I Lost 100,000 XP Because Of Pokemon Go’s Silliness

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Pokemon Go held Go Battle Day last weekend, on Easter Sunday no less. I’m not religious, so I took some time out of my day, in between mowing the lawn and attaching the final door to my flat-pack wardrobe, to do a few battles. I used to be incredibly into the metas and counter-metas of Go Battle League, and a few of my old Great League teams can still hold their own at lower levels, so it wasn’t much of a challenge.

I wouldn’t have bothered, however, if it wasn’t for the Timed Research. This offered four simple tasks and rewarded 55,000 XP - not an amount to shake your head at. This gets doubled if you popped a Lucky Egg - the duration of which was also doubled, making the precious item last for an hour on Sunday.

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The tasks were abnormally simple, including battling five times in Great League and battling 10 times overall. Power up a few Pokemon (my Apex Ho-oh still needs some love) and make sure some of your Charged Attacks are super-effective, and you’ve netted yourself 100k experience.

For comparison, you have to level up to Best Friends with a pal to get that much XP. That’s 90 days of interaction in an hour or so of battling. The idea of the day was definitely to help new players catch up with us experienced pros, but I’ll gladly accept a little experience buff on my grind to level 44.

However, I made a fatal error. I completed the tasks, and then left the app. “I’ll collect those rewards later and make the most of my Lucky Egg,” I thought to myself. Reader, I did not collect those rewards later.

I get it. No small portion of this is on me. It’s called Timed Research, the clue’s in the name. But I completed it within the