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”

  1. Hop is still waiting in Slumbering Weald, i’m pretty sure he’s either decomposing or devolved into a feral English ungabunga after being isolated for this long

    Its not like i’m his friend or ever going to return the rusty sword or anything

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  2. Well I now have all 8 gym badges in Pokémon sword. Will probably finish game in next day or so. Once I finish I’ll be starting on cuphead since a friend bought me it for Christmas last week.

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  3. Pokemon is being rebooted, and only 151 Pokemon are being kept. Nintendo chooses you off the street because they think you can still do a better job than Masuda.

    What are some Pokemon that immediately come to mind to stay and go?

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  4. By the way for anyone wondering yes I’ll be playing sword again in 2020 to use Scorbunny. Will just play cuphead and probably digimon hackers memory first though.

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  5. So recently I’ve gotten Netflix again but besides The Good Place I’ve mostly been watching cartoons: Dragon Prince, She-Ra, and unrelated, RWBY. However I’m looking to watch more live action stuff, anyone got any recs?

    Also lowkey considering becoming a Mermista stan account irl

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    • OitNB, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (puppets count), GLOW, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Happy!, Santa Clarita Diet (both those last 2 got cancelled at the end of their last seasons though), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Umbrella Academy, Friday Night Dinner (might be more on All4, I forget how many series it has), Star Trek Discovery (Next Generation is also on there, skipping season 1 is fine of TNG), Fargo, Stranger Things, Russian Doll. There’s a bunch of older stuff too, and I could suggest some anime if you want.

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    • The only live action stuff I’ve really watched on Netflix is Power Rangers, but I assume you mean something else, so maybe something like iCarly (Which I believe just came back to Netflix) or It’s Always Sunny

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  7. When we last saw our belligerent hero

    He and his Scorbunny and Rookidee were halted by an androgynous butthole!

    This purple clad snob challenged us to battle but something was wrong, Scorbunny wouldn’t obey my commands and goofed around or flat out ignored me and let Butthole gain the upper hand and knocking him out
    Rookidee was our only hope and deftly confounded this elitist’s Pokemon with Payback earning our victory and his newfound sense of justice triggered his evolution into a valiant Corvisquire!

    Out of Galar Mine we head off to Turffield and to challenge the first Gym, Hopefully Scorbunny will grow out of his rebellious phase

    Hey… did one of those rocks move?

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  11. Well tragedy struck me once more I think my spare 3DS aka my Brother’s just died

    The touch screen makes a crackling sound when used and is unresponsive and the circle pad won’t stop moving right and I am extremely bummed out of this

    It was working perfectly fine yesterday and now ded. I don’t understand I take perfect care of my electronics and still it dies out…

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    • Can we get one one that fixes those fruit basket textures (they’re so much worse than the SwSh trees and yet no one is saying Koei Tecmo is lazy)

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  15. What are your three favourite and three least favourite starters, one for each type, and how well do they go together as a trio in terms of stats and aesthetics?

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    • Favorite
      Fire:Incineroar
      Water:Empoleon
      Grass:Sceptile

      Least Favorite
      Fire:Emboar
      Water:Feraligatr
      Grass:Venusaur

      For the record, I don’t hate or even dislike any of the Starters. I think the Favorites go pretty good together, idk about the least favorites.

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    • Faves:

      Rillaboom
      Incineroar
      Feraligatr

      It’s bulk boy hours. They go well, although stat wise there’s no faster starter so it ends up like Alola 2. All three give off a kinda tropical vibe too, so they’d defo fit in the same region. They’re all also physical attackers which is mehhh for cohesion.

      Least Faves:

      Decidueye
      Delphox
      Inteleon

      I think these three actually go quite well together. Colours go well, and they’re linked by Decidueye into both sneak (Decidueye and Inteleon) and occult (Decidueye and Delphox) themes. They all also use tools. Feathers, sticks, and water balloons (Drizzile)/a knife (Inteleon). Stat wise, it’s two fast special attackers and a slower mixed attacker that prefers physical attacks. Not the worst that could happen, but not the best.

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    • Favorites:
      Grass: Grookey, Rowlet, Bulbasaur
      Fire: Chimchar, Cyndaquil, Charmander
      Water: Mudkip, Oshawott, Squirtle

      Least Favorites:
      Grass: Treecko, Snivy, Chikorita
      Fire: Litten, Torchic, Scorbunny
      Water: Piplup, Popplio, Totodile

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    • Favorites:
      Grass: Rowlet, Grookey, Chespin
      Fire: Torchic, Charmander, Litten
      Water: Totodile, Squirtle, Piplup

      Least:
      Grass: Chikorita, Snivy and Turtwig
      Water: Poplio, Oshawott, Froakie
      Fire: Cindaquil, Fenekin, Tepig.

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    • Favourites:

      Venusaur
      Infernape
      Greninja

      The latter 2 are more similar in stats and aesthetically I guess the are both slim bipeds with a human fighting class theme. I would say Infernape and Venusaur are closer to being proper animals in their designs, Greninja is a bit more humanoid.

      Least Favourites:

      Serperior
      Delphox
      Samurott

      The last 2 have mid-stages I like but I feel are failed by their finals.

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    • Favorites: Decidueye, Charizard, and Samurott, linked by the theme of “reading as a different secondary type at a cursory glance” (All three are tied with another tbh, I just couldn’t come up with a common thread for Torterra, Typhlosion, and Swampert)

      Least: Rillaboom, Emboar, and Inteleon

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  16. Alternative question:

    You live in a region where double battles are the norm. You’re the professor, and along with the trio of starters you let trainers choose from, you also give them one more Pokemon.

    Can be a choice from another starter trio. Could be a common enough Pokemon appropriate for a beginning trainer, like the monkeys or Eevee. Could be common Pokemon of a complimentary type, or even just something popular like Pikachu.

    What Pokemon do you hand out, and why?

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    • Ralts.

      Every run through of Emerald I ever did, my first capture was always Ralts, and I basically played with my starter and the Ralts line until I either caught an Aaron at Granite cave or waited until the desert was unlocked so I could get Trapinch.

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    • Realistically? Eevee. It learns move to aid in double battles and can teach newcomers all kinds of evolution methods while giving them freedom to see what kind of types they need for their team. It’s also cute and popular.

      I think Shinx would also be a good choice. Electric is useful type to carry with you, and I would love forcing everyone to have a cute cat with them.

      I also feel Togepi would be good. Happiness as a method would try them as a trainer and let you know how well they’re bonding with their pokemon. Also gets moves like Wish and Life Dew so it could act as a healer for them. Similarly, Munna would be good cause it could provide some use as a utility pokemon for starting trainers with moves like Yawn, light screen, lucky chant, etc

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  18. So, what good things have happened to you guys recently?

    Got some of my uni grades back, and found out I got an A overall for a module! Was scared for it because my group got the lowest mark (C) in the class for a group project – which we could’ve avoided if we did as I pointed out but meh – but my essay got an A+ so I’ve got an overall grade of A!

    Very psyched, especially since I was so nervous about the essay (it was about discrimation against transgendered athletes in sport, luckily I was able to discuss it at amateur, professional, and international levels meaning I had tons of content).

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  19. Here is my new exploit on how to get Shiny Pokemon from Max Raids: You go to a Den, and get a shiny, then you catch it.

    Thank you very much. Remember to buy Gfuel with my referal link and get a NordVPN subscription. Also download Raid: Shadow Legends.

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  20. Huh, apparently Coalossal learns Scald. That’s cool.

    Just a shame they didn’t man up and decide to make it a fully physical or special attacker instead of wasting points into one of its Attack stats.

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  21. My journey in Galar has gone swimmingly
    -After defeating Milo we celebrated near the geoglyph where one of the stone pillars came to life in the form of a startled Stonjourner, after a dynamic kick from its powerful legs shattered nearby rocks Scorbunny decided to outgrow his rebellious phase in order to get better kicking strength. Half buried in the ground was a rusty timer ball which made the capture easy for who knows how long Stonjourner was standing there.
    -Scorbunny was growing more jealous of Stonjourner and decided to show off his leg work by kicking berries around along with his everstone, until one of them shrieked as it was an Applin!? A testament of his newfound precision and training Scorbunny kicked the terrified Apple Core Pokémon into my opened backpack for a “goal point” where it must’ve clicked one of my Nest Balls and got captured, it was hardly much but the folks nearby said Applin are a rarity and are lucky to have one.
    -Stonjourner isn’t much of a battler more of the patient relaxed type but he quickly crushed the ever burning Kabu with relative ease and winning our fight and that means a celebratory dinner out. One of the restaurants in Hammerlocke was popular so we headed there and had quite the meal and the chef provided the upstart trainer a slice of Sweet Apple Cake which Applin leaped out and ate it all by itself promptly evolving into the lazy overfed Appletun, the Apple Nectar Pokémon favors a more sedentary battle style by sitting around hurling up Apple Acids and letting Leech Seed feed it back while it munches on Leftovers, the glutton…

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  22. I work til midnight but it’s deceased in here ughhhh

    random thought – what do you think of the shiny form of your favorite pokemon? Good, bad? Better than the original, or did they draw the short straw?

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  23. Just finished Pokémon sword. Once again really enjoyed it. Honestly just really love the gen 8 games. They’re just so much fun in my opinion. Final team was
    Groku the Rillaboom lv 59
    Titan the Coalossal lv 59(won the battle for me)
    Luna the frosmoth lv 58
    Queenie the Hatterene lv 58
    Octavio the Graploct lv 58
    Cold Steel the Duraludon lv 59
    Unsure if I’ll start the after story yet. Really want to get cuphead started

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