I feel hoopa was so incredibly missed here, dude defined tournament comps and was run in literally every team, if you didn’t have a hoopa your team would be missing out on insane amounts of utility and even after multiple patches of nerfs they still had a 100% pick rate for months

Mew is the best example of the perfect broken pokemon, where you didn’t feel absolutely depressed playing against it

It pisses me off that SYLVEON was nerfed just a few days after it was released While Zacian and Mewtwo get to run around for weeks and months at a time being completely broken with almost no chance of winning against them. It's so upsetting.

Hoopa needs to be on this list. Meta defining. Tournament defining and still amazing after multiple nerfs and changes.

What made Dragonite so broken was the sheer amount of burst damage from its move *checks notes* Pkm_SkillName_Dragonite_5535_001.

getting K.Oed by Mewtwo is incredible frustrating. You lose a 2v1 in your zone to it and you get that feeling that the player is most likely 2-3 ranks below you and still slaps just because you press buttons and win by absurd dmg. Its about time they add pick and ban. They gotta learn that we the players do not wish to be treated with this

Who remembers beta gengar. Also petal blizzard giga drain venusaur was pretty broken. And when Mr. Mime got that buff and was unstoppable for like a week

Tyrannitar was INCREDIBLY broken tbh when it was released, it had mobility, damage, survivability, bulkiness and a pretty freaking good unite move where could wipe out a whole team this thing. Me and my buds loved playing this monster but even we said it was WAY to good

Remembered the time where Hyper Voice Sylveon dealt 1k damage per tick. It was horrifying.

Surprised to not see Lucario slip in here, even if he was base game. He defined lane structures for a long time. Indeed hard to play at an optimal level, but done correctly, could dominate the top lane, and steamroll the game alone from there. People were theorycrafting on how to get through lane phase against Luca for a while, I remember I think unite DB (?) putting out a Rocky Helm Venu build that could supposedly 1v1 him if you could make it through the beginning of the game. Continuing with base game shenanigans, Score Shield was also really really stupid with Wiggly for a while, where ALL shields contributed to making scoring unstoppable. Official tournaments were just farm fests where either team tried to outscore the other, and nobody wanted to fight if they didn't have to.

Shoutout to reworked Mr. Mime, not a release. However, the absolute state of shock the game went into when Mr. Mime got reworked and 1v5'd teams with ease is something I will never get out of my nightmares.

Another honorable mention would be Sableye. Not quite as meta-defining (though you did see a lot of jungle invading Sableyes with Exp Share in higher level games) but was definitely a nightmare for everyone to deal with. Despite this, I honestly think they over-nerfed it at this point. That Pokemon is completely gutted.

I do love mew since it doesnt feel that broken, but very versatile and able to change depending on the current game. My favorite pokemon ever and one of my favorites in unite

I think tsareena was the first pokemon which was able to destroy enemies in there tier 1 and tier 2 goals at that time. It used to be really annoying to playing against it.

You forgot to mention during the Dragonite and gredent meta was the fact that "Score shield" wasn't nerfed yet. With score shield and buddy barrier back in the days you could still turn the tables even if the enemy has got Zapdos or Articuno on their side. This is definitely based from my own experience as I couldn't count how many comeback wins I had during that meta.

I think a "Most OP of all time" tier list (not just OP releases) would be awesome, too. I'm thinking about Gengar, Lucario, Wiggly, Hoopa, etc.

This reminds me when Mew first came out and everybody was doing less than 80k damage on it and everyone thought it wasn't that good. Until they got a hang of piloting it and switching between moves and it became the most OP thing on the field.

I think leaving out the og broken Pokémon when the game released was a bit unexpected, that Pokémon was of course gengar sludge bomb hex. Three tap to death

Man I miss Tsareena. It's so fun to play.

The worst part is nearly all of the recent broken releases have been p2w-exclusive. You'll have to wait at least a few days to get it if you're f2p but by that point it'll probably be nerfed. I'm semi-convinced they're just trying to make all the new releases busted so people will pay for them but f2p players can enjoy the feast after everything's gone.

We need a part 2 with the worst realeases!

I remember well when Blastoise released when the game was barely out and even though the full attention was on the water sprout build the hydro pump build was so busted that it just went and destroyed half of the whole enemy HP and you just left them there wondering if trying to fight you was even worth it.

The Unite team really saw what Mewtwo and Zacian did in their main series counterparts (which is to say, Mewtwo created a tier where insanely powerful Pokemon go and Zacian then broke that tier and went even further beyond) and said, "What if we did that too?"

that was super "inteleongence" spragels worlds quote 2023

I grinded a lot of Unite starting all the way back with the open beta but took a long break and missed a lot of recent releases, so I feel incredibly validated in my trauma caused by the likes of Sylveon, Blastoise, and that bastard Greedent

Spragels that unite day 1 stream was crazy! Rip entity 7 now they won't ever get to eat 😢

kinda funny how half of this top 10 is an all-rounder

Sylveon was nerfed overnight after her release. I remember her coming out at 2am. Played her with my squad and next morning was hit hard.

Gengar at game release should be on here. The damage, ambushes and cooldowns were insane. Seeing gengar was an instant death at game launch

Love the videos. It helps a lot with getting caught up with the game for returning players and helps new players to learn mechanics and things about the game. Would love to maybe see a video about how to play different battling styles with Pokémon’s with like Malay and range Pokémon and techniques to help you live longer and deal more damage efficient Lee since I kinda struggle with that and I believe maybe other people do also struggle with that and there might be techniques to do for like range Pokémon in melee mons and also kind of what to do during team battles for your role. keep up the fantastic work and also loved the commentary at worlds was really hype

"I love Blastoise and I felt so bad that it was so broken, that I barely played it a bunch." hahaha😂 11:13

Actually, it's a perfect list. I was super impressed with the thought put in. I was gonna argue about Sylveon and Dragonite being higher but with both the duration of brokenness and evolving meta as factors, I agree with the logic here. If it's just a matter of "where were they exactly on release" then Sylveon still kinda was the worst, but there werent paywalls or a lot of tanks back then, and Zap meta already was easy to abuse. the fact that Zacian came into the most balanced Unite meta and absolutely wrecked it as bad or worse than dragonite and sylveon says a LOT.

I love how Jake has no zacian footage bc he never played it on release

Dragonite also came out during Score Comp before the buddy barrier and score shield changes we have now which let its Unite be useful in more than just to fight.

It's probably because it's Pokémon broken RELEASES, but I'm surprised there wasn't an honorable mention of Lucario who was meta-defining for a good chunk of game.

"There will actually be some more defenders later on in the list" right when you said this I started getting crazy PTSD flashbacks of release Blastoise. I completely forgot that NONSENSE until that exact moment

It took a while because this was the game's initial release but when the meta began to settle into the 1-1-3 split Lucario very quickly became a pick or lose tier Pokemon. Lucario beat every single Pokemon in the solo lane, it beat 2 Pokemon in the solo lane and sometimes it beat 3 Pokemon in the solo lane. Lucario had ~55% win rate but against teams that didn't have a Lucario it had closer to an 85% winrate. The only thing Lucario didn't beat in the solo lane was other Lucarios. It never 1 shot a team but it became the meta, it literally warped the meta around it, the meta we know today was created because Lucario beat every single Pokemon in the entire game.

Hoopa is definitely overlooked here. Both trick and hyperspace hole were crazy broken and meta-defining on release. I would put Hoopa between Greedent and Blastoise on this list. Dodrio and Zoroark were also definitely broken releases, it's just that these pokemon were harder to play so it took people linger to acknowledge how broken they were. I agree with Blastoise's placement on this list, but you forgot to acknowledge the Blastoise unite move bug. For those who don't know, Blastoise on release had a big that let you cancel his unite move. The cancel meant Blastoise would only use 10% of his unite gauge, and even though the cancelled move would deal no damage or knock-up, it still gave unite stat buffs and buddy barrier shield.

I remember Tyranitar securing whole teams, being unkillable and pure damage destroying attackers in one hit, defenders in two. No reason he bailed the list

As someone who came back for Mewtwo who is my favorite Legendary as a gen-oner I came back after the nerfs and I still think they are a threat after not playing since Sylveon launch

Im SUPRISED that Zoroark wasnt in this list, maybe it wasnt invented at this time but his Night Slash cuts through tons of enemies.

He's not OP or Broken when released but he defined the meta and completely changed the role he's at, talking about Hoopa. Like hyperspace hole was so new every team needed a hoopa.

I remember Tsareena release and 1v2ing a Elde and Tsar.

tsareenas playstyle is soooo fun and i remember getting it on release and using it every battle… i really hope it gets buffs soon

recently I had two goodras facing each other and just attack non stop while healing non stop. They were in there own league.

Mewtwo should be #1 purely because of the fact it came after the "we'll do better" letter

You should make a most op video, I want to learn more about Sylveon and Gengar. The first crazy op for me was mime

Disagree with the sentiment that release Mew was hard to use. Hard to use to its full potential perhaps. But with release Mew, you could just spam Solarbeam-Light Screen and achieve decent results.

Hey Jake what do you think of a tier list of all Pokémon at their strongest? I’ve tried it and it’s so hard since a lot of mons have broken the game lol

Can't lie Mewtwo requires no skill. But zacian was a bit harder. Not much. But a bit.

Hope you know that you're the reason so many of us still love this game. Thanks, spragels!

I don't remember rapid spin - water spout being OP. If anything upon release I always see Surf blastoise. It's the Unite move that made Blastoise OP that time Spragels. The buff to rapid spin way later is what made people use rapid spin more and that was OP.

Objectively I think that lapras was more busted than umbreon when it was op, since prior to the second nerf it felt impossible to kill. At least umbreon could be killed

Great video !

Sylveon was probably the most broken adjusted for inflation, first character that people were consistently putting up 200k damage games

I now have a huge double standard for legendaries/mythicals they could add to Unite, like yeah it'd be cool to see Entei or Xerneas or something, but do I *really* want them to break the game for a month+?

all i need to say is that slowbro is holding this game together after all these busted releases lol

Gardevoir came first, blissey came second and then blastoise. Blastoise was the 3rd release in unite. Also, im kind of surprised that release gengar and release lucario didn't make the list, they were part of the original 20 and they were BROKEN when the game came out

Idk what happened but a broken build I used a lot was Wigglytuff with scope lens and razor claw with the muscle band. It did so much damage and actually did a lot of critical damage with rollout. Especially in the beginning of a game, cause in the Zaptos fight it wasn't that useful but still I used wigglytuff as a fighter and it was broken most of the times. And with good HP too. Now idk I can't crit anymore with wiggly so I moved on

Great video nice job man. I haven’t been playing for too long so it’s cool to know these things.

Gengar, Sylveon, sableye, zacian, inteleon, Mewtwo. Called it.

My friend and i were arguing on which pokemon was way broken and the subject pokemons were mewtwo and zacian. For him mewtwo was the most broken but for me it was zacian because pre nerf comfey added fuel to the fire and zacian literally camping your 2nd goal without fear killing anyone who dares try to jump pad

The fact half of the broken pokemon have some kind of special category in main series games (legendary: urshifu mewtwo zacian | mythical: hoopa mew | pseudo legendary: dragonite)

Hoopa and Tyranitar looking at this mans face in disbelief

Mewtwo was never released. He straight up escaped the lab

"If you had a badge on Zacian, you're a bad person". This man spittin'.

Tsareena on release is just something i would never forget. LIke I would be running razor claw muscle band and scope lens at lvl 10 or something(I was a newbie who started just before the winter season) and i dealt an average of 100k damage and thot it was common...

I actually main umbreon and ngl it still feels kinda broken. The nerfs are obvious with foul play and snarl but I still use this combo and it works really good even after the nerfs.

I feel like you missed the fact that Greedent and Blastoise used to get unstoppable with their covet and rapid spin respectively.

Vet Ranked player that comes on and off the game over the months with buds. Usually coming back after 3 or 4 releases to play for a week. Mew and Umbreon we're too mons I remember coming back when they initally releases. Mew felt really there. Even against decent players, Mew never felt overwelming and I really didn't think it was personally OP. Umbreon though? Oh that was a fun week of 1v4s :)

I remember watching sylveon used by streamers and them doing 150k+ damage then which was huge.

Can't wait for the future pokemons

Yeeehaawww Jake love your videos❤

First time since this games release that I’m taking a break from it. Mewtwo is the worst release imo. Even more so with the apology letter turning into a facade slap in the face. I’ll be back when it gets reworked.

Yes, i remember how broken mew is. I'm so scared with it's boost attack

I remember the days when Tsareena was dropped for FREE like IT KILLED EVERYTHING with grassy glide then used a triple axel :D

We really making a new tier higher for every new pokemon release

Tyranitar was so good on release when I would play customs with my friends we would always have a no Tyranitar rule because of how easy it was to win with them

No game launch Gengar/Zera surprises me, but all the other choices were extremely well picked by Mr cowboy.

How about most broken buffs or revamps? I still got shivers while remembering mime

Mewtwo still is op. That pull distance is so broken

We need a game where the response to broken characters isn’t nerfing that character, but rather buffing all the other characters. Throw all that worthless balancing out the window, buff Cramorant to an unholy level.

Easy Mewtwo (and potentially future legendary releases) fix: Zacian is forced to hold the Rusted Sword; Mewtwo should be forced to hold a Mega Stone. If all legends have a forced item slot taken away, it would make a difference. I think it'd be a fair trade off.

I know kts not a release but extreme speed Lucario bug was a manace, i remember even you incouraged people to report Lucario players back then because it was that broken and bugged. It was a 1 hit reset bug and it didnt matter if it was a minion or an enemy.

I have honestly never had to worry about Mew.

I have a few pokemon who can be on this list. Leafeon, Inteleon, Glaceon, Lucario (back then lucario was also super strong) Zeraora after the level buff, Buzzwole with its beast boost, Eldegod, Venusaur bc of its Solar beam + Sludge bomb + Unite move burst, Tyranitar, Tree A.K.A. Trevenant, Goodra, Lapras, Delphox with its 2 second cooldown with flame charge and mystical fire, Gengar, Dodrio, Hoopa and Sableye. Pls make a part 2.

Honourable mention: Sableye.

Not including prime cramorant is a crime Edit:please pin

Dude I forgot about the Dura meta. Good times for me on the Dura, bad times for my opponents, lol

Lucario and Hooper completely missed but other than that yeah. I liked mew a lot, I feel that if Pokemon unite HAS to release all their legendaries to be broken mew is a good example of how to do that well.

I think buffed wigglytuff was the most powerful mon to ever be in this game even tho it was a few weeks after its release

Urshifu Darkbear user here i miss those glorious days when urshifu can knock up all the enemy.

I had PTSD going through every place on the list lol.

I remember that all it takes to take down 5 pokemon at the same time is tsareena but now tsareena needs some buff. 😢

Going up against a Mewtwo now literally just saps the fun out of me

bro… i played with someone the other day, golden ribbon on zacian, he had it for a long time, already had a green ribbon and 400 matches with mewtwo after a few days, etc

Imagine a set of team with full of legendaries/mythical with complete role. That would be broken... All arounder/jungler either: Zacian mewtwo or urshifu Support: hoopa Attacker: mew And for tank: guess we'll have to wait for another broken legendary.

Mewtwo being second most broken release ever coming after the developer letter acknowledging zacian broken release its hilarious

mew2 undervalued. the emergency nerf did nothing to fix the busted nature of the mon. it’s still broken 😭

I definitely think Mewtwo is the most broken. I never, ever play this game, and yet I won 22 matches in a row with it. All in ranked. 100% win rate. That is not okay lol