Blanche or Cliff choose a path outcomes in Pokémon Go

You’ll need to choose between Blanche or Cliff as part of Pokémon Go’s “Steeled Resolve” free Timed Research. The choice you should pick is based on what type of battle content you do more in Pokémon Go, as well as what you may still need to build to flesh out the meta teams in said content.

Below we explain the choices between the two branched choices in Pokémon Go’s “Steeled Resolve” Timed Research.

Which path should you pick? Blanche or Cliff?

After the first step of the free research, there’ll be a branched choice: Should you pick Blanche or Cliff?

If you’re basing this on PvE meta (gyms and raids), you should pick Cliff. While the rewards are mostly the same, the encounter rewards are different. Cliff’s rewards include a shadow Machop, which you can then power up and evolve into a shadow Machamp — which is one of the best fighting-type Pokémon in the game.

If you’re basing this on PvP (Go Battle League) meta, you should pick Blanche. Blanche’s rewards give you a Marill (that you can evolve into an Azumarill) and a Steelix — both Pokémon that fair well in Great and Ultra Leagues. To be fair, Marowak and Machamp both also see use in PvP, but they lag behind Steelix and Azumarill, according to the numbers at PvPoke.

Train with Blanche or Cliff outcomes

Once you have progressed past step 1 of the “Steeled Resolve” Timed Research and made the above choice, the quest outcomes change as follows:

Step 2 of 3

• Use 5 super effective charged attacks (500 Stardust)
• Power up Pokémon 5 times (2 Fast TMs)
• battle in the Go Battle League 5 times (2 Charged TMs)

Rewards: Marill (Blanche) or shadow Machop (Cliff) encounter, 2,000 XP

Step 3 of 3

• Catch 25 Pokémon (10 Ultra Balls)
• Power up Pokémon 10 times (1 Silver Pinap Berry)
• Win a trainer battle in the Go Battle League (Steelix [Blanche] or Marowak [Cliff] encounter)

Rewards: 1 Magnetic Lure Module, 3,000 XP, 2,000 Stardust