Pokémon Go Tour Cross rewards and the way factors work

Pokémon Go is making an attempt one thing new: a battle pass-like development system known as the “Go Tour Cross.” The cross solely lasts for every week, main up and thru the massive Go Tour: Unova occasion, however with the cross comes a ton of questions on the way it works and if it’s value shopping for the deluxe improve.

Under we clarify how the Go Tour Cross works, if it’s value upgrading to deluxe, and all of the rewards you will get for finishing the cross.

How does the Tour Cross work?

Functionally, that is form of only a battle cross that many different video games have. Each participant will get the cross beginning at Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. in your native time. You’ll have till March 2 at 6 p.m. in your native time to finish as a lot of the cross as attainable.

You possibly can earn Tour Cross factors in two methods:

Word that there’s a cap to what number of factors you may earn per day. You possibly can solely earn 150 factors per day utilizing the above strategies, along with 50 or 100 extra factors from finishing the each day Cross Duties that seem under the cross, relying when you’ve got Deluxe or not.

This implies which you could solely earn 4 to 6 ranks per day till the Go Tour: Unova occasion. The cap will likely be utterly eliminated in the course of the weekend occasion on March 1 and a pair of, permitting you to farm as many factors as you’d like.

So is the Tour Cross value upgrading to deluxe?

Perhaps, however it relies on your playstyle and the way you worth objects like fusion power and XL sweet.

The deluxe model of the Tour Cross does give an entire ton of stuff, together with the next, in trade for $15:

$15 value of PokéCoins is about 1,900 cash (give or take a number of, since there’s no precise $15 coin bundle) when you purchase them from the online retailer. For those who complete up the price of the non-ball objects you get from the cross, it’s at round 1,240 cash value of upgrades — although this doesn’t embrace the Fortunate Trinket, which is a brand new merchandise and never purchasable within the retailer, and the beauty hat.

The worth from this cross primarily comes from the thought of getting an merchandise that lets you be instantaneous Fortunate Associates with any coach (the Fortunate Trinket), the 200 extra Blaze and Volt Fusion Vitality, and the XL sweet. Clearly these items can’t be instantly measured in coin worth — it’s as much as you if that is value it.

The Victini encounter can be one thing possibly worthwhile, particularly when you missed your probability to get a Victini earlier than. Legendary Pokémon are all the time rarities, so when you like to gather them, it is a good alternative to seize one.

Some people have additionally datamined data that reveal that the shiny odds on the encounters are elevated. The starters (Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott) are at a 1/20 probability and every thing else is at a 1/64 probability. For some purpose, the additional Basculin you may catch as a part of the deluxe cross are additionally at a 1/20 shiny fee.

Exterior of that, with the ability to rank up faster due to the extra Cross Duties day by day will get you to the Tour Cross Bonuses sooner at ranks 20, 60, and 80. These reward you with buffed up catch XP, which is all the time helpful.

For those who’re uncertain, you may all the time progress within the cross first, then improve to deluxe on Sunday earlier than it disappears when you’ve felt such as you’ve gotten your fill of rewards. The rewards will be claimed retroactively, so that you don’t have to fret an excessive amount of about it. Word that when you do purchase the cross later, you’ll miss out on the extra each day Cross Process (and thus one rank per day), however for the reason that cap will likely be eliminated on the weekend, this gained’t make you miss a lot.

Pokémon Go Tour Cross rewards checklist

Under, you may see all of the rewards for each the fundamental and deluxe tracks of the Go Tour Cross. Word that from ranks 101-500, you get the identical rewards: 50 Stardust for the fundamental reward and 100 Stardust for the deluxe reward.