Difficult Buddy Pokémon to Play With in Pokémon Go

In Pokémon Go, Trainers will certainly (or hopefully so, with respect to some cases that I've discovered) deal with their Buddy Pokémon, day in and day out. One of the tasks they ought to do in doing that is to play with their Buddy Pokémon - more specifically, "pet" or "rub" them as they are present on the Buddy Pokémon. Yet I've also discovered - perhaps others have too - that some Buddy Pokémon make it a little (or a lot more) difficult for this to happen, so I thought I'd bring it up and discuss how that may be so.

Some Pokémon species are rather small by themselves (like Tynamo or Cutiefly), so when they become (are selected as) Buddy Pokémon, they also occupy a small spot on the screen that some Trainers may have trouble swiping to perform the play action. This could be even more so if the game is played on a tiny screen or something to that effect, like multi-windowing with other apps. In either case, the smallness becomes (a part of) the apparent difficulty.

Then, some Pokémon species have rather wildly shaped bodies, like the serpentine Rayquaza or multi-pronged Kyurem, which sometimes can make it hard to find the spot where one is to "pet" or "rub" these Pokémon by their bodily ambiguity. Though older players will likely become familiar with them over time, newer players might not be immediately familiar with them, and thus the difficulty might present itself in this way.

Mega Evolution can also make things a little difficult for the play action. When the Pokémon that can do so are made to evolve, the spot to invoke the play action may be differently located when compared to the regular form of the Pokémon species, which becomes another thing for a Trainer to become familiar with much like the Pokémon with wild shapes as above. It's apparent that body shape can and does factor into the difficulty of the play action.

Any task that involves a Buddy Pokémon in Pokémon Go might present its own difficulty in different ways and situations, Evidently, this can also apply for the "play with buddy" task by the above circumstances, particularly when different species are involved. It's a difficulty that Trainers will recognize and come to address when they deal with the task.

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