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Username: ComputerWhiz
PS! Username: ComputerWhiz
Signup Format: ND OU
Your timezone: Gmt-6 (GMT-5 after march 9th since tz is about to change again :sob:)
Usual Hours of Availability: After 6PM, weekends.
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been playing on alts since late ORAS, played a fair amount of gen 7 tiers and fell off at the start of gen 8, but became more interested in competitive around June 2021. Started rating for various tiers in Trainer Academy where I'm now a room owner. Played in ndfl to middling success slotted in SS, but with the tera ban I'd like to pick up SV more seriously. I think I'm a decent clicker but my building is subpar.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes. erichum
Username: zinnias PS! Username: zinnias Signup Format: ADV
Your timezone: +0
Usual Hours of Availability: depends on my shift pattern but i have sundays and mondays entirely freed and weekdays on either my evening or afternoon + evening
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): i've been playing pokemon on and off for a pretty long time and started using smogon / tournaments more often in 2023. i play SM and RBY mostly but i dabble in other gens like GSC and BW. i want to improve at my weakest oldgen in ADV and i've been itching to try tutoring anyway
Are you able to use Discord?: yeah
Username: Kapwing PS! Username: Smelted Signup Format: Mix and Mega
Your timezone: EST
Usual Hours of Availability: it really depends on the day
Monday-Thursday: depending if i have afterschool i likely won't be available till 5-6 PM and then an additional couple of hours (cause i'd be tired then) Friday-Sunday: just about any time Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): avid Othermetas enjoyer (depending on who you ask) and i'd say i'm decently determined to make a metagame (that i like) as fun and competitive as possible Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Mincera31
PS! Username: Mincera31
Signup Format: MnM Your timezone: IST Usual Hours of Availability: Everyday, from after 10:30pm to about 12am
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon : Joined PS a couple years ago, got into MnM at start, but currently i generally just play monthly OMs and get to like mid ladder with some self made teams or mid-high with some help Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, username is Mincera31
Username: Test Rex PS! Username: Test Rex Signup Format: MnM Your timezone: GMT +1 Usual Hours of Availability: Afternoons/evenings Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I have some experience in other OMs and in BH. Would like to learn MnM. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Solosis PS! Username: Comfey0 Signup Format: SV Mix and Mega Timezone: GMT +5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: Usually free between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm on weekdays.
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokémon: Moderately experienced at the metagame. I've managed to get reqs twice for Mix and Mega (Dragapult & Rusted Sword), and have ranked top 300 on both of those accounts. I'm eager to learn more about the metagame, especially when it comes to teambuilding – an area where I'm really bad.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, it's Solosis11 (but no voice chats please).
Username: IcyPenguin2 PS! Username: IcyPenguin604 Signup Format: SV DOU Your timezone: -5 Usual Hours of Availability: Friday/weekends, hopefully will have time weekday evening going forward Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing mons for about a year, and in that time I've become one of the top randbats players, making top 16 of rands slam(the rands circuit similar to smogons grand slam), won the battle factory open, and went 5-1 this past rbtt. I was also voted the 3rd best newer player on the site this year. When it comes to doubles, I'm a lot newer, but have been getting good quite fast, reaching 88 gxe on the ladder, and starting 3-0 this osdt, taking down lemurro this past week. I'm looking to get help with how to use more diverse teams and how to find teams that I like more effectively, as well as with scouting for tour games and looking into some of the more advanced doubles skills, things like long term positioning and analyzing a matchup better on team preview. Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: Beuto PS! Username: Beuto Signup Format: SV NU Your timezone: UTC+1 (GMT+1) Usual Hours of Availability: 4pm - 10pm on weekdays, pretty flexible on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): started playing pokemon in XY but not competetively. Somewhat got into competetive pokemon during SS but wasnt good at it and I had a big break until the release of SV. I usually play Random Battles but I want to learn how to play formats in which you actually have to somewhat think of how you build a team and use it properly so I dont lose r1 in every tourney I sign up for Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Keem PS! Username: UQK Signup Format: NDOU
Your timezone: GMT -4
Usual Hours of Availability: 5:30-9PM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I was previously very active on smogon/ps but decided to put mons down for awhile,not new too this but washed up for sure
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: Vertigo PS! Username: Vertigo Signup Format: SV AAA Your timezone: GMT +1 (soon to be +2) Usual Hours of Availability: 6pm~2am on weekdays, a lot more on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I played a lot of SV formats but mainly focused on Ubers with already some ladder experience in AAA. I've usually always resorted to stealing teams to use on ladder because I am awful at teambuilding across the board, and learning AAA more thoroughly is something I want to do; it's a format I appreciate and find fun to play. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes
Username: zoe PS! Username: zoe Signup Format: SV AAA Your timezone: GMT -4 Usual Hours of Availability: Effectively 24/7 during the week (besides a 2h window around noon), late evenings on Saturday/Sunday Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've pretty much exclusively played doubles formats for the past 4 years I've been playing and had an interest in singles from being drafted in teamtours with both or managing ones with only singles formats. I've tried to get into it a few times but have had pretty much no success due to how big of a shift it is. I do want to learn AAA as a way to get started in singles while also being in a tier that was really interesting to me in OMPL due to how competitive it is at a high level while still allowing for extremely goofy sets, which I adore. Are you able to use Discord?: yea!
Username: SENTURIES PS! Username: SENTURIES Signup Format: BW ou
Your timezone: -4
Usual Hours of Availability: Depends on high variance work schedule
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
SENTURIES THA DON is looking for capable, handsome / beautiful reliable arms to shelter me from the harsh, unforgiving and volatile weather of Black and White 2 OverUsed. After joining the site in September, SENTURIES has demonstrated to be a quick and eager study, quickly translating advice from some of the best in the game in GSC into tangible results, being in winners finals of the invitational play ins, 2-0 in gscpl, and currently r7(?) of winter seasonal, as nearly first-in results. Looking to recreate this success and more elsewhere, he has set his eyes upon the tier where Garchomp's body is shaped like a can of pringles. Are you able to use Discord?: senturies21
Username: Sstardust PS! Username: pleasenofreeze Signup Format: SV PU
Your timezone: UTC + 8
Usual Hours of Availability: Any time after 4 PM
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I began playing competitive pokemon in the middle of 2023, and then stopped playing after a few months. I was never really interested in the lower tiers, opting to play formats like Ubers and Natdex OU. My highest peak was 1600 in National Dex Ubers. I've just started playing again in the past few weeks, and I've been trying out PU using a few sample teams, I'm finding it just as fun as tiers with a higher power level. However, I'm struggling a bit with building my own team and making generally good plays in matches, often getting tunnel vision. A tutor would really help me grow as a player, and it would be much appreciated.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yep, and I'd be happy to VC if needed.
Username: TrainerGoldAlt PS! Username: TrainerGoldAlt Signup Format: SV MNM
Your timezone: +5:30 Usual Hours of Availability: after 4 pm on weekdays, any day on weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I used to play g7 mnm a lot but after its ladder got removed, i lost motivation to play g8 or g9 mnm. After a long break id like to come back to mnm but i feel like im out of touch with the current meta. I'd like to gain some experience in teambuilding and learning about the current meta and relevant threats in mnm and feel like tutoring is the best way as opposed to using a sample and running into a brick wall over and over and learn via trial and lots of errors Are you able to use Discord?: yes, TrainerGoldAlt
Username: Seraphz PS! Username: Seraphz Signup Format: SV NU Your timezone: -3 Usual Hours of Availability: 3 - 4 hours evening Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing for a while now but without a doubt NU is my weak point and I would like to fix that. Are you able to use Discord?: yes (seethefire.)
Username: Finchely PS! Username: Finchely Signup Format: ADV OU Your timezone: GMT -7 (-8 once daylight savings ends) Usual Hours of Availability:
Wednesday and Friday after 4pm
Saturday all day
Sunday after 2pm
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences):
I've been playing showdown for close to two years now maybe? First picked up mons with SV OU when espathra shed tail was still legal, but dropped the tier after Pokemon Home dropped. After that I drifted in UU for a little bit, but I eventually landed at Ubers UU where I quickly became a community leader. I picked up ADV OU a bit more on the recent side, after a friend convinced me to sign up for a discord-based ADV tournament, and ended up liking it a lot. And especially as of recent, I've been trying to play it a lot to work on my fundamentals as a player, due to how methodical the format is. I've been doing ok enough laddering on my own, but I figured that I'd be able to improve a lot faster if I got the help of someone more experienced, which is why I've signed up here to get mentored on the metagame.
Username: Queenie_ PS! Username: corvid_queen Signup Format: dpp ou Your timezone: +13 Usual Hours of Availability: 3pm-10pm Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Have been playing adv ou for a little over half a year. I have participated in multiple non-smogon team tours and a few official ones. Recently I've been trying new formats and have enjoyed dpp ou the most and would like to get better at it :D Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: goldmason
PS! Username: goldmason
Signup Format: SV AAA
Your timezone: GMT-5
Usual Hours of Availability: Most days not during working hours
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...pairing-records.3693028/page-38#post-10446574 same thing but AAA, going to be hosting OMPL so I'd love to know the meta better
Are you able to use Discord?: yes, goldmason
Username: realExcaliju PS! Username: Excaliju Signup Format: ADV OU Your timezone: EST/GMT-5 Usual Hours of Availability: Weekends and weekday evenings Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've played very little standard metas, being primarily an on-and-off draft and Hackmons player for over a decade. I think I have experience with fundamentals but I have no experience with non-team preview formats and have zero translatable teambuilding experience. I want to gain experience in these areas to improve my general mons abilities and throw myself out of my comfort zone into a format with much more depth than what I'm used to. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, discord username Noareames. do not dm me 'frog'
Username: Clarex PS! Username: Clarex Signup Format: SV 1v1
Your timezone: EST
Usual Hours of Availability: Afternoons, 7 days a week
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Been in a few tournaments, as well as laddering but feel like I've hit a wall. looking for advice on picking/teambuilding. really any insights would be great.
Are you able to use Discord?: yes
Username: Kokona Aoba PS! Username: Varies, currently using anki grinder Signup Format: SM OU
Your timezone: +5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: Evening I'm always free, also the weekend. Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been laddering for around a year now, but got into seriously trying to learn metas around 6 months ago. I'm mostly experienced in ORAS OU (top 500 ladder peak, in Discord tours), and have been hoping to learn SM for a while. Since there might be an SM Mushi League soon, I thought it would be a good idea to get seriously into it now. Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, krystallion1396
Username: zastra PS! Username: zastra Signup Format: SV LC Your timezone: +5.5 Usual Hours of Availability: most of the day / prefer evenings or nights Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I play many tiers and I've been interested in LC for a while now. Generally sit at the higher end of the ladder and currently playing LPL on Fuecocos. I've tried my hand at building but I don't think I'm very amazing or creative and my plays are probably not the sharpest at times either. I'd love to have a tutor help me master this tier Are you able to use Discord?: yep
I saw lc was last posted in here, idk. Username: Arcanine1929
PS! Username: Arcanine numbers
Signup Format: SV LC
Your timezone: -5
Usual Hours of Availability: weekday mornings and afternoons, saturday afternoon, sunday evening. Most evenings work but can be iffy
Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): Well, i play lc a lot. I got lucky in lcbc with my builder (s/o edgy ty goat) but did go 6-1. I'm kinda just here to clean up my gameplay, i tend to either suck or play like prime mj, and its generally sucking. All discord tours and stuff where i play svlc i just... yeah. Trying to get better for blt, and old gens if possible (mostly ss cuz i suck at everything else clearly) and yeah, idk what else to write, i started in 2021 ig.
Are you able to use Discord?: Yes, no vc tho please and ty :)
Username: Nashrock PS! Username: Nashrock Signup Format: SVOU Your timezone: -4 Usual Hours of Availability: evenings on weekdays and all day weekends Tell us a little about your experience in competitive Pokemon (min. 3 sentences): I've been playing for a while and I've tried several tiers on the site. I had some decent matches but I feel that I've been stuck for further improvement for a while. I want to get better in details from mapping game plans to endgame solutions. Are you able to use Discord?: yes
