I think when you get a golden badge the Men in Black shows at your place and flashes you, and you forget all the experience you had with Pokémon Unite. They also change your main to Charizard, Cinderace or Greninja.
The worst part is when picking MVP seems to be mostly based on points scored. So, when you lose but they get MVP cause they back capped a lot they think they did great and it's everyone else fault
The MVP system is total nonsense imho. I did really good in a match and then I see that I have not many points for my role just because I dare to defend our bases while everyone else is running around like a bunch of chickens on speed. After the match, people of my own team give me a sarcastic "like" even if I stopped so many opponents from scoring. Most people don't even seem to understand how this game works
Or worse. They didn't cap a lot or at all, the game was lost or close, they capped 100 points while the 4v5 was lost and they are the mvp for those freaking 100 points
yes this is the worst part and why so many bad players still do what they do. they genuinely think they played it perfect because they got MVP and its their teams fault but in reality theyre a decidueye that legit made every wrong play and tried backcapping at ray.
This is 100% the reason why so many bad players back cap. It's the most frustrating thing in the world to see the person who cost you the match get mvp.
@@splatty0674 Cinderace is braindead easy to play, with a free button with Feint. There SHOULD be good Cinderance players because it has the tools to be so.
Honestly, if you got rewards for the badges (Green - get a title Blue - Get a free hollowear (only one) Gold - Get the shiny variant of your Pokémon) It would make them a lot more rewarding in my opinion
The rewards are too good for just playing the game. I think it’s more rewarding if those are for when you reach a certain global rank for that Pokemon but the rank is based of ranked games only
Imagine working so hard to get the gold badge for Gengar and Garchomp only to receive its shiny variant that has little to no difference to its original form 😂
It's not just badged players who are bad, but generally an amount of players I've encountered specially in ranked have been uncooperative mainly; wondering around, not scoring and just there to be killed by the opposing team. This really made me lose interest in P.U
I feel like every time I've noticed a gold badge Mewtwo, they are throwers who take jungle, doesn't leave jungle, lets enemies kill them, never scores or helps team.
Well.. When I am the only one in the middle when Ray appears and I get ripped into pieces while my team is doing some stupid nonsense, I post a "thanks" into the chat too. Because this is infuriating. I often ask myself how such players reach high ranks
When you see a Gold Badge with nonsense items, you know it's over Spending so much time getting the ribbon and not know how your character works is insane I don't understand how people can spam quick matches like that, I have a Blue Ribbon on Zoroark with like 99% ranked matches, tried doing the quick match method and I couldn't go pass 3, it's so boring to do that!
Ey! Me too. Although my style is... quite something with zoroark. I near always play it ranked and on lane, not jungle. I gravitate to two playstyles (one focuses purely on speed and other is a mix with speed and health so I can come and go of a fight as I so desire) and my strategy composes on rushing enemy goals, not to score but to distract enemy to hit me. After that I pop X speed, run down their lane, taking the berries and triggering the bunnies to walk. Lane partner can stack as it pleases if the enemy follows me and the X speed last enought time to my speed part of the build to go of while passing in the middle, hitting the speed berry and ending whatever chance their jungler had to catch a zorua.
I'm about 50 matches away from a gold badge Blastoise but it haven't played him in over 6months. Hopefully it will be socially acceptable to have gold badges in a few months
I have over a thousand games of Crustle that started season one to season 18, and I still haven’t gotten that gold badge yet. Goes to show how important MVP and those Battle Boosters are for grinding badges.
It's been about a year and I main Espeon and Goodra and I JUST got my green ribbon with Espeon and I was SOOO happy. Now I'm realizing I'm at the level where I need to get better at positioning, rotations and communication with my team. I want to be better but hot damn, it seems like I'm the only person who even educates myself about the game most matches.
I would argue that it depends on when you started to play unite and when you got said gold badge. If you've been around in the game since its first year, and only now in 2024 your main has its gold badge, you're probably actually a great ally that knows how to play as a team. But if you're a moderately recent player, and your main already has a gold badge, it's an indicator you are not a versatile player. You've played this pokémon and just this pokémon. At best you know what your role entails and the quirks of your main, but you don't know what the other roles are about, and so you'll have a hard time understanding your allies' movements and adapt to them. It also means you'll get a bad habit of playing the same way, even if you are forced to play a different mon.
If they have played Greninja for 2000 games, they have also played with allies of different roles for 2000 games and that is sufficient time for "understanding your allies' movements and adapting to them".
I mean, I played this game since the start but I haven’t gotten a gold metal on my main (Garchomp) Granted, I did play a variety of Pokémon so maybe that’s why.
The badge tells you that they have played many games with that pokemon But sadly the reality is that its not true to assume that they have learned to be good at the game or even that pokemon Thats why no badge players outperforming badge ones is not rare
What i think the gold ribbon tells the most about this sort of player is: they will NEVER give up on this pokemon. Once they take that role, it will be their way, or their way. If the team needs a tank or has already a jungler, it doesnt matter. They will take cinderace and bot lane if needed. This kind of people is stubborn and selfish. They wont cooperate. This means: THEY ARE GARBAGE
@@NickGuimaraes26 exactly and they force me into using defenders which imma be honest even though I main 2 defenders its annoying not being able to choose anything else other than that
@@customlol7890when it is not only a choice, but a need to play our "mains", It is still annoying, even though we like playing it. Sometimes i dont want to play something i like and it is nice to be able to switch.
@@NickGuimaraes26 People in general don't want to give up their Pokémon or role period. Gold ribbon or not, thats always been a issue. League of legends had that issue before they added roll lock in's. Pokemon unite needs to have a system like that so people stop crying about it.
My only gold badge is with Crustle. I‘ve played the mon since the early seasons and evolved alongside it. I tried all the builds, changed my Items depending on the build/meta and used all moves in all combinations. I also play other mons who are close to gold batches since their respective releases (namely Mew and Clefable), but with Crustle it is something special. Going through rough times together when he was considered bad and also enjoying the highs like the last seasons (and now the undeserved nerfs to X-Scissors) bonded us. Seeing him played on the highest level in recent Championships was also a treat!
Gold Badge Tyranitar here…. I was dumb and barely use double battle points… With that said I play a mix of all game and always do good except for a game here or there. You said it perfectly the more you play the pokemon the better you understand specific situations and when to use your abilities
I don't know, I see the value of playing a small roster but it feels like playing multiple Pokémon is better. Firstly because the game gets stale playing the same Pokémon and secondly I play a variety of Pokémon and understanding each Pokémon seems to give more value than being great on one. Like being a good Gardevoir player is great but doesn't help you much against Dragapult who you never play as and never looked at the moves he has.
Idk why does the game count Quick battles and standard battles for the battle points lol. And why do people waste time by grinding quick battles for just in game badges that is so useless
I want to tell you this right now, it gave me such a relief to know that being the best at a Pokémon has nothing to do with the leaderboard, I'm pushing myself way too hard to get to the top with sylveon, I get really upset when I loose matches as sylveon even when its entirely another persons fault, and started trying to spam quick battles even if I don't really find it enjoyable, I always thought if I'm not at the top I'm not good enough. And in general I've been criticizing myself as a player a lot, I want to learn what I'm doing wrong and correct it, this is exactly the video I needed ❤
I feel ya. What's helped me feel liberated is to STOP OBSESSING OVER VIRTUAL "SUCCESS". 😅 We gamers be like that: getting all heated over scores and global ranking and placing our personal value as a human onto these frivolous metrics. That Top Score isn't going to make you feel any better about yourself in the long run ‐‐ taking meaningful action in REALITY is far more important than Unite Rankings and Pixelated Badges. Play the game for fun, even grind out for scores IF YOU REALLY WANT TO, but do NOT place your self-worth on these metrics. You're doing fine 🙂
Badge solution: Base it off of your rank,win rate and ranked battles only. Green badge: Veteran class 3, 350+ games and 50-60% win rate Blue badge: Ultra class 3, 950+ games and a 65-70% win rate Gold badge: Master 1600 2150+ games and a 75-85% win rate Easy fix just make it only count the ranked matches your rank and the winrate and you're good
Make sure you're using battle point boost cards, I've hoarding mine and now that I'm actually using them I have 8 mons with a green badge now. Basically if you have at least a 50% win rate it shouldn't take you more than 100-200 games with a Mon while using the boost cards
The requisite for badges need to change. They need to use that badges earned in the match ( attacker, defender, healer, assist) and not the predetermined battlepoints simply for participating.
Jake, thanks a lot for addressing that most gold ribbon players we get in our matches are absolute trash and need to get the heck outta the leaderboards and "recommended" sets. The amount of times I and many players even in your server have been teamed up with a bad gold ribbon player is literal madness at this point! Especially those quick match spammers and/or players who are running garbage items on a pokemon (Looking at you, LatiasDragon and your triple specs Dragonite and Charm/Bangle/Crown Goodra! You are a disgrace to the community's greatest Dragonite and Goodra mains!), it's so damn infuriating and it has even infected even non-ribboned players. Don't get me wrong, I've definitely seen great gold ribbon players as well with legit records and winrates even in your server. It's just the randoms with gold ribbons we get are usually bad and the enemies get like some goated gold ribbon player/s. I also do not have a gold ribbon in any mon and the closest I've been to a gold ribbon in unite was in my old account with Garchomp at 87900 BP. It was a legit blue ribbon and now I'm tryna get one with Delph. But looks like I might not do that anytime soon cause I still have more ribbons to get for my other maining mons.
The only gold badge I got is Scizor. I've seen people online say Scizor is garbage and to just use Scyther instead (specially if you want the master achievement) but I haven't had any trouble at all. In fact, I not only got the master achievement only using Scizor but I usually end up 1v4 because of how bulky it is. I also find it easier to start battles and just forget about my team if they're unorganized. Something I really can't do with other mons because of how much they rely on a team (specially Metagross).
Not sure why this video is about badges at all. It’s just the same complaint about people with 10k games not knowing what the basics of the game are. Badges have nothing to do with it.
I really want a gold badge for Dragapult and Inteleon, but I don’t have the time to grind them and during the time I do play I like playing other classes too like defenders and speedsters
@@Random-Captainand? What's that got to do with their comment? Also it's ranked. The goal of ranked is to win. "sweaty" isn't the insult you think it is.
@user-use-her-vuser Aren't you trying to win in ranked? PLUS maybe they just find the characters fun and would play then even if nerfed to the ground (me with Tsareena and Delphox frfr)
There's a fun thing. It happened to me a lot. When I win match, I get the gold badge. And when we loose we get silver badge even though we did good (you know, like the badge which tells how good we used our role, ie Golden/silver attacker badge when an atker does hight damage). Same for MVP. It goes to person who did most goals/KOs. Like, I did my part as a defender best so I didn't do goals. But the noob player who by mistake did 100 goals in end got MVP
I believe the best way to get better at the game is to play as many different Pokémon as you can. You understand what counters a character if you play it and struggle against something. You understand how to play around supporters or tanks if you play them yourself.
I have a gold badge on Gardevoir and she's my highest win rate mon (excluding a handful with like 50 bot matches for event farming) but gold badge players have such a reputation that I wish I could hide it. I really hate the idea that a team mate could see my gold badge and then I happen to have a rough match where my head isn't entirely in the game and they think that I'm some low-life Garde-spammer that huffs glue in between matches. It makes me sad :(
More likely you only notice a gold badge player when they play bad and make a mental note of it. I have never seen people praising gold badge players as much as they like to throw shade on them when they don't pop off. I assume jealousy also plays a part here. We tend to judge a gold badge player's plays more critically than of normal players. So I think this video is incorrect. Also you have no way of knowing that "gold badge players play bad, in general", which is the premise of this video.
Highest badge I have is green, because I actually pick different roles/pokemon based off my team comp. Granted this means I often end up as a defender or support relying on my gold badge Cinder to do something other than auto rip Ray and ignore the team fights.
Honestly I think these players are good. All be it only good at grinding quick matches. People used to “grind win rate or wr” in unite discords by going in trios and fixing their win rate. I do think there should be separate leaderboards for quick and ranked matches. I’m friends with a top 20 lucario player and they boast about being top whatever thinking that they are good. Now I just say to myself that they aren’t that good they just grind quick matches to stay on top of the leaderboards.
One thing I think that should also be considered when people are playing specific Pokémon over and over is Holowear. People that only have 1-2 Holowear are going to want to play the Pokémon that looks cool, especially since it’s so expensive for a cosmetic, regardless of if it’ll support your team well.
you know, this may sound weird but whenever i play with people on discord and i tell them "hey i am learning absol" they see that i have a golden badge and forget everything i said about me learning, having expectations of me playing better than what i already am capable of... and i don't like that because i disappoint them-- but it's their fault for ignoring me i guess
Ho are you learning it if you already got a golden badge? This is a genuine question. The reason most people (or at least I) find this hard to believe is because of how long it takes to get it. I'd have no questions at all if you had a green one and would have a couple of questions if you got a blue one.
@@aikou2886 well i know some things but i still don't know for example what to do with a ray teamfight when all i have for moves is pursuit sucker punch.. and my unite i suppose but regardless of where i use it, it never seems to do anything (unless i use it to steal..) i also don't know to fight certain Pokémon like umbreon or zeraora.. you know, such details that pretty much bother me whenever they appear. not to mention sometimes i get hot headed and forget that me jumping in a fight won't do much
@@tilanitaliarin To be fair, Absol is just really hard to do well with around the Ray fight I would just focus on staying out of the fight at the start and go in when most of their abilities are on cooldown. Then take out their best squishy player and kind of prowl around to get the next squishy while staying away from the tankier ones. Also don't forget to have your ult and eject button of cooldown so you can do your thing and get out if it is too dangerous.
@@anormalguy8407 mhm! i make sure to have my unite and item ready for ray too. thing is... my team usually gets wiped out while i all i do is just watch because i couldn't get close to anything thanks to that one dragonite in their team using outrage or something
I keep thinking, ow damn a gold badge, they must be really good with that pokemon after playing with it for soo long.We might struggle against it. Gold batch ends up feeding and afking ...
This feels like the exact same problem that's on FFXIV. You can get a Mentor badge by just getting a lot of commendations (people just saying good job after a dungeon or boss fight) and having a job of every role at max level. So, SO many mentors have every job at max level but no idea how to play them, and are the worst players you'll ever see, somehow.
I think the closest to a gold badge I have is on Tsareena with a 56% winrate. I just genuinely cannot fathom how people play one pokemon for so long in what’s basically a repetitive game every 10 mins without shooting themselves. Kudos to yall for having the attention span for grinding multiple gold badges
One thing not mentioned, That I feel like is One other major problem. Is alot of the Gold BADge players usually don't understand how other mons work. Its fine to know how your mon works but if your not understanding what the hoopa on the other team is trying to do your gonna have a bad time.
In contrary, my friend and I had a gold badge zerora on our team who legitimately played like a demon. He level 4 ganked our lane then went on to just 1v5 the game in the enemies jungle. It’s not that the other team was really bad, they were decent players but the zerora again was just playing his own game; we weren’t carried, we were DRIVEN he pulled up in a bus and brought us to the victory. We later found out he ONLY plays zerora and almost 5,000 games on him. It was kind of strange he didn’t make the top 100 zerora players despite having a comparable win rate
Yeah. Most, if not all of the bad experiences I've gotten so far have been with pokemon without ribbons. Specially if they have spanish usernames. The more ridiculous the username the worst the player is. I had a Cinderace named something ending in chu (can't remember rn), he kept stealing our Gengar's jungle, barely did anything other than scoring and he exposed himself just to hit the Rayquaza when the rest of us were dead.
i got my zeraora as gold badge but it took me 2 years cuz i also rotate to other mons that i almost have a gold badge on now, its just mostly important to have fun with a pokemon you like and also know what you are actually doin in unite lmao, and also sometimes make the hard decision to not play a pokemon you wanna play because it really sucks in a current meta. wish they could somehow fix it even know i know they wont
I really want them to show KDA, not just KA, and sometimes we see MVP go to the actual worst player in the game encouraging bad habits like back capping at ray 😢. But showing deaths would really help, because people would be more conscious not to feed, right now you don’t really realise how much you as an individual has fed.
Gold Badge Elde Here! Usually just play solo and it's a tough life when you see those Gold Badge EX mons in the other team and Gold Badge Cindy/Greninja in your team.
Glad you clarified that not everyone with a gold badge is terrible because ngl, I don't like the stigma of ppl automatically assuming they're bad. Oh, there are a majority of bad players but with me only having gold badge with (Day 1) Char and Blastoise, I know I worked hard for it. Trying to get my Leafeon, Urshifu and Pikachu there one day! ^^ I really don't get how ppl can only play one PKMN but they certainly exist.
Previously when I was mapped to a team with a golden badge I felt really happy thinking that they are very skillful and really drives the game interesting , up on going deeper what you said in this video was absolutely correct and I felt it real and I am really scared in some games because these players some times go idle in battle and their bot starts playing , my dumb teammates doesn't even report him , fairly speaking these gold badges people , I feel these people are need to be carried , treat ourselves as an extra burden
I’m gold badge on Lucario with over 1200 games with him, with an all time win rate of 47% (almost exclusively E-Speed) lol but I do have 2 blues on Dodrio and decidueye and quite a few green, as well as almost 10k matches of unite overall, playing a ton of pokemon in every role. And to be fair I started playing Luca seriously in season 5 after continuous nerfs, and when I was a way worse player overall (unite is my first moba). And it took A LOT of games to get good with e speed, but I currently have a 71% wr with him this season and I believe I ended last season around 60%, all solo or duo. Hope I can be a rare good gold badge for the teams I queue into lol I’ve definitely seen my share of bad ones.
the more Logical thing is maybe they just want to use their favorite pokemon, now sure i will say it's a bit silly coz they don't seem to care enough to learn others, but at the same times, if that's what they want to do then who are we to pick on them for it, for me personally i prefer to gold badge one at a time, it means i just have to focus on one thing at a time, it makes it easier for me and yet still makes me good, trust me, trying to work on too many at a time is going to confuse you and make it harder for you then you are not going to get anywhere period
I've actually seen this feedback loop trap in other games, particularly fighting games. Though I believe the reason for the "golden bad-ge curse" comes from these players using the loop to reinforce bad habits, while unite isn't acting "competitive" enough to encourage people to go looking for them... it's a lot harder to break a habit if you're getting KOs and Ws anyway. However, not being able to identify your mistakes could definitely weaken your growth in the long run. All in all, I agree with much of what you're saying, spragels.
Gold gardevoir here. Began playing in season 8, some of what you said it's true. When i started playing unite i doubted i'd be able to compete with players in rank, so i did a ton of standard games, then in season 11 i got more into rank with more knowledge about the game since this is the first moba i actually got into. True difficulty spike starts at veteran cause lower ranks are filled with bots, so climbing is easy. It's been 6 seasons i reached master in a row with 1571 games on gardevoir and a 68% wr that has been decreasing from it's original 80% thanks to rank, the game also places me at top 1100 (1025 highest placement), bc for some reason i seem to be stuck at the gates of top 1k. Currently i'm at 52.8% seasonal wr with 89 games. also spent a lot of time watching guides on how to become a better player. Does that mean i'm a good gardevoir? Maybe? Looks like i'm a decent or slightly above average soloq player, but i'll let you decide.
The life of a golden BADge player: - They sabotage your games - They choose the "BEST ITEM" for their pokemon (Who the heck uses Decidueye with Drain Crown, Rapid and Attack Weight?) - They think they are "so good" at the game with this - They are dumb and stupid and the worst thing is not punishible for them and they sabotage any Solo, Duo o Trio, ruined and punishing their match - They sometimes spam-ping (or always) - They are annoying - Repeat Cycle
Funnily enough, in the main games, those ribbons were gained by buying them, as opposed to other ribbons like to the tower, champion or (super) contest ribbons which were earned through challenges. The gorgeous (blue) ribbon was 10 000 pokedollars or half a vanilla E4 run, the royal (green), 10 times as much and the gorgeous royal was max cash. So once again, these ribbons only mean that you played alot
Scientifically, it is proven that people who practice many different tasks including one specific task perform better at that one specific task than people who exclusively practice that one specific task. Within the same practice time, of course. This is true for maths, languages, football, playing the piano and for sure playing Pokémon Unite. It is easily explained: If you know how different Pokémon move, how much damage they deal and tank, what their moves do and what their range is by playing them yourself, when you encounter them in battle you are prepared and know how to react way better than if you never played them yourself. Your brain simply has a lot more connections and data to access each situation compared to the case you always play only one single Pokémon. In reverse, you can use this phenomenon as a technique to learn and practice more effectively and become better. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of this practice and learning phenomenon/technique. May someone remember for me?
Unite is an information game that the devs are trying to convince everyone that it's not. Knowledge of other mons, their strengths and their weaknesses is how you figure out how to play the game, alongside how those strengths and weaknesses play into the map that you're on. Gold badge players are basically players that, with the incredibly lenient unite ranking system, have essentially boosted their way up to top ranks thinking that knowledge of one character works for all.
I hate it when that one player who just not contributing to the team and stealing all the kills (i usually wouldn't mind ppl steal kills in unite, but these breeds are on another world) ends up with the mvp just bcs they're using broken pokemon. Also those hidden profile players that checks your profile after a match bcs you did something that annoy them like taking "their" bunnelby are clowns
I have 4 Gold Badges in Zacian, Y, Leafeon, and Dragapult; 5 if i grind Decidueye, all with high win rates even with ranked. I’m in a Tournament team as a Captain and as a coach. I can only assume I’m a diamond in the rough.
I obtained my golden badge for Greninja by Only playing Ranked, however I can humbly confirm that you'd NEVER come across a bad Golden badge Gengar player, Those guys are always a threat and are always ruling the game (not fair😕) ESPECIALLY if its ur opponent
I strive for badges on all my favorite pokemon because they are my favorites and ive loved them for years-just so that they stand out from the other pokemon. Decidueye, Greedent, Leafeon, and Venusaur are my favorite pokemom ever. Ive got a few other badges just because i loved theyre playstyle but i really put work and time into getting badges for my favorites
Has a gold badge gardevoir player that has 60% winrate only by playing rank match i hate the stupid gold badge bc most of the time you get targeted and i hate that i kinda wise you have the option to hide it
Yeah, playing with a gold ribbon ramps up the difficulty for sure, and if your MMR is also good... dang it can be rough. Add in a gold ribbon on something tilting that people hate like my glaceon or umbreon and you are target number one lol...
When you unlock the Gold Badge on Dodrio, you will know things, Spragels will say "Omg ... Leftovers, Shell Bell, Assault Vest with Potion ... how was I so blind on Dodrio ?!" and then it starts the Dodrio only channel ;-;
I want to also lump Gold Badge Defenders with Supporters as people you should feel safe around. When I see a Gold Trevenant or a SLowbro I basically am secure that we will have the upper hand in the fight.
I wont lie i only have one gold badge with Gardy (been playing since the beginning) & have made it top 900 world rankings via solo queu. Sometimes i have a bad game and sometimes its a real flex of a game. Been watching players like spragels, Cris Heroes etc to improve strats, understand how other mons, badges & items work. One thing i refuse to use is absolutely broken release mons.
I have a gold badge on Cinderace and Blastoise, but please belive me when i say that i focus more on HELPING my team. I try my best to learn how to use the pokemons that i play the most.
I have a gold badge Blaziken. I just started playing the game when he came out and played him as a comfort pick in ranked when the role was open. I didn’t realize the rep the gold badge had. Still love playing blaziken his kit is very fun. Just play what you like people life’s too short.
TiMi prioritised the small dopamine hits over actually challenging the player base. Everyone has to be able to reach masters with ease otherwise they feel left out, gotta get that dopamine.
The game rewarding players for playing thousands of Quicks with placement on the leaderboards for any given pokemon is a major source of overinflated ego too. There's a streamer who does NOTHING but 5stack in Standards and ONLY plays overpowered pokemon. Dude is like the number 10 Y player in the world with a 91% winrate and it's just aggravating to see how little shame people like that have for their "accomplishments".
As soon as i see someone with a gold badge immediately distrust them. I know theres a high chance they wont rotate, they gonna back cap at Ray or steal jungle. They learned to play their pokemon not the game. So to them all farm is available for anyone.
if a player has scored a gold ribbon in the rating and has at least 6 green medals, then he most likely knows how to play, because when playing only one Pokemon, it’s hard to cooperate with other Pokemon, because you don’t understand them, you don’t know how Sablay’s unite works, then this is bad. ..
Personally I think communication is the big Achilles heel of Pokémon unite. If you’re not a part of a discord (or by some chance every person on your team has a headset) then you’re at a severe disadvantage. For solo players every game is basically a 1v10 including the abhorrent quick chat system which is limited at best.
To be honest i have been playing since launch and i only have a green badge with garchomp, i also agree with the statement that playing a small circle of mons is great so you can more easily learn the game and get used to each roll like all rounder and speedsters because i had garchomp to learn melee combat venasaur to learn range and gengar to learn jungle
Many of the players with Gold badge were pilot, some of them are who buy account but that players is beginner, so no matter what you do to carry the team, that players will not understand the game concept until he/she realizes and learn from the other. So it's gonna take a year of patience to understand them 😅
Would love to see a one-trick tier list ie a tier list of the best mons to one trick in unite or a “all-arounder” tier list mons that are best in all 3 lanes
AYOOO WCMD SPICY HYPE. BEST Blaze QUICKEN ALSO His Chandy is/was mostly if not all Ranked. One of the best candle and versatile players I know. What a Demon
im a diffrent kind of breed. i have 10k+ points on all the mons, but no badges yet. thats what i do, rank up to masters with a diffrent one each time and swap with new releases or if team comp forces me to. variety doesnt mean bad play, my wr is above 60 just so we are clear. im not saying thats the way for everybody, some are definitely better off focusing on one or two.
My win rate is 72% due to being diverse in my skills. Being able to adapt to a team comp is kinda nice. Also helps when you can pick something that can carry your idiot teammates when they all choose attackers 🤣🤣🤣
I have gold badge clef, wiggly, elde, comfey, simply as I play solo q and keep getting 4 attackers more often than not so kept having to play support so decided as a side task to give myself while I'm at it to get some gold support badges. I also have a gold espeon as my first attacker I learnt. I've got some blue attackers, defenders, supports, a few greens in speedsters, the only role I really struggle with due to skill issue is all rounder so I just play elde and sylveon as more of an all rounder while I continue to practice real all rounders in standard. This being said the last few days I've run into the same gold badge elde, a few times on my team, played badly, then I was Vs them elde Vs elde and they did the same back capping during team fights, avoiding team fights etc. our team won to this and wasnt surprised to see they had 17k and 20k healing very similar to when on my team. I had a player on my team yesterday, was choosing espeon with rescue hood but at the last moment swapped to gold badge rescue hood aegislash, did very poorly but luckily we still won despite it.
I only have 3 gold badges and I like to warm up in standard before playing ranked with them because i like to be the best I can to rep the good gold badge!
I love having my 1 gold badge on espeon. Yes I've played 1100 games with it, but that's out of 6000 games total, and I got the badge at game 642. Didn't care about the badge til after I was doing good in the game and understood all roles and what each mon can at least do to know how to counter them. Once EX mons came into the fray I started 1 tricking espeon cause it is my best mon at 61%wr. Before EX mons I just filled between attacker, healer, and defender each game. It's sad that the gold badge doesn't show skill, but that's also the same for everything I'm this game. I'd love to b able to search the rank of mons by each game mode. So I could see myself in top 500 probly for ranked with espeon. But the quick play addicts show nothing in top rankings and its pathetic. Played since mobile release date and getting close to finding a new main game if TIMI doesn't do something with the rankings system
The short answer is they learned to play that pokemon, they didn’t learn to play unite.
Yeah that’s almost true I’d say. Sometimes they didn’t even learn to play that Pokémon.
Spragels is right. They didn't learn anything no matter how long they play the game.😭😭😭
I wouldn't say learned to play that pokemon, but just played that pokemon.
They just have skill issues in the game even with gold ribbons.
That's true
I think when you get a golden badge the Men in Black shows at your place and flashes you, and you forget all the experience you had with Pokémon Unite. They also change your main to Charizard, Cinderace or Greninja.
ROFL....DANG THTS 2 FUNNY......because half tha time I think "okay we gonna do good" nope lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And give you bad items 🤣
Hahaha
NOT MY MAIN 😭
The worst part is when picking MVP seems to be mostly based on points scored. So, when you lose but they get MVP cause they back capped a lot they think they did great and it's everyone else fault
The MVP system is total nonsense imho. I did really good in a match and then I see that I have not many points for my role just because I dare to defend our bases while everyone else is running around like a bunch of chickens on speed. After the match, people of my own team give me a sarcastic "like" even if I stopped so many opponents from scoring. Most people don't even seem to understand how this game works
Or worse. They didn't cap a lot or at all, the game was lost or close, they capped 100 points while the 4v5 was lost and they are the mvp for those freaking 100 points
yes this is the worst part and why so many bad players still do what they do. they genuinely think they played it perfect because they got MVP and its their teams fault but in reality theyre a decidueye that legit made every wrong play and tried backcapping at ray.
That might be why so many of them like goal getter, because they want to score the most to be mvp
This is 100% the reason why so many bad players back cap. It's the most frustrating thing in the world to see the person who cost you the match get mvp.
When you see a gold badge cinderace with the pirate holowear on your team you know you're in for a bad game.
I know what that's like.😂
How about Samurai Charizard Gold badge
hahahahahah ikr
There are good Cinderace players out there that have the pirate holowear and a gold badge... but they are like the 1% of the Cinde playerbase
@@splatty0674 Cinderace is braindead easy to play, with a free button with Feint. There SHOULD be good Cinderance players because it has the tools to be so.
Honestly, if you got rewards for the badges
(Green - get a title
Blue - Get a free hollowear (only one)
Gold - Get the shiny variant of your Pokémon)
It would make them a lot more rewarding in my opinion
The rewards are too good for just playing the game. I think it’s more rewarding if those are for when you reach a certain global rank for that Pokemon but the rank is based of ranked games only
Imagine working so hard to get the gold badge for Gengar and Garchomp only to receive its shiny variant that has little to no difference to its original form 😂
I've been asking for this for the longest. Other games give you premium skins for similar feats. Unite should be no different
I'd grind for that shiny
A purple green tier hollo for green badge, a blue tier hollo for blue badge and a purple tier hollo for golden badge would be fire!!
It's not just badged players who are bad, but generally an amount of players I've encountered specially in ranked have been uncooperative mainly; wondering around, not scoring and just there to be killed by the opposing team. This really made me lose interest in P.U
I feel like every time I've noticed a gold badge Mewtwo, they are throwers who take jungle, doesn't leave jungle, lets enemies kill them, never scores or helps team.
5000 match gold badge pokemon player with "thanks" are the last boss in the game 😂.
Thanks!
Well.. When I am the only one in the middle when Ray appears and I get ripped into pieces while my team is doing some stupid nonsense, I post a "thanks" into the chat too. Because this is infuriating. I often ask myself how such players reach high ranks
Thanks
@@lambdadelta6140do you want to play with me? I will not do those things.
When you see a Gold Badge with nonsense items, you know it's over
Spending so much time getting the ribbon and not know how your character works is insane
I don't understand how people can spam quick matches like that, I have a Blue Ribbon on Zoroark with like 99% ranked matches, tried doing the quick match method and I couldn't go pass 3, it's so boring to do that!
@@GamenessViejo Not sure what you mean
@@GamenessViejo Not sure what your point is with that, I don't see where in my comment says that I'm perfect
Ey! Me too.
Although my style is... quite something with zoroark. I near always play it ranked and on lane, not jungle. I gravitate to two playstyles (one focuses purely on speed and other is a mix with speed and health so I can come and go of a fight as I so desire) and my strategy composes on rushing enemy goals, not to score but to distract enemy to hit me.
After that I pop X speed, run down their lane, taking the berries and triggering the bunnies to walk. Lane partner can stack as it pleases if the enemy follows me and the X speed last enought time to my speed part of the build to go of while passing in the middle, hitting the speed berry and ending whatever chance their jungler had to catch a zorua.
Yeah my ADD would not let me do that. I would die of boredom. 😂
I'm about 50 matches away from a gold badge Blastoise but it haven't played him in over 6months. Hopefully it will be socially acceptable to have gold badges in a few months
I have gold badge sableye so it could be worst
me too but with umbreon and absol 😂
I have over a thousand games of Crustle that started season one to season 18, and I still haven’t gotten that gold badge yet. Goes to show how important MVP and those Battle Boosters are for grinding badges.
It's been about a year and I main Espeon and Goodra and I JUST got my green ribbon with Espeon and I was SOOO happy.
Now I'm realizing I'm at the level where I need to get better at positioning, rotations and communication with my team.
I want to be better but hot damn, it seems like I'm the only person who even educates myself about the game most matches.
I’m almost at gold on espeon and that’s all from ranked so wish you the best!
I would argue that it depends on when you started to play unite and when you got said gold badge. If you've been around in the game since its first year, and only now in 2024 your main has its gold badge, you're probably actually a great ally that knows how to play as a team.
But if you're a moderately recent player, and your main already has a gold badge, it's an indicator you are not a versatile player. You've played this pokémon and just this pokémon. At best you know what your role entails and the quirks of your main, but you don't know what the other roles are about, and so you'll have a hard time understanding your allies' movements and adapt to them. It also means you'll get a bad habit of playing the same way, even if you are forced to play a different mon.
Imagine draft banned their one trick main Pokémon lol, what are they going to do.
They probably will just throw the game lol.
If they have played Greninja for 2000 games, they have also played with allies of different roles for 2000 games and that is sufficient time for "understanding your allies' movements and adapting to them".
I mean, I played this game since the start but I haven’t gotten a gold metal on my main (Garchomp)
Granted, I did play a variety of Pokémon so maybe that’s why.
Bro, there are players who are playing only greninja or charizard from the game release, not all of them are skilled
The badge tells you that they have played many games with that pokemon
But sadly the reality is that its not true to assume that they have learned to be good at the game or even that pokemon
Thats why no badge players outperforming badge ones is not rare
What i think the gold ribbon tells the most about this sort of player is: they will NEVER give up on this pokemon. Once they take that role, it will be their way, or their way.
If the team needs a tank or has already a jungler, it doesnt matter. They will take cinderace and bot lane if needed.
This kind of people is stubborn and selfish. They wont cooperate. This means: THEY ARE GARBAGE
@@NickGuimaraes26 exactly and they force me into using defenders which imma be honest even though I main 2 defenders its annoying not being able to choose anything else other than that
@@customlol7890when it is not only a choice, but a need to play our "mains", It is still annoying, even though we like playing it. Sometimes i dont want to play something i like and it is nice to be able to switch.
@@NickGuimaraes26 People in general don't want to give up their Pokémon or role period. Gold ribbon or not, thats always been a issue. League of legends had that issue before they added roll lock in's. Pokemon unite needs to have a system like that so people stop crying about it.
My only gold badge is with Crustle. I‘ve played the mon since the early seasons and evolved alongside it. I tried all the builds, changed my Items depending on the build/meta and used all moves in all combinations. I also play other mons who are close to gold batches since their respective releases (namely Mew and Clefable), but with Crustle it is something special. Going through rough times together when he was considered bad and also enjoying the highs like the last seasons (and now the undeserved nerfs to X-Scissors) bonded us. Seeing him played on the highest level in recent Championships was also a treat!
Crustle nerfs aren't deserved. I hope you maintain your bond with crusty boi ✊️
Most wholesome comment I‘ve ever gotten on social media
Gold Badge Tyranitar here…. I was dumb and barely use double battle points… With that said I play a mix of all game and always do good except for a game here or there. You said it perfectly the more you play the pokemon the better you understand specific situations and when to use your abilities
I’m not good but I am a tyranitar player
Bold of you to assume that average unite player gets better the more they use a pokemon
I don't know, I see the value of playing a small roster but it feels like playing multiple Pokémon is better. Firstly because the game gets stale playing the same Pokémon and secondly I play a variety of Pokémon and understanding each Pokémon seems to give more value than being great on one. Like being a good Gardevoir player is great but doesn't help you much against Dragapult who you never play as and never looked at the moves he has.
Idk why does the game count Quick battles and standard battles for the battle points lol. And why do people waste time by grinding quick battles for just in game badges that is so useless
Or perhaps they are actually playing this game for fun and not just an elo number to brag about....
@@RocketVetIt still should be separated
I want to tell you this right now, it gave me such a relief to know that being the best at a Pokémon has nothing to do with the leaderboard, I'm pushing myself way too hard to get to the top with sylveon, I get really upset when I loose matches as sylveon even when its entirely another persons fault, and started trying to spam quick battles even if I don't really find it enjoyable, I always thought if I'm not at the top I'm not good enough. And in general I've been criticizing myself as a player a lot, I want to learn what I'm doing wrong and correct it, this is exactly the video I needed ❤
I feel ya. What's helped me feel liberated is to STOP OBSESSING OVER VIRTUAL "SUCCESS". 😅 We gamers be like that: getting all heated over scores and global ranking and placing our personal value as a human onto these frivolous metrics. That Top Score isn't going to make you feel any better about yourself in the long run ‐‐ taking meaningful action in REALITY is far more important than Unite Rankings and Pixelated Badges. Play the game for fun, even grind out for scores IF YOU REALLY WANT TO, but do NOT place your self-worth on these metrics. You're doing fine 🙂
@@WardofSquid thanks so much for the encouragement! I hope things go well for you too
Badge solution:
Base it off of your rank,win rate and ranked battles only.
Green badge: Veteran class 3, 350+ games and 50-60% win rate
Blue badge: Ultra class 3, 950+ games and a 65-70% win rate
Gold badge: Master 1600 2150+ games and a 75-85% win rate
Easy fix just make it only count the ranked matches your rank and the winrate and you're good
been playing since the second month of this game release
not a single badge yet :l
Make sure you're using battle point boost cards, I've hoarding mine and now that I'm actually using them I have 8 mons with a green badge now. Basically if you have at least a 50% win rate it shouldn't take you more than 100-200 games with a Mon while using the boost cards
Kinda good in a way, I've played daily since trevenant and only just got 4 green on my mains
Means you're playing lots of roles so more experienced!
How many total matches? Ribbons are inevitable if you actually play enough.
Well then you are a jack of all trades and master of none
Nerf ... miraidon
The requisite for badges need to change. They need to use that badges earned in the match ( attacker, defender, healer, assist) and not the predetermined battlepoints simply for participating.
I'd like that, yeah.
My bro with golden badge clefable is literally the best player of our squad
The least they can do to improve it is that you can have the badge only when you have 50+ winrate(in ranked) with that pokemon
Jake, thanks a lot for addressing that most gold ribbon players we get in our matches are absolute trash and need to get the heck outta the leaderboards and "recommended" sets. The amount of times I and many players even in your server have been teamed up with a bad gold ribbon player is literal madness at this point!
Especially those quick match spammers and/or players who are running garbage items on a pokemon (Looking at you, LatiasDragon and your triple specs Dragonite and Charm/Bangle/Crown Goodra! You are a disgrace to the community's greatest Dragonite and Goodra mains!), it's so damn infuriating and it has even infected even non-ribboned players. Don't get me wrong, I've definitely seen great gold ribbon players as well with legit records and winrates even in your server. It's just the randoms with gold ribbons we get are usually bad and the enemies get like some goated gold ribbon player/s.
I also do not have a gold ribbon in any mon and the closest I've been to a gold ribbon in unite was in my old account with Garchomp at 87900 BP. It was a legit blue ribbon and now I'm tryna get one with Delph. But looks like I might not do that anytime soon cause I still have more ribbons to get for my other maining mons.
The only gold badge I got is Scizor. I've seen people online say Scizor is garbage and to just use Scyther instead (specially if you want the master achievement) but I haven't had any trouble at all. In fact, I not only got the master achievement only using Scizor but I usually end up 1v4 because of how bulky it is. I also find it easier to start battles and just forget about my team if they're unorganized. Something I really can't do with other mons because of how much they rely on a team (specially Metagross).
I also want you to talk about the top players who are using wrong build
I've seen a dragonite master using special Attack items and he is in top 3
Yeah, I saw that in the recommended and I was really confused.
Not sure why this video is about badges at all. It’s just the same complaint about people with 10k games not knowing what the basics of the game are. Badges have nothing to do with it.
I really want a gold badge for Dragapult and Inteleon, but I don’t have the time to grind them and during the time I do play I like playing other classes too like defenders and speedsters
Playing rank with dragapult or intelleon is also hella sweaty
@@Random-Captainand? What's that got to do with their comment?
Also it's ranked. The goal of ranked is to win. "sweaty" isn't the insult you think it is.
@user-use-her-vuser Aren't you trying to win in ranked? PLUS maybe they just find the characters fun and would play then even if nerfed to the ground (me with Tsareena and Delphox frfr)
There's a fun thing. It happened to me a lot. When I win match, I get the gold badge. And when we loose we get silver badge even though we did good (you know, like the badge which tells how good we used our role, ie Golden/silver attacker badge when an atker does hight damage).
Same for MVP. It goes to person who did most goals/KOs. Like, I did my part as a defender best so I didn't do goals. But the noob player who by mistake did 100 goals in end got MVP
Whenever I play I usually try to fill so the only gold badge I will ever have it on Clef. It's always one supporter and 4 attacker
I believe the best way to get better at the game is to play as many different Pokémon as you can. You understand what counters a character if you play it and struggle against something. You understand how to play around supporters or tanks if you play them yourself.
I have a gold badge on Gardevoir and she's my highest win rate mon (excluding a handful with like 50 bot matches for event farming) but gold badge players have such a reputation that I wish I could hide it. I really hate the idea that a team mate could see my gold badge and then I happen to have a rough match where my head isn't entirely in the game and they think that I'm some low-life Garde-spammer that huffs glue in between matches. It makes me sad :(
More likely you only notice a gold badge player when they play bad and make a mental note of it. I have never seen people praising gold badge players as much as they like to throw shade on them when they don't pop off. I assume jealousy also plays a part here. We tend to judge a gold badge player's plays more critically than of normal players. So I think this video is incorrect. Also you have no way of knowing that "gold badge players play bad, in general", which is the premise of this video.
Highest badge I have is green, because I actually pick different roles/pokemon based off my team comp. Granted this means I often end up as a defender or support relying on my gold badge Cinder to do something other than auto rip Ray and ignore the team fights.
I have 4-5 green badges, and 1 blue badge zacian lmao aiming for that gold badge
Honestly I think these players are good. All be it only good at grinding quick matches. People used to “grind win rate or wr” in unite discords by going in trios and fixing their win rate. I do think there should be separate leaderboards for quick and ranked matches. I’m friends with a top 20 lucario player and they boast about being top whatever thinking that they are good. Now I just say to myself that they aren’t that good they just grind quick matches to stay on top of the leaderboards.
One thing I think that should also be considered when people are playing specific Pokémon over and over is Holowear. People that only have 1-2 Holowear are going to want to play the Pokémon that looks cool, especially since it’s so expensive for a cosmetic, regardless of if it’ll support your team well.
you know, this may sound weird but whenever i play with people on discord and i tell them "hey i am learning absol" they see that i have a golden badge and forget everything i said about me learning, having expectations of me playing better than what i already am capable of... and i don't like that because i disappoint them-- but it's their fault for ignoring me i guess
Ho are you learning it if you already got a golden badge? This is a genuine question.
The reason most people (or at least I) find this hard to believe is because of how long it takes to get it. I'd have no questions at all if you had a green one and would have a couple of questions if you got a blue one.
@@aikou2886 well i know some things but i still don't know for example what to do with a ray teamfight when all i have for moves is pursuit sucker punch.. and my unite i suppose but regardless of where i use it, it never seems to do anything (unless i use it to steal..)
i also don't know to fight certain Pokémon like umbreon or zeraora.. you know, such details that pretty much bother me whenever they appear. not to mention sometimes i get hot headed and forget that me jumping in a fight won't do much
@@tilanitaliarin To be fair, Absol is just really hard to do well with around the Ray fight
I would just focus on staying out of the fight at the start and go in when most of their abilities are on cooldown. Then take out their best squishy player and kind of prowl around to get the next squishy while staying away from the tankier ones.
Also don't forget to have your ult and eject button of cooldown so you can do your thing and get out if it is too dangerous.
@@anormalguy8407 mhm! i make sure to have my unite and item ready for ray too. thing is... my team usually gets wiped out while i all i do is just watch because i couldn't get close to anything thanks to that one dragonite in their team using outrage or something
I keep thinking, ow damn a gold badge, they must be really good with that pokemon after playing with it for soo long.We might struggle against it.
Gold batch ends up feeding and afking ...
had troubles with those gold badge players this past week. now whenever i see those badges i know i am not going to have a good match
As a Flex player, the only badge I have was Garchomp's, my old main. And even then, it's a green badge.
1:22 there you go
This feels like the exact same problem that's on FFXIV. You can get a Mentor badge by just getting a lot of commendations (people just saying good job after a dungeon or boss fight) and having a job of every role at max level. So, SO many mentors have every job at max level but no idea how to play them, and are the worst players you'll ever see, somehow.
I think the closest to a gold badge I have is on Tsareena with a 56% winrate. I just genuinely cannot fathom how people play one pokemon for so long in what’s basically a repetitive game every 10 mins without shooting themselves. Kudos to yall for having the attention span for grinding multiple gold badges
One thing not mentioned, That I feel like is One other major problem. Is alot of the Gold BADge players usually don't understand how other mons work. Its fine to know how your mon works but if your not understanding what the hoopa on the other team is trying to do your gonna have a bad time.
In contrary, my friend and I had a gold badge zerora on our team who legitimately played like a demon. He level 4 ganked our lane then went on to just 1v5 the game in the enemies jungle. It’s not that the other team was really bad, they were decent players but the zerora again was just playing his own game; we weren’t carried, we were DRIVEN he pulled up in a bus and brought us to the victory. We later found out he ONLY plays zerora and almost 5,000 games on him. It was kind of strange he didn’t make the top 100 zerora players despite having a comparable win rate
Yeah. Most, if not all of the bad experiences I've gotten so far have been with pokemon without ribbons. Specially if they have spanish usernames.
The more ridiculous the username the worst the player is. I had a Cinderace named something ending in chu (can't remember rn), he kept stealing our Gengar's jungle, barely did anything other than scoring and he exposed himself just to hit the Rayquaza when the rest of us were dead.
i got my zeraora as gold badge but it took me 2 years cuz i also rotate to other mons that i almost have a gold badge on now, its just mostly important to have fun with a pokemon you like and also know what you are actually doin in unite lmao, and also sometimes make the hard decision to not play a pokemon you wanna play because it really sucks in a current meta. wish they could somehow fix it even know i know they wont
Bro I am dying rn, just because he said two of my mains in unite💀
(I have blue badge greninja and green badge zeraora)
Nothing wrong with either Pokémon. Just so happens you see a lot of them with this problem.
Man, I've only met god like gold badges. Either they're stomping the enemy team or were getting absolutely cooked by them
I really want them to show KDA, not just KA, and sometimes we see MVP go to the actual worst player in the game encouraging bad habits like back capping at ray 😢. But showing deaths would really help, because people would be more conscious not to feed, right now you don’t really realise how much you as an individual has fed.
Gold Badge Elde Here! Usually just play solo and it's a tough life when you see those Gold Badge EX mons in the other team and Gold Badge Cindy/Greninja in your team.
Jake asking the questions none of us were brave enough to ask
Glad you clarified that not everyone with a gold badge is terrible because ngl, I don't like the stigma of ppl automatically assuming they're bad. Oh, there are a majority of bad players but with me only having gold badge with (Day 1) Char and Blastoise, I know I worked hard for it. Trying to get my Leafeon, Urshifu and Pikachu there one day! ^^
I really don't get how ppl can only play one PKMN but they certainly exist.
Previously when I was mapped to a team with a golden badge I felt really happy thinking that they are very skillful and really drives the game interesting , up on going deeper what you said in this video was absolutely correct and I felt it real and I am really scared in some games because these players some times go idle in battle and their bot starts playing , my dumb teammates doesn't even report him , fairly speaking these gold badges people , I feel these people are need to be carried , treat ourselves as an extra burden
I’m gold badge on Lucario with over 1200 games with him, with an all time win rate of 47% (almost exclusively E-Speed) lol but I do have 2 blues on Dodrio and decidueye and quite a few green, as well as almost 10k matches of unite overall, playing a ton of pokemon in every role. And to be fair I started playing Luca seriously in season 5 after continuous nerfs, and when I was a way worse player overall (unite is my first moba). And it took A LOT of games to get good with e speed, but I currently have a 71% wr with him this season and I believe I ended last season around 60%, all solo or duo.
Hope I can be a rare good gold badge for the teams I queue into lol I’ve definitely seen my share of bad ones.
the more Logical thing is maybe they just want to use their favorite pokemon, now sure i will say it's a bit silly coz they don't seem to care enough to learn others, but at the same times, if that's what they want to do then who are we to pick on them for it, for me personally i prefer to gold badge one at a time, it means i just have to focus on one thing at a time, it makes it easier for me and yet still makes me good, trust me, trying to work on too many at a time is going to confuse you and make it harder for you then you are not going to get anywhere period
I've actually seen this feedback loop trap in other games, particularly fighting games. Though I believe the reason for the "golden bad-ge curse" comes from these players using the loop to reinforce bad habits, while unite isn't acting "competitive" enough to encourage people to go looking for them... it's a lot harder to break a habit if you're getting KOs and Ws anyway. However, not being able to identify your mistakes could definitely weaken your growth in the long run.
All in all, I agree with much of what you're saying, spragels.
I've been playing Absol since day 1 and I only just got a Blue badge. I have no idea how some people get their Gold badges so quickly
Gold gardevoir here. Began playing in season 8, some of what you said it's true. When i started playing unite i doubted i'd be able to compete with players in rank, so i did a ton of standard games, then in season 11 i got more into rank with more knowledge about the game since this is the first moba i actually got into.
True difficulty spike starts at veteran cause lower ranks are filled with bots, so climbing is easy. It's been 6 seasons i reached master in a row with 1571 games on gardevoir and a 68% wr that has been decreasing from it's original 80% thanks to rank, the game also places me at top 1100 (1025 highest placement), bc for some reason i seem to be stuck at the gates of top 1k. Currently i'm at 52.8% seasonal wr with 89 games. also spent a lot of time watching guides on how to become a better player.
Does that mean i'm a good gardevoir? Maybe? Looks like i'm a decent or slightly above average soloq player, but i'll let you decide.
There is only one thing that can show whether a player is actually skillful or not: number of players (not times) that have invited him/her to a game.
The life of a golden BADge player:
- They sabotage your games
- They choose the "BEST ITEM" for their pokemon (Who the heck uses Decidueye with Drain Crown, Rapid and Attack Weight?)
- They think they are "so good" at the game with this
- They are dumb and stupid and the worst thing is not punishible for them and they sabotage any Solo, Duo o Trio, ruined and punishing their match
- They sometimes spam-ping (or always)
- They are annoying
- Repeat Cycle
As a mew main with a blue badge who hasn't have rocky helm, weight and assult vest, I can confirm that I am a mew main
Funnily enough, in the main games, those ribbons were gained by buying them, as opposed to other ribbons like to the tower, champion or (super) contest ribbons which were earned through challenges. The gorgeous (blue) ribbon was 10 000 pokedollars or half a vanilla E4 run, the royal (green), 10 times as much and the gorgeous royal was max cash.
So once again, these ribbons only mean that you played alot
Scientifically, it is proven that people who practice many different tasks including one specific task perform better at that one specific task than people who exclusively practice that one specific task. Within the same practice time, of course. This is true for maths, languages, football, playing the piano and for sure playing Pokémon Unite.
It is easily explained: If you know how different Pokémon move, how much damage they deal and tank, what their moves do and what their range is by playing them yourself, when you encounter them in battle you are prepared and know how to react way better than if you never played them yourself. Your brain simply has a lot more connections and data to access each situation compared to the case you always play only one single Pokémon.
In reverse, you can use this phenomenon as a technique to learn and practice more effectively and become better.
Unfortunately, I forgot the name of this practice and learning phenomenon/technique. May someone remember for me?
Unite is an information game that the devs are trying to convince everyone that it's not. Knowledge of other mons, their strengths and their weaknesses is how you figure out how to play the game, alongside how those strengths and weaknesses play into the map that you're on. Gold badge players are basically players that, with the incredibly lenient unite ranking system, have essentially boosted their way up to top ranks thinking that knowledge of one character works for all.
Now that I think about it, I don't even have a single blue badge on my account lol.
I hate it when that one player who just not contributing to the team and stealing all the kills (i usually wouldn't mind ppl steal kills in unite, but these breeds are on another world) ends up with the mvp just bcs they're using broken pokemon. Also those hidden profile players that checks your profile after a match bcs you did something that annoy them like taking "their" bunnelby are clowns
I have 4 Gold Badges in Zacian, Y, Leafeon, and Dragapult; 5 if i grind Decidueye, all with high win rates even with ranked. I’m in a Tournament team as a Captain and as a coach. I can only assume I’m a diamond in the rough.
I obtained my golden badge for Greninja by Only playing Ranked, however I can humbly confirm that you'd NEVER come across a bad Golden badge Gengar player, Those guys are always a threat and are always ruling the game (not fair😕) ESPECIALLY if its ur opponent
There's a gold badge dragonite player that's featured on example sets and uses specs, glasses, and glasses.
I strive for badges on all my favorite pokemon because they are my favorites and ive loved them for years-just so that they stand out from the other pokemon. Decidueye, Greedent, Leafeon, and Venusaur are my favorite pokemom ever. Ive got a few other badges just because i loved theyre playstyle but i really put work and time into getting badges for my favorites
Has a gold badge gardevoir player that has 60% winrate only by playing rank match i hate the stupid gold badge bc most of the time you get targeted and i hate that i kinda wise you have the option to hide it
Yeah, playing with a gold ribbon ramps up the difficulty for sure, and if your MMR is also good... dang it can be rough. Add in a gold ribbon on something tilting that people hate like my glaceon or umbreon and you are target number one lol...
@@RocketVet bruh
I played a game with a blue badge metagross he had shell bell drain crown float stone and a potion
I have been playing Unite since launch (with a few breaks) and only got my first green badge at the start of this year
When you unlock the Gold Badge on Dodrio, you will know things, Spragels will say "Omg ... Leftovers, Shell Bell, Assault Vest with Potion ... how was I so blind on Dodrio ?!" and then it starts the Dodrio only channel ;-;
I might be one of the only people that started in season 1 to not have at least a green badge on a Pokémon due to me quitting for like a year
I want to also lump Gold Badge Defenders with Supporters as people you should feel safe around. When I see a Gold Trevenant or a SLowbro I basically am secure that we will have the upper hand in the fight.
Gold badge includes game played with the pokemon.. i mean if they play quick battles or bot matches... it still counts for the ribbon
I wont lie i only have one gold badge with Gardy (been playing since the beginning) & have made it top 900 world rankings via solo queu.
Sometimes i have a bad game and sometimes its a real flex of a game.
Been watching players like spragels, Cris Heroes etc to improve strats, understand how other mons, badges & items work.
One thing i refuse to use is absolutely broken release mons.
I have a gold badge on Cinderace and Blastoise, but please belive me when i say that i focus more on HELPING my team. I try my best to learn how to use the pokemons that i play the most.
My heart was broken when I saw the title
I have a gold badge Blaziken. I just started playing the game when he came out and played him as a comfort pick in ranked when the role was open. I didn’t realize the rep the gold badge had. Still love playing blaziken his kit is very fun. Just play what you like people life’s too short.
TiMi prioritised the small dopamine hits over actually challenging the player base.
Everyone has to be able to reach masters with ease otherwise they feel left out, gotta get that dopamine.
My only gold badge is mime, can’t go wrong with a menace who likes slamming people into walls😂
The game rewarding players for playing thousands of Quicks with placement on the leaderboards for any given pokemon is a major source of overinflated ego too. There's a streamer who does NOTHING but 5stack in Standards and ONLY plays overpowered pokemon. Dude is like the number 10 Y player in the world with a 91% winrate and it's just aggravating to see how little shame people like that have for their "accomplishments".
As soon as i see someone with a gold badge immediately distrust them. I know theres a high chance they wont rotate, they gonna back cap at Ray or steal jungle. They learned to play their pokemon not the game. So to them all farm is available for anyone.
if a player has scored a gold ribbon in the rating and has at least 6 green medals, then he most likely knows how to play, because when playing only one Pokemon, it’s hard to cooperate with other Pokemon, because you don’t understand them, you don’t know how Sablay’s unite works, then this is bad. ..
Personally I think communication is the big Achilles heel of Pokémon unite. If you’re not a part of a discord (or by some chance every person on your team has a headset) then you’re at a severe disadvantage. For solo players every game is basically a 1v10 including the abhorrent quick chat system which is limited at best.
157k! 8k away from saying farewell to our three headed bird, the timer is ticking...
To be honest i have been playing since launch and i only have a green badge with garchomp, i also agree with the statement that playing a small circle of mons is great so you can more easily learn the game and get used to each roll like all rounder and speedsters because i had garchomp to learn melee combat venasaur to learn range and gengar to learn jungle
Many of the players with Gold badge were pilot, some of them are who buy account but that players is beginner, so no matter what you do to carry the team, that players will not understand the game concept until he/she realizes and learn from the other. So it's gonna take a year of patience to understand them 😅
Would love to see a one-trick tier list ie a tier list of the best mons to one trick in unite or a “all-arounder” tier list mons that are best in all 3 lanes
AYOOO WCMD SPICY HYPE.
BEST Blaze QUICKEN
ALSO His Chandy is/was mostly if not all Ranked.
One of the best candle and versatile players I know.
What a Demon
Gold badge Mew here. Can say that my performance also depends on the skill of my teammates vs the skill of enemy team
Gold Badge Sabelye's : I am gonna pretend i didn't see that
im a diffrent kind of breed. i have 10k+ points on all the mons, but no badges yet. thats what i do, rank up to masters with a diffrent one each time and swap with new releases or if team comp forces me to. variety doesnt mean bad play, my wr is above 60 just so we are clear. im not saying thats the way for everybody, some are definitely better off focusing on one or two.
Damm that's a sign of a good player
@@apollo_01-stellermidnight good not great, i dont think i play anything perfectly but thats easily outdone by understanding the game well.
My win rate is 72% due to being diverse in my skills. Being able to adapt to a team comp is kinda nice. Also helps when you can pick something that can carry your idiot teammates when they all choose attackers 🤣🤣🤣
Jake - Nerf something
Cram - *intense sweating*
As a cram main, I find this comment funny yet terrifying
I have gold badge clef, wiggly, elde, comfey, simply as I play solo q and keep getting 4 attackers more often than not so kept having to play support so decided as a side task to give myself while I'm at it to get some gold support badges. I also have a gold espeon as my first attacker I learnt. I've got some blue attackers, defenders, supports, a few greens in speedsters, the only role I really struggle with due to skill issue is all rounder so I just play elde and sylveon as more of an all rounder while I continue to practice real all rounders in standard. This being said the last few days I've run into the same gold badge elde, a few times on my team, played badly, then I was Vs them elde Vs elde and they did the same back capping during team fights, avoiding team fights etc. our team won to this and wasnt surprised to see they had 17k and 20k healing very similar to when on my team. I had a player on my team yesterday, was choosing espeon with rescue hood but at the last moment swapped to gold badge rescue hood aegislash, did very poorly but luckily we still won despite it.
I only have 3 gold badges and I like to warm up in standard before playing ranked with them because i like to be the best I can to rep the good gold badge!
I love having my 1 gold badge on espeon. Yes I've played 1100 games with it, but that's out of 6000 games total, and I got the badge at game 642. Didn't care about the badge til after I was doing good in the game and understood all roles and what each mon can at least do to know how to counter them. Once EX mons came into the fray I started 1 tricking espeon cause it is my best mon at 61%wr. Before EX mons I just filled between attacker, healer, and defender each game.
It's sad that the gold badge doesn't show skill, but that's also the same for everything I'm this game. I'd love to b able to search the rank of mons by each game mode. So I could see myself in top 500 probly for ranked with espeon. But the quick play addicts show nothing in top rankings and its pathetic. Played since mobile release date and getting close to finding a new main game if TIMI doesn't do something with the rankings system