>>47718570>They are just bots that slam into one other until one dies?No, dipshit. Just the fear of p2w forces the non-paying Cinderace to play differently. He KNOWS he cannot risk taking a fight against the other one, and so his entire team has to maneuver differently. Meanwhile, the paying Cinderace has no such fucking problem. The entire shape of the game will change because of this "hypothetical", because every interaction in the game is backed up by the possibility of an engagement.
>WHy would this happen with no other pokemon involved, neither using their use items, neither running to base to heal, or trying to dodge attacks? Neither was ever even .01 seconds late on a move press?These are all things that could happen to EITHER player. They are divorced from the fucking objective power advantage that one of them has. The fact that one of them can simply take an extra hit that the other one can't is ALWAYS a factor, regardless of anything else. That extra hit is ALWAYS there. It helps them run to heal, it gives them more leeway on using their items, it lowers the impact that the involvement of other pokemon has, and it allows them to be late on a button press because they can simply fucking afford it.
>>47718584> I'd like to think I know a thing or two about MOBAs.Yeah, I'm sure you'd like to think that, but you fucking don't. You have no basic understanding of the mathematics or concepts involved. You compared Pokemon Unite's held items to fucking shop items from LoL. They are completely different fucking mechanics. You didn't even compare them to runes, for fuck's sake.
>>47718585>Most f2p players are already more than halfway there, and it has only been 6 days.It takes like five times as many upgrade items to go from 20 to 30 as it did to go from 1 to 20, retard. Nobody's anywhere near halfway. You are being fooled by something as simple as superlinear marginal cost functions.
