{"id":102244,"date":"2019-10-21T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/get_ready_to_take_on_trainers_from_around_the_world_in_the_pokemon_go_battle_league"},"modified":"2019-10-21T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:30:00","slug":"get-ready-to-take-on-trainers-from-around-the-world-in-the-pokemon-go-battle-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/get-ready-to-take-on-trainers-from-around-the-world-in-the-pokemon-go-battle-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready To Take On Trainers From Around The World In The Pok\u00e9mon GO Battle League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/649102ddd7cee\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/649102ddd7cee\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pokemon GO\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/649102ddd7cee\/pokemon-go.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/649102ddd7cee\/pokemon-go.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon GO\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>As impressive as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> is, one thing that&#8217;s been missing from it for a long time now is online battles. Player verse player matches are currently limited to local play. Fortunately, that&#8217;s all set to change early next year.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;core&#8221; aspect of the Pok\u00e9mon universe will be built upon in the popular augmented mobile game with a new online feature called <strong>GO Battle League<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s the Twitter announcement:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are you a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOBattle?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOBattle<\/a> champion among your group of friends, Trainer? How about compared to the rest of the world? \ud83e\udd14\ud83c\udf0e<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 The time to prove yourself is coming. \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>GO Battle League<br \/>Coming soon in early 2020<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SBCWnDAvak\">https:\/\/t.co\/SBCWnDAvak<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YYfJKC1vgB\">pic.twitter.com\/YYfJKC1vgB<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Pok\u00e9mon GO (@PokemonGoApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokemonGoApp\/status\/1186372660802064390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a post over on the official game site, Niantic says GO Battle League will encourage players to &#8220;get out and explore&#8221; the world.<\/p>\n<p>To gain entry into the league, all you have to do is go for a walk. You can then battle opponents from around the globe through a matchmaking system and rise up in the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Niantic hopes this new feature will make GO battles &#8220;more competitive and accessible&#8221; to trainers around the world. Additional details will be shared in a special developer insights video very soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be trying out this new feature when it launches early next year? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As impressive as Pok\u00e9mon GO is, one thing that&#8217;s been missing from it for a long time now is online battles. Player verse player matches are currently limited to local play. Fortunately, that&#8217;s all set to change early next year. This &#8220;core&#8221; aspect of the Pok\u00e9mon universe will be built upon in the popular augmented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}