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This was just released and between my wife and I, we sank about 6 hours into it, we used to sit around for DAYS at a time back in our college and easy-life days playing League of Legends with friends so when I heard they're making a Moba-lite game for the Pokemon-verse I had to check it out.
It's a bit different than most other Moba games in that there are no towers and all minions are neutral (except Rotom which is special), nothing gets purchased at all, instead, you get Pokeballs/Aeos Energy/Pokemon that you score in your opponent's goal areas (these take the place of the Towers from other Moba games) that heal enemy Pokemon by doing a kind of charged slam dunk.
The feel is great, the latency isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be for a Switch game, matches are fast, and the whole game honestly is quite addictive. Since it's free to play (with microtransactions available and like a dozen different types of micro-currency that can be bought or earned) and will be cross-play compatible with Mobile devices in September there ARE an unusually high number of individual hoops to jump through to accept the ToS and PP for the game.
So far I'm maining Snorlax, typically with a Heavy Slam and Yawn build but I wondered if anyone else has picked it up and what your throughs are.
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The game is still extremely fun, I didn't really enjoy that the Quick Match feature was changed for Halloween to the point where everyone had the same held item (a thrown pumpkin that silences the opponent) as it kinda ruined my preferred playstyle but that's just a minor gripe.
They're decent at fixing their mistakes too, even it's its a bit late, for example, one of the most recent Mon to be released is a fat squirrel that has abilities that revolve around being super tanky, a healer, super-fast, and having limited high-damage burst potential that was just COMPLETELY unbalanced to the point where the average win rate of the top 200 comp players had an 85% win rate on their games when playing as them. They nerfed it a few days ago and they're still a HUGE pain to deal with but it's gotten better.
It's a great pick up and play game if you only have like a half-hour because you can still get 2-4 games played in only 30 minutes and more than anything else it's been super fun to play on a team with my brother when be both join a discord call to coordinate.
Even four months out I still have way more fun from this moba type game than frustration felt and that, in my opinion, is probably some of the highest praise I could ever give any moba.