BEST Special Attack Item For Each Pokémon! - Pokémon Unite 

0:49 items breakdown 4:00 Special attackers 4:30 Venusaur 8:55 Pikachu 11:53 Alolan Ninetales 13:04 Gardevoir 14:49 Cramorant 17:32 Blastoise 18:00 Wigglytuff 18:57 Gengar 20:06 Blissey 20:47 Mr. Mime 21:36 Eldegoss 24:05 Slowbro

Lol. I'm picturing Gardevoir with the triple shades and it is hilarious... I actually just thought about using the Wise and Choice together last night and... I like that so far!

I don't really play Sp Atk pokemon that often, but enjoyed your perspective on them

At this point we just need a comprehensive Item Guide

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we need fanart of a gardevoir and/or gengar just wearing all glasses at once

Thank you for this guide and your opinions on the glasses! It has been so helpful!

I always play with Sp. Attackers, mostly Gardevoir with Wise Glasses, Choice Specs, and Buddy Barrier. I'm not good with melee ones but I love Gengar.

Jake I love your videos! Though I must say you should reconsider your stance on blastoise with sp. atk, I’m in master and went on a pretty large win streak with choice specs blastoise. I either use buddy barrier, focus band and specs or even barrier, specs and shell bell. You trade off health early game for INSANE late game damage. I got a Quadra kill from a team above half health with surf into hydro pump into unite move. I PROMISE you it’s way better than you think. I haven’t checked the scaling myself but you do big boy chunks, I’ll tell you what.

I think that ppl are over hyping choice specs. While yes, they are amazing, they are not the best in my opinion. The problem with the item, is the 8 seconds cd, which is not bad by itself, but have you seen your damage without this active? Is not nearly as good as when you have Wise Glasses sadly. Imagine you are playing Pikachu and you want do the most damage, but you are using the Thunder Bolt + Bolt Tackle Build, the moment you use Bolt Tackle first, you just wasted choice specs pasive skill, making your thunder bolt and your unite move, do a lot less damage that it would with Wise Glasses or the scoring glasses. Not only that, only the FIRST strike of Pikachu Unite Move does the increased damage of Choice Specs, the item sounds good on paper, but is not that great as ppl seem to think it is. While i understand that, some characters don't have an increadible SP scaling, such as pikachu, they still benefit a lot from having more SP, Pikachu Unite Move does only 49% of your SP as damage, but that is PER THUNDER, he deals in total 196% SP if we count every thunder. Keep in mind that Attack Scaling characters don't get nearly that much Attack as SP characters get. Pikachu gets 954 SP while Cinderace only gets 418, both at lvl 15. So that's why they normally have scalings that are not thaaat great, and still we have cases like Gardevoir who is a Hyper Scaling character (thing that ppl in this game think is the norm, which it isn't) Another character that does scale pretty well is Ninetales with the build Avalanche + Blizzard. Blizzard does 2 instances of damage, one that does 22% SPA + 150 and then, it does twice that damage and then, it does 6 ticks of blizzard damage on an area. 6 ticks is literaly 132% of her SPA. All this sums up to 176% of her SPA in just one move. Choice Specs, would Only aply on the first blizzard damage, and that's my problem with the item, Wise Glasses boost all your instances of damage while this one no. Now, that doesn't mean that Choice Specs is a bad option on Ninetales, cuz if you go Dazzling Gleam + Aurora Veil, you would do tons of damage with Dazzling Gleam, but is not the best option for the mageish build of Ninetales. I find that, Choice Specs is great, but i don't think is the best item for all SP pokemon, but is a great one and can work very well with some competitive builds.

40k subs already, I love that this channel is growing! We still haven’t gotten part 2 of the 25k subs Q&A 👀

This is exactly what I was planning on looking into later today. :O Thank you!

Love these videos and your breakdowns of items. Keep up the good work, man!

Jake I believe the wise glasses were calculated to provide 7% increased special attack DAMAGE to moves. Not base special attack.

Been running Wise Glasses and Choice Specs on Mime and a Confusion Slam easily depletes half of the opponent’s HP. Guard Swap/Confusion also tears through tankier Pokémon like Wigglytuff and Crustle!

On Blizzard Ninetales and Beam Venusaur I've been playing around Energy Amp + Shell Bell. They total to 9% cooldown reduction and the damage boost + extra unite cdr from amp is also very good.

Even though supports' focus isn't doing damage, Eldegoss' heals and shields scale really well with Sp. Atk, I think it's a pretty good choice

super helpful video! thank you Jake, nice work

So happy you put this out. i was so confused. thank you

Great guide! I can't wait for to see your video on suggestions on what to do with the instant 30 consumable. I have an idea of what I want to do, but I'm waiting for your video to confirm my theories. :D

A weird pokemon that I find has a fun bonus off, choice specks is slowbrow going scald and Psychic as the bonus damge it gives is converted into health just rember to run a health item with it and focus band works just fine with surf build but not as effective I find

Excellent video. I needed this

Choice specs's passive has a long cooldown and scoring in the early game is risky, Therefore wise glasses is the best sp.atk item,

Been waiting for this! :0

Thanks for doing this! Super helpful 👌

I would love to see a pokemon's base stats in the pokemon menu before and after applying the items, so that we ahev a direction where to go to with our items.

for cram, sp attack spec will be good because his stats is low, means that adding 96 to it will be adding around 13% to its sp atk. (while other high sp atk will have a smaller % using this) its actually quite simple, for any pokemon that have low sp atk stat, then the sp atk spec will be better. (especially when the move scales well)

I personally always run Wise Glasses on Blissey because Softboiled scales 200% with Sp. Atk. It does feel painful to give up either Score Shield or Focus Band, but the healing you get makes up for it :) And your Helping Hand windows do a bit more damage, which is most helpful for farming. Hope this helps someone!

THIS is the vid I needed.. thanks!!

Hey Jake I think the issue with your moves just randomly going somewhere is because of the "Move aim follow movement direction" option. I think in the past it was only when you started using the move it followed your movement, but now it's acting as if the left stick is basically another right stick.

I think the best takeaway from this video is to check the unite db and calculate each Pokemon's boost from wise glasses (7%) then figure out their scaling on abilities.

Thank you so much super useful

I’ve checked some of Blastoise’s moves. He has over 200% scaling on his moves.

You've convinced me to make Choice Specs my next lv 20 item.

Kinda wild that you just completely skipped over Blastoise

So what I'm hearing is choice specs are an amazing addition to the game

Hey I actually recently picked up Blissey and wanted to run my build by you after seeing this vid! I’m running the focus band and score shield, but then I actually threw the sp. attack specs on there as well. I found it pretty easy to score 6 times as long as I coordinated with my lane partner, and then at that point my soft-boileds were doing a TON of healing. Felt really powerful. Does this seem like just a “win more” button or do you think there is some viability to what I’m running?

Been trying to get more insight on all the held items and looking at the history of these. Kind of interesting that every Slowbro build during the NA Aeos Cup ran Choice Specs with Exp Share. ZugRug heavily exploited these glasses at the bottom of the maps to defend the pads with Scald.

Have been running wise glass and choice specs on Gardevoir lately and future sight and psyshock hits like a meteor.

@spragels the Gengar part was Interesting I doubt you remember but I gave you my numbers on him I wasn’t even thinking to use sp attk specs I was running shell bell for the additional sp attk I gonna try this out.

Jake, when there is a pokemon like venusaur whose solar beam scaling is on "27 % of SpAtk" do you have to consider that there are 5 ticks of damage? Doesn't that mean if you hit the full move it is essentially actually a 135% (27*5) scale on SpAtk? I'm not saying that is for sure how this works, but some of these formulas that have multiple ticks of damage may be deceiving here.

Blaistoise actually has really good scaling with hydro and surf

Would be interested in a comparison of a bulky venu build vs an offensive one? wpuld you guys suggest score shield or a SPA increasing iem or even muscle band?

Out of the three specs which is best for gard?I thought of using score shield,buddy barrier and sp.atk specs for gard

Is there any math done on how shell bell would perform with Venasaur dance drain?

If you are playing Eldegoss with the goal of being a medic and stacking shields, and the shields and healing scale with special attack why not run special attack specs with it? It also helps make leaf tornado do a bit more damage as well.

In the training room I tested wise glasses vs choice specs with Cramorant and the choice specs were better by far

Cram is a burst mage anyways, so choice might make more sense, since you're likely weaving out between cool downs unless you have a super safe frontline ahead of you in team fights or during the lane in general going for big pokes.

As a master player(1300), this video actually thought me many new and detailed information. Thanks a lot!

Thanks these videos are helpful.

what about choice specs wise glasses and shell bell on gengar? thats what i been running and it does really good

By the way where you get the scaling of each move?

Does your opinion in this video regarding Choice specs consider the fact that the additional attack only applies to one pokemon? According to unite-db atleast. Since something like petaldance/giga since both are area tick/area it might not be that effective?

Jake, can i ask what held items and battle item do you suggest for TalonFlame? I'm newbie on Pokemon Unite

I'm not a numbers guru, but I definately feel that running any more than two glasses is mega troll. Heck, I'd say running more than 1 is pretty troll, when you consider that you give up a powerful utility item like Muscle Band, Focus Band, Buddy Barrier, Score Shield or Energy Amp depending on the pokemon. Choice Specs feels like the best item hands down. It just adds so much raw damage in comparison to the others, stacks with the others if you do choose to add them, and sure it's only 1 proc every 8 seconds, but most mages have cooldowns to play around anyway. Wise Glasses 7% increase really doesn't add as much, although an arguement can be made for super low cooldown mages with multi-hit attacks, but even then I don't really think it comes close to easy free burst damage (Which is more valueable than sustained damage in Unite anyway due to the importance of Objective and Farm Stealing) Score Specs just seem really troll in general. Mages aren't good at scoring as most lack mobility, and can easily die over a singular score. They demand you run Score Shield to actually succeed, at which point is the slightly above average Special Attack gain even worth it? It's not that much, and you'd probably be doing more with Choice or Wise and running a utility item, so you don't have to put focus onto a minigame that can easily get your squishy butt killed.

At the 7min mark you mention where you get the stats, I was wondering if they had a channel or something as I can't seem to find them?

Good subject for a good video thanks. One question : why you dont upgrade your buddy barrier to level 30? Or your claw ? Do you plan to release a video about which items to upgrade to level 20 and which ones to upgrade to level 30?

thank you all my mains are sp atk i needed this

I'll take your alolan ninetails build, thank you

Hi spragels. If you would level 30 any of the 2 for sp. atk items, would you level 30 Choice or Wise Glasses for gengar?

do you think sp attack specs work on cramorant?

is there any public information where i can see the damage modifiers?

Wouldn’t ninetails benefit from sp. attack items on aurora veil since its basic attacks become boosted attacks using the special stat?

Hey Jake, I was wondering with mamoswine coming in the next couple of days, what do you think would be the best counter measure against them? It obviously looks really powerful, and will most likely be in every casual match for the foreseeable future, but in attempt to get ‘ahead of the curve’, how would you go about countering it? I am a free to play player, and have built up roughly 12k coin, and want to be strategic with how I go about using my coins. Maybe this would be a pretty cool question for you to answer (if you haven’t already)

Do these perks reset once you die ? Or is it for the whole round ?

IMO wise glasses on Gardevoir, Gengar an cramorant. Choice specs on Gardevoir, pika, sola venusaur and snow ninetales Sp atk specs maybe on gengar, but I personally don't like the scoring items

What about Shell Bell for Venasaur? Matches perfectly with Giga Drain and its passive and also reduces CDR.

ur channel is so underrated for this kind of contents, keep it up lodi

Choice Specs are actually very good on Blastoise.

Is special attack simply means any kind of skills? Or is it the unite skill only?

If you use wise glasses on a pollen puff eldegoss build, the scaling be kinda nuts. It's cuz pollen puff heal is like, 165% special attack or something ridiculous like that

why do most of your sp.atk pokemon holding muscle band?? you use it for the atk speed??

I run Gardevior with Wise Glasses, Specs Choice, and Shell Bell. Works great so far. Additional Sp. Atk. with some ability damage increase, CD reduction, and heals.

I learned my lesson that I should not use Sp-atk specs on the map Shivre city in quick game . If I have bad teammate. Furthermore, I see sometimes I can 2 hit K.O. a Pokemon if I use Pikachu Electro ball with Choice specs and Sp-atk specs, I 1 hit K.O. if that pokemon is lose some 50-80 percent HP. So I chose shell bell to add something that help regen Pikachu.

Where do you find the move scaling? Source?

I'm number 13 yeay! Thank you sooo much for all the video that u made it really helps me.

This was awesome! Is possible that you can Scope lens vs Razor Claw because I’m wondering which is better for Charizard

Which iteam defend the best, please 🙏

I get MVP alot with Gardevoir... I feel like the opponents don't prioritize her and I can ship away at their team from far away until they catch on.

Amazing video! Please update this video when Sylveon comes out!!

So if I’m using Lucario does special attack items help?

After the new update I've went into training mode special attack specs even after six Stacks only gives you a little bit more damage than wise glasses we're talkin about 20 to 30 damage with Shadow Ball level 15 so in my opinion wise glasses and choice specs are way better and more viable then

Where can i see those numbers?

*What about Shell Bell* ? The Sp. Atk Buff AND the move cooldown and Healing could be viable right?

Can you tell me why Muscle Band is good on Venosaur?

Eldegoss main here. The only SpAtk item that's good on Eldegoss is SpAtk Specs. You are often underleveled and have a lower base SpAtk stat than other Pokemon, but the heal/shield scaling is good and synergizes well with Score Shield. Wise Glasses is basically never better than SpAtk Specs if you're any good at stat stacking.

wish you at least talked a bit about blastoise. I know some pokemon are less focused on dmg, but sometimes you want to surprise your oppponents with extra damage

Please a video of the best build of every pokemon Like for spragels se this!!!

Can you do this for the physical attackers please

Jake, score shield, focus band or buddy barrier, & sp atk specs w/ Eldegoss has been so good. Cotton guard to stack with score shield, and leaf tornado to get in & out.

Anyone know why muscle band is beneficial on sp atk Pokémon like vena? I’ve heard mixed that muscle band isn’t just for physical attackers, but just looking for some clarification

Thanks for the explanation on choice specs I haven't had a clue what to really use them for because of the lack of information on scalings. Do you have any thoughts on Pikachu by the way? He seems to basically have all his kit's power budget pushed into electroball, its the highest scaling move at 77% and you get it at level 4 with a 5 second cooldown without any reduction, so he's spammy early on, but the fact the rest of his kit struggles to get any scaling above 50%, including his unit move, makes him feel immensely underwhelming, even when he ults into a team fight, you can often kill him before the ult even ends lol. Volt tackle does negative damage because it's base damage is so low and it's scaling is a hilarious 9%, so I feel like he could do with a it of a change so he's viable past the half way point a little more, he also can't do anything if he falls behind even a little.

Why not use shell bell then lowers CD and increase healing on moves which would help venasor

You should do a video on what items to consider spending our Super Item Enhancers on.

I'm on the Venusaur explanation, and I think either I'm misunderstanding the numbers, or Jake is, because when I read solar beam, it says 27%, but it ticks 5 times. Meaning that in benefits 27x5 or 135% total from special attack. At least that is how I take it from Unite DB. 135% is solid and not crazy like Gardevoir's future sight, but it may change perseption on the item choice a bit more.

I dont understand choice specs' high praise. The highest spatk you can achieve with 2 item slots is 1226 if you assume that -items apply in the left to right order (This is supported by the muscle band scope lens bug, where the scope lens fails to work if the muscle band is to the left (ie the basic attack bonus causes something strange to happen in the scope lens being applied)) -items that give stat boosts instead of active effects apply their passive, then their stat boost (wise glasses gives 7%, then the 26 spatk afterward) -they use conventional rounding Level 15 Gardevoir with SpAtkSpectacles, WiseGlasses, and ChoiceSpecs, in that order My equation looks like: 1.07(1001+6(16)+16)+26+26=1225.79 Right. 1226 Spatk. And the choice specs bonus is 0.4(1226)+60 = 490.4+60 = about 550 additional damage. The lowest max HP you can have is 3000. That is at level 1. You get this 550 extra damage every 8 seconds, which many Pokemon are able to EXCEED with a single basic attack. You are a gardevoir with 1226 special attack and you would rather this over aeos cookie or focus band...

How do you get the slowbro ears 😭

Why is there no energy amplifier in the options?:(

My Cram runs choice specs, wise glasses and shell bell. It's actually kinda insane

Special attackers that are not Gardevoir and Sylveon needs a bit of buff in their scaling progression