Generation II Pocket Monsters Found in Pokemon GO Update Code

That's nice to know. So they are just going to gloss over the legendaries....

Awesome, I have a lot of nostalgia for gen 2 so I'm gonna love it when those pokemon appear. Ditto, the legendary birds, Mewtwo and Mew would also be nice to see, but who knows with Niantic.

Finally the god of the skies will rain down his terror upon the feeble masses! All hail the mighty Crobat!

And just like that, the franchise's golden era (pun not intended) is back.

[EDIT: Check this out, guys! And make sure you open it in another tab, because it's the full in-game overworld map!]

Excellent, so the rumours are true... we're going to be getting Gen 2 (reasonably) soon. It'll be weird getting Gen2 before trading or battling, the FUNDAMENTAL POINTS of Pokémon, but hey!

Yay! My body is ready.

@MegaMari0 We'll get the legendaries, but it's not as if they can just dump them into one street for an hour. I'm guessing they'll have to arrange a suitable event.

Is team Mystic, Valor, and Instinct going to have new mascots now?

I really hope it's just an artefact of their own testing... I can only see the addition of more gens as just another way Niantic will screw up the game even more, and give them more problems to fix before they get round to fixing the things that were supposed to be in the game from the start.
If they are to do other gens, then the only way I can see it working would be as a separate game... but they should still only do that once this one is actually finished.

@DragonEleven From what I understand, trading & battling will be in place before the end of the year & Gen 2 will be a few months later. This is information was leaked from the dev team a few weeks ago.

Wow, Generation 3, 4, and next must be for next update.

I kinda hope they update the mascots of Instinct, Valor, and Mystic to Raiku, Entei, and Suicune respectively, I'm glad to hear that gen 2 should be coming soon though!

@DanteSolablood Do you have a link to that? That's not a leak I've seen.
The only mentions I've seen about trading are that it's in the works, with no date mentioned, and pvp battles and gen 2 were still only being talked about at the time.

I already "unown" Pokemon GO.

Great news! I wonder which 'mon will be region specific. 🤔

@DragonEleven I must admit that the information I posted was based on a friend I played with who has been pretty spot on so far. However, this is confirmation battling & trading is coming to Pokémon Go, not a new app:

http://www.itechpost.com/articles/31703/20160921/pokemon-go-update-multiplayer-battle-mode-trading-system-coming-soon.htm

In regards to the DATE of the features, it appears that the dates he gave me are speculative. I think this is where he got them from but I will note the article gives October for trading. I ain't trading one of my 7 Snorlaxs for a Porygon yet.

http://pokemongohub.net/pokemon-go-trading-trainer-battles-gen-ii-release-dates/

So... looks like I may not be right about the dates, but if they're sneaking in Gen 2 pokémon in already I'd hope from a moral point of view that they're at least CLOSE to completing trading & battling.

But I've only got 136 of the 1st generation! IM NOT READY FOR THIS!!!!

Based on the current forumla here are what the 5 highest CP Pokemon will be as generations are added. Excluding Slaking and legendaries....

1: Dragonite, Snorlax, Arcanine, Lapras, Exeggutor (a familiar list)
1-2: Tyranitar, Dragonite, Snorlax, Arcanine, Lapras
1-3: Tyranitar, Dragonite, Salamence, Metagross, Snorlax
1-4: Tyranitar, Dragonite, Salamence, Metagross, Garchomp
1-5: Tyranitar, Dragonite, Salamence, Hydreigon, Metagross
1-6: Tyranitar, Dragonite, Salamence, Hydreigon, Metagross

Adding gen 2? Welcome the new king of the gyms

@skywake Are you forgetting that they tend to nerf fan favourite pokémon? Which one of those you've listed is going to be the "Alakazam or Gengar" of Gen 2?

I'm curious as to how this will work. Will we just have to hunt for both Gen 1 and 2 Pokémon at the same time? Will we be able to switch between gens so we only see the gen we want? Or are there just gonna be even more spawns?

@DanteSolablood
It comes down to the simplified mechanics of the game. The Pokemon you mentioned have great special stats in the main game but average non-special stats. Attack and Defence in Pokemon Go are calculated from both because there is no physical/special split. There's no such thing as a special sweeper.

To put it simply, this is what happens when you crunch the numbers:
Alakazam: 135 Special Attack, 50 Attack -> 186 Attack
Gengar: 130 Special Attack, 65 Attack -> 204 Attack
Dragonite: 100 Special Attack, 134 Attack -> 250 Attack
Exeggutor: 125 Special Attack, 95 Attack -> 232 Attack

@skywake Lol, I am actually quite aware of how that works, it also doesn't help that speed is (pretty much) not taken into consideration either which also nerfs Gengar & Alakazam. It's a real shame that Niantic didn't play Pokémon a bit more before working on Pokémon Go.

@DanteSolablood
Speed impacts both attack and defence. Anyways, I think you're going off track. Didn't you say that they tend to "nerf" fan favourites? And that one of the ones on my list might be one of those?

Because the ones I listed were the highest ranked Pokemon based on the current formula. If they change the formula it'd change the ranking of every Pokemon. I'm assuming that they don't change it.

@skywake And height & weight impact speed & attack. The "nerfing fan favourites" comment was a joke, based on the smack talk that goes on about Alakazam & Gengar amongst players out & about. If I realised you were going to miss the joke & then try to attack my Pokémon knowledge I genuinely wouldn't have bothered. Believe me, I won't bother attempting to chat with you again. scouts promise

Brilliant! I'll finally will be able to get an Umbreon and Espeon, the best Eeveevolutions.

@DanteSolablood
Well I'm sorry for trying to be helpful when you sounded like you were misinformed. Which somehow you're now saying was an "attack" on your fantastic knowledge of Pokemon.

BTW, height and weight? They don't impact the stats.

@skywake My real issue was when I laughed off the explanation you gave on your first reply & said I already knew that, your reply to that came across as "no, you sit there and take my explanation again your thick f@@@" because of the way you worded it. And again, the "sorry for trying to help" just confirms to me that that is probably what you meant.

Also I never said I had "fantastic" pokémon knowledge, but I have played since Blue, competed in both real local & online international tournaments, maintained a complete living pokedex, travelled to events across the country & got my "official Google Pokémon Master" card from the April Fools day game. So excuse me for having a little pride in myself when it comes to pokémon.

In either case, it wasn't proven either way whether height & weight effect the stats, but I like keeping it in mind anyway just because it keeps the game from getting boring.

@DanteSolablood
Why are you getting so defensive? All I did was post what the new top tier Pokemon will be once gen 2 is added. As far as I'm concerned everything since then is just you trying to have a go at me for some reason.....

@skywake Okay I'm sorry that you feel that I had a go at you.

Oh great... now Niantic will spend all of it's time and resources making sure people can't mine the data instead of actually improving the game. You know... because that's what they do.

Gotta Catch 'Em All

Gen 2 baby!!

Give me my Totodile, Steelix, Murkow, etc. NAO!!

Looks like the leak that Gen 2 would arrive by December was accurate.

Although I've stopped playing Pokemon GO already.

I might come back to capture a Gardevoir (my favorite Pokemon) when Gen 3 is released for novelty's sake.

Last I checked they're making it harder to level again which is going to make the game even less pleasant.

Neat. Main thing I want from the new update is to stop dropping the volume of my music by %50 when I run the app. Really annoying!

Looks fake

@Luna_110 This was my first thought. Umbreon has been my absolute favorite since 2nd gen's original release.

This is how they get me back into it.

Speaking of which, catching Unowns is going to be hilarious

I was hoping for Alolan forms first. They need to make some subtle advertisement for the main series, it would be a shame not to. And this would introduce dark types and allow the devs to test how the game and the community reacts to a small number of new Pokémon, before the bigger addition of gen 2.

But ok, let's go for Gen 2. I hope this means shineys and genders. Even if there is no breeding, we will need genders at some point anyway.

@skywake for the record I wanna say your comments were pretty informative, I didnt realize the strengths of Pokemon in Go were calculated like that and it makes sense. So thanks for the info

This would not only be awesome, but if would be perfect timing too.

@Kroko Adding gen2 will introduce Dark types. Gen 2 is where Dark types were first introduced (along with Steel, but some of gen 1 were retroactively made Steel so that type is already represented).

People keep saying it but I really don't think they need to use Go to advertise Sun & Moon, they're already the most pre-selling Nintendo game ever. (https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/10/pokemon_sun_and_moon_are_the_best_pre-selling_games_in_nintendo_history)

Go played on the rose tinted nostalgia by being only gen1 at the start. I'm sure if Sun & Moon sales slump later The Pokémon Company will get on to Niantic about adding gen7 and/or Alolan forms, but why play that card now when it's not needed?

@AVahne Yeah that image is a really poor mock-up NL seem to have added in. It wasn't in the linked article

this really looks fake.