We had a good time Glaceon and I.
I was a shit player but it was fun.
Thank you for last 3 years.

Edit: Thanks to everyone leaving their farewell notes to their main on the comment. I feel less sad reading them.

Like honestly, yeah I have a couple of good memories playing the game, but what ruined it for me was the broken ranking system and the player base constantly screwing up.

After a while, the game caused me nothing but misery, so I deleted the app and never looked back.

Yall can cry but I won't.

Credit to TheSeventhOne for the meme, sorry I stole it!

actually came across this through someones comment in this sub

https://marcy4000.itch.io/pokemon-unite-recreation/devlog/1726304/v050-duraludon-and-character-reworks

I'm not sad that we are losing the game we have, I'm sad because of the potential it had. Every opportunity they had they squandered.

Even something like the horrific menu load times would have helped.

I want to start by first giving my thanks to the creators of Pokemon Unite! Not perfect, but It's been a great experience for me overall. Not only was it my introduction to MOBA, it also reignited the gamer in me. Pokemon Unite is the reason I created this gaming setup and the reason I created this Reddit account (I did not choose my name! Lol). The different characters, play styles, sound designs and animations...at it's core, Unite is a very fun game met with unfortunate decisions.

More importantly, Pokemon Unite holds a special place near my heart, because it provided a sweet escape after losing my sister to Cancer. As angry as I wanted to be, how could I have time to be angry at life, with teammates like Unite players? Right? Lol

Additionally, Unite also gave me a connection to a new community(You guys). I've shared a lot of great clips, mid clips and meh clips lol, but the one thing I've enjoyed sharing the most, was a connection to other people who enjoyed something I enjoyed. I will continue playing until the end, I'll miss Pokemon Unite, but the thing I will miss the most, is sharing it with you guys.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1....Times Up!

Man I am going to miss this game. This was always my pick up and play game. Stopped playing maybe earlier this year when I saw all the changes with the pkmn license and the option of choosing different moves was removed. Still enjoy it and if be playing until the game shuts off.

Really glad I didn't spend money on it but I did invest my time.

Since the game is ending, I thought I'd do a compilation of my favorite Unite memes I've made over the game's lifespan. I thought about doing all, but Reddit only allows for 20 images per post and the few that are beyond that cut either did as well as a lead balloon, were so overly specific in their timing that it'd take too long to explain them, or they aged like fine milk (like my meme about not panicking and instead waiting to see if Mewtwo would release overpowered or not).

Again, all of these are memes I created. However, except for the Absol Disaster Warning meme, I am not the artist and did not draw the art for any of them. As for that Absol meme, feel free to use it as a template yourself if you'd like!

Hey Trainers,

Wanted to jump on here amongst the doom and gloom of the recent EOS and just mention how grateful I am that the game existed at all. Back in 2021 I was unfortunately diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Right around that time a new Pokemon moba was announced and it was on the Switch + mobile. I’d go for my 8hr chemo infusions and then feel like absolute death for 3-5days. Pokémon Unite was the only thing I could do. The game gave me so much joy in one of the darkest moments of my life. Fortunate to be in remission now but I attribute a lot of my positive attitude during that time to Unite.

I felt the greed start to set into the game but felt like I’d gladly support the game that helped me so much. I stopped playing around 2024 because the micro transactions hit my limit. I said my goodbyes to the game back then but would hop on from time to time to play a game or two.

I have attached the instagram I used to upload some of my clips. This is not an advertisement, please do not follow the account, I will not be uploading any more videos. I feel for all of you who still love and enjoy this game. Use this as a reminder that things in life are temporary and we are very fortunate to have existed during the brief time of Pokémon Unite.

Thanks for everything Unite!

-kP

This is no longer the game I loved.

They destroyed it with pay-to-win policies, abusive gachas, bots in casual and ranked matches, shoddy executive decisions, and whatever else the recent events have been.

A farewell to the Pokémon Unite I knew in 2021. To what this game could have been. But not to what it is today.

I’ve been playing Pokémon UNITE since it first launched back in 2021, and with the end of service approaching, I figured I’d share some thoughts.

Back when the game first came out, I played almost daily. Eventually, I got into the habit of just reaching Master rank every season and then not touching the game again until the next one.

I ended up skipping a couple of seasons around the time they started changing how players obtained licenses. I remember thinking back then, “Well, this might be the beginning of the end.”

About a week ago, I decided to jump back in and see how things were going. I noticed the license situation had gotten even worse, although it seemed to mostly affect newer players rather than someone like me who already had most of the roster unlocked.

So I thought, why not make one last push to Masters? Maybe find a team, participate in a tournament, and call it a season.

Then I noticed the ranked system had changed. Climbing felt harder without the consecutive win bonuses we used to get. But I eventually reached Masters, only to realize that wasn’t the end of the climb anymore. There was Legend rank now.
So naturally, I decided to go for it, and wow, what a pain lol.

Losing 40 points while gaining around 80 for a win makes the climb feel pretty rough, especially without the old bonuses. I guess the idea was to make the higher ranks more competitive and improve the quality of matches? I’m not entirely sure.
I still ran into plenty of AFK players and people intentionally feeding, although I will say the automatic reporting system seemed to do a pretty good job catching them. So I’m not really sure what the harder climb was supposed to accomplish.
But despite all that, coming back reminded me why I enjoyed this game so much in the first place.
There’s just something about being able to jump into a 10-minute match and experience some genuinely intense battles. Even after all these years, the gameplay still feels great, and I really hope another company eventually makes something similar.
I also used to participate in quite a few tournaments back in 2021, and honestly, that’s one of the things I’ll miss the most. It’s sad knowing I probably won’t get to experience that again before the servers shut down.
Anyway, I recently cleared out my friends list, so if anyone wants to add me, I’ll be playing most days until EoS. And if there’s a team looking for someone to join a tournament before then, I’d absolutely love to participate.

Not really sure what the point of this post was, other than reminiscing a little and sharing my experience coming back to the game.

But yeah, despite its flaws, Pokémon UNITE was genuinely a fun game, and I’m glad I got to experience it.

Ho-Oh atoning for the overextension, resulting in one of the best revivals ever seen in my career. That was one of my best plays ever! Couldn’t have been more useful than in that moment.

There is currently no other Pokemon game in which you have real-time battles and full control of the Pokemon themselves.

There is the Mystery Dungeon remake where you control the Pokemon directly but that's turn-based.

There is Legends ZA which is real-time, but you don't have full control of the Pokemon themselves.

Unite filled a niche that no other game has. Sucks to see it go because there was nothing else like it. I know Pokken Tournament existed but that's a fighting game hardly anyone played...

Due to the EoS announcement: I would like to share how Pokémon unite saved my life.

February 19th 2023. I’m scrolling through TikTok when I come across a video of someone called “ManMan” getting a penta with Greninja. I post a comment on the video and go through some more of the persons videos since they were one of the only English unite players I had encountered randomly. ManMan invites me to a discord server with a few other people who also loves pokemon unite, and I thought this would just be a 2 weeks deal and I’d forget about them.

I was so god damn wrong. The server that ManMan invited me to was what introduced me to the online friend group I would come to cherish and savour every single memory with, even if it had nothing to do with pokemon unite. The Pokemon unite ranked matches where we got beaten into oblivion, the gartic phone games, watching the Pokemon movies together, doing Scarlet and Violet union circles, doing Sword and Shield dynamax adventures in the crown tundra and even meeting up with one of the people in this friend group in real life to play Pokemon go fest.

At the lowest points in my life: it was this group that stopped me from making a stupid, irreversible decision because I couldn’t picture a world where I’m absent from their lives because we were literally united together as an unstoppable friend group, and they even helped me become a much better person over all, and still to this day do we regularly talk.

If it weren’t for pokemon unite: i would’ve never been able to unite with such a strong group of friends, and so I thank this game and the friends I made for saving my life.

JustMarcy on Twitter made a Unite recreation a few years ago and has been working on it for some time. They even added new mons.

I don’t know the future of their project, nor if it solves anything, but it looks really cool.

Any Flygon fans here? You can finally play as your favourite mon!

I always thought Sandslash would have been a great addition. I truly had fun playing this game. It’s a shame there’s nothing like this on the market. Why couldn’t they just balance the Pokémon. Instead of bringing out a new Pokémon every two weeks.

I’m actually so sad the game will be gone soon, but i’m honestly really thankful for this final sale. I’ve been obsessed with this holowear ever since I saw it after returning to unite a while ago, and this was really the only one I really wanted out of all the other holowears. (And I only had 160 gems so I could just buy one) and today I finally got it! Again I’m devastated the game will be going away, but I want to have some fun before we don’t actually get to play it anymore. Do you guys think I made a good decision? Also, I would love to know what you guys got with the coupons

I am SO sad that unite is going to shut down next March. I have played the game for 5 years and it is still my favourite game where I go to decompress and have a bit of time to myself as a working mum of 2 young boys!! So many memories attached to that game and one that my husband and I both play together too as we have two Switch consoles in the house! I really need recommendations for some similar MOBA style games that can be played on Switch or PlayStation. I tried LoL once before on PC and didn't like it tbh - do I have to just suck it up and try to get myself into that or are there better alternatives out there?!

Signed - one sad mumma 💔

Yeah, so I live on the US east coast. But I work second shift, often 2 PM to 11 PM. A lot of Unite matches I've played over the past year have been between 10 AM and 1 PM. I also don't play super frequently, so I'm still in Ultra rank for the season.

I think the drop off in players in lower ranks is going to be much more severe. If you're a Legend rank player, there will still be people clinging to the game. But in Ultra, where I've encountered plenty of newer players in the past, there likely won't be many. The only matches I could get today were with Japanese players, and I lagged too much to play well.

I do realize there's a season reset soon that might help, but it's likely the abandonment of players jumping ship at lower ranks is going to mean I'm not really able to find matches anymore, especially at the awkward time I'm able to play. I do hope there's a Unite 2 someday, which I would hope would be a completely new game that starts everyone fresh with the 20 mon roster like we started Unite with.

I was most probably one of the first guys to download Pokémon UNITE here in Manipur, India, and man, this game holds a special place in my heart.

No matter how bad my days were, UNITE never failed to change my mood. Whenever I was feeling down or had a lot on my mind, I'd just hop on the game and somehow feel better. It's hard to explain, but this game carries so many emotions and memories for me that it's become much more than just a game.

What hurts the most is seeing something that brought so many people together get ruined by greed and a lack of attention to the community. UNITE built such an amazing community, not just in India but all around the world. People made friends, shared unforgettable moments, and found happiness in something as simple as playing a game together.

I genuinely believe this game deserves another chance. The developers should listen to the players, address the problems, and give the game the love and attention it deserves. I'm not asking for perfection. I just want to see UNITE become something great again.

It's honestly heartbreaking to watch a game that meant so much to so many people end up like this.

Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but I really miss what UNITE used to be and what it could have become.

I hope one day we get to see Pokémon UNITE rise again. Not just for the game itself, but for the community and all the memories we've made along the way. ❤️‍🩹

I am not an active user in this sub but still i played unite for a long time. It sucks to see my favourite game die and all that.

But i am curious what will happen to this sub after unite closes