In fact, this is simply the polite thing to do. It wastes your time and those of your team mates and opponents to keep fighting a losing battle - so if things have really gone south, perhaps surrendering the match is your best bet. On this page, we explain exactly how to surrender in Pokemon Unite - so that when the time comes and you do take a beating, you know how to put an end to the misery…
How to Surrender in Pokemon Unite
Surrendering should be a vital component of your Pokemon Unite game - as grim as that sounds. To surrender in the Nintendo Switch version of Pokemon Unite, you simply need to press the Plus/+ button to bring up the scoring menu, then press Minus/- to access the settings. Finally, on the settings screen, you can press X to choose to surrender - then confirm it. Sometimes at match just doesn’t go your way, and as a team-based game sometimes it just isn’t your fault anyway. If you end up trailing a match massively and the enemy only seems to be getting stronger, it might be best to quit out and start a new game. There’s no penalty for exiting a match early as long as you do it the right way. Don’t just quit - properly surrender the match. By quitting the match this way, and it won’t lower the ‘fair play’ Karma score that impacts your ability to get into ranked matches - so you can do it without worry.
Once you do this, your team will be given a vote on if they agree to surrender as well. If they agree, you forfeit the match and take it as a loss, allowing you to move on to the next match. You can only initiate a surrender vote if five minutes have passed in a match, and you’ll need to be in your own base - you can just let yourself be killed to get back there if need be. If your team doesn’t agree the first time, you can kick off a surrender vote twice more for three total times during a match - so don’t spam it too hard. To help surrender a little less often, here are our best Pokemon Unite builds and held items.
