Marriland Interview

At Nationals this year, I had the chance to meet the popular Poketuber, Marriland. He was kind enough to give me an interview. I was able to ask him the following questions.

Q: When and how were you introduced to the series?
A: In early 1998, I saw a preview of Pokémon in an issue of Nintendo Power and it looked really cool, so I followed more previews until the games were released.


Q: What led you to become a Pokétuber?
A: I originally thought it'd be interesting adding a video walkthrough guide to accompany the written walkthrough I had done for my website, so I started recording videos. There wasn't really anyone else doing this back in early 2007 on YouTube. I guess it wasn't so much that I chose the Pokétuber life, but rather the Pokétuber life chose me!


Q: What is your second favorite behind Marill?
A: Sky Forme Shaymin. I really like it!


Q: What about Marill makes it your favorite?
A: It's hard to say! I have a soft spot for cute Pokémon as well as Water-types, so it's a pretty good fit. Other than that, I'm not really sure!


Q: Do you have any ideas for a new Pokémon?
A: A Fairy-type Pokémon based off of a Koala would be pretty cool, but I don't have anything elaborate to expand upon that.

Q: What is one Pokémon that you think needs a Mega-Evolution
A: Farfetch'd. It'd be awesome!


Q: Would there be a type you would add to the game?
A: I'd like to add the Bird type to the game. Re-type things so things like Pidgey are Bird/Flying (double resistance to Fighting), things like Moltres are Bird/Fire, and things like Charizard stay Fire/Flying. It'd require a lot of re-typing, but I think that could be interesting.


Q: Do/did you watch the anime at all and what do you think of it?
A: I watched the earlier seasons much more than I do now. They were alright. I've started watching the XY anime series and it's rather decent.


Q: If the Pikachu evolution line didn't exist, what Pokémon would be the mascot?
A: I've heard that Clefairy was originally slated to be the mascot, so I guess I'll stick with that.


Q: If you could change 1 thing competitively, what would it be?
A: I would like to see Ghost have more type coverage, particularly offense-wise. It's very redundant with Dark.


Q: If you could add 1 feature to the games, what would it be?
A: It's going to sound silly, but for the various challenges that I do, it would be really helpful to have a toggle for the Exp. Share that you can use to determine which of your Pokémon earns EXP; or, alternately, have an Exp. None item that disables selected Pokémon from gaining EXP (and EVs).