My time has come. I never got around to make an introduction of myself on the forum, so I’ll make sure this post is a bit longer to compensate for what you would have missed in the introduction. Kudos if you manage to read all of the way through it.
It all started in 2016… my journey to become the Pokémon master.
The first time I tried to log in, I recall the servers having a queue of 700 people.
The servers crashed daily, if not hourly… felt like that, anyways.
Looking back, it’s incredible to see how far the game has come and how the community has grown as a whole.
For a while, the only thing I did in PRO was PvP. There were no other aspects of it. I was... bad.
I spammed games and reached a number of games per season that far exceeds anything I’d be able to do nowadays. Not sure how I sat through that, but the journey was worthwhile.
Other times… I literally spent hours on end just killing Pokémon in the wild to get money, cause that was my superior knowledge at the time :>
Almost a year ago, around Christmas, I decided it was time to find some better minded people to talk to.
I applied for NoMercy and was accepted.
This was a whole new chapter, not to mention, the one I’ll treasure the most.
My application stated something along the lines of: “I aspire to reach top 5 on the ladder with a better win-rate than I currently am able to pull off”. Countless of people have helped me throughout this process. Not only did I have people to talk with regarding teambuilding, everyone seemed to willingly give me the mon I needed to try it out and see how it worked.
For both of these, I want to thank the following people (my deepest apologies if I forgot someone): Jorogumo, SgtBianco, Squad, Ulas, Belzebel, teerav, Cow, Luke (who is not a NoMercy member, but definitely is as good of material, love you boo :wink:), Geno, Chris, Nanoluck, Pispi, Coup, Purp (insert the name of any NoMercy member, really).
I can confidently say I have improved my PvP abilities since I joined the guild, and I have hopefully helped other people improve theirs as well.
Having finished Rank 1 on Silver for every season since August and also winning the August ladder tournament, as well as finishing first on both ladders in the season of November 2018, the time has come for another player to take over.
I might return some day, but until then, be good sports about it!
I admittedly didn’t stretch this as far as I thought I would’ve been able to, but thank you for reading through it… if you made it.
It has been more of a personal overview than a goodbye message, but what do we say to the god of goodbyes?
Answer is: “Not today”
And thus starts a new chapter.
Make the best of it and enjoy the game. There truly are people working hard to keep it running for you all, don’t take it for granted.
Enough about that, cause my lovely guild wasn’t the only new experience I got to have in my 2018 year of PRO.
In late March I got the chance to try my luck as a Discord Moderator for the Official PRO Discord. I had a wonderful time there. Not only is the community great (unless the servers are down, huehue), but I got to meet and make a lot of new friends. I can only be grateful for how I have been treated by you all, it has been a pleasant experience.
Thus, ends my 2018 year. I trust I’ll see some familiar faces when I return.
Farewell in the meanwhile!
My apologies for ranting a little :>