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. It’s the dead of the evening and the sun is about to set for our weary wankers as they trekked through the arid Route 6, as we see the lights of Stow-on-side we see a faint purple glow and suddenly a Yamask unlike I’ve ever seen staring at us without a sound, it’s gaze fixated on us with such seriousness, we were unable to breathe or move…
    The slab on its tail rumbled and suddenly saw its eyes glow a sinister lavender and one of my Dusk Balls levitates our of my bag and touched the Yamask capturing itself?

    It emerged only to take control over Stonjourner and compelled it to walk towards the archway of rocks and deliver a Mega Kick into one of the walls breaking open a pocket where we see numerous broken murals within it, the slab vibrated again as parts of the mural levitated into Yamask and taking on a completely different form Runerigus… after that it recalled itself into the Dusk Ball and refused to emerge… have we gained a powerful ally or a grim omen?

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  2. Jeff’s Shield Adventure Update:

    Just beat Piers and received my Dark Badge. Spikemouth is a sad town… I’m still sad I’ve now gotten my 7th badge and don’t have my Eiscue…

    Zee (Inteleon)
    Elton (Gigantamax Corviknight)
    Gaston (Galarian Rapidash)
    Renly (Thievul)
    Barnaby (Bolthund)
    Mamoswine

    Gonna play Aurora and her Sword adventure for a bit, get her caught up to where Jeff is, which isn’t far. Her next gym battle is with Piers, so wont take too long.

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  5. “When the universe was created, its shards became this Plate.”

    “The power of defeated giants infuses this Plate.”

    “Two beings of time and space set free from the Original One.”

    “Three beings were born to bind time and space.”

    “Two make matter and three make spirit, shaping the world.”

    “The Original One breathed alone before the universe came.”

    “The powers of Plates are shared among Pokémon.”

    “The rightful bearer of a Plate draws from the Plate it holds”

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    “The Pokémon distorts space to change its size while affecting the world around them.”

    “Infinite amounts of energy pour from this Pokémon’s enlarged core, warping the surrounding space-time.”

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  6. Well I started cuphead. Had heard this game was challenging but freaking damn lol lost count of how many times I lost to the flower boss. Think I may just play this alongside another game so I won’t get discouraged playing it and give up. I’m thinking it’s time I finally play through Digimon hackers memory

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    • Grass wolf is a bit close to Zacian holding the weapon in the mouth. I don’t see what’s Fairy about it.
      I know what the bear headress is based on but hate it. Mid stage looks like a prick and a Dark type.
      I see nothing Water about the water line except it’s blue. Also the first stage name is very much like a racist slur regardless of your intention.
      I’d choose Grass, maybe have tree-bark talismans growing from the forelegs instead of the staff.

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  9. Shield Update!
    The eerily illuminated Glimwood Tangle was fraught with danger hiding in between the lights as our Anti-Hero was hopelessly lost, we kept hearing creepy noises and each of my Pokemon was missing! Scorbunny got distracted trying to kick a floating spore, Stonjourner tripped over a log, Appletun tried to eat one of the mushrooms and Runerigus attempted to siphon the light from the mushrooms leaving Corvisquire left to round up everyone whom eventually was captured by a thicket of Impidimp and their Grimmsnarl Patriarch! Grimmsnarl challenged Corvisquire to a fight, The Grimmsnarl was much stronger and his Impidimp cheated at every opportunity feeling like he failed his friends Corvisquire dug deep inside and found his courage in the form of evolution evolving into the mighty Corviknight and silencing the evil Grimmsnarl once and for all!
    Badges: 5
    Scorbunny: 42
    Corviknight: 40
    Stonjourner: 39
    Appletun: 39
    Runerigus: 40

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  10. I really feel like the Wild Area is like the arena for The Hunger Games, artificial and controlled elsewhere but also with real stuff in it.

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  11. So I gotta say I actually am enjoying using Stonjourner this early, it’s no surprise his sky high Attack and defense really make him useful as a Rock type and he knows Body Press where he juices the competition, but that’s pretty much all you get, Stab Rock for bugs, birds and fire types and pretty much soaking up physical attacks with ease and when faced with special moves he folds

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  12. (Yeeesh hardly anything happened in the last 12hrs)
    Our group of rambunctious rebels found themselves in the arid ruins of route 8. Many strong Pokémon were fighting amongst themselves but nothing compared to the sight I witnessed, a gigantic Crustle being swarmed by small yellow and red Pokémon!

    They were fighting the Bug type from every angle landing successful blow after blow as their larger scarred leader signaled their every position to make sure their oversized foe was vanquished truly the makings of a true commander I had to catch it!
    But this was proven much more challenging as the moment they heard me they quickly dashed off into a crevasse.

    We spent hours turning over every stone to find it until we heard a commotion as the Falinks platoon was surrounded by several hungry Sandaconda, even their superb formation couldn’t gain the advantage from multiple threats; their unit was broken and the Brass was panicking as it wanted to save all it’s troops but couldn’t!

    I couldn’t just watch a mighty warrior go down like this so we sprung into action each of my Pokémon teaming up with a trooper and individually beat each Sandaconda until they were reunited and performed a inspiring move that powered themselves as they were determined to win and after landing a powerful Smart Strike on the Sandaconda they slithered off scared

    The Leader was moved how we stepped up and helped them I asked them if they wanted to join our ranks but it took it as an insulting challenge and got into formation to fight us!
    The Falinks was truly a powerful fighter utilizing solid and creative formations to gain the advantage but Scorbunny was just as determined and brash to win trying to pick each one off with speedy double kicks and flame charges until they stacked on top of each other like a tower and charged towards Scorbunny! Tired and exhausted Scorbunny had an idea and quickly bounced atop it and unleashed a powerful kick to send the Brass flying away from the troop, separated and panicked the troops scrambled to reunite allowing Scorbunny to kick each of them farther away from the Brass leaving it wide open for a newly learned Blaze Kick knocking it out and quickly catching it!

    Afterward the Falinks recognized the power of my team and marched triumphantly with us for every battle it would fight

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    • i’m sure youve answered this but i lose track of things. if ever they released a ground/fairy pokemon, what would you do? would you use it to fulfill your self-appointed quest to try every ground type, or would you pass it up in keeping with your vendetta against all things fairy?

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  18. I’m enjoying the anime, but find it weird that they’re including non-gen 8 obtainable pokemon into the main protagonist’s party. Sorta like how Sword and Shield clearly doesn’t know what to do with the scale of some of the largest pokemon in-cannon, but also included them in spite of dexit… when they could have forever silenced Wailord…

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  19. Real Talk: Exp Share diminishes any sort of challenge my Pokemon are in their fifties when the last gym battle was 42

    I understand that the newer generations are entitled little sh*ts but the Exp All is ruining any chance of actually needing to grind to actually conquer any story battle, same goes with the exp candies they are easily collected in an afternoon of dynamax raids and they can accidentally be overused
    Cut scenes leading into mandatory battles where they auto-heal you are a problem too

    How to make it harder
    -No Exp All
    -No Exp Candies (Rare Candy is still allowed but greatly reduced)
    -No more people healing you for story battles
    -Must play with a vice fastened to your head and a rabid wolverine latched to your ankles (Hard Core Mode)
    -And perhaps a slower exp system where you can really only gain good Exp from Trainer and Gym Battles

    When my Shield Playthrough is done i might just kinda lose myself in some old console games
    -Skyward Sword
    -Mario Sunshine
    -Maybe Phantom Hourglass (I know it’s considered self harm)

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  25. Ok, time to start my first SwSh Nuzlocke.
    Character is called Hange Zoe. I can’t Dynamax any Pokemon, all characters are named after AoT characters. Not more than one Healing item per battle, I can take a maximum of 4 Pokemon to Gym challenges, each zone of the Wild area counts as a new encounter possibility. I can do Dynamax Raids but if something dies during one I have to release it as well. I can only do Grass encounters for new chatches unless a Pokemon runs into me, I can’t actively run at an overworld pokemon, but I can try to lure them with whistling.

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