Approved by UU moderation & inspired by Feliburn's project
Welcome guys in the "UU Player Interview", a project where you'll be able to discover or re-discover some well known players of the UU community. Those people may be known thanks to their high-skilled level or their achievements on the strategic scene but also thanks to their dedication into the tier or within the community. Time to gossip !
Hey Twilight and welcome in player interview. How are you doing today ?
I'm doing good thanks for asking. Just been chilling in front of a fan allday because the heat in the UK has been pretty high recently
Yeah we got a pretty harsh heatwave in France too, 39°C where I'm living ! First, and not surprisingly, could you introduce yourself a bit ?
I'm a university student currently studying Games Programming about to go into his second year. I enjoy coding and learning the different languages. I've only made a couple of small project games so far with a small puzzle game being online somewhere from a weekend project I did at my university. Other than that I'm pretty layed back with video games and anime being my main source of entertainment. With the main game I'm playing being Valorant as of now.
Alright. You're also pretty engaged in Smogon / Showdown (Room Owner on UU room, RMT Moderator and UU Community Contributor). Is there any reason which leads you to invest yourself so much in the community ?
The RMT section was definitely what got me into forums as a whole where I started off doing bad rates in OU back in like 2017. I then lost interest in Pokemon soon after until I decided to get back into it again last year. I think my desire to get into UU just came from liking the Pokemon Mega Altaria and posting and RMT of it. Vivalospride rated it and has helped me improve a lot since then. The people in the community is probably the biggest thing that has kept my interest in UU.
Yeah the UU community is great and doesn't feel as big as the OU one for sure. Talking about the UU, what do you think about the state of the current metagame ? Lily talked about the fact that we'll probably get a public suspect test on Jirachi, do you have an opinion on it ?
I personally don't find the current state of UU to be that enjoyable, the threats that need to be accounted for and how they warp the meta like Lycanroc-Dusk, Terrakion, Kyurem, and ofc Jirachi really constrains team building to heavily revolve around having ways to initiate these strong breakers with things such as pivots or Sticky Webs. My opinion on Jirachi as a whole is that it's too unhealthy for the tier. A Pokemon that can run so many sets to the point that you will always be weak to it is just too much imo.
Yeah it's tough to handle Jirachi. Is there a Pokemon you think is particularly underrated at the moment ?
I think mostly everything good is getting usage but I would probably say Celebi if I had to. I haven't seen too much of it, which is to be expected with Jirachi in the tier. However, LO 3 Attack or NP sets can put in a lot of work rn. It's typing is also great for handling stuff like Keldeo, Slowking, and the Rotom formes.
And do you have any favorite mon/set at the moment ?
I've enjoyed using Keldeo right now, good amount of utility in its typing and flexibility with its sets. The Choiced sets are the ones I have enjoyed using the most
Alright. Let's focus a bit more on you if you don't mind ! Where does your nickname come from ?
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is one of my favourite games and one I played a lot of in my childhood. So I've always had my names based around this but everyone asks me if it's because I like the movies ;-;
Yeah I was thinking either Zelda or the movie ^^ By the way, are you on vacation ?
I am not, I have been stuck at home due to the virus
Oh yeah you're still confined ?
yea however it has lightened up a little bit in some regards, but I'm pretty sure a majority of my second year at uni will be online
In France we still don't know if we're going back to school in september or not. Let's talk about food, do you have a guilty pleasure ?
umm I don't think I really have one rn, if there is something like Ice Cream available then I usually can't resist. But if it was a normal day and I had spare change I would probably be snacking on a choclate bar or going to a local burger/chicken shop. Quarantine has definitely made my eating habits a lot better lol
Like a lot of us :p Would you mind to share with us a UU team you made recently ?
I made this yesterday and it's probably one of the fatter teams I've made as of late. As the title implies I was tired of broken teapot sweeping my ass on ladder. I won't give much explanation to it but it relies on using Jirachi + Tyranitar to open up Mienshao or Noivern to clean late-game. It loses to some variant of Jirachi so look out for that. I also made a BU Grimm team in the building lab if people want to try that out.
That Tyranitar spread look insane.. Well thanks, that's pretty much all I have to say. We finally manage to find some time for this interview hehe, thanks for being here !
no problem, thanks for interviewing me
Feel free to ask to Twilight any questions you want !
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