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Pokémon Unite World Champion 2023
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I see myself less than 2 seconds into the video. NICE!
I think an important thing you hit on was the fact that it may not necessarily be Timi Studios are responsible for things such as EX mons and having them be team "leaders". This feels very much like a Pokemon Company decision.
I also have always suspected that the Pokemon Company has been behind many of our issues around ranked mode such as excessive bot games in lower ranks and being able to progress to Masters with a losing win rate.
At the end of the day, we always like to blame developers, but as a software consultant myself, we follow the vision of our clients. If Pokemon Conmpany says that having EX mons is an absolute necessity and legendary pokemon have to be more powerful, then that's what gets built, even if the developers know it's a terrible idea.
I always recall from the questionnaires we had a phrase like "the Pokémons feel true to the franchise". With that, I assume the company has interpreted that legendaries have to follow that idea, feeling truly OP, like in mainline games and movies
I think the addition of emotes would be super cool. Something similar to Decidueye who has an animation of reloading its arrows after going on cooldown.
This and shiny skins would boost popularity so much!
Lmao can’t wait to be toxic
Ofc potential is being toxic
I think one of my biggest problems with unite is that the devs have a problem with reworking champions or abilities, designs like Mean Look Umbreon are just ridiculous. In Zacian release they quickly changed his agility cleanse because it made him nearly invencible, but always forget weaker champions (they dont need to be strong, but every champion should have its niche, you could compare the speedsters in the game and see how insane the difference between the worst and bests are) or champions with unfun and toxic abilities like mean look. Honestly the ability would be more balanced if Umbreon was a squish suport, but they dont do things like that nowdays, the most balanced "move restriction" skill is probably chandalure's Imprision, fits a champion with no escape having a strong effect skill but not a defender whos not dying or a healing support.
I dislike RNG based designs tho, like Pursuit Absol or Nightslash Meowscarada (i dont know why even if i full heal the marks it stills seems to get the crit rate and dmg boost). Designs should be more like Scizor, Talonflame, Chandelure, etc.
(Point and click skills in general are trash but everyone knows that)
Also the unstoppable move from mewtwo
@@dhiren9789Nah, M2 in general.
Can we please talk about Glaceon? An hard carry with lv 8 unite move, and a point and click move that shreds even tanks? And it's passive, oh my god.
@@Tshabaniele Yeah, i hate playing against Glaceon but even more against Umbreon and Glaceon, everyone wants its damage to be nerfed but thats not the only nerf it needs, the Icicle Spear cooldown should be increased, Ice shard shouldnt grant +100% atk speed, neither stack +2 spears per auto and it reseting and increasing the spears speed is truly disgusting, you cant forget that the ice shards autos slow you too lol. Probably the most hated attacker in the game and for a good reason, it has no cooldown in its abilities, deals infinite damage and has infinite range
he mentioned balancing being the best it has ever been. which sadly isnt true. Metagross was to weak on release and wasnt making enough sales . so they over buffed him. Then hwe was broken and they had to nerf him again. Yes they were quick about the adjustments and they have LEARNED FROM THE PAST. This doesnt change the fact it happens. I know he tried to blame the higher up cooperate telling them to do it. but im a player and if they game wants to be competitive they CANT DO THAT. The entire make legendarys op but hey you can only have 1 because they "lead the team" will bite them in the butts mark my words. IT will make pokemon pick or be at a massive disadvantage. This will lead to people not playing afk etc if they dont get the flavor of the month broken pokemon
I understand your arguments and your will for the game to get better, but:
-The balance on 2023 has been clearly worse than on 2022, because of Comfey and the legendaries. With Miraidon and more legendaries on the horizon.
-The membership is still a monetary strategy, which is literally thrown at our faces every time we open the game, more than ever before
-The game is not easier than 1-2 years ago, someone who starts now will need to grind for more than 1 year to get all mons, maximize items and get all emblems for free. We still have a 2100 coins weekly cap and a stupid emblem system.
If they ever add shiny reskins, I hope it’s not a monetized and they decide to add it to the f2p gacha spin or some sort of achievement specific thing
They will 😅
F2p gotcha spin... that's not f2p smh
One Pokémon every three weeks is actually insane. That's seventeen Pokémon a year. If they keep it up, imagine what the roster is going to look like in three, four, five years time.
i just want a text chat option.
Players in this game doesn't seems to understand the meaning of defend the base... i just wanna say "beach defend the base or I'm coming for your momma"
Its great that there's someone thats willing to voice concerns and problems the game is currently facing, alot of other youtubers just sugarcoat the issue, but there is something u miss in this video, like for example emblem system and held items
This was the first ever season of me not hitting masters and climbing ladder. Not because of OP mons or the terrible matchmaking but after dealing with those things for so long I’ve lost all the passion for this game I had before. P.S. matchmaking is still ruining the game
Pokemon unite should introduce mmr to show players winrate and matches of their pokemon while drafting
As far as I know the Pokemon Unite is being managed primarily by TPC. The game adjustment must be approved by the copyright owner. However, 宝可梦大集结（the Chinese version）is largely managed by Tencent. Tencent has fundamentally redone it, like a different game. It is said that the Chinese version has one map per season, and the third map is close to completion. But I don't know how many days there are in a season, some say 90 days or more. The open room lobby is due to the unique social nature of Chinese games, and borrows from another game called Egg Party, which is produced by NetEase.
I've been practicing for almost 2 years. And I'll slowly making content and branding myself and potential team. The scan is still a baby and I hope it does well in the future.
5:43 Wait I thought Timi was a subsidiary of Tencent, and is HQ'd in Shenzhen, China,
which ofc is worse for the communication issue (Great Firewall of China), so what you said to the devs *in-person* Slashcan is VERY valuable, more so than most dev companies so great job there and with this video!
[EDIT: he talks about Tencent later in the video]
Yeah im not too educated on the specifics just going off what i know, so im sure i got a couple details wrong but they shouldnt affect the overall message
@@slashcan Finished watching the video, your Tencent higher-up point cleared that up, at least for me, thanks, edited my comment for that.
Also, did the dev you talked to mention who specifically calls the shots on overall dev plans, and if there are restrictions?
Like is it Tencent, TPCi, or some other entity?
I've only played Unite for about a week but there's a couple of things worth mentioning outside of the obvious issues like fix ranked ladder etc.
1. Replays being p2w
- You can't save replays for longer than 1 hr and its limited to TWO replays unless you pay. It's actually ridiculous I can't go over and see my mistakes later unless I pay for a basic feature that is free in other games. Sure you can go the extra mile and use a 3rd party to record but did they really have to make this a paid feature?
2. Limited licenses and pokemons on rotation not being able to be used in ranked mode
- Seriously like when you first start playing, you are extremely limited in the pokemons you want to play. What even is the point of these limited pokemons if you can't use them freely?
3. Battle pass is horseshit
- Maybe this is just a moba thing but for fps battle passes like COD, Apex, Fortnite, you get your paid currency back as you progress the battle pass so that you can buy future battle passes. Also there is like 2 pokemon skins you can get from the battle pass which is hardly nothing. Nobody cares about changing your eye or hair color over an actual skin lol.
Disagree on this one. Unites wasted potential has little to do with its marketing, its the balance.
I dont just mean extreme peak cases like Zacian and the Mewtwos, or normal releases that were OP for a too long time. There is this one thing, that drags throughout the games history since day 1 and has never really been grappled: defenders dps.
Let them be tanky, let them have CC: Anything they need to protect their group and their goal zones. But DO NOT let them have Allrounder level damage on top of that.
Every single ranked game from master on has 2 defenders minimum, and thats for a reason. Rest are usually some half tanky allrounders and little support, because people are sick and tired of oneshot festivals and dying in permanent CC like attackers do all the time.
People try this game, see the roles and see that tanks are also doing the damage and push people across the map. Of course they drop it quickly.
It has been said by other YouToubers before: the only reason, Unite did not diappear within its first year and is still online, is because its Pokemon. Entire carried by this brand. Nothing else would have survived Unites balancing without a brand carry like Pokemon. I am one of those players. I play it, becaue its Pokemon. But the game IS NOT GOOD.
For the reasons are mentioned here: the game is not taken serious international and never will if Timi does not fix these things.
8:15 I can't agree with this part, they are literally throwing at our faces the membership right when we open the game
Biggest problem is Matchmaking. EOMM just isn't it.
I hope with the Honolulu tournament they add some Alolan Pokémon for marketing opportunities not just because I want more sun and moon rep.
Great points and video Slash. I agree, they seem to not know how to handle the game outside of Asia. I mean the entirety of Africa is not recognized as a region when games like Apex even league has pathways for African players to enter the world stage. Some buddies of mine from South Africa made it to worlds for Pokémon VGC. So it's even MORE bizarre why there's no region. Yall being 2 times world champions deserves at least another official tournament in the west. Hopefully this year!🙌
I have a lot of high hopes for Unite. I've never been an online multiplayer kind of person so starting Unite was intimidatong for me but I ended up becoming instantly hooked. During the first few months of the game I would literally wake up and just play Pokémon Unite for hours until I was too hungry to keep going (but that's addictive behavior and I've long since corrected it).
This game is extremely fun. I want to see it grow. I want to see the western player base grow too (shoutout to all my thanks pingers after dying once, I hope you rot). It's a really well made and interesting game that's complex enough to be played at higher levels, but still fundamentally simple enough that people like me who've never played a MOBA before can very easily get into it wothout being confused or stressed out by the difficulty.
Also I spent money on skins and if this game dies I'm gunna be mad asf.
Great video and really good points made all around! 🙌
Definitely agree with solo queue focus, really hope they look at separating 1 player from 2, 3 and/or 5 player queues. Having another holowear incentive for ranked like with early Unite days with the Mamo, Tsareena and Decidueye holowears would be great! Would also love some sort of level system for individual Pokemon or just with the current ribbons where you could unlock Shiny variations or even more with each Pokemon. The art & holowear team I feel do such a great job with this game and I also hope we get more unique holowear/outfit themes as well! A small thing but I hope when they're ready to go all in with global/western marketing, I'd love for them to make an all new intro cinematic with more of the recent/current Pokemon and in Theia Sky Ruins 🙏
I never really looked at the marketing for NA Unite and seeing it now in this video, it's astonishing how bare bones it is. This year definitely would be great if they amped that up alongside everything else that needs to be done. Overall the game feels it's in a decently good spot right now and that potential is starting to shine again after the rust it was gathering at it's bad points last year. And after seeing how well the game's continued it's active playerbase & streamerbase so far compared to most other Nintendo Switch games, it is a hope of mine that it only gets better from here!
I hope in this year they lower the price for battle pass and legendary skins, in brasil its 50 bucks for one battle pass :(
I think their biggest point of improvement in 2024 is the crazy amount of crowd control. With certain team comps you just completely run over other teams and there's nothing they can do about it. It doesn't require skill and it's miserable to play against
(Ex. Trevenant + surf Blastoise + Alolan Ninetales + Umbreon)
Ye its insane to me they keep nerfing full heal, they should be buffing the item imo
I'm personally of the opinion that the only pokémon with access to major stuns should be defenders and supporters. Nerf or remove all of the boosted basics that stun or slow (example: Venusaur, Mamoswine, to an extent Ninetales) regardless of class. Some squishy pokémon need that stun to escape (fire spin Delphox, imprison Chandelure) and that's fine, but it doesn't need to be a core element of their kit when they already have a range advantage.
That, and heavily nerfing or reworking sure-hits. There's a difference between accessibility (having easy to use characters is good) and skilless button spamming. In my opinion there is no world where stored power Espeon should perform better than psyshock. Stored power does more for less effort
Was watching this and the random F*ck word comes into play at 7:30 lol.
Oh timi gods please un cap weekly gold 2100 takes to long to get a 14 k license 7 weeks is to long for 1 licence
And by then 1-2 other characters that you want more have already released 😭
@@KaiTheMemeKing exactly it's too lonng
That's one of the thing Pokemon Unite has it's not Pay to win good for them
matchmaking and CC are the two biggest issues
"do not give a fuck" LOL.
HUGGGE BLASTOISE UNITE
Wow l really love slash's videos they just make my day . And l hope next year l will meet you at the championships
5:45 TiMi is chinese developer company
And TiMi has released 2 MOBAs (Honor of Kings and Arena of Valor). They are clearly have experience in creating MOBA and would be one of many reasons TiMi being picked by TPC.
My point was more that the higher ups at TPCI still have final/major say in the development of pokemon unite and it really shows the lack of experience there
Yeah clearly "experienced" doing dumb mistakes or the same. Designing dumb characters like comfey. 😂
@@manuelarocho8131 i dont think there's a hero simirlar to comfey in HoK and AoV, but yeah, some pokemon design are questionable.
I used to follow the Super Smash Bros Melee scene. That scene is almost completely grassroots and I was wondering how that would work in Unite. Unite does have decent independent organizations but it could use more crowdfunding, improved streams, and LAN events. Those are just my thoughts, I know no one in the community is funding $1 mil prize pools.
Yeah thats something we have been trying to build up with our server
Omg another amazing and informative Slashcan video. Yippee!!
Keep up the great vids! I'd like to see more indepth guides/breakdowns of gameplay from you 💖💖💖
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Just give a chat feature like holy shit solo q is cancer. They dont go for the objectives when we're down 2 goal zones and instead jungle like what?
I honestly think unite is not that pay too win if you exclude purple holowears. I am ready to spend my money if it is like 1500 gems but 2200? Hell nah
Is there a collegiate circuit in the US or JPN for unite?
Here is my output as someone who only has 2 weeks into the game lmao
-Ngl i have been binge watching some pro matches because to be honest the game is pretty fun to watch, but outside worlds,qualifiers and the recent luminosity tourney its kinda hard to found more matches which i totally agree with you, its a shame because the IP is extremely popular and i just feel that before crashing in unite by accident in the e shop, the game never existed for me.
The game is pretty good, not perfect and a lot to improve but def is going in a good way, but god give it the marketing that it deserves
Pd: Sorry for the scuffed english
We need so much more and fast.
Hey slash can u tell overload to stream please
Well, I've been in a love hate relationship with Unite. Maybe I'll give it a go again.
I am literally going to use an vpn to connect Japanese servers now idc about ping or if i am banned at this point
hey slash, what items would you use on Glaceon? and which attackers would you recommend for soloqueue?
My wife & I play unite all the time it’s been our comfort game since release 😂 always love it ❤
Mr and Mrs Mimikyu?
Damn, I know unite is fun but with the rampant CC and the playerbase even a quiet person like me rages a ton in this game. Can't imagine this being a comfort game, well you do play with your Wife so it's more bearable.
Great vid Here 😎
Champ, Champ, Champ in Hawaii this year 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Untill skill match makeing is in the works this game is shit i shouldnt be getting low win rate players when um high win rate
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to say that the game is in the best spot since release with there meta is crazy when u remind that theres still clef,umbreon,slowbro,evees,dpult,metagross,comfey,blastoise,buzzwole,intelleon and mimikyu
All of those Pokémon are not an instant win to your team for having one when the other team doesn't though. Did you even play during the Zacian/Mewtwo era? There's a huge difference between "this Pokémon is a bit overtuned and could use a nerf" and "the absolute oppression and dominance these Pokémon had that even the most braindead players could 1v5 entire teams from minute one".
God help you if the enemy Mewtwo ganked your lane. A Drakloak gank though? He'll only wipe you if you're overextending to hell and back trying to score one point for your attack weight stack despite being surrounded by three opponents.
I distinctly recall a match where someone on my team chose Mewtwo X during his peak and the last two and a half minutes of the game he was on the enemy team's home base and every five seconds or so "KO streak: 5" would pop up on my screen because he was completely vaporizing every one who came near him. The ENTIRE last two minutes were like that. I ended up soloing Rayquaza because I had nothing better to do.
If you think the average player can pick up any of those Pokémon you listed can do anything even remotely similar you're smoking some bad shit, man.
When u have to list out 10 pokemon that means its inherently more balanced than when u list one pokemon
i mean yeah there were some godlike pkemon but that dosnt mean that all of these chars i listend are only " a bit overtuned" there completly unbalanced in the love of fucking god the game is unbalanced af. a sure hit move that looks u in place for 2 seconds with a 5 sec cd between it is not balanced at all. a fucking 10 sec move which heals everyne up to 100% in no time is also unbalaced af travel between goals, travel through the whole map sure a bit overtuned.clef a mon which heals the entery team in like 2 sec to full life with a move that completly negates entery characters. evees with first levl 4 powerspike,then levl 8 ults which are all good even glaceon´s move, then evee passives give u no stun every 40 sec (no dmg for half a sec aswell) slowbro ult keeps u in place for 3 sec u cant do anything against it while enemy team can still hit u. sure hit move btw. comfey heals only one persn but the heal is crazy like its the entery game just on one person but still heals around 60k dmg u saw that overlord dominatet everything with just a comfey and 3 other chars, buzzwole can fucking stun lock u for 6 seconds without any chance t get ut beside full heal because theres a bug which is there for 3 patches now.blast can push u around the ntery map aswell intel is just a 100% win for the lane with a 100% crit passive,dpult with a invis move, mimikyu with invis move+ ult that keeps u in place for 2,8 sec while u cant even get saved by ur mates r anything. then endless stuns in the meta. i mean if u wanna call all that " a bit overtuned" get a brain pls or stop having a 45% wr@@maskedfoxx7173
@@kingarthur2184 I'm not gunna read all that but it's cool that you care this much ig
i mean ur text is still longer so idc but ig its cool that u care that much@@maskedfoxx7173
Hello slashhhh
Please someone give this to Timi, Tencent or whoever take the charge there. Unite have so much wasted potential
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Nah this is bs stop trying to make PU more like other mobas. Stop saying to make it like league that is stupid and lame stop. League whole culture is cancerous and bad same with Dota. STOP the shit you are saying about how to play is cancer. I do not want only certain characters to do certain things this game needs to stay unique first and casual second. I do not want this game going down the same dumb path as league. Every character needs to be unique and fun with no item restrictions. Stop Stop Stop. All this game needs is more UNIQUE characters and items
I didnt even say it should be more like league? Lmao
It doesn't have to be like League but this game certainly has many issues as a MOBA. You think all this game needs are more characters?? Do you even play this game? Ranked sucks cuz matchmaking is abysmal and you can't play standards cuz its full of bots.
@royfireemblem2848 Yes I play it daily.