Pokemon Unite: How To Play The Defender Role
The 30+ Pokemon available to play as in Pokemon Unite are broken up into five categories, each responsible for a specific role. It's important to know what category each Pokemon falls into, and the responsibilities they have in each given role in order to achieve success in your Pokemon Unite matches.
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The Defender Role is one of these five roles. These Pokemon possess low Attack and Speed stats but shine with their Defense and Endurance stats. Defender Pokemon are crucial to a team's survival, absorbing massive amounts of enemy damage and protecting their weaker teammates. When playing as Defender Pokemon, knowing what to do throughout a match is vital, potentially being the difference between a Victory and a Defeat for your team.
Defender Pokemon have high HP and Endurance stats, allowing them to take more damage than Pokemon that play other roles. The survivability of Defenders is balanced out by their relatively low Speed and Attack stats, leading these Pokemon to excel with the help of ally Pokemon who make up for these shortcomings, ideally Attackers.
As the role is an important one to the balance of your team, you must know how to properly handle different situations that may occur throughout a match.
Given this survivability, the job of Defender Pokemon is to protect their teammates and Goal Zones. You should position yourself between the enemy and your teammates or Goal Zone when possible, tanking most of the enemy's attacks. The moves of various Defenders will slowly damage and stun enemies, but your more powerful teammates are expected to deal the majority of the damage in battles.
Defenders should typically always go to either the Top or Bottom lanes, as this
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