Pokémon GO Battle League

The
GO Battle League
(Japanese: GOバトルリーグ Get Battle League), sometimes shortened to the
GBL, is a characteristic in
Pokémon Go
which allows for competitive, online trainer battles. This was introduced by Niantic on January 28, 2020.^[one]
The GO Battle League takes grade over a Battle League Season^[2]
then that the league can provide different tournaments, cups, and rewards each and every season. Only trainers who are in a higher place level 10 tin can participate.^[3]

In April 2020, the Go Battle League Leaderboard was introduced to show the meridian 500 trainers in the earth.^[four]

Initially, players got five battle sets per day, and earned i more for each v kilometres (3.i mi) walked.^[2]
This walking requirement has since been lifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]

Tournaments and Leagues

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Leagues

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The Dandy League was the starting time selection out of the iii Leagues introduced in the Go Boxing League. The Neat League but allows Pokémon with a CP (Combat Power) of 1,500 or lower to participate.^{[half dozen]}
The Ultra League was the 2nd League rolled out which but allows Pokémon with a CP no higher than 2,500.^[vii]
The last League is chosen the Master League which has no limit on the number of CP a Pokémon has.^[8]
Starting from November 30, 2020, Pokémon tin can be powered up beyond level 40 using Processed XL, prompting a Master League Classic format where Pokémon powered up with Processed XL are excluded.^[nine]

Season 7 introduced the Great League Remix Cup where the top ten most used Pokémon in the Neat League were banned from competing.^[ten]

Season 8 introduced the Ultra League Remix Cup, and along with
Bully League Remix, banned Pokémon were expanded to the top 20.^[11]

Cups

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Cups are limited-fourth dimension, usually themed formats that have limitations on participating Pokémon in addition to their CP. The outset Cup introduced in the GO Boxing League was the Premier Cup. The Premier Cup bans whatever Legendary and Mythical Pokémon and has a limit on CP depending on the ongoing League.^[12]
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The second Cup was planned to be the Flying Cup, in which only Pokémon with Flight typing are allowed, and yet over again, bans whatsoever Legendary and Mythical-type Pokémon. The participating Pokémon must have a CP under 1,500.^[xiv]
Season iv introduced the Halloween Cup, which allows only Poison-, Ghost-, Bug-, Nighttime-, and Fairy-type Pokémon, excluding the Legendary and Mythical Pokémon. This is the offset Cup where there is a restriction to the type of the participating Pokémon (the Flying Cup was the showtime Cup of this kind announced, just was delayed and really held after the Halloween Cup). The Little Loving cup introduced in Flavour v was the first time where a CP limit (500) other than ane,500 and 2,500 was applied in Trainer Battles. The Kanto Loving cup from Flavor v introduced Pokémon region as a restriction. The Catch Cup from Season 5 introduced the catch time of Pokémon as a restriction. The Honey Cup from Season half-dozen introduced the colour of Pokémon (according to the Pokédex)^[15]
as a restriction. Flavour 7 introduced the Retro Loving cup,^[16]
Season 8 introduced the Element Cup,^[17]
and Flavour 9 introduced the Little Jungle Cup^[xviii]
and Flavour 10 introduced the Sinnoh and Johto Cups respectively.

Summary of Get Battle League Cups

GO Battle League Cups	Running seasons	CP limit				Participating Pokémon Types	Other restrictions
		500	1500	2500	∞
Premier Cup (Master League)	2–4, 6, nine onwards				×	All	No Legendaries and Mythicals
Premier Cup (Ultra League)	3, four, 6 onwards			×		All	No Legendaries and Mythicals
Halloween Loving cup	four, 9		×			Ghost, Poison, Dark, Bug, Fairy	n.a.
Flying Cup	4		×			Flying	northward.a.
Picayune Cup	5	×				All	Unevolved and evolvable
Kanto Cup	5-8		×			All	Kanto Pokémon but
Catch Cup	5		×			All	But Pokémon caught during the Flavor No Mythicals
Vacation Cup	6		×			Normal, Grass, Electric, Water ice, Flying, Ghost	due north.a.
Love Cup	half-dozen		×			All	Merely red or pink Pokémon No Legendaries and Mythicals
Retro Cup	7		×			All only Steel, Nighttime, Fairy	n.a.
Chemical element Cup	eight	×				Burn, H2o, Grass	Unevolved and evolvable
Petty Jungle Cup	9	×				Normal, Grass, Electrical, Poison, Ground, Flying, Bug, Dark	Pokémon do not need to exist able to evolve to enter.
Sinnoh Cup	10		×			All	Only Pokémon from the Sinnoh Region can participate.
Johto Loving cup	10		×			All	Just Pokémon from the Johto Region can participate.

Seasons

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Pre-flavour

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The pre-season of the Go Boxing League started on January 29, 2020^[19]
and ended on March 13, 2020.^[20]
The pre-season included simply the Great, Ultra and Main League, withal, it did non have any GO Battle Cups.^[21]
In the pre-season, trainers could earn rewards such equally, gaining an encounter with the Legendary Pokémon Giratina and Tornadus, and also trainers above rank 4 were offered the Premium Battle Pass.^[22]

Season 1

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Season one was the commencement season of the Become Battle League. This lasted from March 13, 2020 and concluded May xi, 2020.^[23]
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In the season, the Great League ran from March xiii, 2020 to March 27, 2020. The Ultra League ran from March 27, 2020 to April 10, 2020, and the Master League ran from April 10 to the 24th. All 3 leagues were available to play on April 24.^{[25]
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Players earn items and encounters with rare Pokémon equally rewards for winning and climbing up Ranks.^[28]
At the end of the season, players who reached at least Rank 7 receive an Elite Charged TM.^[23]

Season 2

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Season 2 was the 2nd season of the Go Battle League. The season ran from May 11, 2020 to July 27, 2020.^[29]
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Season 2 introduced the Premier Loving cup, a new format in the GO Battle League.^[31]
The Great League ran from May eleven to June 1, the Ultra League ran from June 1 to June 22, and both the Principal League and Premier Cup ran from July 6 to July 20.^{[32]
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All three leagues and the Premier Cup were available from June 29 to July 6, upon the beginning of the Master League and Premier Loving cup solo. The Season 2 rewards stayed the same as in Season ane, except trainers received an Elite Fast TM instead of an Elite Charged TM for reaching Rank seven.^[34]
In improver, trainers could exist rewarded with different Pokémon encounters.

Flavor iii

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After initially having the technical bug from the terminate of the previous flavor, the third season of the GO Boxing League took place from July 27 to September 14, 2020.^[35]
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Flavour 3 introduced the Flying Cup, notwithstanding another format in the Go Battle League.^[37]
The Great League ran from July 27 to August 10, the Ultra League and the Premier Cup solo ran from Baronial 10 to August 24. The Season three Premier Loving cup had a 2,500 CP limit, whereas in the second flavour, it had no limit.^[38]
The Principal League and the CP no-limit Premier Cup ran from August 24 to September vii.^[39]
The Flying Loving cup was planned forth with the Go Battle Dark,^[40]
just both were postponed.^[41]
All 3 leagues and the Premier Loving cup were available to play from September vii to the 14th.^[42]
Mostly all of the rewards are the sane as Flavor 2, but the reward encounters have inverse, with Pidgeot starting at rank 1, the Galarian Zigzagoon starting at rank four, the Galarian Farfetch’d starting at rank 7, Rufflet starting at rank 8, Scraggy starting at rank 9, and Pikachu Libre starting at rank 10. If the player reaches battle rank ten, a make-new avatar pose and avatar particular are rewarded.^[43]

The authorisation of Registeel in both the Great League and the Ultra League concluded in this season due to the nerfs to both of its staple charged moves Wink Cannon and Focus Blast. The function of a dominant Steel-blazon Pokémon in the Peachy League was picked upwards by Galarian Stunfisk. Buffs to diverse Ice-, Ghost-, and Flying-blazon moves popularized Pokémon similar Drifblim and Abomasnow and increased the utilize of Pokémon like Honchkrow and Zapdos. Some Pokémon similar Pelipper and Empoleon gained access to new movesets and became more popular.^[44]
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Flavor 4

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Season 4 introduced the Halloween Cup, which is another format in the Go Battle League.^[46]
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Season 4 ran from September 14 to November 9.^[48]
The Groovy League ran from September 14, 2020 to September 2020, the Ultra League and its respective Premier Loving cup ran from the 28th to October 12, 2020.^[49]
The Master League and its own Premier Cup ran from the 12 to 24 October 2020.^[50]
Halloween Cup ran from October 26 to November 3 and allowed merely Ghost-, Toxicant-, Night-, Bug-, and Fairy-blazon Pokémon with a CP limit of 1,500.^[51]
All iii leagues and the Premier Cup were made available from November 3 to nine.^[52]
Players tin achieve ranks 3 through nine by winning sure numbers of battles.^[53]
The rewards are to stay the same equally the third season.

Flying Cup, which was planned for Flavour 3, was eventually held on November 5 forth with the originally planned GO Battle Dark bonus. Pidgeot caused in the duration of the Cup learns the new Flying-type move Gust.^[54]

With Flavour 4 came a new Problems-type charged move Lunge and the buff of several existing Bug- and Fire-blazon charged moves.^[55]
The popularity of the Problems-type Pokémon Galvantula in the Great league shot upwardly as a result.^[56]

Flavour five

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Running from November 9 to 30, Season 5 was only three weeks long and the shortest season yet.^[57]
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This was the first flavour where players Ranks were solely dependent on the number of battles won.^[59]
Unlike previous seasons which were each divide betwixt 3 Leagues, Season five featured 3 unique Cups: the Little Cup from November 9 to 16 allowing but unevolved-and-evolvable Pokémon with a CP limit of 500, the Kanto Cup from Nov xvi till 23rd confining to Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region with a CP limit of 1,500, and the Take hold of Cup from Nov 23 through 30th limiting to not-Mythical Pokémon caught later on the start of Season 5 and with a CP under i,500.^[sixty]
Legendary Pokémon were dorsum to the catch advantage pool starting at Rank seven.

Season 6

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The three-League format along with Premier Loving cup for Ultra and Primary Leagues returned in Season half-dozen, the kickoff half of which ran from November 30, 2020 to January 11, 2021.^[61]
The Rank organisation was overhauled and now had 24 ranks (upwardly from 10). Ranks of up to 20 required participating and winning a certain number of battles, while the final iv ranks required a certain MMR rating.^[9]
Since Pokémon can exist powered up across level 40 using Candy Forty equally of the start of Season 6,^[62]
Master League was further split and at present included Master League Classic which excluded Pokémon powered upwardly with Candy Xl. Holiday Loving cup was scheduled for Dec 28, 2020 to Jan 4, 2021 which was limited to Normal-, Grass-, Electric-, Water ice-, Flying-, and Ghost-Blazon Pokémon with a CP of 1500 or lower. The 2nd half of Flavour 6 started right after the finish of the first half and ran through March 1, 2021. The familiar format of the three main Leagues, Premier Cups, and Kanto Cup returned, and a new Beloved Cup ran from 8th to fifteen February.^[63]
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Flavor 7

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Flavor 7 of the Go Boxing League started on March 1, 2021, and ended on May 31, 2021.^[65]
This flavor likewise introduced the Retro Cup, in which all Pokémon types except for Steel, Dark, and Fairy types are allowed to participate. The CP cap limit is 1500.^[66]
It besides introduced the Great League Remix. The
Great League Remix
features an 1500 CP cap, and follows the same rules from the original Neat League, except the league bans 10 of the most pop Pokémon from the
Nifty League.^[10]
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The Smashing League ran from March ane to March 15, the Ultra League and its Premier Cup from March 15 to March 29, the Master League, Primary League Classic, and the Great League again from March 29 to April 5, the Corking League, Ultra League, and the Primary League over again from April five to April 12, the Great League Remix from Apr 12, 2021 to April 26, the Ultra League and its Premier Cup from April 26 to May 10, the Retro Cup from May 10 to May 17, and an unranked Kanto Cup from May 24 to May 31.^{[68]
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Some rewards which were included in Season vii for Standard users were Stardust, Items, and Rare Candies. For Premium users, the rewards included the following for Standard users, plus some Charged TMs.^[72]
Season vii boasted possible encounters with Pokémon such as Zebstrika, Poliwhirl, Deino, Lampent, and a Shiny Rufflet.^[73]

Season 8

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Season 8 of the GO Battle League started on May 31st, 2021^[74]
and ended on August 31st, 2021.^[75]
The season introduced the Chemical element Cup in which only first phase, nonevolved Burn, Grass, and Water types could participate.^[76]
It as well introduced the Ultra League Remix, modeled after Flavor seven’s
Great League Remix. Information technology follows the aforementioned rules equally
Ultra League, but The twenty Ultra League Pokémon most used by Trainers Ace rank and up in the Ultra League are banned from Ultra League Remix.
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This flavor also marked the return of Pokémon GO Battle Nights.^{[
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The first Battle Night took place on June iii, 2021.^[79]

After Razor Foliage was nerfed, popular fairy types with access to Amuse became fifty-fifty more ubitiquous. Rather than weaken Amuse, Flavour viii introduced a number of moveset updates and meaning buffs for diverse Poison types, equally well as making Draqon Tail do slightly more damage than Dragon Breath but generate less energy (4.33 DPT, 3 EPT). Pidgeot was given a very potent new move, Feather Trip the light fantastic, that unfortunately had bugging problems, leading to the ongoing ban on using Pidgeot in any GBL battles beyond all leagues. The motion was notwithstanding brought back in Season 9 after some improving.^[eighty]

Flavour ix

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Flavour 9 of the Get Battle League started on Baronial 30, 2021 and ended on Nov 29, 2021.^[81]
Trainers who reached Fable rank during Flavor nine qualified for the
Pokémon Become Championship Serial
(PGO) where the winners of the Title Serial advance to the 2022 Pokémon World Championship.^[82]
The season introduced the Little Jungle Cup, where but Pokémon nether 500 CP and with ormal-, Grass-, Electric-, Poisonous substance-, Ground-, Flight-, Bug-, and Dark-types were allowed. Shuckle and Smeargle were banned in the Loving cup.^[83]
Furthermore, Become Battle Days replaced Go Battle Nights, to make them more accessible. The flavour also marked the render of the Kanto Cup, selected by vote on Twitter, in which players would earn 3 times more than Stardust from win rewards.^[84]
Information technology also brought back the Premier Classic for both Main and Ultra leagues.^[85]

Season 10

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Season 10 of the GO Battle League started on 29 November 2021 and ended on i March 2022.^[86]
The season’south end was extended past a day (to March 1) due to the next season, Season 11 beingness “put on concur” later on the developers needed more time to add extra features.^[87]
The season started with the Swell League along with its remix cup from 29 November to thirteen December 2021.^[88]
The Ultra League and its remix cup ran from 13 to 27 December.^[88]
From sixteen to 31 December saw the return of the Vacation Loving cup.^[89]
From 27 December 2021 to 10 January 2022 saw the Principal League and the Master League Classic.^[88]
During this time, 3x Stardust Rewards (not counting end of set rewards) were given.^[ninety]
From 10 to 24 January, the Great League returned and a newly formed cup competition, chosen the Sinnoh Cup.^[88]
The Sinnoh Cup saw just Pokémon listed from 387 to 493 could participate, with a 1500 CP limit.^[91]
From 24 January to 7 February, the Ultra League and its Premier Classic Loving cup were active.^[88]
From 7 to 21 Feb, the Master League, its Premier Classic and Beloved Loving cup returned for the second time.^[92]
3x Stardust Rewards were once more activated during this time frame.^[93]
From 21 Feb to 1 March, it ran all three leagues, including another new loving cup competition where just Johto Pokémon were eligible to participate, and in which the CP limit was 1500.^[94]

Interlude Season

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The Interlude Season is the flavor following Season 10 in the GO Battle League.^[95]
The flavor started on 1 March, and will cease on ane June 2022.^[96]
The Interlude Season acts as an “interval”, and then Become’s boxing engineers can be given time to add new features and prepare bugs.^[97]
Because of this, rewards volition be based on battles won, only the ratings won’t exist visible nor will they bear upon rank.^[97]

Championships

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2022 Championship Series

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The 2022 Pokémon GO Championship Serial is a serial with a purpose of acting equally a qualification arrangement to the 2022 Pokémon World Title.^[98]
The series consists of events spread throughout the globe.^[99]
The serial is divided into the Senior’s and Master’s divisions.^[99]
The series’ format revolves around the Great League.^[99]
Players tin enter the championship either by attaining Legend rank during either Season nine or Flavor ten of the Become Battle League, or by registering via Play! Pokémon after the Fable-rank registration closes.^[100]
Every event is divided betwixt a regional or international upshot. The top Pokémon players at these events would exist given an invitation to the 2022 World Championship.^[100]
The earliest effect began on 26 March, in Liverpool, with the latest being on 24 June, in Columbus, Ohio.^[100]

A list of events featured in the series is listed beneath:

Become Championship Series Events

Region	Event	Date	Location	Requirements
North America	Indianapolis Regional Championships	6–viii May 2022	Indiana Convention Center, Indiana	Fable rank in S9 or S10
Northward America	Vancouver Regional Championships	27–29 May 2022	Vancouver Convention Middle, Canada	Fable rank in S9 or S10
N America	Milwaukee Regional Championships	17–xix June 2022	Wisconsin Centre, Wisconsin	Legend rank in S10
North America	North America International Championnships	24–26 June 2022	Greater Columbus Convention Center, Ohio	Legend rank in S10
Europe	Liverpool Regional Championships	26–27 March 2022	Exhibition Centre Liverpool, United Kingdom	Fable rank in S9 or S10
Europe	Europe International Championships	22–24 April 2022	Messe Frankfurt, Frg	Legend rank in S9 or S10
Europe	Lille Regional Championships	21–22 May 2022	Zénith de Lille, France	Legend rank in S10
Europe	Bremen Regional Championships	28–29 May 2022	Dice Glocke, Federal republic of germany	Legend rank in S10
Oceania	Perth Regional Championships	21–22 May 2022	Arena Joondalup, Australia	Fable rank in S10
Oceania	Melbourne Regional Championships	11–12 June 2022	St Kilda Town Hall, Australia	Fable rank in S10

References

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