With the recent addition of friends and trading, Pokémon GO has felt more social than it has in a long time. Now a new element of that has come to light via the official Niantic Pokémon GO blog: Lucky Pokémon!
When a Pokémon gets traded, there’s now a chance it will gain a sparkle effect and it’ll take less Stardust to power them up. It’s the perfect reminder of an exchange between friends or a long sought swap, and your Pokédex will even keep track of it too.
There’s no definitive word on how it works, but it seems having a Pokémon in storage for a long time ups the chance of their Lucky awakening once they’re traded. It’s no hard, fast rule but it’s something.
Now even those who’ve somehow caught ‘em all have a reason to trade. It’s been a great spur of growth for the game lately, and now with some extra Lucky surprises waiting it’s hopefully only going to get bigger and better.
Written by Ricky Berg
When he isn’t writing for Nintendo Wire, Ricky’s anticipating the next Kirby, Fire Emblem, or if the stars ever align, Mother 3 to be released. Till then he’ll have the warm comfort of Super Smash Bros. to keep him going.
