BIGGEST MISTAKE PLAYERS do that is EASY TO FIX | Pokemon Unite 

is math too hard?

To add: once you learn to always overcap don't leave your teammate and stand on the goal so they score faster unless you're absolutely sure the area is safe.

I think the main problem is people don't pay attention to who has more points. And they think they need to beat their team so they can be mvp.

I actually am one of the big advocate of overcapping a goal. There is no question about why its so important. That's why I always try my best to overcap the goal. I also tend to be a bit more aggressive if the goal is undercapped. That's how unfortunate it is when I get the teammates that are clearly stupid except some of them who are literal gigachads.

The main issue why people don't over cap goals is honestly the fact that Rayquaza decides games like 95% of the time. Think of how many times the first 8 minutes of a game could be going either way but at the last 2 minutes whoever gets Ray pretty much just wins the game on the spot. So many games usually end in a surrender after Ray is taken down that points you scored don't matter. At the end of the day it doesn't matter how many points are scored total or where they're scored or who scores them. The only thing that matters after the game is which team scored the most points regardless of the difference. And the one thing that drastically overtunes this is Rayquaza just letting a team skyrocket points for free. Over capping goals can help keep games closer than not but if the enemy team gets Ray and you don't have the tools to stop the onslaught then you're more than likely gonna lose and your efforts in the first 8 minutes are for nothing. Keep in mind this is all in the case if Ray gets taken. You can obviously defend Ray from being taken from the enemy team but if your team loses just one fight or make one mistake then it can virtually cost you the entire game. There are also times where a team gets Ray and still lose the game because of another team's defense or scoring skills. But let's be real: is that happening every game you play? Or is it a rare occurrence you see like once a day or week or so? Also how many times do you see surrender vote after Ray is taken? That's the unfortunate truth

As someone who has been playing since day 1, I have been overcapping with my teams forever. I took a break and came back recently and now it's a problem. I think younger and inexperience players don't know about this. Thank you for spreading awareness!

On a related subject, I like to follow what I call "backcapping etiquette". By this I mean many things, like starting the score at 2:05 and only with a fast mon so you can be at the Ray fight quickly. Also only doing it if the fight has not started etc-etc. But one of my rules is to backcapp with 45-49 points, so that I will score 90-98 and leave the 2nd tier goalzone alive with only a few points. This way if we win (or even if we don't) Ray, it is easier for me or my teammates to score on that 2nd goal instead of the main. Even with the Ray shields, sometimes the main base is just too hard to score on.

1:02 bro really thought he could take down water bear 😂😂

4:00 so true. If we had the proper match making we've been asking for this entire time, things like that would be commonplace.

I think the only time I don’t over cap a lot is cause I need to break the goal is the enemy team doesn’t have a place to heal alot during the big fight. That’s usually the only situation

Huge respect for accepting you did a terrible engage. That gives you another point to you being my favorite Pokemon Unite content creator.

I recently had this happen to me about a week ago, I was with playing tsareena with a hoopa, called HoopaTheMain (ironic name) and we where trying to break the first goal. He has less points to not break the goal and I had more points to break the goal. However, he didn’t attempt to score, and we waited like 5 sec with such an awkward stare but eventually I ended up scoring because I didn’t want an enemy team to just come here and not score making us look stupid. So I only overcapped by like less then 5 points. I think the biggest issue is that the unite game doesn’t do a very good job on explaining how overcapping works leading to still a lot of people doing the same miskate.

I believe that sometimes people just doesn't care, they underestimate a big overcap. On the other hand, sometimes I don't pay enough attention to my teamates or get anxious because I see the enemie coming to defend the goal 😅😅

Players just suck at everything to be honest they are afk, wrong rotating or not even helping, terrible builds, and etc. things like that just makes me believe in the future they all suck

Me as Inteleon level 10. 30 points Random as wartortle lvl 8. 30 points. Dumb Mewtwo lvl 11. 40 points. I go to score on a tier 1 at 37. I see Wartortle and Mewtwo coming. I stop capping so that Wartortle can score instead and then Mewtwo. Mewtwo GETS THERE FIRST AND SCORES IN FRON OF BOTH OF US… I can’t even sometimes…

Remember that you can help your allies score by standing on the goal. Like Cris said, sometimes it's best to help someone set up into a big overcap. Also, if no one is nearby and you don't have many points, the goal could be left "primed" for now. Farm and overcap later.

I'd always go for Overcapping, but sometimes, I do think it's better that we just destroy the enemy base, as they're for sure are coming this way and we're outnumbered if we do and we'll die and unable to score. It's frustrating to see someone destroy the post, that I set up to sub 10, only for them to destroy it for 11 or something... That is so annoying, I agree.

just came from a game with 5ko streak with pikachu thunderbolt and thunder with 157k damage against glaceon and m2

7:20 i agree thats something about pokemons like urshifu U will die into enemy your team will follow and u end up losing

Yeah, we know, most of the people who play this game dont actually know how to play the game. My biggest annoyance is when I get a duo or trio that prioritizes top, so we spend the whole match having to deal with an enemy team that has more exp and FUCKIN BUFFS. I dont think people understand how big of a deal it is to have to fight against a team that has buffed atk and spatk or def and spdef and up a level or two. Then they just keep diving and dying, feeding them.

Not to mention you lose way more of your games because people are not overcaping and so in a result you lose a score lead

Unite players cant even get this, imagine they geting the optimal time to break a goal

On a similar note, it is bad that sometimes players defend a goal zone from a bad overcap of enemy or regieleki. Especially with regieleki, some players just defend it no matter if rayquaza spawns or goal zone is on low points. Only worse happens in this scenario, enemy gets the rayquaza or player defending from regieleki hits it enough for it to enter the goal resulting in bigger overcap.

I have only done a small overcap when not paying attention. And as a defender main I always prioritize my carry mons to score before I do.

The most beautiful moment i had was when my team got rayquaza and our charizard waited in a bush so i could score 98 points in their 2nd goal, then he scored 100 points and broke it afterwards

I’m very sorry to my teammates because I had no idea big overcaps = more exp 😅 I don’t score very often though, unless I’m stacking & I try to make sure that’s itty bitty points! I’m usually defending our goal while some rando scorbunny is getting KO’d lmao

I forgot the content pf the tutorial that you get when you first play the game, but this info should be included there, so if the problem is "they don't know overcapping matters" it can mitigate that to an extent

Some people definitely think that you can't overcap and that you are just losing points, but I think the biggest thing is that people assume that breaking goals=winning, and don't take into account how much xp you lose vs how much the opponents now get.

I’d also add sometimes it’s worth it to wait a second or two to score. Had a game where someone scored 50 at 2:01 on an uncontested outer goal. If he’s waiting one more second to start channeling it would have been 100.

Honestly i try to get mostly xp early on to get max lvl , but i also do that while trying to defend my goal sense im more defensive than offensive but it works for me , and i don't pay much attention to the score i just listen to the announcer to see if we are winning, or just by the number of goals 👍

Glad you posted this. Hopefully more people stop doing that. Keep up the good work, great video!🤜🏻🤛🏻

Yesterday I would have scored and won by a single point but my teammate ran up with 9 points and blocked me. Genuinely wanted to just quit Unite forever.

the devs should add a visual on how much points get overcapped when standing on a goal like a +(amount overcapped) with like a font that gets like shiner and bigger the higher overcap you have just to make it real clear for how gormless unite players are

Sometimes when you are in the heat of the moment, you dont really think. Ive also had a time where i accidentally scored a low number, when i wanted to cancel it, but it wouldn’t cancel in time

Thanks so much for explaining the difference between, "We are in the lead', "We have a huge lead" and "It's a close match". The game does not explain it it all and it can be panic inducing in some matches, esp when you lose Ray x_x

I think the issue is that 95% of the player base just monkey brain button smash their way through the entire game.

I watched a rowlet today on the enemy team do a perfect score on my goal I was defending and I was just so disappointed in him (I let him score)

Cris you're such a great content creator. I love these explanation type of videos where you explain your thoughts. Much love! ❤

Cris I thought Mewtwo was Meh so I played it and got 35 Kos I feel kinda bad for those players 😢

Its crazy to me this is a video that has to exist at this point. These are season 1 strats people

I’ve done it a couple of times that I score just one or two too many and break accidentally. Those few times are one of the big reasons I wish there was a “sorry!” Ping on the wheel

The moments I find funny is when in the heat of battle everybody is almost dead and I try to break the goal with 40, then there's always one attacker that breaks with 6 points and stands there realizing what they did

It all boils down to 3 rules of thumb: 1 - Let teammates dunk the most points that WON'T break a goal. 2 - THEN, let the teammate with the most points break the goal. 3 - Remember all dunks are doubled during the Final Stretch.

i think the simplest way to explain it is this: tell players to first *focus on getting the goal LOW* , NOT broken, but low. then you can overcap to break the goal with maximum points, when the goal is ideally at 1 or whatever low number. i dont normally "do math" but you have a general sense of how many points are going into the goal, based on the number of players standing on the goal. if youre really not sure, maybe its better to wait a small moment to decide to score or not

Personally i don't think overcapping is that important on the top goal; it should be broken as soon as possible with the goal of getting Regeleki to their base goal late game. Also a lot of times leki ends up breaking the goal which sucks. Would rather have someone score 12 pts and break the goal so that leki doesn't break it and can move to the second goal, giving more ppl a chance to score. Ultimately the goal should be on the third round for it to be hitting their base so your team can go on a scoring frenzy without having to worry abt breaking/overcapping. Doesn't always that way but made sense to me. Obviously if i was standing on the goal w 8 to break and my team mate had 40 id defer to them. But way more concerned w overcapping on bottom than top.

Cris, you didn't mention chat in credits Madge , but good vid anyway Gladge

Damn people really be not knowing the basic fundamentals of the game

Yes this happened to me today, mewtwo had 50, I had 40 after capturing Rayquaza, and so I did the same to another teammate in a different game and it completely builds a better scoring lead.

It reminds me of that short from spragel where the lucario scored 1 point when there was only 1 point left on the goal 😂

big number make brain happy so when my teammates overcap 7 points brain sad

this is especially true when a regi enters a goal which is weird bc that seems, to me at least, the perfect time to max a goal idk tho

Chris maybe next time if goal gonna be the topic, maybe adding the goal info graph would help as well to show how the lead/behind your team vs enemy team in scoring

Good guide sometimes it doesnt really matter cuz rayquaza but still do this for moral support when the announcer says youre in a huge lead

This literally just happened to me last night. I had 50 points and no shield after stealing Ray. I was a second away from finishing scoring when my freaking teammate with a shield and 28 points walks up and dunks, breaking the goal before I can score, with 5 seconds left in the game, and we lost the game by 20 pts. Fml.

Why do you use liquidation after surging strikes combo? Shouldn’t you use it before since it decreases defense?

That was very helpful. I never pay attention to whether my small points will break the goal. Thanks!

Personally it feels like too many people focus on being the main character in each Unite game and end up not mathing, try 1v5 the enemy team, and play poorly overall and blame everyone else for their mistakes. It's rare to get teammates that actually know what they're doing in ranked

Good for u. Most of us don’t get those kind of teammates

Finally someone address this, more people need to realise that overcapping a goal is a thing

When you see a buzzswole with shellbell, math is too difficult for them

I also want to share my incident that a bottom goal only required 24 and a random with 30, don't score goal He open a voice chat and tell me to score 50 I feel emotional at that point ❤but we losse that match by 9 points 😢

Some teammates are really irritating. Atleast you got some good players. Some are so stupid that crustle taking center ahead of mewtwo and defender farming while losing regileiki and letting it in while farming beside it even in master 1600☹️☹️

I think sometimes it’s just a greed thing. They don’t care about anyone else’s xp or anything

I never break the goal when we are equal or loosing but when im winning. Im legit high. And make negative iq plays like going into their flux zones, break goals and stuff

i honestly think in the heat of the moment people jus score without thinking much about it and just view the quicker you break the goals the better. It can be very frustrating tho bc it’s easier to min max tier 3 goals so once they’re down it’s harder to get points in. Def had many instances where someone broke a goal at 1 with 5 points instead of the 50 someone was trying to score. Many sarcastic thanks came after that lmao.

I just played a game with you lol I was the mew(kemzart)...I'm not the best with mew but I think I played ok 😅 but you're great man I'm still learning alot it's my first moba experience

That Leafeon is such a G🍷🗿

Most annoying is when rayquaza spawn, my team has huge lead, and instead of defending points and reengage ray when enemy would start it... a) 1 ppl die at 2.00 around enemy point (for what when you have huge lead...), then rest of team running ray and die 4 vs 5 (yea, I'm going with them because in this case is win or lose situation) b) 1 or 2 ppl start ray when rest of team isn't at position which end with their death and free ray for enemy... (for what doing ray when you are winning hard) c) but most annoying is when somehow 1 enemy die at 2.00 and whole team insta run doing ray. Today I lost 3 games in row like this, because enemy randomly steal ray (2 times in row, do you believe? And one time 4 enemy just destroy us on ray)... again, why starting ray instead of just def it when you win hard...

I think the people don't look to there teammates. It's the same with the stack items. No one looks on the held items and steal the points.

I think the only time it's fine to break goal asap is when your team is trying to get Eleki but the goal is already pass the 20 mark. Break that goal so that the Eleki will advance the 2nd goal and choose to either push or retreat and get farm. But bot lane, for the love of Arceus, do the math first if possible. XD

Chris: don't destroy bases with low score points. Spragels: it says 1 and You have 1 coin, it has your name on it, can you score that?

Im under the assumption that most people dont know… I often wait for my team mates to score whenever we can get a big overcap but sometimes they just wait for me to 😂

That gardevoir with zero recovery. Just full send.

I think the biggest mistake people make is entering a game against a mewtwo, I would quit instantly seeing one in the lobby if I could

Honestly is like some people they feel like the main character and forget that the game is about be a team 💀

My biggest problem is trying to do the math in my head, I'm usually good at math but sometimes I'm off by a little bit.

Thank you for these PSAs because people are feeding hard etc in ranked

Something I score even if I have lower cuz I know enemy will come b4 scoring the 40 point

Lol this is rare when it happens especially when playing solo. Chris I get it but most people know this but refuses to face basic logic. What you showed was what I call a unite miracle lmao

I fully believe that people in randoms just want to make sure THEY score and don't care about the consequences.

i thought you were gonna say to not overcap goals cus you can't get more points than it takes to destroy one. But actually i've been doing this ever since i first started playing lol!

Um when I was new I saw a game8 post about goals and they said if a goal zone is left on 1, then no matter what you score it will score 1

I'm just leave my team score first and I never score any point I only go with big one 30 point or more

Common sense seems to be getting more uncommon nowadays in general life let alone a game 😅but seriously this happens too much! I also find checking the map isn’t very common either 🤣

Does the small white dot on top of pokemon shows whether they have unite move or not

A random blastoise scored 18 points which was enough to break the goal instead of letting my friend score 50 points so yeah randoms are randumbs who can't do basic math

I break the goals because it gives the opponent less room to run away and retreat to a safe zone to heal. plus no berrys for them.

Just had battle on zeraora 126k, but still we lost, because my team did nothing and opponents had Mewtwo with 136k (-_-). Is there actually any way to counter mewtwo that is thinking at least a bit?

hi, I recently started playing the game again, but I can't figure out how to get Mew's medal, I can't do anything with my friend code :/ any ideas ? thanks in advance

I understand all the math of overcapping, its just in the fast paced moment I cant do the math to figure it out. Its too much shit going on at once

That eldegoss was on point with the healing 😮

i had a very good feint zoroark score 1 to break the goal but i let it slide cause he carried us lol

Any overdunk is the equivalent of scoring that many points into the enemy's tier 3 goal, it's completely ridiculous how few players are aware of that. Thank you so much for denying me the chance to score 40 wigglytuff, you really needed to score that 12 didn't you?

I also sometimes overpush using urshifu ...right its an urshifu syndrome 😂

Is it possible to avoid Drednaw or Registeel cc?

As Inder as Say every game is not winnable but it's throwable

What should i take scizor or zoruoak

Unite taught me how to count to 6 before we had the stacking counter

Why didnt the scizor continue scoring and fight instead

oh yeah, the urshifu syndrome is real alright lol