Get Hyped Trainers! Just ahead of Pokemon GO’s 2 year anniversary month, Niantic announced the most awaited features, The Pokemon Go Trading and Friendship will start later this week!
You will be soon able to connect with your real-world friends in Pokemon GO! The Friends feature will start rolling out to Trainers later this week
Now spinning a Photo Disc at a PokéStop or Gym will chance of dropping a special Gift, but there’s a catch! you can’t open the Gifts you receive from PokéStops, you can send them to a friend on your Friend List.
Inside the Gift will be a stash of helpful items, Gifts can also include a special surprise: an Egg that, when hatched, will contain an Alolan form of a Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region!
When you send a Gift to a friend or participate in a raid or Gym battle with them, you can increase your Friendship Level. As your Friendship Level builds, you’ll then unlock bonuses when you play together. You can increase your Friendship Level once per day per friend.
Good Friends | Trade – All Pokemon Except Mythical |
Great Friends | Trade – 1X Startdust Discount |
Attack Bonus – 1X | |
Raid Bonus – 1 Bonus Ball | |
Ultra Friends | Trade – 2X Startdust Discount |
Attack Bonus – 2X | |
Raid Bonus – 2 Bonus Ball | |
Best Friends | Trade – 3X Startdust Discount |
Attack Bonus – 3X | |
Raid Bonus – 4 Bonus Ball |
You can also build your Friendship Level by trading Pokémon with a friend. Minimum Level 10 is required for trading, on completing a trade you will earn bonus candy for the Traded Pokemon, bonus may increase if the Pokemon you traded were caught in locations far apart from each other
All trades are powered by Stardust, and some trades require more Stardust than others. As you build your Friendship Level with the friend you are trading with, you’ll find that you can complete the trade with much less Stardust.
Special trading applies when trading Legendary, Shiny or not yet caught Pokemon
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