Pokemon Unite: How To Play The Supporter Role
Pokemon Unite divides its 30+ playable Pokemon into five different roles, each of these with different responsibilities depending on their strengths and weaknesses. In order to achieve success in your battles it's essential you take on board as much information as possible about each of these roles.
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The Supporter role in Unite is one of great importance and difficulty, with the primary objective to assist allies in any way possible.
In opting to play as a Supporter, you become essential to their survival and success — you're choosing to take on a burden in which your choices often make or break matches.
Supporters are defined by their movesets, given their raw stats are typically lacking. Some provide healing to themselves and allies, while others provide buffs or debuffs to allies or opponents.
You may also be able to call upon crowd control, moves which leave your opponents slowed, stunned and vulnerable.
As mentioned above, your task is to aid your allies with your healing and support moves. It's essential that you are always accompanied by at least one ally, because your moveset will be pretty useless otherwise.
You're highly vulnerable when running solo, and with respawn timers becoming longer as the battle progresses, you're only going to hinder your team if you're not around.
Supporters typically go to the Top or Bottom lane, alongside an Attacker or All-Rounder. There's no ambiguity here, given a Supporter's dependency on their moveset requiring a teammate.
Typically you'll want to stay within whichever of these two lanes that you choose at the start, although there is a little scope to roam if the opposite lane needs help in pushing a lane or securing points when
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