History VideoGame / PokemonUnite

* ObviousRulePatch: Buddy Barrier, a Held Item that gives your nearest team member with the lowest Health and you a Shield Bonus depending on your respective HP, was stealth-nerfed at Christmas 2021 so it now has a cooldown of 30 seconds. This is a foresight to Dragonite's upcoming inclusion, Dragonite potentially having the fastest Unite Charge.

*** The second day gives you Wise Glasses, which is inferior to other Sp Atk Held items due to the poor scaling of Sp Atk to most Sp Atk-dependent Pokémon except for Blissey and Gardevoir.

*** The second day gives you Wise Glasses, which is inferior to other Sp Atk Held items due to the poor scaling of SpA to most SpA-dependent Pokémon except for Blissey and Gardevoir.

** The 2 weeks daily log in will give you three different new Pokémon, namely Alolan Ninetales (Day 2), Cinderace (Day 7), and Greninja (Day 14 - Final), all of which are from the Attacker class and each of whom has fallen in and out of meta periodically at different times.

** The 2 weeks daily log in will give you three different new Pokémon, namely Alolan Ninetales (Day 2), Cinderace (Day 7), and Greninja (Day 14 - Final), all of which are from the Attacker class and two out of three never fell out of meta.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Several Pokémon serve as this such as Mewtwo who has two licenses, one for Mega Mewtwo X and one for Mega Mewtwo Y, Zacian who can charge its sword with Aeos Energy to boost its next basic attack or move and Scyther who remains a Scyther if he learns Dual Wingbeat and evolves into Scizor if he learns Bullet Punch.

* CosmeticAward: If you can cope with the painful ordeal of getting to Expert Class 1 in Ranked Matches, you are given a clothing set as a free reward for the difficult accomplishment.

* UnstableEquilibrium: A level disparity gives a Pokémon that has surplus experience an attack advantage over a Pokémon that has deficit experience. This means that neglecting the Center or going Center with a character that is terrible at Jungling can result in a serious handicap in the late-game, as the potential experience that is lost through high-value wilds that were ignored or taken too late will benefit the opposing team significantly.

* DamselInDistress: The "Panic Parade" mode involves keeping a Tinkaton safe from incoming waves of enemies trying to reach and KO her. The better she's protected fast and healthy, the better the score in the rankings.

* ChargeAttack: All Pokémon (except Charizard) have a Boosted Attack they can use after performing a certain amount of normal attacks. Boosted Attacks deal more damage and often have additional effects, with some Pokémon having the ability to immediately trigger boosted attacks under certain circumstances.

* SopportPartyMember: The appropriately named Support class which includes Hoopa and Sableye who can disable foes and Eldegoss, Blissey and Clefable who can heal allies.

** Once in every thousand or so matches, the game soft-locks on the loading screen, meaning that you are effectively useless for at least a minute while you restart the game and reload the match, assuming you notice the soft-lock immediately.

** As newer Defenders were released with better sustain, mobility, support capabilities, or sny combination of the three, poor Mamoswine has slowly lost what relevance it had in the meta. Pokémon such as Goodra, Lapras, and Umbreon quickly began to assert themselves after their releases during a period when [[GameBreaker Zacian]] was still running amok online, and Mamoswine has since seen less and less usage in the face of this.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: If you fight against CPUs you are likely to notice a few inconsistencies visible. The two biggest ones are early game EXP, they often leave their feeder-creeps untouched but still show up at level/slightly overleveled before normal leveling resumes, and respawn time, if you hace any doubt you can see enemy respawn timers and if you check them after doing a late game party wipe chances are none of them will get the same wait period a player does.

* PowerCreep: Alolan Ninetales is interestingly the one Pokémon whose only "nerf" was removing the chance of activating her Snow Warning Ability on enemies hidden in bushes. On the Switch Launch, Alolan Ninetales was good for having two kits that worked well when compared to any other Pokémon with similar kits. However, as more old Pokémon get buffed and more newer Pokémon get introduced, most of which have skills that grant them the [[NoSell Unstoppable]] Status, Alolan Ninetales slowly went down and down the tier list, to the point that even one of the best players in Japan has placed Alolan Ninetales in the [[TierInducedScrappy Graveyard Tier]], a tier that signifies that it's more likely to lose than win if any Pokémon in that tier is part of your team roster.

* TwentyBearAsses: Players are given missions that offer coins, tickets, item enhancers, and other things as rewards upon completion. Unfortunately, there have been some very unreasonable missions that are really annoying or too difficult to accomplish. An egregious example being "Knock out 60 Rotoms in one week", which was then quickly reamended to "Knock out 15 Rotoms in one week" after causing a lot of outrage among players. Also, notably, many Pokémon of the same role are considered interchangeable for at least some missions, eg, some Regieleki missions also count Rotom and some Rayquaza missions count Zapdos.

* {{Hologram}}: Created by Zirco, the Holowear outfits for playable Pokémon are holographic projections allowing the wearer's outfit to fit them, based on outfits from Pokémon Contests in Hoenn and Johto, and Pokémon Musicals and Pokéstar Studios in Unova. This allows Pokémon with devolved forms to grow alongside their outfits. In other cases, it prevents many cases of WardrobeMalfunction for certain Pokémon whose anatomy would otherwise make it impossible to put on outfits normally (such as Lucario and its wrist spikes, or Venusaur and its colossal flower).

* MythologyGag: When a player's Pokémon is K.O.ed, the sound effect of fainted Pokémon from mainline Pokémon games can be heard.

** Rotom is an Electric/Ghost-type Pokémon residing on the topmost part of the Remoat Stadium. Defeating Rotom grants the team an extra teammate that will eventually make one of the top lane goals defenseless.
** Drednaw is a Water/Rock-type Pokémon residing on the bottommost part of the Remoat Stadium. Defeating Drednaw grants each member of the team extra experience as well as a bonus shield for each member as well.
** Avalugg is an Ice-type Pokémon, residing exclusively at the center of the Shivre City map. Defeating Avalugg grants the team a bonus shield for each member.

* BoringButPractical: Playing as Defender or Support in general are not as exciting as playing the other classes who usually get the kills. But Defenders and Supports tend to come packed with crowd controls, and if you know anything about the MOBA genre, crowd controls can absolutely make or break an engagement.

''Pokémon Unite'' is a [[MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena MOBA]] in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise, developed by [[Creator/TencentGames TiMi Studios]] and released on July 21, 2021.