Buddy Pokémon

The Buddy system is a new feature as of Version 1.7/0.37 where you can select a Pokémon that essentially walks with you. The Pokémon is tracked the same way as Eggs are. You can select your partner Pokémon and it will appear with you in the status screen. Depending on the size, it will either be behind your player, next to it, or even on the player's shoulder.

Shoulder	Behind	Side	Flying	Holding

Note: All Pokémon have just one position, except Pikachu. When you walk with a Pikachu, it will start off by your side, but when you hit 10km, it will move to the shoulder

There are sometimes special events that will halve the distance required for each Pokémon. In addition to this, Eevee's evolution into Espeon and Umbreon is contingent on Buddy distance. Reach 10km with Eevee as your buddy and evolve it while it's still your buddy for it to be Espeon in Day or Umbreon at night.

As you walk with the Pokémon, when certain distance milestones are hit, your Pokémon will pick up a Candy that matches its species line. This can be repeated multiple times so you can more easily collect candy of the Pokémon that you may not be able to find easily, allowing for Power Ups and Evolutions

You can swap your Buddy 20 times a day.

As of Version 0.163.0, a huge Buddy System upgrade was added. This puts the system in line with Pokémon Amie, Pokémon Refresh and Pokémon Camp and allows for you to increase your Pokémon's affection through a variety of different things. First, you can play with, pet and feed your Pokémon using the AR+ mode of the game. This will boost its affection and build your friendship. Each day there's a different set of tasks you can do with your Pokémon to increase its affection and when you do, you'll get a couple of bonuses including receiving Candy from walking with it twice as fast.

Your Pokémon can consume 3 Berries before its full and it drops its hunger by 1 Berry every hour.

Your Buddy's mood is dependant upon a variety of factors. This goes up based on the same interactions but drops over time. However, for each 1 point of friendship the Pokémon gets, they get 3 points of emotion. Each of these except Walking and Opening Souvnivers has a 30 minute cooldown so you can't do it constantly to boost emotion

When your Pokémon is at maximum happiness, it can do twice the usual activities each day and the distance required to get candy is reduced by 50%. The Pokémon can be instantly brought to maximum by feeding it a Poffin

Your Pokémon's emotion points drop by 1 point every 30 minutes.

As you befriend your Pokémon, it will raise levels much like a Friend in the game and as such there are four different levels of friend.

After you are good friends with your Buddy, it can now walk on the map with you. This only lasts for a short amount of time and gives you special boosts to your Pokémon's affection when doing so. This will result in increasing the Pokémon's affection. The duration a Pokémon can be out is determined based on what you feed it. Once your Buddy Pokémon is completely hungry again, it returns to its ball

When you go into a variety of features, when your Buddy is a Great Buddy or higher, you will have a 20% chance of your Buddy coming into the feature. This gives the Pokémon a small chance of appearing in a capture screen. When it does, it will reflect a ball back that the opposing Pokémon has bounced back by attacking.

As you become Ultra Buddy with your Buddy Pokémon, it will sometimes find various Souvenirs. These items have no function in the game but are collected in storage in conjunction with each particular Buddy Pokémon and finding it can boost affection to get your Pokémon closer to being better friends with you.

Beach Glass	Catcus Fruit	Chalky Stone	Flower Fruits	Lone Earring
Marble	Mushroom	Pinecone	Pretty Leaf	Skipping Stone
Small Bouquet	Stetchy Spring	Torn Ticket	Tropical Flower	Tropical Shell