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Congratulations on Level 44, Trainers!
You have now surmounted one of the most tedious challenges on the road to 50 menus, so give yourselves a pat on the back. I hope you learned a thing or two about PvP from the last 90 Trainer battles, though, because this one is also about battling. Except, this time, you will be battling Team Rocket GO NPCs.
Your tasks for this challenge are as follows:
The challenges in the future really require that you have a decent bank of items to heal and revive your Pokémon with, as well as strong Pokémon to use for these challenges. Furthermore, you will need luck – GO Rocket members spawn regularly, but it isstill random. There will be times you will go out to your favoritePokéStops, and one of these NPCs may not spawn for a long time.
These challenges are going to take you some time to do. Unfortunately, it isprimarily based on RNGwhether or not you will see spawns, and there are a few things you can do to try to increase your encounters with these NPCs.
Defeat 100 Team GO Rocket Grunts
While Grunts are theeasiestof the Team GO Rocket NPCs to fight, they can still pose a challenge to under-prepared Trainers. Team GO Rocket Grunts specialize in variousTypings, and luckily, your first chance to spot the Pokémon Types they will have is before you enter into battle with them. This also means there are21 types of Gruntsto keep in mind at any given time.
When you interact with aPokéStop photo discthat a Grunt is haunting, you will get an interaction with the NPC that will allow you to see itsdialogue.Thedialogue corresponds with the Pokémon Typesthat Grunt will use. Keep in mind, some of these Grunts will have different loadouts based on theirgender, as well. These are the dialogue lines and their Typings you may expect to see:
After you get the dialogue line, you’re able to back out of the interaction if you need some time to figure out the team you will use.
It is worth noting that Grunts have a static pool of Pokémon that gets changed very rarely. If you encounter two of the same type of Grunt, there’s a chance the Grunts will have some, if not all, of the same Pokémon on their teams.
Purify 100 Shadow Pokémon
Purifying Pokémon is more tedious than it is difficult. You see, sinceyou have to fight 100 Grunts for this challenge anyway, you can sort of complete this challenge as a natural extension of that. Just catch every Pokémon that the Grunts or Leaders you beat drop, and then purify them.
I recommend doing boththis challenge and the previous one simultaneously. It’s a headache and a nightmare to manage your Pokémon inventory if you are banking shadow Pokémon for the future, and since you have to fight 100 Grunts and 50 Leaders anyway, there is just no reason to do so.
That said,be careful about the Pokémon you choose to purify. verify that you are checking every single Pokémon’s IVs that you catch. If you find a high IV Shadow Pokémon, it will be more worthwhile to keep that Pokémon as a Shadow Pokémon.Shadow Pokémon do more damage than their normal or purified counterparts, so purifying them is ultimately a waste of an opportunity to get a massively hard-hitting Pokémon. Keep in mind thatShadow Pokémon with mediocre IVs still tend to do better than normal or purified Pokémonwith high IVs while sifting through your inventory to figure out which ones you want to let go of.
Defeat a Team GO Rocket Leader 50 Times
This is the part of the Level 45 challenge that will likely take you a couple of weeks to complete.
Team GO Rocket Leaders arerare spawns. Unfortunately, there is not much you’re able to do to try and get to see them more other than fighting Grunts. ensure that you also battle each of yourGO Rocket Grunt Balloons every day, as these can have a chance at spawning Team GO Rocket Leaders as well.
You will want to keep battling Grunts, even well after you have completed the first challenge on this list.Grunts will drop mysterious components that can be put together to make Rocket Detectors. Rocket Detectors will help you find a Team GO Rocket Leader.
If you are lucky, you may see them spawn once or twice every couple of days. In general, you can probably expect to fight a Team GO Rocket Leader 3-4 times a week if you are keeping on top of Grunt encounters as well.
Other than the RNG aspect of this challenge, the Team GO Rocket Leaders areextremely strong NPCs. In addition to having very strong Pokémon, Team GO Rocket Leaders also comeequipped with 2 shieldsjust like that of the ones you use in PvP.
You will not be able to beat a Team GO Rocket Leader with just any team, so make sure you pay special attention to their Pokémon when you encounter them, or to check online to see if anyone has recorded their pool of Pokémon and adjust your teams by that instead.
Earn 10 Platinum Medals
The Platinum Medals challenges makes its return, and by this point you should haveat least 5 of thesealready completed. My advice to you is to keep catching as many Pokémon as possible, spinning as many Photo Discs as possible, and inhabiting as many gyms as possible.
For the sake of this challenge, it is probably worth your while to focus mostly on theTypemedals. These medals tend to complete themselves the fastest, and the catch bonus they give is nice for catching Legendary Pokémon from raids.
Pokémon Go: Level 40 to 50 All Tasks and Rewards
Ascending the levels from Level 40 onward is no easy task. This guide exists to help you navigate and prepare for these tough challenges.
