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Ggs I was the chandelure that was a great game

I would love to just play a game of unite where every single player is solo queue and they're all somewhat competent. Those games are the most fun, when it's actually a balanced game. But that rarely happens

Take 2 3 and 4 are based

The reason I play Unite instead of LoL is because I find it to be less toxic, because of the lack of a text chat 😅 But the higher rank I get, the more "thanks" and "check it out" pings I see... Even if they're not directed at me, it's super annoying, especially when a lot of the time the one doing the wrong play is the pinger. They just get mad about dying and need to blame their skill issue on someone else 😅

Lovely clefable gameplay, such a big fan of this character especially with Follow Me. You need to be aware of what's happening but you can save your teammates from dying if timed correctly

Thank you for this

1:00 whyd you kinda eat that tho lmao

Dangg, I love this academic psychology approach to this silly lil niche game, will watch more

this was another one of my biggest issues with the game that forced me to quit. The pokemon designers made each mon so overloaded so fast and apparently it’s only gotten worse. Most of those attackers don’t need CC in their kit but have them anyway, and same with Mime/Wiggly

the game needs role queue / lane queue. this free-for-all let players decide themselves is a failure- most importantly- for the players. the game doesnt teach players the basics of a very simple moba, so dont let them have agency they cant understand the macro for.

That's a new face in the unite content creator space

Got into 5 games in a row with 4 attackers (48%WR) in my team and def/support in the opposite. If I take a defender (i am a 60% WR carry) my teams does not show up to any objective. I had a 42% Mimikyu with a single item: leftover. And get banned if i talk but those guy can troll countless games with no repercussion. Fix the game, make reports effective

I completely agree with that last one, and I'm glad to see other peeps have the same opinion~

12:30 your🏎️💨car/cat🐈💨is very fast😮!

The autism and pokemon unite here is just a happy balance for me😅love the in depth metrics husky! Never change!🎉

i do have some fun with it... sometimes... i just cant grind anymore. Btw you kinda remind me of young ozzy osbourne

I just had to focus on other games and my career and stuff....I'm a long time player and every time i try to get back to it, my rank is SO LOW. it makes matches really worse. i cant keep interest to keep grinding. Its too many matches to climb a little, and it gets kinda repetitive. specially if you dont have all unite licenses. The matches end up either too Easy or too Hard

edit: i should've just let the vid play lmao this is apparently an ice cold take in this community <3 17:52 for any moba, macro is easily the best single indicator of player skill imo. If someone has good macro, they know how to play around their potentially worse micro, which mon in their pool best serves the team, which kills/objectives to risk it all for in a losing match, how to capitalize on enemy mistakes and team advantages, etc. It takes so much game knowledge that I'd argue you can't have good macro without being good in a few other parts of the game, hence the best single indicator. At the same time, it's also the hardest to judge and people (myself included) can easily overestimate their own knowledge, unjustly criticizing people with good macro because they don't know enough yet

9:48 "they're not supposed to" THAT'S WHY I LOVE MY TREE LETS GOOOO lmao

Nowadays I just play the game to hang out with the my friends, i don't even care about the account anymore

The psychology behind Unite is an interesting niche that I would have never expected to find content on, but I love it! Quality content, keep it up!

I play this game casually once every 2 months more or less and im always against some really high ranked players. idk how the matchmaking is now tho

I'm excited for matchmaking in masters. The releases of darkrai and psyduck do make my ultra experience incredibly unfun. I'm not opposed to cc but the cc and low ttk combined make the game so unfun in blind pick. If I leave the game again, it's because of all of the ways that unite fails as a MOBA. I'd honestly much rather spend time getting swept in VGC.

wow pretty woman who cares about pokemon

Still waiting for the achievements for Darkrai and Psyduck :P

My biggest issue with the game are unhealthy mechanics, primarily an abundance of Sure Hit abilities, I-Frames and performance-dependent death timers, in this order. And after so many years, I have next to nothing to push towards... edging on throwing the towel for a while.

Just don't die in Ray pit as Meowscarada am I right

the new matchmaking didn't change anything I am always paired with stupid ass monkeys that make the game impossible to win

In no game should you be facing people that don’t understand the most basic of basic fundamentals of the game in the highest rank. If this is a contributing factor in the game dying then it is what it is. It most certainly won’t be the deciding factor though considering how TiMi has been handling the game since launch

I think the biggest thing they could do to deliver to the entire player base is to focus on improving Standard, giving incentives to play it, potentially giving its own progression system(not a rank, but more like an achievement/point based system similar to the trainer level) that resets at the same time as the ranked seasons do. These progression systems will not be ranked based but rather based on matches played/potentially some performance variables. Make a way to unlock Pokémon through Standard(I personally think giving 1 puzzle piece per match played with the Pokémon would be an efficient way to 1. Make use of that system, 2. Bring a player base to Standard, 3. Make more use of their weekly-Pokémon-rotation system(which is completely nonexistent in ranked)). Ranked and casual game modes in almost(if not) every game are fun in their own unique way, drawing a crowd of players that exclusively find Ranked fun, others that exclusively find Casual modes fun, and a group of those that find both fun and can play both ways at a decent level. Standard is SUPER fun for messing around in matches, getting that 2-3 queue experience in a more relaxed and sociable manner. Even interactions between solo queue players from both teams are opened up more for just having a good time. I think back to when the entire lobby would just have a dance party after Zap was over because “it’s standard, who cares”. I think many people’s disinterest and lack of continued commitment to the game is related to the fact that EVERYBODY started playing ranked and stopped doing what was so fun to them in the first place. Part of this is due to there being no reason to play standard(as well as rewards FOR playing ranked). I’d venture to say that if Global got some of the game modes present in the Chinese version as permanent additions and started adding rewards and incentives to play standard, the player base would skyrocket again, the general measure of “fun” experienced throughout the community would increase, and you’d see much more variety in things like pick rates, win rates, moveset pick rates, as well as much more data on things like held items, builds, item/move interactions, move stats, etc. which would result in better material for patches. The problem with standard right now is that ~70-80% of the standard matches I play are not matches. Back when standard was an active area of the game, we had balance patches about every week. If not, they were biweekly. They were(usually) more agreeable and less clunky/confusing than they are these days. Items such as Score Shield and Buddy Barrier had gotten nerfs as they had been so good that Buddy Barrier was present on EVERY single Pokémon, and Score Shield on about 50-70% of the cast(at least as a viable option). This served as one of the first sets of Held Item balance changes; something that wouldn’t reappear much until relatively recently(as the game has started to have more energy and hype around it as of late). Overall, I think fixing Standard and many of the systems outside of ranked would actually solve many of the issues we’re faced with now. Many of the “low skill” “trolly” “more casual” “less organized”, etc. players would likely be filtered out into Standard(except maybe to climb to Ultra for trainer outfits), that would in turn lower the skill-floor required for players to “succeed” and feel like they’re “good” as if you had a horrible match, it was just because you were matched by people who hopelessly outclassed you and that next match will likely be able to better show off your skill level. It would also revive the idea of 5-stacking casually(as 5-stacking in Ranked is like 2x as competitive and serious as 1-3 ranked) and making use of the social systems in Unite that hardly get use otherwise(such as the guilds or whatever, the message system, voice chat, etc.). I think the community(and developers) have been looking at the wrong place when it comes to fixing many of the game’s issues. At least as far as where to start. TLDR: I think fixing Standard would solve a lot of the game’s problems or at least create a domino effect

Is that the blue lock flow state chart.

I think the balancing (or lack of) within unite is also a major contributor towards people leaving unite. I think it works to dissatisfy the feeling of autonomy players have as they can't decide which characters get changed or how potent those changes are, and it also brings about a feeling of being unrewarded or punished when you either have to deal with the broken character of the month or you have characters you like to play randomly nerfed. I think it's especially bad considering Unites tendency of letting broken and over-tuned mons go unchecked for months while also leaving old mons out of the meta for doubly as long. I can't tell you how frustrating It's been having to fight darkrai and psyduck in 80% of my ranked games for the past month(s). I was thankful when i saw the patch notes yesterday cause those two mons got nerfed, but it wasn't enough to stop them from being overtuned. Plus the patch came with a slew of unnecessary nerfs on mons like machamp and dura who have been at the bottom in terms of viability for over a year at this point. Watching some of your favorite mons become even worse while the newest releases get to ruin the balance of the game with no checks is definitely frustrating.

I had a long laundry list of problems with Unite that made me quit, and the matchmaking was one of the big ones. It's insane to be in Master's 1400+ still getting placed with slick spoon Decidueyes and stuff or with people who refuse to play as a team (constantly solo farming or never grouping for the big objectives INCLUDING Ray/Zap). These changes have honestly made me consider redownloading the game

The match-making below master rank is unchanged which means that the competence factor remains the same over there, on the other hand for ppl who reach master rank, most of them r willing to grind if they feel like they suck at it. So i see it as a positive change overall

Unite is not fun when you work for 8 minutes to try and win a game, and your teammates decide to throw it all away in 30 seconds. Basically, you are being punished for somebody else's lack of dedication.

The biggest issue with Unite has always been matchmaking. The gameplay itself is fun, but the better you are at the game, the worse your teammates will be due to matchmaking. However, in the past 2 years, the game has also failed to give players a reason to play at all. No new emblems, no new clothes, no new aeos energy rewards, very few new battle items/held items, etc. there's no incentive to play.

New season started today and the randoms AFK 4/5 of the first games after they chose bad laners and got smoked.

Darn girl, your singing is angelic💃🏻 You are one of my favourite poketubers, and I would like to thank you for all the effort you put into the videos, especially the mountain of research you put into the scientific aspect of behavioural patterns and so on, U R very much appreciated 🥰

I love your dimple

I think the damage is done. People were led to believe they were much higher skilled than they actually were. I've said this almost 2 years ago when I made my alt account. I noticed the major difference MMR makes. You lose(or have a fresh account), and the game is balanced. You win and you are FORCED to carry whether your teammates allow you or not. With the new system, it's even MORE aggressive now. Thats why so far, NOBODY wants to play defender now because they feel they are the true carries. Its going to be rough for a long time until people get placed where they actually belong.

I'm really 50/50 on the matchmaking changes cause to be good-pro players were still making high masters consistently and I think making matchmaking based on master rank is a great change cause of it, but making it harder to climb in master rank (especially as someone who mostly solo queues) is not the most exciting change because of how often you get into a game in lower masters where there's someone that for lack of a better term does practically nothing Regardless great video and love all the work you put in!

Didn't have time to watch the full vdos...but i think thus change is goid enough ...i think it will psychologically help people if they divide master into gold silver platinum bla bla to make it easier gor people to understand... And also I don't really see much of an issue with rank protection card causs very few people can afford those anyways so the game might as well earn some money...but the bot matches are the main reason those players rise up like they do and they must remove it from masters

glad the matchmaking is at least in masters I just wish you could get it in lower ranks

Great video! This game has made me think that I must love pain and suffering to some extent. 😅 I can get extremely tilted and also greatly suffer from feeling like I’m not good enough no matter how much effort I put in. Just finished last season below 50%’for the first time ending it at 1401 and 47% wr. I feel like I might be about to have an even worse time with this match making because I’ll be with my other low win rate kin, apparently.

I’m done with unite

I'm not going to lie, and I know this is a selfish take, but I genuinely believe a major reason why I and many others lose interest in Unite has to do with the sheer lack of free/play to win blue, purple, and hell, GREEN holowear. Seriously! You get a bunch when you first start, and that's it. Once you earn everything from one event, you'll get little to nothing the next time you participate. Already have the license we're giving away? Screw you! You get 20% OR less of the license's value! It's very degrading to anyone who has played longer than one year, and frankly feels like a slap to the face to active but non-paying or rarely-paying users. Edited to also include the lack of holowear available to buy with holowear tickets, and trainer fashion with fashion tickets. you can't even convert the currency, so you just end up with STACKS AND STACKS of the tokens sitting around rotting while they release gem-only skins left and right.

I think it'll be overall better for the game and those personally invested in the game, high skill and low. High skill players will have more consistently competent and competitive games. Low skill will have an opportunity to take perspective on their play if they considered themselves high skill. I expect people will get mad, make posts and comments in the usual places and say they're quitting because they keep losing in low Masters (to the high skill player(s) passing through on the enemy team). If the new matchmaking works well and consistently competent matches are findable it could pull more players: returning players, League refugees, etc.

Holy crap another banger video

I just found your channel and it's so interesting. Keep up all the amazing work♡

That's the downside(depends on who you ask about downsides) of tightening the Match making If a player faces a wall they could not overcome, there are likely 3 outcome 1. They quit 2. They stay within their MMR range 3. They go out of their way to to learn and improve I have no data of how many people chooses which options I believe that the previous matchmaking tried its best to eliminate the wall via either pairing low MMR players with high MMR players, bot matches or skewed matches, where one team is highly favored to win ( i have seen the skewed matches with my own eyes, 1 low vet and 4 experts vs 5 high vets ) Thank you for this interesting video Husky When reflecting on it, so much external factors prevented me from having fun on this game, maybe it was my channel that mainly focused on teaching players how to play then it dawn on me how pointless it all was cause the game itself hates improvement and will actively punish you with how its matchmaking works At the start the curiosity really did get me and the thoughts of improving, it was fun for awhile until i got better I hope I wasn't too negative, cheers