fyi this was recorded just before the Zacian/Lapras nerfs announced!

Step one: Have a Decent Team

To all the aspiring carry players out there: All of the farm on your side of the map respawns exactly one minute after it is taken down. Stay on top of it, especially if you're playing in the central area. If you leave your jungle unattended, I WILL take it, regardless of what team I'm on.

For junglers, kill the xatu at 9:45, you get catch up experience from the other jungler in the role

Solo is a Russian Roulette of quality when it comes to teams. You either got people who are compliment, or little Timmy who plays the game with his toes.

You don't need to go to jungle right away because your jungler will leave it forever after one rotation and fall in love with the farm of one of the lanes lol

Honestly great video. I want to add a tip that's been for something NOT to do that can improve your winrate. It's one of the most common mistakes I still see in games. That is to stop throwing yourself into a bad fight over and over at enemy Tier 1 goal. Players tend to think if both of your own tier 1s are broken, the game is doomed if you don't break theirs asap. But your side will have more experience to farm, and the enemies will be forced to play aggressively if they want to get additional farm for themselves. If people would just farm their extra Indeedee and wait for enemies to over extend, you can easily come back in experience and still win the Ray fight. At the end of the day, being as strong as possible at Ray will let you come back and win easily with Ray Shields. But if you keep throwing yourself at well defended tier 1s while already behind, the enemy will just farm more experience from your KOs and get even further ahead. Only go for Tier 1s that aren't well defended. Don't try to force a million bad fights on the enemy pad

Yeah, you right about the being a carry thing. Sometimes, I don't wanna jungle cause I'm a better laner than jungler but my teams tend to push me to jungle anyway. It's not that I can't, it's just that when I go and try and win fights, the lanes I pick either are too aggressive or not aggressive enough to push. And I absolutely return to my jungle no matter what and pray that my lanes pick up the slack instead of spamming "Check It Out" if they die.

This why i love Tsareena, Fast, can be speedy, attacking, support in an ally way, and defend

Spragels you are doing gods work with these tutorials 🤝 hopefully all my futrue teammates see this vid 😂 just watched the rest of the vid, if i could like this vid more than once i would

Yesterday i reached master just by using venusaur,mamoswine and trevenant If we dont have a free hitter i use venu If we dont have CC i use trev And if theres allot of atkers in the team i use mamoswine so i can ice fang an enemy and throw it to my atker or icicle crash so the all rounder on the enemy team cant just bust through the door

Something that I’ve found, which I know should be obvious but wasn’t for me: be patient. Especially in lane. Never actively try to punish your opponent for mistakes they didn’t make. If an opponent does screw up (which as we all know people do) you can either punish it directly, or find some way to get value from it.

Finally, a video that my teammates can use to be better because I'm obviously the best player and its always my teams fault.

I think this video was spot on. But I'm left conflicted about the state of the meta and Ranked in general. As a defender main, I experienced everything you described. The game seems to actively punish you for winning and after a few wins, if you personally don't or can't carry, you lose. But supporters have high win rates and defenders are absolutely necessary (as you pointed out) and I've found that if I don't pick the defender, about half the time no one else does either. And without a tank, we usually lose. I agree that the way ranked games are put together needs to be overhauled somehow. The game needs to more accurately pair up skill levels, not just use a mathematical average, because having one or two great players does NOT balance out 3 other bad players. I'm glad you put this video out. This stuff needed to be said.

levels is usually the main problem I run into when im in a loosing game, and farming is usually my go-to answer for that. sometimes i'll sacrifice goals just for exp

my advice is learn how to play blastois, he can be damage dealer o utility tank with just the exact move combination or 1 held item change. it is a little hard to use for those without skill shots experience but is a great and multi propose tank. also most people only plays offensive or all rounder damage pokemon, and most of time you need a carry tank to complete the team withou losing carry potential

I finally got MASTERS!!! Now I feel I can actually play the game for fun without worrying about going up or down a rank

i have been playing zeraora and only zeraora since pokemon unite came out and ngl he had his ups and downs but rn hes extremelly solid and easy to use

I agree with that mmr thing about who is the best until I am all the way on the right and carry my team. Also here is my ideal team setup, one attacker and one defender/supporter on each lane and then either an all-rounder or speedster in jungle

Something I find helpful is protecting your team while they get farm. A lot of the time if I see I have an under leveled teammate trying to get the back farm I'll push up a little just to hold map pressure so they can get that level without an opposing pokemon trying to contest their farm

Sprangels what do i use do i stick with absol or i go with mimikyu?

I've been using a bullet punch swords dance scizor build with atk weight, focus band, and resonant guard with brown and white emblems. I've been enjoying using it but idk if its good hut i kinda like it and like this build for scizor

Hey Jake! Can we get a tier list for Pokemon that stack well in Pokemon unite? That would be a neat video.

I had a 47% winrate this season, for context my winrate last season was 62% 😐, I hate the matchmaking.

saw your tiktok Jake. I hope you are feeling better. Take time to recover and spend time with your son. God bless

Not just in MMR, but in general Unite mechanics and gameplay is one of the weirdest one in any MOBA, basically it punishes you more the higher the skill the player is.

I think for most Pokemon, 3:15 is a better recommendation to not use your Unite after since you can also get even just a little farm to always have it back by then; other than some like Slowbro or Sylveon. Usually for me, if my Unite is up, I try to use it for something around 3:20 so I can get a kill or push a point or objective with it around that time, and make sure I have it back by 2:00.

yo is dragonite a good carrier? i love dragonite and it suits me very well but im not sure if it is an efficient carrier

I stopped playing competitively simple because the only true decider of my matches was the quality of my teammates, which is luck based. I always play solo carry potential and that skews my winrate in my favor, but sometimes im 4v6, or 3v7, and other times im 5v5 because my own bad teammates are detrimental enough they might as well be on the enemy team. I cant stomach the luck grind anymore

Videos like this raise the community’s level of play. Thank you Jake!!

Typ for lane the combo def and atacker, supporter and allrounder, or allrounder and atacker are the best ones.Dont try to roles in the same lane

Trying to clear out central area, rinse and repeat rarely works in solo Q. U have random players eating up all of the jungle pokemon, never entering team fights and it just hinders your level stacking. You're either fighting your own team for jungle, or entering team fights alone

15:23 I had a game where we beat the enemy so bad that half of them had 6 seconds ko cooldown so we didn’t get to rip ray because the enemy team might have unites ready

Just got into ultra class 1 within 160 games , might hit master within 170/165 games!!!

1:52 what's the name of the music that starts playing here?

I’m surprised they never released a defensive stacking item yet. It would probably suck but I’m still surprised they never made one

i reached master rank 2 years ago just because of you

Give it up for the content cowboy

Want to ask. How good you think tyranitar is. Been playing him recently and the build I’m using is working most games. Muscle band, focus band and then a drain crown for items with x speed. The emblems I don’t fully remember but it’s like at the end max brown with 1st load of white blue and purple aswell

dude the matchmaking is just a joke. I was at 60% winrate and i started losing so much bc of my teammates its crazy

My hyper carry pokemon that brought me to ultra is goodra ultra tanky heal beam with spoon. No other meta pokemon from the enemy could kill me. because i was just little smarter with knowing my own pokemon. Being underestimated is so funny. And i murdered the meta mon from the enemy to carry my team!

what are the good speedsters? I'm using zoroark but it's a bit boring for me

got to masters running blast i had no chance to pick attacker or all rounder they would get insta locked.

Oooh can we get a stacker teir list because i have issues identifying which pokemon its mandatory on

Is it worth buying Dragapult? I have fun playing him with the Phantom build and I do quite well with it (played it with a trial card). The current attacker I play is Decidueye and only him

My mmr is pretty good it starts in the frist few seconds , when i want to reach master it is kinda easy for me i just play Pokemons that i have not played since i bought them and somehow they cook 😮

Thanks!

I main mimikyu and have made it to vet class 2 still ranking up and ive only been playing for a week

Great Video! But the sad part about these types of videos is, that most players that actually need this information aren't looking up any information. While the overwhelming majority that clicked on this vid, most likely also watches other Unite gameplay vids, maybe streams etc, where you also get that information from.

I had no idea about mmr or about the fact that if you're the left most player on the team you have the highest mmr

"The Higher your Personal Rank is, the worse your Allies are and the Better you opponents are." No man ever dared to speak words of that true, noneother, than Cowboy Resident of all the Content - Spragles!

This mindset is the same as the teams that end up with 5 attackers. Everyone wants to do the most damage and get the most kills but it's almost impossible to win without tanks on the team. Late game without any bulk on your team is extremely rough. Focusing on trying to carry your team and not what's best overall for your team is just asking to feed the enemy team with easy kills. If you already have 3 "carry" pokemon then the best thing is to choose pokemon that will support your squishy teammates. I wait to pick my pokemon until after at least 3 teammates make their choice. I main Glaceon, Lapras, and Blastoise btw.

Step one play Pokémon unite when it came out and get the of first battle pass and use Pikachu congrats you are the best

My friend and I just started playing Pokemon Unite together, and for some reason we're both half the speed of other players no matter who we play. We thought emblems were the issue, but after some intense googling and your emblem videos, it seems like that isn't the issue. Is there some weird newbie curse that nerfs move speed until you hit a certain level?

Idk I made master with lapras’ perish song and ice beam. Shellbell, the special atk stack item, and the sp atk heal cut item. Screw my carry teammates. I’m last hitting everything I can

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Im on the Spragels train toot toot

My friend suggested to play Pokemon unite, i reached master in 10 days with mewscarada 😂. Great game but I hate it when enemies steal ray and my team mate are afk 😅

Need some poke advice now. I am an aggressive player so should I buy tyranitar or blastoise or dragapult for climbing to Masters ?(P.S. I soloq)

Big daddy I have to ask, I'm being dogged on by most of my teammates for picking snorlax and I'm pretty good with him but as you said in the video I'm going to encounter worse teammates and better enemies and i just want to know if I am going to have to drop my big baby boy in favor of better attacking pokemon

Can i use zacian?

I would say depending on the lead in the game the speedster need 2-3rotation.After that other Pokemon can take exp from their too

Peak advice

I feel like creating an alt where I just get a bad winrate, THEN bother climbing. e.g., spam and throw like 4 Standard matches before playing 2 games in Ranked - then repeat. Not sure how that'll go, but for the sake of better teammates, it's a strat that might work.

Which Pokemon to use? Please suggest

So I think it’s fair to say that if you’re the best player in the lobby, you want to carry, and if you’re the worst, you want to support. With a few corner cases, matchmaking will ensure that you are as often the best in the lobby as the worst, so you can’t improve your win rate by being a carry or a support. The corner case is if you’re at the very tippy top of the ladder, when you are so high up in MMR that it’s impossible to to not have you be among the best players in the lobby most of the time. The number one player is always the best player in his lobby, after all. Throw in the fact that not all of the player base is playing at any given time and you could be in, say, the top 1000 players in the world and still be better than your teammates and enemies on average. In those conditions, you can improve your win rate by playing carries. But this impacts a vanishingly small part of the player base. A part of the player base that is disproportionately likely to be writing guides or to be listened to by the community, so their voices are stronger. This advice isn’t applicable to most people in Master rank and to everyone outside it. Probably it’s applicable to less than a percent of the playerbase as a whole, and a single-digit percentage of your viewers.

The matchmaking in this game maybe has the worst out of any game in history

A few tips I would give: Lose a few games first, you can lose games and it’s fine, you can’t control your allies nor your opponents. You can learn from those mistakes, either you lack something or maybe it’s your allies [ if it’s your allies, it isn’t your fault! ]. Use the practice area or offline mode! I’ve improved significantly because I’ve been learning about the Pokémon I main and it increased my accuracy a lot! I used these things to get to masters one time! Reminders, maybe this advice won’t help, but good luck!

Im actually using three principal pokemon that are: Garchomp, Metagross and greninja

What I do is I play a solo w Lucario or mew2 and after I find the ppl that were good in the game and add them and hope they join my ranked team And repeat

what should i buy blaziken or buzzwole i'm really confuse

One thing I really don’t like is if I go insane for let’s say +10 games in a row over 200k dmg and like +30 kills with scizor and I accidentally play someone who is a dev or a very high player.. scizor gets nerfed immediately. Now I’m not saying this is all me but it’s happened 3 times twice on Scizor and once on dragonite.. idk why but it’s like I see them play terrible(and I’m usually playing high ranked guys) and I play it for a week and dominate.. next patch it gets nerfed..

Me spent 10 years in the hole we call leage learning wave management and objective management and tower diving items and item counters : years of academic studying wasted

I did NOT know the person all the way to the left has the highest MMR. 🤯

How can I tell who's a trio or duo queue?

Well, but why should i win? Ladder rewards are unusefull and more i win and more i will be in team with noobs that will ruin my matches. If i farm more than the opponent and get KOed, the oppo will gain in exp the difference instantly. Rayquaza is a toss of a coin that vanish most of your work, so why to go mad? Take Sableye or Dodrio and run trough the map bringing chaos, thats my aim.

I had like 3 games in a row as def/supp where my team STOMPED up until ray and nobody showed up. Lost all 3 games. Beyond tilted

Hei spragel!, can you make tutorial step by step how to made pokemon emblem?

This wont stop them from going idle at base after losing top once. Dont surrender people, that will boost anyones win percentage.

I can’t wait for draft rank though

Can mimikyu carry?

at 51.9 wr at 3500 rank games at 5000 and at 53.4 all solo what really boosted my wr was learning the teams have the better players to the left i love playing elda but if im not 1 of the 2 worst players on the team( almost never happens)im just not going to use support, if you are on the right plz stop using ninja and go tank or support

I can play decent Zeraora so if I want to increase my win rate to get to a certain point, I can do that with Zera quite easily. But that makes Unite very boring. But even if I do over 100k damage with over 15kills, sometimes you just loose no matter how hard you carry. Teamwork is the best strat in the end.

Is drain 👑 a good item of dragapult

Spragels, is this really you? Or an alternate version? Many points you said sounded like inconsistencies with what you've said before in other videos or by another self.

Yeah but when I lock in a carry so does everyone else and then we're a team full of Absol's and Cinderaces and Meowscaradas vs. an actually well-constructed team with a support and defender. Guess how that goes. So I often play support instead.

wish I could show this to 90 percent of the solo queue players I wind up with

easy for others to say this things cause when they are in rank they are always in duo or trio or all in 5 teams but it really is hard to climb in rank in solo in this game. Even if you are good but your team sucks you cant climb on rank even if I do all this things

That is truly understandable, but the main and true way to win a rank match is to communicate with your teammates and plan ahead based on the current team's choices

Now I realize why I get people with less than 1000 games, and wants to jungle and throw the game. Yesterday a Slowbro wanted to jungle, and steal the jungle of my poor drippy.

Make a central area and lane tier list

Please don't take jungle after hard losing your lane... you just put the jungle behind as well.. A lot of times I have level 9 for first battle for the objectives and the only times i dont when people losing very hard start taking my camps. This also makes your jungle lose, please don't do it.

Honestly I just add everyone I think carries good and I play support, only class I really enjoy aside from tank

I struggle with emblems super bad. I've tried all balances and end up completely nuking one or more areas.

What's your opinion on tyranitar as a carry? Please can you suggest one

With Blastois... that how I solo qued to veteren with 90% win rate

my lane absol will take me all the way (attack weight)

This season is not normal. Ok i changed from mobile to nintendo switch and it was tough but i was 10 days before or more at 1550. All was fine so earlie i was world ranked. But from one moment to the next i only loose i have 12500 fights. I loose 100 elo came back. since 4 days im rankin a lot of hours. i was 4 times before 1600. one time loose with 1 point. second one we had goblin and afk i reported but i did not get the points back , 3. connection issues at the begin so i had to restard came back to late 4. another thing and i fall down again from 1590 to 1540. my winrate droppet to 46% most of the rounds the same mistakes happen like before. sometimes we have lead with 4 goalzones and it fails anyway. im so demotivated i dont have fun :-( all rounds, .. are just " luck " win or not. and whenever i win 3 in a row i loose 4 or 5 in a row than..my winrate was 53-54% in ranked and it fall down ( in 4000 ranked ) 2% thats so much .... now im rankin but im never motivated. Most of the time when i am jungler my team fail at both lanes and i could not carry it. when i am at the lane the jungler is never at my lane the enemy jungler usual. and most of the time enemys with 10-20 assist and in my team always one is doin some own stuff and we have to fight 3v 5 or 4 v 5. and nothin makes a difference, am i lane , defender , support , atakker , it doesent matter. and so often the people pick 2 wich need level 5 at the top and most of the time this lane is goin down .. if then the jungler is at this lane they are behind as f..and what i also see enemy teams are so often balanced like two defenders or one and a healer. and my team squishy with all atakkers. or i was takin a look for my team mates i get matched now with people around 100-200 fights.... one match i had two of them ( we won ) but the enemys was all in generell higher. or i log in jungle and one is walkin in like its normal. or one is loggin in jungle i see mewtu x just leftovers i think omg no he wants to ... the round starts and its a gold batch with mewtu x with helmet and jacket (items) ... or when ur team wants to backcap at 2min mark. its not normal and a big curse and im not able to stop it

A full stacked attack weight is 72 attack right?

Rn I have an 85% win rate with Tsareena and do over 100k DMG almost every game and it's insane, I LOVE her.