Do you play only in Pokémon GO? Start adventures with your new partner

A few months ago, before the end of 2019, Niantic launched a new functionality for its successful Pokémon GO game. That new function is called Adventures with your partner, and is intended to offer company to the player, all through augmented reality.

Their system basically works by spending more time with a specific creature and giving it the necessary care, as if it were a pet. Not everything is a bed of roses, since this friendship will require a level system to improve it, so we are going to comment on several tips on how to activate this function and progress in it.

What are Adventures with your partner?

It's about choosing, from our Pokédex, our favorite pet, the one we adored during childhood in the animated series. It is with which we are going to share many hours in the game, so the choice must be the ideal one. However, if for any case we regret, we can change partners whenever we want without losing progress.

We must attend to their care and meet various objectives together, such as catching new Pokémon or finding objects. If for some reason, this function does not appear, perhaps it is because we have deactivated the option of "Companion Talent", located in the game settings menu.

Friendship levels and their rewards

As we mentioned, the affinity between player and Pokémon goes through friendship levels that if we increase them, we will get our pet to perform more tasks and get more rewards. Before that, we must feed it with berries to gain confidence, and for this you just have to click on «Play», within your partner's menu. Once there, augmented reality will be activated and we will throw a berry at our Pokémon as food.

Good partner

After offering him berries to eat, it's the most basic level we start with. It will not do anything for us, it will simply appear on the map along with our avatar to check your mood, in addition to seeing it through the camera.

Great companion

From here, we begin to apply tasks to carry them out, such as making our lives easier to capture other creatures, or finding objects and gifts for us, if they are far from our location.

Excellent companion

After feeding and caring for it as if it were a baby, little by little we are increasing the level of friendship with our Pokémon. At this stage, we will ensure that you find relevant locations, either for less common objects or creatures to see, as well as souvenirs scattered around the map.

Excellent companion

At this level, we are at the height of this prolific friendship. As a symbolic sign, we will receive a PC enhancer for our partner in combat, and will wear a best partner ribbon. The story does not end there, if we want to continue keeping our pet as a companion, we must feed it and maintain its health bar.

How to increase friendship faster

Obviously this scale of friendship levels need progress. This progress is achieved by performing a series of daily tasks, which we will expose to reach the maximum level much earlier than planned. With this we will get affectionate hearts, which will allow us to increase friendship.

• Walking together: It is the most used resource, since while we play Pokémon GO looking for souvenirs or new creatures, we can walk with our partner. Thus, we will generate up to 3 hearts per day, one for every 2 kilometers.
• Play together: It is important to share moments with the pet so that it takes affection and thus increases its level quickly. The game offers, through augmented reality, different interactions such as caressing it.
• Fight with the partner: We can use it to fight against the trainers of other gyms or in raids, which will grant us a daily heart.
• Taking a picture: If we take several snapshots with the Pokémon, this will make it feel happy and more akin to us.
• Get Pokocho: To get it, we must buy it in the game store, in exchange for 100 Pokécoins. It is a kind of bread that will prolong the time that the Pokémon remains next to us on the map, that is, we can forget about the berries for a while.
• Visit new places: Discovering new or hidden places on the map will also increase friendship.

We can put all this into practice with all the Pokémon we want. In fact, the game allows us change partners up to 20 times a day, so they give us the opportunity to get more hearts and more rewards. Obviously, we are not going to travel 6 kilometers with each Pokémon, that is something humanly impossible, but we can play with them or fight from home.