Walking Distance With Buddy Pokemon Went From 3km Down to 75 Km Out of the Blue in June
Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/pokemon-go-buddy-distance-chart-how-to-earn-candy
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You can obviously narrow the list down by putting each species line as its own entry.
Listing Blastoise, Squirtle and Wartortle as separate entries is pointless, they will be 3km each regardless because they will all award Squirtle Candies.
The guide also doesn't give any idea of what the payoff for meeting the requirement is. The update still hasn't launched in a UK so you should include that sort of information for people who haven't got to try it yet.
Still, it's really good to see that Magikarp is only 1KM, as are Pidgey, Caterpie and Weedle. Magikarp needs a ton of candies, and the others will help tremendously with power-levelling.
The update is still not available for iOS in Germany. At least for me.
Wow what a useful guide; oh wait the update hasn't been rolled out to me (and presumably the rest of the UK) yet. -_-
(joking aside, it is a useful guide though )
My question is do they keep paying off or do you need to change monsters? Also how much is the reward?
So how many candies do you get each time you complete the required distance...?
Please tell me it's not 1.
Is it just 1 candy for walking that distance? Currently trying to gather up dratini candies but only seeing one every week on average so it's slow going. Could easily walk 5k each day though.
@CB85 Yeah, you get 1 or 2. You do also get 500 XP, though.
@RupeeClock Listing the types as one entry then makes it hard to find a particular monster, esp if you're not aware which evolves from which.
@Mega_Yarn_Poochy You don't get 500XP, that was misreported. Someone saw a screenshot with 500XP on it, but apparently the user who took the shot had just hatched an egg.
@CB85 I've been getting one, but I've heard you can sometimes get two.
That's a lot of walking. At least we have the option now for those mon that we can't find often.
Though I read that there would be other rewards?
@Damo That's preposterous.
If you've already acquired the Pokémon you'll designate as your buddy, you know which Pokémon it could have evolved from.
If you want to evolve it into something else but don't know what, you would start by assigning the basic form anyway.
My point is not listing the Pokémon by evolution line/index number actually makes the guide harder to read and also fails to explain what they evolve into.
I'm glad that Magikarp only needs 1km for it. I half expected it to have a ridiculously high distance needed.
I'm still waiting for the update here
@RupeeClock This isn't a guide for evolving monsters, it's a guide to show the distance needed to get a candy. It even says so at the top of the page!
And preposterous? I've hatched (and caught) stage 1 evolutions without having any idea what the base or stage 2 evolution is. So how would I possibly know how many candies I needed?
Perhaps you're assuming every Pokemon Go player has an intimate knowledge of every monster in the game - that's not the case, and for that reason the list is easier to use when broken down to individual monsters.
Unless you find scrolling down an alphabetised list hard, of course.
@Damo Hm, meh. Gonna be a long while before I'll get to evolve my Magikarp, then. XD
@Damo If it's about getting the candy, then why not just list it by the type of candy? It's clearly stated on the info page of each Pokemon what candy is used to evolve/power them up.
Also, it's impossible to hatch stage 1 evolutions, so you would only have caught them, but even then you can tell the name of the base Pokemon by looking at the name of the candy displayed on the info page... right beside where it tells you how many candies are needed to evolve, so there is no need to know the name of the evolved Pokemon in order to know how many candies are needed to get it.
I have yet to see the update for Android on the States Side.
@BensonUii @Damo I would prefer them to be in Pokedex order tbh, but alphabetical is good enough
@DragonEleven If you want to highlith the km needed just Ctr+F (Chrome not sure in other browsers) and type eg 1km. That should be useful if you want to see only specific distance.
I'm not sure this is so useful for pure evolution. 400km for a Gyrados would be nuts.
That said It will be useful for those times you need 1 more Candy to evolve and you can't find another type to catch.
@BensonUii I don't see why you'd need to find the Pokemon instead of the candy though... if you know the Pokemon you would know what candy it gives, and listing just the candies would give a shorter list that would be easier to browse.
@KTT Where did I say anything about looking for specific distances? I don't even know why anyone would have any need to do that.
@DragonEleven Sorry, I read that "then why not just list it by the type of candy?" as it meant the distance. In this sense, candies have 3 types: 1, 3 and 5km.
... because listing it by pokemon or by candy is basicaly the same thing, minus the repetition in pokemon name list.
Just wanted to be helpful. My fault I misunderstood, but there is no reason to be mean.
And frankly, listing them by distance (or highlit) can be useful too. Like, I think I will be doing Clefairy now, as it is not only rare but has only 1km
Noticed in the article it mentioned your starters having perfect IVs. Unless I'm mistaken and got the short end of the stick here, I think the starters all have set 10/10/10 IVs.
Another thing... I have some friends who got sick of waiting and installed a mirror of the APK update. I haven't pulled the trigger on downloading this myself in fear of Officer Jenny coming along and banning my account. But after really contemplating it, as long as the apk file is identical to the original, and hasn't been tinkered with, it should be fine, right?
......right???
So it's (egg-group hatching distance / 2) rounded up. No need for a long table.
One seems kind of weak, but then it's better than none!
@Damo You have a point, but I think they teach that stuff in schools now. My daughter is only 4 and she knows about 300.
"As a rule, it makes sense to set your starter Pokémon as your buddy because they have perfect IVs, and that means perfect stats moving forward. "
Did not know this. Pikachu might be the choice, but honestly I'm just gonna let my 3 year old pick since he loves playing with me so much. Well, I'm not going to let him choose Ratatta, but one of the rare ones.
@RadioHedgeFund Before, you got no bonus for walking beyond hatching eggs. Now you get a bonus. No matter how much, it is still more than before.
Still no update here in North America.
Also, Magicarp ftw
No update yet in Oregon. Thanks for the chart though. Good to know how far I'd need to walk for candies.
let me guess, I still cannot ride a bike at 10km/h to get these either.... Because for me, eggs don't hatch anymore from bike riding and I bike 14km a day on days when I bike to work.
@ikki5 Weird, because I can ride my car with the app open, and as long as I don't go faster than 20mph, it still logs my distance without telling me to slow down. It's only useful if I'm driving through heavy traffic, though.
I'm never gonna get my omastar and kabutops......
@XCWarrior exactly. Something is better than nothing, plus it looks 😎
I'd hope they would put some of the rarer Pokémon into even rarer eggs that need 100km+ to hatch. Anyone fancy 1000km for a Mewtwo?
IAP HM's could be fun too, for example Flash shows you the 3 closest Pokemon but only works at night. Or Fly lets you check out the status if Gym's that aren't nearby.
Utterly useless in the metagame but fun additions nonetheless.
I probably have several hundreds unused candies. What I need is more star dust. And I'm tired of grinding for it >.>
@KTT I wasn't trying to be mean, I was just confused about where your comment came from... but your idea of using the in-broswer search does make sense.
They could have listed them like this...
Bulbasaur candy - Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur - 3km
Charmander candy - Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard - 3km
Squirtle candy - Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise - 3km
Caterpie candy - Caterpie, Metapod, Butterfree - 1km
... and so on.
This gives a more compact list, while still allowing people to search for specific Pokemon if they need to.
Would be a useful list if I had the update...
Still no update, what's going on Niantic?
Don't feel too bad Europe, the update forgot to add the Buddy system in America. Great PR Niantic!
Mew and Mewtwo are on the list...
Wartortle is only 3km! Woohoo!
The rumour was everything was 10km so these are way more achievable.
@allav866 I wish that was the case for me. I go for a bike ride, average out at 10-12km/hr and that thing comes up "You're going too fast" and eggs will go like 0.1km.
@DragonEleven Alrighty then, no worries.
It seems like your proposition is like the most clever list example here
@Lzeon Yeah, rumours are that they're now waiting for iOS 10 to release before the update is fully rolled out.
@teamshortcut Pokémon Go update is now available in France, fyi.
Edit: Not sure why everyone was talking about Pikachu moving to your shoulder after a certain distance. I thought it would be a thing specific to Pikachu, but it seems to be the normal thing for any small Pokémon. My Eevee went on my shoulder immediately. Well, it's cute, at least...
Hey! You missed out Gen 5s:
Venipede, Whirlipede and Scolipede are 1km.
Tympole, Palpitoad nd Seismitoad are 3km.
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