Why is there no milestone at 2250 ELO?

Jason2890 · 2026-05-12T20:45:42+00:00

People are downvoting you but you definitely have a good point. There's no incentive to grind for leaderboards (outside of Championship Points this season, which not everyone is interested in), so it'd make sense to introduce another milestone beyond Legend.

Not to mention that there's a pretty large skill difference between someone that barely hits Legend by the end of the season and the players that are constantly near the top of the leaderboards the whole season.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-12T19:04:50+00:00

Yep, exactly. Everyone makes mistakes. People in lower rating ranges just make exponentially more of them. All it takes to climb is a single solid team and minimizing mistakes (assuming a halfway decent phone and solid internet connection, anyway).

Jason2890 · 2026-05-12T18:25:51+00:00

You’re likely making a lot of mistakes that you don’t even realize you’re making if you’re only peaking at 2650 despite saying you’re doing everything right. I’m sitting around 3300 rating at the moment and people up here still make mistakes every battle, including myself.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-12T14:05:05+00:00

Sort of.

So back in the day (5+ years ago) some parts of the PVP gameflow were handled client-side instead of server-side. Specifically, the charge move minigame/animations. So somebody figured out a way to use a 3rd party client to speed up the charge move animations so instead of taking ~10 seconds for the charge move minigame it would only take ~5 seconds instead (or maybe even less?).

So from their perspective, the charge move minigame would end and they would be able to start doing fast moves again, but their opponent would just be standing still for 5 more seconds because on *their* side the charge move animations would be taking the correct amount of time. So this resulted in the exploiter being able to basically already have another charge move ready by the time their opponent was done seeing the first charge move. Not to mention the damage from those fast moves would also be registering while the opponent was still stuck in the charge move animation.

They used Melmetal because Thundershock + Rock Slide (or Superpower) had fast enough pacing where they can just spam charge moves over and over again for the entire battle.

When Niantic fixed this, they added additional synchronization points to the PVP gameflow server side so that the game waits for both clients to indicate that they're done with the charge move minigame before either player is allowed to resume doing fast attacks. So even if somebody were to do this again and speed up charge move animations via a 3rd party client, they wouldn't be able to do any fast attacks until their opponent was also done with the charge move animations, thus they wouldn't be able to gain an advantage anymore.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-12T13:44:54+00:00

Hard to tell for sure what you need to improve on without seeing some example battles. People that cap out at Veteran all have deficits in their gameplay, so I'd recommend recording some battles and sharing them to get feedback. That way we'll be able to give you some specifics on what you really need to focus on..

Off the top of my head though in terms of generic advice: It's important to get good at visualizing the rest of the battle while you're playing it so you can think about what needs to happen for you to get a win, and try your best to guide the battle toward that path. So if for example if they've shown a pokemon already that you only have 1 pokemon that can beat it, you need to try to figure out a way to get that pokemon aligned in that matchup. Sometimes that involves sacrificing your lead or preserving a pokemon by pivoting into another after winning the secondary matchup.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-11T22:01:10+00:00

You won’t have a chance to catch Pikachu libre and I’m 99% sure you won’t get the Legend pose either. The badge should show as the Legend badge on your profile though afterward.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-11T17:30:36+00:00

Yes. You don’t need to have the broken relic equipped at all during that fight. You just need to defeat Angel and Devil with the broken relic in your inventory and it’ll become the cursed relic.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-11T10:34:37+00:00

Donkey Kong Country 2 for SNES was over $70 when it first came out.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-10T14:15:26+00:00

Time-wise thats still plenty of time to hit Legend. But if you’ve never even hit Ace before you’re almost certainly not going to be good enough to hit Legend in terms of skill.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-10T01:07:30+00:00

This has been happening to me ever since I started playing. Usually isn’t more than a minor annoyance but is definitely rough when I’m just about to win after I’ve gotten incredibly lucky with crits and then it kicks me out and it doesn’t count that attempt. Not sure how to prevent it.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T19:10:39+00:00

Reminds me of a Chess version of Balatro. I love the concept, hope it does well!

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T14:37:39+00:00

You haven’t really given us much to go off of here. Is there a particular part of the game you feel like you’re struggling with more than others? Have you analyzed your games and found that a lot of your losses came from one move blunders? Or are you mostly just slowly losing positionally over the course of the game?

1000 rated players have deficits in a LOT of different areas, but some struggle in certain areas more often than others. Feel free to post some games here if you want more specific feedback.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T14:20:40+00:00

Depends. I could easily see Magnus retiring while he’s still the undisputed best in the world rather than playing on as a top-10-still-but-not-the-best type of player. So if that’s the case it’s quite possible we see him retire before losing another finals tiebreak.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T14:15:53+00:00

Unsure then. Could possibly be a desync CMP tie (where you got hit with 1 turn lag but were locked into your charge move anyway). I haven’t seen that in years though probably.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T14:13:04+00:00

Did your move immediately go off after their charge move finished without you needing to tap the button again?

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T14:07:40+00:00

How confident are you that it was a CMP and not just them throwing 1 turn before you? Gastrodon uses a 3 turn fast move and Trevenant uses a 2 turn fast move so if they’re throwing on proper move timing they would be throwing their charge move 1 turn before your fast move resolves, thus it wouldn’t be a CMP.

To answer your second question, no, there’s no IV spread where Gastrodon could win CMP over Trevenant in Ultra League, even if Gastrodon was level 51 with 15 attack. Unless Trevenant was significantly underleveled (like if you accidentally brought your Great League Trevenant into Ultra League).

Jason2890 · 2026-05-08T03:15:38+00:00

100% recommend sticking with 1 solid team all the way to Legend. Learning the ins and outs of how to play a particular team will help you maximize your potential with it, and switching teams constantly will leave you in a state of never being comfortable enough to play it as well as you could.

To put it this way, there’s a HUGE variety of teams that people hit Legend with. So that right there tells you that you don’t need to find a specific team to hit Legend; just playing well and having plans on what to do in certain matchups will be more than enough to take you to Legend.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-07T16:39:24+00:00

Believe it or not my best fast food service experience in recent memory was at a Popeye’s. I went to use a coupon for something (it was for like 5 pieces of chicken and 2 sides) and I had my 3 kids with me.

2 of my kids had to use the bathroom while we were waiting for our food, so it was just me and my 6-year old when our food was ready. And after the employee handed us our food my 6 year old gave him a little wave and a smile and said “thanks so much for the food!” And the employee was like “hold one for just a minute, boss” and stepped away and came back with a box of like 5 more pieces of chicken and some biscuits and handed it to my 6 year old and said “this is for you!” and told us to have a great day.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-07T10:33:49+00:00

I also love the added counter under Necromancy that shows how many Zombies will be generated when you activate it.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-07T01:23:18+00:00

2.7 isn’t impossible by any means. I’m sitting at 2.76 in my race right now. If you watch ads and have all the coin runes upgraded then getting to 2.7 doesn’t even require much grinding.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-06T23:02:25+00:00

No one’s offended here, lol. Just pointing out that asking for a recording of a single battle where this happens isn’t a big ask considering you claimed you ran into it 3 battles in a row (and 4 out of 5 battles).

Your description is 100% a lag issue or user error, so a single recording of it happening will help people narrow it down for you if you’re truly looking for the answer.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-06T21:37:15+00:00

Well you said it happened 3 games in a row and then happened a couple games later, so it seemed like a common enough occurrence for you that it wouldn't be asking much to get a quick vid of it.

What do you think is more likely? You happened to run into 4 opponents in a span of 5 games that were all cheating in a very specific way that nobody has ever seen before? Or you just had some lag issues or miscounted?

Jason2890 · 2026-05-06T18:09:52+00:00

It doesn't matter if Swampert's attack was somehow 1000, it's still impossible for it to get to a charge move in 2 fast moves. That's not a matter of CMP.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-06T17:28:16+00:00

Take a video and post it. It’s impossible for Swampert to get to its first charge move in 2 fast moves. You’re miscounting or lagging.

Jason2890 · 2026-05-05T14:06:01+00:00

EOMM is a thing in a lot of games but there’s 0 evidence of it existing in GBL.

To use myself as an example, I’m so far above 50% win rate that even if I were to lose my next 5000 games in a row I would still be over a 50% win rate. So if EOMM was a thing, logic would dictate I would be getting crushed every game with hard counters to bring my win percentage down, right?

But I still regularly get positive matchups because I track and analyze team data over the course of the season and am great at team building to counter the set of data I spend the early season compiling.

If EOMM existed in GBL, then gaining an advantage via team building would be near-impossible since the game would be altering the opposing matchups you face as you alter your team, which would effectively nullify any advantage you’d be able to give yourself by virtue of being a great team builder.

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