POKEMON UNITE Launches This Week on the Nintendo Switch

Pokémon Unite is the upcoming Pokémon MOBA that fans are very excited for. We’ve known since June that the game would release this month and now it’s been revealed that the game is launching on July 21! The game will be free-to-start on the Nintendo Switch with a release on mobile devices coming this September. If you log into Pokémon Unite by August 31, you’ll even get a special treat in the form of a Unite license for Zeraora, the mythical Electric-type Pokémon. Zeraora is designed to be fast with burst damage. Plasma Gale is its Unite Move and “sends out a powerful electric blast that creates a zone of plasma around the area where the blast hits.”

Pokémon UNITE is the first Pokémon strategic team battle game. Players face off against each other in 5-on-5 team battles. During these battles, players will cooperate with teammates to defeat wild Pokémon and level up to evolve their own Pokémon. They will need to defeat their opponents’ Pokémon while trying to earn more points than the opposing team within the allotted time. Pokémon UNITE will be free-to-start, with optional in-game purchases available.

You can also head over to the official site and look at all the Pokémon that will be available at launch and see what their playstyles will be like. I’m thinking Alola Ninetails or Cinderace will be my main at launch.