Pokémon GO Buddy Adventure trailer and details

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The hit mobile game Pokémon GO is adding more ways to play with your favorite Pokémon. Check out the official details:

Get ready to explore the world with your Buddy Pokémon! In the all-new Buddy Adventure feature, your buddy will be by your side in your Pokémon GO explorations like never before.

Buddy Adventure is an elevated bonding experience for Trainers and their buddies. You’ll get to know your Buddy Pokémon’s mood as you increase your Buddy Level by playing with your buddy, feeding your buddy treats, and battling and exploring with your buddy. In addition, swapping Buddy Pokémon no longer resets progress toward earning Candy. Like any great Pokémon Trainer, you’ll find that the world around you will become richer with Pokémon by your side as they grow with you and help you along your journey.

The Buddy Adventure feature set will roll out to Trainers around the world by 2020.

The Berry that blossomed into friendship

Kick off your buddy adventure by feeding your buddy Berries. This will increase your Buddy Level to Good Buddy, and you’ll see your buddy on the map, following right behind you! To feed your buddy, just head to the new buddy profile page, tap on Play!, and interact with your buddy. You can also give your buddy a quick treat directly from the buddy profile page.

Each Pokémon has different quirks and ways to express itself. Watch closely to see a diverse range of movements and expressions, whether you and your buddy are playing together or exploring the world around you!

 

Along with feeding your buddy, you can also play with it! Watch what your buddy does when you interact with it in AR+ mode. Different Pokémon react in different ways! Make sure you have AR+ turned on in your Settings.

Unlock exciting new Perks with Buddy Adventure

As you and your buddy get closer and your Buddy Level increases, you’ll get to unlock exciting new Perks together! The Buddy Levels are Good Buddy, Great Buddy, Ultra Buddy, and Best Buddy.

  • Good Buddy: Your buddy can join you on your map view! You’ll also see how your buddy feels on the buddy profile page.
  • Great Buddy: Having a hard time catching a Pokémon? Your buddy may help you out in Pokémon encounters! It can also bring you items that can help you in your Pokémon GO journey.
  • Ultra Buddy: Your buddy will help you explore the world around you by letting you know about interesting places nearby! Your buddy will also bring you Souvenirs, which you can keep track of on the buddy profile page.
  • Best Buddy: Become Best Buddies, and your buddy will sport a Best Buddy Ribbon to show off to everyone just how close you two are! Pokémon that you’re Best Buddies with can get a CP boost in combat as long as they’re still assigned as your Buddy Pokémon.
 

How to become better friends with your buddy

Become better friends with your buddy by earning affection. Affection is measured by hearts, and you can earn hearts with your buddy by exploring with your buddy on the map, battling with your buddy, playing with and feeding your buddy, and taking snapshots of your buddy. The more affection you earn, the better your buddy’s mood will be!

When you reach the highest mood (excited), you can unlock the following Perks:

  • The distance it takes for your buddy to find Candy will be cut in half.
  • The number of hearts earned per action will double.
  • Trainers can earn bonus hearts!

With the upgraded buddy profile page, you’ll see your buddy’s progress toward finding Candy, your buddy’s current mood, a chart of daily activities you can do to earn affection with your buddy, and your Buddy Level! You’ll also be able to see the history of other Pokémon who have been your buddy and the adventures you’ve shared together. Remember: friendship is something you build together! So be sure to complete the daily activities with your buddy each day to earn more affection and become fast friends!

 
 

Coming soon: Meet your (real-world) buddy’s buddies, too!

 

After Buddy Adventure is available to Trainers around the world, there’ll be even more to look forward to. Soon, your buddy will be able to meet your fellow Trainers’ buddies in Shared AR Experience mode!

In the new Shared AR Experience mode, you can sync up with up to two other Trainers with AR+ to take a group photo with your buddies together! It’ll be the perfect chance to create your own epic Pokémon moments and capture new Pokémon memories with your friends!

We hope you have a blast discovering all the new ways you can bond with your Buddy Pokémon, Trainers! Be sure to share your favorite buddy moments and photos with #PokemonGOBuddy once the feature is released.

Do you think you’ll be using this feature a lot? I am certainly glad they’re adding more ways for us to interact with our Pokémon! Who will you make your buddy when the feature goes live?!

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153 thoughts on “Pokémon GO Buddy Adventure trailer and details”

    • yeah i stopped playing OU in favor of Ubers, the Dynamax ban is just too gross. Dynamax actually made the meta more fun for me. It added a new layer of fun, straegic gameplay, and the arguments that Dynamax is bad for the competitive meta are ungrounded. I would understand if they banned the pokemon that abused dnamax (Like the unstoppable dynamax sweeper Gyarados) but banning an intagral Sword and Shield mechanic is taking it too far. Smogon doesn’t suck, but Ubers is going to be the best Smogon meta now until gen 9 comes along.

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    • Because they realized that making a big deal out of anything Pokemon related makes for clicks as long as it’s partially negative.

      I think it’s pretty lame Smogon banned Dynamax, just feels like they failed to adapt more than anything.

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  2. Pokemon Showdown is still down… It’s been nearly a day since the servers stopped working, but it’s still down. I wonder what’s going on?

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  4. My shield Team

    Scorbunny: Friendly, energenic and a little knucklehead. Scorbunny loves to run about while finding loose stones and berries to kick around to practice his footwork, he refuses to give up the everstone he found outside Turffield as his favorite kicking rock

    Corviknight: This valiant warrior of the sky takes no prisoners when challenging others, Corviknight never backs away from a duel and if he loses he will take the loss extremely hard

    Stonjourner: This gentle giant was found near the monolithic stones just outside of Route 4. He is kind and quiet but very capable of battling by throwing his weight around Scorbunny harbors a little resentment to him due to the massive kicking feet

    Appletun: A meek timid Applin that Scorbunny nearly scared half to death by kicking it around like a soccer ball but eventually grew into a placid gluttonous Appletun, always hungry and sleepy but get in the way of his fruit and you’re in for trouble

    Runerigus: This sinister and twisted spirit brings grave misfortune to all it fights, We don’t understand why Yamask began to follow us. it is simply drawn to great power

    Falinks: The Brass of the troop is a tireless leader always looking out for it’s troops well being and anyone it has gained it’s respect. Though Brass has a bit of a perfectionist attitude and gets frazzled when the troop isn’t in sync.

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  7. I like how Giga Machamp literally cannot do any damage to my Dragapult because I’m not holding an item for it to knock off. So it just keeps wasting a turn trying to do that and failing lol

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  8. Notification: “Continue your Journey together with the New Pokemon….”
    me: *Q* WUT
    *opens the youtube video*
    “….Pokémon GO Buddy Adventure feature!”

    Me: >.>

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  10. FINALLY A 5IV SCORBUNNY MISSING SPATK
    It “learns” High Jump Kick at level 20

    All I need to do is breed out a little Stonjourner and level to I dunno let’s say 15 that’s fair
    I am excited to use one and I feel it’s appropriate for me to receive it after getting my first badge outside the area where you see the Dynamax thingy near Turrfield

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  15. Pokémon team update thanks to monkey I now have my final member. 7 badges entire team is level 44
    Groku the Rillaboom
    Titan the Coalossal
    Luna the Frosmoth
    Queenie the Hatterene
    Octavio the Graploct
    Cold Steel the Duraludon (really wanted to use gigantamax one but game refused to spawn one)
    Will probably get final badge later today. We’ll see if I finish today too. Kind of doubtful since I kind of want to watch a movie today.

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  16. So yeah something kinda wild happened, the Scorbunny that I picked for Shield was Adamant… and the Meowth was Jolly…

    I mean I’m still trading the Scorbunny I painstakingly hatched but still that kind of luck would’ve been good when I first started Sword with my Grookey

    Later today I’m gonna need a teensy little bit of help to get them into Shield and either it happens today or Saturday with the help of my friend

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  18. Okay, what’s wrong with Pokemon Showdown? It’s been completely dysfunctional for the last two days exept for teambuilder. I finally managed to connect once today, but the servers aren’t working again. Is it down, or am I the only one having the problem? It’s annoying.

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  20. So just sold most of my old games, including most of my Pokemon games. Now that I’ve done my dream team runs, I’ve kinda realised that I’ve just been playing for the sake of collecting and I’ve decided to just take a fresh start.

    Also I got £118 off of them and I can just play them on emulators for free lol

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  21. As much as I dislike some of the mons from SwSh I’d honestly probably have to say Stonjourner is the worst new pokemon. It’s not that it’s ugly or anything, it’s horribly designed all around. They just took Stonehenge and..gave it arms and a face. It doesn’t have cool in-world lore or even reside in the place where there are literally rocks that resemble it.

    It would’ve been way more interesting to incorporate ghost or fairy into its designs. Maybe it’s actually a gravesite and ghosts manipulate the rocks? Maybe it’s a psychic type than can open portals between the “doorways?” Maybe fairies create wisps for people to follow to the stones? There was zero creativity put into this thing

    I really think they should edit or oversee their designs more than they do. This thing doesn’t make sense in world at all. It has no lore for what it’s based on, the design is amateurish, and its location makes no sense. Overall really bad pokemon.

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  22. Clash Avenue Comic Update: I’ve only been using 8.5″ X 11″ (~215mm X 292mm). Not much room to work with. Got a bonus from work, so going to get A-type paper (250mm X 350mm) for the rest of the comic. So, Chapter 1 is going to be very weird since I’m slowly piecing things together as I buy new things. As I’ve stated before, this is an experimental comic I’m doing for fun and I do have hopes to finish out the whole story, whether anybody likes it or not (lol)

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  23. With a new decade on the horizon I’ve decided i want to start the decade with one feat i still have not managed to do. Beat LeafGreen (My second favorite Pokemon game) but doing it similar to my BW run last year

    Not planning a team and not accepting suggestions for moves, team members, etc.
    I find Pokemon 100% more enjoyable when I do it that way cause it feels more natural to me

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