How to Add Friends in Pokémon Go [Friendship Levels]

TUE Friends em Pokémon Go it goes beyond tracking the progress of people you know. It is possible to exchange, battle and send gifts, but it is also through friendship that you get stronger monsters (the lucky ones). Check out the methods to add friends and which ones friendship levels available in Pokemon Go.

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Add friends in Pokemon Go

There are three ways to add friends: by a 12-number code, by scanning the QR Code or by connecting to Facebook.

1. Tap your avatar to open your player profile;
2. Scroll left to access the friends page;
3. Tap “Add friends”.

On this next screen is where your numerical code — to send to another player — and also the field to put the code of the friend you want to add. If it's the case to add by this method, type and then tap send.

Below the code field is the option to add via facebook, to search your friends list for those who also play Pokémon Go.

To add via QR Code, select the “QR code” tab and scan your friend's code with the camera.

Observation: You can have a maximum of 200 friends on the list. After that, you will need to delete some to add new ones.

Friendship levels in Pokémon Go

The longer a player interacts with friends in-game, the more friendship features are unlocked, from trading legendaries for a lower cost of Stardust to being guaranteed a Lucky Pokémon for each one after a trade.

Understand friendship levels between players:

*Special Trade: Pokémon that are not registered in the Pokédex, Legendary, Shiny (Shiny), and different forms (Alola, Costume, Unkown) are special trades. You can only do one per day.

What about Lucky Friendship?

After reaching the “Unrivaled Friendship” level, future interactions (trading, gifts or battles) will be able to grant both players the “Lucky Friendship” status. This means that, in the next trade, both Pokémon became Lucky Pokémon.

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A notification is sent to let the player know that their friendship has become Lucky. After the exchange is made between them, the status of both is reset and needs to be earned again.