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Two and a
half years after the launch of Pokémon GO, it’s still missing one major staple
of the main series games: player versus player battling.
That’s about
to change.
In a series
of teaser tweets this morning, the company confirmed that the battle system is
on the way, noting only that it’s “coming soon.”
Battling is
the feature perhaps most demanded by the player base — particularly after the
other oh-so-demanded feature, trading, was finally added around six months ago.
While players have long been able to battle Pokémon stored in gyms, or work
together to take down bigger/badder Pokémon that show up in raids, there’s
never been the sort of real-time, head-to-head battling system for which the
series is so well-known.
In August of
this year, a rep for Niantic mentioned that their goal was to get it out by the
end of the year. Given these tweets, it’s looking like that’ll happen.
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