How Many Pokémon for Each Role?

One of my friends who play Pokémon Unite (and hopefully still does) has an obsession - to put it lightly - with Pokémon that are assigned the role of Speedster. My friend likes the role so much that my friend had reported last to have collected the Unite License for all of the (then-current) Pokémon of the role. There is of course nothing wrong with that, as "collect" is a directive for Pokémon fans of any kind. Yet it does beget the question of how many Pokémon one may want to have or prepare, or even need for each role. That question becomes the title and its answer becomes the discussion for this post.

In relation to the answer, it is worth it to remind that Trainers can "main" certain roles and/or Pokémon, which means specialization of those as well. Unless necessitated for some reason, a Trainer does not have to deal with the skill sets and capabilities of many Pokémon, and for such an action-oriented game like Pokémon Unite, that could in fact "muddy the water" of the existing knowledge and capabilities of certain Trainers. At that point, collecting more Pokémon becomes a matter of posterity more so than necessity, though the latter can always take precedence for really, really good Trainers.

As such, it seems that a good number for Pokémon of any one of the specific roles is (at least) three for any purpose or reason of having them. It's a good number to reflect that one has or had the means to obtain them, even if not all three of one role are all played. Of course, one can still delve into more than one of the any three given Pokémon for a role in order to have versatility and to expand skill sets and capabilities, and if any new Pokémon of that role comes about - which now happens every so often - it could be worth it to swap the least necessary of the three for that new Pokémon.

Understandably, it seems my friend could have been (and in fact is) of the right state of mind by getting all the Speedsters. Any or all of them may be complete fodder for my friend's style of play, which is apparently a speed-oriented one. Still, it seems that anyone can get into this same state of mind for any one of the five roles (including Speedster) without necessarily obtaining all the Pokémon of one role, though it could help to obtain a few - as few as my suggested three - and work with them to achieve all that they can be and then some to face the continuously changing challenge of Pokémon Unite.

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