United Plays offers Pokémon fusions with a "banned" pick
The new starter-choice challenge arrives alongside a sharp jump in the channel's daily views.
Why this story? The whole channel is running at 126,172 views a day, 8.8 times a normal day (14,404).
Choose Your Pokemon Fusion, BUT 1 of Them is BANNED!
How do you complicate choosing a starter Pokémon? United Plays offers fused creatures, then adds a restriction: one of the choices is banned.
That is the premise of "Choose Your Pokemon Fusion, BUT 1 of Them is BANNED!", posted on November 7 and already approaching 150,000 views. Alongside its arrival, the channel's daily views have climbed to nearly nine times their usual pace. That increase covers the whole channel, not just the new upload.
The fusion idea has deep roots here. United Plays' most-watched regular video is "We Randomize Starter Pokemon, Then Fuse Them Together!", posted in 2022. Other enduring hits combine legendary Pokémon or turn random eggs into teams before a battle. Choosing a creature is often only the beginning of the complication.
The new upload also changes the setup from September's Alola creation. There, challengers had a timed hunt for a team capable of countering a custom dragon. Here, the restriction is built into the starter choice itself.
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- Channel
- United Plays
- Subscribers
- 645,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 183,097
- Channel views, pace per day
- 126,172 (on a normal day: 14,404)
The numbers
Daily channel views are sharply above their usual pace. The new fusion challenge has also approached 150,000 views since publication.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which original Kanto starter is a Fire-type Pokémon?
Charmander is the Fire-type choice among the original starter trio in Pokémon Red and Blue.

