After taking Piers' points, Xia Yan's ranking shot up to twenty-fifth place.
However.
That was only because Piers was also in Great Ball rank and ranked higher than Xia Yan, so the points gained were slightly greater. Otherwise, he could never have risen so many places at once.
This showed that.
During the Championships' points stage, climbing the ranks was still rather troublesome.
Of course.
If someone was a true grinder and ranked up day and night, then even if they only gained a small number of points each time, they could still slowly climb little by little.
However, Rose and Xia Yan had considered the possibility of repeatedly farming points from one person, so they had imposed certain restrictions.
In short.
Simply relying on taking turns battling a few people to crazily farm points would not be possible.
This prevented certain influential people from gathering a group of subordinates and having them take turns feeding them points.
Moreover.
Once one reached Great Ball rank, every battle was livestreamed and recorded. If anyone was found fixing matches, they would be directly disqualified from the Championships.
Naturally, with the introduction of the points-based format, there were policies from above and countermeasures below, and a large number of "ranking helpers" emerged.
After all, for the vast majority of trainers, reaching Ultra Ball rank and entering the global top thousand was already an extraordinarily impressive achievement.
If they could also rank a little higher, that would naturally be even better.
But such things had little impact on someone at Xia Yan's level.
"Looks like I still need to wait a little longer. Ranking up like this is too slow, and both Great Ball and Ultra Ball trainers have too few points."
Xia Yan considered how he could gain the most points in the