Funfact: Mewtwo is banned at the current world championships. Pro players don't have to deal with it but your average player absolutely has to

Remember when Rayquaza was good and perfectly balanced? But then they randomly decided to buff it for no reason, making it just as annoying as Zapdos even tho people where praising Rayquaza just as it was? Because i do and I'm still mad about it

Unite really is one of those games that I remember once every 3-4 months, play for a couple days and have a blast, then get bogged down by all of the bs and quit with yet another sour taste in my mouth from it

A lot of people pointing out that I forgot to mention this - yes, there was a “letter from the producer” that released about a month back. Unite has had a few of these, including a “letter of apology” that released around March. They are always surprising to see because of how little communication there is between the players and the developers. They actually did take SOME ownership over Zacian and stated that they want to be more mindful of the game’s balance. They stated “Our goal is to make appropriate adjustments before each Pokémon’s release in the Global version to ensure all are fairly balanced.” A sweet gesture, but ultimately meaningless as they released Mewtwo into the game TWO DAYS LATER. I’ll link the letter in the description for anyone else who wants to take a look at it.

as a frequent unite player, this video is very accurate to how the community feels

Pokémon as a corporate entity makes me want to throw up. Unite is one of the best examples of how soulless the corporation has become, and how many real creative people under them are struggling to create something worthwhile

I have always been vocal about how awful the devs are at balancing. But honestly at this point they're obviously doing these on purpose. And they're assholes for it. And those of us who are casual players who play this game because we enjoy using Pokemon have to suffer for it.

Genuinely one of the best multiplayer gameplay loops, plagued by a dev who is just using every toxic free to play trope in the book to milk their whales while free players continue to keep turning off the game

I miss when pokemon would release for 8000 coins (the minimum may have been 6k) versus every pokemon releasing at 12-15k. It was like even if I don't play 5 hours a day every single effing day, at a few matches a week I could still afford a new license. Now you have to grind everyday for weeks if you want the newest release.

Me and my friends made a team to play competitive in this game. It was so fun and we really enjoyed it. But since Glaceon release something started to feel odd, and Zacian was the thing that made us finally quit competitive. Now we only play whenever we remember the game exists. I hate how they made me hate something that I loved

When you said “Pokemon unite, I believe in you” I legit started laughing, thanks god you corrected yourself I thought you were delusional

i play pokemon unite when im too lazy to play pc games but i never interacted with its community before im so glad i am not insane with the problems i felt in the game i just wanted to see my favorite pokemon in silly clothes and making points

"Please just give us the basic things" As someone who jump in make the daily quests and turn off. You speak the truth bro 😢

This is the type of content that I want to see. No shade on other Unite creators, but it’s cool that someone is making more long form and in depth videos like this

I have played Unite ever since it first released, on and off every now and again and it genuinely sucks to see that most of the new pokemon just cost more and perform much better than the other pokemon that released before that do the exact same thing but worse. It's such a shame, because I genuinely have fun with this game and to see it die like this breaks my heart. The only fun i really have playing this game is using mid-low tier pokemon because all of the top tier pokemon just feel dirty to use. I wish they could actually listen to their fans instead of killing the game like this

Honestly one of the biggest things I love about unite is that every match has a 10 minute time limit. Here's the thing when I was in college I'd play a 1 hour LoL or DOTA2 and felt really good about how I spent that time. I'm married and have kids now and a 1 hour match just isn't something I can do these days. But I can pretty easily chill for 15 minutes and get a game in. I really like some of the character designs and the game is actually pretty good. If they just locked it so you only played people in your rank I think that would solve a lot of the match making issues

in Tree's defense, it was relatively shit on release. The subsequent updates made it what it is now. I say this as someone who solely played Tree because he was considered shit and i felt bad

I just want to say thank you for being the video essay guy for pokemon unite very refreshing to watch over another 10 minute game

Finally, someone willing to tell it like it is... Big content creators like Spragels and CrisHeroes are toeing the line drawn by their paymaster TiMi.

Im often caught shouting that I hate this game but I continue to play it. I genuinely want to enjoy this game but god I have to take breaks from it because of how much it takes out of me with all the problems that exist. You really summed up that feeling well with this video and I appreciate that others share the sentiment

Very well said. It would be so cool to have legendary Pokémon if they actually had unique mechanics and not insanely easy to use moves. I agree that mew was a great example of that. I hate corporate greed so much. And how they try to pacify the player base with their fraudulent ass apology letter and “emergency nerfs” that carry no actual weight

They released other OP pokemon in the past, but it is so blatant with Mewtwo. They had an "emergency nerf" where they adjusted his teleport slightly. They want to make it seem like, "See guys! We're listening!" But then they actually didn't change any of the stuff about him that was broken. Getting pulled from a mile away into a character that does a million damage is not fun. Like you said, this could all be mitigated with pick/ban in ranked but they don't want players to buy mewtwo and then have him banned every single game. Hmmmm maybe that would encourage them to make him more balanced? It is embarassing. I really REALLY hope they do something with draft soon rather than keep it only for people competing in official events.

I played unite at launch for a bit and had a ton of fun, but ultimately most of my friends stopped playing it. I decided to give it another go recently after seeing the surprising amount of new Pokemon added, and was immediately bombarded with menus inside menus inside menus with banners everywhere, all trying to grab at my attention to get me to spend money. It was legitimately overwhelming, like a literal parody of what people think mobile game ads are. Did not even play a single game before I was exhausted with the information overload

I think that Lucario and Tsariana are the one in the same. Both were awsome in the 1 year, but year 2 they fall from grace so hard

I remember deleting my Nintendo Switch account when I was so angry about losing every single match because of Zacian. After a few months, I decided to make a comeback, and I heard about Mewtwo's release. I was actually expecting Mewtwo's play style to be unique and balanced, similar to Mew, where you can decide what moves to use. After all, Mewtwo was artificially created through Mew's DNA. But look what TiMi decided to do. They created a monster that can easily win a 1v5 brawl. Mewtwo's moveset isn't unique like mew, and they're goddamn broken as hell. Pokemon Unite literally sent us an apology letter about Zacian, and right after that, they release Zacian No.2. This is just nonsense. Because of this, my expectation(that wasn't high) towards Pokemon Unite dropped. I can understand if the game is craving for money. Just don't make stuff like this.

It really sucks that this is the case (overpowered bs on release). It's such a great game at the core 😢

About the Mewtwo event.. does anyone else remember Mewtwo only costing 60 of the event currency? I swear to God he used to be 60 and they raised it to 100. I very distinctly remember finally getting 60 of the tickets or coins or whatever and when I went to go buy him he was 100.

i just recently quit the game, best decision of my life tbh

THANK YOU for putting Lucario as literally the segway screen into Power Creep. When I heard about the game 3 months ago from a friend, I was genuinely ecstatic to hear that Lucario was playable, but I very quickly realized some all rounders outclassed Lucario harder than Id like. Why should I play Espeed when Urshifu's surging strikes has a built in cooldown reduction, guaranteed boosteds after each cast, damage reduction, and a guarateed crit on its third cast?! Why should I play Power-up Punch if Wicked Blow has a guaranteed crit, become unstoppable as soon as you learn the move, can hit multiple targets ALONGSIDE wild pokemon, AND has greater execute damage ramp-up?! I love Lucario to death man, but it sucks to see them get power crept out of the meta, ESPECIALLY when I see a fucking Urshifu in ranked, because I know they're going to get more value than me, for less effort than I spend on Lucario. Dont get me wrong, I still play Lucario to great success, I love them a lot. It's made me a genuinely better player to not abuse broken mechanics and try to get good with mid to low tier Pokemon. So thank you for making this video. Edit: I made this comment before you talked about Urshifu, so sorry for just restating your points. Just understand my rage as a Lucario main

Finally someone talked about this. Every other Pokemon Unite content creator I've seen always tells their viewers that this game isn't "pay to win". In a way, I do agree with them, you can still play any Pokemon you like albeit you'll have a harder time ranking up. It's more like "pay to win" faster, do you remember that Zoroark incident? Where they made him not only gem locked (The one who actually started the gem locking), but also Holowear locked, where you had to buy his holowear to even play as him for a week. That was insane. This game is a rare case of "pay to win faster", they release an overpowered Pokemon and some time after they become purchasable by in game currency, they're most of the time nerfed to oblivion and prevent gamers from playing them or just nerfed where they can't solo carry the entire game.

As a unite player who mains a support character, the thing that is mewtwo has killed me sooo many times

As someone who got into the game only a few weeks ago (a week or so before Mewtwo released), it didn’t take but a few days to notice all the gripes you laid out here. And honestly there’s even more, albeit smaller, issues that plague a free-to-play game such as this. But dammit, I love me some Pokémons! This is the first MOBA game I’ve ever really sunk time into. I’ve never enjoyed LoL and thought MOBAs weren’t for me, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t instantly connect with Unite. There’s no doubt that my love of the franchise is the main factor for this. All to say, Pokémon Unite made a MOBA-hating noob like me fall head over heels for it. Until the overwhelming issues started showing through, that is. This game could be SOOO much better than it is. Maybe one day the greedy marketing tactics will be a thing of the past, but I sadly don’t see this happening. Especially as long as Unite remains free-to-play.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention aegislash. He’s one of the most interesting designed mons in the game. Also zoroarks disguise is incredibly unique but he’s so powerful there’s no real point in using it.

Mewtwo is so broken that I'm on a hiatus from unite just to avoid it. I was basically forced to always play defender which was getting repetitive but every time I played attacker, speedster or all rounder and there was a mewtwo on the enemy team I would get absolutely wiped

LOUDER for EVERYONE at Timi to hear!!! Its frustrating and stressful. I dont enjoy this game like I used to. Every game is a struggle. It needs a HUGE overhaul

Wow!keep doing what you're doing this is so well done and well spoken and it is a rare sighting finding a channel with less than 10000 subscribers that has a great microphone so thank you 👍🏾😊 And I'll be here when you reach that 1 million subscriber milestone 😊😊😊

As a coming back Pokemon Unite player that started from day one and quit mid way 1st anniversary, the game has not changed. Part of the reason why I actually left the game is that there really isn't "competitive gaming" in it. There's no difference between Casual and Ranked gameplay other than both teams are actually trying to win. There's no banning, there's no consequences in losing or winning, it's just trying to climb and feeling like you're making progress when you're actually not. I'm still playing it because I honestly want to see the game become better

Tencent, the Chinese company which developed Pokémon Unite really impaired the most valuable IP.

The only problem with a draft mode would be if the enemy team bans your main you probably won’t wanna play and will just leave.

Thank you for pointing this out in public and giving my thoughts a voice. I've been furious about these new pokemon and wanted to quit several times, and it felt like I was the only one this mad about it. It's a nice breath of fresh air

this somehow motivated me kinda too play unite again I am a MEW main and MEWS GAMEPLAY is genuinely fun to me and unite needs a wake up call cause this isn’t it 😭

I still comeback to this game hoping itd be better but its not. They finally nerfed Zacian but Mewtwo came along. This gave could've been so fun if the devs only knew how to balance the entire game. That's literally the bare minimum and it'd be already 100% better. So much potential yet wasted for the sake of money. I'd let Pokémon unite make a Pokémon op if they give it a higher skill lvl like Lucario,Dodrio,or Zoroark. But no, Mewtwo is literally just press this,press that,and you get a penta.

Very good content! Also I ❤ the dk music in the background

Yeah honestly, literally every time I queue for ranked I say to myself "I wish this game had a draft mode."

17:40 SO HAPPY TO HEAR SOMEONE MENTION HOW BADLY CRUSTLE NEEDS BUFFS love to play him but unless I use shell smash it feels like I have to try 10x harder to have 1/4th the effect other Pokémon have on the field, rock tomb and x scissor are so fun but so weak

Saw you're slowbro video and have been waiting for the next. Never played a moment of the game, but love your breakdown

Pokémon as a franchise is a complete joke at this point

Loved this, felt so frustrated about this and I’m glad my voice is being magnified by you!

I think there was something said in Monster Hunter when Deviljho was introduced that if you introduce a Hyper Carnivorous Predator into an ecosystem that cannot support it it will collapse thus Deviljho destroys entire small ecosysytems. In unite a new Hyper Carnivore is intoduced or promoted every other month like Duraludon, Absol, Mr. Mime, Zacian, Umbreon, Lapras and now Mewtwo.

Pokémon Unite is in a very sad state. Thank you for taking the time to cover all of this. Your videos are really cozy and refreshing. Can’t wait to see what other games you discuss.

It got worse somehow

I agree with the overall points. The broken hero upon release is unfortunately extremely typical for any MOBA I've played. I wish it wasn't this way, but I understand the profit logic behind it from the developers, and don't really expect Unite to be any different. My win rate is still above 60% even without access to Mewtwo and Zacian so I don't really see myself suffering from that aspect.

Great vid I believe the devs talked about limiting held item on legendary Pokémon to balance them or needing them in other ways. For example Zacian only has 2 free item slots and also great vid ur channel is the definition of quality over qauntity

Dragapolt is another example of a strong original pokemon even though its contered by a bit of pokemon

As a Sableye main I apreciate someone loving him as much as I do ❤

yeah i got pushed away by absol meta then came back after a while, had lots of fun and then got pushed away by zacian meta. wanted to try it again soon then saw mewtwo and just knew i'd get melted again and have no fun like has happened so many times so i've given up on it despite liking mobas and loving pokemon

I've played Pokemon unite since day 1 and I like it, in the way that someone likes a baby. They're a mess but sometimes they're cute. I agree with everything in this video. Great content!

Playing pokemon unite feels the exact same as playing irl in a capitalistic society. 😂 Us poor always fighting the power creep of the rich money grabbers

I was so excited when I saw Crustle got buffed that I hopped on the game immediately. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. My boi doesn't stand a chance out there! Mewtwo can still catch me while using shell smash with some telekinetic beam thing. Then I just have to watch as crustle gets pummeled. The X scissors cool down decrease did help but not increasing the crits on it really hurts. I feel like since crustle isn't as beefy compared to other defenders he should be compensated in some other way but he just isn't.

As a new player who just started I managed to get my hands on a mewtwo limited pass with a code I managed to average 40 kills with a height of 48 kills it’s ridiculous

Every single video you have made(all 2 lmao) have been amazing, the way you convey a message is amazing. Hopefully the devs will change in the future(they won’t but. I thing wrong in believing )

I think the best way to make ranked better right now rather than a draft would be to remove bot matches. A draft would be nice in theory, but new players wouldn’t really have any Pokémon to play as so they would lose to people who pay for the new Pokémon. And how would that work if you only had 5 Pokémon unlocked and all of them were taken? I think also a lot of players don’t understand team comp so this really wouldn’t worked, unless you matched up players based on what role they wanted to play. Removing bot matches would clean up the ranked system so you don’t play with garbage teammates at higher ranks

I play Unite a lot and I really, really want to enjoy the game more than I do. But I think a lot of what frustrates me is the lack of teamwork in a game that centers around teamwork. The matchmaking feels terrible...I hardly ever feel like I'm being put on teams matching my own rank and it drives me insane. I can't count how many times my teammates have abandoned me to get blitzed defending a goal by myself while they fight with each other over jungle...

ngl as someone who used to make unite content the main reason I stopped (outside of the fact that it wasnt doing good on my channel so I just stream it) is because I noticed after zacian and ushifu were blatant copys and just op af that this trend was just gonna continue so I said im good. I still play the game and get to masters every season to keep up my streak (actually got to 1400 with leafeon this season cause Im a goat) but other then that def agree with this video a draft feature is def needed ong

Yeah. I came back to the game because Mewtwo got released, and Mewtwo's been my favorite character since the original Pokemon generation. He feels horrific. Obviously overpowered. That said, despite paying for Mewtwo to actually get to play him, the experience has been deeply un-fun. It's not the ridiculous roflstomp you think it is, it's actually been a string of really broken matches. I can't play a ranked match without being matched up with 0 kill / 0 assist Attacker players who try to goal score against 3 opposing pokemon It's completely absurd. I've carried entire games, then lost at the end anyway because the rest of the team feels like sleeping on the job. I hate it. I've played basically every other MOBA and competitive-type game around, and I've never been great. But I've never hated the experience. I actually, outright hate this. Game feels like garbage.

well said! and i wanted to share something, winning in a broken matchmaking feels genuinely rewarding if your team isnt helping, its all on you. this might come off weird but, thats what i like about the game, sure theres broken characters but coming up with a strategies and actually win feels super rewarding.

I'm so happy I found this video just as I was thinking about downloading Unite again bc of the hype from the world championships. You saved me a lot of headache and bad vibes thank you good sir. It really is sad bc the game at its core is so fun as a condensed casual MOBA experience but so many balance issues keep it from being great.

A draft is all we need indeed,if they gonna hell bent on their "legendary should be stronger" logic then give us draft mode.Sadly just like you said legendary being strong and no draft mode is just another way for them to get more money

That Umbreon ult is the most satisfying thing I well see for a long time

2:58 just play against cpu because that is what i did it still counts for the missions. 18:00 Its not a nerf what it needs its a buff to his health and damage make it like before that it was hard and risky to take down even if you deleted the enemy team they could come back and is not longer a flip situation.

I've been feeling this way for awhile now, and I'm already wanting to move onto another game

I drop the game in end to first year. I got Master 4 or 5 times in the row, but this means nothing. In Master or Lower Ranks, my teamates still suck. I'm still in mentality of 1v9 besides my teamates are "same rank". It's just stressefull. I am main support, but I only can win in jungle because I am not allow to assume which my teamates knows the basic. I don't know the meta, the evolution, new map or jungle, but for me, this game had lost their potencial and now it's just cash grab.

Game was destined to fail, its just that people realized how bad it was. Krashy, one of the first pokemon unite youtubers, made several videos of how unite is going to die. What happened? Lots of people clowned on him and he was ridiculed. Couple months later and it looks like he was right. I'm just saying, the was always shit, people just realized how bad it was now.

Video sums up being a unite fan pretty well. I just want to enjoy this game but the fact that it's always an uphill battle to find that enjoyment sucks so much. Doesn't help my friends don't want to play a broken mess of a game and i don't blame them.

16:45 “Some greedy corporate bastard at the top” Yeah, unfortunately it’s Tencent

5:45 League doesn't do this. Or well, it kinda does, but it seems more accidental than deliberate especially since there are also those releases that need emergency buffs. Instead, they go the feature-creep route which results in the community being frustrated at how overloaded all new champs' kits are. It's an old meme by this point. Which also kinda makes sense why they accidentally release broken champs and sometimes release useless ones: there are too many mechanics and they don't actually know how to properly balance them lol.

Don't forget as soon as he can be gotten easily, he SUDDENLY GETS NERFED.

As a support main, I am still viable and wanted.

Even though I have never played Pokémon Unite I still really enjoy watching your videos keep it up

I got another problem I return to the game after some time. My rank got reseted(of couse) but the thing is that i dropped too low and then there is emblem system which fked my ass up cuz i need to grind for too long to even get a decent set. Match making take too long too

Nintendo is an absolute L company so I expected the new pokemon to be absolutely broken and behind pay wall at first. And I was right. Nothing new from those greedy bastards

Unfortunately when it comes to these greedy practices that are all too often in f2p games the only way for it to change is if people either en mass stopped playing the game almost entirely or stopped spending any money on the game as the only thing they follow is money so if the money stops they are either forced to listen and change or just straight up abandon the game

The Poketuber/former Unitetuber Verlisify summed this up nicely before he quit playing: Pokémon Unite is in a death spiral. The bad decisions with this game only exacerbates problems already in the game. The devs do not know what they are doing and refuses to listen to community feedback while also refusing to learn from older, more successful MOBAs like League of Legends. The already small playerbase is shrinking constantly. It's been two years and they still haven't split the queue ladders...not even draft pick is in yet. The game essentially has no hype, and becomes more and more like a casual party game than a game with any actual competitive integrity. It's a shame because Unite is fun to play and has neat ideas. The game did not deserve to suffer the slow painful death it's currently going through.

Man it’s so sad how broken this game is right now, I just want to play as my favourite mon Zoroark but I get obliterated the second I get spotted, I can’t even start the night slash. Be it a Crustle, Mewtwo or even Hoopa sometimes, no matter what I get demolished the second I shadow claw out of the bushes.

I remember when Dragapult was released, was extremely excited when I knew that its unite move is just another move (a 3rd move basically). I mean, it's so new at the time. What are your thoughts on the upcoming Blaziken though? Being the first stance changing 'mon in the game.

It's sad Im ok with new pokemon costing gems and all and maybe a little overtuned But when just owning the character is a win condition it feels bad

The worst part is that it most likely won’t get any better, draft could of been in ranked for so long now that I gave up on waiting and just accepted that it will never happen

When playing ranked, it feels like mewtwo mirror is the only thing that matters sometimes. If they have Mewtwo and we dont, its often a done deal. I dont know how to deal with mewtwo being able to dive point 2v1 and get a double at level 4-5 other than abandon to tier 2 goal. (Or get chased to it and die anyway.)

The problem of power creep is so noticeable now that it was blatantly obvious at worlds, during regionals there was actually a lot of variety, interesting picks and bans, with only the dodrio/zoroark and comfey combo being a bit too present in every match, yes, there were powerful picks that you would see a lot of the time, but there were also unique picks, and with a bit more balancing, in theory, worlds would have had more variety right? Well I have to say that I couldn't watch worlds in it's entirety for personal issues and also having my favorite teams drop in the first round didn't help to make it exciting but, what I watched was so goddamm boring. Eevees running rampant, the same defenders over a over again, even when most of them are actually quite fun and good now, Ninetales still being broken, inteleon being used in every match, and also being very inconsistent causing a lot of teams to lose in Ray fight lmao, and if zoroark/dodrio wasn't enough then boy oh boy, did we need zacian as well, who is still too powerful, not as much as before, but it still is the same as urshifu, who, coincidentally are some of the easiest characters to use in the entire game :D At least there's some fun in zoroark and Dodrio cuz they're very difficult (for unite standards) and have a lot of outplay potential, bear and zacian have nothing like that, the only skill expression is how hard you mash the a button or your moves, and Mewtwo is even worse than they are, not only do they make them super broken, they're always extremely basic and simple, they play by themselves, you don't even have to aim, the game does that for you. It was very lame and I didn't really want to finish watching the whole stream especially when I already knew who would win, so there's also that factor.

My man really just went ahead and outed Capitalism in it's entirety. There will always be that one corporate asshat at the top that sacrifices absolutely everything even for a cent more in short term gains, doesn't matter who or what suffers for it, or if he'd gain more in the long term

To put league power creep in perspective some newer champs’s passives, there page of text explaining they’re passive is longer then the text explaining older champs entire kit

I only play this game rarely, but my god you can FEEL the powercreep. I'm an Aegislash and Crustle main. Starting with Aegislash, during the Zapdos era of ranked, it was quite string and I could 1v1 a lot of all rounders. I then returned to the game after Zacian released and my god, ranked was infested with Zacian + Comfey who would 1 shot me through my wide guard. I then promptly dropped the game only to return and see the same thing with mewtwo. Crustle has just always been miserable but I just like the silly cube crab

I swear, the unite developers are trying to speedrun the game dying

I tried to climb the ranks this season but kept losing to teams with Mewtwo so I took up the mantle and became the thing I hated. I'm in Master rank now. It really shouldn't have had to be like that.

i think your channel needs more subscribers. i just subcribed and i hope that other folks who watched this video do it as well. bc this video was for real great, like you explained everything so well it really made me feel like you were reading my mind lol. let's all hope pokemon unite becomes the best version of itself

I have never seen a channel explode onto KZfaq like this. This is his second video and he gets this kind of views? His first video got a lot as well. Keep going my man, if you ride the viral train you could make this your job haha! Great video

Timi: we're sorry about zacian. We won't let it happen again Also Timi: (lets it happen again)

Pokemon unite is getting worst day by day

One of the reasons this game has been a little disappointing to me are the releases and of course the dismal match making. There's over 800 Pokemon to choose from and they decided to make Mewtwo and Zacian playable characters for instance. As for my biggest complaint, the matchmaking; some players are purely spiteful, throwing games and playing in ranked matches where their skill level doesn't match where they sit on the ladder. As a result instead of enjoying the game, I end up begging I at least have ONE teammate that is gonna be good. I think the game needs to punish trolls harder because there's others there that genuinely want to climb higher and enjoy the game.

My goodness. I'm glad I stopped playing this sin of a game when I did. Last I played Decidueye was the newest character and we didn't have all these op legendaries and shit. Corporate greed truly is a plague on this planet.