Pokémon GO – How to Coordinate with Local Trainers!

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Greeting Pokéjunglers!

Pokémon GO’s full release is fast approaching. It is currently due sometime before the end of next month. Many new features have been added for BETA players in recent days, such as the ability to use Pokémon candy (formerly evolution shards) to increase the maximum potential of a given Pokémon, or the ability to earn rewards for defending gyms. The general consensus for the game is that as long as you do not go in expecting an identical experience to the main series, chances are you will enjoy the reportedly challenging and addictive experience.

Despite the app still currently only being in BETA, trainers have found a way to coordinate and communicate with each other in order to get the most out of the experience. GO Chat is a unofficial third-party app that allows Pokémon GO users to reach out to other trainers for the purpose of  managing gyms, asking about locations of specific Pokémon, and later down the line trading. The app has an amazing two-thousand active users each day despite Pokémon GO not being widely available to the public yet.

Currently the app is available here for free on the Google Play store and after reaching out to the creator we have been assured that an iOS version is due mid-July. We were also told that precautions are being taken to keep the app safe from being taken down in the long-term, and that more professional graphics are coming soon! The chat app is doing really well and with the impending release of the main app there are no signs of that hype slowing down. What do you guys think? Will you be using this app to coordinate your very own Pokémon adventures in real life? Let us know below!

-Kriffix

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413 thoughts on “Pokémon GO – How to Coordinate with Local Trainers!”

  1. well guys looks like there’s only 5 days left until the world hobby Fair,we’re still on the topic on my little question this is the same one but with a different tune:how many characters that take a similar appearance all the Pokemon?

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  2. So I’m in a Fakemon mood
    I should work on my Rock/Electric Fossil Pokemon Electroscute and Conductodon
    Heavy stegosaurian Pokemon with massive boney plates that draw in lightning as were a lightning rod
    But this thing is total weakness bait; Ground, Water, Grass, Fightning,

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    • Cool concept. The only thing is the name for the second evolution. It sounds cool but doesn’t quite make sense that it ends in “don” if it’s a stegosaur. Maybe “stegowatt”? (Play on the word megawatt, unit of measurement for electricity)

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      • Its other half is Anklub and Quakelosaur
        Obviously Ankylosaurs with massive tail clubs that could create Tremors
        Rock/Ground
        Yeah yeah save me the whole weakness speech, I’ve used literally every Rock/Ground type on the planet to know the dangers

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  3. So Im not sure if people said this already, but in the sun and moon gameplay we saw at E3, I think its safe to say we already have the pokedex at this point. 😉 So Id just like to point out that the rotom was not an annoying notification spamming system like many people (including myself) feared. Now, this may change later on when your adventure really starts (or maybe they have it toggled off which is still great) but my concern is gone. Hooray!

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  4. GameStop CEO, Paul Raines, has confirmed that the NX will have physical media. There were rumors in the past from Nintendo’s patients, which claimed that the NX or an unspecified console would solely use digital media. The more current rumors are seeing Nintendo drop the disk-based media in favor of cartridge. This could vastly reduce the load time and the storage capacity of games running on the NX. With the recent positive reviews of the NX from CD Project Red, I’m seriously looking forward to the system. My PS4 might have to move over for the system. :]

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    • Didnt reggie himself say something leading people to believe they havent learned from the mistake the wiiu was. That Nintendo will continue to stay behind sony and microsoft.

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      • Reggie stated that Nintendo will focus on content, not only performance. People thought it meant another weak system. Yet, Nintendo cannot make a weak system and expect content. So, the NX has to be acceptable in power.

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  5. Just came here to say: Finding Dory was bloody brilliant! It wasn’t as good as Finding Nemo, but far from the “cash grab” film I was expecting. As for Pokemon Go… I don’t expect much but am open for surprises!

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    • I hope to see it on Saturday with my family! I still remember the day I saw Finding Nemo in the theaters when I was 4, and I can’t wait to see this now that I’m 17.

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  6. Alright IM FRACKING BORED
    Time for some Earthen Answers
    “In this wide world of Pokemon we test our mettle by facing the locals and they put us to the test; but now if given the chance how would you test your opponents”
    What kind of Gym would you have
    -Theme
    -Puzzle
    -Type Proficiency
    -Team
    -TM

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    • I would obviously be a Ground Type Gym located either deep underground or a hollowed out a Mountain, and to show I mean business you can’t get to me without solving my trick underground labyrinth any you better pack some gear because you’ll need Strength, Rock Smash and Flash to get through my domain
      My Team would involve my Rhyperior, Sandslash, Graveler, Gabite, Palpitoad, Piloswine
      Those who survive my Earthen Fury are begrudgingly awarded the Terra Badge and the greatest TM to be ever created TM 26 Earthquake

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    • Type: Poison
      Theme and puzzle: I have no idea of what to do without making it look really trashy
      Team: Dragalge, Venomoth, Seviper, Nidoking, and my signature Pokemon Drapion
      TM: Toxic
      Badge: Virus badge, looks like a bacteriophage (maybe the gym is a hospital to go along with that)

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      • Maybe go for the Venom Badge
        All your Pokemon seem to have venom

        But the Hospital could work, you could be based on a jungle or marsh that frequently treats visitors for poisoning

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      • OOOOOHOOOOOOOH
        Swamps, marshes all inside a terrarium
        I see a black blue grass and the field has mud, water and gunk everywhere with shady trees
        You’re Pokemon are kings of using the environment’s unforgivable harshness against opponents
        Dragalge and Serviper diving in and out of the water and Venomoth from the skies
        Nidoking is neutral territory but Drapion can cling from the trees and it can even dive in the water

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          • Mine would be kinda “Bowl Shaped” My Pokemon dive into the ground and attack from underneath
            Graveler uses Rollout a lot and Gabite would use Sandstorm to keep hidden and Dual Chop in the dust and always underground
            Sandslash has Sand Veil as well but kinda is the same with Gabite
            Palpitoad totally converts the field to mud and slides around
            And Piloswine just charges forward

            But Rhyperior is the full package, deep attack and defense, a stabbing Megahorn and plowing through the earth with Drill Run, and obliterating anything with Rock Wrecker

    • Dark gym (not cuz there isn’t one, but because I want one)
      The theme would be a backwards gum(hear me out) and it would have a bat theme/night. And the trainers would be “vampires.” You have a bat costume to fly from tree to tree and when you get to me my team consists of: Weavile, Houndoom, Cacturne, Pangoro, Mega Gyarados, and Krookodile. The tm is Dark Pulse and the badge is the shadow badge.

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    • Dark type (3edgy5me), idk what the theme would be? Maybe some kind of prison, or a dungeon… I remember I had a cool idea before that had to do with turning lights on and off but I can’t remember now 🙁
      Team: Original: Umbreon, Murkrow, Houndoom
      Rematch: Umbreon, Honchkrow , Malamar, Houndoom (M), Bisharp/Drapion
      TM: Knock off?
      Badge: Eclipse Badge

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    • Type – Psychic
      Theme – (You guys make thinking of themes easy, I’m struggling >.< ) You go through various rooms, each with their own clue, and you have to find out the answer to the puzzle that opens the door leading to me. (I suck, just bye, wanted to make something Sherlock related since I love that show)
      Team – Gardevoir, Espeon, Meowstic (F), Reuniclus, Medicham, Malamar (can be various evolutions, like either meditite/inkay/duosion/etc., but due to not knowing what gym order I would be, I just listed their last evolution)
      Badge – Mind's Eye Badge (Only name I can think of, really)
      TM – Psyshock (Wanted to give out an offensive move, since I am an offensive player)
      I know, F-, I tried.

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      • How about a gigantic doorway but you must remember objects in specific locations
        But as for a Badge I think the Wisdom Badge could be good

        But again the teams so far are just loaded to the brim with final stage evos

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        • I guess that works, I just wanted something like a mystery you had to solve.
          And Wisdom Badge works, I could only think Mind’s Eye for some reason.
          And yes, but as I mentioned, they can be changed to any of their evolutionary line because I dunno what order I would be in. Heck you can take away the last three depending on my order. I just listed what would be my team if I was the last Gym Leader

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    • Type – Ghost
      Theme – IDK
      Puzzle – Hidden walls you can walk through, Battling a trainer reveals one but you can make your way through it with out it.
      Team:
      Gourgeist
      Chandelure
      Mismagius
      Aegislash
      Froslass (Main Pokemon)
      Gengar

      Badge – The Jinn Badge

      TM – Shadow Claw

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    • If I had a gym I would probs break the barriers if possible and have a dual Fairy/Ghost type gym, set in an old cathedral thats a little run down yet still brightly lit with sparkling chandeliers and tall stained glass windows. Erie music would be playing faintly from somewhere on an old gramophone. There would be pools of brightly coloured magenta water in the holes in the floor so you would have to go around them to get through the gym and trainers would have either ghost or fairies.

      My team would consist of: Misdreavous, Swirlix, Granbull and Mawile
      (if the last gym mega Banette would be added and swirl would be evolved)

      My badge would be the Erie badge
      TM- Dazzling Gleam

      (If you don’t want the two types thing just remove the ghosts and replace with fairies lol)

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          • A weeabo is a term for non-Japanese people who are overly obsessed with Japan and its culture because of things like manga and anime. They will often argue saying that anime is better than any other form of animation.

          • oh, I see nothing with loving aspects of another culture, purely for manga and anime alone seems kinda… well hmm… but whatever makes them happy I suppose, I don’t understand why earthen seems to be making fun of them though, unless I’m missing something, 😛 thanks for educating me star storm

          • I say it because stuff like Fusions, all these outrageous abilities or attacks just sound like a overhyped fanboy idea
            And Earthen ain’t having that sh*t

          • Earthen… its fiction… I said I wanted those types because they were my favourite, chill dude, I couldn’t care less if they were in a game or not

          • oh well, maybe grammar is not their strong suit, or perhaps they really could care less 😛 who knows

          • Usually, weeaboos also think no other culture is better than Japan and exclude anything that isn’t from that culture. I’m all for loving aspects of different culture, but to exclude other cultures but one is kind of a bit extreme. There’s also terms for people who obsess over American or British culture in the same way, but es not as well-known.
            But basically es used at anyone who shows even a slight interest in another culture other than their own, and that’s not right. I’m all for using it on people who fit the definition, not someone who is interested in other cultures and what they provide.
            :3

          • oh so its probably on the verge of like Cultural appropriation then if I’m reading into this correctly eh?

    • Type : Grass (Double Battle)
      Theme & Puzzle : Hedge Maze
      Team :
      – Weepinbell
      – Deerling
      – Shiftry
      – Ludicolo
      TM – Synthesis
      Badge – Shrub Badge

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  7. FINALLY! Pokemon Mystery Dungeons Red, Blue and Sky are on the Wii U Virtual Console in North America! I’m tempted to get them all, I love this series so much and want to play them on a nice big screen. I also haven’t played Red or Blue yet!

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      • Pretty much this. It doesn’t help that I played Red & Blue Rescue Team before Explorers of Time/Darkness & Sky either 😛

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      • Also PMD Blue is the only game where the story drove me to tears. It isn’t all that insane, but at the age I was when I played it, it was emotional for me.

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    • Hmmmmm I don’t know what to pick
      It’s pretty much Blue or Sky
      In Blue I was a Treecko and Sky I was a Turtwig
      Parts of me want to relive as those two, but who knows I pretty much was coaxing on Absorb and Mega Drain but who cares

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    • Explorers of Sky is one of my favorite games honestly! I wont get it on VC since I still have the cart but cool that its available

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  8. I hope that Sun/Moon has really awesome gym leaders with fleshed out personalities and stuff like that similar to gen 5.

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  9. Take a game/movie/tv character and give them a pokemon team!

    Quote [Cave Story]

    Clauncher
    Aegislash
    Rotom
    Genesect
    Magnezone
    Raichu

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    • Ouu I like this idea and great team choice.

      Gandalf

      -Rapidash [Shadowfax]
      -Talonflame/Pidgeot [The Eagles]
      -Shiftry [The Ents]
      -Mothim [The moth he sends out at the tower for help]
      -Mismagius [Because its a magician type pokemon]
      -Honedge [Glamdring]

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    • I have to go with my boy Jack Skellington sorry not sorry focusing on the Halloween Town elements
      Gourgeist (Pumpkin King 😉 )
      Honchkrow (I know, I know, but I couldn’t find any fitting bat Pokemon that fit really well with Halloween Town…plus crows are better 😛 )
      Dusknoir (Based on all the ghosts plus near-dead corpses there)
      Mismagius (Based on witches and ghosts :3 )
      Mega Banette (Based on the doll they make for their Christmas)
      Trevenant (Based on the Hanging Tree, one of my fav Halloween Town Members)
      This took 3 times to reply since Disqus keeps on ‘Error’ing me D:

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    • The Countess (AHS:Hotel)

      -Gothitelle (Fashion icon as Gaga)
      -Crobat (She is a vampire)
      -Chandelure (Hotel aesthetics)
      -Klefki (Again, hotel Aesthetics)
      -Bisharp (Because she has that nail that can kill people)
      -Mega Shiny Gardevoir ( Her dress resembles one of the dresses Gaga used)

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    • Link (Zelda, but do I really have to explain where he is from?)

      – Aegislash (Master sword)
      – Cofagrigus (Masks in LoZ 6)
      – Delphox (Wand is like the fire rod)
      – Togetic (Hey! Listen!)
      – Electrode (Bombs)
      – Torchic (Cuccoos)

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        • Yeah, sorry about that. >.< I've been active in the fire emblem community recently, and the whole fanbase refers to games by their number, so I guess I'm just used to it.

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    • Jon Snow: (Need I say GoT? :D)

      Mightyena (Closest thing to a direwolf)
      Glalie (Song of ICE and fire)
      Staraptor (Brave, powerful, cool hair)
      Beartic (Wun Wun as a pokemon)
      Escavalier (Stick him with the pointy end)
      Absol (same expression…all the time)

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      • I kinda really want to do Margaery from GoT too.

        So here is her team:
        Liligant (For the flower theme)
        Roserade (Same as above, but Roserade is just a little more fierce)
        Sawsbuck (keeps the plant theme alive with the flowers on the antlers but also brings in the Baratheon sigil)
        Swanna (Swans can be awful animals, and Margaery is pretty cunning and ruthless in her own way… also that elegance factor)
        Leafeon (cute, powerful, but doesn’t come across as ruthless)
        Blissey (cares for the community, loving)

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    • Flowey (Undertale)

      Sunflora
      -Bullet Seed
      Mow Rotom
      -Leaf Storm
      -Astonish
      Aegislash
      -King’s Shield
      -Shadow Sneak
      -Confide
      Trevenant
      -Shadow Sneak
      -Forest’s Curse
      -Shadow Claw
      Malamar
      -Superpower
      -Topsy Turvy
      -Dark Pulse
      -Foul Play
      Zygarde 50 Percent/Complete Form
      -Core Enforcer
      -Dragon Pulse (like his laugh)
      -Camouflage (based on the hearts)
      -Extreme Speed
      (Technological and considerably “ugly” to start life form based on his Omega Flowey form, his one OP “God” Pokemon)

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  10. Taking an off topic vote for what game I should play next
    Should I play Majora’s Mask, Ocarina of Time, or Pokemon White 2?

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  11. I actually haven’t heared the SuMo rival theme until now. I like it! I like battle themes that are different than just the blood pumping crazy ones. I want more themes like that and Champion Iris

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  12. i just heard the recreations of the battles theme for sun and moon and WHEW!
    a bops only soundtrack in the making

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  13. One thing I wish they do in Gen 7 is actually complete the guide book before it releases. They didn’t have images for many of the Pokemon, and a lot of information felt missing. It was incomplete, and they released it, and that probably bothers me more than it should.

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    • Why were they trying to hide the Kalos pokemon? A lot of them are meh and it’s not like there are many to begin with lol

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      • I don’t think they were trying to hide them, so much as they just didn’t put images in. There is just a blank spot where it should be.

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          • It’s super nice! I’m honestly not regretting this choice. The only thing I don’t like about it is the stylus I guess. It’s a big shorter than my last. My old one does fit in it though. The screen is so big though, I love it. I also like the new 3D

  14. Heh, with the trainers standing behind their pokemon, I just thought of this. Imagine you trying to catch a trainer’s pokemon and them just freaking out

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  15. Off topic, but man I’m jealous of my girlfriends oldest and youngest brothers. They’re taking the whole summer to go around the Asian area. Spent the last week in taiwan, now they’re in Japan for a while, going to China after, then back to Taiwan for a while longer. I’ll tie it into topic by saying, imagine the different pokemon they could catch if pokemon go was out

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