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No, only beast balls or vortex balls will work. If you find one you'll just have to waste it so don't hunt in UB routes if you don't have a beast/vortex ball spare

There's nothing to fix, it's a feature. If there was no throttle on battling then you'd see people with 6 windows open completing a battle every second or something. It also makes sure there's a level playing field, where everyone can train at roughly the same rate regardless of how good their Internet or computer are (unless they're really bad lol)
 
Just because you got banned doesn't mean you have to take your anger out on people asking questions on the forum. Go take a walk and calm yourself down

Spawn rates aren't public. It's a tier rarer than legendaries, so it'll take you hours to days to find one. Make sure you have a beast/vortex ball in your inventory or you'll be unable to catch it.

Pink Rhyhorn

It's a 1/6 chance when you redeem a promo. So your chances of getting it after 2 promos were 30.5%. Decently lucky

Make sure hardware acceleration is turned on in your browser settings. For me the difference is between smooth gameplay and absolutely unplayable.

There are 2 main reasons why your total XP might decrease:
 
First, obviously, if you sell, trade, release or list a Pokemon for trade its XP will no longer be on your account.
Secondly, if you had another user train XP on your Pokemon and then that person is banned for botting, all XP they ever trained will be reverted. This is rare but it happens, for example when Rehabilitated was banned for botting the top Pokemon leaderboard lost a few billion lol. Sometimes this even results in happiness evolution Pokemon being reverted back to a lower level than is usually possible, like a level 5 Lopunny. 

How much health did it have? If the health is too high it's not possible to catch, but if something has under 50 or so health (I don't know the exact threshold) it's much much more likely to be caught

I don't think it's allowed, IIRC people have been banned for doing that with daily login event Pokemon. Either way just catch starters yourself it doesn't take that long

Going by Hangry counts from the Pokedex. I estimate there's about a 1/12 chance, maybe it's 8%, of getting a variant from quiz shop. Assuming all the variants are equally likely (I'm fairly sure they are) that means 1/60 for a shiny. I've bought 83 Morpeko (Hangry) and gotten 0 shinies, 0 shadows, 2 darks, 2 mystics and 2 metallics. My rates would be 1/13.8 so I'm on the unlucky side

Going by Hangry counts from the Pokedex. I estimate there's about a 1/12 chance, maybe it's 8%, of getting a variant from quiz shop. Assuming all the variants are equally likely (I'm fairly sure they are) that means 1/60 for a shiny. I've bought 83 Morpeko (Hangry) and gotten 0 shinies, 0 shadows, 2 darks, 2 mystics and 2 metallics. My rates would be 1/13.8 so I'm on the unlucky side

Yes. You can even get multiple shinies, I've caught 8 Latias and not a single one was normal. I was looking for a normal one but I gave up after a while

What you said isn't true in the first place, so no

Yes, it's just the battle count, it doesn't matter who the battle was against. But beating stronger Pokemon with weaker Pokemon will give more XP so it does affect it, just not in the battle count

It needs to be night in your local timezone in real life, not just on the game.

Lickilicky is in there too which always struck me as weird. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a simple mistake from having to make hundreds of teams for the sidequests

As Ade said it's a random chance when you buy a Cosmog from the quiz store. Anecdotally I've bought 50 Morpeko (Hangry) recently and got 5 uniques, you might have better or worse luck than me. There's 1700 normal Hangries and 150 variants, so the rate looks like it's about 1/10 to 1/12
 
Save up a ton of coins so you can buy multiple at once to avoid getting yourself too disappointed

Rehabilitated got perma-banned with all except 2 of the Galar fossil variants, he was the only person mass buying Galar fossils so he had the majority of the copies in existence. They're all deleted now

It converts the currency, premium costs $15 and I was charged £11.36

Like with many things in this game the exact rates aren't published.
 
You'll get ~3 top tier boxes from opening 70 iirc but it varies wildly depending on your luck

Promo codes for event Pokemon like Missingno are only obtained from Mystery Boxes. More details here https://wiki.pokemon-vortex.com/wiki/Mystery_Boxes

Did you really have to go through and do the trubbish react on all my posts?? They come from mystery boxes, there's nothing more to say, I don't know what more you're expecting to hear lol

Upload the image to a hosting site like imgur.com and use the "insert image from URL" button. 

Getting 100,000 points will cost you pretty much the entire month. Usually they train a couple hundred million's worth of immunes caught before the current season to maximise XP without increasing their Pokemon count (which would decrease average XP). As far as I'm aware, listing a Pokemon you caught this season for trade will not increase your average XP.
 
If you're going for a top 4 position make sure you've adequately prepared yourself for the grind. Make sure you have ~8,000 immunes and time to train them. And make sure you have a plan to get yourself 2000-3000 unique Pokemon because it's not trivial to do so
 
In short, stock up thousands of immunes on an alt. Pick out a month that will be convenient for you. And grind, grind, grind
 
ETA: the seasonal points formula is not public knowledge, the formula you listed would give DementedAlbatross 1,546,759 points (sqrt(396,150,454)*sqrt(220,573)*sqrt(1,794)*log(8,066)/1000) but of course he has 93,305. You should still try to prioritise balancing your stats and seeing which of the four gives you the most points in the shortest time.