Niantic Reveals Buddy Pokémon!

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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

 

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  2. If the next smash bros was for indie games, who would you want in the roster.

    Shovel Knight
    Sheild Knight
    Undyne
    Frisk
    Quote
    Curly Brace
    Super Meat Boy
    Steve/Alex (various skins as alternate costumes)
    Gizmo (Fez)
    Journey Guy
    Spelunky Guy
    VVVVVVV

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  5. Here’s a Pokemon based on headphones (Refresh)

    FONEBIA
    The Headphones Pokemon
    Type: Sound/Ghost

    “Fonebia have a motif that scream “modern” to the people of Taieo. This led to the Pokemon to be very prominently featured on logos for CDs. But contrary to its modern appearance, Fonebia have really existed since ancient Taiean times; where nowadays, they are also regarded as mischievous tribal spirits by the original Taiean people.
    Tame Fonebia owned by trainers are able to memorise sounds throughout the day and mix them together to create catchy music for their trainers and friends. In Taieo, there are multiple music companies that specialise in recording the music Fonebia create.
    However, despite their wonderful qualities, wild Fonebia are very infamous. This is mainly due to the fact that they find humour by using their palms to cover ears of both humans and Pokemon and blast loud noises resulting in the victim becoming deaf. These sounds can measure over 200 decibels. The only condition for a Fonebia to not attack a victim, is if the victim is already occupied by another Fonebia. The people of Northern Taieo took advantage to this and created special devices resembling Fonebia that would cover their ears, so Fonebia won’t attack them. These devices would eventually become modern day headphones, although newer generations of children regard headphones to have come first.

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  19. okay since September 6th is going to give us some more info on Pokemon Sun and Moon it’s time for some ideas.for my Ideas I like to see: a Dust Bunny a Poison/Fairy type,a Jackalope a Grass/Fairy type And a Jackrabbit an Electric/Fighting type. 😀

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