Name: Niels
Age:19
Location: Hasselt; Belgium
Quote: Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Position: PU balance member
General questions:1. Do you have pets? No
2. What is your favorite color? Blue
3. What kind of music do you like? Rock, Classical, Jazz, Blues
4. What do you do on your free time besides spending time on PU? Playing handball (the Olympic sport) coaching a youth team (handball again), karate and playing Guild Wars 2.
5. What are your goals/dreams in life? Working as a full time trainer/coach or teacher.
6. What got you interested in Pokémon? I’ve got to admit it: the animations. I started playing Pokémon not soon after that (at the age of 5-6). My blue cartridge still brings back many pleasant memories
7. What got you involved in PU? After spending about a year on the forums I applied for a balance testing position. Not much later I started getting ideas for yet unbalanced Pokémon and I applied for the job. The rest is history.
8. What makes you different from the rest of the PU team? I’ve got the looks AND the brains
Just kidding, I don’t really know. I don’t spend as much time on IRC as most of the other team members, mainly due to a lack of time.
9. Why do you enjoy your position at the PU team? Because I can help to get this project done faster. It’s a nice job too.
10. Who do you admire? Why? Mr. Dark and Urmel, for starting this project from scratch.
11. Are you into sports? If so which ones? Handball, Karate (I just started with it, it's fun
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12. What is your dream job?See question #5.
13. What was your first screenname? Zylonnick, it were some random letters typed out…
14. Do you have any piercings? No
15. Are you a lefty/righty? Lefty
16. Do you have any tattoo's? If not do you wish/plan to get one? No. probably in a couple of years.
17. Do you have any siblings? If so, how many of each? A sister and a stepsister.
18. What is your favorite website? Besides PU? XD Probably mangafox or gogoanime
19. Do you play computer games? If so, which ones? Only recently I started playing Guild Wars 2. You’ve got to try it, it’s quite an entertaining game
20. Do you play video game consoles? Which ones? GB, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, Wii, PS1, PS2, PSP and PS3. I don’t really have the time to play on them anymore though.
21. Are you married or planning to get married? Not in the near future.
22. Which languages do you speak? Dutch, English and French.
23. Do you drink?I drink occasionally.
24. Do you smoke? No
25. Do you have a license? Yes
a) Do you own a car? Citroën Xsara
b) Have you ever been stopped for speeding? No
26. Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily? Yes, about 6-8 hours, which is plenty.
27. How do you sleep? With my arms wrapped around my girlfriend.
28. Have you ever been on an airplane? lots of times
29. Have you ever broken a bone? My ankle, my patella (that one really hurt), and my right wrist.
30. Do you wear jewelry? If so what jewelry do you wear?No
31. How do you dress? Sweather, t-shirt, jeans
32. How many keys are on your keyring?6
33. What time do you go to bed? What time do you wake up? That changes daily according to my schedule.
34. What's the freakiest thing you have done? I drank 15 beers, a litre of vodka, and half a litre of gin in 2 hours. Needless to say, I don’t recall a lot of that evening. Kids, don’t try this at home
35. Do you live alone? No
36. How many hours a day do you spend in the computer? It changes daily.
37. How many hours a day do you spend in PU? See question above
38. What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other?Milk
39. What do you hate? Late anime/Manga releases
39. What do you love? Handball, boxing, watching anime, reading manga, traveling
40. What is your religion? Mr. Darkism.
41. What is your hair color? Hazel brown
42. How tall are you? around 190cm
43. How much do you weigh?around 88kg
Extra questions:1. How do you start at balancing a Pokémon?I check the pokémon’s stats, abilities and moveset on Bulbapedia. Then I read the smogon reports on the Pokémon to gain knowledge of his general use and flaws. After that, inspiration takes over
2. Do you have a general use in mind (sweeper etc) or a more specific one (Special Swift Swim sweeper with access to certain moves)?I usually have a specific built in mind to differiate the Pokémon from others and give it a more unique feel.
3. What was the most overpowered Pokémon of PU after balancing (before nerfing him again) ?That has to be either Bravaria (Contrary + Superpower) or Weezing with Stockpile and Recover. Pidgeot and Venomothwere beasts too though
4. What is your favourite Pokémon in PU?Tauros, he’s got the same feeling from back in gen 1, being a massive powerhouse. Ditto was nice too though
5. What is in your opinion the best change PU made to the gameplay?To me, changing the weather mechanics was a necessary change in the gameplay to stop the overpowering weather teams.
