The only thing I need to know is how many hats falinks can wear at once

What I learned from this video is that many people go to backcap during Ray. Ah this playerbase 😂

to the backcappers: it wasn't a good play, you just lucked out

Rename the video to "People are justifying on why they backcapped"

8:30 I think a good way to describe it is “they solved a problem that they created”. I think the same thing when I paired with players who only score and don’t fight (sableye for example). Other team wins almost every fight because it’s a 4v5 but our team wins because the one guy scored so much “solving a problem they created”.

The description of this video reads.. people think their big brain plays are bigger than they actually are. Local sheriff lays out the truth

Spragels I think this needs to be a series!

This is a fun little series idea! Hopefully more coming in the future? Yeehaw cowboy

Running theme here seems to be Back Capping is a bad play. Hopefully we all learn a valuable lesson here.

I love that most of these were back cappers seeking validation.

Im only half way through, but what im seeing so far is a very clear trend. People confusing their outplays/mechanical skill/luck leading to something working out with a good play, when its not. More often its factors outside of the actual macro decision that lead to the bad play not being punished. A good play is not one that relies on the enemy messing up or complete luck. Its one that works when those things are more against you than in your favour

Man this is so good. Please continue this series, as i consider myself a below average player and want to learn more from these mistakes

Are all of these just “I made a bad decision but it worked out” plays?

The best clip should be given the title deputy of the day

The meow at the 7:01 clip truly had a him moment but if I’m his friends in vc I’m never letting this man on meow again. O7

Bad play or not, kudos to those who submitted videos for critique. Not many players would be so bold to do this and put themselves out there. This shows the desire to grow and improve from the aforementioned people and I’m with it.

Its obvious that these players are using "results based thinking" instead of "process based thinking". They feel that their plays are justified because those plays worked, which disregards all the luck needed for those plays to work. If your play relies on luck, being over leveled, or enemy stupidity, its a bad play even if it works, I don't care if it takes you from a guaranteed loss to a pure stomp comeback. And a play being "the only play" doesn't make it a good one. It makes it a hail mary, AKA, a desperation call. Basing the quality of the play on the result is dumb, because stupid plays can work and you'll think that was a good decision, or smart plays can fail, and you'll think it was a bad decision. People tend to fall into this trap all the time because they just don't think at all. If you make smart plays, you'll probably be rewarded for them 90% of the time. If you make bad plays, you'll probably be rewarded 50% of the time, not because of skill or good logic, but because its a coin flip. Used process based thinking, because if you always make good choices, you won't need to justify your decision, its gonna work out, and you're not gonna be relying on reckless gambling to make it look good. The player who always makes bad decisions is going to have more pop off moments than a good decision maker, where they beat the odds and the huge gamble pays off, that bad decision maker will also have hundreds more bad results by a mile (likely deaths, throws, and losses). Another problem with "results based thinking" is that it actually goes by another name. Thrill seeking, or even worse: gambling addiction. Take that Meowscarada who tried to back cap then stole Ray. Total main character syndrome. Sylveon was already back capping. You were not going to make him stop scoring so you could squeeze your score in first. He already was risking 100 points, he was not going to give that up so you could risk 50 points instead. So you were already never gonna score even without the enemy team coming to defend. But what's especially stupid is the results of that play. Let's break it down: - you didn't score your 25 energy for the 50 points - you went to Ray, tried a last second steal, and it worked out - you killed everybody - you scored 100 points and win Now let's see what would happen if you had gone to Ray like a normal person instead of ignoring your squad's calls: - you don't score your 25 energy - you kill everybody and now Ray is uncontested - you take ray, score 100 points, and win The key difference being that you never have a chance to fail and lose by just going to Ray like a normal person. You already were fed as hell, and you proved that you could just 1v5 them normally, so do that, take Ray while they're dead, and then score when they can't stop you, because you have Ray shield and also they're already dead. The literal only benefits to doing things your way was the hype when it worked. The downsides to doing it your way was the fact that it will lose if you try to ever recapture the magic, so by all means, keep doing it. When I queue against you, I'll gladly take the free win.

Oooh I like this. This should be a series!

Love this style of video! Super helpful to get your analysis on plays - please do more! 👌🏻😊

I just KNOW all of these "first time back cappers" are the ones always back capping when everyone else is having a team ray fight and were hoping the yeehaw cowboy would be on their side lol

0:02 and its already happening "in Pokemon Unite!" 😂 Keep up the good work bro

Hoping for a series for this type of content

This was a really good video, great concept! Would love to see more of this content :)

We need more videos like this they’re so fun to watch

wow great vid content cowboy your doing awesome as ever!

It was such a nice video Spragels! Fun and it's teaching newbies about good and bad plays 👏

What a great video. You should do much more of this. Thanks for the video. Thank you for helping the community get better. I know I had a terrible moment with you when I played blissey.I have now learned not to play it Anymore because i'm not good at it.

I hope This becomes a series ❤

Loved this video! You should make this a series ❤

Maybe a rating system from A to F woulde be more acurate than bad or good play, cuz some clips sent werent necessearly a bad play, but something more like a b (eh, b) than a bad play

This was great! I hope you make more videos like this. Commenting for algorithm boost!

Pls do more of this Jak- i mean Sheriff

We need more videos like this

Can't wait for more videos like this!!

Cool video idea, hope to see more

I loved this format. I gotta participate if there’s gonna be more of these!

Can't wait for episode two! I've got a clip that might be my most questionable play

I love this new series. Keep it up!

This is an amazing idea! People can finally learn with their mistakes!

Love this new format, definitely will help in my decision making

And on today's segment of Jake please tell me my back cap is smart.

You should make this a series, great content

Great commentary. Love these. Maybe they will learn back-capping is almost never the right call…one day.

This was very interesting

Thanks for the input. Yeehaw.

Amazing concept

im surprised we didnt get to see a crazy ray steal. i did one with mewtwos unite from base with no vision on ray (obviously pure luck on the timing, but sometimes forcing luck is all you can do). i wish i made a clip, that was hilarious.

More of this please

I've just noticed that anime pokemon trainer Spragels doesn't have a moustache :(

Another thing about this gengar clip 3:05 is that by scoring he avoided the gyarados ult which is huge

You should totally incorporate the thumbs up/down/sideways from coliseums for this!

This vid is incredible. Please continue this series. Maybe people will actually improve

Great lesson here on back capping! Honestly, never been a fan of the play and hope we can all learn the consequences with such a play. My question now is: when is it ok to initiate a surrender vote? Being sarcastic ofc, but this is an actual thing that people need to learn…

Hell yeah, I'm in a spragels video. Yeehaw!

I was just thinking about how it would be great for you or ChrisHeroes to do something like this where you could give critiques to our battles.

If I had to rate them here’s how I would rate it. 1. Ok play but still very risky especially in a solo Q game. (0:25) 2. Def Bad play, I can understand what the glace is trying to do but this can go wrong is so many ways. (1:43) 3. I honestly don’t think that was a bad play. But yes could have gone better. (3:00) 4. This was mostly bad play on the enemy team, you don’t need two players to defend. (4:26) 5. Possibly the worst one I’ve seen, out of all of the rest of the vid, best to just go to the ray fight, like I can understand you have unite but your technically aiming for a steal, which it’s not always Guaranteed and could even put you in a worse position if the steal failed. (7:00) 6. This is more like a “panic” type situation. I myself sometimes do it, and I will say it’s not the best play. I would have just let him waste its unite but it’s an okay play. (8:59)

Ty for featuring me in the vid

I don't think the last play was good. It was 2:36 when the other Meowscarada used its ult. What does that mean? He won't have ult for rayquaza. This is a huge advantage since your team will have 5 unites, and the enemy team only 4. The problem is, OP used unite as well, so he won't have his unite either. It would have been a good play if he let himself get killed, since he would respawn in time for Rayquaza, and maybe even catch Meowscarada since he probably would have gone to score after killing the OP.

I'd like this series to extend to "why you didn't get MVP". I had 19 KOs, 0 deaths, 76K damage, scored 200+ most on the team on blastoise yesterday. I was at every objective, regis and ray and shotcalling and our absol with 35K damage with 6kos and 6 assists got the MVP. Defenders are the ubsung heroes of unite. It was a really fun game and a complete stomp but I'd really like to know why I didn't get MVP. It was the best game I've probably ever played on blastoise.

Confirmation bias is wild during back-caps... "see, it turned out fine!" Yeah, but winning the slot machine doesn't make it _not_ a risky gamble. My hang up on risky late-game plays is: often, one person missing (due to KO timer) _can_ be enough to lose a Ray fight and lose the game... but the would-be success that that person died for will _not_ often be enough to turn the game in your favor. Very high risk in exchange for a not-so-high reward. We see this all the time with people trying to push a tier 2 goal when there's 2:30 on the timer... it's very unlikely that they'll score, and even if they do, it's barely gonna be over 100 points (if the goal is even full). However it's _very_ likely that not everyone will survive fighting on an enemy goal (that respawning enemies can jump-pad to immediately) and if that makes most of our team go down, it's now also very likely the enemies will be able to rip Ray and score 200+ points. So we have a low chance to gain ~100 points, and a pretty decent chance of losing _multiples_ of that. That's an _awful_ exchange, but people attempt it all the time 🤦‍♂

There was a match where I was actually evading my enemies with my Charizard, luring them in and KOd them. Funny part is, I killed the enemy Gengar when I was in a sliver of health while he got stunned. I regret not recording that moment. But the next time I see you, I hope I can show some awesome moments without plays like that. Hopefully, my Machamp can do it.

I'd probably say the last play wasn't ideal, In this case they managed to escape but if Aegislash caught up or they ran into an opposing Pokémon then no time would be left to build a Unite. With 30 seconds there's likely enough time to respawn which keeps Unite for Ray and resets your timer giving you more presence at the objective.

Oh boy, I want more, we want more justice!!

I had a game where I got Eleki with Tree but got KOd for it since the opposing team was there. I'm not sure if that would've been a good or bad play, I think it was walking to a tier 2 around 5 minutes. I was by myself which is why I'm not sure if it was a good play.

Hoping you get a final hit on ray with a non secure move is always a bad play that rewards you with a bad behaviour that you will continue to depend on if it does work out

Cool series

Duro pero Justo señor justicia

will there be more video like this

Where to submit the videoes ?

For the last meowscarada He could have died and come back before ray with a unite. He was only lvl 13 so not that much exp given to the opponent

Part 2 when?

Jake please do a tier list of the most troll movesets next monday

Yee haw!

OHHHHH. so back cappers arent thinking "this is the right thing to do right now". they think "this is the wrong thing to do but ill be fine because im so skilled". that makes so much more sense.

I would love to submit clips but I'm just *TOO* gosh darn good. Darn tootin. (i am not in fact too harsh darn good)

I loved this new trend

How bad is your play, proceeds to show a guy getting a team wipe win. With the part the person claimed to have done bad not showing.

I like this series

Damn is there still ways to submit a play ?

How and where can we submit our clips?😊😊

New title lol ‘Pokémon unite has a disproportionate amount of delusional players’

How do they get the score to display at the top?

Hi Jake . I'm your big fan. Please play with a "Pokemon unite climbing guide"

I dont backcap at ray. Sometimes its the right play. But people get too excited, id rather lose 1/15 games that backcapping required than risk the other 14/15 games that dont even risk it and just makes us lose because of it

This video is basically, "I back capped to get MVP instead of helping my team. Please justify my terrible behaviour!" 😅

Is dragapult worth buying when you are in ultra rank?

And then theres me over here who wished he had a video to prove it. But my entire team decided to gather on top path with me, then all got K.O.ed. Well, i had my zard unite ready for the teamfight, but Blastoise ended up stunning me before i could use it. I then proceeded to unite the Gengar in the middle, and 1v5 the entire team. One penta K.O. later and I'm on roughly 2% hp. Shot in the dark moment, guess i shocked the living crap out of them bad enough to be able to live through it 😂

Any held item build for sylveon, spragels?

We disagree on Scizor and now backcapping :/. If your holding 40-50 in a winning game and we k.od the attackers I'm all for back capping because if they try to get Ray we go for kills then take Ray assuming they don't surrender. I guess the alternative is the backcap was enough to gain the lead but I think it's best if a all rounder or maybe speedster does it as that's the only comebacks I've seen work when backcapping is involved.

I only make good plays,my team mates are just bad at the game😇

But why did so many people back cap? :(

Why are so many players trying to defend their backcap 🤣 do they genuinely believe it's the right play? Would explain why it happens so often

So many people thinking "making a good play" is trying to win or ko everyone by yourself 😅

I think deep down they know back caping is bad, they just need validation. Alot of these players Do a bad play then edge a 50/50 win and will justify it . Back capping to me is always a desperate play thats high risk low reward usually.

Jail them all.

Falinks is good and very balanced 👌. Unlike other pokemon on release.

Im very confused, what's backcapping?

Spragels with reddit can be a really nice series just like teeds

so glad the comments are straight roasts LOL these submissions are so sad

The meowscarda play wasn't just bad, it was awful and selfish. Those are the kind of players who make you want to quit playing I actually think the aegeslash play could have been a good one. He made the enemy team split up. I have done stuff like that and if the enemy team doesn't chase me I turn right back around