Pokémon Go/YMMV

• And the Fandom Rejoiced: When the Research Quests came out, so trainers that are not able to attend Ex-Raids and raids can catch special pokemon and Legendaries.
  • Ah, gifting, now rural trainers can now catch up with their city counterparts.
  • A tiny example of sorts, Niantic fixed the glitch were Spark was missing, fans and his team rejoiced.
  • Pokeball Plus, which is not just a joycon for games, like Pokémon Sword and Shield
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: During the mobile game's early days, some gamers took the "Gotta Catch 'Em All" seriously, that they'll even trespass, go beyond the speed limit, and other shenanigans just to catch 'em all.
• Butt Monkey|Dude, Where's My Respect?: In the game's early days and lack of features, some trainers in rural areas feel as though Niantic and the Pokemon International are just ignoring them. Due to the lack of gyms, pokestops, and even pokemon.
  • Some mobile phones, like the Windows Phones, don't have the game.
    • "Port Begging."
    • "Port Begging missed."
  • Pokemon Go Plus doesn't mix well with certain mobile phones, like some android phones. These mobile phone owners feel that Niantic/Nintendo/Game Freak made a highly glitchy or worst broken accessory, which is on par with the old versions of Uplay store client, that's not worth the price tag.
    • Makes a bit of sense, since those accessories are made with Apple products in mind.
      • For others, the GoPlus and its official successors don't work at all.
      • Meanwhile, one day the updates make the GoPlus works, the next day its busted.
• Even Better Sequel: To some fans, the Pokeball Plus, which is not just a joycon for games, like Pokémon Sword and Shield, it's also a superior successor to the Pokemon Go Plus.
• Evil Knockoff: To Niantic, Nintendo, and Pokemon International, Codejunkies's Go-tcha and similar clones are these to the Pokemon Go Plus.
  • To a degree, it got worst, since some of the poketrainers, who were disastified with the Pokemon Go Plus' state, since it didn't work. Resorted into buying the Gotcha instead.
    • Averted, the gotcha users claims that their device does the PoGo Plus's job way better or they can disguise the fact that they're playing Pokemon Go when around other adults. - Due to the Gotcha's appearance of looking like an ipod/android exercising watch.
    • The Pokemon Go Plus screams "It's ONLY for kids."
      • Some trainers own both the Gotcha and the Pokemon Go Plus.
    • That changed when the Pokeball Plus came into the scene, it has better QOL than the PoGo Plus.
  • Same with the PoGo app clones that are eerily similar.
  • During the game's early days, what's worst is that some of the apps have features. - QOL features. That the main games have but are not in Pokemon Go, these apps are downloaded as companion apps but a few can get one ban from the Niantic game.
    • When Niantic/Pokemon Company slowly added the QOL features into the main game, people eventually cease using most of these apps.
• Fan of Underdog: Team Instinct, due to the few members on the team and their leader being the punching bag in the fandom, cause some to join.
• Hollywood Hacking: Some IRL gamers decided to REALLY "Gotta Catch Em All" and gone to do location spoofing without traveling far or even leaving the house, so they can catch regionals and Legendaries.
• Loot Eggs: Some poketrainers surmises that the eggs are gambling mechanics akin to loot boxes, since getting the egg that has the desirable Mon are by chance, the gamer has to use microtransactions to buy egg incubators, and it seems to be a bit predatory.
• The Slackers: Some IRL Poketrainers argue that the existence of the Pokemon Go Plus, the Pokeball Plus, the Gotchas, and PoGo Plus clones are making some players as lazy slackers won't are taking the easy way out and not exercising as much.
• The Rival: Some gamers go a bit overboard that the rivalry can be compared to that of the Slytherin and Gryffindor fandoms.
• Rule of Cool: Poketrainers choose teams because they think that Candela, Blanche, or Spark are just cool.
  • If Professor Willow's assistants aren't convincing, the Kanto Legendary Bird mascots, Moltres, Articuno, or Zapdos will do the negotiations.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Trainers wanted the April Fools 2018 sprites to end up in the game for real, were one can use a toggle switch to change the 3D animation into good old sprites.
  • • Some have serious reasons for asking this, since their phones are keeping their heads above water to play. The sprites will use less energy.
  • Trainers also want Professor Willow and his three assistants to appear in the anime, either as cameos, reference in the series, or even be the stars of their own spin off anime series.
  • The PoGo Apple Watch app, some gamers make use of the app's full QOL potential. So they were shock and even sadden that the app went away with its last update.
• "Seriously, Niantic?! 500 pokecoins for a pose?
• Win Back the Crowd: The Pokemon Go Plus's descendants and/or some of the Go Plus updates actually do work and got some of the gamers' approval.
  • Niantic putting more features, fun activities to do, and the QOL that's found in the main series encouraged some to re-download the app and start playing again.

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