Random: Walking 10km With Pikachu As Your Buddy Creates A Stronger Bond In Pokémon GO

Now I wonder if you trade it and then get it back, will it hate you forever like in Pokemon Yellow?

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/kxwe8ag5aqs5udtkuupf.jpg

But before you can get that, you need a pikachu. but the most people can`t even find one

Wow, 10 km is distance from my house until my working place, a Primary School. And i go to my working place just by ...... Bicycle everyday.

I wonder if it will get up on your head if you reach a higher target, e.g. 100km.

Still waiting for the update to come to Arizona, but Magikarp is gonna be my buddy until I can evolve it...

I'd rather a Raichu hop into my shoulder, or better yet, MY LEG. I would feed it pancakes revved up in a fryer, that's bonding material right there. I have a couple of Pikachus, but not enough to have dat raighteous Raichu :,,,,,,,<

Also, Ash doesn't have a strong enough bond with his Pikachu as he does with Greninja for some reason.

I still don't have Pickachu...

Too bad people are leaving this game quickly after rooted users got kicked to the curb.

Lucky :/

Ah, if only I could walk around with a Venasaur on my shoulders...

That's cool, but Pikachu gets too much attention. I want to bond with Snorlax and have it on my shoulders.

Dunno why Pikachu is so popular. Raichu is much cooler/cuter and never gets ANY attention.

I never see people here playing Go anymore too.

And there's me who is still waiting for the update on my droid turbo 2... I just want walk around with my Pokemon, please Niantic...

But what if I want my rhyhorn on my shoulder?

It would be neat if the Pokemon you select shows up in the map as you walk. So it would be walking along with your trainer too.

@Pikmin22
Last time it took 2-3 days for the update to reach NA after the initial rollout. So maybe tonight or tomorrow. As for the tracker, they were testing a new tracker with some users but nothing has been said about that yet that I've seen.

Do the same with a Groudon and you'll be legally considered dead.

Neat! Too bad the update hasn't rolled out on iOS yet. All my friends and coworkers with Android phones have the update and are already earning tons of candies.

But hey, at least it gives new purpose to getting Pikachu all the time. I dunno what it is about the area I live in, but let's just say I've gotten enough of them to get the Pikachu Fan medal and then some

No update as of yet for me.

@Kalmaro Rooted users are the most likely to use cheating services, though, that's the point of them doing that. It's like getting upset for teachers banning headphones during tests in school and being like 'well I'm just listening to music, that's not fair' when it's a high possibility you could have a buddy helping you out. Sure, maybe you aren't cheating, but the playing field has to be as level as possible.

@Drainos

Well before even that happens, they need to actually implement trading.

@Freelance That's why there needs to be a Mega Raichu.

@Kalmaro @GoshDangTravino Anyone having an Internet connected phone would be kicked out of an exam, headphones or not. Plenty of games, especially freemium ones which give free premium currency as rewards, block rooted phones.

@Drainos
Yeah, it's not fair that people didn't know you can get Pikachu as your starter pretty easily. You just walk away (at least three separate times) when you are asked to pick from the regulars and then eventually you can choose Pikachu. Kinda like the show. You force being "late".

The do have "regular" places they appear and yeah there's hatching. I guess he only hatches out of 2km eggs.

@Freelance
Um... maybe "Pika Pika" voices from Pikachu sounds cuter than "Raichu...". Especially when Pikachu get angry, "CHUU...!!!" XD
But "Pichu" name sounds even cuter than Pikachu.
Oh, at least your favorite Raichu will get Alolan Form in Pokemon Sun or Moon.

Stopped playing months ago.

In the same way, it'd be cool if you had a buddy dragonite if you would be able to ride it after 10 or 20 km walked.

Your Buddy Pokemon not following you on the map is extremely disappointing, that was the entire purpose of people wanting "Buddy" Pokemon to begin with (and a commonly requested feature to return in the main series games), and even the Candy you get from Buddy Pokemon is pretty inconsequential (1 at a time?). The feature might as well not exist.

It once again addresses Niantic's lack of understanding that people need to be able to feel attached to their Pokemon and in Pokemon GO they still feel and are highly disposable.

Also: Why can't I have this?