The PvP league of Pokémon GO is currently inaccessible. Niantic took the feature offline. This may be due to a bug that had granted you victory under certain circumstances.
Niantic announced: On Twitter, Niantic’s support reports that they will take the PvP league offline for the next 16-24 hours.
During this time, the developers will roll out fixes intended to improve the game. Many trainers suspect that this is primarily a fix for an exploit that allowed for easy victories against other trainers.
Ferocious bug hampers many PvP battles
This was the bug: We don’t want to explain the bug in detail here, but when the airplane mode was activated at the right moment, it could trigger this exploit that provided significant advantages.
This error gained traction and more and more players exploited it, disrupting many of their 5 battles. After a trainer made a video about it, Niantic became aware as well.
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Was this bug the reason for the shutdown? On reddit, this error gained significant attention and Niantic even reacted to it. They stated that they would look into the error.
It’s quite conceivable that this is why the PvP league was temporarily taken offline. After all, it significantly affects competition, and players can easily earn a lot of Stardust this way.
How are players reacting to it? Instead of complaining about the PvP league being taken offline, mostly positive feedback is being received. They appreciate that Niantic is working on the errors and particularly that they are informing trainers. After all, there was recent criticism that Niantic communicates too little with players.
On reddit, many also hope that they can resolve the airplane mode bug, as it significantly hampers the game. As Scream_BloodyGore states: “At first, I was a bit disappointed since I wanted to fight some battles this evening, but if they can fix the airplane mode issue, then I’m all for it.”
When the PvP league is back up, we can soon look forward to Wrestler Pikachu:
