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The latest Pokemon TCG Pocket Event – Genetic Apex SP Emblem Event 1 – is in full swing and players are racing to earn all the available awards. However, the last award, The Gold Emblem, is proving a brutal challenge. In response, Pokémon TCG Pocket players are coming together to beat the event by deliberately conceding match-ups.
To earn the event’s highest award, The Gold Emblem, players must win five consecutive PvP battles. This might not seem like a lot, but it can be very difficult to maintain a win streak in Pokémon Pocket since the card game is very RNG. One game you might KO your opponent and the next you might pull a dud card and be wiped out for it. 5 wins is actually a brutal challenge, especially considering the last event only required that people earn a certain amount of wins overall and not consecutively.
You can’t host private battle servers either, and these games must be completed using the Event Battle option in the Battle menu. Despite trying to prevent win-trading (deliberately losing matches to help the opponent win) by preventing Private Battle servers, players are coming together as a community and helping each other get that all-important Gold Emblem reward. In particular, those who have already won the Gold Emblem are going into match-ups and deliberately conceding to help boost other people’s win streaks. This player’s reddit post appears to have sparked a bit of a movement in the community, inspiring people to go out and help their fellow trainers.
All is not sunshine and daisies in the Pokémon community’s response to this event, however. There have been many complaints about unsportsmanlike behavior as players try to force wins to beat the event. From going AFK or dragging things out in battles to try to eke out a win by forcing the other player to concede, there has been a decent amount of toxicity generated as a result of this challenging event.
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