If the standard 10 minute match length is too much of a commitment, there are some shorter game modes with fewer player counts and modified rules that are fun for short bursts of play.
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By and large, though, the most familiar faces of the franchise are unlocked for free and you can have a pretty good time picking your personal favorite to run around as. Each monster is also categorized into one of five roles, which suggests keeping a balanced team of diverse Pokémon is a key to victory. When you first start playing Pokémon UNITE, you'll have access to a few monsters to play as, but by completing various different kinds of objectives on a daily basis you can grind out currency to unlock more. When the match timer expires, points are totaled up, and the team that scored the most wins. The only catch to this is it takes longer to submit your points when you have more of them stored up. The more points you bank up before scoring, the more points you'll actually score when you reach goal. Any points stored there don't count toward your team's total unless you can deposit them in an enemy goal, which act as the stand-in for towers in most other MOBAs.
To score, players need to kill wild Pokémon or opposing players to fill up what is essentially a point wallet. As with most MOBAs, it's still a 5v5 multiplayer game where opposing players can attack each other directly, farm AI mobs ("wild" Pokémon), and fight over objectives, but the ultimate goal of the game is to score more points than the other team. Pokémon UNITE reimagines the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) in a format that is somewhat simplified and built around relatively familiar sports mechanics. Seeing it actually realized on mobile is really neat, and I'll probably never get over being able to slap around a Charizard as Snorlax, but Pokémon UNITE's more accessible take on the MOBA genre has just enough peculiar design decisions that will keep it as something I might play casually every so often at most as opposed to my next multiplayer obsession.
If you asked me back in late 90s what my dream video game would be, I probably would've basically described Pokémon UNITE, a multiplayer game where individual players control Pokémon and battle against each other to score points in real time.