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Useless PSA: Entering and leaving a gym battle adds 1 "Battles Won" to the gym defender.

One of our local multi-accounters just found out this, and is now exploiting this to build a massive "Battles Won" count on his main gym defender Blissey, by entering the battle with evo fodder on his Mystic account and leaving immediately.

Asked by DragoniteSlayer7 years 7 months ago
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Yes, but yeah, the battles won are basically useless.

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That's why I called it a useless PSA.

And anyway, these battles won do actually count in the battles won count which appears when you start a gym battle with that mon.

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A high "battles won" count could intimidate casual players and deter them from attacking. Then again, someone who uses multiple accounts to inflate the "battles won" count probably has more than enough golden razzberries.

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Agreed, in the grand scheme of things they are useless... but they sure look good when accumulated and viewed in the Raid Lobby...

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Your local multi accounter has too much time on their hands.

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70% of our local players have multiple accounts.

And I just found out that the 8-account lady actually shares her accounts with her family. Today I just saw her husband slotting in the same 8 accounts into a gym. I grabbed one of their slots, but they usually don't care.

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Most players show up for raids with three iPhones. As the exception, I am occasionally asked to lend a hand.

With how gyms and raids currently work, legit solo play is becoming increasingly unviable.

I guess Niantic do not care, because players with multiple accounts spend more money on the game.

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One player that I know does 3-phone Ttar/Absol raids in private lobby, with his Machamp and Hariyama armies. He does offer help to randoms (but not spoofers) who arrive late too.

The youngest multi-accounter in my area is only 12 years old! He was the one I was talking about, leaving battles to increase the battles won count.
He only uses 1 phone, but has 2 yellow and 1 blue accounts (actually he has more yellow "berry backpack" accounts). He has the same ZH/DG Blissey in both yellow accounts (which is coincidentally the same Chansey spawn where I caught my 96%), which he slots into gyms alternately.
His alt account used to be "shave protection" for his main when it was a lower level, but slowly as he maxed a Dnite and 2 Ttars on his alt (which is now L30), he starts to earn gym coins on it too.

Fun fact: He knows how to use Pokebattler. Don't underestimate 12-year-olds!

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hkn, Niantic are all about money, everything they do is centered around that. One reason why i lost love of this game.

So they don't care about Multiple accounts or Spoofers, that's the bottom line. Using Multiple phones is something i never did, that's obsession and it's not how the game should be played.

I guess i'm too morally righteous for GO!

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