THE BEST SNORLAX BUILD GUIDE - POKEMON UNITE

Exp Share ( Core ) :
One of the best items in the game because of its insane EXP generation. It allows your lanemate and team to truly snowball and make use of good plays. Sharing is caring.

Resonant Guard :
Extra shields whenever you engage and a big increase to HP. You survive a lot longer with this. Also provides some help to allies especially in lane.

Buddy Barrier :
Provides massive shields to Snorlax when using its Unite Move: Power Nap, which aligns with the intention of the move, which is to survive. The shields allows Snorlax to use Power Nap at low health, giving it an instantaneous burst of sustain to allow the gradual healing to pick up. This is REALLY awesome!!!!! WOW!!!!! Additionally, when playing defensively for allies, Buddy Barrier can provide shields to save allies.

Focus Band :
Gives general bulk and survival capability to yourself. This lets you be more aggressive in your early game. ** Swap Buddy Barrier out for Focus Band if an enemy Umbreon is present**

Eject Button :
Yes, this is better than X speed. Eject button synergizes with every move you have. Using Eject during Heavy Slam allows you to extend your range by a ton or reposition before landing. Using Eject during Yawn lets you land the move while bypassing Yawn’s poor range. You can also Eject before or during block, ult and Tackle. Eject and Heavy Slam also let you survive very bad situations by putting 2 walls and a ton of space between you and your opponent(s).

How to Play Snorlax in Pokemon Unite

Snorlax’s Moves

Tackle
Tackle serves as both Snorlax’s big fighting tool as well as its secure, dealing high damage, providing a knock up when hitting enemies and giving you a free boosted auto. It has an area of effect upon hit, but can be stopped by targets hit, making Tackle bodyblockable.

Rest
This move is a sleeper. Rest allows Snorlax to heal during battle or out of battle, making it able to stall out fights while drawing focus and save berries during early game by healing without consuming them. Rest also makes you a solid object, allowing you to block off all players and wild mons from passing. Rest also grants unstoppable which is often useful.

Early Game ( Heavy Slam Tank Sets )

Your main goals are to secure farm to make your lane partner strong and to stop enemies from getting any EXP. Tackle to secure and bully, don’t trade too many hits with autos and always Rest when you’re not busy. If you can Tackle an enemy and the farm at the same time, do it early and you can secure for free with your boosted auto.

Snorlax’s Unite Move – Power Nap

This move is a sleeper. Power Nap is a strong defensive and offensive option in team fights. Snorlax’s Unite move is one of the best Unite moves to mash when you’re in danger, granting CC, great healing and activating Buddy Barrier. This move can be used offensively when engaging on multiple opponents, since it has a large AOE on the stuns and makes you impossible to KO usually. You can recast this move to flip over and get another knockup, cancel it with Heavy Slam (or Flail), or recast late to wake up slightly sooner.

Heavy Slam + Block

Heavy Slam things 

Heavy Slam is a dash with big range, big aoe and big cc. This move does everything that a tank wants to do; It engages and peels well and the threat of it allows you to make a lot of space. This move combos very well with Block or Yawn, so hitting this move often guarantees even more CC. This move is threatening even at long ranges because you can Eject Button during your Heavy Slam to go very far. Heavy Slam also provides great mobility to Snorlax, allowing it to run away (over walls,) rotate quicker and catch opponents.

Block things

Block is an amazing move when paired with Heavy Slam. It stuns in a wide area in front of you, shoves opponents, gives you a huge shield and makes you unstoppable and does Snorlax’s taxes at the cost of losing 30% movement speed. You get a ton of value when using this move after Heavy Slam; This often gives you the choice of where to push the recently pancaked opponent(s). Pushing opponents away from your team gets rid of any danger, pushing enemies into your teammates is a sure way to prevent them from escaping and pushing opponents into walls may lead to repeated stuns unless your opponent uses a dash to get out. Be careful with suffocating your opponents against walls, because if you squeeze them too tightly, they might phase through Block. The shield this move provides should not be underrated. It provides Snorlax with a much-needed response to poke and tank shred, don’t be afraid to use this move just for the shield.

This move is amazing at keeping opponents away from objectives, keeping them away from your backline and defending goals. Block can also move an unclaimed Regieleki, allowing you to stall it for a long time or even infinitely with X Speed and a flux zone.

This move can be safely picked over Yawn in 95% of cases when in doubt of what to do.

Heavy Slam + Yawn

Heavy Slam things 

Heavy Slam is a dash with big range, big aoe and big cc. This move does everything that a tank wants to do; It engages and peels well and the threat of it allows you to make a lot of space. This move combos very well with Block or Yawn, so hitting this move often guarantees even more CC. This move is threatening even at long ranges because you can Eject Button during your Heavy Slam to go very far. Heavy Slam also provides great mobility to Snorlax, allowing it to run away (over walls,) rotate quicker and catch opponents.

Yawn things

This move is a sleeper. Inflicting up to 3 whole seconds of snoozing turns out to be very strong. You can land a big Yawn by either Heavy Slamming into opponents or by using Eject right after you Yawn to close the gap. Don’t toss this out recklessly since it has a long cooldown and can easily miss. This sets up very simple picks with coordinated follow up and peels incredibly well when you land it. You can quickly auto once after yawning and it won’t wake up your opponents, but PLEASE don’t wake them up with your autos.

Consider picking Yawn instead of Heavy Slam if your opponent’s team has very scary flank or lots of poke and dashes.

Favourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined SNORLAX is strong against. SNORLAX will generally be able to shut down these opponents playstyle's or have the advantage in a one on one fight.

HOOPA

Unfavourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined SNORLAX is weak against. These Pokémon will have the upper hand in a fight or be able to exploit SNORLAX's weaknesses.

SYLVEON

INTELEON

GARDEVOIR

CINDERACE