Pokémon Unite Is Out Today, First Ranked Match Season Now Underway

We can all be sentenced to court now

Q : Are you planning on checking out Pokémon's latest title?

Me : Nope. (Playing Yokai Watch games on 3DS instead)

Curse my responsibilities getting in the way!

The launch trailer was awesome, I've played through one battle and first impressions of this are great. It's nice to be able to play as a Pokemon and use their moves - almost feels like an old school beat 'em up but in 3D.

I had a dream last night where I actually played this. And didn’t like it.

I wish I had more interesting dreams.

Wait a sec, is this a MOBA?

@BloodNinja

Yes. Does that make it NINJA APPROVED?

@BloodNinja Ye its like my first moba bc they got ride of mana, items and so on, so its pretty simple now, but whatever Some times I just have ten min to get a match in and not a whole three hours.

@Screen I don't know! I've never played a MOBA before! Uh, here I'll push it through corporate for you, don't tell my boss!

NINJA APPROVED

@Snatcher How interesting! I had no idea. Thanks!

It is free. I like Pokémon. But do not like online games. Will give it a try. If there is a 1 player mode.

@BloodNinja ya I would say if you have never played one before this is perfect, Plus there's only two lanes instead of two.

I spend roughly 6 hours on it today and it is actually alright. I can see myself playing a match of it every now and then. I may be biased though because I got that sweet Talonflame skin today due to good RNG. Seriously though, I expected it to be another free to play Pokemon game like Cafe Mix and Quest that I play once and then immediately delete again but it's actually decent.

Was going to pick this up and try out. However, there are in game purchase items you can purchase through micro transactions to buff your character (Rocky Helmet increases attack, etc.). What's the point of playing if people can just buy their way into having an advantage? Good luck to anyone who plays this long term :/

Spent an hour and has been fun so far. I think I will keep coming now and then for quick online sessions as an option for Rocket league, smash or others that I always come back to.

@miitomobenji You can get those items with the free 2 play currency aswell though. I'd say the bigger issue long term is the fact that you can upgrade these items for better stats and upgrading them is quite expensive so it will take a while to do so. So anyone jumping in like half a year from now will have a significant statistical disadvantage versus players who played a while already.

The game os very polished, I'm having a lot of fun

5 different monetisation methods and pay 2 win mechanics. Hahahahahahahaha

@mantarobuster300
So basically it is a game meant for phones

Just watched a stream of it and it looks really bland and boring. Hard pass for me.

Have a read of this before you dive in: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/oopfvl/please_be_very_mindful_of_the_predatory/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Played it. Wasn't for me.

I played for a couple hours and it is much better than I had expected. Although it is a bit dumbed down compared to other MOBAs it's still pretty fun when your team actually knows how to play.

Yes… yes! Keep feeding Tencent enough money and profits so they can gauge interest in the Pokemon Company and outright buy 51% of their shares in a hostile takeover.

Fuel the downfall of Pokemon!

@fafonio
I think you need a break from the internet…

I hated it. It's already full of whales who buy the best gear to dominate matches

i liked it but i had a couple problems with it.

Wish it was a little faster, otherwise it’s a fun game.

my issues after playing it for over 10 hrs(that i will never get back) is 1.) movement speed, most of the time is spent just running around
2.) evolving over time and though battle, if you keep getting jumped you don't power up you tend to become a hindrance later on in each match
3.) other people
4.) holowear, from what i can tell there seems to be no way to get them as a f2p
as for whales, their a bit of dice roll. sometimes you get a team of em, sometimes others do. seems best to avoid them for the most part if you can.
you also at least get something from loosing and can still use the pokemon of anyone who disconnects or rage quits.
regardless, in about a year this game will most likely be filtered down to just whales and f2ps who spent to much of their lives on it

I'm a grumpy old man and there's so much about this game that I still don't understand after about four hours' playtime. Such dense visual information on every screen, sheesh. Pokémon games usually have an incredibly simple and user-friendly UI, they ought to take more from that aspect of the franchise.

I'm having fun. >_<

Just played my first game. Came out top player. I am awesome, haha. I dig the game, it's quite relaxing.

@Paej13 to be fair they already simplified and watered down the genre heavily. I’m not sure how they would simplify it any more while keeping it a MOBA.

Also going through all 6 tutorials helps.