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 pif and thanks for being my guest today in "Player Interview". First of all, how are you ?
I am doing good thank you
For those who don't know you, can you talk about a bit about yourself ?
My name is Nathaniel, I recently finished my education. I intern for a politicians. I like to play Pokemon and teach chess in my free time. My favorite food style is probably some Asian or white person food. I'm under 6 feet tall. Is your name moute ? what does moute mean in french ?
Thanks for those details ! Well no, my name isn't Moute lmao, I'm Paul. Moute is some kind of short of for "mouton" which is "sheep" in english. Basically when my hair are too long, they're curly like a sheep so my friends call me "moute" ! You're well known on Smogon as one of the greatest ladder hero UU has ever get ; how did you get here ?
omg I love sheep a lot. That's a funny way to get a nickname. I like sheep so much that I often nickname my cobalion " sheep that sweeps" even though some people argue Cobalion is more like a goat. Thank you for taking the time to do this Paul
My pleasure !
I like laddering a lot. I think it's very fair since anyone can ladder and we all use the same rating system and there isn't really luck after a few hundred or thousand games like I play. I got here by winning a lot but sometimes I'm not at the top, for example you and Anish sometimes are higher than me on the ladder. I started laddering a lot about 10 years ago, started getting good when Smogon left shoddy battle and then I just practice a lot on the ladder, more than most players I'm sure.
Talking about ladder, you recently won the UU Ladder Tournament. Do you have any other goals this year in UU ?
My main goals are for Ramolost to like more of my posts, to see Vivalospride tag me on Smogon more, to see Mengy win UU open (he went undefeated in UU for PSPL in 2018 or something), for the council to continue to improve and be more transparent, for ladder players to be more respected, and for CBU to like me again. I don't consider myself TOO competitive, I mainly play for banter and for my friends' company so I don't have many competitive goals. I hope friends win UUPL but thats in 2021. Oh i want to see Adaam win slam again that would be funny
That's a good program, go friend ! Even though a lot of players see you as a player who likes to play Stall teams, do you consider this archetype to be your favorite one ?
That's a great question. Look at it like this - I play stall more than the average player, I agree with that. But I still don't usually play stall. Even if I play stall in 30 or 40% of my games, that means 60 or 70% of the time I'm not stalling. It only looks like I stall a lot because nobody else really tries to explore the style. I make new stalls every week like people make a new voltturn or bulky offense every day. You know the culture for some reason means we call things "pif stall" or "kg stall" which is so foolish, I make dozens of stall teams. Stall isn't my favorite style. I just treat stall like how everyone else treats their "normal" teams - build a lot, play a lot, experiment a lot. Oh i thought of another goal, for donny p to stop ignoring me and for him to join uu open as a sub
That's a great answer I think ! And what's your favorite Pokemon this generation and the one you have been using the most since SSUU ?
Does that mean my favorite 8th gen Pokemon or my favorite Pokemon out of all 8 gens ? Or my favorite pokemon legal in gen8 right now ?
Favorite mon among the whole pool (available or not) !
I think Flygon is actually my most used Pokemon somehow although none of my sets are physical scarf - I've been using Ramo's special scarf set, Choice Band, and defog sets. uhhh mines is.. I honestly don't have a favorite, bob the bro/yifeng gave me a toy eevee so I like eevee I gues, not really my favorite.. wait it was a ditto pretending to be an eevee so i like ditto and eevee. Whats your favorite mon ?
Mine would be something like Whimsicott or Mareep.. all fluffy Pokemon are dope ! By the way, we just got a bunch of changes in UU with DLC and the metagame is going to change a lot in less than 2 weeks.. Do you have any expectation or any wish on what we could get ?
I also like fluffy mons, fluffy puffy is a good go to nickname for any fluff mon. I don't play OU except an occasional blitz game with samples so I have no expectations, for hopes, not much, if something drops and triggers a screen suspect test I'll be happy, so whatever makes a screen suspect more likely I support dropping.
Aight..! Outside of Pokemon, is there any video games you like ?
speed chess online sort of counts as a videogame that's it
Why did you opted for the name "pokemonisfun" ? Is this because Pokemon is literally fun for you or is this a joke or a form of irony because you "often" play Stalls and people don't like to face those kind of teams ?
I originally had "hilarious" as a username because I thought it would be hilarious to beat people with hilarious, yeah i think your reasons are good explanations why I choose pokemon is fun, both are true.
Yeah I think I do remember meeting you a few times with that other name back in the day. Would you mind to share on of your recent team in SSU with our audience ?
uh ok let me take off speed creep.. airslash mantine was only because lily crushed me on the ladder with a machamp and roserade, haze is probably better for cm keldeo. It's a pretty nice stall team, not weak to much in the meta right now except maybe some necrozma sets depending on what they run. obviously normal stallbreakers like pangoro work but at least rk9 outspeeds and tangela chews a hit
Oh yeah you stomped me with it yesterday lmao ! Last but not least, are you more a burger guy or a pizza guy ?
my boyfriend and I used to order pizzas a lot but rarely burgers, i think we eat healthier now, I'll still say pizza, cucumber is a nice topping on pizza btw
I'm way too addict to pizza with a lot of meat to give my opinion on that unfortunately.. Well that's all, thanks for your answers and your time ! Feel free to highlights some friends if you want to !
thanks moutex2, i dont want to shoutout all my friends, just the one's i talk to recently: Adaam, vivalospride, Ramolost and Anish
Feel free to ask to pokemonisfun any questions you want !
If you have some recommendations for an interview, feel free to DM me !
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