Pokémon Pokopia has only been out for a few weeks, but the community is already finding new ways to play the game with friends.
In Pokopia’s multiplayer mode, players can invite up to three friends into their world. However, it’s only in Palette Town that the player’s friends can help them build new habitats, buildings, and more.
If you want more freedom to build with friends, players can also start a Cloud Island with friends, which the group can continue to play on even if the host is offline.
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While you can visit other regions in the game, guest players won’t be able to build, meaning players have been coming up with new ways to do activities together on their islands that don’t require building.
Some of these are fairly creative and often require transforming entire areas to set up. But if you’re looking for an excuse to go all out with a new project, or dive into the wonderful world of Pokopia’s online community, this might be your excuse to start.
Here are five types of mini-games Pokopia players are playing with friends online that show off how truly special this game is.
5 Prop Hunt
One Right Here…
Once players befriend Zorua in the Bleak Beach area, Ditto can now learn the Camouflage ability, letting it transform into objects.
For fans unfamiliar with the infamous Call of Duty mode, players are divvied up into two teams: the props and the hunters. It’s up to the props to transform into objects and blend into their environment without raising suspicion. For the hunters, they need to keep a keen eye and correctly identify who is real or fake.
The Pokopia version of this mode was popularized by TikTok user jojojosiah_, who showed how silly this mode can get with friends, especially with the abundance of fellow Pokémon getting involved.
How players are making Prop Hunt work in Pokopia is that, instead of waiting for a timer, it’s whoever makes it to the Poke Center in the middle of town without getting caught wins.
While it may lack the chaos CoD’s Prop Hunt has, it can be a neat way to get your friends to interact with your island, even if they can’t build.
4 Graveller Racing
Super Graveller Ball
Glory to our TikTok doomscrolling, as you can be sure this is going to be a new hit.
Graveller Racing (or Graveller Derby) has players use Graveller’s Rollout ability to roll along a carefully built racetrack.
Naturally, this is bringing out the most chaotic racetrack creators, who are already making some pretty intense maps to race in. These can feature narrow roads to steer along while trying not to fall into lava, roads with deliberate gaps to keep an eye out for, lest you roll to your death, or areas you’ll need to jump over at the last second.
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Reddit user flamin_sheep demonstrated the exciting potential some of these Graveller racetracks could have, while also showing off their impressive drifting skills if you’d like some inspiration to get started.
Rollout is already a pretty underrated ability in my opinion, so it’s great to see players finding new ways to get some extra use out of it. With how much momentum you can build by continuously rolling, I can only hope it’s a matter of time before we see some interesting Sonic-inspired courses.
3 Dragonite Gliding
Can We Get Much Higher?
Dragonite Gliding is one of the more interesting multiplayer modes I’ve seen flying (heh) around social media.
In this mini-game, players will switch to Dragonite’s glide mode, taking to the skies to race each other while flying through tactfully placed circles. Some players have even placed waterfalls in their courses, prompting them to switch to Lapras to ride them to the top to regain that altitude in the air.
If you played that infamous Chocobo mini-game in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, you’ll most likely adapt to this one fairly easily. Thankfully, gliding as a Dragonite is far less stressful and clunky compared to a Chocobo, so you’re sure to have a better time here.
There aren’t a lot of examples of this one out there just yet, given the immense time it can take to build a course for one of these. But I can only imagine how creative players are going to get in the future with some of these courses.
2 Lava Boxing
Two Dittos Enter, One Ditto Leaves.
Leave it to Pokémon fans to find a way to turn a wholesome island-building game into a brutal blood sport.
This fan-made mini-game has become one of the more popular ones out there, which I think says something about us. The rules are fairly simple: players only need to hold down the Rock Smash ability while trying to push their opponent off the ledge into a molten-hot pit of lava.
To get started, you’ll first need to build some kind of arena with lava underneath. You can go an easy route and make a simple bridge, or build your own deathmatch arena. The choice is yours!
Instagram user pokiemmie has made some fun cinematic videos of her fighting her friends in one of these lava arena setups if you’re curious to see the action unfold.
If you’re looking for another reason to build a scary castle amidst the lava-covered lands of Rocky Ridges, then building your very own gladiator ring is sure to be incentive enough.
1 Jump Rope
Rope Your Friends in for Some Fun
Final Fantasy 9 fans probably saw their lives flash before their eyes when Bulbusaur offered to play jump rope with you. Thankfully, Pokopia’s version of jump rope won’t have you throwing your controller across the room in despair.
This is one of the most accessible mini-games you can start playing with friends, almost right from the get-go. Even better, you won’t need to spend an entire week trying to build anything for it. To get started, all you have to do is talk to Bulbausaur and ask to play some jump rope. An invitation will then be sent to your party, and if they accept, they’ll be jumping with you in moments.
Thankfully, if a friend is absolutely cracked at the game, players who have been knocked out can choose to speed up or slow down the rope, keeping the rope skipper from getting too comfortable.
We’re still in the very early stages of Pokémon Pokopia’s multiplayer community, but we’re already seeing the immense creativity of players. While the mini-games are but a neat cherry on top of an already stellar gameplay loop existing in the game, they can serve as a neat side-activity with friends to help break up longer sessions. And if you’re stuck looking for your next project to build, crafting a long obstacle course to Rollout over sounds like a great way to kill some time.
Here’s hoping that Nintendo is keeping an eye on what the community is building here, and will look to add some new features to help streamline the process of building these major projects and helping players find them in game.
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Author: 360 Technology Group
