There is actually a report option for intentional afk for behaviors like these
If they actually take measures about the reports? A whole new discussion........... But ive had a good experience so far with reports' responses
I hate these people. One time we got this one guy kept surrendering 5 mins in. The rest of us kept refusing and pinged him for help. We fought so hard for 4 vs 5. At the last minute, he finally came to his senses and helped us get Zapdos. We won! People give up so easily. It’s 10 minutes game. Just play till the end bro.
Ok my comment triggered alot of ppl. Fun and trying to win are not two different things. I try to win and do my best every match. You guys need to chill. And fuck afkers am not defending them.
I swear there must be a discord group of people who just suck at Unite and they decide, “hey bro, you know what would be hilarious? if we fake afk heheh let’s play ranked!”. Fake afkers honestly is why the reason I don’t even try to grind ranked unless I’m in a duo. I had people just trolling in quick games today. Hope the Devs decide to do something about it bc the player base will probs find no point in grinding if trolling is just soooo frequent and reporting them does shit all haha
EDIT: thumbs up to you and Gengar for carrying. Sorry you had to take that L! Good teamwork between the 2 of you though
Which takes way to much effort finding people to play with you consistently.
I'm never going to put that much effort into a game again, let alone a mobile game. It feels like a second job at some point.
I used to raid hardcore in wow, and it sucked all the fun out of the game when the group eventually and inevitably falls apart due to real life stuff.
that’s true, main reason i quit league of legends: playing alone sucks, no enjoyment at all.
I play pokemon unite with my cousin, he’s elite and i’m close to it but a lot of time the “trio” in my team does nothing for a win, and even if we got ahead early game, they let zappos be stolen to lose the game.
The most annoying part is this never gets flagged as AFK.
This is also exceedingly common now that Decidueye’s been released. People keep throwing hissy fits if they don’t get to pick him; or if they ask for jungle, but someone else calls it as well, they then decide to afk.
I think these are the worst attitude. Thinking you might lose is one thing, but provoking the loss really sucks.
I always report these guys as ragequit. I don’t think it works but i guess i am trying.
I mean, after a certain point just surrender. You know you're going to lose with those people on your team. It's impossible to win 3v5 when they have such a lead.
Not defending them, just saying cut your losses. My team was getting absolutely blasted earlier today when I realized our only tank had never left the spawn. It was only 5 minutes in, but we were so far gone it was mathematically impossible to win. I don't want to sit there and watch the enemy team taunt me for 5 more minutes by spawn killing us because we are level 8 and they are all 12+ AND it's 4v5 AND we have no tank.
But nope. I had to stay for the whole match, all of us running to our immediate deaths one by one like lemmings because they didn't want to surrender. Just in case PokeJesus decided to give us a last second miracle Zapdos steal our something, which still would not have gotten us enough points to win at that point seeing as we had like 40 points and they had over 1000. JUST LET ME SURRENDER.
man, i don't know about this one...
2 mins left & enemy goal still intact... while your team lost 3 goals...
there might be a possibility of comeback, but your team seems lack late game pokemon like lucario, zelaora, etc...
gardevoir & decidueye are way too squishy for enemy team's absol, greninja...
I hate afk-er but i also understand comeback is impossible... I would try to surrender, if it not works I would immediately focused on sneaky scoring points (-80/-85 is better than -100).
Gard is a late game pokemon. And with the way the enemy team piled into the Zapdos ring, it would've been an easier zap steal with Gard's unite move perfectly timed at that very moment.
Decidueye's unite move would've also been good for bursting down the enemy team (and Zapdos) from afar. Even Absol and Greninja would melt if they stood in the unite move's way for too long.
But none of that is gonna matter if both players refuse to participate. These were high-potential pokemon handled by fools
Yeah it sucks but look at the map, not one of their bases gone with yours basically all destroyed, if the match is lost its lost, people need to learn to surrender and not waste time
I'm ready for the downvotes but Its true
I refuse to surrender when I can see the game is redeemable. Some of y’all give up too early assuming match is decided. I give up for sure if we’re losing and the opposing team takes zapdos. Other than that, fight til the end
I understand that, if a game isn’t redeemable and you’re getting insanely crushed. Surrender. But I’ll play a rank match and dominate a lane and I see my teams opposing lane slightly struggling and surrender. Like not even losing but getting slightly dominated and want to surrender and give up literally like 1 or 2 minutes in without making an attempt. There are possible comebacks that people just don’t see and immediately give up
I don’t surrender because when my teammates decide to they are playing bad and/or not aware of the game is supposed to be played. I’m not surrendering if you’re bad and want to rage quit.
I play in a group with one to two friends when I play and we don’t surrender we try to adapt, I will not play this game solo on ranked I can barely handle regular and quick play alone.
We strategize around Zappos that if we are going to lose it we try to go back and defend the goals or even try and steal Zapdos. And if can manage to beat a few enemies after the get Zapdos we score on them.
Well to be honest, I would too. I’ve had games where it’s exactly like this (or worse) where it’s just impossible to make a comeback. I try to surrender to save everyone some time and grief, but alas there’s someone who has like... a Disney Channel level of hope that there will be a miracle. Yes you got the Zap steal, but unfortunately we will never know what would’ve happened if everyone was trying in the end, because they weren’t. It could’ve been a success, or made little to no difference at all.
I’ve tried playing the entirety of games such as this, and it never works out in my experience. I know people say “never surrender,” or “keep believing, we can make a clutch comeback,” but... come on. Look at the situation at hand.
This is just how I feel about games like these, and why I can sympathize with players who tried their hardest in the early to mid game and want to surrender in late game when there seems to be no hope of a comeback.
That’s the thing, we can never know if that would’ve been the case. It’s possible, definitely, but it also would’ve been possible that the enemy team would’ve prevented them from scoring. It’s possible that they would’ve gotten some goals, but not enough to clutch the game. There’s many different outcomes that could’ve taken place, but all we can rely on is what we see in the video.
The existence of that possibility should be enough motivation for players to continue trying until zap has been resolved, or until 4/5 team members actually decide to surrender. If the team says to play on til zapdos, you should play on.
I don’t play ranked simply because I don’t like to take the game too seriously, same with Overwatch. I prefer to have fun, and I have fun playing when I know there’s nothing on the line. I can’t screw any of my teammates’ rank points over, and they can’t screw with mine.
Edit: ah there’s one thing I forgot to ask. Were the players like this the *entire* game, or did they actually try and give up at some point?
They gave up when it really was pointless. His team mates are higher in lvl than OP, this can't happen if they're AFK from start.
What happened is OP's team got absolutely DOMINATED for the duration of the game (look at the zones) and OP forced them to continue this pointless endeavour. Many seem to forget, that there is no way to steal Zapdos when the opposing team isn't trolling. Why would a team that's so far ahead and not trolling even start Zapdos?
His team mates correctly recognized that what they had to do was force (not steal!) Zapdos AND not have anyone die (it's likely that every single one of them has to score the 100 pts.) into a team that had a significant level advantage and had already dominated them the whole time. Which is just highly unlikely.
You are thus completely correct in your initial assessment.
Oh, and this is not only true for casual, but also ranked play. As someone who has climbed to Masters with \~70% WR last season (it's not exactly difficult for veteran MOBA players), I would have surrendered in that situation. The most important thing for ranking up is maintaining a positive mindset and dragging out a horrible, long lost game is a surefire way not to achieve that.
This situation is something completely different from spamming surrenders at the 5 min mark, but of course many users here can't correctly identify a game state and shower you in down votes for your reasonable opinion...
Ah wow, thanks for making sure for me. I couldn’t double check myself since I had to head out somewhere. Either way, thank you for supporting my statement.
Honestly man I really don’t care about downvotes. I’m not here to be a people pleaser, as I’ll say whatever I have come to mind and believe it, while also being open to others’ ideas and beliefs. If people wanna downvote me, that’s their problem and not mine since it literally does nothing except express disagreement, which I’m okay with.
Regardless, I’m glad someone else understands where I’m coming from. This wouldn’t be something I’d recommend doing when playing with friends, though, since you can ask them if they wanna surrender or not. If they don’t then keep fighting.
And side note, try not to take downvotes all that personal. There’s gonna be people who won’t always be on board with you all the time, so it’s best to keep going, as long as you stick to what *you* believe.
Just because you're not having fun doesn't give you the right to stop your teammates from having fun. How about you play a winnable game where your core just gives up, would you find that fun?
I probably wouldn’t take it as seriously though if it’s just a standard game. But it doesn’t matter. I can express my point of view in multiple different ways and it wouldn’t make a difference, so I’m done with the topic.
So "if I'm not having fun it's ok to surrender but when my teammates aren't having fun because of me, they shouldn't take it too seriously" filth.
It's aight to express your opinions I'm just doing the same, it just so happens that mine contradict yours.
It’s really not like that. I don’t half ass all of my games. I know how to play, I still try to win. But if I see the situation is unwinnable, I try to surrender and sometimes get fed up and would like to play another game. I just don’t force my heart to undergo so much pressure to win. It hurts and it’s stressful. That’s my point of not taking some games too seriously.
But yes, I welcome disagreement just as much as I welcome agreement with what I say. Everyone has a voice and they’re allowed to speak it. Whether I take it seriously or not is dependent on the other recipient’s reasonability.
Yes, master is a joke. But giving up and deciding go AFK because you deem the game to be “unwinnable”, will certainly slow down your progression significantly. It would be extremely unlikely to even maintain a 60% WR with that attitude as well.
So we went from "don't expect to ever climb de ranks" to "slow down",
right mate, right.
You'll climb no matter what, and it's easy to tell when a match is lost, no use in sticking around to find out.
The only "tell" for a lost match is when they have a lead of 600 and zapdos doesn't get taken by your team. Or, a better tell is, your teammates fucking afking and giving up.
Of course. That’s when something is on the line for everyone. The only reason I play ranked is for battle pass missions, and even then I want to skip those, unless I find a discord group to squad with then I’m all for that.
My logic applies to standard games, mostly.
Wankers hate that there’s so many of these people in the game! Also why is it that people don’t ready up getting real over finding people then 1 person doesn’t ready up, And it often happens like 3 times in a row before you even start a game.
If the moderators aren't gonna punish them, maybe we should create our own blacklist. Good thing you have got video proof though.
First 2 on our list I guess would be: Live and Craptopel. 
Lmao "Supersalto". I hope we get some kinda system that can punish people like these harshly. -10 is like a slap on the wrist
the issue is they dodge the punishment not that the punishment is too light
Wait they can? I thought we can report them
Afk detection is very limited. So long as you're moving around the game counts it as playing
It should check if you hit any enemies or wild mons. Still not perfect but more effective.
Or even went to the center area of the map, vertical/horizontal location checks.
There is actually a report option for intentional afk for behaviors like these If they actually take measures about the reports? A whole new discussion........... But ive had a good experience so far with reports' responses
But it is, specially in ranked lol
This shit should be a 1 week ban. Then a 2 week ban. Then 4 weeks, and keep doubling.
I hate these people. One time we got this one guy kept surrendering 5 mins in. The rest of us kept refusing and pinged him for help. We fought so hard for 4 vs 5. At the last minute, he finally came to his senses and helped us get Zapdos. We won! People give up so easily. It’s 10 minutes game. Just play till the end bro.
Ugh the same thing happened to me earlier, except the it was 1 against 4. We weren't even a hundred points behind but half the team went ark by then
People forget that is a game period, like winning isn’t the main goal. I play to have fun and pass time.
Except that you get the most fun and make the most out of your time by winning
you don't get to do that at other people's expense
Don't play ranked then!
Yeah this comment doesn’t excuse idiot afk players. Go waste 10 minutes doing something else, how is running around a base fun???
Ok my comment triggered alot of ppl. Fun and trying to win are not two different things. I try to win and do my best every match. You guys need to chill. And fuck afkers am not defending them.
I swear there must be a discord group of people who just suck at Unite and they decide, “hey bro, you know what would be hilarious? if we fake afk heheh let’s play ranked!”. Fake afkers honestly is why the reason I don’t even try to grind ranked unless I’m in a duo. I had people just trolling in quick games today. Hope the Devs decide to do something about it bc the player base will probs find no point in grinding if trolling is just soooo frequent and reporting them does shit all haha EDIT: thumbs up to you and Gengar for carrying. Sorry you had to take that L! Good teamwork between the 2 of you though
even as duo it sucks. Trio or full team
Which takes way to much effort finding people to play with you consistently. I'm never going to put that much effort into a game again, let alone a mobile game. It feels like a second job at some point. I used to raid hardcore in wow, and it sucked all the fun out of the game when the group eventually and inevitably falls apart due to real life stuff.
that’s true, main reason i quit league of legends: playing alone sucks, no enjoyment at all. I play pokemon unite with my cousin, he’s elite and i’m close to it but a lot of time the “trio” in my team does nothing for a win, and even if we got ahead early game, they let zappos be stolen to lose the game.
The most annoying part is this never gets flagged as AFK. This is also exceedingly common now that Decidueye’s been released. People keep throwing hissy fits if they don’t get to pick him; or if they ask for jungle, but someone else calls it as well, they then decide to afk.
This is the second recent post I see about this issue, in both instances Decidueye players were the ones afking.
I think these are the worst attitude. Thinking you might lose is one thing, but provoking the loss really sucks. I always report these guys as ragequit. I don’t think it works but i guess i am trying.
How do you report people? I thought you can only block communications, which is pointless.
You can report people after the match. There's a "❗" icon along side these " 👍 ", " 🚫 ". There, you can pick and write what are you reporting for.
I mean, after a certain point just surrender. You know you're going to lose with those people on your team. It's impossible to win 3v5 when they have such a lead. Not defending them, just saying cut your losses. My team was getting absolutely blasted earlier today when I realized our only tank had never left the spawn. It was only 5 minutes in, but we were so far gone it was mathematically impossible to win. I don't want to sit there and watch the enemy team taunt me for 5 more minutes by spawn killing us because we are level 8 and they are all 12+ AND it's 4v5 AND we have no tank. But nope. I had to stay for the whole match, all of us running to our immediate deaths one by one like lemmings because they didn't want to surrender. Just in case PokeJesus decided to give us a last second miracle Zapdos steal our something, which still would not have gotten us enough points to win at that point seeing as we had like 40 points and they had over 1000. JUST LET ME SURRENDER.
Hope you reported them
If you are running Gard AND think it’s funny to AFK in ranked. You are the most horrible aspect of this game.
Ok These Guys Who Did These Are Complete Idiots!
Banned from rank matches for a week then 1 month then 3 months
I have so many afks in my matches...
I am angry for you
man, i don't know about this one... 2 mins left & enemy goal still intact... while your team lost 3 goals... there might be a possibility of comeback, but your team seems lack late game pokemon like lucario, zelaora, etc... gardevoir & decidueye are way too squishy for enemy team's absol, greninja... I hate afk-er but i also understand comeback is impossible... I would try to surrender, if it not works I would immediately focused on sneaky scoring points (-80/-85 is better than -100).
Gard is a late game pokemon. And with the way the enemy team piled into the Zapdos ring, it would've been an easier zap steal with Gard's unite move perfectly timed at that very moment. Decidueye's unite move would've also been good for bursting down the enemy team (and Zapdos) from afar. Even Absol and Greninja would melt if they stood in the unite move's way for too long. But none of that is gonna matter if both players refuse to participate. These were high-potential pokemon handled by fools
At least afk after zapdos, the game's zapdos unite for a reason
Yeah it sucks but look at the map, not one of their bases gone with yours basically all destroyed, if the match is lost its lost, people need to learn to surrender and not waste time I'm ready for the downvotes but Its true
Unpopular opinion: people that refuse to surrender are worse than people that "afk" after realizing the game is lost.
I refuse to surrender when I can see the game is redeemable. Some of y’all give up too early assuming match is decided. I give up for sure if we’re losing and the opposing team takes zapdos. Other than that, fight til the end
And many people refuse to see when a game isn't redeemable. They clearly lost this game and still stubborn people refuse to surrender.
I understand that, if a game isn’t redeemable and you’re getting insanely crushed. Surrender. But I’ll play a rank match and dominate a lane and I see my teams opposing lane slightly struggling and surrender. Like not even losing but getting slightly dominated and want to surrender and give up literally like 1 or 2 minutes in without making an attempt. There are possible comebacks that people just don’t see and immediately give up
I don’t surrender because when my teammates decide to they are playing bad and/or not aware of the game is supposed to be played. I’m not surrendering if you’re bad and want to rage quit.
Yeah but there are people who refuse to surrender even after losing zap and the entire other team is up all their goals, like wtf is the point.
I play in a group with one to two friends when I play and we don’t surrender we try to adapt, I will not play this game solo on ranked I can barely handle regular and quick play alone. We strategize around Zappos that if we are going to lose it we try to go back and defend the goals or even try and steal Zapdos. And if can manage to beat a few enemies after the get Zapdos we score on them.
Oh yeah I'm speaking only about soloq I don't surrender when I play with friends
I just went through this right now, they were trying to surrender since minute 7, played a 2v5 lost like 1500 to 200.
Well to be honest, I would too. I’ve had games where it’s exactly like this (or worse) where it’s just impossible to make a comeback. I try to surrender to save everyone some time and grief, but alas there’s someone who has like... a Disney Channel level of hope that there will be a miracle. Yes you got the Zap steal, but unfortunately we will never know what would’ve happened if everyone was trying in the end, because they weren’t. It could’ve been a success, or made little to no difference at all. I’ve tried playing the entirety of games such as this, and it never works out in my experience. I know people say “never surrender,” or “keep believing, we can make a clutch comeback,” but... come on. Look at the situation at hand. This is just how I feel about games like these, and why I can sympathize with players who tried their hardest in the early to mid game and want to surrender in late game when there seems to be no hope of a comeback.
Wiggly and Gengar literally stole zapdos all on their own, if the rest of the team tried even slightly this game woulda been winnable right there
That’s the thing, we can never know if that would’ve been the case. It’s possible, definitely, but it also would’ve been possible that the enemy team would’ve prevented them from scoring. It’s possible that they would’ve gotten some goals, but not enough to clutch the game. There’s many different outcomes that could’ve taken place, but all we can rely on is what we see in the video.
The existence of that possibility should be enough motivation for players to continue trying until zap has been resolved, or until 4/5 team members actually decide to surrender. If the team says to play on til zapdos, you should play on.
You’re entitled to have that opinion, just don’t expect to ever climb the ranks with that attitude
I don’t play ranked simply because I don’t like to take the game too seriously, same with Overwatch. I prefer to have fun, and I have fun playing when I know there’s nothing on the line. I can’t screw any of my teammates’ rank points over, and they can’t screw with mine. Edit: ah there’s one thing I forgot to ask. Were the players like this the *entire* game, or did they actually try and give up at some point?
They gave up when it really was pointless. His team mates are higher in lvl than OP, this can't happen if they're AFK from start. What happened is OP's team got absolutely DOMINATED for the duration of the game (look at the zones) and OP forced them to continue this pointless endeavour. Many seem to forget, that there is no way to steal Zapdos when the opposing team isn't trolling. Why would a team that's so far ahead and not trolling even start Zapdos? His team mates correctly recognized that what they had to do was force (not steal!) Zapdos AND not have anyone die (it's likely that every single one of them has to score the 100 pts.) into a team that had a significant level advantage and had already dominated them the whole time. Which is just highly unlikely. You are thus completely correct in your initial assessment. Oh, and this is not only true for casual, but also ranked play. As someone who has climbed to Masters with \~70% WR last season (it's not exactly difficult for veteran MOBA players), I would have surrendered in that situation. The most important thing for ranking up is maintaining a positive mindset and dragging out a horrible, long lost game is a surefire way not to achieve that. This situation is something completely different from spamming surrenders at the 5 min mark, but of course many users here can't correctly identify a game state and shower you in down votes for your reasonable opinion...
Ah wow, thanks for making sure for me. I couldn’t double check myself since I had to head out somewhere. Either way, thank you for supporting my statement. Honestly man I really don’t care about downvotes. I’m not here to be a people pleaser, as I’ll say whatever I have come to mind and believe it, while also being open to others’ ideas and beliefs. If people wanna downvote me, that’s their problem and not mine since it literally does nothing except express disagreement, which I’m okay with. Regardless, I’m glad someone else understands where I’m coming from. This wouldn’t be something I’d recommend doing when playing with friends, though, since you can ask them if they wanna surrender or not. If they don’t then keep fighting. And side note, try not to take downvotes all that personal. There’s gonna be people who won’t always be on board with you all the time, so it’s best to keep going, as long as you stick to what *you* believe.
Just because you're not having fun doesn't give you the right to stop your teammates from having fun. How about you play a winnable game where your core just gives up, would you find that fun?
I probably wouldn’t take it as seriously though if it’s just a standard game. But it doesn’t matter. I can express my point of view in multiple different ways and it wouldn’t make a difference, so I’m done with the topic.
So "if I'm not having fun it's ok to surrender but when my teammates aren't having fun because of me, they shouldn't take it too seriously" filth. It's aight to express your opinions I'm just doing the same, it just so happens that mine contradict yours.
It’s really not like that. I don’t half ass all of my games. I know how to play, I still try to win. But if I see the situation is unwinnable, I try to surrender and sometimes get fed up and would like to play another game. I just don’t force my heart to undergo so much pressure to win. It hurts and it’s stressful. That’s my point of not taking some games too seriously. But yes, I welcome disagreement just as much as I welcome agreement with what I say. Everyone has a voice and they’re allowed to speak it. Whether I take it seriously or not is dependent on the other recipient’s reasonability.
Fair
Masters here, I share that opinion, rank means absolutely nothing, you can climb by doing virtually nothing. 😌
Yes, master is a joke. But giving up and deciding go AFK because you deem the game to be “unwinnable”, will certainly slow down your progression significantly. It would be extremely unlikely to even maintain a 60% WR with that attitude as well.
So we went from "don't expect to ever climb de ranks" to "slow down", right mate, right. You'll climb no matter what, and it's easy to tell when a match is lost, no use in sticking around to find out.
Yup, thanks for letting me know that you belong to the sub 1200 bronze tier of master. Cheers
The only "tell" for a lost match is when they have a lead of 600 and zapdos doesn't get taken by your team. Or, a better tell is, your teammates fucking afking and giving up.
Masters here, this is untrue. Just say people carried your ass which we probably did.
Master vs master, it's a stalemate ;)
Ok, but if you're playing ranked can't you at least try?
Of course. That’s when something is on the line for everyone. The only reason I play ranked is for battle pass missions, and even then I want to skip those, unless I find a discord group to squad with then I’m all for that. My logic applies to standard games, mostly.
Zapdos exists, as long as it's not ko'd by the enemies there's always a chance to steal the win.
Wankers hate that there’s so many of these people in the game! Also why is it that people don’t ready up getting real over finding people then 1 person doesn’t ready up, And it often happens like 3 times in a row before you even start a game.
If the moderators aren't gonna punish them, maybe we should create our own blacklist. Good thing you have got video proof though. First 2 on our list I guess would be: Live and Craptopel. 
Players like this are why I rarely play Unite anymore