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 1. The Trainer Club 338K subscribers, 2.1K videos

2. Count Jinsula  43K subscribers, 942 videos

3. Trainer Tips  (1.06M subscribers, 1.2K videos

4. Poké Daxi   463K subscribers  1.9K videos

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GO Battle Weekend: Adventures Abound

GO Battle Weekend: Adventures Abound

Saturday, October 7, 2023, at 12:00 a.m. to Sunday, October 8, 2023, at 11:59 p.m

10/7- 10/8.2023, 12am-12pm,

• Free battle and Paid battle 
• Timed Research(Stardust, Rare Candy XL, and one Star Piece)

Paldean adventure

Paldean adventure

1. 9/5 Tue - 9/10, Sunday, 4XP, 4 stardust

2. Get 7km eggs

3. 1-star raid for Unonwn A, D, E, L, P

4. 3-star, Turtonator

5. Season-exclusive Special research 

Choose Sprigatito (Grass Cat Family)

Paldean Adventure Event: Top Tips, Strategies & Secrets from The Trainer Club

日记

今天 need to upgrade Pokemon。I upgraded successfully on AlanaAma account, but failed on Ashley. Check storage, only around > 1G. So I delete Target to get a little more space. Still failed. 

After I logged into Ashley using my daughter's phone. I delete Pokemon on my phone and reinstall. 

Surprise, the storage only need 421MB. After a short walk to put mons in Gym, now it is 500MB. I accidently deleted this account not long ago, I remembered I used up 2.1 GB internal storage.  Maybe I need to clean Pokemon this way. Now, my phone has 3G free space.

Alana Accouunt, internal storage is up to 2.70GB.

Pokemon Trade

我一直认为如果有 remote pokemon，人人都会像我一样 trade in order to win Pilot Medal。现实，没有几个人是像我这样的。人人只当成一个消磨时间的东西。我认真玩，想理解 Game。所以很短时间可以 level 45。不论做什么事，都要认真，才有收获。

A Glimpse of Game: What Have I Learned from Playing Pokemon Go?

Is game good or bad? All parents want to know. I am no exception. 

I have read many books about this topic, particularly about the social aspect of game.  Sherry Turkle's book,  Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, vividly describes how we live now. As her book title suggests, we are together but we all stare on our phone. Hence, alone together. Although Sherry Turkle is pessimistic about the negative effect of technology including games on people, Jane McGonigal tries to defend game in her book, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

In order to find my own answer, I have to play one. I choose Pokemon Go because I want to exercise my body. Pokémon Go makes players get out and walk around hence the name “Pokémon Go“. Most importantly, I choose it  because it is a social game. I want to meet people. In Dec 2021, I set up two accounts on two almost identical phones so that I can do comparison tests. Ten months later, I set up the third account to go over the entire process.

When I started, I didn't even know how to get Pokeballs from a pokestop. I tapped it instead of spinning it. Of course, no ball came out. It puzzles me first. Eventually, I figured that I had to swipe my fingers. 

After 9 months of play, I am almost at level 44 with 1,958 km walk, 35,181 catches, and 53,162,103xp. Roughly, 1500 xp/ per catch ( 53,162,103 / 35,181 ≈ 1,511). Usually, a player earn 100 XP for each monster they catch. An excellent throw will give them an extra 1,000 XP.  So, I did extremely well. 

Most players think they have to grind all way up to level 40 and beyond. But there are many tricks and tips to speed this process dramatically as I did in my case and the 3rd account for my family member ( In 4 days, he is at level 20 with only 203 catches).

Although there are many articles and YouTube videos teaching you how to play, but all come with caveats which sometimes is unaddressed. In my blogs, besides gathering here the most important and useful information here and there, I write my experience most related to how to increase XP. 

For beginners, how set up an account and how to level up fast are the most concerned. Click the links to my blog for details.

1. Set up an account. I recommend using Pokemon Trainer Clube instead of creating account with Facebook and Google. Here are steps. 
2. How to level up quickly, especially up to level 25. Here is my note.

 This game teaches me many things. Two lessons stand out:

1. Practice Makes Perfect
2. Learning by Doing

Having caught so many pokemons all by my hands not by catching devices, I truly understand the meaning of practice. Throwing a Great Ball was a challenge for me, now I can do it with ease. Needless to say, we all learn by doing it continually not only for playing games but also for everything.  

Article:

5 Reasons Why You Should Start Playing Pokémon Go

Pokemon Installation and Setup

Be aware: 

• You can only level the pokemon to 10 levels above your trainer level.  So you can not fully max it out until you hit level 40. 
• You can only get XL candy when you reach level 31 (before it is level 40)
• Inital Pokemon Storage 300; Item storage 350

On Oct 10/6/2022, I set up the 3rd account for my family. 

Now, I, my child and my husband have a pokemon account.

Now, I finally use Pokemon Trainer instead of using Google or Facebook to create a pokemon account. 

https://club.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-trainer-club/edit-profile/. So that I can more freely login into any phone to play.

There are many things I didn't notice before when I first played Pokemon, this time I try to make close observation and records the steps.

1. After downloading, when it runs, it immediately asks for DOB (date of birth)

2. Then set up an account. This time I use Pokemon Trainer Club instead of using Google or Facebook,  Email need to be verified.

3. Ask for a referral code. Time limit is up to 72 hours.

3. Set Nickname. It can be different from your Pokemon Trainer User name. But I choose to be the same. Note: Nickname can only be changed once. 

4.  Choose a team color

When I click the gym, it prompts up messages to choose a team.

5. When I start it, Pokemon CP will show ???. Only when I reach a certain level ( level 10, 15??, I can't remember exactly), CP will show up.  

You have to be at least level 5 to raid. Of course, if you want to raid Tier 5 Yveltal, you have to team up with several level 40 trainers. 

I create a raid room, with Ashley (43), Alana (41), I had to put Aaron's phone on my knee to raid (No hands to tap button. He just sat there and went through the raid process. The raid only lasted about no more than 2 minutes. He had enough mons to last for the raid. Aaron raid Yveltal at level 9. Raid is successful. But didn't catch Yveltal.

Note: Choose Buddy becomes Buddy History after a buddy is chosen. 

Oct 10/6/2022, 3rd account starts, 11:57pm

Oct 10/7/2022, Yveltal raid, 9:16am, level 9.

 

5. You can only level the pokemon to 10 levels above your trainer level.  So you can not fully max it out until you hit level 40.
This Rhyhorn was caught when Aaron was at level 9. 

  

6. Tag can only show at least level 15.  

I tried to create some tags and couldn't find it. So I wonder it would relate to trainer level. After Aaron hits level 15, tag messages shows up.

7. Install Pokemon Genie, only need to input trainer level