One of the most important features in Pokemon Go is to earn experience and level up. Leveling up is not that hard and the only thing a player has to do is to earn experience for different actions. Some actions will give you less XP, while some will give you more.
Earning XP in Pokemon Go will lead you to a higher Trainer Lvl, and the higher your Lvl, the more in-game elements a player would see. Also, the higher your Lvl, the better your chance of finding a rare Pokemon.
Each level grants you a number of items, and you can also unlock more powerful items that will start appearing from Pokestops after some time.
The level rewards are mostly PokeBalls, Potions, Revives and Berries, but every five levels the players get additional Incense, Lucky Eggs, Egg Incubators and Lure models, and you find the leveling up, XP required and rewards chart here.
There are a lot of ways to earn XP, and to make it easier for you, I’ve made a list of all actions that will help you increase your Trainer Lvl in Pokemon Go.
| ACTION | XP |
| Curveball Bonus | 10 |
| Nice Throw | 10 |
| Feed a Pokemon a Berry | 20 |
| Pokemon Ran Away | 25 |
| Spin Enemy Gym Photo Disc without Bronze Badge | 25 |
| Spin Friendly Gym Photo Disc without Bronze Badge | 31 |
| Spine Enemy Gym Photo Disc with Bronze Badge | 50 |
| Great Throw Bonus | 50 |
| First Throw Bonus for catching Pokemon in One Ball | 50 |
| PokeStop Interaction | 50 |
| Spin Friendly Gym Photo Disc with Bronze Badge | 63 |
| Spin Enemy Gym Photo Disc with Silver Badge | 75 |
| Spin Friendly Gym Photo Disc with Gold Badge | 94 |
| Spin Enemy Gym Photo Disc with Gold Badge | 100 |
| 10th Unique PokeStop Bonus | 100 |
| Succesful Pokemon capture | 100 |
| Excellent Throw Bonus | 100 |
| Catch your 100th Pokemon of a Species | 100 |
| Spin Friendly Gym Photo Disc with Gold Badge | 125 |
| Hatch 2km Egg | 200 |
| First Spin of new PokeStop | 250 |
| 10th PokeStop Streak Bonus on a new PokeStop | 500 |
| Hatch 5km Egg | 500 |
| Hatch 10km Egg | 1,000 |
| Add New Pokemon to Pokedex | 500 |
| Evolve a Pokemon | 500 |
| Complete T1 Raid | 3,000 |
| Complete T2 Raid | 3,500 |
| Complete T3 Raid | 4,000 |
| Complete T4 Raid | 5,000 |
| Complete Legendary Raid | 10,000 |
| Defeat Enemy Pokemon at a Gym (per Pokemon) | 100 |
| Beating every Pokemon at a Gym | 50 |
Now let’s see how much XP a player can earn when completing daily activities for 7 days in a row.
First Catch of the Day
- Day – 500 XP, 600 Stardust;
- Day – 500 XP, 600 Stardust;
- Day – 500 XP, 600 Stardust;
- Day – 500 XP, 600 Stardust;
- Day – 500 XP, 600 Stardust;
- Day – 500 XP, 600 Stardust;
- Day – 2500 XP, 3000 Stardust.
First PokeStop of the Day
- Day – 500 XP, extra items;
- Day – 500 XP, extra items;
- Day – 500 XP, extra items;
- Day – 500 XP, extra items;
- Day – 500 XP, extra items;
- Day – 500 XP, extra items;
- Day – 2500 XP, many extra items.
A lot of players who are playing Pokemon Go since launch, including myself, are still ‘working’ to reach Lvl 40, and now with the latest feature Friends and Gifts, a new player can hit Lvl 40 in 3 months! Sounds impossible, right? But what if I tell you that one Pokemon Go player went from Lvl 1 to Lvl 40 in less than 5 DAYS? Yes, that is possible too, you just have to wait for the right event.
Here is the math:
- A player can earn 163,000 XP per friend once both of them reach the Best Friend Lvl – that’s 326,000 XP using a Lucky Egg!
- It takes only 1 new Friend to open a gift daily and increase your friendship level;
- A player can send up to 100 Gifts daily.
By the looks of it, and the math done by MarsNeedsFreedomToo on TSR, one player needs 123 players to earn 20 million XP in just 3 months and that’s without using a Lucky Egg.
- 100 friends x 163,000 XP = 16,300,000 XP;
- Assuming the new player spins 250 pokestops daily to obtain those 100 gifts, and earning 50 XP per pokestop all over 3 months: 250 x 50 x 90 = 1,125,000 XP;
- Sending 100 gifts per day and earning 200 XP per gift: 100 x 200 x 90 = 1,800,000 XP;
- And the daily bonuses 12 x 2,000 + 90 x 500 = 69,000 XP;
- Total – 16,300,000 + 1,125,000 + 1,800,000 + 69,000 = 19,294,000 XP.
A player can reach Lvl 40 without catching a single Pokemon (except the starter), and Raid with it, but you’ll have the weakest account, because XP isn’t a good indicator of how strong your squad is!
