Ahoy Hive Gaming community! I hope this is also a place where I can share this achievement in the mobile game Pokémon GO.
A while ago I posted about reaching level 48, which I posted quite late compared to the actual level up. This time I am posting it shortly after reaching level 49. As I reached level 49 yesterday and I'm already posting about it today!
One of my friends kept a lot of their Galarian Ponyta and Galarian Yamask from the events throughout October, so that we could mirror trade a lot of them together. As I also kept the ones I got.
Here you can see all the Galarian Ponyta and Galarian Yamask I caught in the last 60 days. Well you can't see all of them in one screenshot, but with the number on top you can see how many results I got from the search.
Yesterday we started trading, because both of still needed a bunch of Lucky Pokémon from trades we decided to wait until we had a lot to trade. A few Galarian Ponyta into the trades we got a Lucky one, and then soon after another Lucky Ponyta! It seems that with the Galarian Ponyta trades we were actually really lucky!
When we got close to the end of our Galarian Ponyta to trade, we realised that maybe we still had some older Galarian Ponyta from last year or so. Which we checked, and yup there were still some more Galarian Ponyta in our storage. So we decided to trade the majority of those as well. Just keeping 1-2 of our best Galarian Ponyta. After trading those, we had already done too many trades to also trade the majority of those Galarian Yamask.
That's when we decided to trade some of the Pokémon we hatched from 7 km Eggs during the Halloween event for the same Pokémon caught here. After that we also mirror traded some Dragon-type Pokémon and some others.
As you can see we really got Lucky with the Galarian Ponyta because 8 of them turned out to be Lucky!! Out of those just over 30 that we traded only 4 became Lucky. Because as you can see the other 4 have the banner showing they're from 2021. After the Ponyta we weren't that Lucky as we only got 1 more Lucky Pokémon after the Ponyta by the time we reached the daily limit of 100 trades.
In this next photo you can see that I received 35 Galarian Ponyta from trades that aren't Lucky. So adding those 8 Lucky Ponyta to that, we ended up trading 43 Galarian Ponyta. My friend had 3 Shiny Galarian Ponyta from that event, and I had 2. So we decided to trade one Shiny as well (the one with the worst stats).
Further in the screenshot are some of the other Pokémon that we traded as well. Which includes some of the Pokémon hatched from 7 km Eggs during the Halloween event. Also Sewaddle as we're still trying to get that Lucky. My friend also gave me her Shedinja and I gave her Sunkern in return because she's missing Lucky Sunkern in her Pokédex. She already has a 100% IV Shedinja (received from a trade with me in the past) so she didn't need to mirror trade those. So she was happy with receiving Sunkern for those.
Both of us had hatched a few 7 km Eggs during the Halloween event. Trading those for Pokémon caught here is great to work on the medal for trading distance as we hatched Eggs received from gifts from far away.
With those Lucky Pokémon received from the trades I finally had enough Lucky Pokémon obtained from trades since the start of level 48 to reach level 49! I reached level 48 at the end of August, and now reaching level 49 just 2 months and a few days later. Here are the screenshots of levelling up to 49.
Now let's take a look at those requirements for level 50.
As you can see I almost have the experience for level 50 already. Just less than 4 mil exp away.
The additional tasks to complete for reaching level 50 are:
As you can see the last one is already completed. I did see that one get completed shortly after I hit level 49. It is to reach rank 10 in the GO Battle League. Which I already am as I reached rank 20 in this season. I do wonder if this task would become uncompleted if the season resets in December or not. I doubt that would happen since it's marked as complete, but am not completely certain.
Honestly for a moment I thought that we had to defeat Rocket Leaders with Pokémon that are 1,500 CP or less. Which would have been even more difficult! Although I have some Pokémon at that CP that I sometimes use or have used in Great League. I don't play Ultra League that often so I have less Pokémon near 2,500 CP. My Lucario is one of those that I have kept just below 2,500 CP though so will definitely use that.
In about 2 weeks there will be a Rocket Takeover event, and most likely the Rocket Leaders will change their lineups then. I think I'll wait until then to see what they have. Although it might be easier to complete this task now that they have Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle as leads. I'm hoping one of them will have Shadow Ralts as their lead if their lineup changes. Because then I could try to get Shiny Shadow Ralts!
The 999 Excellent Throws will be quite easy. I do sometimes play with the GO plus device to catch Pokémon, but not that often. Because I played so long without one, and still most of the time catch them myself, I have become really amazing at throwing Excellent Throws. So much so that I often talk about required exp in amount of Excellent Throws 😂
Now the question is will I get those 999 Excellent Throws completed first, or get the experience first. 999 Excellent Throws is like 1.1 million exp, much less than what I still need. But this weekend Dratini Community Day is coming up, so I'll put on a Lucky Egg and get some friendship ups with other Trainers which will be quite some exp too.
Then the thing is also, I kinda wanna reach level 50 by catching an Eevee as it's one of my favourite Pokémon. Which would require getting the exp, completing the other challenges and then hitting the 999th Excellent Throw on an Eevee. If the Rocket Leaders lineup changes in about 2 weeks and one of them has Ralts, then I might actually consider beating them with a max 2,500 CP party and catch the Shadow Ralts to reach level 50. I'll have to wait and see about that, so I better don't go too crazy with the Excellent Throws these next two weeks.
I should definitely be able to achieve level 50 by the end of the year. Probably even this month actually? Depends if I'd wait until a friend also has the exp for 50 or if I'll just level up as soon as I can.
Quite a long post because of including all the trading talk that I did to reach level 49. Thanks for reading!
