Like the title says, how was your first experience? Was it getting muted? Was it a horrible first experience? I think it would be interesting to read how all of us started out. I guess I will start it off, after I downloaded the sim, I made a random team and chatted a bit. After a few minutes on the server, I notice alot of people getting "kicked" so I randomly said on the server, "Can someone kick me :D?" I actually did get kicked, by the one and only Kokoloko.
My first notable experience was about 3 months ago when a uu tournament was started. I wanted to test my team out. I joined and won somehow, sweeping with either drifblim or ursaring every battle. Harry pm'd me afterwards and told me there was a prize (it was an incentive tournament). I choose temp megauser. My internet browser was being screwy at the time so I had to use another comp to make a forum account and post in the incentive thread. Because of my screwy browser, I didn't get to read the thread with the megauser guidelines. I broke a whole bunch of rules unknowingly, though I fixed my mistakes afterwards (ex. pushing after signups, but the dqing after being told that was against the rules). I was a major noob at the time, in pokemon as well, even though I had been doing competitive battling for a year and a half at the time on irc.
I got on, using a lead Gliscor, and was immediately in my first battle HP iced by a lead celebi. I swore at my opponent, and rage quitted. Then I got to realize how much more aesthetically pleasing PO is to shoddy, so I stayed, and accepted the idiots. Suddenly, more people started to join. and I loved it :)
Turned up, chatted with people I knew from NB, as well as a couple of people I didn't know (such as coyo), got modded thanks to Navy's recommendation. Damn, that was ages ago.
I can't remember my first experience but the first notable thing that happened was getting cussed out by Koko. I flinched he to death with Skymin and he was angry face. How times have changed.
I remember a lot of forfeiting...like the first 10 battles in a row on OU Gen 4. I remember Steve banning people... The rest is a little fuzzy.
I remember showing up fresh from Shoddy about 6 months ago iirc. I liked the improved graphics and found it a lot easier to win here compared to Shoddy so i alternated betweed the two for a while. Then with the advent of Gen 5, what with it being here and not there and all, i decided to come on more often. The first notable thing that happened hmm.... I guess i'd have to say discovering Mafia and making a few friends on that server. Other than that well, i think i never did anything too bad to warrant a kick or ban or sth... My first battle was a bit wierd though, i hated that my fully OU team lost to the dozens of gimmicks that some PO users like to use (i'm looking at you Luck).
Well .. got on 4th gen with my most successful stall team from Shoddy. First 10 opponents went "BE A MAN, STOP USING GAY STALL" .. I laughed. (Yes, I'm mean) ...... that's it.
Competitive Experience: I was deemed to find a way I could play competitive (I do not have Wifi on my DS sadly, nor any acounts on sites such as youtube) and when I heard about PO, I immediately downloaded. I was pretty much the most noobish guy around. I did not exactly understand tiers and all and I always had unrated battles with a Darkrai....lol. General Experience: I remember seeing Crystal Moogle and Lady Umb kicking users like mad, and I also remember Oak swearing a lot. o,0 Moogle kicked [LD]Jirachier like 40 times a day, lol. I thought they were enemies or something.
When I first got on to the PO server, I went through the players list. But one name caught my attention. It was DN. When I saw his name, I was like OMG WTF :D. I was seeing him again after 3 years. Then the next minute, I got the same feeling again when I saw Steve. We talked and DN explained to me how NB died. :/ I was really happy to meet my old friends on my first day on PO :D.
Okay, it all started with; I had a friend(girl), who helped me a lot with the competitive part. When I was done, making my new 4th gen OU team, she told me her Wifi didn't work anymore, and she suggested that we should play on PO. I had never heard about PO, or simulators in general, so I was like "fine, let's give it a try". So, I looked at the Teambuilder, for the first time ever, and it was so pretty and....colorfriendly? I enjoyed it a lot, and 30 minutes later, I had my first battle ! (I used to breed my pokes, etc, so having a team of 6 Pokémon, with 31 IVs in each stat was epic) So, after I laddered in a while, I joined the "Tournaments" channel. I participated in my first OU tournament, and the only guys I remember from that time was HSOWA (Because of the CAPS), and JellyBeanFactory (Don't ask me why). So yeah xD. - I never talked to them, I just remembered their names Short time after, 5th gen came out, but that's another story
well , when i download po i went to the tournament channel and ask for a CC tourney than before i knew it , i got muted on the spot ;_; and the mod pm me and give me a good thrashing >_<
err well I accidentally found PO 4 months ago. Was bored one day and wanted to play some old Pokemon Ruby like i used to do when I had a GameBoy Advance SP. Searched online for the simulator and Pokemon Ruby cartridge thingy and found PO instead. Downloaded it and woah, I was taken aback by what I had found. Competitive battling? never heard of it. Spent the first day spamming Hyper Beams on the tr/ocketry server. Went on the PO server the next day and joined a wifi ou tourney. Got removed from it by a mod named Haunter just cause i couldnt solve my invalid poke thingy. He became my most disliked person that day hhe. So i didnt returne to the PO Beta server for a long time. I honed my skills in the monotype tier in the t/rocketry server until the day it was gone and I was forced to move back to Beta. When Beta became Pokemon Online, i finally found my true home. Spending most of days on the monotype tier, I finally lost my noobiness and became no.1. I then moved to new tiers and soon became a tourney addict, competing with the likes of jcpdragonx and deria hhe. True story :p
Came on after ragequitting Shoddy. Quickly got like 3 alts to the top 40 in OU. Started playing tournaments like a madman right as the Tournaments channel was created - winning most of them (unless Deria passed me by now, I'm pretty sure I still have the most tournament wins out of the whole community). Became well known among the staff - mostly MUs and some mods. Got MUd about 2 months after I got here. Got modded about a month after that. Now I run LC, UU, and the PO League. Fun times.
I originally started out by stumbling across competitive battling on youtube and in the related videos box was a video called 'why i play shoddy' i dont own a DS so i downloaded shoddy and after a while on Gary Oaks server I went on the TeamUber server and i was home <3 the people were willing to help out with everything, then after registering on their forums they had a tournament to be held on the PO battle simulator, which i downloaded and i haven't been back to shoddy since :D. Anyway back to my first experience on PO (sorry for going off topic) the first thing i ever did after re-creating my shoddy team was go to the tournament channel, a tourney was started straight away and i couldn't join as it was a gen 5 tourney and my team was gen 4. After doing the classic noob cry for help i joined the next tourney and got 5-0'd first round (good ol' explosion azelf) and thought that i had no chance to win a battle on PO. so yeah that is my first time on PO, sorry for going on a bit :P
Got PO, came to the Beta Server because it was the most popular. Chatted in Tohjo for a bit. I saw Tohjo was full of dumbasses so I went to Tournaments chat. Cracked some funnies with my cruel and cold sarcastic humor. People laughed. I felt loved and appreciated. And here I am, 7 months later.
A heartwarming tale of a boy and his computer, and how he overcame all odds to become a member of the PO community. They will sing of this for ages to come. *clap-clap*
Hm...It first started out with me coming onto the server, going through 5 different names because of varying circumstances, joining mafia and becoming a god at it, and starting to talk to auth. I didn't talk to the auth to suck up to them, rather they seemed like an iota of intelligence in a vast sea of idiots. Now I'm friends with many auths, and I play mafia regularly.
Well, I can't really remember...I think I wanted a way of battling competitively without having to go through all that egg-breeding crap on the games. I watched battles on Youtube, and I was interested in this whole 'Shoddy Battle' thing. But no matter how many times I tried, I couldn't download it. I searched for an alternative, and somehow or other I found PO, and started battling. This was just after Salamence had been banned. I was never in the noob phaze of battling; my first team I made luckily got me to 1340 or so points on the ladder after only a few days of playing, but I never really spoke to anyone and just wanted to get better. That was my first 'experience' of battling.
Maybe I should be more clear, I meant the first day being on the server..... EDIT: After thinking back my first 2 battles were against HOS and Shawn Frost, yeah..good times, getting 6-0ed by their lead lol.
I was invited by Ryuzaki once we learned that there was doubles with HG/SS mechanics in order to train for VGC 10, previously we all played at Netbattle Supremacy but it used DP mechanics so Thunder and Blizzarrd had a chance to hit through protect. The first day I got on I got to number 2 in the VGC 10 ladder with like a 1200 rating over the course of about 2 hours. That was actually my peak on that ladder as the opponents got better since more of the Netbattle crew showed up. Unfortuneately I never made it to 1 in VGC 10 so my first experience was probalbly my best battle wise.
So I came on after someone on #stark posted the link saying 'dumb europeans' and I followed it. I landed on PO the forum. Had a tough time finding the Mac version. Found it, it was outdated. After that I just went on. I couldn't log onto the Beta Server [Main Sever] due to my version being outdated. So I went on /tr/rocketry. I didn't do much, first I had to get a clantag I think? So I did [1v1] coz that was the tier that I liked. Then I decided to transfer my OU team from Shoddy. So I did so, and to my happiness, I pwnd every single one on the ladder ^__^ I got to something around #8 or #7 iirc, within 2 days of laddering. Then I just used it for my tournament matches. After Lamperi made the updated version of the mac PO, I went on the beta server. The competition was a stage tougher. I played OU and 1v1. Got myself pretty high on the 1v1 ladder, somewhere in the top 10 cant remember. 1v1 was the shit back then. It was a pretty good time. I can't remember names... :( ete caught me on IRC and told me that he saw me laddering and something else, and then he said he was impressed by 1v1 itself too and it should have its own Suspect testing. So I went to coyotte, talked to him. He said he was thinking of something like that. I started the Suspect Testing and you know the rest.
Well, lemme see... A friend of mine told me about PO, so I got the client and I went on the beta server. I logged in, and the very first thing I saw was a big announcement saying THE WINNER OF THE TOURNAMENT IS: HSOWA. I met a german girl named Rosalina (I wonder what happened to her now...) that introduced me to competitive battling (I was a total noob at that time) and then I started making friends, since my best ability has allways been that: I really enjoy being friendly and helpful with anyone. I kept on being popular on the chat and laughably weak in battle untill one day I woke up and ZIAH had stolen an idea of mine (magic coat smeargle, that was actually Alpha's idea, but Ziah used it after seeing me...) from that day, for some mysterious reason, I started having more than 1300 ladder points in uu, and visiting tour channel, when I met the guy that was to completely ruin my life: Luck>Skill (lol jkn). I made tons of friends, I found Elements to be not so scary as I thought (long story), and here I am now, with 6 months of PO behind me, my studies completely abandoned, and only one tour won (cc lol).
Lets see: Came in around late Gen 4 I sucked, I got a little better, I'm still not good at Gen4... Gen5 came around, I got way better... I love Slowbro!! Most memorable 1st experience was my 1st Infraction for calling PN a retard in the 1st Shandera Suspect discussion, but he took it like a bro and we are cool now :3 I have had a few since then :x sigh... I havent had much epic battles but I have beaten kokoloko 2x twas haxy but a win is still a win
You were on smogon. As for me, I came here, played some pokemon, was randomly mega'd and eventually modded. I now disagree with people in suspect discussions.
Around June of last year, the IRC network I was on was talking about "Pokemon Online", which was a new battling simulator. I downloaded it and loved it, it was way better than Shoddy. However, my teams were horrible, I had things like Lefties Azelf lead, and a NU team with 6 random Pokemon slapped together. Eventually, I watched battles of people like Luck>Skill, Gtfo and BnE and slowly got better. I got mega'd [for the oddest reason ever] in August, 5th gen rolled around, and once again, I stunk at it [I used Pokemon like Golduck because I thought it would be anti-metagame, what with all the weather >_>], before eventually getting better. I eventually got modded in March, and that's where I am now... :)
First experience? God.... Thats some old time. I think I joined PO in August 2010 or maybe before that, don't remember :x Unlike Jin, I knew nobody here, so I had to learn about competitive battle the hard way, that is frequent team building, NOT giving t-tar flamthrower with max attack EVs, rage quitting, pwning people's NU teams with ubers(pricless). And about the talking bit, well my first alt was DarkraiHunter, however I found out that there was another member by the name of Darkrai-hunter, so I figured it wasn't right, changed it to ExtremeEvil and sticked with it for the rest of the year, then with the arrival of Gen 5, I turned over a new leaf and got the alt BurningRed(which was latter changed to Burnin'Red) And here I am :o I remember BnE being a mod and Professor Oak having that Ice gym leader's avvy, pryce or something... OH! I also remember Wabbuffet the wise (lucky>skilly :3) and as you all know, neither Gtfo, Luck, HSOWA or lady umb had auth in that era. So it was quite an experience :D
Playing NU with Magicman34 being pro. I turned out to be quite good 6-0ing HSOWA before. later on I got to #1 with Double Drum team. (Charizard + Linoone + Electrode + Ursaring + Jumpluff + Somethingelse). Then I got into LC and got to 1st.
Oh hha mightve been Darkness then Ginku :o.Cause I remember it was definitely Beta server. Annndd whaaat Tears? I never used a magic coat smeargle before. I used rapid spin on smeargle instead :P coz my team is sr weak. weak accusations :p lol.
Old memories :3 Well Im an Ooooold Timer on PO . The time i came on there were only 50 people at max on PO and they were usually Luck>skill ,kokoloko,Weavilewinz(A.k.a Loose weavilez),Whereabouts unknown and etc. The time i came on I immediately made 3 friends and never stopped :3
I was on Shoddy, then I asked the chat, "Why is this place making me look color blind?" or something, A guy named Ryanlion(Who now spends his days as a lonely hobo in a server called PBC) told me about PO, and how color friendly it was (lol). Ryan got banned by SevenDeadlySins, and so was I, for advertising (I dunno why I was banned tbh). So I downloaded, Played, Got hooked, and ofcourse, got muted (How was I supposed to know CAPS was a bad thing?). Then I was unmuted by Navy, but god knows where he is now. And then Gen 5 came out, tried OU, hated it, went to Ubers, loved it. My fondest memory was probably trolling /tr/ocketry over and over again, and got mute dover and over again by kobo. Then /tr/ was shut down, and so ends my trolling days. The first people I met and still know me till this day include Steeli, Burnin'Red, Nexus, SuperScizor, and HSOWA
i started in po cause i wanted to test perish song trapping with umbreon mean look batton pass to celebi then perish song thats in 4 gen
I remember wanting to make an uu team so i went on smogon and i got drapion aggron feraligatr dugtrio leafeon and someone else. i didn't know how to change tiers so i went down and down the ladder. And that's how my ladder points in wifi are so low today. Oh yeah and i panicked in #tours cause i didn't know what to do.
I remember having 2 matches Then disconnecting Then forgetting my password and having to make a new name (My old one was Crystal-Moogle). I actually completely forgot about that second account until like a month or so ago, when I saw it hadn't logged on since June 2010.
My friend showed it to me after he and I were banned from shoddy. That friend is Sigga aka Maverick and for months was coyo's nemesis and had to be banned constantly. We first found it back in April last year when it was just starting out and there was only about 6 people online. I leaderboarded 4th Gen ubers before being modded by zero as a night guard. Night guard I did as there was so few of us that it was often I'd be the only authority online. Bear in mind there was a lot less auth back then, with no owners and MU's. Only mods and admins. This is the earliest screen I have. I think MU's had started at that stage though, not sure.
i got directed here by gamefaqs cause i was talking about wanting smogon to hurry up and have fifth gen. don't really remember what happened when i got on though to be honest. my earliest memory was when i was on the server list and i saw a mafia channel and went there and became addicted to mafia.
I still remember my first battle. Back in November/Decemberish, I ran a Scarfed Vanilluxe *shrugs* and OHKO'd a Garchomp, causing my first rage quit.
How despicable the ubers ladder on Shoddy was, until symphonyx64 redirected me here. Never stayed until 5th Gen came out, though.
I don't remember who introduced me...but some one introduced me to PO from shoddy.I started playing it,it was awesome with music , color etc.I wanted to join a tour and asked how do I join one,and then I waited for 1hr watching the screen waiting for a tourney.Got owned in the first rounD.That was in july iirc.Back then I remember there wasn't any separate channel for tournaments and I remember this guy named qbone who's a auth and talked to all the noobs nicely:p.(dunno what happened to him,not gonna bother...indigo stuff:p).I also remember koreans invading the server and auth kicking them.And then I remember lady umb(not sure if it's umb) raging all the time..I think he/she(idk ,can't trust genders here) lost and got back auth or something.