An interview with...
the only Monotype mod that can adroitly do their job while also being completely illiterate: Dirpz
interviewed by scpinion, posted 1/9/2015
Hi Dirpz,
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Will you tell us a bit about yourself IRL? Location? Are you still in school? Do you have a job? Is there anything else of that matter you're willing/want to share?
Hello Scp Frien, well I am Dirpz I was born in Massachusetts, lived in Boston until I was 7. I moved to a small town called Wayland lived and went to school there every since. Now im a Senior in High school. I work at this nice little dinner every so often, I do a lot of catering as well for a nice little money. My first game was Pokemon red when I was like 5, FunFact I still have the game. Then proceed to get a Gameboy and Gamecube when I was young a lot of MegaMan battle network, and Mario party. Then other things about me I swim, I have a girlfriend, Im voiced in the VGC room, I play a lot of games recently be playing: Boardlands 2 (PC) With some Mono friens, Binding of Issac Rebirth (PC), Smash Bro's (3DS, and Wii U), FarCry 4 (PS3), XenoBlade (Wii), ORAS (3DS) , and Town Of Salem (PC).
Oh wow, people who played RBY as their first Pokemon game are rarer than I thought they would be. Who is you favorite starter from those games?
Well my Favorite starter is based Squirtle. My team from when I was 7 was Kabutops, Moltres, Zapdos, Hipmonchan, Blastoise, and Lapras
Here is your chance to brag. Tell us something you feel is awesome about yourself.
Well, People tell me I can sing and that Dm is my less sexy twin.
Strange, the ones with the British accent are typically sexier...
One last thing before we move onto Pokemon stuff. Any other hobbies outside of Pokemon/other video games?
If you call hanging out with friends doing nothing, then i'm a workaholic
Alright, how did you get into PS!/Smogon? What drew you to the Monotype room?
Well I joined April 11th of last year because I was re getting into pokemon didn't play Black/White until Black/White 2 was announced so I decided to start with competitive, playing OU I think I still have first OU team somewhere there. Anyways laddered till about 1600's. I take a break from showdown not daring to really join any room I was in lobby once ran into a troll spamming chat. Anyway fast fore ward sometime X and Y were just being realized I deiced to join a few days after X and Y were realized re laddered till 1600's. I was getting bored with OU it was a lot of the same nothing really changed just stayed in a constant state of spam fairy types, and new mega's. Near the end of the Mega Gengar suspect I deiced to switch things up with my team. I drafted a full Ghost mono team and deiced to use it in OU. Nether the less it was destroyed very fast. So I deiced to check out the Monotype room to see if anyone could help out with it. An old driver by the name of Srixis helped me out and we fought ghost vs ghost for the Monotype league. Team was great I started to ladder mono and I only got better and better eventually swapping types, making some friends along the way like Slinky, Omega, and Beta. About a month after I joined the room I was voiced. Now fast forward months later Im a mod.
Now for some user-submitted questions:
Many of our users asked the following questions:
What is your favorite Pokemon?
What is your favorite Type?
What type do you specialize in?
Well My favorite Pokemon is kinda tough since there is a lot I would have to say Clefable or Azumarill, I would like to mention Azelf as a close 2nd.
Favorite type is Fairy why because I was inspired to use it because the few users back then that used it were Shaman, and Pez. Also because of Pfs ode to fairy type pokemon.
I specialize in fairy type for the reasons stated above.
As always, Katy (and now many others) ask the important questions: Who your bae Dirpz? .3.
My Bae is my ladyfrien.
Acast raises a legitimate concern: If you are illiterate, how do you mod and talk to people in the room using words?
I don't know I can't read
ShadowGuy1 has an interesting question: Why did you choose the username you have? They also want to know what your favorite tier is?
I chose this user name well the story behind it was I bought a playstation 3 for my birthday years ago I tried to use the name Derpz at first to be comical, sadly that name was taken, but if I replaced the e with an i they sound the same so I went with Dirpz.
My favorite tier that isn't monotype, is probably NU or Gen 5 OU.
Another from Katy: Do you have a favorite voice?
I do have a favorite voice its Omega-xis14 in lobby.
Sondoman wants to know what your favorite team you've ever made is?
My favorite team would have to be my Fairy team originally or my NU team. The fairy team because it was really dickish with Whimsicott, Dual Screens, Paraflinch kiss, Mega Mawile, BD azum, then Cancerfable it was more of a fun team.
I'll follow up on Sondoman's question: What made motivated you to come up with Cancerfable? Were you checking a particular threat? See it in an RMT? Feeling particularly evil one day?
Well cancerfable was a happy accident. I got bored of the monotype ladder laddered to high 1500's with Bug just felt boring played with some different types. Played Dark for a bit tour sniped for a while, that was getting boring. I deiced to look at a friends ladder match he was against a guy named Noah. For the people who don't know o4 remember Noah he was a good ladder player he was the first person I saw run Fairy, and he ran it very well. It inspired me to make a Fairy team also seeing pfs song kinda inspired me as well it was one of the few types not many people ran I gave it a try. Sadly me being me I wanted to be different I looked at clefable and saw unaware i'm like cool that would be an interesting set. Then I checked its move pool it got cosmic power and charge beam, Wow that could make a really nice stored power set. I put softboiled on there because it needed recovery then I play one ladder match clefable works but gets toxic stalled I won that match but still I think to myself I need to fix this so I put rest on it and it worked very well used those moves for a while then entered a tour lost to a dark team. Clearly said throw moonblast on there instead I went for it it works wonders. It doesn't get as many ohko's vs other types but moonblast still does a lot.
MonoOMs have become a large part of our room activity. What is your favorite MonoOM? Why?
Mono 1v1's Double elimination or round robin. Why mono 1v1 its fun as hell fast based plus extra chance to not screw up. Its also interesting watching people try to check other types with only 3 pokes.
If you could change one thing (literally anything) about the Monotype metagame, what would it be?
This question is a toss up between a move pool buff for some of the lower tiered types like a spinner for electric or giving Ice some defog support something little like that or flying nerf. I would like to give a shout out to anyone not using complete Generic flying which at the moment is Charizard, Zapdos, Skarmory, Togekiss, Thundy-T, and Lando-T.
Last question to wrap up the interview: Do you have any words of wisdom/sage advice for the Monotypers out there?
Some sage advice to monotypers out there for anyone who is going for voice we will notice you. Also if you are ever feeling stuck ask for help on teams
Thanks for doing this! I enjoyed the cancerfable story.
mfw >> "...tour sniped for a while, that was getting boring."
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Will you tell us a bit about yourself IRL? Location? Are you still in school? Do you have a job? Is there anything else of that matter you're willing/want to share?
Hello Scp Frien, well I am Dirpz I was born in Massachusetts, lived in Boston until I was 7. I moved to a small town called Wayland lived and went to school there every since. Now im a Senior in High school. I work at this nice little dinner every so often, I do a lot of catering as well for a nice little money. My first game was Pokemon red when I was like 5, FunFact I still have the game. Then proceed to get a Gameboy and Gamecube when I was young a lot of MegaMan battle network, and Mario party. Then other things about me I swim, I have a girlfriend, Im voiced in the VGC room, I play a lot of games recently be playing: Boardlands 2 (PC) With some Mono friens, Binding of Issac Rebirth (PC), Smash Bro's (3DS, and Wii U), FarCry 4 (PS3), XenoBlade (Wii), ORAS (3DS) , and Town Of Salem (PC).
Oh wow, people who played RBY as their first Pokemon game are rarer than I thought they would be. Who is you favorite starter from those games?
Well my Favorite starter is based Squirtle. My team from when I was 7 was Kabutops, Moltres, Zapdos, Hipmonchan, Blastoise, and Lapras
Here is your chance to brag. Tell us something you feel is awesome about yourself.
Well, People tell me I can sing and that Dm is my less sexy twin.
Strange, the ones with the British accent are typically sexier...
One last thing before we move onto Pokemon stuff. Any other hobbies outside of Pokemon/other video games?
If you call hanging out with friends doing nothing, then i'm a workaholic
Alright, how did you get into PS!/Smogon? What drew you to the Monotype room?
Well I joined April 11th of last year because I was re getting into pokemon didn't play Black/White until Black/White 2 was announced so I decided to start with competitive, playing OU I think I still have first OU team somewhere there. Anyways laddered till about 1600's. I take a break from showdown not daring to really join any room I was in lobby once ran into a troll spamming chat. Anyway fast fore ward sometime X and Y were just being realized I deiced to join a few days after X and Y were realized re laddered till 1600's. I was getting bored with OU it was a lot of the same nothing really changed just stayed in a constant state of spam fairy types, and new mega's. Near the end of the Mega Gengar suspect I deiced to switch things up with my team. I drafted a full Ghost mono team and deiced to use it in OU. Nether the less it was destroyed very fast. So I deiced to check out the Monotype room to see if anyone could help out with it. An old driver by the name of Srixis helped me out and we fought ghost vs ghost for the Monotype league. Team was great I started to ladder mono and I only got better and better eventually swapping types, making some friends along the way like Slinky, Omega, and Beta. About a month after I joined the room I was voiced. Now fast forward months later Im a mod.
Now for some user-submitted questions:
Many of our users asked the following questions:
What is your favorite Pokemon?
What is your favorite Type?
What type do you specialize in?
Well My favorite Pokemon is kinda tough since there is a lot I would have to say Clefable or Azumarill, I would like to mention Azelf as a close 2nd.
Favorite type is Fairy why because I was inspired to use it because the few users back then that used it were Shaman, and Pez. Also because of Pfs ode to fairy type pokemon.
I specialize in fairy type for the reasons stated above.
As always, Katy (and now many others) ask the important questions: Who your bae Dirpz? .3.
My Bae is my ladyfrien.
Acast raises a legitimate concern: If you are illiterate, how do you mod and talk to people in the room using words?
I don't know I can't read
ShadowGuy1 has an interesting question: Why did you choose the username you have? They also want to know what your favorite tier is?
I chose this user name well the story behind it was I bought a playstation 3 for my birthday years ago I tried to use the name Derpz at first to be comical, sadly that name was taken, but if I replaced the e with an i they sound the same so I went with Dirpz.
My favorite tier that isn't monotype, is probably NU or Gen 5 OU.
Another from Katy: Do you have a favorite voice?
I do have a favorite voice its Omega-xis14 in lobby.
Sondoman wants to know what your favorite team you've ever made is?
My favorite team would have to be my Fairy team originally or my NU team. The fairy team because it was really dickish with Whimsicott, Dual Screens, Paraflinch kiss, Mega Mawile, BD azum, then Cancerfable it was more of a fun team.
I'll follow up on Sondoman's question: What made motivated you to come up with Cancerfable? Were you checking a particular threat? See it in an RMT? Feeling particularly evil one day?
Well cancerfable was a happy accident. I got bored of the monotype ladder laddered to high 1500's with Bug just felt boring played with some different types. Played Dark for a bit tour sniped for a while, that was getting boring. I deiced to look at a friends ladder match he was against a guy named Noah. For the people who don't know o4 remember Noah he was a good ladder player he was the first person I saw run Fairy, and he ran it very well. It inspired me to make a Fairy team also seeing pfs song kinda inspired me as well it was one of the few types not many people ran I gave it a try. Sadly me being me I wanted to be different I looked at clefable and saw unaware i'm like cool that would be an interesting set. Then I checked its move pool it got cosmic power and charge beam, Wow that could make a really nice stored power set. I put softboiled on there because it needed recovery then I play one ladder match clefable works but gets toxic stalled I won that match but still I think to myself I need to fix this so I put rest on it and it worked very well used those moves for a while then entered a tour lost to a dark team. Clearly said throw moonblast on there instead I went for it it works wonders. It doesn't get as many ohko's vs other types but moonblast still does a lot.
MonoOMs have become a large part of our room activity. What is your favorite MonoOM? Why?
Mono 1v1's Double elimination or round robin. Why mono 1v1 its fun as hell fast based plus extra chance to not screw up. Its also interesting watching people try to check other types with only 3 pokes.
If you could change one thing (literally anything) about the Monotype metagame, what would it be?
This question is a toss up between a move pool buff for some of the lower tiered types like a spinner for electric or giving Ice some defog support something little like that or flying nerf. I would like to give a shout out to anyone not using complete Generic flying which at the moment is Charizard, Zapdos, Skarmory, Togekiss, Thundy-T, and Lando-T.
Last question to wrap up the interview: Do you have any words of wisdom/sage advice for the Monotypers out there?
Some sage advice to monotypers out there for anyone who is going for voice we will notice you. Also if you are ever feeling stuck ask for help on teams
Thanks for doing this! I enjoyed the cancerfable story.
mfw >> "...tour sniped for a while, that was getting boring."