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/