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Welcome to the OU Player of the Week Project: Rebooted! For those of you that don't know, this is a project where I interview a tournament player and have you, the readers, leave any questions you may have down below for them to answer. The ultimate goal is to gain insight as to how they play this skillful and strategic video game. If any of you have a suggestion for who I should interview, feel free to VM/PM me, and I will take your suggestion into consideration. Now, enough of this boring intro. Let's get to it!
Luigi.
Most Known For: Comining out of nowhere and doing well in smogon tour season 19 and also monodragon/cloyster
Favorite Pokemon: KARRABLAST. also, Celebi and Duskull
Most used Pokemon: Charizard, Tyranitar, Tornadus-T. Was known for being the only dude using cloyster a while back as well
Can you tell us a little about yourself?
I'm 19, live in Brazil and hope to go to law school starting next year. Not much else to say oo
Where did you get your name from?
I want to preface this by saying i have no idea where i got my previous name, Get backer, from. There is a manga/anime called Get Backers but i only found out about it long after the account had been made, all i remember is using Get Backer as an alt back in the PO XY ladder >:
As for Luigi, it stems from the fact my real name is Luis and my family is italian so some of the old folk call me Luigi fsr.
How and when did you get into competitive battling?
This is an emberassing story, but much like fellow west member tesung i'm not very good with computers. I found about competitve mons back in late 2009/early 2010 but couldn't figure out how to download Shoddy so i kinda just lurked for a while then lost interest. Many moons later i found out about PO on a youtube video and did manage to download that, so my career started in late 2011 though i'd only play for like 4 months at a time then quit for long periods of time and only come back when a new game was released. Troughout the years i stuck with PO until ORAS came out and with it, PO's death knell. Smogon Tour 19 was starting at the same time and it seemed fun.
How do you feel about how ORAS plays compared to XY?
I quit XY at around the time of the Aegislash ban, a little before the Mega Mawile ban, so i can't really comment on the super bulky, scaldburns determines the winner meta of late XY >: But i do prefer early XY with shit like Aegislash and Genesect and Mega Lucario to current ORAS.
To add onto the above, thoughts on the team matchup issue?
Like the last 10 (?) POTW interviewees i think it's waaaaaaaay overblown and used as an excuse, though i don't see people complaining about it now nearly as much as they did a few months ago, so it's not so bad oo
Do you feel that there is anything that is suspect worthy at the moment?
I've wanted Mega Sableye banned since before the Mega Metagross suspect and still think it should go. Manaphy too maybe, definitely not Hoopa-U or ZardX or whatever though.
What's your favorite playstyle and why?
Hyper offense, but REAL hyper offense, that shit where you press the switch button only once or twice per battle
What's your favorite generation of OU and why?
BW1, mostly cause i started in it and it fills me with nostalgia to think of the days where Scrafty was OU. Other than that probably BW2 when we had Genesect and Tornadus-T. XY right after the Mega Kangaskhan ban was great too :x
How do you go about preparing for tournament matches? Does the process differ depending on the tournament?
I don't prepare at all, i brought monodragon to the quarterfinals game because i couldn't be bothered to make a BW team. It's something i really should improve D:
Favorite to win STour?
idk man, too early to tell oo
If you could change one thing about OU, what would it be and why?
Make it say if a Zard was holding Charizardite Y or X at team preview, and maybe rid of Mega Sableye and Defog
Do you have any advice for newer players for playing, and for Smogon in general?
Just play dog, nothing's more important than experience oo
If you could change one thing about Smogon as a whole to make it better, what would it be and why?
Be harsher with doling out punishment for being dickheads? idk i'm not too involved with any areas other than tours and b101 i guess oo
What players do you look up to / are good friends with?
Only players i look up to are Phillip7086 and MoP.
As for friends there's too many people to mention and i don't want to be a Rumor and let niggas out so i won't say anyone in particular except for my day one's Jimmy Turtwig Mikasa Ackerman Da Raikage Accelgor TCMK and APimpNamedSlickback
Finally, can you provide us a team that's a good fit for this metagame and reflects your playstyle, with a brief explanation of how it works?
Charizard (Charizard-Mega-X) (M) @ Charizardite X
Ability: Tough Claws
EVs: 248 HP / 44 Atk / 104 SpD / 112 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Flare Blitz
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 248 HP / 88 Def / 168 SpD / 4 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Leech Seed
- Protect
- Power Whip
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 248 HP / 56 Def / 148 SpD / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Knock Off
- Earthquake
- Roost
- Swords Dance
Mew @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 240 HP / 152 SpD / 116 Spe
Careful Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Defog
- Knock Off
- Roost
Latios @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Roost
- Calm Mind
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Stone Edge
- Fire Blast
Ability: Tough Claws
EVs: 248 HP / 44 Atk / 104 SpD / 112 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Claw
- Flare Blitz
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 248 HP / 88 Def / 168 SpD / 4 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Leech Seed
- Protect
- Power Whip
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 248 HP / 56 Def / 148 SpD / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Knock Off
- Earthquake
- Roost
- Swords Dance
Mew @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 240 HP / 152 SpD / 116 Spe
Careful Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Defog
- Knock Off
- Roost
Latios @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Roost
- Calm Mind
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Stone Edge
- Fire Blast
Fairly standard bulky offense, the goal being to allow for Gliscor or Latios to open holes in their team so i can outlast the opponent with the defensive core. The presence of TTar and Mew bluff the Zardy so i can catch people offguard with ZardX. Pretty solid team oo