Travel between the real world
and the virtual world of Pokémon with Pokémon GO for iPhone and Android
devices. With Pokémon GO, you’ll discover Pokémon in a whole new world—your
own! Pokémon GO gives you the chance to explore real locations and search far
and wide for Pokémon. More and more Pokémon continue to appear around the
globe, including rare and powerful Legendary Pokémon.

As you move around the places
where you live and visit, your smartphone can vibrate to let you know when
you’re near a Pokémon. Once you’ve encountered a Pokémon, take aim on your
smartphone’s touch screen and throw a Poké Ball to catch it—but be careful, or
it might run away! Also look for PokéStops located at interesting places—such
as public art installations, historical markers, and monuments—where you can
collect more Poké Balls and other items.

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Battle Other Trainers

Are you ready for an exciting challenge? You can now take on
another Trainer at any time in Pokémon GO. With Trainer Battles, you can match
up against another Trainer by using a Battle Code, then face off using a team
of three Pokémon. When the battle is over, both participants receive great
rewards, including a chance at rare Evolution items.

The fast-paced battles take place in real time, and your
Pokémon can use both their Fast Attacks and Charged Attacks. Just keep an eye
on your opponent’s attacks, and deploy a Protect Shield to save your Pokémon
from taking critical damage. Be careful, though—you only have a limited number
of Protect Shields before your Pokémon will be left defenseless against big attacks.

Your opponent will usually have to be nearby for you to
initiate a Trainer Battle. But you can challenge Trainers you’re Ultra Friends
or Best Friends with from any distance. Good luck, Trainers!

Make Friends, Exchange Gifts, and Trade Pokémon

Get connected with your real-life
friends in Pokémon GO, and you can interact with them in a variety of exciting
ways. After exchanging Trainer Codes, you will see your friends on your Friend
List.

One way that you’ll be able to play
with your friends in Pokémon GO is by giving Gifts. When you spin a Photo Disc
at a PokéStop or Gym, you have a chance of collecting a special Gift. Although
you can’t open these Gifts yourself, you can send them to someone on your
Friend List. The Gifts contain a variety of helpful items (and occasionally
special Eggs) and come with a postcard showing where the Gift
was collected.

You can increase your Friendship
level with others by sending Gifts or participating in a Raid or Gym Battle
with them. As your Friendship level rises, bonuses can be unlocked.

There’s another way to build your
Friendship level, and that’s by trading Pokémon! If you are near a friend and
have a Trainer level of 10 or higher, you can trade Pokémon with them.
Completing a trade requires Stardust, but it earns a bonus Candy for the
Pokémon you traded away, and that bonus increases if the Pokémon the two of you
trade were caught in locations far apart from each other.

Each Pokémon in the trade might become a Lucky Pokémon—you’ll know right away by a new sparkly appearance. These Lucky Pokémon require less Stardust to power up, too. And Lucky Pokémon can be detected by the Pokédex so you can keep track of them. The longer the Pokémon have spent in storage, the higher the chance that they will become Lucky Pokémon when they’re traded.

Customize Your Trainer

When you first play Pokémon GO,
you’ll get to customize your Trainer, choosing apparel and accessories to give them
a cool look. Your customized Trainer will appear as you move around on the map
and on your profile page. Other players will also see your Trainer when they
visit a Gym you control or when you interact as friends (see below).

Add to Your Pokédex

In Pokémon GO, you will gain levels
as a Trainer. At higher levels, you’ll be able to catch more powerful Pokémon
to complete your Pokédex. You’ll also have access to stronger items to heal
your Pokémon after battle, improved Poké Balls to give you a better shot at
catching Pokémon, and useful Berries. Keep exploring and catching Pokémon to
raise your level.

There are other ways to add
Pokémon to your Pokédex. If you catch the same species of Pokémon enough times,
you may be able to evolve it! And you may find Pokémon Eggs at PokéStops, which
will hatch once you’ve walked a certain distance with it in an incubator—perhaps
resulting in a Pokémon you’ve never seen before!

As you’re out exploring, keep an eye
on the real-world weather, as it will influence which Pokémon you’re likely to
discover. For example, Water-type Pokémon will be more plentiful during rainy
weather.

Join a Team and Battle

At a certain point in the game,
you’ll be asked to join one of three teams. Once you join a team, you’ll gain
the ability to assign your Pokémon to open Gym locations or to a Gym where a
teammate has already assigned a Pokémon. Each player can place only one Pokémon
per Gym, so you’ll need to work together with other members of your team to
build up a strong defense. Like PokéStops, Gyms can be found at real-world
locations.

If a rival team has claimed a Gym,
you can challenge it by using your Pokémon to battle the Pokémon defending the
Gym. You choose which of your Pokémon will join in the battle. Each Pokémon has
two kinds of attacks, and can also dodge the defending Pokémon’s attacks if you
swipe left or right. If your Pokémon win the battle, the motivation of the
defending Pokémon is reduced. When the motivation of each defending Pokémon
drops to zero, the defending team loses control of the Gym, and you or another
player can then take control of it by assigning a Pokémon to defend it.

Raid Battles

Take on tough solitary Pokémon in
exciting Raid Battles at select Gyms. These Raid Bosses are more difficult to
battle than the Pokémon you’d ordinarily catch in the wild—so tough that you’ll
need to join up with other Trainers to take one of them on. If you can defeat
the Raid Boss, you’ll earn a chance to add the powerful Pokémon to
your team and get extremely rare items.

Field Research and Special Research

Professor Willow, your guide through
the world of Pokémon GO, needs collaborators to help with his research as he
investigates mysterious events all over the world. There are two types of
research that Trainers can help with: Field Research and Special Research.
Field Research tasks can be found by spinning the Photo Disc at PokéStops and
Gyms. You will receive objectives to complete, such as discovering and catching
certain Pokémon or engaging in battles. Professor Willow will present the
Special Research himself with story-driven activities that will take you
further into the world of Pokémon GO than ever before!

There’s no limit to the number of
research tasks that can be completed each day, and they grant rewards such as
useful items. The more difficult the task, the greater the reward, so
hard-working Trainers will benefit quite a bit.

Poké Ball Plus and Nintendo Switch

A portable device called the Poké Ball Plus enables you to
enjoy the game even when you’re not looking at your smartphone. The device
connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth and notifies you about events in the
game (such as the appearance of a Pokémon nearby) using an LED and vibration.
In addition, you can catch Pokémon or perform other simple actions by pressing
the button on the device.

There is also a deep connection between Pokémon GO and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! Pokémon originally discovered in
the Kanto region that you’ve caught in Pokémon GO can be brought into these two
new Nintendo Switch games.

Connecting Pokémon GO to Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon:
Let’s Go, Eevee! is also a great way to meet the new Mythical Pokémon
Meltan and its evolved form, Melmetal. Sending Pokémon from Pokémon GO into one
of the Nintendo Switch titles gets you certain items in the app, such as Candies
for the species of Pokémon you sent. However, the first time you send a
Pokémon, you’ll also be able to get a very special item: a Mystery Box!

Opening a Mystery Box in Pokémon GO causes Meltan to appear
for a limited time. Touch a Meltan you see on the field map, and then try to
catch it with a Poké Ball. By collecting 400 Meltan Candies, you can evolve
this Steel-type Pokémon into the powerful Melmetal.

Adventure Sync

Exploring is a breeze with the Adventure Sync feature in Pokémon
GO. With Adventure Sync, you can record how far you walk even while Pokémon GO
is inactive. Plus, you keep earning Buddy Candy and making progress toward
hatching Pokémon Eggs as you walk.

You receive notifications when your Buddy Pokémon finds
Candy for you and when an Egg is about to hatch. Then, at the end of each week,
Adventure Sync provides a summary of your activities, including how much Candy
you collected and how far you walked. You even earn rewards for every distance
milestone you cross.

You can opt in to Adventure Sync at any time, and the
feature connects to both the Health app on Apple devices and Google Fit on
Android devices.

iPhone AR+ Mode

Dive deeper into the fun of Pokémon
encounters with AR+ mode, a feature available on iPhone 6s and newer models
running iOS 11 or higher. AR+ mode takes Pokémon GO’s augmented reality feature
even further by placing the Pokémon you encounter firmly into the scene in
front of you. With AR+, you can get closer to a Pokémon to make it easier to
catch, or line up the perfect picture. But be careful as you approach the
Pokémon, or you might scare it off!

Free to Play

Pokémon GO is available for download
at no charge on the App Store and Google Play. Pokémon GO is free to play, with
loads of fun things to do and Pokémon to discover at every turn. For players
who want to enhance their Pokémon GO experience even more, certain items and
features can be accessed via in-app purchases. Players can spend real money on
PokéCoins, the in-game currency of Pokémon GO. PokéCoins can then be exchanged
for power-ups, extra items, and more.

Photo Fun

When you encounter a Pokémon in the
wild, you can turn on the camera feature, putting the wild Pokémon into the
live scene where your camera is facing. Line up your shot and hit the shutter
button to take the photo. You can then save the snapshot to your smartphone for
you to share however you’d like.

Music by Junichi Masuda

Pokémon GO features all-new
music composed by GAME FREAK’s Junichi Masuda. Mr. Masuda has worked on Pokémon
games since the very beginning and has composed many of the classic and
memorable songs that have inspired fans for decades.

Buddy Pokémon

With the Buddy Pokémon feature, you
can choose a Pokémon from your collection to travel at your side,
opening up in-game rewards and experiences. Your Buddy Pokémon will appear
alongside your Trainer on your profile screen and reward you with helpful
bonuses—including Candy—as you walk with it.

Visit the Pokémon GO official site for more details.

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