Game Master entries for Friendship Levels 0 to 4 stars

Trainers, this is an unusual post for us, but we’ve received a ton of requests and bug reports that trading discounts and damage bonuses are not properly applied in the game, implying that our numbers in Friendship Level Bonuses in Pokémon GO are wrong. We want to address this, as the numbers outlined in the guide are correct but the system is really not always applying them correctly.

We believe that some trainers and the errors come from the game’s server side, as the Friendship feature is still in early stages of development and stability. Judging by the sporadic nature of the reports and the fact that many have reported the system is working as intended, this could be an intermediate bug that was fixed in the meantime.

But alas! Here are the Game Master entries (GM timestamp: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:29:01 GMT, you can see the whole file for yourself here) for the Friendship Level bonuses, and that, dear reader, is the law of this game:

Friend

item_templates {
  template_id: "FRIENDSHIP_LEVEL_0"
  friendship_milestone_settings {
    milestone_xp_reward: 1000
    attack_bonus_percentage: 1
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_IN_POKEDEX
  }
}

Good Friend

item_templates {
  template_id: "FRIENDSHIP_LEVEL_1"
  friendship_milestone_settings {
    min_points_to_reach: 1
    milestone_xp_reward: 3000
    attack_bonus_percentage: 1.03
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SPECIAL_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGIONAL_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: FORM_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: LEGENDARY_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SHINY_NON_POKEDEX
  }
}

Great Friend

item_templates {
  template_id: "FRIENDSHIP_LEVEL_2"
  friendship_milestone_settings {
    min_points_to_reach: 7
    milestone_xp_reward: 10000
    attack_bonus_percentage: 1.05
    raid_ball_bonus: 1
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SPECIAL_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGIONAL_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: FORM_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: LEGENDARY_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SHINY_NON_POKEDEX
    trading_discount: 0.2
  }
}

Ultra Friend

item_templates {
  template_id: "FRIENDSHIP_LEVEL_3"
  friendship_milestone_settings {
    min_points_to_reach: 30
    milestone_xp_reward: 50000
    attack_bonus_percentage: 1.07
    raid_ball_bonus: 2
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SPECIAL_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGIONAL_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: FORM_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: LEGENDARY_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SHINY_NON_POKEDEX
    trading_discount: 0.92
  }
}

Best Friend

item_templates {
  template_id: "FRIENDSHIP_LEVEL_4"
  friendship_milestone_settings {
    min_points_to_reach: 90
    milestone_xp_reward: 100000
    attack_bonus_percentage: 1.1
    raid_ball_bonus: 4
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SPECIAL_IN_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGULAR_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: REGIONAL_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: FORM_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: LEGENDARY_NON_POKEDEX
    unlocked_trading: SHINY_NON_POKEDEX
    trading_discount: 0.96
  }
}