Pokémon GO: 10 Reasons To Start Playing Again

8. Generation 2 Has Arrived

The ultimate problem of this or any Pokemon game is what happens when you HAVE caught them all?

Sure, training up ideal teams is a common side project for the more meta-orientated players, but when the series tag-line ceases to have meaning within the game, what’s the point of playing?

No don’t worry about it, they just added a hundred more, we’re cool for the summer.

It helps that the denizens of the Johto region were designed as a natural expansion to the existing 151, but they also help with over-saturation.

Drowzee, Rattata, Weedle and Pidgey were all some people might see on a day out, but now with Sentret, Ledyba, Murkrow and Sentret the bottom of the barrel suddenly feels a little less barren. And yes, getting evolutions for the likes of Scyther and Chansey as well as new heavy-hitters like Tyranitar has expanded the battling pool.

And as we’ll get into later, the timing couldn’t be better.