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First of all thanks for taking the time to do this, I'm sure the community will be interested in hearing from an MPL winning manager, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself?
My favorite pokemon is Mudkip, he's cute and my favorite game of pokemon is emerald. As hobby I like read manga, watch anime. I start to learn japanese, now I think I'm decent in English I wanted to learn a 3rd language and I decide to learn Japanese. Otherwise, I work in a supermarket, unfortunately pokemon doesn't help to have money...
That's so cool that we have the same favorite Pokemon :) how did you get the name Cielau?
Oh nice to hear it! For my name it was a random name I created for a game with my little sister, when I was 9 or 10 years old. A bit theater, we incarnate some character and one of them was Cielau. Of what I remember it's the fusion of Ciel = sky and Haut = high, the combination looks like cielo = sky in spannish this time. I like symbolic of trying to be higher than sky, it works well for a competitive game.
That's a really cool story, and definitely a really creative name! How did you get introduced / involved with the Monotype community?
I think it was because a french youtuber make a video of a mono ghost team early SS. I decided to try to play the team, and quickly grind in the ladder. I had lot of time at this moment of my life so I start to play a lot and a lot and I became a ladder hero of monotype. Dieu Amphibien asked me if I wanted to join the french monotype discord in April or May 2020. I accepted and I discovered a really welcoming and friendly community. And with time I also joined the smogon monotype community, and same, I discovered lot of good people.
Do you have a favorite moment or memory that sticks out from your time on Smogon / PS?
This mpl win will probably stay in memory for a long time, but I have in mind my first tournament win. It was a minor tournament from a french community, but it was the first (I 3-0 Toadow in finals :p). And yeah probably my win against Conflux during the tiebreak of the 16th place of 2021 playoff circuit. It's the both who came to me with that question, but I probably forgot a lot of good memories.
Big congratulations on your MPL win, do you mind telling us about that? How did you and Toadow decide to team up? How did you approach the draft?
Thanks I appreciate it! Honestly last year it was a bit unexpected to be choice as manager, Hurtadoo pushed me to try and with Toadow we agreed to be together for pushing our submission. We have been friends for a long time and they (hurta and toadow) had more experience as manager. So it was important to have them as support. For this year we just decided to redo with Toadow. I think I'm ovarall more active but less serious than him for schedule stuff and things like that, we also have a similar vision of what is a good manager so overall it was a good pairing.
For the draft, we had in mind to mix a competitive draft and a funny comp. Cuz yeah it's cool to win but I also want to take good and funny moment with my mate. For that we made a list of all the people we wanted to have, and during the auction we improvise depend of the situation. For the competitive part, like we was poor, we had to bet in the future goat or good pilot who didn't touch a lot monotype. I bet a lot in the ru player, cuz I knew they would take in hand quickly monotype (especially when u know they already touch a bit the tier in past gen)
That's a really smart strategy, its always important to prioritize having fun, as well as having good chemistry with your teammates. How did you guys feel going into the last week of the season? How did you prepare for a must win-scenario?
It was huge, we won the semis by the best way possible and be in finals always mean you have a chance, so I think everyone was focused on that. For the prep it depends on the player/slot, for exemple Masskeau needed a lot of testgame for his teams so each day we played like 3-5 games. For Bouff after having the team, I wrote a huge text with all the possible matchups and each scenario he has to expect, what's the gameplan, etc. For Gelb or Floss, it's more let them make their things and check after if they need help. I will not say everyone, but I think it gives an idea of how our organization looked at the moment. I think the real specific thing I did for finals, was watch all the replays of the competition and make a google doc with the statistic of winrate for each type in oldgen. But after 2 or 3 hours of making Floss reminded me Kenn already did it. But I think except in bw, we had all the good call like that, the original call in oras was bug but I didn't trust it 5min before the game...
Wow, that sounds like a lot of work but it definitely paid off, that's a very hands on approach to the game so it's no wonder why you guys won. Was there a team that was toughest for you guys?
Honestly we struggled against each team of this tournament, I don't remember any week where it was not close to be the end for us. But for sure tinkatons and honchkrows were the 2 teams I feared the most. It was clearly an upset from us to win this tournament.
Thanks for your insight! Just a few more questions to wrap up. First, if you could ban or unban anything in any Monotype generation, what would it be and why?
Back 2 years ago I would say moltres-galar 100% but now probably gouging fire, flutter mane or gholdengo. Hard to know who are the worst. For past generations, I wouldn't make any change even if sometimes the tier isn't really balanced. It's already hard to know what is good for a tier when it's a current gen, so for a past gen I think it's really easy to get wrong.
I could definitely get behind banning Gholdengo. Is there a team that you think shows your style of play best that you could share with us?
Would be great... I think I can show you an old team now from SS, I think it was built for mwp 2021-2022. Probably the most classic fly you could see, but I know I was one of the first who used Knock Off on Thundurus and same Thunder Punch on the Dragon Dance Dragonite set (it was always eq). I think the team still works even if it's clearly outdated now. Overall I play mainly balance and bulky offense, it's clearly what I prefer
Team: https://pokepast.es/6c8726742df43909
Do you have any advice for newer players who want to get more involved in the community?
Honestly the best way is playing tournaments, don't hesitate to ask people for suggestions, for help, for games. You have more good surprise than bad overall. Be active, and more than all you have to persevere. By that, I mean, believe in the possibility you will succeed and how. It's only words, but when you doubt yourself, I think it's important to keep that in mind. Love you monotype, I hope one day, our work will pay off and our tier will be more recognized.
Thank you so much for your time and your diligent answers, I’m sure everybody will appreciate reading and learning a bit more about you. Is there anybody you would like to give a shoutout to?
Big s/o to all my mpl team, s/o to all the people who have helped me throughout the years, s/o to all the friends I made in this game, s/o all the contributors of the community. Thanks for this interview it was nice to be a part of it!
inspired by this and this
First of all thanks for taking the time to do this, I'm sure the community will be interested in hearing from an MPL winning manager, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself?
My favorite pokemon is Mudkip, he's cute and my favorite game of pokemon is emerald. As hobby I like read manga, watch anime. I start to learn japanese, now I think I'm decent in English I wanted to learn a 3rd language and I decide to learn Japanese. Otherwise, I work in a supermarket, unfortunately pokemon doesn't help to have money...
That's so cool that we have the same favorite Pokemon :) how did you get the name Cielau?
Oh nice to hear it! For my name it was a random name I created for a game with my little sister, when I was 9 or 10 years old. A bit theater, we incarnate some character and one of them was Cielau. Of what I remember it's the fusion of Ciel = sky and Haut = high, the combination looks like cielo = sky in spannish this time. I like symbolic of trying to be higher than sky, it works well for a competitive game.
That's a really cool story, and definitely a really creative name! How did you get introduced / involved with the Monotype community?
I think it was because a french youtuber make a video of a mono ghost team early SS. I decided to try to play the team, and quickly grind in the ladder. I had lot of time at this moment of my life so I start to play a lot and a lot and I became a ladder hero of monotype. Dieu Amphibien asked me if I wanted to join the french monotype discord in April or May 2020. I accepted and I discovered a really welcoming and friendly community. And with time I also joined the smogon monotype community, and same, I discovered lot of good people.
Do you have a favorite moment or memory that sticks out from your time on Smogon / PS?
This mpl win will probably stay in memory for a long time, but I have in mind my first tournament win. It was a minor tournament from a french community, but it was the first (I 3-0 Toadow in finals :p). And yeah probably my win against Conflux during the tiebreak of the 16th place of 2021 playoff circuit. It's the both who came to me with that question, but I probably forgot a lot of good memories.
Big congratulations on your MPL win, do you mind telling us about that? How did you and Toadow decide to team up? How did you approach the draft?
Thanks I appreciate it! Honestly last year it was a bit unexpected to be choice as manager, Hurtadoo pushed me to try and with Toadow we agreed to be together for pushing our submission. We have been friends for a long time and they (hurta and toadow) had more experience as manager. So it was important to have them as support. For this year we just decided to redo with Toadow. I think I'm ovarall more active but less serious than him for schedule stuff and things like that, we also have a similar vision of what is a good manager so overall it was a good pairing.
For the draft, we had in mind to mix a competitive draft and a funny comp. Cuz yeah it's cool to win but I also want to take good and funny moment with my mate. For that we made a list of all the people we wanted to have, and during the auction we improvise depend of the situation. For the competitive part, like we was poor, we had to bet in the future goat or good pilot who didn't touch a lot monotype. I bet a lot in the ru player, cuz I knew they would take in hand quickly monotype (especially when u know they already touch a bit the tier in past gen)
That's a really smart strategy, its always important to prioritize having fun, as well as having good chemistry with your teammates. How did you guys feel going into the last week of the season? How did you prepare for a must win-scenario?
It was huge, we won the semis by the best way possible and be in finals always mean you have a chance, so I think everyone was focused on that. For the prep it depends on the player/slot, for exemple Masskeau needed a lot of testgame for his teams so each day we played like 3-5 games. For Bouff after having the team, I wrote a huge text with all the possible matchups and each scenario he has to expect, what's the gameplan, etc. For Gelb or Floss, it's more let them make their things and check after if they need help. I will not say everyone, but I think it gives an idea of how our organization looked at the moment. I think the real specific thing I did for finals, was watch all the replays of the competition and make a google doc with the statistic of winrate for each type in oldgen. But after 2 or 3 hours of making Floss reminded me Kenn already did it. But I think except in bw, we had all the good call like that, the original call in oras was bug but I didn't trust it 5min before the game...
Wow, that sounds like a lot of work but it definitely paid off, that's a very hands on approach to the game so it's no wonder why you guys won. Was there a team that was toughest for you guys?
Honestly we struggled against each team of this tournament, I don't remember any week where it was not close to be the end for us. But for sure tinkatons and honchkrows were the 2 teams I feared the most. It was clearly an upset from us to win this tournament.
Thanks for your insight! Just a few more questions to wrap up. First, if you could ban or unban anything in any Monotype generation, what would it be and why?
Back 2 years ago I would say moltres-galar 100% but now probably gouging fire, flutter mane or gholdengo. Hard to know who are the worst. For past generations, I wouldn't make any change even if sometimes the tier isn't really balanced. It's already hard to know what is good for a tier when it's a current gen, so for a past gen I think it's really easy to get wrong.
I could definitely get behind banning Gholdengo. Is there a team that you think shows your style of play best that you could share with us?
Would be great... I think I can show you an old team now from SS, I think it was built for mwp 2021-2022. Probably the most classic fly you could see, but I know I was one of the first who used Knock Off on Thundurus and same Thunder Punch on the Dragon Dance Dragonite set (it was always eq). I think the team still works even if it's clearly outdated now. Overall I play mainly balance and bulky offense, it's clearly what I prefer
Team: https://pokepast.es/6c8726742df43909
Do you have any advice for newer players who want to get more involved in the community?
Honestly the best way is playing tournaments, don't hesitate to ask people for suggestions, for help, for games. You have more good surprise than bad overall. Be active, and more than all you have to persevere. By that, I mean, believe in the possibility you will succeed and how. It's only words, but when you doubt yourself, I think it's important to keep that in mind. Love you monotype, I hope one day, our work will pay off and our tier will be more recognized.
Thank you so much for your time and your diligent answers, I’m sure everybody will appreciate reading and learning a bit more about you. Is there anybody you would like to give a shoutout to?
Big s/o to all my mpl team, s/o to all the people who have helped me throughout the years, s/o to all the friends I made in this game, s/o all the contributors of the community. Thanks for this interview it was nice to be a part of it!
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This thread will remain open in case anyone would like to ask Cielau any further questions. If you have an idea for who you would like to be interviewed next, please don't hesitate to let me know!
This thread will remain open in case anyone would like to ask Cielau any further questions. If you have an idea for who you would like to be interviewed next, please don't hesitate to let me know!
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