{"id":50384,"date":"2020-07-21T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2664754"},"modified":"2020-07-21T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:40:00","slug":"pokemon-go-battle-league-cheaters-how-they-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/pokemon-go-battle-league-cheaters-how-they-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon GO Battle League cheaters: How they did it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"postimage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.slashgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pokemongobattleleague2020-1280x720.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon GO Battle League cheaters: How they did it\" width=\"732\" height=\"412\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>There&rsquo;s a way to effectively cheat your way to the top-10 ranking in Pokemon GO Battle League right this minute. To do it, all you need is a WHOLE lot of time on your hands and a willingness to lose a whole BUNCH of battles. There&rsquo;s a &ldquo;hidden&rdquo; reward multiplier in the game that activates the more times you lose. People that use this method are called &ldquo;Tankers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tanking is a term that, in this case, means you&rsquo;ve started a battle with the intention of losing. Tanking a match means you let your opponent win. The more you lose, the higher your &ldquo;MMR&rdquo; reward is multiplied. Pokemon GO Battle League has a ranking system which relies on MMR: Matchmaking Rating.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage gamers to continue playing the game even if they&rsquo;re not&hellip; very good at battling, Niantic&rsquo;s enabled a &ldquo;play until you win&rdquo; system in Pokemon GO Battle League. Once you lose a few matches in a row, your match MMR starts to multiply. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheSilphRoad\/comments\/hv3596\/how_i_reached_the_1st_place_in_the_global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trial4life<\/a>&nbsp;on The Silph Road on Reddit, the hidden multiplier, reported by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheSilphRoad\/comments\/het3o5\/gbl_how_i_became_the_first_to_get_to_rank_10_in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lollersox<\/a>&nbsp;about a month ago, is still quite active.<\/p>\n<p>Once a player gets to a few hundred losses in a row, their multiplier goes up by a massive amount. Pokemon GO Trainers can get absurdly high MMR and get to the top of the league by just&hellip; losing.<\/p>\n<p>Technically this is not against Niantic&rsquo;s Terms of Service, as far as we&rsquo;ve been able to tell, so it might not be an official &ldquo;cheat&rdquo; as it were. But given the state of the Pokemon GO Battle League and the fact that people are, indeed, using this exploit, it might be time for Niantic to hit the pause button once again.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: If the Pokemon GO Battle League is down again very soon, this is probably why. Cross your fingers there&rsquo;s a fast solution to the situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheSilphRoad\/comments\/het3o5\/gbl_how_i_became_the_first_to_get_to_rank_10_in\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheSilphRoad\/comments\/het3o5\/gbl_how_i_became_the_first_to_get_to_rank_10_in\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Chris Burns <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Chris Burns <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" alt=\"\">There&rsquo;s a way to effectively cheat your way to the top-10 ranking in Pokemon GO Battle League right this minute. To do it, all you need is a WHOLE lot of time on your hands and a willingness to lose a whole BUNCH of battles. There&rsquo;s a &ldquo;hidden&rdquo; reward multiplier in the game that activates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/21\/pokemon-go-battle-league-cheaters-how-they-did-it\/\">Continue reading <span>Pokemon GO Battle League cheaters: How they did it<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/pokemon-go-battle-league-cheaters-how-they-did-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pokemon GO Battle League cheaters: How they did it - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/pokemon-go-battle-league-cheaters-how-they-did-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pokemon GO Battle League cheaters: How they did it - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&rsquo;s a way to effectively cheat your way to the top-10 ranking in Pokemon GO Battle League right this minute. 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