Why Are Gold Badge Players So Bad?? | Pokemon Unite

Gold badge (gold ribbon) players seem like they are always... well... gold BADge. Why is that? Let's get into it. Yeehaw Become a channel member today!:
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[@mythmakroxymore1670]

The short answer is they learned to play that pokemon, they didn’t learn to play unite.

[@spragels]

Yeah that’s almost true I’d say. Sometimes they didn’t even learn to play that Pokémon.

[@DrSeniorMilminaman]

Spragels is right. They didn't learn anything no matter how long they play the game.😭😭😭

[@bamydz]

I wouldn't say learned to play that pokemon, but just played that pokemon.

[@dylan2469]

They just have skill issues in the game even with gold ribbons.

[@kaisantana6299]

That's true

[@Nagrom92]

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.

[@dexterjohnson4896]

ROFL....DANG THTS 2 FUNNY......because half tha time I think "okay we gonna do good" nope lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@josephatkinson6280]

And give you bad items 🤣

[@spragels]

Hahaha

[@matjepson2192]

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

[@lambdadelta6140]

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

[@miguelhernandez-tv6uk]

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

[@eldrick.drickarys]

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.

[@abra_escaped]

That might be why so many of them like goal getter, because they want to score the most to be mvp

[@miketheperformer5972]

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.

[@scg7442]

When you see a gold badge cinderace with the pirate holowear on your team you know you're in for a bad game.

[@DrSeniorMilminaman]

I know what that's like.😂

[@XParasiteOctoling]

How about Samurai Charizard Gold badge

[@raosaha9]

hahahahahah ikr

[@splatty0674]

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

[@DrSeniorMilminaman]

@@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.

[@serpentine8229]

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

[@BatroSkywatcher]

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

[@black2526]

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 😂

[@WardofSquid]

I've been asking for this for the longest. Other games give you premium skins for similar feats. Unite should be no different

[@kamichaos3020]

I'd grind for that shiny

[@cryofuji6280]

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

[@appleshu7509]

5000 match gold badge pokemon player with "thanks" are the last boss in the game 😂.

[@Nancy-dw6zh]

Thanks!

[@lambdadelta6140]

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

[@DoomMirror]

Thanks

[@fluffymonster396]

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.

[@justjay2477]

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

[@LuhCalmFit-fv9jr]

I have gold badge sableye so it could be worst

[@Mynor4753]

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!

[@Mynor4753]

@@GamenessViejo Not sure what you mean

[@Mynor4753]

@@GamenessViejo Not sure what your point is with that, I don't see where in my comment says that I'm perfect

[@CMeugia]

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.

[@miketheperformer5972]

Yeah my ADD would not let me do that. I would die of boredom. 😂

[@herbdandilion3434]

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.

[@BlazeStar00]

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.

[@CarterLam1014]

Imagine draft banned their one trick main Pokémon lol, what are they going to do. They probably will just throw the game lol.

[@shubhamjohri9231]

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".

[@serpentine8229]

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.

[@gamergodzillawr5838]

Bro, there are players who are playing only greninja or charizard from the game release, not all of them are skilled

[@MrMidcan]

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

[@michaeljordan8626]

I’m not good but I am a tyranitar player

[@XiaoWolfy91]

Bold of you to assume that average unite player gets better the more they use a pokemon

[@locko5895]

been playing since the second month of this game release not a single badge yet :l

[@danielhazelrigg4351]

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

[@FeatherZo]

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!

[@RocketVet]

How many total matches? Ribbons are inevitable if you actually play enough.

[@shubhamjohri9231]

Well then you are a jack of all trades and master of none

[@jonathanho267]

Nerf ... miraidon

[@niendumb]

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!

[@SuperSonic3557]

Crustle nerfs aren't deserved. I hope you maintain your bond with crusty boi ✊️

[@niendumb]

Most wholesome comment I‘ve ever gotten on social media

[@Jear9682]

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.

[@midnightstardustmoon]

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 ❤

[@WardofSquid]

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 🙂

[@midnightstardustmoon]

@@WardofSquid thanks so much for the encouragement! I hope things go well for you too

[@customlol7890]

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

[@nicholasguimaraes8252]

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

[@customlol7890]

@@nicholasguimaraes8252 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

[@nicholasguimaraes8252]

@@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.

[@Akalie360]

@@nicholasguimaraes8252 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.

[@lohitsai12]

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

[@RocketVet]

Or perhaps they are actually playing this game for fun and not just an elo number to brag about....

[@Thatonenigqa]

@@RocketVetIt still should be separated

[@meenakshijain8926]

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

[@fluffymonster396]

Yeah, I saw that in the recommended and I was really confused.

[@XParasiteOctoling]

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

[@user-use-her-vuser]

Playing rank with dragapult or intelleon is also hella sweaty

[@sirensoulegaming4158]

​@@user-use-her-vuserand? 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.

[@SylvainJoseGautier-]

​@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)

[@mrtrustissue]

My bro with golden badge clefable is literally the best player of our squad

[@aikou2886]

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).

[@user-use-her-vuser]

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.

[@aikou2886]

I'd like that, yeah.

[@Saviarai-Dravolika]

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.

[@karthiknani5106]

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

[@helisodesu]

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

[@hehe28809]

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

[@speslux19]

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

[@alexsabella1455]

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.

[@JakeDaGreat32]

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

[@jomelbaylon1097]

Bro I am dying rn, just because he said two of my mains in unite💀 (I have blue badge greninja and green badge zeraora)

[@spragels]

Nothing wrong with either Pokémon. Just so happens you see a lot of them with this problem.

[@guitarshredder456]

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.

[@teresa4520]

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.

[@maskedfoxx7173]

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 :(

[@draconus8979]

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

[@shubhamjohri9231]

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.

[@AtomikAnon]

I didn't understand how people who "only do quick matches" are the cause of so many ranked match losses. Sounds like a scapegoat for skill issue to me.

[@MarchOfTheTuckers]

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.

[@Mimikyuloverr]

I’m a mimikyu Mainer but I’m only a green ribbon rn. I’m working not to get to gold ribbon but to just get really good at it while also being a good team member.

[@kirby7775]

I have been playing Unite since launch (with a few breaks) and only got my first green badge at the start of this year

[@user-nz7hl9jr9f]

I played a game with a blue badge metagross he had shell bell drain crown float stone and a potion

[@sweetiebun5271]

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

[@NinesTempest]

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.

[@tilanitaliarin]

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

[@aikou2886]

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.

[@tilanitaliarin]

@@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

[@anormalguy8407]

@@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.

[@tilanitaliarin]

@@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

[@GreedyGreedent]

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

[@KalosNinja]

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

[@tegsxx4020]

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.

[@user-nz7hl9jr9f]

I actually like to play different roles and different Pokemon i dont like to be a main of something though i do something like for a new season i decide to play this Pokemon the most for instance last season I played blastoise more than any other mons and this season I'm playing venasaur more but not every game i still adjust to my comps and it feels helpful now if i see a blastoise i know how much damage his unite can do or the cc of the move and i can secure my farm from him by knowing the early moves in general you can be better by playing different Pokemon so you can know your enemies more ofc this doesn't fit well with golden badge enemies 😂 they are just unpredictable

[@terrabro7585]

When I see a golden player with a negative win rate and I've seen how they play, my conclusion is generally they are a kid who doesn't understand the game but plays their favorite mon every game

[@Prince_Spoopy]

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

[@anormalguy8407]

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 ...

[@Kurogamer58]

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

[@partyprash2000]

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.

[@UltimateRaven]

The highest badge I got is Charizard(my first mon) and even that is Green Badge and that mon is the closest to Blue Badge. I hope he gets buffs sooner than later along with Machamp. Thankfully, I never faced them at all. I prefer to be versatile and that's why I never main any mon at all.

[@mitch.e2960]

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.

[@darkling5780]

Gold badge includes game played with the pokemon.. i mean if they play quick battles or bot matches... it still counts for the ribbon

[@abra_escaped]

I've been playing since (the day after) release and with just over 3100 games I only have one ribbon, and it's a green on Decidueye. I just can't stick to one mon for a long time lol

[@JoZerpPL]

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.

[@Gshadewolf14]

Jake asking the questions none of us were brave enough to ask

[@walshwil]

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

[@AndreaGalletti2991]

Actually i think this reasoning holds much more true for more solocarry-y pokemons. If you OT a Pokémon that could carry, and you do not, that says a lot. However, i do main crustle and i am getting close to my gold badge. Havent used it once this season because nerf. Also im a defender main. I think i got my defense role down pretty well. I also main pup lucario and some of the tankier allrounders, while i can fill offensive roles a bit with a9, venu, pika (cc build) and talon to some degree. I never really one trick, and if my wr of 50 is bad with crustle, its because i cant really carry a game even if i picked what my team really needed (i even know what defender to pick based on my team..). So i will be proud if i get my gold badge with a 50% wr on crustle 😅

[@SiberianNinja-Jin]

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.

[@MD-tr1yv]

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!

[@Riodile]

As a Flex player, the only badge I have was Garchomp's, my old main. And even then, it's a green badge.

[@user-yw9dm3tk1g]

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.

[@ohzenn]

I've been playing since launch and I just got my first green badge last week 😂

[@Haymdahl]

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?

[@TotaledTyrunt]

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.

[@andrewhe3949]

There's a gold badge dragonite player that's featured on example sets and uses specs, glasses, and glasses.

[@Belesprit656]

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.

[@Cyathewolf]

Man, I've only met god like gold badges. Either they're stomping the enemy team or were getting absolutely cooked by them

[@elijahpark5344]

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.

[@danielsalinas4452]

I’ve got a gold badge on trevanant and got it through playing solo ranking. Always done consistent damage above 60k but I’ve had a few bad games where the opponents are just too well coordinated and my teams teamwork crumbles like a cookie. In those games my damage and scoring is low. Doesn’t mean I’m a bad gold badge player though

[@TrainerAQ]

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

[@iamhere.1452]

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.

[@hobocat_]

I mean, I got a gold badge, Sableye, and I don't abuse the Quick Battle System. Most of my battles are thru ranked I'm getting couple more Gold badges soon I have one on Sableye I'm getting another on 3 others Zeraora Decidueye and Greedent

[@Anghelo7]

I do have like 5 green ribbon pokemons but some of them I haven’t been playing with for months. i did go back to playing some of them but im still trying to educate myself with positioning, strategies and sinergy with my team. To do that i also tried to learn how to play with different roles. If my team is in need of a defender i can help em. We are laking supports? I got em. We need more attack power? No problem. I always try to adapt myself to my team but its very hard to do and im still practicing to improve both my skill with these pokemons and get better with strategies. Just don’t give me a shellbell charizard please.

[@ellyjockey6164]

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.

[@jigomajait1449]

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

[@HitchSolveEtCoagula]

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.

[@prakashbhardwaj1960]

Playing with one Pokemon is your choice but the players who does that miss the main aspect of the game that is to have fun sometimes they just rage that's fine but the difference playstyles you're aware of makes you understand the opponent and yourself better that helps too I hate carrying myself in a single role too I use what my team needs

[@mewEnjoyer]

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

[@onjiponj]

My favorites are Gold Badge Jungle Greninja with shell bell and goal getter

[@YoungDragon10]

As a player who has been playing since the starting of the second season i only have a blue badge with greninja but I have like 50 unite licences but I enjoy playing greninja more and when I was play against or with greninja I have never seen a greninja better than me even though they have a good badge with it it just that they have more matches with it while I have only 400 mathches of greninja of total around 4k matches

[@AJmillado9]

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.

[@zamorvex]

one thing i can say is that i dont touch ranked coz its not a fun experience. when i got to expert rank i have been locked at that rank and im not skilled enough for that rank. the only reason i got to that rank is coz of mewtwo coz i unlocked it in the even and the only people at the time looking to team up online were only gona play ranked and not anything else which kinda just leaves me in the dust. considering unite dont even know how to balance pokemon now and it almost feels like when the do make a mon balanced it feels like it was an accident or the its not strong enough because of other mons in the games. and because of bot matches, i cant tell when im actually improving at the game or if its just bots which suck. thaat combined with trolls just deciding to not play in a temper tantrum in ranked.... ranked in genral is just a sespool of toxicity and i wouldnt recomend it to new players. and definety dont use voice chat. i did it once....never again obviously im talking as a newer player who is also a really slow learner. so i do have some biases of course

[@CarlosCortez-nl8nd]

Blue badge almost gold badge gengar main. Haven’t playing him for the last 2 metas but always mix it up. Been playing since day one release.

[@viva3401]

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".

[@Oosjhteuikmm]

WCMD mention, what s glorious day. Spicy is a buddy of mine they're actually a very skilled and knowledgeable player so.. well, it is what it is, I guess. Personally I really respect the dedication that went into grinding so many games. Blaziken is extremely fun to play so who can blame a person for that...

[@jamesspirek6992]

I’ve been playing since launch with about a year break after zacian came out and I still only have one or two of the first tier badges cause I play too many different mons

[@shubhamjohri9231]

No, because you didn't play the game for a year. I play Mons in all roles, and I have a gold badge on Venu, Delphox, blue badge on Espeon, Gardevour, Glaceon and green badge Slowbro, Blissey, Talonflame and many other Pokemon.

[@jamesspirek6992]

dont care + didnt ask @@shubhamjohri9231

[@IamDalim]

we need a best gold badge tier list

[@WCMD]

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

[@idk-qg2fb]

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

[@RocketVet]

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...

[@idk-qg2fb]

@@RocketVet bruh

[@Cafe-O-Milk]

Any average player wouldn't touch a gold badge pokemon for 2 reasons: 1. No achievements beyond that point. 2. Enough is enough.

[@rivrey8766]

I’ve been playing since 2nd season and I just got blue badge for Deci and Chomp… I don’t know how people get gold so quickly… how much time do they have???

[@johnnyblaze10]

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.

[@pradishpushparaj3344]

Damm that's a sign of a good player

[@johnnyblaze10]

​@@pradishpushparaj3344 good not great, i dont think i play anything perfectly but thats easily outdone by understanding the game well.

[@VM-gy8bm]

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 🤣🤣🤣

[@Jubel06]

I feel like gold badge supports are generally reliable. Gold badge defenders can go either way. But gold badge speedsters & attackers are most often terrible, or at best very inflexible in how they play.

[@mudkipman1]

Funny since I have four gold badges. Gengar, Ninetails, crustle and comfey (in soloQ Don't judge me) I'm definitely an average player. Nothing special on any of them, but it's just I enjoy those mons the most. And lke you said you just understand a lil bit more about these mons than others in the game. Currently trying to badge sylveon

[@nord1657]

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.

[@Tw1gGy317]

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