP since I started with this site—CAP is the reason I joined this site—and while I did get my first badge from CAP and I don't want to sound impatient, it would mean a lot to me to see my work rewarded with a special snowflake.
what are your feelings on the prestigious metagames of doubles uu and doubles highlander?
I'd love for Doubles to grow to the point that we can support an official Doubles UU meta (this would ofc require the ladder learning to not suck so that most of the right things would end up in UU). A problem with that maybe though is that GF doesn't balance for UU so we might actually be needing to ban things qq (probably not though, since 2v2 helps balance things out on its own).
As for Doubles Highlander: no
i'm not a music guy, i legitimately couldn't tell you the name of five albums that were released in 2013
what are you looking forward to most in the new year?
do you mean personal goals on smogon? If so, I really would like to increase my involvement in different areas of the site. I've recently started looking at rating doubles teams, applied for mentorship, applied for tutorship, signed up for my first major tournament in SPL, gotten back into writing articles for the Smog, etc., all thanks to Doubles. This is a trend I'd like to see continue into 2014. If all goes well, this time next year I could have a scrolly badgeset which would be the coolest shit ever.
do you mean personal goals in general? If so, I want to break 5:00 in my mile before I graduate, i want that deferral at MIT to turn into an acceptance on pi day, I want to keep my grades up so I can give a speech at graduation, I want to run a marathon with some friends, and I want to make eye contact with at least one female over the course of the year. these are listed from least to most achievable.
do you mean stuff i have no control over but still want to happen? idk i'm not really wishful thinker type guy. My big one I guess would be I want to see at least one libertarian party candidate win a house seat during the midterm elections.
why does audio ask so many goddamn questions?
because he loves me n_n
when are you going to properly update the leaderboard its rly fucked up atm as I have ranted about plenty in #doubles
i was going to sweep through today and put all of the points in the categories (which are correct) onto the main leaderboard (which is not).
From there I was going to only update the monthly until jan 31 when i would just add it on to the main
what's your favourite doubles mon, and what doubles mon do you think is overhyped?
oh wow that's hard. I can do the overhyped mon easy—Gardevoir. I really don't know what the fuck you guys see in it. As for the best pokemon in the metagame WHAT THE FUCK YO THATS NOT AN EASY QUESTION. maybe Garchomp? It's pretty good against most of the Pokemon in S rank (Tran, Kanga (thx ruff skin), Zard) and it's got a godly Speed tier. Sadly it's really vulnerable to burn and intimidate :(