New Update

[inkstone]

Hey trainers!

Niantic announced that they will be rolling out Gen 3 pokemon later this week. In addition, they will be adding a "weather" feature that incorporates your local weather into the game. (This is what I've been wanting since I first started playing.) Certain pokemon types will show up more often depending upon current weather conditions.

Read more about the upcoming updates!

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Is this where we make bad jokes about weather associated with certain cities? Because I am 100% prepared to comment on flying types flocking to the Windy City, etc.

[teirae]

man...I still haven't got all Gen 1! I'm so behind.... I need to take a pokemon holiday where I go to a capital city and just play pokemon for a few days. oh the dream!

[kirin]

Not only do certain types show up more, but you get bonus stardust for catching them, and the same move types do bonus damage. Raid battles will be easier or harder in different weather!

There are already lists floating around with most of the weather/type correspondence, but some might consider that a spoiler, so I won't paste it here. Likewise, people have figured out very probably which 50 Gen3 species we're getting first, just by adding up everything that's been seen in promo images and videos and their evolutions.

[lilacsigil]

Awesome! I have a good range of weather (including some very rare snow) so this should work well.

[raisedbymoogles]

Huh. Part of me's intrigued about the weather thing, and part of me's like "encouraging people to go out in bad weather might be a bad idea"...

[kirin]

They've thought of that, although the method to prevent it is a little rough. Basically whenever there's a local weather alert the weather is overridden by the "extreme" condition, and nothing has bonuses. Unfortunately for where I am, we've had a winter storm watch on since yesterday which triggers this, so we've barely gotten to play with the weather system at all. Admittedly roads were a little slippy last night, but they're fine in today's light flurries. Ah well. Boosted steel/ice types from the snow sure would be nice if this warning ever lifts, though.

[raisedbymoogles]

I guess that's the best we can expect for now. XD

[triadruid]

Caught my first 6000-Stardust-to-improve creature tonight... Partly Cloudy apparently agrees with Hoothoots. :)