More Berries too, Please

The other day, I talked about Pokeballs and how we have very few of them in-game. But the same actually applies to berries too. In the main games, there are tons of berries. A LOT of berries. There are berries for almost everything. They can heal Pokemon, they can remove status effects like confusion and sleepiness, they can buff a Pokemon’s next attack AND they can improve the EVs of Pokemon. That’s a huge amount of things. Meanwhile, Pokemon GO only has 6 berries. Or 5 if you don’t count a Poffin as a berry. Surely we could take some ideas from the main games?

We can’t have all of them though.

There’s just too many. And many of these berries would be redundant. After all, there are a lot of things Pokemon GO lacks. We don’t have status conditions or anything like that, so the more common curing berries would be redundant. So would be anything that touches Special Attack and Special Defense, as those don’t exist in Pokemon GO.

Using berries to heal Pokemon seems like a nice idea, but we kinda do already have potions to do that. And we’re already mostly throwing away the basic potions because they’re not worth using. Why ever consider berries or normal potions when hyper and max potions exist?

The EV-reducing friendship berries would also be completely worthless. In Pokemon GO, EVs don’t exist, and we can only increase friendship via the buddy system. And I very much doubt anyone is willing to lower IVs in Pokemon GO. Actually, I say that, some people would love to lower IVs to hit various breakpoints and be better in PvP in Pokemon GO. Especially in the Great League.

And then we have the 18 berries that half damage from super-effective attacks. Those might be useful but only really in a competitive fashion. So they too are a bit… mediocre. That is, at least, until Pokemon in Pokemon GO become capable of holding items. But I don’t think that will happen any time soon.

Maybe just a few

Alternatively, we could use the berries used in Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee. They actually have the same type of berries that Pokemon GO has. Just the Nanab, Pinap and Razz berry. But they also have a gold and silver of each berry. So you can get silver and gold Nanab berries, as well as golden Pinaps and silver Razz berries. The system is already very similar to Pokemon GO, so why not go one step further and add these extra berries? I’m certain people would use them, even if they’re rare or uncommon.

A bronze Nanab at least?

If we can’t have any of these berries, then there’s one last thing we can try. We have golden Razz berries, silver Pinaps but no bronze or other metal. Surely we could have a bronze Nanab that works similarly to the other berries. Being metallic, it would probably stop a Pokemon from attacking, but also have an increased chance of catching said Pokemon, similar to the silver Pinap.

Apparently, there is a model for some new berries and a honey pot already buried in Pokemon GO’s game files, but they’ve been there for so long that I doubt Niantic will ever use them.

Looks like we won’t get any new berries then…