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Pokemon Unite Empoleon Guide: Perfect Analysis of Skills, Tips, and Recommended Builds!
This video provides an in-depth analysis of Empoleon in Pokémon Unite. It details Empoleon's skills, ability, recommended items, medal combinations, and a skill selection guide based on various play styles. It helps to understand Empoleon's strengths and weaknesses, and to establish the optimal strategy to match team compositions and opponents.
1. Introduction to Empoleon and Basic Information: Role, Evolution, Recommended Items
- ✅ Empoleon is a melee special attacker balance-type Pokémon
- ✅ Piplup → Prinplup (Lv.5) → Empoleon (Lv.7) evolution
- ✅ Early game growth is important
| Item | Effect |
|---|---|
| Choice Specs, Wise Glasses, Drive Lens, Spoon for Nabbing, Sp. Atk Specs | Increase Special Attack |
| Rocky Helmet, Shell Bell | Secure additional survivability |
00:01 - 00:51
1. Introduction to Empoleon and Basic Information: Role, Evolution, Recommended Items
- ✅ Empoleon is a melee special attacker balance-type Pokémon
- ✅ Piplup → Prinplup (Lv.5) → Empoleon (Lv.7) evolution
- ✅ Early game growth is important
| Item | Effect |
|---|---|
| Choice Specs, Wise Glasses, Drive Lens, Spoon for Nabbing, Sp. Atk Specs | Increase Special Attack |
| Rocky Helmet, Shell Bell | Secure additional survivability |
00:52 - 01:09
2. Recommended Battle Items and Medal Combinations
- ✅ Recommended Battle Items: Speed Flux, Eject Button, Potion
- ✅ Medal Combinations:
| Medal Combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| 6 Green Medals | Special Attack based enhancement |
| 6 White Medals | Durability Enhancement |
| 7 Black Medals | Skill Cooldown Reduction |
01:10 - 01:29
3. Empoleon's Basic Attack and Ability: Gold Flow
- ✅ Piplup: 3rd basic attack enhanced
- ✅ Prinplup/Empoleon: Gold Flow gauge greatly increases on the 3rd basic attack
- ✅ Ability: Gold Flow
- ✅ Gold Flow Gauge: Increases over time or when taking damage
- ✅ Skills can be enhanced when the Gold Flow gauge is over half full
- ✅ Gold Flow gauge increase amount increases when HP is below a certain percentage
01:30 - 02:00
4. Early Game Skills: Water Gun vs Peck
- ✅ Water Gun: Fires water in the specified direction, dealing damage. Damage increases when Gold Flow is enhanced.
- ✅ Peck: Dash attack in the specified direction. Grants a slowing effect when Gold Flow is enhanced.
02:01 - 03:25
5. Level 5 Skill Selection: Metal Claw vs Aqua Jet
- ✅ Metal Claw
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Effect | Dash damage, knocks back the opponent, gains a shield when Gold Flow is enhanced, guaranteed hit |
| Pros | Stable combat, no aiming required |
| Cons | Difficult to escape |
- ✅ Aqua Jet
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Effect | Dash damage, increases attack speed, reduces the opponent's special defense when Gold Flow is enhanced, reduces cooldown |
| Pros | Free movement, fast Gold Flow gauge accumulation, high damage output |
| Cons | Not a guaranteed hit |
- ✅ Stable play: Metal Claw recommended
- ✅ Free movement, high damage output: Aqua Jet recommended
03:26 - 04:37
6. Level 7 Skill Selection: Hydro Cannon vs Whirlpool
- ✅ Hydro Cannon
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Effect | Water Gun damage, prevents action, creates a whirlpool when Gold Flow is enhanced (continuous damage, HP recovery), reduces cooldown |
| Pros | Has CC, ranged attack |
| Cons | HP recovery only when enhanced |
- ✅ Whirlpool
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Effect | Deals damage with surrounding whirlpool, recovers HP, increases damage/recovery amount when Gold Flow is enhanced, blows away opponents |
| Pros | Self-healing possible, advantageous in close combat |
| Cons | CC only created when enhanced |
- ✅ Close combat: Whirlpool
- ✅ Ranged combat: Hydro Cannon
- ✅ Stable play: Whirlpool
- ✅ CC utilization: Hydro Cannon
04:38 - 05:32
7. Recommended Skill Combinations and Situational Selection Guide
- ✅ Metal Claw + Whirlpool: Stable combat, close-range bruiser style
- ✅ Aqua Jet + Whirlpool: Free movement, high damage output
- ✅ Aqua Jet + Hydro Cannon: Hit and run, ranged damage dealing
- ✅ Metal Claw + Hydro Cannon: Shield acquisition, CC chaining
- ✅ If the opponent is mostly melee, with many slow-moving characters: Whirlpool
- ✅ If the opponent has many ranged characters, with many movement skills: Hydro Cannon
- ✅ Aqua Jet combination recommended when using Hydro Cannon
05:33 - 06:23
8. Level 9 Unite Move: Sea Emperor Tsunami
- ✅ Slides in the specified direction, creating a whirlpool around the collision point (damage, knockback)
- ✅ Gold Flow gauge increases when on top of the whirlpool
- ✅ Requires some aiming
- ✅ Ultimate has post-cast delay, can get caught on structures
- ✅ Short cooldown, can be used without burden
06:24 - 06:37
9. Empoleon Evaluation and Conclusion
- ✅ Recorded high win rates immediately after release, quick nerf
- ✅ Still maintains good performance even after the nerf