Pokémon Go’s trainer battles bring true multiplayer to the game

referring to The next chapter for Niantic's Pokémon Go involves borrowing another popular element from the game series's main installments: battling. The new trainer battles feature has been a long time coming. The battles will involve similar mechanics to raid battles, in which a series of taps initiates your basic attack and fills up your charge attack meter. It should also be noted that these are not turn-based battles like what most Pokémon fans might expect, but real-time ones. The few exceptions there are for brief pauses in the fight for charge attack animations and defensive shield items for blocking those charge attacks.

Pokémon Go's trainer battles bring true multiplayer to the game

Trainer battles, as teased late last week, bring the game closer than ever to a multiplayer experience, although there are marked changes from the traditional Pokémon battles many players are familiar with. Trainer battles allow for one-on-one matches against either another player or a computer-controlled opponent, with each side bringing a team of three Pokémon (called their battle party) into the arena with them. Trainer battles otherwise work the same way as gym and Raid battles, with players swiping and tapping on the screen to attack each other in real time. Unlike trading, trainer battles support both local and online options. Between trading, the friends list, and soon, trainer battles, Pokémon Go seems closer than ever to being something of a full-fledged game — not just a Pokémon collecting sim.

Pokémon Go trainer battles guide: How to fight your friends and choose a league

As it stated in Not only can they fight each other one-on-one, but trainer battles introduce competitive trainer leagues as well, so that Pokémon masters can truly be named. Trainer battles are one-on-one fights, either pitting a player against another, local trainer, or letting two friends compete online. Pokémon battles otherwise work much the same way as they do for Raid Battles and Gyms. But in trainer battles, Pokémon have two different charge attacks to choose from (although that second charge attack must be unlocked). Trainer leagues are the three tiers which players must select in order to participate in trainer battles.

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