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Trainer Token

A Trainer Token in the TCGO

Trainer Tokens are a form of virtual currency available in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online and formely on on the Pokémon.com website up to April 26, 2019. They are received as rewards, with no means of purchasing them with real currency.

Once earned, Trainer Tokens may be used to purchase virtual copies of Booster packs, Theme decks and various Gameplay items in the in-game Shop. On Pokémon.com, they could be exchanged for virtual items for the user's Trainer avatar. Trainer Tokens earned in one location were subsequently available on the other location, though both Pokémon.com and the Pokémon TCG Online had different idiosyncrasies about updating a user's Trainer Token total in the other location.

Currently, users can have up to 25000 Tokens stored in an account, the game providing a warning when reaching 20000 Tokens. While players can earn as many possible Tokens per day on PTCGO, users had a 15 Trainer Token weekly limit (starting at each Saturday 4:00 AM UTC) on the Pokémon.com website.

Earning Trainer Tokens

In order to earn Trainer Tokens, Pokémon.com website visitors should create a Pokémon Trainer Club account, which is shared with the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online. User Trainer Token total was updated the first time the user logged in and every time a new page was loaded or reloaded, but not necessarily updated immediately upon receiving new Trainer Tokens.

Pokémon TCG Online players do not require a Pokémon Trainer Club account to earn Tokens but are encouraged to, since not all features are available to guest players such as using their items in other devices. Tokens and other items earned as a guest player are carried over to a new account when creating a new one. The game updates the player's Trainer Token total as soon as the player logs in and as more Trainer Tokens are earned in the game. If players concurrently earned new Trainer Tokens on the Pokémon.com website, these would not be reflected in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online until one of the two mentioned in-game conditions applied.

Trainer Tokens were earned in one of six ways on Pokémon.com up to April 26, 2019:

  1. Creating a Pokémon Trainer Club account and logging into Pokémon.com for the first time provided the player with ? Trainer Tokens.
  2. Daily logging into Pokémon.com provided a bonus of 12 Trainer Tokens after 12:00 AM UTC. This 12 Trainer Token reward might alternatively be granted by logging into the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, whichever location was logged into first.
  3. Opening articles that are categorized as "pokemon-news" on Pokémon.com typically but not always earned a single Trainer Token per article. While not all articles on the website earned Trainer Tokens, reading the same article on different language versions of the website would earn the user separate Tokens.
  4. Earning a new Stamp also earned the user 6 Trainer Tokens.
  5. Successfully playing browser-based games games earned 1, 3, or 5 Trainer Tokens depending on the specific game and whether the user had successfully played the game for the first time or reached a higher success threshold on subsequent attempts. Each individual game defined what was a successful attempt differently, which are explained on Pokémon.com online games.
  6. Completing a Step-by-Step Pokémon TCG Tutorial (available up to March 2016) earned 1 Trainer Taken for each of the 12 Tutorials.

There are six ways to earn Trainer Tokens in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online:

  1. As the Daily Login Bonus on certain consecutive days (5, 10 or 15 Trainer Tokens)
  2. By successfully beating computer-controlled Trainer characters in the Trainer Challenge (1, 3, or 10 Trainer Tokens, only once per opponent difficulty);
  3. By successfully completing matches in Versus Mode with the first match each day earning an 11 Trainer Token Daily Match Bonus plus 1, 3 or 5 additional Trainer Tokens for all matches, as well climbing the Versus Ladder;
  4. As a chance on a Bonus Wheel spin reward at the end of Versus and Tournament Mode matches (1 to 50 Trainer Tokens),
  5. By opening Tournament Chests,
  6. By completing a Daily or Special Challenge that has Trainer Tokens as a reward (25 to 55 Trainer Tokens for Daily, 200 to 1000 for Special), and
  7. As a lower reward for ranking on certain Events Mode Tournaments (12 or 25 Trainer Tokens).

Using Trainer Tokens

Trainer Tokens can be spent on various items, typically clothing items, for a user's (former) Pokémon.com/PTCGO Trainer avatar. The cost ranges from 5 to 100 Trainer Tokens depending on the item, with 50 to 100 being the most typical range for individual items in a set. The Avatar Items available for purchase at Pokémon.com were typically not available for purchase in the Pokémon TCGO. Items added in one were not always immediately available in the other. The Trainer avatar on Pokémon.com would adopt changes made in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online the next time that user logged back into Pokémon.com and vice-versa. The option to purchase Avatar items on Pokémon.com was also discontinued on April 26, 2019.

The following are currently available items in Pokémon Trading Card Game Online's in-game Shop:

  • Theme Decks cost 500 Trainer Tokens.
  • 10-card Booster packs cost 200 Trainer Tokens.
  • Limited available Card sleeves cost 300 Trainer Tokens.
  • Limited available Deck boxes cost 100 Trainer Tokens.
  • Avatar Items availability are limited and Trainer Tokens cost varies.

Most Shop items are untradeable to prevent players from farming Tokens with multiple accounts. The Pikachu-Themed Collection Box is the only tradeable item obtained with Trainer Tokens, but as an Avatar Item with no effects in gameplay it only has a speculative value.

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