Niantic Confirms PVP before 2019
What are some things you would like to see in Player vs Player?
I would like to see a mechanic change. Instead of tapping on the screen something for us to use strategy and critical thinking for every match. What are your thoughts?
https://pokemonblog.com/2018/08/06/niantic-confirms-pokemon-go-plans-to-implement-pvp-by-the-end-of-this-year/
Answers
You are correct. Sometimes people who write headlines are just looking for clicks, and not interested in truth. I have to believe they are not dumb enough to confuse "we want to do this" with "this will be done". But maybe I am being too generous. Possibly it is a translation problem, as the interview was in Europe.
If you can see their’s, then they can see yours. Which means if you change, they change. I don’t think seeing each other’s Pokemon would make sense. Unless one is a challenger and the other is the “champion” and only the challenger can see the champions Pokémon.
However they NEED to change the entire battle system. Make it so that one person can not take a tray of phones to a raid and tap all the phones at once and one man legendarys. Make some kind of button sequence. So that raids and gym battles will be more dynamic as well as PVP.
