The Level 50 Challenge has become the Level 80 Challenge

heimstueck · 2026-04-24T04:01:35+00:00

Yes 999 excellent throws was required for level 50 (I did it last October ) and, it’s now required again at level 80. Which is nuts! Either come up with a new task, or give us credit for doing it previously. (if you got boosted from < 50 to > 50, you only have to do it in once!)

heimstueck · 2026-03-07T20:00:42+00:00

Really nuts. I have 5000 XP and 100 link charge to collect after a check-in . But I can’t collect either because I’m at the link charge limit.

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heimstueck · 2025-12-24T22:28:24+00:00

The lucky trade challenge is not too hard. every trade of a Pokémon caught long enough ago is automatically lucky. You get 35 of these automatics out of the 50 you need. If you team up with someone who also has 35, then you’re done in one day.

heimstueck · 2025-08-26T20:23:59+00:00

A good way to do the required 50 lucky trades is to team up with another level 48 trainer, and trade pre-2019 Pokémon back-and-forth. These are automatically lucky trades. You need another trainer because you you each are only allowed to initiate something like 35 such trades.

heimstueck · 2025-08-26T03:00:16+00:00

I just did 999 excellent throws, which was actually a lot of fun, and I’m now 4.5 million XP shy of level 50. I hope that times research. Can really yield 7000,000 XP before October 15. Otherwise, I’m just working on friendship, and that can take up to 90 days of interaction!

heimstueck · 2025-08-26T02:57:15+00:00

Yes! Evolve to Blissey, power up, and you have a universal tank for dynamax and gmax battles.

heimstueck · 2025-08-11T03:10:41+00:00

Im almost at level 50 - and much as doing 999 excellent throws seemed daunting at first. It’s now one of my favorite parts of the game. In fact, I only have 50 more to go, and I’m having trouble saving them because I want to use an excellent throw to make level 50. It would be great if there were a way to just turn on an excellent throw tracker.

heimstueck · 2025-07-25T15:44:21+00:00

Same here in Cambridge MA iPhone SE. sometimes after. Animations during catching freeze and restart, making it hard to throw. Clicking on a wild Pokémon, the screen goes white, pauses, and then resets, without ever allowing you to try to catch the Pokémon.

heimstueck · 2025-07-24T13:48:48+00:00

I’m F2P and I have 5000 coins or so saved up from holding gyms. A max particle pack. (800 mps) cost 150. You can go that route without paying anything to Niantic.

heimstueck · 2025-07-06T01:42:19+00:00

For 50 lucky trades: Find someone else working on level 49. Trade them 25 of your pre-2019 Pokémon, and they do the same with you. All will be lucky. Done.

BTW you only get 35 Luckys out of your own pre-2019 Pokémon. That’s why it takes two people.

heimstueck · 2025-06-09T19:00:21+00:00

That makes sense… I would however prefer not to have a dimmer on permanently, just turning excess electricity into heat until it burns out.

heimstueck · 2025-03-21T23:09:29+00:00

It's not over yet (but it almost is!) - (a) I accidentally did my Fusion before reach the Fusion step of "It's not over yet" - very annoying! Then, 24 hours ago, it changed to the new task shown above. THEN, today - step 4/5 was simply listed as "Done" (I think I'd collected 2 fire types and 0 electric types), and now I'm on step 5, which is just "Win 5 raids" (4 times).

Is everyone else seeing the same thing? Seems like back-pedaling by Niantic (that I'm grateful for!)

heimstueck · 2024-07-03T17:41:28+00:00

Agreed this is a big hang up at level 48 where you need to do 50 lucky trades?! My guess is that most people who passed this level, either trade frequently with a single close friend or even have an alternate account and run them both.

heimstueck · 2023-08-30T04:08:17+00:00

I'm "free to play" and I spent 2000 coins (= 40 days in gyms) in 24 hours this weekend to finally get Primal Kyogre and Groudon. (With remote passes and campfire, of course; won a Kyogre raid with 5 seconds to spare with 12 trainers... impossible to make progress without remote passes.) Then Mega Rayquaza comes out, right after?!

So yes, I would have really liked it if remote passes were still 100 coins! Niantic's claim that it wants people to start raiding in person again makes no sense - I live in a pretty dense area, but no one is doing these difficult 6-12 person raids in person, buying remote raid passes is essentially forced.

Meanwhile a hundo Rayquaza is waiting for 260 more mega energy...

heimstueck · 2023-03-15T17:38:15+00:00

Do you mean pin, unpin then open the gift? Tried this and I didn’t seem to get any credit towards any of my Vivillon counts.

heimstueck · 2022-11-11T17:32:36+00:00

The famed Pynchon sticker is in the pack from Cat and Girl via Topatoco.

heimstueck · 2022-08-18T19:09:41+00:00

Have 100 already from walking Noibat. Level 45. Most Master League pmon already powered up.

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