You'd be forgiven if you'd forgotten about Pokémon Unite recently. As the series' 25th anniversary celebrations took off with that wonderful video, this week alone has already brought us news of New Pokémon Snap and rumoured remakes for Diamond and Pearl. Topping it all off, several screenshots have leaked from Unite, and it's confirmed you can dress up your Pokémon via skins.
Similarly to the Diamond & Pearl rumours, this news comes via Spanish fansite Centro Pokémon, who posted screenshots to their Twitter. A closed beta was announced for the MOBA in China several weeks ago, so we'd place good money that these emerged from that. If you look at the Machamp screenshot, it clearly show ID tags for the player in question.
It has to be said though, for all the backlash Unite received after its reveal in June last year, these sklns do look pretty great. Cinderace's pirate outfit is adorable, Garchomp is just having a laid-back holiday and Talonflame has never quite looked so dashing. Whether that's enough to sway fan opinion though, remains to be seen.
Will you be playing Pokemon Unite? Do you like the look of these new skins? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com]
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That Lucario outift is based on Sir Aaron from the 8th pokemon movie (who owned a Lucario). Very nice homage
Not gonna lie, I forgot this was a thing. Looks like they added more playable pokemon than last time.
It's obvious that these skins are there to drive micro-transactions.
It was a huge thing that drove Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 after all.
I honestly thought this game had been and gone and been forgotten about already.
Cool, now cut all ties with Tencent
Its a moba of course it has skins
Just when you though Mr Mime couldn't get any creepier. He's one step away from a Bloodborne resident.
too much unnecessary hate! Looked like a good game and an interesting change in play style. I look forward to seeing more on what it has to offer
Never touched a moba, so not sure I'm in this game's target audience other than it being pokemon. I'm sure this was inevitable though. This and the ability to pay money for pokemon that have large advantages over the rest. And I've seen the prices charged for pokemon micro transactions - it's insane.
I'll likely give it a go to confirm my doubts about the game itself, but almost certainly won't be giving them any money for a skin or an unlockable.
I'm interested in a console MOBA as the LotR one on the PS3 is the only MOBA i have ever played and i had decent fun on that, despite its short life and constant network issues.
Tencent aside this game doesn't look that deep but it could be good as a time filler. What I didn't understand from the initial reveal is why some Pokemon have to evolve to get to their final form whereas others like Lucario and Talonflame, do not. Just seems like complete fan service to me.
Okay not interested in this game but that's still pretty dope. I'm a sucker for alternate costumes, or in this case, just costumes.
I love Moba's so even if people think its trash I'm going to play it anyway.
The kinda stuff that should be in the mainline games. Other than that still don't care.
I've not really been interested in this game, but it has to be said the quality is nice.
I'd really like to see more variation in the appearance of the actual pokemon (like Spinda's spots, spiky-eared pichu etc) in the future, it makes pokemon seem more like real creatures to have that variation. The outfits and fun, but it does seem like pokemon are becoming more peopley I guess?
Lucario is a cool homage to the Halloween 2019 merchandise
skins look cool i hope this game fails ***** tencent
Once more, tencent is involved so no thanks!
Not in the least bit interested in this game, but I do think it is going to be a huge money maker for The Pokémon Company. Its simplicity is probably going to be the winning factor here.
Can’t wait fir this game!
Looks great and if it plays smoothly I’ll be all in.
Never been against FTP games and haven’t had problems with pay to win. Played Spellbreak, Warface, Ninjala, etc and I’ve been extremely competitive in all of them paying absolutely $0. I’d eventually pay some money (mostly to support the developers in thanks) for cosmetic accessories just for fun. It seems from the photos that this will be the same. Not sure why people feel forced to pay money.
On top of it, there’s normally pretty good deals on a one time starter package that gets you some currency for cheap, so that always helps.
Anyways, game looks great and shaping up very nicely. Would love videos on it though...
Is this why all the starters are humanoid now? Have they just been building the roster for this game in secret over the last few years? It's a thousand times easier to create interesting clothing options for humanoid characters than it is for others
I L O V E that Cinderace costume
What is a MOBA without selling skins?
If the trees look good when the game is released I will give it a try
@Riverlution so 1 good note, if its a proper moba there wont be any power levels by paying money.
There might be unlockable equipment but power levels dont work well in mobas, or at least tend not to make more than a small difference, a day 1 player can beat a day 300 player.
MOBA’s aren’t really my thing nor are games with micro-transactions, cool down timers, etc (any of those mobile phone trappings). I hope this turns out to be great for all the Pokémon fans that do enjoy this type of thing.
Doesn't surprise me, all MOBA games have different outfits for the characters so I would of been dissapointed if this didn't
People need to stop being so negative about this game. It hasn't even come out yet! Just because it's on mobile doesn't mean it is going to be bad
Im honestly excited for it
I have a plushie of the Lucario outfit one!
This game still doesn’t interest me
Reaaaaaally hope they make the gameplay closer to traditional MOBA's like LoL and AoV! Im not going to stick with it if they dont at least try for it!
Also, I didn't expect to see Absol and Crustle on the roster either. At least they're trying to for some variety.
I thought this came out already lmao
@Snatcher
Most of the people who comments on news about Pokémon Unite probably doesn't even know what a MOBA actually is or have never even touched one.
Let alone that most of the people who hate games like League of Legends have never played it once.
@PBandSmelly A little late for that. The started development with Tencent some time ago in advance.
I have to say, those costumes are really cute.
@Bailey5000 Since when were trees the most important things in a video game?
@mr-duster it was more a poor joke aimed at the pre sword and shield launch when all people talked about was how bad the trees looked and they used DS models for them.
As long as this game is worked on by Tencent, I refuse to even download it. The skins are cool, but sadly the business that's working on the game isn't.
cant wait O: wanna play so bad
What's a skln? Great my favorite new word, sklns.
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