When you get to Level 30 on 'Pokémon Go,' things get intense
LONDON -- No matter how good you are at Pokémon Go, you're probably not as good as this person.
On Sunday, Reddit user Verigood -- a product manager at a software company in California -- shared a screengrab from Pokémon Go that they captured at the point of reaching Level 30.
Yep, Level 30. When you remember that you need more and more experience the higher your level is, that's pretty damn impressive (and they made it there in less than two weeks, too).
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Here's the full list of bonuses you get at Level 30.
Verigood's screengrab sparked plenty of questions, and quickly led to an impromptu Q & A on the Pokémon Go subreddit.
Here are their highest CP Pokémon.
Here are some of the other things we learned.
You need a whopping 500,000 XP points to get from Level 30 to Level 31.
And the Pokémon are consistently harder to catch.
They are also at a much, much higher level in the wild, though.
But while Verigood might be Level 30, they still haven't caught them all.
For anyone wondering how they reached such a high level in less than two weeks, it sounds like Verigood mainly used the mass-evolving method discussed here (and they also bought 58 Lucky Eggs so they could double down on experience more regularly).
What all this tells us
The first thing that's clear is that even at Level 30, there's still a long way to go in the game. There's no sign of a Master Ball or any of the legendary Pokémon yet, and with half a million XP needed to progress from 30 to 31, it's going to be a long time before someone unlocks them.
Even if the Master Ball is unlocked at Level 35 (and we think it's more likely that it'll be Level 40), there are many millions of experience points still to go before then.
Dig deep and keep hunting, Pokémon trainers.
Bonus: Hey, guys, have you caught Swiss Chardmander yet?
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