*Updated as of the 4th December 2019*
The Major achievement in Gears Pop! is quite possibly one of the hardest achievements of all time & currently as it stands only a handful of people have unlocked it. It requires you to reach the maximum player level of 20 & to do so you have to upgrade every single Pin in the game to a very high level which will take a SERIOUS amount of time or money.
Below are the xp requirements to upgrade each player level:
2 - 20
3 - 30
4 - 50
5 - 80
6 - 120
7 - 180
8 - 300
9 - 450
10 - 700
11 - 1,100
12 - 1,700
13 - 2,600
14 - 4,100
15 - 6,400
16 - 10,000
17 - 16,000
18 - 25,000
19 - 38,000
20 - 60,000
And here is the full list of pin upgrade costs in the game, the first column is level, the second is duplicate pin total, the third is coin cost & the final column is xp gained per level:
Common Pins:
2 - 10 / 50 / 4
3 - 15 / 120 / 5
4 - 23 / 220 / 7
5 - 36 / 350 / 9
6 - 57 / 500 / 12
7 - 90 / 850 / 16
8 - 140 / 1,400 / 22
9 - 230 / 2,400 / 30
10 - 360 / 4,000 / 42
11 - 560 / 7,000 / 58
12 - 890 / 12,000 / 81
13 - 1400 / 20,000 / 110
14 - 2200 / 34,000 / 150
15 - 3600 / 58,000 / 220
16 - 5600 / 99,000 / 300
17 - 8900 / 170,000 / 430
18 - 14100 / 290,000 / 600
19 - 22400 / 490,000 / 840
20 - 35500 / 830,000 / 1180
Rare Pins:
2 - 6 / 500 / 6
3 - 10 / 850 / 8
4 - 18 / 1,400 / 11
5 - 30 / 2,400 / 16
6 - 51 / 4,000 / 23
7 - 87 / 7,000 / 34
8 - 150 / 12,000 / 50
9 - 250 / 20,000 / 74
10 - 430 / 34,000 / 110
11 - 740 / 58,000 / 160
12 - 1300 / 99,000 / 240
13 - 2200 / 170,000 / 360
14 - 3700 / 290,000 / 550
15 - 6300 / 490,000 / 820
16 - 10800 / 830,000 / 1230
Epic Pins:
2 - 4 / 4,000 / 25
3 - 7 / 7,000 / 37
4 - 13 / 12,000 / 54
5 - 24 / 20,000 / 80
6 - 44 / 34,000 / 110
7 - 81 / 58,000 / 170
8 - 150 / 99,000 / 250
9 - 280 / 170,000 / 380
10 - 520 / 290,000 / 560
11 - 960 / 490,000 / 830
12 - 1800 / 830,000 / 1230
Legendary Pins:
2 - 2 / 50,000 / 250
3 - 4 / 80,000 / 300
4 - 10 / 130,000 / 360
5 - 20 / 210,000 / 430
6 - 40 / 330,000 / 510
7 - 90 / 520,000 / 620
8 - 190 / 830,000 / 740
(The max level for Common Pins is 20, Rare is 16, Epic is 12 & Legendary is 8).
The total amount of xp it takes to reach player level 20 is 166,830 xp, if you were to upgrade every pin in the game then you would gain 197,178 xp so there is some wiggle room on things you don’t have to upgrade. The most efficient way to do this is as a free to play player is to upgrade the following:
17 x common pins upgraded to level 20 = 1,633,887 pins, 34,338,130 coins, 70,822 xp
8 x rare pins upgraded to level 16 = 208,576 pins, 16,153,200 coins, 29,536 xp
5 x rare pins upgraded to level 15 = 76,360 pins, 5,945,750 coins, 12,310 xp
15 x epic pins upgraded to level 11 = 31,245 pins, 17,760,000 coins, 37,440 xp
7 x legendary pins upgraded to level 6 = 532 pins, 5,600,000 coins, 17,290 xp
total = 1,950,600 pins, 79,797,080 coins, 167,398 xp
The best way to level up is to get to Arena 7. It’s the earliest level you can get the best chests from winning & it will also be the easiest place for most people to get 5 game win streaks at the same time. Once you have your win streak just lose a couple of games on purpose so that you stay at the same COG level otherwise you’ll rank up too high making it harder to get win streaks & most importantly you’ll also run out of people to play because the higher you go the less people there are (last season i beat everybody & got to over 4300 COG’s & then couldn’t find a game for over 2 weeks!).
Although you'll get 15 wins per day you won't have enough room to store all your win chests so you'll probably end up getting about 12. That'll give you roughly 7,485 coins, 620 common pins, 76 rare pins, 5 epic pins & 0.2165 legendary pins.
You should also get 150 coins from completing your daily rewards & 300 coins from your weekly crew bounties. All crystals that you win should be saved & used to buy coins, as a free to play player coins will be your biggest bottleneck & using them to buy the Coin Fortune bundle in the store is best way to use them.
Getting win streak chests is also important because they contain horde tokens which allow you to gain more pins, coins & crystals. Being in an active clan is very helpful for playing horde games because it significantly increases the chances of finding somebody to play with & they will also be using their own horde tokens to start games as well, i’d recommend trying to play about 6 games of horde everyday.
At the end of every season which lasts roughly a month you get a reward depending on what league you finish in, with a few days to go it’s best to win all your games & get to the gold league where you’ll get a free mini Legendary Box.
The last thing to mention is once you’ve maxed out a Pin any time you get more of the same Pin you will be given coins instead, here are the coin totals you will get when this happens:
1 x duplicate legendary pin = 20,000 coins
1 x duplicate maxed Epic Pin = 1000 coins
1 x duplicate maxed Rare Pin = 1 coin
1 x duplicate maxed Common Pin = 0.1 coins
Taking everything above into account if you did all of that every day for a year you would roughly earn:
5,882,055 coins
432,555 common pins
63,526 rare pins
7,880 epic pins
103.0225 legendary pins
Once you factor in the maxed out Pins being turned into to coins, as a free to play player it would take you roughly 7 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS of playing every day before you unlocked this achievement. Hahaha excuse me while i hold my sides laughing at how ridiculous this is.
The only other option is to spend real world money to get the achievement. A Legendary Box (which costs 2250 crystals) contains on average = 78,657 Coins, 5014 Common Pins, 1038 Rare Pins, 173 Epic Pins, 4.6148 Legendary Pins.
Due to an increase in the amount of Legendary pins you get in a Legendary Box the most efficient way to reach level 20 is to upgrade the following:
9 x common pins upgraded to level 20 = 864,999 pins, 18,179,010 coins, 37,494 xp
8 x common pins upgraded to level 19 = 484,888 pins, 9,519,120 coins, 23,888 xp
7 x rare pins upgraded to level 16 = 182,504 pins, 14,134,050 coins, 25,844 xp
6 x rare pins upgraded to level 16 = 91,632 pins, 7,134,900 coins, 14,772 xp
9 x epic pins upgraded to level 12 = 34,947 pins, 18,126,000 coins, 33,534 xp
7 x epic pin upgraded to level 11 = 12,498 pins, 7,104,000 coins, 14,976 xp
7 x legendary pins upgraded to level 7 = 1162 pins, 9,240,000 coins, 12,950 xp
total = 1,672,630 pins, 83,437,080 coins, 167,798 xp
It would take roughly 275 Legendary Boxes, 49 Coin Fortune bundles, 1 Coin Stack & 2 coin Piles from the store to achieve this for a total of 841,750 Crystals which means buying 56 Crystal Mountains, 1 Crystal Cluster & 1 Crystal Nugget for a total of £5614.42/$5614.42.
So yeah it’s either play the game every day for two & a half hours for over seven years or spend just under six thousand dollars instead. I know it’s not good news but i would ask people not to down vote this solution & to voice your displeasure to the developers of this game instead. As new pins & chests come out i will be updating this guide. If anybody finds any typos in this solution then please let me know, thanks.