Life Goal: Become the next Brock and lead a rock-type gym for a week
Niantic has revealed today a new feature coming to Pokémon Go that will give trainers an improved chance of catching Pokémon of a specific ‘type’.
The bonuses will reward trainers for catching many Pokémon of a specific type by then making it easier to catch wild pocket monsters of that type.
As trainers reach higher medal tiers, their chances of stumbling upon a rare Pokémon improves.
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For Pokémon that have two types (Niantic brought up the example of Pidgey — both a flying and normal pocket monster) the bonus will average between the two.
The announcement did not give a specific timetable — just ‘soon’.
While it is hard to imagine how the decision will impact the ‘on-the-ground’ of gym fighting, the update does harken back to the original Gameboy series.
Fans will remember that gyms had themes (catching a ton of bug Pokémon before entering the rock gym to fight Brock) and part of the fun was being either disadvantaged or well-matched to take over the gym.
Based on how quickly the average gym gets taken down, it seems unlikely that a group of trainers could build a ‘Rock gym’ and maintain it for any relevant period of time.
Still, it is fun to imagine that I could become a ‘water trainer’ who has the best water Pokémon in the land while being weak in the rock type.
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The types are as follows:
- Normal
- Fighting
- Flying
- Poison
- Ground
- Rock
- Bug
- Ghost
- Steel
- Fire
- Water
- Grass
- Electric
- Psychic
- Ice
- Dragon
- Fairy
- Dark
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