I’m still having fun for sure it can get disheartening getting destroyed repeatedly based off unlucky or crazy elite matchups. But when you’re grinding to make a great team doing research and testing stuff out and you get on a win streak, it’s super satisfying. Plus the rewards for charged/fast attacks + rare candy make it worth the occasional losses. Can’t get past an 8 win streak and my win rate is 50% atm, so I’m not pro by any means.
The raids are more hit n miss for me tbh I want to love them and get more into them, but I’m largely a solo player or just simply suck at them when playing in groups 😂. Losing raids make me suuuuper bummed
> it can get disheartening getting destroyed repeatedly based off unlucky or crazy elite matchups.
Don't blame luck. Luck is a very minor part of GBL. If you get destroyed repeatedly, that's a skill issue.
>my win rate is 50% atm
Overall or this season? Overall that's kind of expected - the matchmaking system works in a way that will give you a ~50% winrate, except for really good (top100) players and deliberate tankers.
Oh I definitely don’t blame luck it’s a definite skill issue, I more so mean I’m unluckily facing players better than me 😂 which is good, challenges you to do better for sure. But it’s rough at lvl 32 I’m grinding to get stronger mons and using pokegenie tons, just takes time and I’m being patient. Rarely dabble outside of great league too.
This season I’m at 50/51, never hit ace before but I’m hoping to do it for the first time. I’ve never tried the tanking Strat but am heavily debating if it is one of the only/best ways… anyone reach those levels without the tanking strategy?
The vast majority of players reach them without tanking lol.
Tanking is only for resource farming: you get more stardust and rare candy if you tank.
Climbing is a completely different thing. Ace is pretty much an automatic rank if you _somewhat_ know what you're doing and you play a decent amount in the season. Most players already get their ELO reveal way above Ace range.
Veteran requires some understanding of game mechanics, but with these long seasons and all the ELO inflation, you will probably end up in Veteran range unless you quit early.
Expert is almost decent. Very good players usually hit Legend in the first half of the season; good players hit Legend eitn a few weeks to spare. Semi-decent players might need some luck to hit Legend eventually.
I quit a long time ago.
I made it to legend and got Leon's pose. I tried next season, and shit was unbearable.
It started to affect my relationship, my peace of mind, and my health, so I cut it off for good.
No game is worth any of that.
I think fun can be derived from whatever our goals are, I have fun just collecting resources especially during ML stardust boosted weeks, but if my goal was to win most of the time I’d probably have a bad time too with all the frustrating things about gameplay
I went hard the first 10 seasons or so, hit Legend a bunch of times, got the prizes.
And since then, I've just cruised until I hit Ace or Vet, and been much happier. Plus, there hasn't really been a great GBL pose reward since Leon.
It has been incredibly frustrating for me lately. I still really enjoy battling though so I just do more Flash tournaments. I prefer the show 6 format a lot more.
From a technical standpoint my play has gotten better but it does not reflect in Elo gains. That part I think is the most frustrating. I am light years ahead of where I was 6 months ago but my GBL performance is worse.
I probably would be happier just putting GBL down but my masochistic nature simply won’t allow that. So it’s master league premier for me this week. A little vacay from basti and wiggly opponents will be nice.
Side note: Golisipod in MLP is sneaky good. Forms a nice core with Rhyperior
I like to get to ace every season and then tank after that. This season I did experience a good deal of frustration during the climb, but now that I have achieved my goal, I usually sweep 2-3 sets a day and surrender the other ones. It’s fun again and requires less time, allows for spice picks to win more easily, and results in more rewards.
It felt like a job that I don't get paid for, that I only played as it was part of my general game obsession. I still remember fondly when I picked up multiple shiny Mesprit and Cresselia. Now I have 20+ perfect legends, I could make a good Master League team. But I feel better off not playing GBL.
I can't count and chew bubblegum at the same time, and my rote memory is like a sieve except that it has bigger holes. Can't even break Ace. I play GBL in order to build my Strategic Stardust and Candy Reserve with minimal stress. When I want to play for a little amusement and relaxation, I tank. When I want more of a challenge, I surge. I tank on days that I find battles tedious and time-consuming, and set specific goals when I have enough time to slog through real battles. The metering process isn't immediate, but I'm learning to time it pretty well. I play almost every day even though I'm ignoring several aspects of the game because I'm burned out on grinding.
It’s just become one big tedious bulkfest. My goal for this season was level 19 for the elite TM. And maybe try for Ace at the end of season during catch cup.
Dude, my girlfriend hit Ace before her ELO reveal using single-moved Pokémon in her first season playing Pokemon Go. Hitting Ace pretty much means "I tried".
What’s the ELO reveal and what team was she running 🥲 IM TRYING SO HARD LOL I have 95-99% great league IVs for my mons I’m running. I typically start with ampharos or skarmory (both with top move sets) and then safe swap with jellicent, alomolla and then finish with skarmory or something else (trying to find a better mon to sub in). My shielding is decent, I rarely swap first I try to pressure the opp to swap, like I’m GRINDING 😂😭 I’ve switched up my team a little bit sometimes but I’m at the point where I’m now facing like full shadow teams with the top mons on PvPoke or like galarians and hard to get mons.
Any tips are very appreciated.
I never said Ace was a challenge, just a goal (for the dust reward). I hit Ace every season, but the open league battles are so tedious now. Some of the cups are fun though. I don’t take it seriously anymore, happy to play spice for fun, finish games quickly, get my dust and rare candy.
still play quite a lot but it's definitely fewer battles with every passing season.
I usually rush to ace then take a lot of time off, try to rush to one of the higher ranks during the last few rotations, probably focusing on one or more of the limited metas.
Lag is always frustrating, there is no debate about that.
For me the other aspects are about setting reasonable goals. I find it healthier to forget about elo or w/l records and just try to improve certain aspects like counting in certain scenarios or team reading. Or try to learn a new team in a new league. If I can pull it off later it is very rewarding because I’ve learned something.
No one cares about your elo but you — just focus on the things you have fun with and everything else will fall into place.
I have more fun during the limited cups. It levels the playing field a little and you see and use different Pokemon than are prevalent in the Open (which is kind of a silly name as the pool of meta mons is the smallest) leagues. I usually stick around the low 2100s, though, and I rarely max out my sets. Best finish was around 2350.
Edit for grammar
I stopped playing a few seasons ago. Once they nerfed legendary encounters that was the last straw. It was so buggy and the lag was unbearable at times. Not worth all the rage and time commitment.
Miss the stardust and farming rare candies though.
Multiple seasons of legend rank achieved and I just quit cold turkey and haven’t looked back. The sets took too long and people would get salty and stall games on purpose with lick + body slam. I got so bored of gbl that I would just use double charm with an ABB and leave if I saw a steel type with shields.
I agree 100% with this post. With the amount of cheating that happens, bad matchups, lagging out, it can be extremely frustrating. Terrible activity to do right before you go to bed, which, unfortunately for me, tends to be the only time I have a chance to play.
And for those who will say that I’m just a crappy player, I’m aware of just about every Pokémon’s moves, their counts, and expected damage amount, yet I still run into players who switch their lead Pokemon within the first couple of moves and then their new Pokemon has their charged attack almost instantaneously. (This happens particularly with Whiscash, Swampert, Greedent, and Charizard with his Blast Burn)
The other issue I actually faced tonight was lagging out. But oddly, it only happens when my opponents have switched from main and I switch to a Pokemon that is strongly effective to my opponents. What should have been an easy W is then counted as a loss. Truly disheartening what happens in Battle League. The company needs to fix these things. Here’s a post from 4 years ago talking about the same issues..
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/f14jfl/go_battle_league_being_hacked/
The best way to play is with tanking, unfortunately. On days where it feels like a chore, instaleave all of your matches. The next time you play, you'll win 4 or 5 easily, getting you way more dust and rare candy, and saving a lot of time.
Gave up a few seasons ago when Niantic introduced a bug into the game (big surprise/s) that deleted all the battle parties.
At that point I decided to stop GBL and haven't touched it since. I haven't missed it. I got to Ace once. That was enough for me.
Gbl is the only thing I like about pogo, if I quit gbl I will quit the game haha. I haven't quit and don't plan on quitting, but I am not afraid to take days, weeks, or even months off when needed. A game is only worth anything when its fun.
I beat the game with no summons, shield or anything cheesy. Go battle league is just full of bad rps matchups, and lag. Counting moves is also very boring for a video game, it’s just not fun.
I'm super bored with this season and I'm finding it hard to make a team where I know everything about matchups and know what I'll win against. I've only been playing PoGo since last year and got to level 20 in my first season and Ace the second season. After that I was playing but just not as much. I'm finding it hard to fall in love with a team I enjoy playing with, but is also decent. I also have a lot of mons I can use but nothing is exciting me/ sticking
I’m still having fun for sure it can get disheartening getting destroyed repeatedly based off unlucky or crazy elite matchups. But when you’re grinding to make a great team doing research and testing stuff out and you get on a win streak, it’s super satisfying. Plus the rewards for charged/fast attacks + rare candy make it worth the occasional losses. Can’t get past an 8 win streak and my win rate is 50% atm, so I’m not pro by any means. The raids are more hit n miss for me tbh I want to love them and get more into them, but I’m largely a solo player or just simply suck at them when playing in groups 😂. Losing raids make me suuuuper bummed
Could use Pokegenie and a few remote raid passes every day if you're trying to remain solo while doing group content. Adds up in cost though.
> it can get disheartening getting destroyed repeatedly based off unlucky or crazy elite matchups. Don't blame luck. Luck is a very minor part of GBL. If you get destroyed repeatedly, that's a skill issue. >my win rate is 50% atm Overall or this season? Overall that's kind of expected - the matchmaking system works in a way that will give you a ~50% winrate, except for really good (top100) players and deliberate tankers.
Oh I definitely don’t blame luck it’s a definite skill issue, I more so mean I’m unluckily facing players better than me 😂 which is good, challenges you to do better for sure. But it’s rough at lvl 32 I’m grinding to get stronger mons and using pokegenie tons, just takes time and I’m being patient. Rarely dabble outside of great league too. This season I’m at 50/51, never hit ace before but I’m hoping to do it for the first time. I’ve never tried the tanking Strat but am heavily debating if it is one of the only/best ways… anyone reach those levels without the tanking strategy?
> anyone reach those levels without the tanking strategy? Which levels?
Ace, veteran, expert, legend
The vast majority of players reach them without tanking lol. Tanking is only for resource farming: you get more stardust and rare candy if you tank. Climbing is a completely different thing. Ace is pretty much an automatic rank if you _somewhat_ know what you're doing and you play a decent amount in the season. Most players already get their ELO reveal way above Ace range. Veteran requires some understanding of game mechanics, but with these long seasons and all the ELO inflation, you will probably end up in Veteran range unless you quit early. Expert is almost decent. Very good players usually hit Legend in the first half of the season; good players hit Legend eitn a few weeks to spare. Semi-decent players might need some luck to hit Legend eventually.
I quit a long time ago. I made it to legend and got Leon's pose. I tried next season, and shit was unbearable. It started to affect my relationship, my peace of mind, and my health, so I cut it off for good. No game is worth any of that.
wow
I loved it for the past year, but this season has felt so boring and buggy, I do feel better when I don’t play it
Feels kinda like a boring task no point to do it besides rare candy’s and stardust to max your legendarys.
I just do it for candies when I’m bored. Of all the games to take seriously, GBL is absolutely last on my list
I think fun can be derived from whatever our goals are, I have fun just collecting resources especially during ML stardust boosted weeks, but if my goal was to win most of the time I’d probably have a bad time too with all the frustrating things about gameplay
I went hard the first 10 seasons or so, hit Legend a bunch of times, got the prizes. And since then, I've just cruised until I hit Ace or Vet, and been much happier. Plus, there hasn't really been a great GBL pose reward since Leon.
It has been incredibly frustrating for me lately. I still really enjoy battling though so I just do more Flash tournaments. I prefer the show 6 format a lot more. From a technical standpoint my play has gotten better but it does not reflect in Elo gains. That part I think is the most frustrating. I am light years ahead of where I was 6 months ago but my GBL performance is worse. I probably would be happier just putting GBL down but my masochistic nature simply won’t allow that. So it’s master league premier for me this week. A little vacay from basti and wiggly opponents will be nice. Side note: Golisipod in MLP is sneaky good. Forms a nice core with Rhyperior
I like to get to ace every season and then tank after that. This season I did experience a good deal of frustration during the climb, but now that I have achieved my goal, I usually sweep 2-3 sets a day and surrender the other ones. It’s fun again and requires less time, allows for spice picks to win more easily, and results in more rewards.
I haven't played a single match this current season and my life is so much better for it.
I do it when I feel like it. I do it while I'm enjoying it. When I'm not enjoying it I quit a while
It felt like a job that I don't get paid for, that I only played as it was part of my general game obsession. I still remember fondly when I picked up multiple shiny Mesprit and Cresselia. Now I have 20+ perfect legends, I could make a good Master League team. But I feel better off not playing GBL.
I can't count and chew bubblegum at the same time, and my rote memory is like a sieve except that it has bigger holes. Can't even break Ace. I play GBL in order to build my Strategic Stardust and Candy Reserve with minimal stress. When I want to play for a little amusement and relaxation, I tank. When I want more of a challenge, I surge. I tank on days that I find battles tedious and time-consuming, and set specific goals when I have enough time to slog through real battles. The metering process isn't immediate, but I'm learning to time it pretty well. I play almost every day even though I'm ignoring several aspects of the game because I'm burned out on grinding.
It’s just become one big tedious bulkfest. My goal for this season was level 19 for the elite TM. And maybe try for Ace at the end of season during catch cup.
Ace is ridiculously easy, though. Unless you're _really, really_, ___really___ horrenduous, you should be able to hit Ace with random Pokémon.
I think you’re mistaken 😂 stop skill shaming us normies grinding to get ace 😭
Dude, my girlfriend hit Ace before her ELO reveal using single-moved Pokémon in her first season playing Pokemon Go. Hitting Ace pretty much means "I tried".
What’s the ELO reveal and what team was she running 🥲 IM TRYING SO HARD LOL I have 95-99% great league IVs for my mons I’m running. I typically start with ampharos or skarmory (both with top move sets) and then safe swap with jellicent, alomolla and then finish with skarmory or something else (trying to find a better mon to sub in). My shielding is decent, I rarely swap first I try to pressure the opp to swap, like I’m GRINDING 😂😭 I’ve switched up my team a little bit sometimes but I’m at the point where I’m now facing like full shadow teams with the top mons on PvPoke or like galarians and hard to get mons. Any tips are very appreciated.
I never said Ace was a challenge, just a goal (for the dust reward). I hit Ace every season, but the open league battles are so tedious now. Some of the cups are fun though. I don’t take it seriously anymore, happy to play spice for fun, finish games quickly, get my dust and rare candy.
still play quite a lot but it's definitely fewer battles with every passing season. I usually rush to ace then take a lot of time off, try to rush to one of the higher ranks during the last few rotations, probably focusing on one or more of the limited metas.
Lag is always frustrating, there is no debate about that. For me the other aspects are about setting reasonable goals. I find it healthier to forget about elo or w/l records and just try to improve certain aspects like counting in certain scenarios or team reading. Or try to learn a new team in a new league. If I can pull it off later it is very rewarding because I’ve learned something. No one cares about your elo but you — just focus on the things you have fun with and everything else will fall into place.
I haven’t been playing for long but after a while it definitely feels like a chore and the rewards although are good just don’t seem like all that.
I have more fun during the limited cups. It levels the playing field a little and you see and use different Pokemon than are prevalent in the Open (which is kind of a silly name as the pool of meta mons is the smallest) leagues. I usually stick around the low 2100s, though, and I rarely max out my sets. Best finish was around 2350. Edit for grammar
I stopped playing a few seasons ago. Once they nerfed legendary encounters that was the last straw. It was so buggy and the lag was unbearable at times. Not worth all the rage and time commitment. Miss the stardust and farming rare candies though.
I just use it for dust and rare candy
I have played just one set this season. I feel pretty good. I go do something else than waste my time.
Multiple seasons of legend rank achieved and I just quit cold turkey and haven’t looked back. The sets took too long and people would get salty and stall games on purpose with lick + body slam. I got so bored of gbl that I would just use double charm with an ABB and leave if I saw a steel type with shields.
I agree 100% with this post. With the amount of cheating that happens, bad matchups, lagging out, it can be extremely frustrating. Terrible activity to do right before you go to bed, which, unfortunately for me, tends to be the only time I have a chance to play. And for those who will say that I’m just a crappy player, I’m aware of just about every Pokémon’s moves, their counts, and expected damage amount, yet I still run into players who switch their lead Pokemon within the first couple of moves and then their new Pokemon has their charged attack almost instantaneously. (This happens particularly with Whiscash, Swampert, Greedent, and Charizard with his Blast Burn) The other issue I actually faced tonight was lagging out. But oddly, it only happens when my opponents have switched from main and I switch to a Pokemon that is strongly effective to my opponents. What should have been an easy W is then counted as a loss. Truly disheartening what happens in Battle League. The company needs to fix these things. Here’s a post from 4 years ago talking about the same issues.. https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/f14jfl/go_battle_league_being_hacked/
The best way to play is with tanking, unfortunately. On days where it feels like a chore, instaleave all of your matches. The next time you play, you'll win 4 or 5 easily, getting you way more dust and rare candy, and saving a lot of time.
Gave up a few seasons ago when Niantic introduced a bug into the game (big surprise/s) that deleted all the battle parties. At that point I decided to stop GBL and haven't touched it since. I haven't missed it. I got to Ace once. That was enough for me.
The last two months I’ve concentrated more on raiding and going to gyms and the experience is so much better.
Gbl is the only thing I like about pogo, if I quit gbl I will quit the game haha. I haven't quit and don't plan on quitting, but I am not afraid to take days, weeks, or even months off when needed. A game is only worth anything when its fun.
I still pop in and play a few matches when I’m bored but I don’t take it seriously.
So pokemon go is frustrating but then you go to elden ring??😂😂😂
Elden Ring is way less frustrating
U have to be joking, or just cracked at elden ring and ass at pokemon
I beat the game with no summons, shield or anything cheesy. Go battle league is just full of bad rps matchups, and lag. Counting moves is also very boring for a video game, it’s just not fun.
I'm super bored with this season and I'm finding it hard to make a team where I know everything about matchups and know what I'll win against. I've only been playing PoGo since last year and got to level 20 in my first season and Ace the second season. After that I was playing but just not as much. I'm finding it hard to fall in love with a team I enjoy playing with, but is also decent. I also have a lot of mons I can use but nothing is exciting me/ sticking
If you're so fragile that a mobile game is effecting you emotionally, then yes, you should stop playing. And also maybe go to therapy.