THE DRAFT MODE TUTORIAL LOCATION OMFG. what a freaking joke 😂

crappy players always ruin any good feature. But we've had too many seasons that catered to them and now they're the majority of the playerbase. Unfort.

How to make draft mode better Step 1: Gain Timi's attention

Man I miss draft this season. I’m 1600 masters and I’ve had 5 draft games. I like the diversity and strategy of draft. Assault vest and curse items are so much better into draft than blind pick

For me that is the most important reason of why draft sucks… In a regular game I am ALWAYS open to fill whatever role the team needs, but in a Draft I’m usually 1st or 2nd to pick which I “have” to pick the meta pokemon so that the enemy team can’t get them… And them we end up with a bad composition

Even with all its flaws, I'll take Draft games over Blind Pick anytime... maybe because I'm used to it taking a long time because of League, and it doesn't act up on mobile, as you mentioned.

Another feature draft should have is allowing players to see what Pokémon the opposing team has after the pick/ban phase. It’s a small thing, but would be very helpful for item and build selection (like putting on curse items).

If you’re not patient enough to sit through a couple minutes of drafting, you shouldn’t be playing a competitive mode imo.

I feel like the problem is the game doesn’t promote ranked as well ranked or somehow different from standard matches. I’d love a forced tutorial for ranked showing players how to play the game competitively. hey an objective spawned go here or hey it’s 2:30 start going to the Ray pit. Etc.

They should have a separate ranked/draft mode were you get to preselect roles and lane and the game would put you with people forming multiple different types of comps that work whether it's a different role for each person or a double def or support based comp while at the same time preventing players in that mode from choosing roles they weren't assigned to in te beginning from their preferred roles and lanes and their could be a more custom version of this in 5s

Jake you said exactly what I was thinking with the first person to ban. I have often banned the wrong Pokemon because my menu lag was so bad I couldn’t move to the desired Pokemon in time, which is very annoying. I don’t understand why menus lag so much, menus should not require much in the way of cpu resources. I imagine it has taken everyone a bit of time to work out who to ban. The OP meta Pokemon is the obvious choice, but then it took me a while to figure out that the counterpick to who you want to play is also a good choice. Apart from that, I personally love draft. I love being able to see the enemy has picked Zoroark, so I pick sing wiggly to shut them down, or if the enemy picks trevenant I could pick barrier mime etc

Yesterday i solo qued into a draft full team of gold badges, the whole game we had one destroyed goal for each team, no team got ray, and it ended with just over 200 points scored winning by 20. The most balanced match ive ever had. What a blast

I think for draft they should do a separate game mode similar to how ranked and casual are separated. The classes (beginner - ultra) could be separate, and the master rank elo leaderboard would also be separate from the one we have now. If draft were its own separate game mode it would hopefully get rid of the people who don’t care about picking and banning, and the classes being separate from normal ranked classes would make it to where at a higher rank you won’t be matched up with a teammate that is just trying out draft for the first time.

I didn't know draft tutorial even existed until you tell in the video. If the players with many games played doesn't know it existed, there is not a single chance players who don't watch guides will find it on their own. And these are the players who need it the most.

I have played this game more than any other on Switch. This was my face during that draft tutorial reveal 😮

I have two things to say about this: First, I'm a low end phone user which means in draft it takes slightly longer time to load the draft pick screen, which concerns me especially if I'm the first ban Second, yes I found the draft pick tutorial before draft pick came to the game without anyone telling me, and up until I type this comment the illustration on that specific tutorial shows the first concept of draft pick where you and your team vote for a ban per team

Draft is cool, we just needed it so much sooner (haven’t seen the vid yet, but the recent video quality has been great sheriff, keep it up 👍) Edit: Jake, you just need to advertise your business better, remember the general populous is great at spending unnecessary money

No way they wilding on that draft tutorial location 😂😂

these are rlly good suggestions. Timi should be taking notes and hire this cowboy on the executive ideas team immediately🤠🤠

We’re going into the third anniversary and have no hope of any of these things getting changed

I like what Jake said at the end having a split ranked mode one with draft and one without, might help. Another option is that the first 10 games of every season determine your rank to start each season. Good players will rank high ultra every season, while bad players and AFKs will rank low vet at best, giving them a longer grind to get to the top.

The resposiveness of the ui... or lack there of... I think is the biggest hurdle to most things unite for me anyways. I don't know if its the hardware or the game being poorly optimized, cause like... some games run pretty well on the switch... and that made me pretty hesitant to be excited about draft cause the last thing I want is more menu interaction in this hellscape ui. The ui is a bit more responsive on mobile... but only a little really.

Draft in all of masters= annoying, your team griefs you, bad team comps Draft at 1400 masters= exciting, team is usually solid enough to pick a decent team composition

Draft is only bad because the ranked system is bad. It actually works quite well but when you have low skill players in high master lobbies you are going to get a low skill draft result.

I have actually gone to Hamburger Restaurant and I had to wait 2 years to get in.

Draft was my favorite, I really miss it. I hope it can be streamlined so that I can fit even more games into my day

As a main supporter/defender, it's really frustrating to be in teams of only attackers and all-rounders I can't be at all places and my lane with two attackers gets demolished minute by minute 😅

I loved a lot about draft as a mobile player, but the best thing overall was not having a mirror match in any games

Great video, great points....are they going to listen? Do they have the man power or ability to implement these changes?

They should either make the highest ranked players pick last so they can take the carries, or randomize pick/ban order completely. At least if it’s random we won’t get the current bias of “the lowest ranked player gets to decide the ban”

Sometimes When draft mode starts my phone comes back to home screen

I didn't even know there was draft custom match

I had no idea that spragels was such a determined business-man!😂

lol I’m dying over the “map help” and “balance issues only once or twice” parts. I’m gonna go look for hidden menu things now. I’ve never seen that.

As a Casual player I would love to simply not play in draft games. It's a neat feature for highly competitive players. But for people that just want to play a casual game without having to investigate what is meta, it would be nice to not be forced in to draft

I like the idea of draft but every time I get in one I get this weird feeling in my stomach lol

I use to play a game called paladin ranked mode which only had draft mode and they made it where each team gets 30 secs to pick there entire 5 man team if you took to long it either kicks you and bans you for an small amount of time to reque

Yeah on switch crashes sometimes and is so frustrating when it happen when are you choosing the pokemon and it picks your favorite one while you want to pick something else.

One annoying thing about draft is that sometimes our teammates doesn’t pick anything to ban in draft. And vice versa with the opposing team. And sometimes they ban Pokémon which are so random you wonder if they’re really a wolf in sheep’s clothing

thank god someone is talking about the performance issues STILL in the game. horrible

Draft is just time wasting when teammates and enemy is left game is over

I've also felt a massive surge of lag and faulty connection while playing.

Never knew the tutorial even existed until this video 🤣

Welp now I read up on draft, thanks for that XD

Draft should be like the pick/ban in rainbow six siege. It's not included in standard mode, but is immediately available in ranked play. If you introduce players to the mechanic early on, they'll learn and understand the picks/bans and it just makes them overall more competitive over time. If they don't like it, they'll leave ranked and only play standard. Win-win for everyone!

Last season, after getting to master, draft matches non stop, this season, already at 1600 points, 200 games later, only 3 draft matches appeared. WTF

I actually reached the draft tutorial without anyone telling me that it existed. I saw the draft tutorial image but as a "leak" that made some facebook people think that it would be a new implementation. But then when I was training with Tsareena, without anyone telling me anything , I found the tutorial already inside of the game, lol.

1. Draft for All Master Rank Player 2. Draft Required atleast 3 Master Rank each side. this can make almost 95% draft matches for all master players

I've been saying this, the game needs a role queue. A standardized role queue meaning in every game there will be 3 damage and let's say 1 tank and 1 support. How would they implement this? Have players pick a role (or a flex option) before finding a game and queue up that way. Similar to hiw overwatch does it. They could even insentivise tank/support/all roles through extra battlepass experience or even battle point experience towards ribbons. I wholeheartedly think this would be a major win for not only draft, but all modes of play.

Well the annoying thing for me is that I tried so hard to get to Master rank but I've only played 2 draft matches. Matchmaking just won't let me play a game with 1400+ players

You know, a long time ago I heard "If you see a question in a thumbnail, the answer to it is NO" so seeing this in my sub feed made me laugh.

Matchmaking always being broken is so funny, I dropped the game for almost a year and now I'm coming back and the issues are almost the same

gotta love when someone on my team is someone i played against in the game before and they purposely ban the pokémon you did well with despite now us being on the same team.

I like the idea of choosing draft. I like being competitive, but sometimes I want to practice a pokemon I don't use frequently.

I haven't played sense Mewtwo X and Mewtwo Y release so I don't know whats different and such. Would having lane/role que be a bad thing? Like you que support/Tank or Tank/All Rounder, so then it'd help teams be more well rounded? Or would position/Que role be better, like you que Top/Jungle or Bottom/Top. Again I haven't played sense Mewtwo X/Y so I don't know whats in the game and such for these ideas if possible

Im close to 1600 points in Ranked and i still cant get Draft to come up, its crazy!

I’ve played the game for 300 hours on my Nintendo switch and I never knew where to go to play draft mode 😂

I stumbled upon the draft tutorial one time because I miss clicked. Didn’t read it, just clicked through. I think it happened before I’d ever watched a competitive game so I had no idea what it was for lmao😂 Defender/Supporter main ❤

I know about Map Help. I didn't know about Draft Pick Map Help.. Bcuz I need as much prep as possible before I jump in. I saw it flipping maps and quick battle modes(since it never remembers or sets you to the daily quick battle available), I hit plus, and it was very helpful. For standard/quick battles. I don't expect anybody else to need this information to jump in. ESPECIALLY if it's located in custom battle where you need 9 other ppl for it. Who has nine ppl they know and are friends with who play unite. Not me.

This has to be the first time I saw a draft tutorial

I absolutely hate hearing that noise for draft pick because I know I’m in for a long wait of afk people🙏

was waiting for next season to start playing again, i quit before draft was implemented. Guess I'll pass and wait for a new map that isnt just a boss throw.

A good solution would probably be to increase the skill ceiling, an easy way of doing this would probably be by improving the ranked match making system, i feel like people get carried too often by players who have higher ranks than them (Example: master players carrying ultra class players, etc) which causes it to be very easy for people in low ranks into high ones, another thing they could change is probably how the star gaining system works, I feel like having a bar that both gives you stars and protects them as well makes it super easy for people to rank up tweaking it might help a bit so master below players stay at master below until there skill level increases

Dude, Uber Pool is wild

Draft is indeed a mixed bag for me. Last season people almost always picked a Pokemon that is or would be a problem for our team which was great. Some people also didn't pick a mon at all for ban phase. In pick phase, people would and still often just sit there and let the timer go down for their pokemon of choice. But my main problem, even if it makes sense is when I can't pick a mon when the other team has it. >:[

I literally carry at least 70% of my games. Its insane. Im mic banned over 168 hours just because i calmly ask for help or try to coach the team. I also miss the days when i knew i had 5 games an hour before work or before a meeting, etc. now its only 4 games 😢 cuz of the extra unnecessary draft time.

Draft should be the default for ranked. It forces better play and casual players are more incentivised to either get better or go to Standard/Casual matches instead. We also need a functioning block system to remove players who you know you don't like playing with

Not exclusive to draft, I wish we could rearrange the selection table by more than just choosing a favorite Pokémon. It's a hassle having to scroll through the whole grid when you're trying to team fill and everyone keeps changing their pick. Why can't we put the licenses we're bad with down the bottom of our grid and leave space for all our main picks at the top? (I know you can pick by role, but that just adds a whole new layer of shifting just to select a new Pokémon).

First banner has no time to ban on Switch, so insane.

I found it while trying to find draft specifically (Wasnt Masters yet)

Apart from your suggestions the biggest issue I’ve seen is people grind all the way to 1400 still 20+ games in and they don’t get a single draft and once they get that draft game it’s already too late cause the players lose interest after a while once you’re 1400 there needs to be a system where u can only q with players near 1400 or higher and make draft games more consistent

Crazy thing is, there is a queue right now for people who don't want draft! It's called casual.

I think also having an option to turn draft off or on. Like be able to opt out even if you’re master. I like playing to master but I’m don’t really car a lot about being competitive. I’d totally opt out of draft if I could.

Draft tutorial in map help before GTA 6 is BRAZY

Draft mode shpuld allow your teammates to vote for what they want banned before the player makes a choice so they can see common vans before locking in Scizor for no reason.

I literally just played a random game and saw it was draft and I was like "huh?? Since when??" I did not know they inserted that in the game, and why so randomly? I played many games in the last days but just normal ranked ones

Even i want to sometimes instantly lock in a pokemon like decidueye. I would love to play in the casual mode in a situation like this but you just get bot games. The thing is draft is made up for serious matches, but sometimes we want to play casually but you kinda dont have that option. This leads to bad drafts. They need to make the standard mode interesting so that players play it. So making players either not get draft completely or get a draft every match is not ideal in the current state of the game. If casual matches were a thing, things would have been much better.

Everytime i bring this up in various other locations the only excuse i read is that those not part of the various communities are larger than those that are, and when they were asked to fill in the survey they probably answered to get rid of it, and they also wanted to play more casually. (I dont believe that though). But in case if its so, than maybe its time those many casual players that dont want it should be redirected to Normal games, and Timi should adress the many trolls that haunt that place. Maybe ban phase could be faster as well, a 30 second time frame where the teams suggest bans, than the system will pick 4 of those either depending on most requested bans or failing that bans suggested by highest rated players. Each player can select up to 2 ban suggestions.

They should just make you lock in a role. Defender, Attacker, supporter, speedster League, overwatch, dota, all those games do that might lengthen the q a bit but shorten the draft and make decent comps

i heard we're getting separate queues for draft. but, maybe it's just a rumor

They can make an OVERWATCH Q. I mean you should pick a role before start

100% agree, would love to see these changes happen

Im a brawl stars player where we have a really perfect draft system. My bud and i were playing unite when we suddenly got draft we had no clue about, yet managed to fill in the roles and win by a great margin. That was possibly the best match i had ever played. All players knew where to go and how to fight for objectives. Coming back to Brawl stars, it has a draft system in ranked after a particular rank, but most players dont play ranked. Yes, the standard matches provides trophies for winning which is also a great way to judge someone's skill. But unite standard matches are just bots. No point in playing standard

If they gave higher rewards for playing support or tank it would make more people want to play them. 5-10 rp for a win on attacker/speedster/all arounder and a 12-18 rp hike for tank/support would give people incentive.

Only reason I knew about this was cause I hit all buttons on screens when I first play a game yo get an idea of what every page does.

Draft is so annoying because it is locked for only masters. That makes veteran class so hard to get out of.

If someone doesn't ban, put it to the next up on the list. So if 5th doesnt, 4th does, then it goes to third, and general bans they've picked. If someone doesn't ban, you also have the 'picked by group default choices' option as you list. That way, if 2/3 folks have a common mon ban, it defaults to that if someone doesn't pick. Keeps the dual ban option. Have them set this up in ranked before they queue in at a certain point, masters, or 1200. So that when it pops, there is a set, okay, heres how it goes when you get one. And tough timis on being top. Thats standard league matters. You are the carry by skill. Your first/second picks are players that are going to get counter-picked in matters, or just banned, or however many ways that exist in league that force you to play better. If im on the bottom/right, i know im the weak link, and not going to be doing well/Ko'd alot, or just struggling, it sucks. I don't really let it get to me, im not the carry there that needs to win it not me. Its 1st and 2nd place.

I like the concept of draft, helps with item choices and building around/against enemies its fun. I feel it should be availible earlier and optional for those who dont want draft. Also give us more ways to get aeos coins, it shouldnt take you potential months to get a new mon. That way we have more options to pick if you do play draft.

We need a Global Reset in Ranked so Everyone can just be at Beginners and we gotta Make it up the Line all the way up to Masters again just like Season 1 Vets did like me

Letting player chose if they want draft or not is a realy good idea

good points.. but the most time wasting at the ban is after pick.. i hope they just give few seconds to do final adjust.. mostly it doesnt needed for casual players

I hated draft mode because of exactly what spragels said. It took way too long for such little reward and i kid you not i had a 5 drafts in a row and the game kept ending because someone would leave because their pokemon was banned. I spent 15mins in draft plus whatever it takes for waiting for a game and loading into each game juat ti finally play 1 10 minute game

Def agree with a lot of these points- the big ones being fixing matchmaking + making games a bit easier/less laggy. This season has been infinitely more miserable since Draft doesn't exist at all in ranked. I've played quite a few games past the 1400 mark this season... and have hit 4 draft games all season. It's made the game worse because there's 0 reason to adapt or adjust since you're stuck at random teams that make for fun picks very miserable, since the Dodrio pick into Slowbro Umbreon + bunch of all rounders is just as unfun as the Decidueye into 3 divers, (and your team picked 0 tanks) unplayable mess. Draft just needs to exist. I think the idea of letting players pick is interesting but I think it would destroy queue times in that IF there is a sizeable number of difference in one queue or the other, the game either would never find games OR would forcibly mix the two groups. That opens up the issue of who gets the default, the drafters or the anti-draft people. That causes a lot more animosity since both sides would be very angry to be placed in games they couldn't be in. I think this is a good idea but use it to motivate people to play normals. Make all of ranked draft, and the people who wanna spend 10k games on Charizard only, and nothing else they can play normal mode, and all of the people who want to take the game competitively get better games in draft because now normals has a reason to be played for everyone who doesn't want draft. Role lockouts could also be a thing. I think it would be hard to implement and a shame because it would cause problems, but frankly until the matchmaking improves, role lockouts (plus incentives) would do a lot to help as well. But role selection is just before games, pick 2 roles (or fill) and the game places you in one of those roles. Sometimes (20% of games you will get a role you didn't ask for or if queue times go too long) and draft goes as normal. Another version could be locking certain mons to certain roles, and let's say if 3 Attacker/Speedster/All Rounders are picked, the remaining 2 people are forced into picking support or defender. They'd get the resources to do so such as a level 30 exp share that's attached to said mon. but this also could help the game.

When I was new player. I got to know about the draft tutorial when I was searching in which quick mode drednaw spawns for the achievements through map help and I sort of found out how to play the infamous draft. I like draft but, as spragels said there are way too many clueless players like heck at my side there always that one deci player who will go afk as soon as the match starts just because he didn't got the jungle then, there was that super greninja player who will always wipe your whole team out cleanly 😂 Unite is a mess right now.

There is a custom battle mode??

Spragels use your influence to get them to do something with team rocket in the game

I think the only way to fix ranked is by adding a GrandMasters rank, longer queue time, and the ability to choose rather a Draft Queue or a Role Queue (similar to overwatch where you queue in as a role)

It all boils down to one thing. "FIX MATCHMAKING" 😂

Unite just needs easier access to more mons so every player can have a ban, not limit two players per team to removing threats. Also, sometimes rather than banning what the meta is, i'd much rather ban a major counter to my mains like banning Blaziken to play Falinks. Unite also has the issue of being a competitive game marketed to a casual playerbase, and being too easy to climb to the highest rank. Edit: fixing Unite's menus would make Draft much faster, bc half the time you're waiting for the menu to work

On mobile you just press on draft mode on custom batles and the tutorial would apear