Zackerie Fairfax
❘ Published: 2023-03-04T20:05:03
❘ Updated: 2023-03-04T20:05:12
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Pokemon Go players specifically tank their ranks in the Go Battle League to earn more rewards, and now it’s easier than ever with a fan-made tutorial on how to tank faster than your opponent.
A new trend has seen Pokemon Go players tank their rank in the Go Battle League so they can face off against lower ranked players and claim an absurd amount of rewards. This trick caught on so quickly that tankers are having a hard time losing games fast enough.
This is because tankers are constantly facing off against other trainers who are also trying to tank their Pokemon Go Battle League rank – and since players only need to finish the battle to be considered lost, battles between tankers look more like western quickdraws .
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Pokemon Go Battle League ranked play has turned into a race to the bottom, and a trainer has created a step-by-step guide to show players how they can never win a ranked battle again.
How to quickly tank up your Pokemon Go Battle League rank
The guide on how to tank your Go Battle League rank was posted on Reddit by user Uunikana. They captioned the post, “A Guide to Tanking: How to Throw Games Faster Than an Enemy Tanker (Yes, Really)”.
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Accompanying the title was a photo of a phone showing a Trainer Battle countdown. A hand of different heights was shown on each side of the phone, and a step-by-step guide explained how players can “lose faster than their opponent”.
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“For the countdown, place your thumbs as they are in the image on the left,” said step one. “Left thumb in the top left corner where the Exit button appears and right thumb in the area where the Yes button appears.”
The guide goes on to explain how to use your thumbs to quickly finish the game before your opponent. It seems that the new “tank meta” unintentionally solves the problem it was designed to work around.
Players started tanking in the Pokemon Go Battle League so they could win more games against less experienced players. However, tankers give players a lot of free wins and rewards. “Thanks to tankers, I won 13 battles in a row!” One user commented. Another said: “God bless the tankers, they drive around giving achievements to casual players like me.”
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