Pretty soon, the benefits of being Pokemon Go friends might be increased somewhat – a new feature called Lucky Friends is incoming.
As ever with Pokemon Go, patches and changes to the game often sort of drop out of nowhere – and today a new update is being rolled out to Pokemon Go players – version 0.139.2 on Android and 1.107.2 on iOS. While the changes made in the patch aren’t updated in the game until developer Niantic chooses to push them to players, this time around the patch notes suggest an all-new feature is incoming: Lucky Friends.
What is the new Pokemon Go Lucky Friends feature?
The patch notes for this latest version of Pokemon Go read as follows: “Trainers who are Best Friends will have a chance of becoming Lucky Friends.” So – what does this mean?
In Pokemon Go, friendship isn’t just a simple list of players you’ve added – it’s a changing, growing list, with different levels of friendship depending on how much time you’ve spent doing things with another player. By sending gifts, playing through Pokemon raid encounter battles and trading Pokemon, players can ‘level up’ their friendship, with the top tier being ‘Best Friends’.
Obviously, not all of this is clear yet as Niantic is yet to officially confirm anything, but this patch text seems to strongly suggest that ‘Lucky Friends’ will be a friendship level above and beyond best friends that can be triggered at random – and it very likely has something to do with Lucky Pokemon.
If you’ve forgotten, Lucky Pokemon are randomly bestowed that ‘Lucky’ buff when traded with a friend, with Lucky Pokemon being more powerful, with strong behind-the-scenes stats and lower stardust power-up and candy requirements. In short, they’re really useful – but they’re very rare. As it stands right now, Lucky Pokemon happen at random, and the chance is about as low as getting your hands on a Shiny Pokemon – so pretty low indeed.
We’re only speculating, but it seems fair to guess that Lucky Friends will be a randomly-granted friendship status where the chance of getting your hands on a lucky Pokemon is increased – or if we’re very lucky, possibly even guaranteed. That’s exciting. Once exactly what the deal is with Lucky Friends is confirmed, we’ll update this page – so stick with us.
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