Would be interesting to see what a day of him playing looks like. I had a look on his Twitter and he's catching over 2000 pokemon a day on average in 2021.
BrandonTan reached 1 billion exp awhile ago. If you want to see what a top player does in general, he does a lot of vlogging-type content. But he is certainly not a free-to-play player lol
I live in the same town as him. He has a gym at home, which is constantly filled with pokémon with over hundreds of berries fed every day. He doesn't show up publicly at all, and only a few people actually know him in person in the portuguese community, which led to our local town players to believe he was a flier, until a raid where a friend of ours brought his name to the conversation and another person told us that he knew him. It is true, and that person who knows him, is one of the closest friends he has in-game. It's absolutely crazy how someone who has a full-time job can still play so much time per day. Also, I've never seen any other pokémon attached in any with his name but Chanseys. It's funny, whenever I see a yellow gym with a Chansey I know it's him! Portuguese blood here !
how's the gym culture in Portugal? it's nearly impossible to hold a gym to get full coins everyday here in Singapore without dedicating your entire waking hours watching it for the full 8h20m. So it's a surprise that he can hold it for that long on a consistent basis.
It’s also insane to think not only has mystic spent $10,000 on the account alone, but he’s also indirectly spent much more money on his account when you take into account hotels, food, flights, and all the events he’s gone too! Truly insane I wish that was my job! much love ❤️ keep up the great vids
Yeah, I like to think I'm FTP, but when you think about the all the little extra bits of driving in order to swing past non-gold gyms or similar, then it's really quite a bit of extra fuel.
pretty dumb comparison this is his job so obviously he has to spend money on ingame content to produce his youtube content and traveling is part of the game so again another dumb comparison...
Those stats are impressive, I was alittle surprised but my Gym Leader badge is a smidge higher. With it currently sitting at 334,852 hours. But on every other stat, I was left in the dust. :) Very impressive account, and great video :)
He's from my city, I know him in person, I also know, like all Portuguese PoGo community that he's definitely not a legit player. If we look at those stats and do some math, its humanly impossible to do the amount of kms he has, also considering we had lockdown and we were stuck at home.... So yeah, free to play, but playing from home.
Thanks for doing this, it is absolutely possible to spend very little money on pogo and still have fun. Obviously defending gyms is key so you can buy remote raid passes so I make that a priority and it’s actually pretty fun putting my Pokémon in every nearby gym
I respect your wife’s ability to run 10 miles a day but has she done that every single day for 6 years? I’ll add that for each day she doesn’t, she has to run twice as much another day to make up for it.
This is a great video! Really fun to compare the two accounts. One thing that wasn't talked about is the TIME invested. Comparatively, I'm sure that the money you spent to get what you have in Pokemon GO allowed you to put more time elsewhere. With the amount of catches and steps the F2P account has, I imagine that there isn't much time for anything else. It's time or money that we spent to get what we want in life.
@@Aidanhex3 You're telling me that dragonite walking distance is average of 45km per day for 1000 days straight. That is a marathon every day for 3 years straight.
Hey mystic! After i watched this video i was catching Zigzagoon and i found a shiny! After that my research gave me another zigazagoon shiny and it was A SHUNDO!!!! you have been a lucky charm to me mystic. I lost a genesect raid yesterday and i didnt catch it but my cousin did! But i have gained luck from you! MUCH LOVE MYSTIC!!!
I didn’t get a shundo zigzagoon during com. day But I got something even better after the event Shiny Yanma!!! If you are confused on my I am so excited it’s because when I was a kid like 7 yrs. old, my brother was playing pearl on his DS and I was next to him watching. While he was running around in the grass, he told me he unlocked the “shiny powers of the god” and the next Pokémon he ran into would be shiny. I was confused, obviously. Then he ran into a Yanma… And it was blue
@@admiraloldm8564 Nice. I honestly stopped playing though. I moved back home from Korea, and gyms here in south are like 5 miles apart and you wont get knocked out of them for 2 months hehe.
@@Atomazersky spoofing is using 3rd party software to travel to different places. A bot account uses a 3rd party app to catch Pokémon, spin stops, etc. They can be used together or separately. You can have a bot account play for you in your area.
Imagine thinking that money is the only currency. 😂😂😂 TIME is a currency too. He pays for those 50 daily coins with time. It would take way less time to max out your item storage and Pokemon storage by paying real money from working a minimum wage job in the U.S. for 1 or 2 weeks than it would grinding 50 daily coins for more than TWO years (2 years, 4 months, and 2 days) to max out both storage options as a free to play player. Paying money to max out both storage types completely (6100 slots + 5100 slots) costs APPROXIMATELY US$300+tax. On a new account, it takes 468 days of earning 50 daily coins to max out your Pokemon storage to 6100 and it takes 384 days of earning 50 daily coins to max out your item storage to 5100. No matter what route you take, you're still paying one way or another. My friend does plenty of online surveys and he redeems his points for Google Play gift card codes which he uses in Pokemon Go. He's still paying with time.
Yeah. Was just about to say there's no way he has a normal job if he has those stats as a F2P person. He also must live in an area that's very dense with gyms and pokestops.
technically mystic has spent wayyyyyyy more money than 10k if u include all the plane tickets that it took to get to the in person events such as safari zones and go fests
U can make XL candy from rare candy. And he probs transferred M2s when it was 2x transfer candy AND this season u get an extra candy + XL candy for trading ;) Nothing is impossible. And having only one lvl 50 M2 isnt that sus honestly.
When i first saw his stats I thought he was definitely spoofing but then when I saw some medals that weren’t as good and his explanations it kinda makes sense now
@@Blazicle Thousands? More like hundreds of thousands of times, I've hear a comment say that he has a gym right next to his house, he probably spins it every 5 minutes as soon as it's available.
@@dhhahshxuj2147 there was a point in the video when showing the medals when it shows that despite spining way more pokestops than mystic, they werent unique stops. 3:44
@@RGC_animation bro can just connect his go plus and let it spin for em all day at home, it can even drift and collect more than 1 stop and mons. very plausible.
Interestingly enough I wouldn't say that f2p players can't raid. I'm a complete f2p player and most of my top CPS are shiny legendaries. I dedicate alot of my free coins to raid passes as also my storage upgrades.
The amount of eggs hatched is suss. I’m not sure how long egg hatching has existed in Go… was it from the very start? I guess if they’re using a phone swing/spoofing regularly and constantly incubating eggs with freebies, it could be possible without paying? If you divide the distance walked by 6 years worth of days, they walked 26km-27km per day. That’s nearly 200km per week they walk on average. Not likely. Which means they use phone swing or spoofing, or both, and obviously they would be using auto catchers etc. on top of that. So, I guess that’s technically free to play, but it’s also definitely cheating. Even if auto catchers technically aren’t cheating, you’ve spent money on something third party to get an edge in the game, so that’s not F2P either. But phone swings and spoofing are definitely cheating. So, if this person has mainly not spent money, that’s cool good on them, but the number of hatched eggs is a bit suss, then but that could be more of a flag for the fact that they’re using some other cheating way of getting so much distance travelled… so maybe they’re not buying incubators… So, that also means whatever distance their buddy has travelled shouldn’t be taken seriously… It’s just not believable that they would consistently walk/run 26-27km a day over that period of time, especially through COVID lockdown era, even if they were a long distance runner, and if it were work related, they wouldn’t have that much time to be playing and catching and changing eggs, feeding buddy etc. Just an observation…
I walk/bike about 20km a day while playing, this is including anything added with adventure sync when the game isn't open during the day at work. Completely believable especially depending on the persons job and playstyle. But yeah he definitely uses some sort of auto catcher/spinner.
@@trooper391 you’re giving way too much benefit of the doubt. I find it hard to believe that you could consistently do that at that level and have a job at all. So either you’re a kid and don’t have financial obligations, in which case unlikely you’re doing 26kms, if you have a job that requires you to move that much you’re not allowed to be on your phone all the time. And that’s just if you work out the average over 6 years worth of days. That means there’s days where you’ve done way more than that, as there’s other things you need to do in your life where you’re not able to walk much or at all in a day, especially during covid which is basically a third of that time period… Even with adventure sync, you need to be opening up your app all the time and changing eggs with your free incubator. It’s barely possible if at all. It would have to involve spoofing or phone swing, no way that’s legitimate distance travelled. If they are super fit/marathon runner, they’re not going to be that focused on playing a mobile game either… just doesn’t add up. Consider the fact that they’ve supposedly only missed 15 days of pokecoins, which means they’re also very active, and what it costs to buy the storage space, what it costs to buy other items including passes for raids and incubators, and it would have to be so much min maxing it’s ridiculous. You said you do about 20kms including riding your bike, but you can’t play when you ride your bike. Do you stop every 5kms or 10kms and change eggs, feed your buddy all this stuff?
Good observation, but he's a known spoofer in Portugal. He's probably sitting at home reading the comments as his spoofing app is doing all the work with an emulated Go Plus in the middle of Lisbon or Zaragoza
I'm just overall not really wowed by any account that can catch,spin,feed,fight etc....whilst at home it's inevitable they'll have high stats. These stats however are frickinh insane 🤯 Unless this man knew how to play like we do in 2022 in 2016 I dunno 🤣...but hey let me just shush 😅
Holy hell! Imagine being COMPLETELY f2p and getting that high stats AND a world record!! Im mostly f2p, i earn most of my coins from gyms but that is impressive
"Lemme know if you beat PIRATE on any of his stats." Well personally I don't have any, but I bet many of you guys have the "total money spent" stat higher.
This just goes to show how money can't buy everything, and you'll lose if you play against the WORLD's best grinder, other people tho, you'll probably still win.
I´m also a free to play player and spent 0$ on my account. I live in an area surrounded by forest with only small villages. This was hard in the first years as there were almost no spawns, pokestops and gyms around ( maybe 1-3 gyms per village). I focused on the arena play as I it´s easy to defend some lost gyms for days and weeks here. My gym medal is currently at 491.007 hours and I´m holding between 10-20 every day.
Pirate has a amazing acc those catches are insane!! Rlly inspiring. To answer the question asked at the end: One medal i know i got more on is the evolve medal.
@@hansnikkelen7557 Imagine thinking that money is the only currency. 😂😂😂 TIME is a currency too. He pays for those 50 daily coins with time. It would take way less time to max out your item storage and Pokemon storage by paying real money from working a minimum wage job in the U.S. for 1 or 2 weeks than it would grinding 50 daily coins for more than a year to max out both storage options. Paying money to max out both storage types completely costs APPROXIMATELY US$300+tax. On a new account, it takes 468 days of earning 50 daily coins to max out your Pokemon storage to 6100 and it takes 384 days of earning 50 daily coins to max out your item storage to 5100. No matter what route you take, you're still paying one way or another. My friend does plenty of online surveys and he redeems his points for Google Play gift card codes which he uses in Pokemon Go. He's still paying with time.
weirdly did the math on this dude only spent around 25-30 days not walking in the total entirety of existence of Pokemon Go. hes walked over 1600 hours just playing this game
Feeling proud now I have caught very less Pokemon compare to both of them because I don't play for like months and them come back when I feel like or just play community day but I have more shando(7) than such a grindy players
I have an important question. Should I use my super rocket radar right now to get shadow Latias? Or can somebody tell me when the next Pokémon should be out
Shadow latias is ass, also you can save the radar, just don't complete the research until the next shadow is available and get 2 of those because when you complete the old research the current research task will become available.
I think this is one of the things that keeps the game going - there are so many ways to play the game. I'm free to play, but some of my stats crush both these guys (gym leader is well over 250k now) while many others are well under. And don't ask about my PVP badges. :D
@@lores1382 See, I wondered that - do we know if for sure? Certainly there's some defit action going on, but I'm not convinced that the numbers prove spoofing.
I'd be much more interested in seeing the stats of a F2P person who lives in the country vs this F2P person who probably lives among hundreds of stops and gyms.
Whoever this free to play player is they have definitely given me hope, cuz I never had any money of my own to spend on this game anyways and I always thought it was the reason I was lower level compared to everyone, but god damn now I don’t even want to spend money anymore
The fact that Pirate is from Portugal like me and has all these world records being F2P and made it into a Mystic7 video makes me happy for whatever reason haha
@@mermaidbia7459 pois isso eu já não sei, mas realmente ter tanta coisa como f2p é complicado, tinha de ter muito tempo livre haha. Mas pronto, de qualquer maneira é sempre interessante ver Portugal representado, especialmente porque às vezes parece que há muito poucas pessoas que jogam ou gostam destas coisas aqui comparando com outros países
He started in november 2016 so he played for almost 6 years that x 365=2190 . lets be generous and say 2200. he visited 1.500.000+ pokestops. thats 1.500.000 : 2200 = 681 stops per day MINIMUM. You cant tell me thats legit.
Anyone else see total distance traveled being over 57,000km and wonder the daily average needed to walk that far? Roughly 25km a day, everyday for 6 years straight to walk 57,000km total. That’s impressive but leads to a huge question. How?
Even though I have spent $10,000+ on the game, my account is worse than many of the FTP players because I have such horrifying luck. I am the only player in my community to have 5 10/10/10 mythical Pokémon.
Got you both beat on Gym Leader and Scientist. 386.288 hours and 20.810 evolutions. I'm mostly free to play. Early on I bought a 1200 coins package and a 550 coins package. Last three years I bought three local GO fest event passes.
Just my opinion-- nobody is really "Free-to-play" since spending time on the game itself has costs such as Mobile-data and any player would feel hungry after catching/spinning/Evolving for XP and therefore would spend for food. Gym coins would at least pay enough for the One poke-coin bundles but then again he/she probably used a Go-Plus to catch that many mons consistently (So of course, the Go-Plus had a cost for his/her gameplay)
this gives me so much motivation because i only spent about 20$ so far and i always thought its almost impossible to get good without spending lots of money
If I’m correct, this means he’s walked on average 16 miles a day each day since the game was released in order to get that walk distance, which is insanity
I'm surprised Niantic allowed this to be posted, pretty much shows that paying money doesn't get you that much of an advantage. Same with all mobile games, money only gives a short term benefit.
