Pokémon GO Updates, And Data Mining Discovers Generation 2

November 7, 2016 Sean Sullivan Comments

Over this past weekend Pokémon GO was updated—bringing with it some fixes and improvements—but the big news is Silph Road's data mining has revealed Generation 2 Pokémon and Ditto within the APK.

Hold up. That doesn't mean Gen 2 Pokémon are in the game. Just that they're in the data (they're basically Digimon right now). Gen 2 will likely not show up for some time; their movesets aren't even in the code yet.

But we now know it's happening.

I mean we already knew it was happening. It seemed obvious GO would prolong its life by tapping into the enormous catalog of Pokémon. Now the question is when.

The changes for this latest update:

You’ll earn bonuses for the first Pokémon catch and PokéStop visit each day. You’ll receive a larger bonus when you do this seven days in a row.
When you defeat the Gym Leader at a rival Gym, there will be a brief period of time where only you will be able to place a Pokémon in the open Gym.
The amount of Prestige a rival Gym loses when you defeat a regular Gym member has increased. The amount of Prestige gained by training at a friendly Gym has been lowered.
Minor text fixes.