As we all know Niantic has been hard at work on making Pokémon GO better than ever, and now that the servers are stable they can start focusing on new features – Introducing Buddy Pokémon!
As revealed in a post on their official website, each trainer can pick one Pokémon to become their buddy, which gives you new in-game experiences and rewards – such as that specific ‘mons Candy. They will appear alongside you trainer in the profile screen (and technically in the overworld as well), and can be changed whenever and wherever. No official day on when this update will go live, but Niantic promises that it’ll be “just around the corner.”
So who are you going to choose as your buddy Pokémon? And what other features do you want to see in the app?
//ozymandis
I’m excited for this. If I’m lucky enough to find a rare pokemon, between work and taking care of my kids, I probably won’t be able to find another rare one, so getting more candies is going to be amazing
I want a Venomoth, Sneasel, or Aipom for a partner
you can only have venomoth atm. I shall choose charmeleon, as charmanders are the rarest of pokemon, besides pikachu, snorlax, and chansey.
Well it’s not the rarest it’s very rare but of what I know Gyardos, Fossils evolved forms, and those Pokemon you said (not to mention Porygon is very rare)
Lol I have 3 aerodactyl , 2 chansey , all the fossils ( base form ) and 3 porygon ,but I only have 9 charmander candy….
I have a lot less than you then me want Porygon
I got my pory from an egg. All i get from 10kms is Jynx, Onix, fossils, scythers, and eevees. Charmander and pikachu non existent in Ireland, but there are drowzees everywhere
Go to a rockier area and maybe it appears Charmander and Pikachu doesn’t exist in Pennsylvania either
This is such an amazing new feature that will make the game fresh, new, more exciting and easier to complete the Pokedex – especially for those who live in more rural areas.
Glad to see Niantic is taking care of its users!
It will How?
Well, for those who live in a rural area they probably go to a bigger city every once in a while. Let’s say they catch one Dratini, but don’t go back to the city for weeks – or even months – and there’s no chance in hell that one will pop up in their small town. They can make their Dratini their Buddy Pokemon while they go about their daily lives, earn candies, and eventually evolve it fully without having to ever catch another one.
As for the fresh/new aspect of it: I’m at a point in the game, as I’m sure countless others are, where I’m down to the nitty gritty of my Pokedex. I have every first stage Pokemon, but not every evolution. And a lot of the holes are because I’ve traveled somewhere out of the way once, caught a Pokemon that’s more exclusive to that area, and haven’t found another of that Pokemon since/haven’t been lucky enough to hatch another (i.e. Grimer, Vulpix, Koffing, etc.). This new feature will give several people the boost to return fully to the game and catch ’em all! ‘Cause essentially this does make it easier to evolve and power up Pokemon.
And, this is just wishful thinking, with the Pokedex now easier to complete, it may usher in the Gen 2 Pokemon sooner!
Yay Sneasel ho! And I must evolve my Staryu with it
On a more serious note, I’ve encountered four Dragonites since the game’s release and every. goddamn. one. has. run. away.
FOUR! Ughghhhguipt4wgeorqw24ogtbqr
I met as my best I passed by but not seen Tauros, Starmie, and Golduck
Ones I caught Haunter and Venomoth that are really rare
If the candies you get are based on how much you walk….well we all know how good the egg tracking is….:/
I’ve found that they tracking is a lot better than it was in the past, I’m sure they’ve updated it with more regular refreshing ingame to track
This is gonna make evolving some Pokemon so much easier and I’m excited for this seeing as I only have about 24 more Pokemon to get (the only evolution line that I don’t have at all is Sandshrew, which is really annoying cause I’ve never seen one on my nearby yet and I’ve hatched hella eggs too haha, the rest I need are evos/single stages
I caught two at the beach yet never saw Psyduck
Well that sucks for me seeing as the nearest beach from me is like an hour and a bit away while I’m at home. My university is a seaside town tho so that’s a plus I guess
Me I live far from the beach caught it by chance on whale watch and Magmar too not to mention Pinsir on the way home
Whale watching? Ngl, that’s pretty cool, defo on my bucket list!
I caught a Magmar on the bus, my gf catches them like everyday on the way to work so I’m assuming there’s a nest there
I went yet saw no Whales what would be funny if program error happened and Wailord appeared
Lol. I’ve only caught 79 thus far, but I’ve hardly been playing it for the past 3-4 weeks.
I’m patiently waiting for them to implement trading and hopefully it might be like a Global kinda dealio where I can trade with anyone and they can trade me one haha
I’m hoping there’s both styles. Global is ok, but if you get people asking for Dragonites and offering Caterpies…it’s just gonna go to shit.
I’m also hoping for Gen 2 soon to keep things fresh.
I honestly haven’t had much time at all recently. And I’ve noticed once I get to around lvl 20+ the games sort of wants you to start spending money on it. And I’m not about to do that…
Well I never search for trades on the GTS, I always deposit Pokemon for fair trades and I’ve found that it works so fingers crossed
Yeah, it gets tedious +20 especially cause of the exponential experience you need. I really wanna get the rest of Gen 1 for my living dex while saving up candies for the Gen 2 evolutions
Fun fact for anyone did you know in Gen.1 and Go there is only one pure Grass type and it is Tangela!
They loved the Grass/Poison combo in Gen 1
And put the other 4 as Bug/Grass and Grass/Psychic then Blue Spaghetti is alone
Fun fact that Bulbasaur was the only starter until Gen 7 (Rowlet) that started off as a dual type.
Yup also Grass is the only starter to get dual types at beginning
I’ll get a weed whacker
Woo! I’ll be walking with my Jolteon!!
I’ll be walking with my cringely-named “Baeporeon” for sure! One of my friends insisted I name a load of my Pokémon, and honestly, “Rick Gastly”, “Paras Hilton”, “Eugene” – the Kingler, and co. have really grown on me! ? lol
Also, a little off topic, but what do you all think of my Alolan Raticate interpretation?
http://maniraptavia.deviantart.com/art/Raticate-Alola-Form-632002751
Cool!
Thanks! ?
What friends
Whoah!… Looks like I’m gonna need a Rawst Berry for that burn! ???
And me Walking my Venomoth (and evolving my Haunter and Weepinbel)
No wait, Vulpix! I really need to evolve it!
Perfect way to evolve pokemon that are hard to come by
Did anyone see the new trailer on the Pokemon channel? The player character is related to Kukui oO
Second ever player Father confirmed!!! Unless he said cousin cause that’s a custom in Hawaii to call each other cousins
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss I can finally get my Gengar.
Any one else see this I think leaked or hacked chart?
It’s predictions based on egg groups
Oh Predictions I thought it was real or fake and not a rumor
I’d say add wobbufet and sudowoodo to the 10ks.
Woooobufet!!!
It’s just really easy to guess which go where. It’s based on location in the pokedex.
What do you mean?
If you look at the 2, 5, 10 km egg chart for pokemon Go and compare it to the Kanto pokedex, they split it up based on what number the pokemon are in the dex. Hence why eevee is a 10 km egg even though it’s so common; it’s #133 in the dex.
I mean it’s not a perfect split, but generally that’s how they did it.
Oh so Gen.3 would have Starters, and only one I don’t see is Ralts as a 2km egg.
Taillow will probably be the cutoff for Hoenn eggs
I’m excited ahhhhh finally I can get my Charizard, as I rarely see Charmanders both in my hometown and at my college ^^
*insert Pokemon GO hating bile here*
I do wish they would make a decent tracker but I adore this feature
I don’t like any of it, I’m patiently waiting for Pokemon GO to die.
Why exactly?
Probs doesn’t have a phone
Or they do, it’s just a Windows Phone
It’s not a Windows phone.
Fire phone?
Don’t even know what that is.
Flip Phone then
It was just a joke :3
That said, I’d probably prefer a Windows phone, I’m not too fond of Android. Aside from its reliance on Java, it’s awkward to program for, the Android SDK is a horrible mess.
I have a phone.
Pokemon Go is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
You have your opinion, I have my opinion.
Mine is good but I like regular games more
It’s pretty cool, but what I really want them to announce is minor text fixes. Also *deep breath* FIX THE D*MN TRACKER FIRST!!!
I missed the demo article so I’ll post my thoughts here. If they can find a way to ENSURE that it won’t be datamined, then I want it. But if they can’t MAKE SURE that it won’t then I’d much rather they not. But also if they do, I can’t wait to get town names and hear town and route music.
Whew, I just realized, I’m going crazy with the caps today arent I? xD
Fat chance friendo
They would have to make like an entirely second program with secluded spot and junk
It’s easier to them just to make a dumbed down version
I don’t care anymore I just want info
You could give me a whole prima guide and I would scarf down every page for info
Then I’d rather wait. Having all the info within a day of the demo would suck.
Still haven’t played this game.
It’s pretty fun if you have friends who also play it. Can’t say it would be as fun if you don’t.
I feel like it’s a lot of fun when there are new things to catch. Everything I haven’t caught is exceedingly rare, so I’m not going to play 20 times and maybe only get something new once. I can’t wait until Johto comes out though.
I agree. If you’re not constantly exposed to different types of pokemon, it’s not much fun. Luckily I go to college and there are bunch of different pokemon there. I also am looking forward to johto though!
What I have not caught yet base level only haven’t got most evos
Pikachu
Vulpix
Diglett
Psyduck
Growlithe
Poliwag
Machop
Geodude
Ponyta
Farfetch’d
Slowpoke
Magnemite
Grimer
Onix
Voltorb
Cubone
Hitmonlee
Hitmonchan
Lickitung
Chansey
Tangela
Kangaskahn
Mr. Mime
Scyther
Tauros
Lapras
Dratini
Porygon
Omanyte
Kabuto
Aerodactyl
Snorlax
Yeah I have a lot missing!
I have around 85-90 of the dex so far.
Also can we talk about how region exclusives are the stupidest idea ever? It’s hard enough to find those pokemon, what if you took a week trip to europe to catch a mr. mime and didn’t find one?
Just hatch one from a 10 k
Exactly I mean yes maybe two and make them most abundant in their but uncommon most else but why 4 that only have 0.5% chance of find much less capture elsewhere
There should be region exclusive spawn rates instead of the pokemon themselves, I agree.
Not counting Evos I have
Metapod
Beedrill
Hypno
All Eeveelution’s
Venomoth
Raticate
Fearow
Nidorina
Nidorino
Pidgeot
Weepinbell
Haunter
That’s all I’m bad at this
I don’t have any drowzee. Also Haunter is pretty good!
Drowzee is fourth most common to me
Do you live in a really urban area?
More Suburban than urban about an hour from Philadelphia!
Hmm. I live like 10 minutes from St. Louis and I’ve never seen a single drowzee.
Hmm that’s weird
Shame it’s not for me then :/
How do you think they’ll handle adding different regions in terms of eggs? Will they just mix them all together so you can get multiple regions from eggs? I’m kind of hoping they’ll do different colored eggs for each region, so you sort of know what to expect when it hatches.
And just the game in general. In 3-4 years, rattata will be rare-ish. Though the buddy system fixes a lot of the issues, because you can get candy.
That’s true. I was worried about the difficultly of evolving when they add more mons
I’ve wondered about how they’re gonna implement adding in more regions. I can see them bundling all in together, with periods in between to allow people to capture etc, but then I think, 721 Pokemon in one game can be very difficult, especially if you’re only after a select few
Maybe they’ll group regions together so there’s not too many and you’ll be able to select the regions from a menu screen?
I was thinking that may be a possibility as well. It may make things more helpful
Sorry for the rapid fire comments, but I believe we’ve missed a crucial piece of info that may deconfirm the “going back to kalos” theory. The soundtrack for the game is 175 tracks long, which may seem like plenty, but XY’s soundtrack had 212 minus a few tracks from pokemon generations which was included in the album. Many of these tracks were the “changing clothes” jingles, and as we know clothes customization is returning. So 175 tracks would not be near enough for a new region, new battle themes, clothes jingles, an old region, and old battles themes. Of course this may just be new tracks, but I see it as being every track in the game. I hope I’m wrong, because I want two regions, but this evidence goes against it. 🙁
Or perhaps they just kept the OST from Kalos and didn’t update them for a possible post game, so they didn’t feel the need to add the tracks onto the Alola one
Yeah. That’s always a possibility. I hope we do go back to kalos, but I’m just trying to narrow the possibilities, so to speak.
I don’t really think it’s plausible. They’d have to re-render the entire region. We’ll see
I think they will cut off certain areas.
I believe it’s just Southern Kalos, the part we haven’t seen
But that’d be EVEN MORE work. Designing a completely new area wouldn’t fix the issue of it being time consuming, it would further the issue.
Ummm…. No? Its part of the game.
Are you thinking of the towns we start in and Kiloude? Poekoko said “the parts we haven’t seen”.
Past the southern mountain range
Yeah, that’s what I thought you meant.
I mean, it would be part of the work load of SuMo. Not really extra. It is the same a making an area for alola, or making the sevii islands in FRLG
Oh, I see what you mean. It’d be like making a battle frontier or a battle island, right?
Yeah, since Alola is smll anyways too, also they’ve had 2 years unlike ORAS with one
Which areas would they cut off? Coastal kalos?
Preferably
Cut off everything below santalune, everything west of lumiose, and I’m happy. It’s not like we need coast anyway, Alola will give us plently of that.
I kinda wish if we get it cut everything past Lumiose only Mountain area keep for Zygarde
Coast is also the worst part of X and Y
It’s extremely doubtful. There is no real evidence to say we’ll return, other than the zygarde story, but it’s more wishful thinking than anyting.
Is it possible that it just copies the X and Y music and doesnt count it as part of the soundtrack?
Yeah, that’s what I meant when I said “this may just be new tracks”.
Dats what I said 😛
oops
You good, I’ll forgive you
😀
I guess that’s more likely, because they are on the same system with the same soundfont.
Can we get some of this in Sinnoh’s gyms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pTFLxeg6tg
Are you ready ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yeah, yeah yeeeah!
Gimmie what I need ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Bop!
I imagine:
Oreburgh – sounding like a mine, with cart noises and pick noises
Eterna – sounding pleasant and carefree
Veilstone – I have no idea, punching bag noises, karate noises?
Pastoria – sounding like the noise in an indoor pool
Hearthome – sounding sporadic and uneasy
Canalave – no idea again
Snowpoint – light and quiet, like the town’s music
Sunyshore – sounding electronic and mechanical
——————
Keep in mind I didn’t watch the video, I’m in public with no headphones, but I assume you’re talking about the gym exclusive music correct?
Veilstone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64
Snowpoint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOH7fODR9Q
so the Korean thing seems to mean we get Sun Moon Demo, but What I Really want is Nintendo to put out the E3 Demo of BoTW on the eShop.
Doubtful. That demo was huge. Also if I remeber correctly, even at E3 with all the security somebody got really close to datamining it.
Sandalit has been growing on my lately.
http://orig07.deviantart.net/42f8/f/2016/208/a/c/mixture_of_burning_poison___sandalit_by_shadowstar26-dabmqm2.jpg
sause
http://shadowstar26.deviantart.com/art/Mixture-of-burning-poison-Sandalit-624198458
Can’t wait to see that evo on Tuesday. Holding out for a cool one.
Oh, what? It’s getting an evo announced on Thursday?
No, no. Sorry for the confusion. Just optimism. xD
Oh, I kinda hope it is a one stage pokemon honestly. It is too cool as it is
STAY BACK BLASPHEME!!! I have no doubt it’ll evolve, and I hope it does.
It has to become a bigger, more ferocious-looking lizard like the komodo dragon
And no freaking gimmicks. Stay away from those. They’re cool when done right but often they aren’t done right.
He def has a place on my team. Fire/Poison YES
Finally a cool pokemon of my favorite type.
Recently I mean.
I was thinking about how much I wanted Litten to be Fire/Poison then realized this thing exists
Litten was just bursting with type potential. And then they made an abomination. You can say that it’s fire dark, and maybe it is, but I feel like that’s just denial. It’s clearly a wrestler, which should be afighting type. I’ve heard the cheap tactics argument, but it still looks fire fighting to me.
I used to hate popplio but now it’s the only viable option for me lol (I never liked rowlet)
My starter in Sun will be Rowlet, my day one pick, but my starter in Moon, as of yesterday, will be the lv. 5 munchlax. I didn’t know who to pick before that. I may still have popplio though, but munchlax is my true starter. <3
Same, but considering Litten is on steroids I don’t want him anymore, so I won’t have two fire types on my team
i eagerly wait to dump dirt on it
I eagerly wait to spit on your horse
<3
Place a single blade of grass gently on it’s forehead, and it goes berserk.
HA Sap Sipper
So what? The grass just sinks into its skull?
and increases its attack one stage
HA Truant.
a work horse with truant? surely you jestin
A horse with sap sipper? Does make much sense either.
they’re herbivores
HA: Herbivore: Takes two turns off to eat grass for every 1 turn it attacks.
you do realize Sap Sipper’s Japanese name is actually herbivore
Huh, your argument actually makes sense now. Fine, sandslash ice shard!
it’ll brush off the weak attack, activate stamina then hit with High Horsepower
*sigh* Mega Kangaskhan return! OHKO
Stamina would increase still then use bulk up intro Sitrus berry then High horsepower or earthquake
Nah. Sorry M Kanga is OP.
it maybe but you just used return not power-up punch mister
i still have Bulk Up with Sitrus Berry and the attack activated Stamina
so that’s double defense with an attack boost with 70-90% health
Mudsdale is obviously physically defensive so i think it can survive a double Return
No, you have Sap Sipper. -_-
That was last battle
I’ll definitely have a Stamina Build but regardless it would still be +1 Atk and Def with Sitrus Berry so that still makes it tanky enough to survive and retaliate with a STAB Earthquake with a attack boost
And Mega Kang isn’t super duper bulky so I’m fairly confident that it could KO it
FIne. Mega Venasuar Giga Drain! Where is your sap sipper now?!?!
On my Miltank which I can swap in
Switching after you find out what my attack will be sounds like cheating, but . . .
Earthen can’t lose, he always bends the rules to his bidding. One turn he has Sap Sipper, the next he has Stamina. One turn he has Assault Vest, the next he has Focus Sash. Don’t even try doing a mock-up battle with him
Eh, true.
Wait I just realized I cheated too. I had two megas lol.
You’re a real thorn in my side y’know
And who’s to say everyone isn’t doing the same exact thing
Ok, I’ll cut you some slack. He did have two megas
Can you brush off this?
My Super Soaker is ‘super’ effective
Ha, nerf or nothin
Pls nerf nerf.
too op
not unless it crashes its hooves onto your Pokemon leaving their bones broken and buried halfway in the earth
Bro, that isn’t how this game works. Popplio3 ain’t goona just die from getting stepped on
High Horsepower
Priority aqua jet.
Stamina with Defensive build
It’s fairy though. It resists it
High Horsepower is ground water nor fair resist it
Oops, thought it was fighting. Still, a hydro pump is going to ruin your horse and it will survive a high horsepower with its high HP
but it looks fairly frail
It will probably have decent HP and Sp.Def. Maybe some standard defense. I think it can hold its own
but Mudsdale looks like a muthfrucking powerhouse surely we’re looking at a base 130 attack or maybe even 140
Base 120 Special attack xD
In all seriousness though, they’re hyping up bewear’s strength so much, it better be aboue 130.
above.
I wait to trip him with my… my…. What the hell do I trip him with Oh my Rocky helmet!!!
I bet it will be fast, I like it! Unfortunately, if you’re not a big fan of running toxic, like I am, I doubt it could serve another purpose
Toxic is super fun!
said no one
ever
UNTIL NOW! Toxic is super fun! I legitimately love toxic. It’s fun to watch your enemy slowly die as they struggle to make an impact!
Thats a burn
But toxic is expotential.
Burn Halves attack
I know, I ran Sabelye back in the day.
Same actually. Corosion will make it even better
You’d be cool if I still played pokemon go lol
brb gonna change my name to leo and get a darkrai icon. gotta be cool
I meant it*
I just spend the whole day playing city skylines *cries*
Imma check that game out now. xD
Aww poor bby ?
This is my life.
Yeah PJ is my life too.
I meant refresh on this too but this is my life as well
I know I was joking. xD
Rf
If he’s hot, there’s no harm in stalking… ;P
That’s my representation of me they don’t have height or dirty blond hair options or variety of clothes
That’s the same problem I found with X/Y; very litle versatility in terms of clothing options, especially for males. Hopefully Sun/Moon change that.
Yeah clothes need more options
I freaking can’t wait to take off my head. CONSPIRACY THEORY: Your father glued a hat to your head as a child, as so he got kicked out, and that answers two questions at once.
AND SINCE I AM DEAD I CAN TAKE OFF MY HEAD
Maybe. OR MAYBE because we can take hats off, that means that our dad has a role in the games.
Aw, my beautiful hat
https://youtu.be/XBVgEdTSLwM?t=56s
At least you have a pokemon. Zubats are rare for me.
If I had chose a different angle I would have shown Kakuna too
Woah woah woah. Grumpig ISNT psychic ground!?!
What? Is this not common knowledge?
I was just playing randoms on showdown, and I got hit by a thunderbolt. I had no idea until now. . . been a pokemon fan for almost 9 years and I never knew this.
Wow, well the moar u no
It’s Psychic/Fairy obviously.
Why would it be ground
I’m sorry, does that offend you?
Pigs like mud, mud=ground
Ok seriously what is your deal
You are consistently up in my business and I demand an explanation
I’ve never personally wronged you and your being a prick to me at every chance
He’s lame and tries to rustle members on this site. Block or ignore
Too much work
what about psychological warfare, or infecting him with SARS
Well. I guess it’s like it’s….a… pig? I dunno. I just feel like it would fit.
No. I was surprised when I realized that.