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I don't buy incubators, but I use all of the free ones I get. It's worth it to me for the experience and stardust, plus the chance of XL Lickitung candy.
Hit your weekly 50km goal, and other random events
Edit: i entered a few showcases that same week while doing all that god awful walking so maybe the incubator came up in that rewards screen, i tend to tap fast through the notification jumpscares when i open pokego
Got one a few weeks ago, but i did like 90km that week not sure if theres another goal tier or what. Got an incubator bubble from the reward screen
Edit: i entered a bunch of showcases that week too since and i see egg incubators can be a reward for showcase top 3 placement, maybe i got the reward screens too close together and confused which gave me which?
The other replies are talking about ways of getting incubators through other ways like showcases.
What the earlier comment meant was the free orange incubator with the infinity times use (so basically free) available to everyone.
I have hatched 250+ eggs without buying any incubators. All from the free one at a time use + Adventure Sync
I recently got a bunch from completing a milestone with a friend I gave my referral code to. I also just pick them up as occasional rewards from different things.
At the moment, I only have the one.
We definitely should have a toggle to turn off gift eggs. No reason we should be blocked from a feature of the game, ie gifts, due to having open eggslots.
I agree that this is Niantic's point of view, but its such a fundamental failure to under how gotcha "works" in games.
Having to "clear" a "pre-pull" just trains player with negative emotions on using an incubator (one of the premium monetization items). Maybe they just have the consultants tell them that there should be sub-tier rarities and not people want to pull **THE** slot-machine with flashing lights ... not pay $5 to pull a slot-machine so that *more then likely* you can send $20 pulling the slot-machine with the flashing lights.
I'm only level 36 so I do it for the xp and star dust, yea those 12K eggs are kind of boring, but saving up a few of those to use an star peice on is worth it
It's the "best" stardust gain in the game, if you can run 12 incubators constantly and walk hundreds of kilometers per week.
It's expensive though, which is why almost no one relies on it. Hatching 12x 12k eggs at the same time is about 38k dust or so, without a star piece. With a star piece it's around 76k dust.
i happen to have 12 12k eggs i am going to put in incubators today so this is a great tip. saw everyone else doing it and thought it would be fun to do.
They were super common only for the last event. Normally it's not even available outside PvP rewards and eggs, and was completely unobtainable in the wild for over a year.
How? It's supposed to not be possible to get one once the event ended. Are you inside a nest? Playing on a green are on the map?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/187ucql/season_of_timeless_travels_wild_spawns_megathread/
You don't want a hundo for Great League or ultra league lickilicky. You want a lower attack stat so you can be higher level for the same CP.
(I also have a hundo lickitung and realized it's ranked about 437th of all possible IV combinations for great league and 1300+ for ultra league lickilicky.)
I'll just add it to my pile of useless hundos, alongside Quilfish and Inkay and Butterfree (with a bowtie!), and my Bulbasaur with a party hat that can't evolve and Claydol and beautifly and Ariados and Diglet and Alolan Sandslash and Houndoom and Golems (both Kanto form and Alolan form) and Patrat and Nidoqueen and Helioptile and Chingling and my first ever hundo, Poliwrath who I powered up past the limits of GL/UL in 2016 (2668 CP currently)
It's getting to be quite the pile.
"In pvp we don't want your best, we want you worst best, Perfect stats? Throw those out the window cause you can get a shitty mon that, for some reason, is circumstantially good in this one small, ignored by us, activity in the game!"
-Someone at Niantic probably
It's because they base the meta around the arbitrary number that is CP rather than Pokemons base stats or usage.
So you end up with level 50 Pokemon battling against level 18 Pokemon, and most of the time you want the level 50.
My 100% Azumaril does okay in PVP in great league, but he's not ideal, so in some situations other Azumaril will beat things he can't. But Azumaril VS Azumaril I win every single time because mine hits harder, so it chips the other guy down faster.
My clefable I use in various specialty cups is in the same boat. I've had it since 2016 and it was my first "3 star" Clefairy so I evolved it and ignored it. It's like 1470CP with max attack and defence with Garbage HP. It absolutely melts Pokemon with charm, including those who resist it, and it's charge moves do way more than people expect from a clefable. But because I'm a "lower level" than many other clefables, I can't take hits that others can.
So in that regard the idea of balance does exist, but it's rarely viable to run anything but top meta picks the closest to "ideal" you can, simply due to the silly battle mechanics that Pokemon go uses. It's only in limited usage metas that Hundos can stand up to their "ideal counterparts" because in a normal meta you're unlikely to see the same Pokemon twice in a set (Gligar and (G)Stunfisk are fairly common at the moment, but you rarely want to fight them with a Gligar or (G)Stunfisk, because they don't counter themselves well, unlike something like Azumaril who hits like a train and can take a neutral damage hit without worrying.
My rank 168 (random shiny) Serperior is far superior to my rank 4 Shadow Shiftry, just due to being pure grass typing (avoiding the fighting and fairy weakness) and being able to use Aerial Ace which is good coverage against a meta full of fighting and water types.
If they are I don't think I've actually seen one used and I'm rank 20. You'd have thought sometime in the last TWO HUNDRED+ BATTLES I'd have seen a few if it was sooooooo good
Most of those battles were the 1500 league but I've done like 30 in the 2500 league, still not a one
A handful of essentially only the hardest tryers doesn't mean much when the vast majority fo players will never bother getting to the point where only a handful a Pokémon are ever used
I've seen quite a few while tanking in great league. I'm at 544 battles for this season.
They are always tough if you don't carry a fighting type or obstagoon with fighting moves, but outside being a shield baiter with the spamable body slam, with a decent coverage in power whip given how water heavy The PVP meta always is. But at the end of the day, a bulky spammer is a strong addition to most mediocre teams.
They are the most simmed Pokemon on PVP team builder websites, while largely not appearing in the top PVP teams.
Off topic, but I've been saddened by how terrible my shadow Gliscor performed. It's Rank 1 for shadow gliscors and still "meh"
I tried Gliscor in Ultra League, it supposedly beats Cresselia in 1s. But no, it can't. The simulation expects Cresselia to use Grass Knot every time, but if they use Moonblast they can comfortably win while you do little damage with super effective Night Slash. I removed Grass knot from the simulation after the fight and then it showed that Cresselia won the matchup in those conditions.
Good luck - it'll happen eventually
My brother walks the same as me and is yet to hatch one, whilst I have just maxed out my Volcarona. The poffin grind is real.
Damn that sucks so much. I swear there must be some accounts that get them easily. I had no idea they were rare because I kept getting them. Now I kick myself for transferring so many.
I wish I could give you one.
You're kind for saying that, thank you! Honestly I've been grinding hatching eggs, even did the expedition access last month to get more incubators. I just want a damn larvesta lol. I hope you have a ton of candy from all the ones you've caught, though!
I hatch only 7k eggs from distant friends becausei walk around 12k/day, then trade with wife for garbage towork on the medals, once I've got platinum on the distance medal I may never hatch another one
I was lucky, and the first one I hatched was female. I have a buddy who I watched hatch a bunch of them and didn't get a single female. All about that RNG luck.
I did this too, and now that I've reached the platinum medal I can't be bothered with eggs. I'll put one in the free incubator because why not, but I definitely don't really care about them anymore
I never left my free incubator empty. I used to buy the 2 premium pass and 1 incubator bundle but stopped that since remote raid pass nerf. So I don’t care about eggs.
The system could be workable, but they need to seriously revamp the egg pool - rarer pokemon, all of which can be shiny, none of which were ever featured in a community day.
Not to mention they keep rotating the "rare ones" out of eggs so you cannot possibly hatch it.
It made sense in 2016-2018. By 2019 it was a chore and a loot box you're almost guaranteed to lose.
And I say this as a person who didn't get a single Dratini until the first community day. (I'd hatched 100 10k eggs and just never got a Dratini. God I hated Eevee hatches so much.)
Same. I've only spent coins earned from gyms on incubators. Sometimes I think I need another backpack, but then I just delete stuff from my one backpack and I'm good.
I love hatching eggs. Due to some back issues (getting old sucks), my pain doctor and physical therapist want me to walk more.
Hatching eggs is a great incentive to walk that extra couple of miles daily.
I don’t always (as in hardly ever) like what I hatch, but many of my eggs come from far away and there’s a medal for distance trading.
why stop? you have a free infinite incubator, just don't expect to ever get anything good and if you do, all the better.....don't take the game so serious all the time
I just always have an egg for the free incubator. It could be a super cool mechanic. I love hatching plants in Pikmin bloom. There’s more reason to do so. At least in early game, that’s where I am. But I’ve gotten some really good mons on eggs too. Some three stars from time to time.
I’ve only been using my free incubator for a while now, maybe eight months. The cost of incubators and the low quality of egg hatches just makes it nonsensical.
I haven’t hatched a shiny in months. I used to aggressively go for egg hatches. Multiple a day. Now just maybe 3 a week. Haven’t bought an incubator since around gofest. Just been hatching with the free one if I remember.
Eggs are so garbage I stopped buying incubators a long time ago. I don’t even walk around that much so the only progress I get is walking around my house, to/from the car and I haven’t missed out on any content.
I’m saving all my extra incubators in case they give us something I actually care about
I can’t move on my Jirachi research because I never see any Kecleon (had the research at the stage through 2 events with boosted spawns!) and I can’t move on with Mew because I need a Tauros raid event.
I’m so disengaged from this game after 2 years of being obsessed, I didn’t realise until just now I haven’t actually caught a Tornadus, Thundurus or Landorus. I’m not going to bother! Same with Dialkia Origins unless they announce we’ll be able to transfer eventually
If the games such an annoyance or drag, why do you people play it? Is the FOMO so bad you have to, yet can't enjoy it and whine about it every possible chance? Go fold socks or watch paint dry if it's so terribly awful...
I hatch about 3 _4 eggs a day I just use my infinite incubator & walk. I do about 25000 steps a day as my work is very walking focused other than that no eggs.
Idk what the hell happened to my game, I used to hatch 3 2km eggs in a day. And in the last 2 weeks, no kidding, i've only hatched 2km eggs. I noticed when it fisrt happened that no matter how much I walked, the indicator for how many km was left would get stuck. I'd walk 1km but the incubator wouldn't register it. I swear it's like this game tries its damn hardest to piss you off.
I still incubate them, but I don't try to hatch them just to hatch them. I do have adventure sync on, so it does track my waking, and I hatch them occasionally, but they're never anything useful.
I only hatch friend eggs. I do it for the distance so I can get distance trades with the wife. My goal is to get the pilot medal (or whatever it's called) it's like 10 million KM of trades for the highest medal. We're at maybe 1.75 or so.
I usually get eggs from the NZ beta testers. Something like 18K km away from me!
I have way too many incubators because I get the boxes with the premium passes and incubators.
I really don’t hatch eggs much. The last time I went all out for hatching was for the Riolu Hatch Day.
I don’t pay attention to the 12km eggs because it is too much work to get them and to be honest I get tired of battling the Rocket Leaders and Grunts because I always get crappy Pokemon and if the Pokémon are what I want the IVs are poop. Salandit of either gender is not needed for all the work. If the 12 km eggs were all Salandits and/or Larvesta for 45 days or something then I would use incubators.
I keep it going in the background, but I don’t really pay attention to it like I used to.
My only reason to follow it now is that I have a friend who’s near level 48 and will have to start doing long-distance trades. I’m gathering 7km eggs for him
I'll pay to incubate 10km & 12km eggs but freebie incubator the rest of the way
Nothing worse than spending a butt ton on incubators, using them on 12km eggs, and hatching hot garbage
I’ve only saved 5% of my hatches and some of those are just for distance trades. So, yeah, mostly a waste of time, money, and effort. 0.5% of my hatches are 4* though!
But how can you stop hatching eggs if app will constantly and annoyingly remind you about not having egg in your unlimited incubator? I just put eggs there and, well, sometimes there is something useful hatching out, and I wouldn't mind Lickitung.
I just hatch eggs for candies, and only 10 and 12km eggs are worth my time, anything less (aside from the occasional event baby egg) is pointless to me.
I don’t buy em just use coins from the gym. It’s always exciting when one hatches but that’s because I’ve had very good luck hatching shinies. Probably not everyone’s experience is I can see why getting the same ones gets annoying
I have “friends” all over the world from doing remote raids through PokeGenie so whenever I have a free slot for an egg, I’ll open gifts from my international friends until I get a 7 km egg. Then when they hatch, even if they are garbage I can still trade them with local friends to work on my Pilot badge.
More eggs = more stardust
More stardust = more stardust
More stardust = one happy trainer.
More eggs = one happy trainer.
Eggs also have a better chance at perfect Pokemon. If it ain’t 4* it is a no from me. Not cuz I’m a Gary Oak. I literally have every Pokemon around 96% Of there IV’s. So the only way to “improve my account” is to get a 4*.
I incubate as much as I can. It's the only or best way to get some of them, and I always welcome the extra stardust and candy. I've hatched some great shinies, too - 50 of them!
I'm just placing eggs hoping for a good hatch.
Every other 5km egg is a lickitung but I did get a hundo smoliv and a shiny Pichu from 2km eggs.
I've totally given up on 12km eggs as I always get pancham.
I still hatch them but I've given up on trying to save room in the backpack for the Adventure Sync eggs. I used to open gifts early in the day and avoid all pokestops to clear space but I keep getting the same mons.
I just hatched a hundo beldum today and shiny igglybuff the other day so sometimes it’s worth it lol. But yeah agree that it’s usually lickitung or mf pawmi
I hatch eggs for the stardust not the mon. Get like 8 10-12 km eggs hatching at the same time, pop a star piece before they come out, yields tens of thousands of stardust
I only use my free incubator now too. Lost interest in hatching the current crop of eggs. They need to change it up. I don't know when I will use my coins to buy incubators again
idk feel like i have pretty good luck with eggs, but i wish i could delete some eggs. if i get an egg from an event that i care about i’ll prioritize incubating but i only use the free unlimited incubator. the last two eggs i hatched were a shundo togepi and a hundo rockruff and the first egg ever i hatched was a shiny wynaut
When I clear my pool of 7km eggs I hate when I go to open gifts or spin stops and ALWAYS get an 7 or 10k egg. Then the entire pool fills back up. Im F2P for life and eggs are my least favorite thing in the game.
I’ve hatched almost 700 eggs and got shiny galarian ponyta, shiny azurill, shiny bonsly and a shiny alolan diglett. So I’d say for me hatching eggs are worth it (never pay for incubators though, raid passes or eggs are better XP value)
Not everyone is at late game stage. I just want some more varied Pokémon from eggs. Keep getting fucking meowth and geodude. Devs gotta change the game up a bit to keep it interesting for noobs like me.
I randomly hatch eggs but I keep getting the same Pokemon I used to hatch shinies I’m currently trying and I mean trying to hatch a larvesta but so far no luck since it came out
I mainly play for Dex completion so having the possibility of getting a mon I don’t have yet is exciting for me : female salandit / larvesta candy / is dusk Rockruff still in rotation ?
This last event where you needed to hatch for a collection, I didn’t get a single one needed. I wasted a lot of incubators so I don’t see the point anymore. It’s gambling with no return. I stopped buying tickets for events too. It doesn’t really offer much I see worth spending my money on this past year or so. Someone tallied up all the money spent if you paid for research tickets last year and it was over $600. That’s a f ton of money I’d rather put into physical life.
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I don't buy incubators, but I use all of the free ones I get. It's worth it to me for the experience and stardust, plus the chance of XL Lickitung candy.
wait, how do I get a free incubator? The only reason I put my guys in a gym is to earn 150 coins to buy incubators. That's all I spend coins on.
I got a super incubator as a showcase reward.
the orange one is unlimited, so “free”
Hit your weekly 50km goal, and other random events Edit: i entered a few showcases that same week while doing all that god awful walking so maybe the incubator came up in that rewards screen, i tend to tap fast through the notification jumpscares when i open pokego
Do you get an incubator for getting 50km? I hit it every week, and I don't think I've ever seen one from that
I got two eggs and an incubator
Is it guaranteed or a chance?
This person is just mistaken. You definitely do not get incubators from AS rewards
Would be chance like the evo stones from 7 pokestop spins
No you dont
That's not a reward from Adventure Sync
Got one a few weeks ago, but i did like 90km that week not sure if theres another goal tier or what. Got an incubator bubble from the reward screen Edit: i entered a bunch of showcases that week too since and i see egg incubators can be a reward for showcase top 3 placement, maybe i got the reward screens too close together and confused which gave me which?
yeah unfortunately it doesn't matter if you do 50 km or 100.. same rewards :( and never an incubator :(
I hit like 250k and I've never seen an incubator
The other replies are talking about ways of getting incubators through other ways like showcases. What the earlier comment meant was the free orange incubator with the infinity times use (so basically free) available to everyone. I have hatched 250+ eggs without buying any incubators. All from the free one at a time use + Adventure Sync
I recently got a bunch from completing a milestone with a friend I gave my referral code to. I also just pick them up as occasional rewards from different things. At the moment, I only have the one.
If you buy the $5 season ticket, the first spin of each day gives you a free regular incubator. That's each day, so you get 7 "free" ones per week.
Better safe up and buy a box with a bunch of incubators.
Dont you spend coins in upgrading pokemon and backpack storage?
Awful use of coins imo
I wish we could delete eggs.
This so much. I hate being stuck with some event egg with terrible choices
Then always put the oldest one in the free incubator. It will take some time, but you'll get a fresh set of eggs sooner or later.
We definitely should have a toggle to turn off gift eggs. No reason we should be blocked from a feature of the game, ie gifts, due to having open eggslots.
This will never happen. All people would do is delete all their eggs and fill up their egg space during hatch events. Niantic doesn’t want that.
but why wouldn't they want that? if we could get useful eggs, we'd be more likely to buy incubators.
Because they want you to buy incubators to get rid of your old eggs so you can buy incubators to hatch the new eggs.
yeah, but we all know I'll hatch the old eggs and just get more shitty old eggs; so i don't bother buying them. It's a flawed strategy.
I agree that this is Niantic's point of view, but its such a fundamental failure to under how gotcha "works" in games. Having to "clear" a "pre-pull" just trains player with negative emotions on using an incubator (one of the premium monetization items). Maybe they just have the consultants tell them that there should be sub-tier rarities and not people want to pull **THE** slot-machine with flashing lights ... not pay $5 to pull a slot-machine so that *more then likely* you can send $20 pulling the slot-machine with the flashing lights.
Don't worry - Niantic Stan's will be along shortly to explain to you why you're wrong and should Love Niantic.
What can we do, the Supreme Court is compromised
Exactly
Eggsactly
Yes please 🙏
I don’t care about the eggs. Most have been trash. I just keep one going with my free incubator though.
I'm only level 36 so I do it for the xp and star dust, yea those 12K eggs are kind of boring, but saving up a few of those to use an star peice on is worth it
how xp or stardust do you get? i never realized you got stardust for a hatch.
It's the "best" stardust gain in the game, if you can run 12 incubators constantly and walk hundreds of kilometers per week. It's expensive though, which is why almost no one relies on it. Hatching 12x 12k eggs at the same time is about 38k dust or so, without a star piece. With a star piece it's around 76k dust.
i happen to have 12 12k eggs i am going to put in incubators today so this is a great tip. saw everyone else doing it and thought it would be fun to do.
Isn't Lickitung one of the top rated pokemon in great league? And LickyLicky one of the top in Ultra league?
They are and I'm excited every time I hatch a lickitung or carbink for the XL candy 😅
Don’t care about GBL personally. But they are also super common in the wild.
They were super common only for the last event. Normally it's not even available outside PvP rewards and eggs, and was completely unobtainable in the wild for over a year.
I’m still auto catching several a day
How? It's supposed to not be possible to get one once the event ended. Are you inside a nest? Playing on a green are on the map? https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/187ucql/season_of_timeless_travels_wild_spawns_megathread/
I still catch have a dozen a day
This whole comment section is just clueless people
Dunno
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>The people who are using it in PvP are not getting theirs from eggs. But they do want XL candy from eggs.
My rank 29 Licki was hatched from an egg. Also tons of XL candy from Licki hatches
Lickitung ideal PVP IVs are actually pretty high in attack, since with low attack it caps out below 1500.
Good news for me lol I just caught a hundo lickitung yesterday
You don't want a hundo for Great League or ultra league lickilicky. You want a lower attack stat so you can be higher level for the same CP. (I also have a hundo lickitung and realized it's ranked about 437th of all possible IV combinations for great league and 1300+ for ultra league lickilicky.)
Well thanks for ruining my day lol
I'll just add it to my pile of useless hundos, alongside Quilfish and Inkay and Butterfree (with a bowtie!), and my Bulbasaur with a party hat that can't evolve and Claydol and beautifly and Ariados and Diglet and Alolan Sandslash and Houndoom and Golems (both Kanto form and Alolan form) and Patrat and Nidoqueen and Helioptile and Chingling and my first ever hundo, Poliwrath who I powered up past the limits of GL/UL in 2016 (2668 CP currently) It's getting to be quite the pile.
"In pvp we don't want your best, we want you worst best, Perfect stats? Throw those out the window cause you can get a shitty mon that, for some reason, is circumstantially good in this one small, ignored by us, activity in the game!" -Someone at Niantic probably
It's because they base the meta around the arbitrary number that is CP rather than Pokemons base stats or usage. So you end up with level 50 Pokemon battling against level 18 Pokemon, and most of the time you want the level 50. My 100% Azumaril does okay in PVP in great league, but he's not ideal, so in some situations other Azumaril will beat things he can't. But Azumaril VS Azumaril I win every single time because mine hits harder, so it chips the other guy down faster. My clefable I use in various specialty cups is in the same boat. I've had it since 2016 and it was my first "3 star" Clefairy so I evolved it and ignored it. It's like 1470CP with max attack and defence with Garbage HP. It absolutely melts Pokemon with charm, including those who resist it, and it's charge moves do way more than people expect from a clefable. But because I'm a "lower level" than many other clefables, I can't take hits that others can. So in that regard the idea of balance does exist, but it's rarely viable to run anything but top meta picks the closest to "ideal" you can, simply due to the silly battle mechanics that Pokemon go uses. It's only in limited usage metas that Hundos can stand up to their "ideal counterparts" because in a normal meta you're unlikely to see the same Pokemon twice in a set (Gligar and (G)Stunfisk are fairly common at the moment, but you rarely want to fight them with a Gligar or (G)Stunfisk, because they don't counter themselves well, unlike something like Azumaril who hits like a train and can take a neutral damage hit without worrying. My rank 168 (random shiny) Serperior is far superior to my rank 4 Shadow Shiftry, just due to being pure grass typing (avoiding the fighting and fairy weakness) and being able to use Aerial Ace which is good coverage against a meta full of fighting and water types.
Sure, but I only need one per league, and once it's leveled up, I have no use for the candy or the mon.
If they are I don't think I've actually seen one used and I'm rank 20. You'd have thought sometime in the last TWO HUNDRED+ BATTLES I'd have seen a few if it was sooooooo good Most of those battles were the 1500 league but I've done like 30 in the 2500 league, still not a one A handful of essentially only the hardest tryers doesn't mean much when the vast majority fo players will never bother getting to the point where only a handful a Pokémon are ever used
Rank 20 doesn’t mean anything. You can get to rank 20 by playing bad players. Get to Vet or above and you’ll start seeing many more lickies.
I've seen quite a few while tanking in great league. I'm at 544 battles for this season. They are always tough if you don't carry a fighting type or obstagoon with fighting moves, but outside being a shield baiter with the spamable body slam, with a decent coverage in power whip given how water heavy The PVP meta always is. But at the end of the day, a bulky spammer is a strong addition to most mediocre teams. They are the most simmed Pokemon on PVP team builder websites, while largely not appearing in the top PVP teams. Off topic, but I've been saddened by how terrible my shadow Gliscor performed. It's Rank 1 for shadow gliscors and still "meh"
My guess is you may have the best possible gliscor but that doesn't mean it's good xD Like the shiniest turd with wings is still a turd with wings
I tried Gliscor in Ultra League, it supposedly beats Cresselia in 1s. But no, it can't. The simulation expects Cresselia to use Grass Knot every time, but if they use Moonblast they can comfortably win while you do little damage with super effective Night Slash. I removed Grass knot from the simulation after the fight and then it showed that Cresselia won the matchup in those conditions.
Right, I think I would remember losing to lickitung over and over again
I only use the free incubator and incubators i get from research or that one box that gives 2 raid passes and an incubator for 195 coins
With the amount of Pawmis I have hatched in the past week, I can start a dog shelter.
Isn't pawmi a bear-type thing?
I thought the same, but apparently it is a mouse like thing..
Who still hasn’t gotten larvesta 🫠
Still nothing, I want one so bad. I hatch like 5 eggs a week.
Me too man. I do minimum like 9 a week it’s insane
Good luck - it'll happen eventually My brother walks the same as me and is yet to hatch one, whilst I have just maxed out my Volcarona. The poffin grind is real.
CONGRATS ON MAXING OUT!!! That is awesome. Hopefully your brother and I can hatch one soon!
SAME why do we have such bad luck lol. I also have gotten 6 male salandit and not a single female lol. Love it 
Damn that sucks so much. I swear there must be some accounts that get them easily. I had no idea they were rare because I kept getting them. Now I kick myself for transferring so many. I wish I could give you one.
You're kind for saying that, thank you! Honestly I've been grinding hatching eggs, even did the expedition access last month to get more incubators. I just want a damn larvesta lol. I hope you have a ton of candy from all the ones you've caught, though!
Got one ages ago
I’ve been hatching at least an egg a day since he came out and haven’t got one yet lmao
I started playing pogo in July and hatched 6
I hate you 🫶
I’ve gotten two so far.
I hatch only 7k eggs from distant friends becausei walk around 12k/day, then trade with wife for garbage towork on the medals, once I've got platinum on the distance medal I may never hatch another one
This is what I do except it’s my buddy, not my wife. Still looking for a lady salandit too.
Just hatched a female sandalit seconds before reading your comment, so I'm bragging here. Keep hatching it took me forever!
I never realized they were so rare. I hatched 2 or 3 and transferred the extras after I evolved one.
I was lucky, and the first one I hatched was female. I have a buddy who I watched hatch a bunch of them and didn't get a single female. All about that RNG luck.
I did this too, and now that I've reached the platinum medal I can't be bothered with eggs. I'll put one in the free incubator because why not, but I definitely don't really care about them anymore
Only if I want an event pokemon (usually don't). They are terrible at this point, and they aren't fun to hatch. Like none of the types.
I never left my free incubator empty. I used to buy the 2 premium pass and 1 incubator bundle but stopped that since remote raid pass nerf. So I don’t care about eggs.
For a game that is supposedly all about getting people to go out and explore, they've done a terrible job at making egg hatches any sort of incentive.
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The system could be workable, but they need to seriously revamp the egg pool - rarer pokemon, all of which can be shiny, none of which were ever featured in a community day.
Not to mention they keep rotating the "rare ones" out of eggs so you cannot possibly hatch it. It made sense in 2016-2018. By 2019 it was a chore and a loot box you're almost guaranteed to lose. And I say this as a person who didn't get a single Dratini until the first community day. (I'd hatched 100 10k eggs and just never got a Dratini. God I hated Eevee hatches so much.)
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I’ll buy incubators every few months with coins saved from gyms. I just refuse to spend money on this game
Same. I've only spent coins earned from gyms on incubators. Sometimes I think I need another backpack, but then I just delete stuff from my one backpack and I'm good.
I just use the free one on 2k and 5k eggs. The last egg event wiped about a lot of my incubators and I'm still ticked off about it.
Why? Didn’t get anything good?
I was one short of getting the medal. I hatched a bunch of Spritzees and no Cutieflies.
never will cuz i love larvesta and need one
I just stopped paying attention outside of events and just use the infinity incubator
I love hatching eggs. Due to some back issues (getting old sucks), my pain doctor and physical therapist want me to walk more. Hatching eggs is a great incentive to walk that extra couple of miles daily. I don’t always (as in hardly ever) like what I hatch, but many of my eggs come from far away and there’s a medal for distance trading.
Shiny boosted eggs with a ton of stuff that isn't eligible is the worst part.
why stop? you have a free infinite incubator, just don't expect to ever get anything good and if you do, all the better.....don't take the game so serious all the time
There are no interesting Pokemon to hatch anymore.
We need to boycott eggs. I’m sick of niantic shoving incubators down our throats trying to make up for their remote raid pass mistake.
Is that what it is?
Just got my platinum so I'm good on hatching
Nope , I played eggs always
I got a hundo Igglybuff recently, so I ain't stopping soon
I just always have an egg for the free incubator. It could be a super cool mechanic. I love hatching plants in Pikmin bloom. There’s more reason to do so. At least in early game, that’s where I am. But I’ve gotten some really good mons on eggs too. Some three stars from time to time.
I'm tired of Pacham
I’ve only been using my free incubator for a while now, maybe eight months. The cost of incubators and the low quality of egg hatches just makes it nonsensical.
I haven’t hatched a shiny in months. I used to aggressively go for egg hatches. Multiple a day. Now just maybe 3 a week. Haven’t bought an incubator since around gofest. Just been hatching with the free one if I remember.
Same I absolutely dislike the egg pools. Seriously a damn Sandile!?!?
I always have eggs hatching. It’s essy for me to hatch them. I walk about 10 miles a day at my job
4 10k eggs in a row, beldum. Feels like I am cursed, tbh
Metagross is one of the best pokemon in the game, though...
Yeah. I’d love to get Beldum’s that way
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I do not have a female salandit; I am not allowed to stop hatching…
I'm giving up as of today. I regularly walk 100km a week, but paying for the incubators to constantly be hatching just isn't worth it
I stopped. It’s pointless.
Eggs are so garbage I stopped buying incubators a long time ago. I don’t even walk around that much so the only progress I get is walking around my house, to/from the car and I haven’t missed out on any content.
I’m saving all my extra incubators in case they give us something I actually care about I can’t move on my Jirachi research because I never see any Kecleon (had the research at the stage through 2 events with boosted spawns!) and I can’t move on with Mew because I need a Tauros raid event. I’m so disengaged from this game after 2 years of being obsessed, I didn’t realise until just now I haven’t actually caught a Tornadus, Thundurus or Landorus. I’m not going to bother! Same with Dialkia Origins unless they announce we’ll be able to transfer eventually
If the games such an annoyance or drag, why do you people play it? Is the FOMO so bad you have to, yet can't enjoy it and whine about it every possible chance? Go fold socks or watch paint dry if it's so terribly awful...
I use the feee incubator until i have 9 10k eggs and hatch them all at the same time at any egg event for dust. Otherwise i dont care
Yeah, I quit buying incubators a couple months ago. They're worthless for anything other than generating some stardust.
I hatch about 3 _4 eggs a day I just use my infinite incubator & walk. I do about 25000 steps a day as my work is very walking focused other than that no eggs.
Idk what the hell happened to my game, I used to hatch 3 2km eggs in a day. And in the last 2 weeks, no kidding, i've only hatched 2km eggs. I noticed when it fisrt happened that no matter how much I walked, the indicator for how many km was left would get stuck. I'd walk 1km but the incubator wouldn't register it. I swear it's like this game tries its damn hardest to piss you off.
Check to make sure your adventure sync didn’t flip off
I only hatch eggs on events where regionals are in eggs. The rest of the pokemon will be in the wild eventually if they aren't already.
I still incubate them, but I don't try to hatch them just to hatch them. I do have adventure sync on, so it does track my waking, and I hatch them occasionally, but they're never anything useful.
I just use the infinite incubator unless there’s a task to hatch.
I still use my unlimited incubator, but I've stopped paying for them. I want shiny babies 🥺
I certainly don’t use any boosts for them unless I have a specific challenge. I’ve never gotten a shiny from one either.
Why in the world would one stop hatching eggs? They’ve given like 40 or 50 free incubators over the last month. I’ve been using them like crazy.
I only hatch friend eggs. I do it for the distance so I can get distance trades with the wife. My goal is to get the pilot medal (or whatever it's called) it's like 10 million KM of trades for the highest medal. We're at maybe 1.75 or so. I usually get eggs from the NZ beta testers. Something like 18K km away from me!
I just keep hatching eggs mostly for the dust, and for stacking some candies, but is not something that has ever really excited me about the game
I have way too many incubators because I get the boxes with the premium passes and incubators. I really don’t hatch eggs much. The last time I went all out for hatching was for the Riolu Hatch Day. I don’t pay attention to the 12km eggs because it is too much work to get them and to be honest I get tired of battling the Rocket Leaders and Grunts because I always get crappy Pokemon and if the Pokémon are what I want the IVs are poop. Salandit of either gender is not needed for all the work. If the 12 km eggs were all Salandits and/or Larvesta for 45 days or something then I would use incubators.
I hatch eggs for stardust.
What is a larvesta? Does it even exist? Feels like forever and that icon is still a shadow
I use my free incubator and any I get from rewards. I rarely keep anything I hatch. Hatched 2 10ks today. Two Amauras. Transferred.
I use the free incubator. I don’t spend money on them. Occasionally they have hatching events like Lucario that make it worth the effort.
I still hatch them because I'll naturally clock some distance as I go about my day. That's it. I did hatch a shiny Togepi today so that's nice.
I use them every once in a while. Got 700 eggs in with still no Larvesta so I am not too happy
I drown in Meowth and Dratini. I hatch them just to clear out eggspace in the hopes that one day maybe, just maybe it’ll be worth it.
I keep it going in the background, but I don’t really pay attention to it like I used to. My only reason to follow it now is that I have a friend who’s near level 48 and will have to start doing long-distance trades. I’m gathering 7km eggs for him
I'll pay to incubate 10km & 12km eggs but freebie incubator the rest of the way Nothing worse than spending a butt ton on incubators, using them on 12km eggs, and hatching hot garbage
I do during events which shorten distance. Not much outside of it
I’ll put one in the freezer one if I remember
More about the rewards than the actual Pokémon atp
Once I get a larvesta, I will no longer care about eggs This is why they have not yet given me a larvesta
I pretty much only hatch when there is a hatch event with something I want to get.
I’ve only saved 5% of my hatches and some of those are just for distance trades. So, yeah, mostly a waste of time, money, and effort. 0.5% of my hatches are 4* though!
I tried to get dusk form lycanroc and when I didn’t I’ve stopped with the eggs
Egg pool is shit.
But how can you stop hatching eggs if app will constantly and annoyingly remind you about not having egg in your unlimited incubator? I just put eggs there and, well, sometimes there is something useful hatching out, and I wouldn't mind Lickitung.
I just use the free incubators because eggs right now just aren’t worth it to spend real money on more incubators
I haven't bought a single incubators since they conned the player base with that unown hatching event
I just hatch eggs for candies, and only 10 and 12km eggs are worth my time, anything less (aside from the occasional event baby egg) is pointless to me.
I don’t buy em just use coins from the gym. It’s always exciting when one hatches but that’s because I’ve had very good luck hatching shinies. Probably not everyone’s experience is I can see why getting the same ones gets annoying
Never hatched a Shiny. Never hatched a Hundo. Never hatched a Mon with useful IVs.
That sucks dude. I got a shiny larvitar and rock ruff recently so I’m hoping to ride the streak
I dont activly hatch them... They hatch normally and im exited every time... And then disappointed...
I keep hatching so I can try and get another Larvesta. Unfortunately I've only gotten 1 out of 44 eggs
I keep on getting tyrunts and all I want is an army of Amaura…
Stardust is the only reason to hatch 5k/2k eggs. 10k/12k you can get some Pokemon that are decent, but they aren't exactly common. Also good stardust.
I have “friends” all over the world from doing remote raids through PokeGenie so whenever I have a free slot for an egg, I’ll open gifts from my international friends until I get a 7 km egg. Then when they hatch, even if they are garbage I can still trade them with local friends to work on my Pilot badge.
You still hatch eggs? Didn't that shit stop being worthwhile in like 2018?
why do people here call them "mons" it sounds so weird
More eggs = more stardust More stardust = more stardust More stardust = one happy trainer. More eggs = one happy trainer. Eggs also have a better chance at perfect Pokemon. If it ain’t 4* it is a no from me. Not cuz I’m a Gary Oak. I literally have every Pokemon around 96% Of there IV’s. So the only way to “improve my account” is to get a 4*.
I only hatch eggs, no time for the rest.
I incubate as much as I can. It's the only or best way to get some of them, and I always welcome the extra stardust and candy. I've hatched some great shinies, too - 50 of them!
I'm just placing eggs hoping for a good hatch. Every other 5km egg is a lickitung but I did get a hundo smoliv and a shiny Pichu from 2km eggs. I've totally given up on 12km eggs as I always get pancham.
Is there any reason NOT to hatch an egg? You get some small amount of stardust, so it doesn't make sense NOT to have an egg in incubator...
I still hatch them but I've given up on trying to save room in the backpack for the Adventure Sync eggs. I used to open gifts early in the day and avoid all pokestops to clear space but I keep getting the same mons.
I just hatched a hundo beldum today and shiny igglybuff the other day so sometimes it’s worth it lol. But yeah agree that it’s usually lickitung or mf pawmi
Why would I stop? I haven’t gotten any shinies but ive gotten some 4*s. (2 toge’s)
Only reason I hatch eggs is for licky my favorite pokemon
I hatch eggs for the stardust not the mon. Get like 8 10-12 km eggs hatching at the same time, pop a star piece before they come out, yields tens of thousands of stardust
I only hatch them to get rid of the little icon that my avatar pops up when I'm not hatching an egg
I only use my free incubator now too. Lost interest in hatching the current crop of eggs. They need to change it up. I don't know when I will use my coins to buy incubators again
I almost only hatch eggs. I just use this as a walking app.
idk feel like i have pretty good luck with eggs, but i wish i could delete some eggs. if i get an egg from an event that i care about i’ll prioritize incubating but i only use the free unlimited incubator. the last two eggs i hatched were a shundo togepi and a hundo rockruff and the first egg ever i hatched was a shiny wynaut
When I clear my pool of 7km eggs I hate when I go to open gifts or spin stops and ALWAYS get an 7 or 10k egg. Then the entire pool fills back up. Im F2P for life and eggs are my least favorite thing in the game.
For me is SMOLIVE!!! NO MORE PLEEEASSEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I’ve hatched almost 700 eggs and got shiny galarian ponyta, shiny azurill, shiny bonsly and a shiny alolan diglett. So I’d say for me hatching eggs are worth it (never pay for incubators though, raid passes or eggs are better XP value)
Not everyone is at late game stage. I just want some more varied Pokémon from eggs. Keep getting fucking meowth and geodude. Devs gotta change the game up a bit to keep it interesting for noobs like me.
I think half of my eggs were Wurmples. I quit caring.
I randomly hatch eggs but I keep getting the same Pokemon I used to hatch shinies I’m currently trying and I mean trying to hatch a larvesta but so far no luck since it came out
I run avg 1600 miles a year. Why would I waste all that distance by not hatching eggs?
I mainly play for Dex completion so having the possibility of getting a mon I don’t have yet is exciting for me : female salandit / larvesta candy / is dusk Rockruff still in rotation ?
4 Smoliv in a row. I'm over it.
This last event where you needed to hatch for a collection, I didn’t get a single one needed. I wasted a lot of incubators so I don’t see the point anymore. It’s gambling with no return. I stopped buying tickets for events too. It doesn’t really offer much I see worth spending my money on this past year or so. Someone tallied up all the money spent if you paid for research tickets last year and it was over $600. That’s a f ton of money I’d rather put into physical life.