It looks like Niantic are gearing up to take the hugely popular Pokémon Go to the next step, by adding the 100 Pokémon found in Pokémon Gold & Silver to the game.
Following on from the Halloween event, they’re now rolling out new updates that include a few positive fixes and game changes. You’ll now earn daily bonuses for your first Pokémon catch and PokéStop visit, and larger bonuses if you do this for seven days in a row. Additionally, defeating a gym means that you are the only person able to place a Pokémon on the open gym for a period of time, preventing opportunists from taking over if you’re not quick enough.
However, dataminers have already torn into the latest update to the game on Android and found that the game code now has references for Pokémon #152 (Chikorita) through to #251 (Celebi). This means there’s 52 new Pokémon families, including legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh and Lugia.
Of course, there’s still some of the original 151 Pokémon yet to be added to the game, with that original legendaries, Mew, MewTwo and Ditto nowhere to be found. Ditto might be pretty close, though, as a new Transform move has been added to the game’s code.
Source: Pokémon Go, SilphRoad
Youles
Fuck me, my poor son wouldn’t have a chance in getting all of them now – we still only see the same 5 fucking Pokémon 99% of the time, even when we go to other towns/places etc.
It’s dull.
I could cry for him when we crack a 5km – over about 4-5 weeks – just to get a shitty one we’ve already caught over a bazillion times. Won’t be throwing anymore money at the game for him now sadly, thought it would improve but even at level 19 we still get crap.
Stefan L
They’ve rejigged that, so you don’t get as many Pidgeys and Rattatas and stuff, and that you especially don’t get them from eggs. Was one of the biggest flaws of the game for the last few months though.
The real problem is that Pokémon you see will depend a great deal on where you are in the world. So if you don’t visit lots of different places, you’ll see fewer types of creatures.