Was Pokémon Unite as bad as we thought? 

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I love it but I’m pretty biased

Pokémon Unite made me realize that gaming doesn't have to make me happy to be fun

Funnily enough the meta is already completely different from what is described in this video

You should only level your items up to 20 when you're new. Held items stop gaining additional effects at 20 and the difference between 20 to 30 is usually like, 10 attack out of hundreds. In addition, the item enhancer cost goes up exponentially.

Pokémon unite was a bigger success than most of us could’ve expected

I'd love to see Wolfe and Spragels playing unite or vgc together someday. They both have the same wholesome vibe and are so funny!

Blissey is literally always good. It's been good in every generation and it's been good in Go and Unite also.

I Always say Unite is Pokemon Quidditch. There’s some hoops to score in and if you get the gold thing you instantly win. Also. Grabbie Grabbie.

I don't think I've since a reception for a game take a complete 180 this quickly from the first trailer to release. Also, the reason why Pokemon like Lucario and Mr. Mime didn't have their pre-evolutions is because they're Baby Pokemon.

I'll be honest, with the new map Unite introduced recently, the game is a lot more balanced and fun than it used to be

That ripple effects of that critical video are INSANE. People still call Unite P2W as a result and it's so funny because it couldn't be further from the truth

8:22 this is what all youtubers should do. Wolfey is too honest for his own good

Honestly, it isn’t that bad. It is well developed and the choices of Pokémon added are much better than expected. It made me like Pokémon like crustle and eldegoss much more. Wouldn’t say it’s underrated though because it can be annoying, but so can games like geometry dash and fall guys

With the absol nerf, the patch before the nerf, they accidentally buffed absol to be completely broken and fixed it later

Ok I’m terrified. I just re downloaded this game and played it with a friend for a while. Hoped onto RU-vid and I find this video an hour ago. Wolfe, are you in my walls?

wolfe: talks about espeed luca wolfe's editor: shows pup luca

I remember not wanting to try the game out at launch due to hearing about it being pay to win and not being a huge MOBA guy in general. Fast forward to a family New Years party, my uncle pestered me to try it out and I acquiesced. Didn't expect to have as much fun as I did, and since then it has become one of my most played games as of late. Not a perfect game, but much better than one might expect.

This is a better representation of unite than the Mr whos the boss review. Hes literally representing the P2W side of the game, and yet stills don't know where to go even tho its been a year for unite. And certain strategies have been discovered already for every character it the game, except the new ones. At this point unite is doing us a favor on punishing the people who pays their way in games by just having huge cost on items that you should not pay money on.

Even though I kinda don’t enjoy Unite that much, I’m so happy that Crustle has got some attention in this game. (He’s my 3rd favourite Pokémon) Also the cake skin is the best thing I’ve ever seen Also wtf who calls Decidueye Dekidewey

My only real complaints about unite are the fact that Unite Licenses cost a lot of coins, and are getting more expensive as time goes on. I also wish there was a free way to get gems so that it’s possible to get things like cosmetics that are locked behind gems. I get they want to make money, but it kinda sucks that free-to-play players like myself can’t get items like Holowear (plus the holowear that you can get from holowear tickets are kinda bad)

I was obsessed with Unite when it first came out but I found myself getting so annoyed and angry it felt too stressful to keep playing…

The meta has completely shifted, and the boost emblems have been nerfed. Rayquaza has made it so that you can better defend your goals from your enemies since they each have a score shield that is tied to their health. so you go after the squishy pokemon.

Bro I remember playing with you one time. I was Eldegoss and I think you were machop or Lucario. I remember tuning in to your stream to hear you say that “this Eldegoss was popping off.” I had the most kills in the game lol.

I am so excited that Zoroark, my favorite Pokémon, is coming later this month. When it was first leaked, I got the game on my switch and started grinding to be able to afford it when it becomes available to purchase without money.

KOing Zapdos (Raquaza as of now) has been reworked to give you much less significant advantage now, no more instant scoring. So much so that split scoring is advisable now. Crazy, I know.

dang, crazy how the meta you specified has already flipped pretty much 180

For the emblems, I messed with it for a little, but I decided to play without them until I understood them better. I actually was able to play just as well if not better because of it! You can definitely ignore them if you want to! (I’ve been to master several times and haven’t finished below veteran ever from launch)

You didn't really make a good arguement in the pay to win section. "It's not pay to win, it's pay to skip the grind"... So it's pay to win

That thumbnail really had me thinking Wolfey was gonna collab with Critikal 😂

Pretty good analysis. I love Pokemon Unite despite it being a decent game, it's a lot of fun for many of the reasons you point out. With that, I'm confused why you focused so intently on Remoat Stadium without acknowledging the new map Theia Sky Ruins has been much more balanced and removed the Zapdos win con gimmick. Remoat Stadium is playable, but no longer the current standard of the game

We really needed this after the "pay to win" youtube vids. Thanks for dropping this. There's a couple things that you left out that make starting the game even more player friendly like the 3 level 30 item enhancers that max out 3 items permanently and also that you don't get huge gains past level 20 on most items, but this video at least paints the right picture. Hoping this game continues to grow bc I love it.

Appreciate the effort and acknowledging this game because it is my favourite, but this map is completely different unless you're playing a standard in the old map. Completely different map, buffs, spawns, RAYQUAZA. Still thank you for giving this game the light it deserves.

The game came out and wasn't friendly with it's monetisation Then it got *A LOT* BETTER. Recently though new characters have gotten really expensive with coins, hopefully won't get any higher.

i love dodrio. it's especially strong in auroma park because it scores 3 individual times so you constantly give yourself the 2x score bonus.

Love to see spragels here. I watch his daily videos and Wolfey got me playing pokemon showdown. So my two favorite poketubers colabing is awesome.

17:04 What's a "De-key-do-e"

The new map fixed so many problems. Such a good game

Remember when Pokemon Unite was first announced it got booed! Although it's made by Tencent and for that I avoid Unite.

Great video! I'd love to see more unite games from you!

16:20 well that aged like milk, didn't it?

The only problem I have is that final meta comment involves lucario and blissey. Maybe while it was being written, but if you watch Spragels, we all know it's Mr. Mime, Gengar, Mew, and Glaceon that rule the meta right now. But it's such a solid game. I love playing it. I got my girlfriend into it and we play together. I love the revolving meta (though if Gengar could get a permanent nerf to balance him out, I'd be happier). And the fact that I'm maining Azumarill right now is something I never thought I'd say ever.

16:00 well that might be true in some cases but recently the Pokemon that are being released in Pokemon unite aren't crazy strong in release ( buzzwole, dodrio, scizor ) but some were crazy broken too ( i am so happy that ttar got nerfed )

Great video wolfey I like that that the editor used ChokeDawgVA on the losing part

This is a really well made, thoughtful video but seems a bit dated already. Great effort, with some amazing points made just a bit of inaccurate information sprinkled in.

Literally this video released and is already outdated xD Now Rayquaza exists, Hoopa isn't meta anymore, Dragonite either, Tyranitar is just meh and Mr. Mime is destroying everything How did that happened in just like... One month?!

Fuck. the begging got me. I haven't actually played a pokemon game since Gen 3, but by that point, it had already overwritten that part of my brain that recognizes animals, so it's stayed on my periphery. I enjoy Wolfey's personality and some of his wideos get a chuckle out of me, but historically not enough to deem them relevent enough for subscribing, but the begging won me over. you earned it, my dude.

I really enjoyed my romp with Pokémon Unite but the problem is there are so many other games competing for my time. It’s a respectable MOBA though and anyone who loves that style of game should check it out.

Some of this is very outdated sadly, hoopa isnt around nearly as often on the new map, and im surprised you didnt talk about how dodrio/scizor were available as GEMS ONLY for a solid week before they were able to be bought with coins, which is a very predatory thing for them to do, thankfully they werent oppressive like mew was.

I came into unite as someone who had already been playing dota 2 for about 9 years at the time and was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty simplistic compared to what I was used to, sure, but that was kind of a nice accessibility and charm. Then around 2 months after the release I stopped playing and haven't touched it since cause I got bored of the simplicity lol. Well, that and got tired of how little teamwork there was and the frequency of afk or just outright bad teammates. Sometimes consider going back to try unite again, but at the end of the day I just much prefer dota. Still, if you don't want your mobas to take 600 hours to achieve baseline competency, then unite seems a pretty good choice, and it got some of my more casual friends to put quite a bit of time into it.

Although on a break right now, the game's improved quite a bit. Still has its flaws, Garchomp is still depressing to play bar a few rare occasions for one but overall enjoyable until you lose to teammates 3 games in a row haha.

Wolfey I love you and your content.... But your early Lucario section was using Power up punch not Espeed

Im debating playing again, should I? I played at launch for about 2 weeks. so i have no idea what to expect. I got the idea to come back after the Alpharadd tournament

I'm pretty sure they might be stopping the purposeful OP release for new Pokemon. The newest Pokemon as of recent have been kind of underwhelming (Scizor especially), and although Clefable seems to be very scary in the PTS, I think its immense power isn't deliberate like previous mons power was.

I definitely have to play Unite for only a few games at a time otherwise I'll start raging at my teammates however I find the game hilarious as a Wigglytuff support main because, depending on my opponents, I can end up in 1v1 fights against an attacker or all rounder and end up winning because they aren't prepared for Doubleslap/Sing

i love this game so much, I'm grateful that so many people feel the same way! i wish the custom skins were a bit cheaper, seems like they should cost about 1/4 to 1/2 as much as they are now. you also forgot to mention that leveling a held item past 20 (which getting from 20 to 30 is like 5x the item enhancers you need to get from 1 to 20) doesn't really change much about most items, except maybe muscle band and scope lens for two very different reasons: muscle band's auto attack cooldown reduction only works when it's past a certain threshold which is different for different pokemon, i think it's because they only programmed in so many basic attack animation lengths. whereas scope lens is an item with no effect except crit rate enhancement, which is entirely linear with what level the item is at, so level 9 to level 10 has just as big of an impact as level 29 to level 30. i think maybe the held items got nerfed? because they don't seem to be very OP anymore, and I'm someone who joined maybe three months ago and have never spent a cent on leveling up items or anything like that, just unite licenses and a few of the 120-gem (~$2) skins. i managed to maintain a >2/3 winrate for three months without spending one red cent on iten enhancers. i would really love to see the smash community or top VGC players or some other video game community doing a big pokemon unite tournament, like the "smasher's gambit" chess tournament at smash summit a few years back, it's absolutely delightful to see people i know from VGC like you, people i know from melee like mang0 or lucky, people i know from ultimate like VoiD, etc. playing another one of my favorite games and having so much fun with it. this game rocks.

Let's not forget about 3 free Super item enchancers (that boosts lvl of your choosen item to max forever) Idk why is everyone always forgeting about that

I actively played Unite for the entire first year, but now I've barely been playing it because I'm kind of bored of the game and its way more grindy to get the newer Pokémon (who made Dodrio, Tyranitar and Scizor 14K and decided you have to play *45 quick battle and at least 10 standard/ranked battles* for Mew)

While a lot of characters were definitely OP on release, a large chunk of newly released characters suffered from the opposite problem. They were too bad on release. Mamoswine and Trevenant were widely criticized upon their release for not doing enough damage, and Azumarill, Espeon and now more recently Scizor all released as low or bottom tiers

when watching your video i had to do a double take at the college photo because it looked my own and turns it is! I graduated from there in may 2021 with an Aerospace engineering degree! I think it's awesome you went to the same school, upon some googling it linked me to the Stamps Scholar page where I read the favorite quote and absolutely loved the shikamaru quote!

I loved seeing the hoopa aegislash combo being used, I found it out with a friend and it's incredibly powerful

I started playing this game some time at the beginning of the year. I’ve enjoyed a lot of the time I’ve put into it. My first and probably only moba.

Great video but I would actually argue that the game needs more frequent balance patches. There will be stretches of time where a few mons will be legitimately broken without any signs of fixing them

im only a casual player and ive never played a game like this before, but I've been having tons of fun in standard and quick matches, as well as completing the challenges

Random question: does anyone know which theme it is that starts in the background at 11:58? I'm just addicted to it but couldn't find it in a complete Sword/Shield soundtrack. I was fairly sure it was from Sw/Sh? I need to know 😁

no, the squirrel exists

Me wanting to cry right now... wolfey says patches every three months and were still here with broken glaceon, mew, and mime

For my experience i began to play unite pretty early when it came in my country and played a lot and actually got to master's but then the downfall for me began it became so insane bcz literally every game someone ignored drednaw and zapdos and stole jungle or pretty much any bad thing possible. It was making me so mad bcz I don't have friends who play unite so I had to play with randoms and I snapped and quit the game and I haven't played it like I did the first time ever since .

I never knew about a strong meta and I'm a hoopa main because when I cannot communicate, and players rarely see hoopa i just teleport them all to mid and they see funny button, so they click AND HAVE TO FIGHT ZAPDOS

Definitely appreciate this videos approach to unite compared to some other recent takes

Absol was NOT broken at launch, it had counter-play but pre psycho cut nerf was OP.

Wolfy. You bits honestly get better and better. Thank you for this video. 🔥😁

7:52 this is relatable, I maxed 3 sp attacks item for my decidyeue before realizing he was physical

I love Unite! I would live to see you make more Unite content Wolfey

I remember being happy about the trailer. My then boyfriend loved mobas and I thought it would be a game we could play together since lol was way too hard for me to pick up. He never played long though. And playing alone felt not satisfying enough, so I stopped. Nearly a year later and after we broke up I just randomly decided to play again. And I fell in love with it (again?) Soon after I got back into the game, espeon was added. And espeon is one of my very favourite pokemon. I think the game can still improve a lot of stuff. But I am also very happy about the improvements that already happened. More diverse objectives outside of the matches, more creative characters, more fun game modes... But I think there are some things that will never be perfect. Like the balancing. buzzwhole for example. I heard many people say it really needed the recent buff, while I felt like it was an unkillable bug since release. (Never played it, only fought it) Matchmaking is another thing. I feel like every moba like game gets criticised for it. But I don't mind the matchmaking at all. I think I get a fair amount of games where I have higher ranked players and games where I am the highest ranked player. It feels evenly mixed. Afk players. Since I started playing on mobile I have way more compassion for afk players. Sometimes I just lose connection (not due to the game) and have to wait until I can rejoin the fight. That's because the only time I really get to play is while commuting from and to school. I get lag spikes on my way and walk into walls. I miss what lanes got called because the bus arrived earlier than anticipated. I don't try to make my team lose and I give it my all and I want to win. It just happens to be that life gets in the way sometimes. I also have more understanding for giving up early. Sometimes when I get tilted because of problems with my teammates, I just have no fun anymore. It's not fun being left behind not bei g supported to score or just plainly being griefed by your teammates. I dislike matches like that and ask for surrendering early, if we also happen to be losing. I think this game gets a lot of bad rep for the wrong reasons. I think a free to play game has every right to make cosmetics pricey. Even if its "for kids" (I think unite is more for teens) The energy lottery doesn't even come close to a loot box and the medals are nice and fun to collect. Pokemon unite is special to me. I never had a moba so cute and fun and easy to play. There is no toxic chat putting you down and there is not a mountain of things to know to have fun. And it's pokemon. So far for my thoughts. Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

I love how he exemplifies the “And he’s just good at video games” with a clip from his mr krabs overdoses on ketamine record

Wait, was this video made a year ago? Everything on screen is outdated. Zapdos is no longer around and the meta is completely different

wolfy i feel like you should have tried to put this video out faster seeing how you said yourself, the game changes very fast, and these past 3 months the game changed A WHOLE LOT MORE than usual because of the new map, the ton of anniversary mon releases,, the emblems , and the patches it came with it. you didnt even mentioned how zapdos and dreadnaught being gone completely changed the game.

You must have been working on this video for a looong time with all of the outdated references 😂. But I agree with the idea that a constantly evolving meta is healthier and more fun. Some people, like Krashy, even complain that balance patches aren’t released enough. I think their patch a month or so strat is perfect.

Lesson of the video. Pokemon putting on clothes: Heebee jeebies. Pokemon taking off clothes: Happy Wolfe

Hay wolfey will you do some sort of review on the world cup or analysis of your placement.

Spragels our reseident content Cowboy yeehaw!!! 🤠

I love unite personally - it’s straightforward, easy to learn, casual mechanics and all in all a cool little game

idk if it's a limited promo, but a quest would allow you to max 3 held items of your choice. I've only played for month after the 1 year anni. and yea

honestly, when I saw the unite trailer, I instantly had LoL flash backs hard, I really didnt want to play the game, but when I got into it, I got into it so much, and I got invested by the quick play and the neat builds and mons (mamoswine main forever man!)

Trevenent actually got buffed after a while, since it was kinda bad on release.

i love pokemon unite luckily, the new map solves a lot of issues with unite

8:25 subscribed because of that! You should really do that more often.. it's effective af xD

Might have to try this game out again. My boy Machamp was so fun when I tried it out before, and I'd love to get back to terrorizing people with him again.

Personally I really love Pokémon unite, and find it really interesting

My experience with Unite: Downloaded it last week, started of with a Pikachu since I heard he is really good. Win 2 games in a row in regulars and wondering why the hell electroball is so powerful. Game throws money at me for various easy challenges I done, and I decide to look what's in store. I had money to buy any pokemon, and I chose without even looking up how good he is: Garchomp. Why him? He is my absolute favorite pokemon. So far, I build myself a comfortable for me build where I play very aggressively, killing players left and right and scoring a lot of points. Unlocked quite a few pokemon, even tho I don't use many of them. 42 (29 of them as Garchomp) battles, 3 loses (one of them beacuse of disconect). Most of the games I am the mvp. And I didn't even once lost while playing as a Garchomp. I am not disappointed in my pick

I'm surprised that you didn't bring up Rayquaza which smashed Zapdos onto the ground. Even AI can focus to death kamakazi scoring attempts if you try to treat it like the Zapdos scoring bonus, IMO

I did well in launch. Speedran through the ranks, but didn't want to invest more time and effort into the game because of the p2w aspect. Wolfey being a competitive minded player should understand it well enough that it's not very satisfying game to play if you can't play on a even playfield with other players because they swiped and you didn't.

I disagree.

Goddamn Wolfe is just aggressively shitting out content rn and I am here for it

I live it but if I have some issue 1 item upgrade , if u loose Ur account u have to upgrade them again 2 we can't download only one specific holowear . Most people don't want to download all data of game just want to wear one holowear which is not possible

As you can see im a challenger player in league and i played pokemon unite the first ever day they released it like the notification pop off that i can finally download it. I dominated the rank without leveling up my items and of course i played it with my gf at that time. That's why i agree with all of what your saying here Very well done. But sadly like a months later i quit cuz got busy with soo much work. Watching your video rn make me realize that i wanna go back to this game again and dominate to top rank again

The Unite content creator community and Wolfey coming together being an entire counter to Mrwhostheboss 💅✨

I mean, I liked Unite. It isn’t perfect, but I enjoy it.

i used to love this game when it first came out, however i stopped playing it when i realized it was almost impossible to get the currency you need to buy other pokemon, because i already did the 14 day log in bonus + something else there was, so i was basically only able to gain the currency through playing, which was a very very very little amount only.