how does one become a member?

By buying a Membership medaillon in the coin shop or in trade chat. The coin shop is the Orange thing top right of the screen.

 

Once you have it you activate it and you're member for some time

 

There is 2 kind of membership, Black Membership(+20% to encounter Hidden Ability Pokemon) and Regular Membership(15 days, 30 days or 60 days).

ok thank you

Hi Bowan,

 

Ontop of MadTrainer's response, here are other benefits of membership, as listed on the wiki:

Major membership benefits can be subsumptively outlined below:

 

• 50% experience-gain bonus.
  
• 100% (2x) increase to the money-yield rate.
  
• Access to a multitude of content-oriented perks—namely membership-exclusive Pokémon spawns and areas; read the successive subsections for more details.
  

If an Experience Boost is active on a member's account, it will stack additively with the bonus-experience rate of membership, not multiplicatively; in other words, you'd receive a 1.75x boost from both items in effect. The same formulaic syntax governs additional experience-gain bonuses that may be granted by events.

Although, the Black Medallion is not a membership, with its only affect increasing the chance of a wild Pokemon inheriting its hidden ability. It is a separate thing from the three other Membership Medallions ( 15-Day MS, , 30-Day MS, 60-Day MS), which will give you the benefits as quoted above. As they're two separate buffs, you're able to have both black medallions and membership medallions activated at the same time.

 

I hope this answers your question; have a great rest of your week!

 

 

 

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