Ahoy! A while ago I posted about reaching level 44 in this blog post @athunderstruck/reached-level-44-time-to-purify-more-shadow-pokemon. Thanks to some events with more Team GO Rocket grunts appearing it was definitely easier to reach the challenge of defeating 50 Team GO Rocket Leaders, as I could sometimes defeat 2 or 3 in a day.
Thanks to that I recently reached level 45! I'm once again a little bit later on posting it compared to the day I reached it, due to having other things I wanted to post that ought to have priority (such as a post about an event, etc).
Here are the screenshots of the level up!
I suppose the stats for the previous level's activity might be accurate as I guess there was some time between them. With reaching level 45, one of the items I received was an Elite TM. There was a Level 45 Hat included as a Style Reward for the level up. I'm most likely not going to wear this though because I have the Team Magma Hoodie and a Team Aqua Bandana under it. The Team Magma Hoodie doesn't show many of the "Hat" slot items anyway, only a few of them are visible together with it.
On level 43 I received a Level 43 Challenge Special Research to work on. Now on level 45 I have obtained a Level 45 Challenge Special Research.
Here is the text from Professor Willow for that, so scroll past the image if you want to avoid spoilers.
Spoiler: In this Special Research, Professor Willow suggests that I visit some of my favourite places together with my Buddy Pokémon. But then none of the tasks for the Challenge require anything really related to activities with your Buddy Pokémon 😅
As you can see, I still have the Level 43 Challenge Special Research. I honestly thought it was just 1 step, because it doesn't include anything like for example (1/5). And I figured maybe I'll just keep them and complete 43, 45 and 47 in a row (once I reach level 47). But the other day a friend told me there are multiple steps, as he was working on the next once for the Level 43 Challenge. So I did continue to the next part now too.
Level 46 Requirement
After receiving the Special Research and going through it, I can now go take a look at the level 46 requirements. Here is a screenshot of them.
As you can see, I already have plenty of exp to reach level 46. So I only have to complete the tasks in order to hit level 46. Considering I have 29 mil out of 15.5 mil, it is clear that at that moment I won't have enough exp for level 47 yet, and definitely not for anything beyond that.
The tasks aren't too difficult, but some will take some time.
There aren't always that many interesting Field Research tasks for me personally, so it depends on how many I find that I want to complete. I usually Hatch 1 Egg at a time with the standard Incubator, and sometimes when I have 3 12 km Eggs in my bonus storage I'll put them in Super Incubators that I still some from.
Taking a snapshot for 7 days in a row could fail sometimes if I forget about it as I don't earn hearts with my Buddy Pokémon every day.
The Excellent Throws is probably going to be the easiest task to complete in this list, because I frequently make these. In the past event, the Lunar New Year one, for example I would throw them a lot on Litleo, Meowth, Growlithe and Electabuzz. Also regularly, but not as often due to smaller circle, on Paras and Torchic. Sometimes on Magikarp too, but usually I just throw the Curveball when the circle is still for a Great Throw with those.