Aaron's Aron Hopefully your concussion is okay now. You keep on coming back and then leaving - maybe you'll be back for good next gen?
absdaddy I know life has been busier for you, and I hope things have been going well. I assume you'll be back for a visit next summer to dominate another round of LCPL.
Aconit Where'd you go?
Alice Kazumi I hope your lc open r4 post wasn't serious, because you're really a fantastic LC player. It looks like you're good at other tiers as well, but if you decide to start seriously contributing in LC, your input would definitely be appreciated.
Altariel von Sweep Newer players are always welcome in the LC community, but it's very rare that they're both eager to contribute and already competent. You happen to be both. Stick around in LC!
Amp Pharaohs I guess you've lost interest in LC for now, but if things haven't been too busy, you should come back for sumo!
Antgeezy Congrats on the un-chatban.
But as easy as it is to find something to make fun of you about, you're a good friend with a great sleep schedule. It's fine that mons doesn't float your boat.
apt-get Man, you and absdaddy completely beat the rest of us to the punch with all that hyper offense; too bad you don't really do much anymore. I've always thought you're a good player, and you've made some really cool builds. Maybe missy will be freed in gen 7?
AroundTheSwirlz Swirlix will likely not be freed next generation. Sorry for your loss
Ashley11 Back for sumo, or are you already here under an alt?
bb skarm For the longest time I thought mysteria was just good at quitting until I learned of the name change. We haven't talked in a while - hope things are going all right.
Berks Since this is a shoutout, obligatory mention that you're a super duper great and really good contributor, as well as just a fun guy to talk to. Also, I have a few things to ask, we should have a chat soon
blarajan It looks like you've ditched LC for the time being, so I can now say suck-up free that I thought you were a super good LC tier leader. I don't know if it was just your position as former tier leader, but I've always found that you're really able to command respect with your posts, even if your opinion on Diglett is 100% wrong. Hope VGC goes well.
blizzardy Just a heads up that it's still pretty hard to make a chinchou-less team, though not as hard as before! Do you plan to make a return for sumo?
boo836 Do you remember your Gothita analysis? Well, HP Fire on ScarfGoth is pretty much irrelevant now and CM Goth is the next big thing, so it looks like you were ahead of your time. (Wynaut and Pancham still haven't caught on yet, though.) I said so the last time you made a comeback, but I think the community has improved even further. You should consider sticking around the next time you pay us a visit.
Brazilian Army Your legacy hasn't died yet. Webs continues to be a strong strategy and is still mostly associated with Brazil. Elekid has gotten nominated to B+ a few times now. You may have lost interest in LC, but LC hasn't lost interest in the trends you set. I look forward to what you have to bring next gen.
Bughouse Thanks again for carrying the LC UU slot for the Duskulls!
Caledrith Welcome back!!! You came back to the best metagame (and community!) that LC has ever been, but if you're not ready to dive into that just yet, four-man league parties are always a blast (even if a minimum of two of us feed every time). Lots of things have changed over the past couple years, but our general inability to quit LC sure hasn't.
Celestavian I don't talk with you much except about mons related things, but you seem like a fun guy (too bad your favourite mon is walled by those). Your posts are always reasonable and often put things in a new perspective, so it'd be cool if you started contributing more again.
cityfolk Are you an NU guy now or something? LC's pretty much the best tier in the game right now, so you should definitely check it out!
Coconut There's not much to say here. Thanks for being a great friend, and thank goodness you're around, or the LC community might not even exist.
Conni You may not be top notch in metagame knowledge, but it's always super great to see new users eager to contribute. Stick around!
Coryn02 Thanks for being an incredibly dedicated tutee - I hope you learned enough that if you decide to get back into LC, it'll be smooth sailing. Even if competitive mons isn't your thing, it's nice to have you as a friend.
cuteflounder Did you completely quit mons
Cydrolic I'm sure you know that you used to be unpopular, but now that you've been gone for a bit I think people are starting to appreciate your contributions. Personally I've always found you to be friendly enough, and certainly good at LC - feel free to come back whenever, and consider beginning to contribute on the forums.
DaRizzleTheMan What happened after like the first week?
Dhaora Nerdy as ever, I bet. Hope life is going well for you, and come back for a visit some time soon!
dsr95 Mostly we just chat about whatever now (and sometimes you try to chat when I'm afk), but I'll make it clear now that you're probably the one person that I respect the most in this community. To this day I still try to emulate how you welcomed new users, and whenever we talk about good auth, you're always the first to come to mind. You're pretty good at mons as well, but the main thing I'll remember you for is how you got so many of us into the community - I really do appreciate it.
Dustflier Pretty much the worst league player on the planet. Also, did you give up on topping the ladder after going like 5-2? I guess being that nerdy doesn't leave you with much choice haha. For real though, you should get back into mons for sumo. It's going to be great
Eren Yeagar We haven't forgotten you! Leaving so abruptly without explanation definitely left an impression on us - hopefully you'll come back. Or are you already here under a different account (I can understand why)? If so, let me know - I promise I won't leak.
fatty Cool guy, really good at mons. I think I've disagreed with you on more suspects than not, but you're always able to articulate your opinions well.
Fiend There's no doubt by now that you're one of the best LC players around - your metagame knowledge is top notch, you can consistently build solid teams, and you just generally know what to do. You're pleasant to talk to and have good things to add to any mons-related conversation. It's a good thing that you won't be leaving any time soon, because at this point, the LC community really wouldn't be the same without you.
ggggd Here's another relatively unknown LCer who I definitely think ranks among the best. I don't know how much you actually build, but once the battle starts you pretty much always make the optimal play. You may not be super fluent in English, but don't be afraid to post - your opinions are definitely valued as those of a very solid LC player.
GlassGlaceon We already caught up on things recently, glad things are going well. Come back for sumo!
GOAO You may act differently to some other people, but to me, you're still a great friend, an excellent LCer, and cool like an owl. If you ever decide to go back to contributing in earnest, I'm sure you know that the community will welcome you with open arms; right now, it's just those little things with your personality that would be trivial for you to not even change, just sort of ignore - just look at how much you've improved already - but make all the difference in first impressions. From your battling abilities alone, though, I think you'd make a great addition to any SPL team. Go Goao!
Heysup It feels weird to be writing this when I can just click the move with the highest crit rate and come out with easy wins every game, but you're for sure the LCer I've looked up to the longest. Most of the big names when I first joined ended up going inactive, but you've remained one of the strongest LC players the entire time, and regardless of the easy crits, you're still the one person I'd rather not face in a tour game. There's a reason why Aerow always asked for your opinion regarding ADV LC - your opinion is a pretty big deal around here.
H0W3AN Always nice to have new contributors around! But fix your name because it's pretty awful right now. Also, I've decided that you now only need 3 wins with bp against LC roomauth to qualify you to write the analysis. Make sure to save replays, but don't mention that I told you to use bp.
Holiday As fun as it was to make fun of you, it was only because I think we're tight enough for me to get away with it. Hope life is treating you well, visit often, come up with better RMT names, and strongly consider becoming active again for sumo!
Infamy I'm being completely honest here: you remind me of Aerow, except you're a lot louder, more vulgar, less tactful, and not Norweigan. So I guess you two aren't so alike after all, but I draw the comparison anyways for the way you deal with new users. You welcome newcomers and go out of your way to help them feel integrated, where a lot of other senior users ignore or even deride them. At the end of the day, it's people like you who truly allow the community to grow - though I suppose we could do without the loudness, vulgarity, and tactlessness.
IronBullet We haven't talked much but from what I've seen, you're an amazing leader for rating/tutoring. You're super active and always seem to maintain a level head.
ItzViper482 At first I was a bit worried about how well you'd fit into the community, but it looks like I didn't need to. Keep on contributing, and stick around in LC!
ium Hi! I don't really go on Skype anymore but I'm still on PS fairly often if you want to chat, though it doesn't seem like we usually have a lot of things to chat about. Thanks a bunch for getting me into properly rating.
Jac Fun user to chat with, probably manager of the scariest LCPL team after my own. Thoughts on Foongus getting Toxic Spikes later on in gen 7?
Joltage It's really unfortunate that you never post outside of LC UU (may it rest in peace), because you're pretty good at mons and I feel like you'd have a lot of good things to say. Consider being more active for sumo!
Kingler12345 is a garbage name, Kingler is a garbage mon, cutiefly is great, and my foongus avatar is better than all the ones you've ever had combined. That being said, our random friendlies are always fun, mostly to boost my ego in easy games hahaha
kingmidas I'm officially a senior LCer now. suck it
Mambo For the record, I treat friendships and suspect tests completely separately, which is why I sometimes say rude things during them. Regardless of your incorrect opinions on Diglett/Drifloon, I still consider you a very good friend. I guess this entire post could be considered a shoutout to you since I'm just stealing your cores as usual. Stick around in LC!
marvelous If infamy is jesus, does that make starmaster the virgin mary?
Max Carvalho Foongus is top tier, Cutiefly is going to make Baton Pass way more broken, and CurseChic isn't as predictable anymore now that people are wary of LO Torchic. Perhaps this is the time to make a comeback for more than one/two weeks in a row?
Merritt When I took a break around this time last year, I ended up sneaking back onto Smogon while logged out because I'm that sort of guy, oops. I noticed that user: Merritt was viewing Corporal Levi's profile. This made the "No levi don't be dead pls" message you posted feel a bit more genuine, and it ended up sticking with me. Now, when I brought you up for various nominations and one of the main complaints was that you didn't seem genuine, I obviously couldn't bring up such a silly reason. It's good that you're making your way up anyways, though, and we'll get you your deserved ladybug eventually!
mrnoodleoctopus just a heads up that you're unbanned! (I think)
Nineage Even though the way you suddenly try to contribute a ton in a specific area out of the blue comes off as badge-wanting-y, I think that everybody just overlooks it because a. your contributions are good, and b. they're like, really really good. The CCaT you hosted was the best (and frankly only good) CCaT LC has seen, your analyses are consistently high quality, and CleanRMT is the best thing ever. Also, though you've always been a fun guy to just chat with, I feel that you've changed a lot over the past few years; you're a lot more laid-back now. Unfortunately, your mons skills haven't improved much :(
Nudisto notice me
Oma It was nice to have you around - you were a good rater and a fungi, plus the subject of a million LFC memes. Come back for sumo?
OP Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much your C&C modding improved the quality of LC analyses? It's honestly absurd how easy it is to recognize whether an analysis was written before OP took over and after OP took over. You could pin it on more dedicated/higher quality analysis writers joining, like Sparktrain and Berks, but at the end of the day, you led the QC team to turn our analyses from something we would try to ignore to something we could be proud of.
PttP Thanks for drafting me in my first LCPL!
Quote I may have annoyed you in the past but I super duper respect you as a tier leader. You may not have done everything right, but you've done more right things than any other LC tier leader I've seen. I don't think you're as bad at mons as sometimes make yourself out to be, but even if you were, the fact is that if anybody else had taken your place, the LC community would not be able to make it to where it is now.
rhydonphilip Some people tend to dismiss your posts because of your writing style, but I think that's quite unfair. You have solid knowledge of the LC metagame and often have good things to add to a conversation for those who are willing to take the time to read. Stick around in LC!
Rowan I remember how, as tier leader, you managed to keep the LC community from disappearing just by being popular. You used to be the #1 guy I would look up to, and to an extent I still do - you're really good at the metagames you're familiar with, can come up with some fun builds and are generally friendly. I'd rank you as the best LC player for most of 2014, and I have no doubt that if you have the time to really get into gen 7 you'd become a top player again. And of course, thanks for the avatar!
RZL Start playing LC again for SuMo!
Sam-testings Holy moly, you've improved so much as a user. What happened in the year that you were gone? You're always a fun/pleasant presence in the chat, and you've managed to integrate yourself into the inner part of the LC community pretty quickly - all without learning to play mons
Shrug Now that I've finally gotten a chance to draft you onto the Winning LCPL Team (no complaints there, since you won every single game that mattered), I think it's safe to completely move on from my very bad time as hoppips manager. Which means that here I can talk about how you're an incredibly good contributor, a top notch battler, a super interesting teambuilder, and often the life of our chatrooms. You deciding to stick with LC turned out to be huge.
slurmz As much as I like to pick on you, it's only because I think we're good enough friends for you not to mind. And also because it's just so easy oml
Snobalt To be honest, I remember taking one look at "Snob alt" (which is a way more intuitive way to read it than "Sno Balt", by the way) and thinking you'd probably quit before I ever ended up interacting with you, but it turns out you're actually quite pleasant and generally a friendly guy. We don't talk much because you don't play LC, but you should definitely consider getting into LC because it's great!
sparktrain I hope real life is going well for you, and it's all right that you've quit, because you've certainly made your impression on LC. The QC team will remember you as the best analysis writer in the history of LC, and I don't think any of us will forget that you really did straight up save the LC community from disappearing.
Sparkychild small & short midget
Splashyship hey. big fan dude
Star It looks like some things have happened so that you wouldn't be sure, so let me make this clear. I have a very short list of close friends for whom I would be willing to consider changing my opinion on some topic, if it helps stop them from being put down for whatever reason; you're definitely among them.
Superpowerdude The original LC rater! Thanks for encouraging me to rate - I think that if I didn't have resident LC rater as my identity, I wouldn't have become recognizable in the LC community. I hope you'll be back for SuMo!
tazz You were really good at LC before you went inactive. Do you plan to be back?
TheFenderStory Probably the chillest guy in the LC community, like I don't know of anybody who dislikes you. You're still nothing more than hot garbage at ORAS LC, but I don't know if the LC community would've been able to make it without your efforts with the fringe servers and LFC. Horrible as a battler, but amazing as a friend.
tko I know you're not super fond of the LC community, and we for sure have some shittier members, but I don't think we're so bad as a whole. And even if we were, ORAS LC is the best metagame in the world, Diglett or not. So try giving us a second chance, and stick around in LC!
Tricking Super solid battler and one of the few active QCers we have left. It doesn't look like you participate much in the community anymore but we'd for sure appreciate it if you do.
Ununhexium Not much has changed here since the last time I gave you a shoutout, but this Thursday, you'll have a chance to get into a metagame right from the start and really make yourself known in the metagame - try going with LC!
VeryExcitedLapras You should be more confident in your battling abilities - a loss or even losing streak almost never means anything more than temporary tilt. That being said, feel free to ask for help - you just may not need it as much as you think.
Vubon Did you just lose interest in LC post-floon? I haven't seen you around in a while. For the record, Drifloon may not have been broken, but that tied into how it didn't actually have a chance to influence the metagame much - ORAS LC is still lots of fun. The way we're running SuMo LC means that it'll probably be a good metagame as well - perhaps make a return?
WaterlessMelon I'm not going to stop you if you're moving on from mons, but while you were around I always considered you really good at LC and a very good friend. Try visiting once in a while so we can catch up, and feel free to return if mons seems interesting again.
Wobbyble I guess you don't really do mons things anymore, but you definitely made an impression on me when I first started. Slowfoo is still one of my favourite Pokemon sets in the metagame.
Wretched Waltz Just a heads up that our teams should still be functional in early SuMo. If you have any questions just let me know.
Yagura We haven't talked in forever - how has university been? If you ever get some free time, ORAS LC is super fun and I bet SuMo LC will be too.
zeriloa Hey, I am ready to teach you lc whenever. Just sign up for battling 101, I am an Official Tutor
ZoroarkForever One of the best ORAS LCers overall for sure - so many of your teams manage to become meta for a reason. I always feel more confident in my teams after I have your input, and of course, discussing the metagame with you is always fun. On top of that, you carried the BW slot and the munnas in general. Is there nothing he can't do?
GarchompPit Steelgrassify zerocielX Hi from Chaos/Jungle!
067jox Fille Don't be discouraged by the reception to your viability rankings posts - I'm pretty sure making unpopular nominations is a phase that 90% of LC contributors go through. You two definitely have the metagame knowledge and general mons ability to become great contributors if you decide to stick around.
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