Unique Pokémon Unite Tournaments

Pokémon Unite is rightfully a MOBA game, and tournaments in similar fashion as other MOBA games can be (and have been) created for it. However, it too differs from most MOBA games in different ways, something that players, both active and inactive, have made observations of. In this way, the game might open itself up to some unique or even unusual tournaments - which has in fact happened - and that becomes something interesting to explore.

Recently, a tournament was held for solo and team players alike with a special restriction: knocking out other team players was discouraged, and if that occurred, it counted as a -20 point penalty at the end, while 10 KOs meant an automatic loss. As such, it was dubbed as a "scoring-focused" tournament, and it itself was initiated by the observation that matches in the game seem to be about scoring more than anything else, which in some ways might be true given the overall objectives and mechanisms of the game.

Then, a long time ago, there was a one-on-one custom tournament that was initiated as a way to use the Custom Battle feature in a slightly unusual manner, not to mention for the participants of the tournament. The usual methods to determine a winner still applied, so some players had to get crafty with their approaches to win against the other player. In any case, the tournament could be construed to be a way of getting players used to the ways of Pokémon Unite, even though those ways are much like other MOBA games.

A possibly unusual restriction for tournaments is to have teams composed of Pokémon of a single role, which sometimes occur in regular play (including Ranked) but not very often - though some have documented their experience with these kinds of teams. With the inclusion of more and more Pokémon in the game, these kinds of teams can stand to occur more often and in unusual ways, so having a tournament dedicated to having teams that are all like this would not only be creative but also force players to really strategize.

Even with the state of the game as it is now, which some players may or may not be aware of, Pokémon Unite can stand to be played with out-of-the-ordinary restrictions (even as a MOBA game), and that could make for unique tournaments as detailed above. At this point, that may be just what is needed to reinvigorate or at the least maintain interest in it, and to continue to affirm its place as both a MOBA game and a Pokémon game.

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