Big Pokemon GO Leak Reveals New Follower Feature
A major Pokemon GO leak has revealed the upcoming Follower feature planned for the game, as well as several other pieces of new content in the game's files. The Niantic-developed Pokemon mobile game has seen a busy 2022 with a number of major events running throughout the year. March saw the addition of Alolan Pokemon from the franchise's seventh generation to the game, and Summer welcomed the return of in-person Pokemon GO events. Now, a big datamine has uncovered a plethora of new content coming to the mobile game.
Pokemon GO's newest datamine from PokeMiners revealed several new assets included in the game's files with one of the most significant being the new «Follower Pokemon.» According to PokeMiners, Followers will apparently be treated similarly to an item in-game, being attached to an «address» for a Pokemon rather than an individual Pokemon's ID. The post speculates that the Follower feature may be a way for players to track certain Pokemon, potentially for the game's Catch Card or tracking specific kinds of Pokemon nearby.
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The massive datamine also revealed the potential addition of Shiny Probability to Encounter Rewards related to Quests and GO Battle League. The leak suggests that the new inclusion lends itself to different encounter types within the game featuring different probabilities of finding Shiny Pokemon. The shiny probability was notably not attached to any individual Pokemon's data, meaning a Pokemon's shiny rate won't be able to be assessed unless it appears in GO Battle League. Pokemon GO has not made any official statement regarding differing shiny rates for different types of encounters.
The leaked update included several other
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