New Features Coming to Pokémon GO!

As per usual, Niantic has revealed some details about their upcoming Pokémon GO update before it goes live!

The first is a new medal system that gives you a bonus to your catch rate: as you capture more Pokémon of the same type, the higher your medal level will become, and the higher your catch rate will be for that specific type. You can get a Bronze, Silver and Gold medal in each typing giving you a +1, +2 and +3 bonus to the catch rate respectively. When catching dual-type Pokémon the catch rate will be an average of the two medal bonuses.

And just revealed today is an enhancement to the gym system! Now when you train your Pokémon at a gym of your own team you will be able to bring six Pokémon (instead of the original one), and the CP of the Gym’s Pokémon will be temporarily lowered to better compensate the CP of your Pokémon while training.

Niantic gave no official date of when the update will be available in the App Store and Google Play Store – only promising that they’re coming “soon.”

Do you think these updates will be helpful in your quest to catch ’em all the original 151? What else do you want to see Niantic roll out in the coming updates?

//ozymandis

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266 thoughts on “New Features Coming to Pokémon GO!”

  1. In efforts to cope with my “month of leave”, so to speak, I’m planning a small marathon if you can call it that. I’m going to try to finish HGSS, play BW2, and finish it off with Red where it all started before SM. I spend a lot of time on the Internet, this’ll free up my time a lot.
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    Side note, you know how hoenn had trumpets as a theme? Well I think a game that had bells as a musical motif would be cool.

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    • I’ve been doing that for a while now! I started with OmegaRuby, then went to SS, then Black, then White 2, and about to start Y, which I can hopefully finish before I play Sun.

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  2. Considering how big the demo file is, if I see any sign of it being data mined, I’ll be going offline until the games’ release. I don’t want to leave you guys for so long, but I’ll do what I have to do to avoid such large spoilers.

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      • Yep… me too… its going to be very unpleasant to be away that long… since its been almost a year visitng the site everyday….

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          • I first came here on the xy leaks( could’ve been on the bw leaks… but im not sure)…. if the site was up ont the electivire magmortar period of leak… maybe, cause i remenber being on serebii by that time…. i know for sure on xy… cause it became a favorite cause the community! I spent a good time o serebii foruns…. but people were very…. unfriendly…. this pre main game season i enter here everyday….
            and i loled with some of you nasty commentes

    • The only thing I want to know is a pokemon list. Would it be too much to ask PJ to post separate articles if it does get datamined? One for the pokedex and the other for other stuff?

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    • Aw man, I don’t wanna leave D:

      I’m just hoping all of that data is for the models and textures and stuff by it probably isn’t. Come in GF I really want you to learn from last time

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    • I’m going to do the same thing too because I want to go into this blind for once. It sucks when the whole game is just revealed to you by hacking the demo

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  3. So can anyone suggest me a good, not so expensive, sd card? I only have 4 gb…. and i need a 16gb…. or 32gb… 64 is overkill… i wont use it…. unless the “4ds” uses the same card!

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  4. Hmmmmm I wonder what ol Stufful and Bewear’s move set would be
    Bind/Pound
    Tail Whip
    Helping Hand
    Baby-Doll Eyes/Play Nice
    Flail
    Karate Chop/Arm Thrust
    Comet Punch
    Charm
    Scary Face
    Covet
    Work Up
    Body Sam/Retaliate/Mega Punch
    Rest
    Wring Out
    Hammer Arm

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    • Yeah the starters are definitely getting something interesting I think. I don’t think it’ll be just specific Z moves or Z forms anymore. I’m still leaning towards split forms for their finals. It’d be something long lasting that would set the gen 7 starters apart from all the others. If it was just z moves or Z forms they could inevitably give the others them too, but split forms are something special that they’d have to be “born” with. lol

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