About r/PokemonGoFriends
In its own words:
A place for Trainers to exchange Friend Codes, organize remote raids, and build Friendships.
Community guide
r/PokemonGoFriends (#806, about 1.3 million subscribers) — A place for Trainers to exchange Friend Codes, organize remote raids, and build Friendships. A recent sample averaged 489 posts a day (~100% text). Its public rules include: Follow Reddiquette; Post your friend code, not your referral code!; No clickbait posts; No cheating; Discussions about the game belong in /r/pokemongo.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Follow Reddiquette; Post your friend code, not your referral code!; No clickbait posts; No cheating.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Avoid clickbait titles. Common flairs include: Gifts & EXP grind, Hosting Legendary Raid, Hosting Mega Raid, Vivillon exchange. Volume is high—clear titles help.
The community was created on Jun 18, 2018, which makes it 8 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,130 subscribers (+0.09%). Among the 20 communities on our Pokémon list it is number 5 by size. It sits just behind r/cringe (#805) and ahead of r/Breadit (#807) in our ranking.
What sets r/PokemonGoFriends apart
r/PokemonGoFriends is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. r/PokemonGoFriends is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 3.4 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. For its size it is unusually busy: about 370.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 100% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (14:00 UTC) sees about 5.4× as many posts as the quietest (06:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/PokemonGoFriends grew from 1,311,796 to 1,321,251 subscribers (+9.5K, +0.72%). That is about 185 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/PokemonGoFriends this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Rural player from Iran, no stops/gyms nearby, looking for daily gifts for XP!u/Dummy4yM · Nov 5 · text post
- Looking for postcards from the Rezu/stellium1 · Nov 7 · text post
- Pokémon GO Player from the Canary Islands – Looking for Friends Worldwide!u/Toscalero · Nov 5 · text post
- Hosting Saree and Kurta Pikachuu/Narrow_Search · Nov 6 · text post
- I would like some cool friends on Pokemon Gou/Different_Pipe5596 · Nov 3 · text post
- Aloha from Hawaii, 4 trainers need friendsu/Proud-Clock-5534 · Nov 4 · text post
- Gifts for my sick momu/Ok-Lettuce2575 · Nov 7 · text post
- Looking for International Pokémon GO Friends!u/jassy0420 · Nov 4 · text post
- Can anyone invite me to a pikachu saree or kurta raid? Thank you ☺️u/Few_Mushroom223 · Nov 6 · text post
- Please let me send you postcards for Gimmighoul!u/BKmugiwara · Nov 2 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/PokemonGoFriends, from 2020 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Never Lose a Raid Pass Guideu/heinzwithfries · Jan 21, 2021 · text post
- Posting “stop quitting raids last second” everyday will not stop people from doing so. At this point the posts are more annoying than the actual people leavingu/Pocketdookie · Jul 10, 2021 · 1,173 points · 105 comments · text post
- 15 golden berries 15 great throws 0 Zapdosu/KylerLake · Sep 30, 2020 · text post
- FC code sharing websitesu/liehon · Mar 11, 2020 · 121 points · 1 comments · text post
- Looking for friends with “A” usernamesu/kapitankirk · Mar 12, 2026 · text post
- After doing so many giratina raids...i FINALLY got a shiny!! i got it right after seeing a shiny luck post. so here’s some shiny luck!!! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨💕u/f23reese · Oct 12, 2020 · text post
- How to invite up to 10 peopleu/Empty-Performance-99 · Sep 11, 2020 · text post
- How to evolve your MELTAN in 1 HOURu/weaped · Jun 3, 2021 · text post
- If you're gonna unfriend someone after becoming best friends, DO IT A FEW DAYS LATER, NOT IMMEDIATELY WHEN IT HAPPENS! :(u/pokemonmaster1027 · Nov 22, 2021 · 693 points · 196 comments · text post
- To all of my friends in Ukraineu/hottytandoori · Feb 24, 2022 · 690 points · 41 comments · text post
What r/PokemonGoFriends talks about
Looking at the titles of 695 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “giratina”, “friends”, “looking”, “gifts” and “raid”. Other frequent themes are add, mega, daily, send, active and locals. Recurring phrases include “giratina raid”, “mega chandelure”, “send gifts” and “daily gifts”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Gifts & EXP grind (268), Hosting Legendary Raid (251), Hosting Mega Raid (61), Vivillon exchange (43), Other (39), Trade (13).
Activity and best time to post
r/PokemonGoFriends gets about 490 new posts a day. The public archive holds 4,056,827 posts and 13,593,962 comments in total, about 3.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (786 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (309). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 06:00 UTC.
Rules of r/PokemonGoFriends
The moderators of r/PokemonGoFriends list 8 rules. In short:
- Follow Reddiquette
- Post your friend code, not your referral code!
- No clickbait posts
- No cheating
- Discussions about the game belong in /r/pokemongo
- Absolutely no naming and shaming
- Don't ask for raids
- No giveaways
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/PokemonGoFriends and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/PokemonGoFriends?
r/PokemonGoFriends has 1,321,251 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #806 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 9,455 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/PokemonGoFriends?
r/PokemonGoFriends was created on Jun 18, 2018, so it has been around for 8 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 22, 2018.
How active is r/PokemonGoFriends?
Very active: r/PokemonGoFriends gets about 490 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 4,056,827 posts and 13,593,962 comments. In a sample of 695 recent posts we counted 498 different authors.
When is r/PokemonGoFriends most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 06:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/PokemonGoFriends about?
The community describes itself as: “A place for Trainers to exchange Friend Codes, organize remote raids, and build Friendships.” Recent post titles often mention giratina, friends, looking, gifts and raid. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/PokemonGoFriends safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/PokemonGoFriends as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/PokemonGoFriends?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/PokemonGoFriends accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Follow Reddiquette”; “Post your friend code, not your referral code!”; “No clickbait posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/PokemonGoFriends?
Communities with similar topics include r/PokemonTCG (1.4M), r/pokemon (4.9M), r/PokemonScarletViolet (1.4M) and r/pokemongo (5.7M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/PokemonGoFriends.