To probs one of my favorite players on the site (even if he sucks)
starting off with a brutal comment, well done
How would you feel about facing me in WCOP this year?
I'm certain it'd be a fight to remember!
Do you agree that the monster of Magic Guard+Spikes has become 10x more broken than all the stuff you listed in BW combined?
that's kind of an extreme... but it has become pretty stupid yes.
Out of 10 how beast is Jirachi? (the mon and/or the user)
jirachi isn't the sort of thing that consistently just brutalizes shit but it's so reliable and has so many different ways it can swing across the gens, love it.
jirachee is my luv :3
Why did you miss out mentioning the amazing Suicune in ADV preferred mons? Have you lost interest in it? (God knows why)
there was a point where I was using modest hydro cune on nearly every single team and pre-spl I was going through a real crocune fad. I think it's just preference that comes and goes, for all I know I'll be rockin it all summer.
Thoughts on DPP Gliscor and its insane versatility?
I don't think it's really that diverse... but in 2010 I held the opinion that a really strong glis (back when taunt toxic was the only set) + pursuit tar team was the absolute hardest thing to face. it's terrifying.
I have never seen that SDZor team (before my time), and I have spent the last week bashing my head on the wall trying to build one. Mind posting it pls?
the original, built during tour 14, was made to abuse specs zapdos trashing heatran for bulky sd zor to rape everything else. I also had belt ttar to pursuit scarf rotom (bulky wisp sets were eaten up by my sr heatran) and to consequently fry skarmory, starmie because I didn't want scizor to have to roost spikes off every time it switched in and it checked tran/ape, and breloom because I needed to break down defensive teams while switching into the ttar + grounds that'd check zapdos. I used the team twice that spl, switching to scarftar because opposing starmie terrified me. during the next superstars + tour 15, I shifted to scarf breloom lead just for kicks, going back to mixtar, and made zapdos 3 atks roost @ lefties - simple but effective. nowadays, I'd probably use sr mixtar and scarftran, with a more standard loom, any zap set is fine.
hear the piercing cries of all who found that hell awaits
Current metal stuff you're listening to/will reco?
weakling - dead as dreams; the pinnacle of both american and depressive black metal
walknut - graveforests and their shadows; possibly the best russian bm album, if you like this get forest's foredooming the hope for eternity
leviathan - the tenth sub level of suicide; weakling style
beherit - drawing down the moon; finnish filth
num skull - ritually abused; a dirtier reign in blood
death - leprosy; possibly the best traditional dm album
burzum - belus; varg's post-jail output is pretty underrated, glemselens elv is incredible
bathory - blood fire death, under the sign of the black mark, the return...... all amazing, especially dies irae
Did you really steal ladder alts?
no... I only stole one! it was really boneheaded of me to do so, considering that I'd reached the reqs on two different accounts before and lost them because of decay and ridiculous hax, so all I had to do was send in a special permissions app and I'd most likely have gotten it... but being the stupid 15 year old I was, that didn't occur to me. sorry giga punch xD
Will you avoid doing Heist vs Ojama on YT (I have half of it recorded, meant to be my great return)
be my guest
My chances of breaking into the Zapdos' starting lineup?
good if you practice
Why would you want to ban Latios from BW2 OU and how would that make the tier better, in your opinion?
its draco meteor is truly absurd, and with sand gone it'd be even more ridiculous, although practically necessitating ttar (yes it's an exaggeration) is pretty stupid as is.
I guess while I'm on the note of discussing BW2, do you really think that Sand is worth banning or is it just part of the anti-weather sentiment in general?
sand kinda rubs me the wrong way. when I got more into gsc I realized the cancellation of leftovers in later gens annoys the hell out of me and makes things really hard to play around in quite a few instances. I wouldn't campaign super hard for its removal but I would not miss it.
Why not mentionning Volcarona in things to ban from BW?
because we need some way to counterteam bw god jirachee. plus certain people make it a point to laugh at those who don't bother with volc checks and thus get swept and I really don't need that kind of abuse in my life
volc is really strong but its inability to consistently safely come in makes me kind of a doubter. it usually sets up as soon as it gets in and it only has one shot one opportunity and if it doesn't capture it it's letting it slip, almost never will it threaten a second sweep. I have been theorymonning ways to get volc in and out throughout a match to actually hurt stuff without setting up because in theory it can kinda wallbreak for itself - I mean, ttar immediately switching into a mon with 135 base spa and stab se bug buzz is kinda ridiculous, so why not just bust it up early and sweep later? sr, that's why. as we all know it's impossible to spin in bw, although exca will help a little despite losing to every hazard setter. we'll see.
Why the fuck would you unban monsters like Manaphy, Thundurus and Torna-T???
because I need to appear like I'm not ban happy since that's like the worst thing you can be on smogon.
nah... anyway I don't think mana would be that bad, I imagine it as a better np mew. I know thund and torn-t would probably be nuts, that's why I said Test!! gotta satisfy the "banning pokemon is equivalent to genocide" people, plus I'd be curious for myself. I think both would remain banned though, thund because its therian formes issues are being slower than the lati twins and keld/rak from the get go and incarnate of course has the eternal stupidity of prankster twave. torn-t would outlast everything just like it did only with a less accurate hurricane, granted without rain the amount of trapping goes down so for example jirachi is a safer check, albeit now it's vulnerable to heat wave and it has to be really defensive, like all of torn's other checks.
What's your opinion on the BW metagame shift for WCoP?
would've preferred reuniclus left as well but it's cool, glad there'll be more interesting weatherless offense without fear of venusaur shitting on it
Do you think sun has a reason to exist even with chlorophyll banned (fire spam formula for example)?
there was an early smogcast where jabba described sun as "what hipsters would use" and without chlorophyll I think that holds true now. sun has been reduced to people who wanna try super hard to be Creative
sure. it's broken as hell of course but I'd love it back since nostalgia is my greek hero's fatal flaw
Is not hazards + powerful and fast sweeper the best strategy in Pokémon (Aero in ADV, Zam in BW, Lopunny in ORAS)?
possibly, jeff48 might have a point with his ban spikes philosophy... actually the bw uu guys were the first to think of that iirc. limiting switching is cool but 25% at a time is sort of extreme; again, I think one layer would suffice. some sort of nerf to sr in bw/oras would be cool too.
Do you think using official tournaments as "suspect test" in old gens is a good idea?
there's certainly no denying that it'd get a more realistic portrayal of a metagame than a ladder or unofficial tournament. I suppose there's the concern of worse players beating better ones via potentially broken pokemon but if something is so broken that it's going to dominate despite everyone being extremely prepared for it due to the spotlight then it probably isn't being tested. fine by me.
Do you think having an "old gens council" would be a good idea?
I mean, ubers has (had?) one and they don't do any tiering, so yes. it'd save us the hassle of the "who do we go to with our concerns on this suspect" discussion whenever something pops up, at least.
Favorite to win OST? ST19? Classic?
as much as I like blunder, I've been a fan of wq ever since the original blizzspam rmt apart from my period in late '11 where I took Her (and most everything) too seriously, and the fact that She operates entirely solo is worthy of anyone's admiration.
all 4 remaining dudes in tour are deserving and I'm good friends with 3 of them... however I think heist is the most deserving. bab gg
for classic, new breed has been on a tear, heist is looking really good there as well
do you think the addition of public replays changed how fast a metagame develops?
eh I don't think so. people are going to know what's being used and adapt to it just by watching games as they happen.
thoughts on borat and the guides?
takes himself a tad too seriously, but the guides are amazing, I don't think anyone could say otherwise and mean it. I remember when I was first reading them and I recognized some of the techniques he mentioned since I'd subconsciously developed them in the later gens just by playing a lot and observing well I suppose, I always tell my tutees experience is the best teacher and this is a great example.
thoughts on disfunctions cursepass umbreon?
rofl man when I read this I actually snorted. god when he pulled it off I thought it was even more genius than sash dd mence. that's how I rated battlers in those days - the creative combos they came up with.
30 sec theorymon about how abomasnow (with snow warning obviously) would play out in advance.
it'd be a strong alternative to leech celebi since zapdos doesn't really want to come in to pressure waste its pp thanks to the threat of blizzard, plus it doesn't have a 4x weak for dug to abuse (although rs/aa/hpbug would certainly hurt). it can focus punch the hell out of ttar and bliss. it'd be interesting to see lefties from dudes like jira and meta canceled out, would probably make an easier revenge kill for dug. it'd annoy skarm too. lack of good grass stab and natural cure thus making it susceptible to toxic kinda blows though. interesting pokemon.
which player will be the first to reach three individual trophies?
gonna use this opportunity to point out how much I dislike when people give """funny""" answers to questions like these, for example "bluewind, only one tour to go XD" or "tele after he wins the next three OLTs lmaooo"
real answer, heist. after being shafted for so long, he wins tour, classic and grand slam for good measure to cement himself even further as one of the GOATs, since not having a single individual trophy is the end all be all when those come up
jesus dude, cant believe they gave a criminal like you as one of the AMAs. Laddering on a stolen alt for a friend puts you up there with varg and some of the other black metal psychopaths you idolize
my mountain is cooooooooooooold
If you could grudge match one user on this site and the loser has to leave smogon forever who would you throw down vs BE HONEST
I'd never actually grudge match people because I went through that sorta shit a lot with the '11 shofu crew and while it might be good crowd entertainment it is really annoying (cbb vs. tesung proves both these points). that said, shake, because who knew that one letter could be so fucking obnoxious. bop G
What players did you primarily look up to when you were a kid at the regileague?
wilechase, mrflamethrowa, cooltraineralex, m4gnitude, mtgxerxes and wasted sky pirate!!! blue tornado, eaglesrock, scimjara and aziki as well. also my good pals bro fist and sweepage of course.
If there are any hipster picks [like a prestigious clan leader or whatever] how do you rate them in the grand scope of things/do you think they would be able to excel on smogon today
wile either got praised as an unbeatable ou player by noobs (when they weren't criticizing him for using ou pokemon that is) or as total trash by people who knew what they were doing but I think he was a solid player, he actually did pretty well in some tours here on smog. flamethrowa also had some success and would've been heist tier had he continued. wsp was never the most active smogoner iirc but he had creativity out the wazoo so I think he'd definitely have great moments. cta invented colbur azelf, no joke! great memories with that dude...
If we unbanned Manaphy do you think it’d run rampant? What checks it if weather/Kyu-B/Latios are all gone?
my girl latias! it also loses to a few defensive dudes depending on its coverage, hazards + phazing really bother it and it would probably just get overwhelmed by faster guys sorta like np mew does now.
Opinion on Scald and banning moves in general?
scald is fucking retarded and should be banned from all tiers immediately. I'm all for banning moves if they're causing too much of a ruckus.
without sand ttar, it'd be absurd, whereas latias doesn't quite have that obscene power. latios is kinda nuts already haha
Why get rid of Sand/Rain?
for sand,
sand kinda rubs me the wrong way. when I got more into gsc I realized the cancellation of leftovers in later gens annoys the hell out of me and makes things really hard to play around in quite a few instances. I wouldn't campaign super hard for its removal but I would not miss it.
rain, I still hold the same opinions from two years ago. fuck it.
Opinion on Bulk Up + Acrobatics Tornadus?
I remember when agammemnon's 2011 team had it and it's really cool in theory... but I have yet to see it (consistently) perform well. shame.
Opinion on the changes being implemented in the upcoming WCoP?
would've preferred reuniclus left as well but it's cool, glad there'll be more interesting weatherless offense without fear of venusaur shitting on it
Is Hail still a viable countermeasure to…anything?
mix aboma is cool and hail disrupts shit... I guess haha
And one about your retirement. Are you doing a hard quit after SPL 7, as in no more playing/managing ever? Don’t think I’m alone in saying it would be cool if you stuck around for future team tournaments to spread your satanic wisdom.
I think I would stick around to help out my former teams, although it'd probably be unofficially, and maybe play some rby/gsc. I'll definitely hang around irc and the forums though!
Good luck with university. Chase your dreams
fucking slayer (thanks bro
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