For many players, Brandon Tan is considered the best player in the world in Pokémon GO. He is now close to a major goal: one billion experience points.
Who is he? The player Brandon Tan is well-known in the Pokémon GO community. He invests a lot of time into Niantic’s mobile game and thus reaches impressive milestones. In December 2018, he broke the 100 million Stardust milestone, which he earned in 2 years.
How much does Brandon Tan play? The exact hours he spends on Pokémon GO each day are unknown. However, it must be a lot, as in 2018 he told Nick from TrainerTips on YouTube that he completes 50 raids a day. Whether he does this every day or if this number varies is unclear.
What makes him the best player? Based on the experience points he has earned in Pokémon GO, Brandon Tan ranks among the top players. In addition to over 100 million Stardust, he has already accumulated over 999 million experience points.
This is over 49 times the amount of experience points needed from level 1 to level 40. Many trainers in Pokémon GO still have not reached level 40, even three years after the release.
1 billion experience points – the great milestone
When will he reach one billion XP? On Twitter, Brandon Tan keeps his followers updated on his journey in Pokémon GO. On August 29, he wrote that he was less than one million experience points away from the billion mark.
He added that it would take him 2 days to achieve this. Now, players are eagerly waiting for him to release a new update.
For the player and the Pokémon GO community, this is a huge event. So far, no other player is known to have collected as many experience points. Another successful collector of experience points is KingCuso (Twitter) – he currently has about 720 million XP.
This is why the player is controversial
What is the problem? When reading about Brandon Tan, one cannot miss the negative comments from other players. In September 2018, the player was banned by Niantic for 30 days in Pokémon GO. No exact reason was given at that time. However, Brandon Tan offered a catching service.
Trainers transferred a certain sum of money to the player and received legendary Pokémon in return, some with guaranteed good IV values. This violated Pokémon GO’s guidelines, which may have led to his ban.
The fact that he had violated Pokémon GO’s rules is a recurring topic whenever this trainer is discussed.
