Inside the Account of Pokémon GO’s #1 Grinder… 1 year later

[@ItsFleeceKing]

Thanks again Brandon for another opportunity to be on the channel. I really enjoyed our discussion and hope others do too. The game has changed, our mindsets have changed, lots of ups and downs, with myself also. I’ve said some stupid things, and done some stupid things in the past, but I’ve learned from them, mistakes humble you and it’s taught me to do better, be better and hopefully grow. While I may not be the ‘hardcore’ FleeceKing that I used to be, I hope people can appreciate my current mindset and all the things we’ve discussed in depth. This game has changed my life for the better and I genuinely love our community. Thanks for watching everyone 🤝

[@emayex74]

Hey fleece

[@TrickBot]

I just got back into Pokemon go after playing for a year on release and then quitting. These videos featuring you have been more than extremely helpful, and your mentality about having fun and playing to catch Pokemon as your main goal has been my mantra while I'm playing... It's soooo fun. Thank you for all the tips and the informative convo here. Appreciate it alooot

[@Tikoyyyy]

Please donate some your stardust to me :P

[@MauFaz91]

Greetings from México, Fleece. Your dedication to this game and how humble you seem to be is refreshing and the interview was enjoyable! Kudos bro!

[@noahtheg451]

@@MauFaz91 Please don't tell me you serioulsy said fleece king is humble. You must be uninformed

[@RBH7997]

One thing Niantic can do is to increase the daily limit of pokecoins you can earn. It's so annoying to just be able to earn 50 coins per day. And another thing they also can do is if a pokemon have been longer than 13 or 20 days in a gym they get automaticly killed because if you live in a small town where pokemon go is kinda dead there are no one to take out the gym.

[@issadoobie5624]

i feel your pain sir

[@dlanightfury]

I’ve had a Hypno in one of two gyms in my village for 42 days so far, I had one in there for 86 days which is the most I’ve reached

[@dani_0656]

i hada a pokemon for 300 days

[@brianc3536]

Yes it’s so tough playing in rural areas. The daily coin limit is the most frustrating thing!

[@parthiveps3457]

Me too I had to make another account with an other team only for me to knock out my Pokemon

[@pokemongoplayer2848]

Fleece walks out when Brandon mentions he got 2 shundos in 1 week lol 😂🤣

[@svengamer2476]

Brandon got 2 shundo's on the same day

[@Hexterd]

​@@svengamer2476nope, he lucky traded for a shundo on gofest day one, than day two hatched a shundo, then day 3 hatched another shundo

[@McLomma]

Haters: Why are you so good at the game touch some grass Fleeceking : Jokes on you

[@luisesquivel5133]

True

[@PWRwastaken]

This was epic.

[@Dickariffic]

Watching him transfer 3 hundo Sudowoodo and sending Brandon into a fit was worth the watch! This is the content I’ve been waiting for! 😂

[@GameRobotPlayz]

AGREED

[@GFire98]

25:00 bros rayquaza candy makes me thing i missed a Ray community day or something 😂

[@IanGacek]

180,441 Rayquaza candy, 2,951 XL candy *holy fuck*. How is that even possible?

[@RocketDescends]

We have a makeup Rayquaza day coming soon

[@jackninerspro]

Bro I think we need a ray com day

[@lightning13131]

Holy shit

[@RocketDescends]

@@jackninerspro for realeeez

[@ckinslow13]

For shadow raids they could boost the iv floor for in person. That would encourage being out but not making it necessary.

[@akshaysujatharani]

I think the purpose of the poor IV floor is to encourage the PVP players to raid them. Otherwise, a lot of the ‘good’ shadows that ppl value for PVP (Feraligatr, poliwrath, etc) would be untouched as raids

[@Jellyz15z]

bro has walked the entire earth holy

[@TenorAltom]

Shadow raids is a big one for me. I've only been back to the game for around 2 months since 2016. I got so excited when I saw shadow raid in my nearby and I immediately got disappointed. I live in a decent sized city and I've yet to see a showdown raid with people at it. On top of that, no one uses Campfire in my area so even if they were about to do the raid, if I don't see them actively join the lobby then I miss it.

[@MrSkrelp]

I met him in Sydney where I’m from. Such a legend and nice guy!

[@Artermist]

Was it a few months ago this year? Think we may have been in the same big group if it was for shadow mewtwo!

[@bayardovanegas2384]

mystic and fleece r the biggest bromance in pogo

[@tomasramirez2914]

No kidding Mystic is milking content out of FleeceKing

[@davidzimmerman617]

@@tomasramirez2914 I don't think you know what that word means

[@tomasramirez2914]

@@davidzimmerman617 have you seen the amount of shorts and videos about fleace

[@charlesschwartz7284]

@@davidzimmerman617 why does it matter they allow it and they feed off eachother. Ever noticed it's the same old circle with there videos or people in it ?

[@danielle3347]

Love this, great open conversation! The account is of course impressive, but Fleeceking's sincerity and mindset is even more inspiring

[@cainthenothing]

1.2b exp in 1 year is crazy and buying 10,000 raid passes is even crazier.

[@fessunreal]

*Over 25,000 passes, and over 5000 incubators. Over $30,000 in a year just from that, not counting the travel and events.

[@ImpatientPlatypus]

@@fessunrealhe’s a featured trainer by niantic so all his travel shit for events is accommodated by them

[@jmoriarty8000]

And they wonder why Niantic is so crap and puts everything behind a paywall, ppl like him spend so much

[@brentvanleeuwen5253]

Or the 2500 catches every single day of the year to get that 900k extra since last year💀

[@ZagelMedia]

@@fessunreal dont forget the fact that he probably has to buy pokeballs like crazy so on average that's $7 per 200 which divided by 910,000 catches is $31,850 but taking into account spinning pokestops and opening gifts it was probable "only" $20,000+

[@fossilpharaoh]

Man I love this. Fleece is such a gem, and he provides some really great insights in this video. His stats and achievements are amazing, but the community around him, and around this game in general, is really what makes Pokémon GO amazing to experience.

[@lumiorlumlum4105]

16:30 “a lot of people rely on gifts for like pokeballs”. That sounds like me in a nutshell.

[@Ddyzeuss]

Damn that’s insane I’m only 1.2k grunts away from beating his hero medal I’m honestly really happy with my self about that! 11:17

[@p7g7007]

these types of video re-energies me to get up and grind like the BEST 🤠

[@terraperrin4830]

Love seeing how much fun your guys have when you get together ❤ please continue doing video together

[@Slimestarplayz]

Now i want to know how much they both spent on it altogether lol

[@jtsandmann1143]

probably pushing 30k if i had to guess . but its their business at the end of the day, they have to invest to grow their business.

[@zenox0288]

Lol they are sponsed so not that much,if they bought everything themselves it would be much more then 30k😅

[@sydneypoleno]

Q: How much did they both spend on Pokemon Go altogether? A: Yes 😏😜😜

[@danext5404]

@@zenox0288fun fact brandon isnt sponsored and fleece might be? Idk. Most money comes from streaming prob

[@bobbyrdayton9866]

They didn't spend much ... Brandon pays for everything with our $ so $0 for him and fleece is sponsored so not much at all

[@Kshitij_Ballaya]

fleece getting the shiny rayquaza is such a great achievement seeing how much he has worked for it (also i was battling sierra and got distracted and lost)

[@Lashandan]

I am so excited and motivated that you are still playing and keeping the game alive with your content. Keep up the good work.

[@sunshine_bypolar8769]

Pepare to see 100 shorts of this

[@brent.4413]

The raid pass prices are beyond stupid. I live in a rural area. There's never anyone in a raid in person. I was amazed to see the first player in a raid last week, immediately added him to. But it's just too much to keep up with the remote raid passes. Eitherway they pull up the limit on coins you can get from gyms or they drop the price. If not, I'm out sooner than later.

[@kadinthomas2691]

I think a balance for shadow raids would be whenever you do an in person shadow raid, you get a shadow token that you can expend to remote a shadow raid in the future or invite a friend

[@Aurorarose1313]

I wish the raids scaled in difficulty depending on how many people are there. As a solo player, I miss out on raids bc I can't pay to play.

[@remypoirier92]

Very nice video ! It’s very motivating seeing some grinders like this. I hope PoGo will do something for rural players, personally I would like to be more able to do raids like shadows and legendary, my dream would be a special pass that automatically feed with other players in-person in arenas around the country/world, and this pass could be delivered to players having walk 25 or 50 km during the week. I see this as a reward for players walking, able to go to gyms to fight in raids but not having access to community. Well, that’s all for my this was my thought.

[@tuzimarie]

Great video! Both guys are Legends - Fleece is the GOAT!❤

[@braysenju]

Making me want to take a walk around my neighborhood at midnight.

[@IDKWhatName4200]

I usually do around 11 pm after work hahaha

[@MathsDebated]

Seems like such a genuinely nice guy, nice vid, interesting to see the difference between the pros and the noobs like me😄

[@AquiJacob]

Video request: An updated guide in playing Pokemon Go for newcomers and those that came back to play.

[@aloharegioncyfi9576]

Love your content. Been watching your Pokémon Go content from the beginning. You’re IQ & strategy for content creating is next level. There’s a reason you stand out from most other Pokémon Go creators. This video was not it tho. Fleece is probably one of the nicest & smartest guy, but this video was long & less exciting than your normal content. Not trying to be mean, but wanted you to hear from your community. Keep killing it!

[@Bwal_stawwwss]

I love how I spend 2 weeks catching every single Pokémon, setting a timer for a new sponds. Will go off to get enough Stardust to level 50 my Pokémon and you guys have about 2000 lv 50

[@ddubbeleim_]

poke genie also just makes it so much easier to do raids, going into campfire or discord and messaging people back and forth and trying to coordinate is a hassle, especially when the app resets. Genie you just tap over once, then right back to app, shoot invites, ready up in genie, then back to app once more and that's it. And if it resets you can just enter right back into the raid and only deal with that once. I miss people saying "thanks for the host" and "thanks ns" in discord but hardly anybody uses our discords anymore, it's all campfire. Campfire is great and all but it's lacking in a lot of ways.

[@meiyz]

19:51 bros been in the gyms for 46 years

[@GIBLEISTHEBESTPK]

Bro got 20m coins

[@AidanTrosclair]

Bro was grinding before he was even conceived

[@Activejox]

40:14 Brandon, you forgot Fleece's links in the description

[@BugWood2001]

I could listen to fleece talk for hours, definitely a good guy and a genius when it comes to the topic of Pokemon go.

[@jennymin5559]

Very good interview. Wow. Im at the point now where it’s to much money having no raids in rural areas and not getting things from the events .

[@RyanRakowski]

Niantic are you taking notes?!? This man is literally preaching gold here on how to improve your game.

[@joysgc6353]

Fantastic video. Thank you.🤗😘 Do one with Brandon Tan too. Please.🙏 Where is the Australian accent, mate?🤔

[@MysticTemplar07]

He’s 100% right on the shadow raids. Needs to be a happy medium.

[@snare97]

Maturing is realizing that the rocket grind is the best

[@alexcortez3971]

Honestly the solution for shadow raids or other forced to be local interactions is for there to be a lobby matchmaking system constantly running like CoD and many other multiplayer games, so when you join the shadow raid you join a lobby of other people that you dont get to choose around the world doing the same thing roughly at the same time that allows the lobby to slowly fill up, all thats needed is have extended lobby timers and make it harder Could even only have the remote are gyms have access to this feature

[@guamTheFear]

I completely agree with the shadow shiny raid grind, or the local only elite raids, I am in a small town with a very small player base and its hard for us to get even 4 of us at times and its a hit or miss to beat them sometimes

[@Da_Silva]

I love seeing numbers go up

[@Lobowskee]

I feel so bad for having to deny friendship requests because I literally can’t open all of my friend gifts without hitting the cap for the day. I’m sure it’s even worse the higher up you go but I don’t think that’s what niantic wants the friends list to be like. It’s not a great aspect of it at the very least. 15:56

[@sushib0y222]

What if for Shadow Legendary raids, instead of forcing players to do in-person raids, you allow the players to either do remote or in-person, but the in-person raids are the only ones shiny eligible

[@thecringeguy7961]

Fleece is just such a goat :D love that guy

[@ThugsterRat]

Fleeceking is an awesome guy and Pogo player, but I already know there is gonna be at LEAST 15 KZbin Shorts pulled from the vid

[@POJOGA3]

I’m genuinely curious as to how much money he’s spend only on the Pokemon Go App. Not including traveling. Just tickets, Pokecoins, etc. it’s gotta be crazy. Cause for example 55000 legendary raids, that’s no joke.

[@lilwoowoowoozie9242]

@18:02 I think shadow raids should go remote too like reg raids and mega raids. That way people can just jump on like PokeGenie or a Discord server or something and still do them even if they might live in a emote area or w/e the reason may be as to why they can't do a shadow raid

[@MH_Ward]

I love the grindset, brandon is cool guy 😎

[@Fbamslol]

I recently watched the older video, good to see this video!

[@SirLatinLover]

The dedication for the grind. Pumping those rookie numbers up 💪🔥🦋 The Man, Myth, Legend

[@zallom5]

Must of had many shiny pokemon

[@brockjohnson3575]

He's a legend! One of the best communities on the internet. His Twitch streams are awesome

[@fueledsoul3379]

I just checked the distance he walked roughly he hypothetically walked to Florida to California back to back (three trips back and forth) 🤯

[@andrewschofield3518]

heres a wild idea how about if ur in range of a gym you can remote raid to another raid for elite/ shadow !!!

[@andrewschofield3518]

bc promise if shadow mewtwo came out id not load pogo for a week or 2 out of saltiness

[@senileshooters1126]

They won't increase the amount of gifts that you can receive or send mainly because people won't spend as much money on the in-game store. Personally i think everything should be earnable and only cosmetic items should be in the in-game stores.

[@DevDevArn]

If you buy the ticket in the shop right now for 5$ it increases the amount of gifts you can open everyday and the amount of gifts you can hold also

[@Toast7722]

bro can’t stop posting about Fleece

[@Kia-tc2uq]

Fleece

[@doughboyz0]

Bro meat riding fleece. Probably doesn't have enough content to pull out so he just made a video on fleece instead

[@SSJGengar]

What's wrong with that?

[@CosmoCarnage]

He's a d1 glazer

[@Mat_Blackout]

XD

[@Blagden1357]

conrats in the Shundo Rayquaza

[@star_wars_miniatures]

I hope they expand the max trainer level to 100 soon!! 😅 would be amazing to see for players like this! I’m stuck on 42 but I’m over the moon about that!

[@jesseduiker]

Hey mystic I having been watching your videos for a long time and I am in New York. I went to all the Pokémon stores that you recomended. I am wondering are you going to the finatic fest. 😀

[@rowanschmidt2646]

Video Idea: Guessing Pokémon Go trainers levels based of their stats.

[@DaveAkaCeladris]

4* Sudowoodo just got more rare!! 😥🙏 Seriously, what a fun video to watch (besides the Sudo slaughter)!

[@jannesKanters]

Trade idea ever level you and your friend go up the trade screen goes faster Max level you can skip it than you have to work for it still but wenn your done its really nice

[@roosjansen7589]

Brandon your face when he deleted those Sudowoodos 😂

[@cecil8587]

Now if Niantic can get off their asses and make the evolve and purify animation skippable that would be amazing.

[@jmoriarty8000]

Agree it’s so slow, they should also allow you to evolve multiple at once, and make the rocket battle go faster after you beat them

[@seansmith3678]

His medals are insane.. I was shocked I do have 3 medals higher than fleece though😮

[@kevinpossekel3182]

Perfect Timinng!, was re watching the last one yesterday

[@jerrodzaneplummer]

You should be able to invite anyone to a remote batte if you are there in person by using a remote pass while everyone else uses a regular pass...

[@JGPGODFATHER]

Would be great if mass trade was an option or at least 10 at a time. 100 a day it is time consuming.

[@kennethzimmermann7351]

I'm about to hit 500 million XP, I can't even imagine 6 times that

[@Yuritau]

Re: shadow raids.. I live in a small town with only 23 gyms and no real community in the game. As such, I know I'll never get a tier 5 shadow raid done. It's just never going to happen. Same with elite raids (like the mega rayquaza raid day). It's really demotivating.

[@bmix1017]

23 gyms is a small town? We have like 50k people in our town and may have that many. Sounds like no one plays anymore in your area. You can beat the Shadow Raids with 2 accounts and doing party play.

[@Yuritau]

@@bmix1017 my town is 8k people. There's folk that play, but hardly anyone that's got interest in raiding.

[@bmix1017]

@@Yuritau That is completely understandable. I know how hard it can be to find people locally playing when from somewhere small. Honestly that is a nice number of gyms for a small town as well.

[@Yuritau]

@@bmix1017 I think there used to be a decent community of players here, as there's an old Facebook group that hasn't had any activity in 5 years, heh.

[@InterestingNam3]

Today I caught a shundo togdemaru

[@LucianReid-dm2qm]

Nice bro 👏

[@furyyt1857]

Trade?

[@Dr12_weedex]

Yeah mate and my cousin is mewtwo

[@Polygons_99]

Congrats!

[@Antomations]

@@furyyt1857💀

[@lelouchchanbc]

Pokemon Go has shut down symptoms. Nope entire Niantic has shut down symptoms.

[@spaxYouTube]

When he talks about raids, it actually sounds like he is ashamed, especially when talking about how many legendaries he has done.

[@jamesloft3400]

Never seen an interview where the interviewer checks out halfway though and the ‘guest’ just keeps going.

[@ChristianSaad]

@28:19 177 shadow shinies is crazy

[@EnduroMarcel]

30k raids in a year is 90% of peoples yearly salary.

[@josephsaunders8618]

Inside account vids are my fav

[@styx85]

Dude literally gets more mileage than my car.

[@the_quiet_kidz_gaming4540]

Bro still prolly the biggest fan❤

[@jonaykon]

4:43 my only egg shiny is actually a togepi (2 km egg received on 2024-06-30)

[@AimeeGirl]

450 friends, only get 100 gifts per day from pokestops, open 30, hard to interact with all your friends. I guess you can remote battle (but some don't allow it) or raid together, but still, that's time consuming. And unless you spend a lot, you don't have a surplus if remote raid passes (like me). Yeah, Niantic should up the gift limits.

[@Zibi21]

Now I want him to do the same but in the rural setting.

[@mutleylaugh]

100 research tasks a day, every single day, without fail seems absolutely impossible 13:39

[@rendy5092]

12000 km in year and a half. This guys walks a half marathon every day on average... What?!

[@Dipeshgiree123]

my place doesn't even have 1 pokestop so I spoofed my location Australia 🙂 (currently 33 lv reached I'll try to make gym and pokestop when 37 reached at my place)

[@snehangsusarkar3471]

18000 rayquaza Candy. 🤯🤯 I hava a shinny rayquaza and it has my favorite.

[@BGRUBBIN]

I hatched a shundo magby from one of the events this year, after about 32K eggs hatched

[@JWJW-d8k]

You spelled Grindr wrong. Waiting for them to announce their relationship.

[@aintez2bstieby83]

You seem jealous 😂

[@sydneypoleno]

Brandon (a.k.a Mystic7) has a girlfriend

[@zoroproductions1152]

Lets call this ship MysticFleece

[@sydneypoleno]

@@zoroproductions1152 NO 💀

[@nigelhawthorne2010]

You spelt spelt wrong. 🤣

[@zunairthezombie8895]

I wish Niantic could have seen this video

[@lugasalexander4852]

Raid hr should have no limits on remote raids

[@joemac8615]

I would honestly be more inclined to spend money on raid passes if I was getting more value per cost

[@DragonBallZeditz-sl6ni]

I love ur content ur amazing can’t wait for more amazing content 🎉🎉😊

[@dragonexp8552]

More hundos than my entire inventory size.

[@clemens7053]

bro caught 2000 pokemon for 500 days straight

[@Kamodobone]

They need to do remote raids on shadow raids

[@Jinx_Arcane_19]

Fleece really be grinding this dead arse game for the last year and a half 😂 bet those shiny luck pack things ain't cheap😅

[@lilwoowoowoozie9242]

Fleece should've named one of them Mystic7 or Brandon and transferred it😂😂😂