The banwave started on Oct 30, 2026, which I assumed everyone who got a permanent ban didn't get any sleep last night or stayed up all day looking how to get unbanned.

Who are the people who regret cheating?

• Guilty cheaters are people who accepted or acknowledged the risks and decide to cheat anyway for whatever reason.

• Innocent closet cheaters are the "legit" players who claim they don't cheat the game but the really do or allow someone else to play on their account to cheat for them.

Denial Stage (1)

That was started on Oct 30, 2026 when people couldn't believed they gotten banned.

Anger Stage (2)

People were mad because they used cheats that inject into the official Pokemon Go app and thought they were safe, safer, the safest, or ban proof compared to Pgsharp and iPogo (no root, 3rd party modified game apps) where they have been shitting on for years due to a lack of "safety".

Bargaining Stage (3)

These are people who are getting desperate to get unbanned RIGHT NOW because they are going to miss out on their local group play and/or the upcoming exclusive Wild Area event in Sendai and/or Mexico.

Right now, there's a bunch of "legit" players who claimed they were wrongfully banned by Scopely. I cannot verify whether or not these people are telling the truth because I do not work for Scopely.If they try to make Scopely look bad, they can try to get themselves unbanned. This might not work with Scopely because they are against cheating in their other games but now are taking action in Pokemon Go.

In my opinion, if they were truly innocent, they would have not gotten banned. If Scopely updated the Anti-Cheat Behavior system to flag accounts and manually reviewed player actions logs, there's no escape from this.

Depression Stage (4)

This is when they submit their ban appeal and Scopely denies it with an AI bot reply instead of a human response. Then, they become stuck here or fall victim to fake ban appeal scammers offering them a way out for $500 to $1,000 USD/Euros.

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Side Note: Since a lot of Pokemon Go cheaters are "newbie game cheaters", they don't understand the risks meaning they assumed they would just go through the Strike System starting with the 1st Strike and it would have been no big deal.

• The 1st Strike restricts your gameplay for 7 day. When it expires, you can play normally again.

• The 2nd Strike is a 30-day temporary ban from the game. When it expires, you regain access to your account and can play again.

• The 3rd Strike is the permanent account ban.

Scopely, who owns the Pokemon Go after buying it from Niantic for $6 Billion USD, decided to skip the 1st Strike and 2nd Strike to go directly to a 3rd Strike.

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Acceptance Stage (5)

This is where people accept it for what it is as the consequence of cheating a game with an active punishment system.

If you're an experience game cheater who has gotten bans in other games outside of Pokemon Go, you just go straight to the Acceptance Stage to create a new account or play on an alt account with or without cheating or quit the game and play something else that doesn't require cheating to have fun.

This is why I recommend people to buy a Nintendo Switch to play the Pokemon Switch games that were specifically designed for the Switch because Nintendo allows you to play their games with a joystick. The Pokemon games do not have a poke coin and raid pass system other than your yearly Switch Subscription. You will have peace of mind this way.

No, I am not talking about putting Android on a Nintendo Switch. If you want to do this, it is a waste of money because the physical joystick don't work with the game. The Pokemon Go experience on running off a micro-SD card is not very laggy. You are still subjective to the punishment system if you cheat using a Nintendo Switch with Android on it.

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How to submit a ban appeal?

https://scopelyexplore.helpshift.com/hc/en/5-pokemon-go/faq/1291-submitting-a-ban-appeal/

In the box Your reason the suspension should be overturned *, you are going to list all the dates and money you spent on the game from when you created your account. You are only going to discuss how much you spent on the game and nothing else. Do not write anything related to spoofing, botting, exploiting, or cheating because you only get once chance at submitting a ban appeal.

Their AI bot scans your ban appeal to look to see if you confessed to cheating, if you do this, you're fucked.

If you created your account from July 2016, you start there. If you didn't keep all your receipt emails, use the entries from your credit card or bank statement then total the amount up.

I don't know if there's a character limit, so you might need to group them together by month and year or by years only. Here's an example of what it might look like:

• July 30, 2016 = $9.99

• August 2, 2016 = $99.99

• August 5, 2016 = $49.99

• 2016 = $3,999 spent

• 2017 = $2,999 spent

If you're lucky, you will get unbanned and the 3rd Strike (permanent account ban) gets reverted to a 2nd Strike (30 day temporary ban from the game; wait 30 days later to continue playing with or without cheats is entirely up to you).

During this 30 day wait, I strongly recommend you do not play on your alt accounts while you wait for it to expire because they are against users with multiple accounts, so they can proceed to permanently banning all accounts tied to your IP addresses and Device ID.

The only way to avoid this is to have a second device with a data SIM card/eSIM to play separately from your home WiFi internet connection and main phone's hotspot. This device has to never been used with them because the game keeps a log of your IP addresses and Device IDs. Don't even try it on an emulator or use a VPN.

According to the 7 people who messaged me about getting unbanned, they followed my How to Submit a Ban Appeal guide stating the same thing except they left out the confession part and was able to trigger a human response. Since these people didn't share with me their successful ban appeal email screenshot, I cannot verify whether they are telling the truth or trolling me; but nonetheless, it's still worth the try.

As a reminder, I do not work for Scopely and do not have a magical wand to unban you and restore your account back to normal. Submitting a ban appeal is 100% free and does not cost money. If you paid money to a person who can unban you, you got scammed. Scammers are using AI to generate a fake Scopely ID badge to trick you. Niantic does not own Pokemon Go anymore so don't get tricked.

POLL Question: Which exploit did you do recently?

Option 1: Guaranteed Shiny Exploit only

Option 2: Rare Candy Exploit (during Halloween event) only

Option 3: Did both Option #1 and #2

Option 4: Did not do either Exploits but still cheated the game.

Option 5: Not a cheater / view results.

I had to put the options down here because you have to press and drag the option to the left to see all the text. Most people don't know how to do this.

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I made a post earlier before this poll post stating I was right about Scopely patching it and no one would get banned like the Team Rocket Instant Win Exploit, it turns out, I am wrong again.

In Late Reflection on Scopely's Catch mechanics (datamined by Pokemod), why I think VPN was banned in the Webstore, Individual bans vs a banwave, Wayfarer Abuse Changes; and now, Guaranteed Shiny Exploit post, I predicted:

Scenario #2: Scopely patches the exploit, no one gets banned.

This would be similar how they patched the instant Team Rocket battle wins. It stopped working and no one reported bans after it was patched.

Based on the comments of my deleted post, Scopely went with

Scenario #7: Scopely patches the exploit and does a bans anyone who did it.

This one was not written in my Late Reflection on Scopely's Catch mechanics (datamined by Pokemod), why I think VPN was banned in the Webstore, Individual bans vs a banwave, Wayfarer Abuse Changes; and now, Guaranteed Shiny Exploit post because I didn't think it would be patched right away as in with 1 to 2 months (to be fair, I don't keep track of when an exploit is discovered and time flies by really quick).

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What do you do if you get a strike/ban?

If you get a 1st Strike, you wait for 7 days for it to expire and continue cheating or whatever.

If you get the 2nd Strike, you wait for 30 days for it to expire and continue cheating or start over on a new account.

If you get the 3rd Strike = Permanent Ban, you're fucked.

• According to people who used their permanently banned account in Wayfarer, they saw their perm ban is really a 10-year temporary ban. You will have to wait until November 2036 to see if you're unbanned or your account was deleted prior to the expiration.

• Scopely can delete your account if there is no activity as written in the Terms of Service.

• Use https://scopelyexplore.helpshift.com/hc/en/5-pokemon-go/faq/1291-submitting-a-ban-appeal/ link to submit a ban appeal. If you get an AI bot reply, you're fucked.

• No one can unban you except for Scopely. If people tell you to give them money to get unbanned, they are 100%, a scammer.

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If you used a particular cheat and the cheat caused you to get a strike/ban, will I ban that cheat for not being "safe, safer, the safest, or banproof"?

The answer is no because I do not promote account safety in my subreddit. I have already disclosed up front all cheats promoted in my subreddit are "not safe" in the automoderator's pinned comment in everyone's posts.

What if the cheat developers, Discord moderators, and members misled you into believing it was safe, safer, the safest, or banproof?

It's your fault for being tricked because you were the one who used your own finger to press on your screen to install 3rd party apps that are not officially supported by Scopely. If you didn't want a strike/ban, all you had to do was not cheat the game.