The Pokémon Go fanbase is fed up with the new tanking strategy taking over the game’s ranking system.
Pokémon Go has many different metas that run through the game based on the latest updates that strengthen or weaken various attacks.
However, a recent meta that has started to seep into the game is tanking, where players intentionally lose matches to lower their rank and get better rewards in easier fights.
The Pokémon community is upset with this meta, as it has reached a point where players are writing guides on how to tank properly.
Pokémon Go fans are fed up with the tanking method
These concerns were shared on the Pokémon Go subreddit, where one user posted about how to properly lose a game before your opponent.
Tanking: Guide to lose faster than your opponent (Yes, really) byu/Foulmouth232 inpokemongo
So far, the responses to this post have not been kind to the tanking strategy that has become the norm in the game.
One comment says: “This is how you know your game’s combat system is broken: when people make guides on how to give up faster than your opponent.”
Some users point out that this method gives better rewards than higher level matches, which incentivizes players to do it.
This has a significant impact on the experience for much of the community, as one person says: “And this is what the ‘fight’ has been reduced to. Well done, Niantic.”
Many Pokémon Go fans just want to enjoy the battle system for gameplay reasons and don’t want the idea of getting rewards to dominate players’ motivations.
“Tankers are crazy. I enjoy fighting regardless of rewards so I will never understand those who need to maximize their rewards so much,” someone else said in the thread.
This is something that’s happening enough to make Pokémon Go fans react this way, and they’d like to see a change.
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