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90,000 EXP or the Pokemon, which is more valuable?

So after finding out the hard way hatches were 5x experience I started collecting again for the next batch hatch and got 9 10k eggs.

I hatched 18 10k eggs this week and the results are a letdown. So are people hatching for good monsters or just for the experience?

Asked by Specter6 years 10 months ago

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How is two Larvitar, one Snorlax and Chancey a let down from your batch of 9?

Seriously. Four useful hatches out of nine is nothing to sneeze at. That's well above average. I've had too many Pineco/Gengar/Mantine streaks to not sign up for that luck every time.

Because in my experience lavitar is just as comon as gligar from my hatches.

The only ones that were good out of that batch were Snorlax and chansey. With a fire/ice event I would have guessed at least a lapris to come out of an egg.

Just because it is a common hatch for you it does not mean it is a bad hatch, it is one of the best hatches you can get, period. You have hatched 4 mon that any trainer would want, Larvitarx2, Chansey and Snorlax, all top tier mon and the 2 best defenders of the game.

Sometimes I can't understand how people can complain. Even you said you have hatched 18x10km eggs this week, loool. I have get 2 10km eggs during the past 15 days...just to put yourself into perspective.

So be grateful, 4/9 is more than a lot of us will get, the "normal" would have been 2/9 or 3/9, in that mix you have missed at least one Pineco, I have never hatched a badge of 10km eggs without him, so there is that also.

No one is complaining. Everyone plays differently, most trainers out there may value a lavitar due to high CP final form but I don't. I rather take a snorlax or chansey because they align with my play style :).

I'm always incubating. My play style have switched this week for EXP, what comes out the eggs don't really matter unless the IVs are 100. I just wanted to know what are the other trainers focusing on right now the 5x experience or the monsters.

If that Chansey has 15 attack IVs and >10 defence IVs, I will evolve her.

I evolved her and RNG blessed her with a not so good defensive moves set.

Second best defensive move set you can get.

Not second best. For my playstyle her good defensive moves is ZH/DG or ZH/HB. Anything else won't stand their ground against fighting Pokémon or dragons

Ummmm how do ppl have a play style for defending pokemon!?!? You realize the computer AI controls them, not you, correct?

I'm not sure if you are just messing w ppl w this thread or not. If you aren't, I feel sorry that you are let down so easily - this game must crush your spirits regularly.

There's just no making you happy, is there?

How the hell do you go through that many eggs? I'm sure I haven't gotten that many 10ks in a month. I have been swimming in 2k eggs...

Apearently I'm lucky as F with RNG.
But that's my individual experience.

As you play longer and accumulate more good pokemons it is natural that what you call a "good hatch" gets more and more narrow.

A friend of my at one point only regarded Chansey (candy) and Dratini above IV 95 as good hatches, the latter only if it evolved to DT/O. Lots of room to get disappointed then :-)

Do not forget about the stardust!!! Thats often the best outcome of a hatch.

At least someone here understands everyone have a different opinion on what is considered to be good.

The only useful 10k hatches in the game currently are Chansey, Snorlax, Larvitar, and Dratini. Everything else is junk or solely for dex completion. Given that you got 3 of these 4 (and 2 Larvitar to boot) I don't see how you could possibly complain.

Lapras may be added to this list after the gym rework - was one of the best defenders in the game and obv is still a great dragonite counter.

First of all, I would have been stoked by that hatching spree.
Second to answer to your question. For me this week is about two things: getting exp and getting as much Houndour and Cyndaquil candy as I possibly can. So the exp would be the most important thing from the hatches and bad mon wouldn't be as upsetting as usual. Good mons would just be a nice bonus :)

Thank you for taking the time to actually answer the question about what is important to you. So for your playstyle at this moment it's EXP and candy, anything else is icing on the cake.

So are people hatching for good monsters or just for the experience?

It is only for experience. Transfer all of them, just keep one gilgar as a trophy.

Cant tell if serious but i tansfered all except snorlax and chancey which is now Blissey

Was ment not to be ironic. Sorry for missing ":-)".
Transfer all except snorlax and chansey is quite reasonable. Just the original question was a bit weird.

I have received only one (1) single 10 km egg since very beginning of the game ... and you had "an orgy" with 10 x 10 ... lol ... Good Luck!

The XP can never be more important.

Even though 10k xp from a 10k egg sounds like a lot, the cost of even one incubation is still 50 coins. A lucky egg on the current sale is HALF that, and a lucky egg is worth far more than 10k. Infact the only way you even get 10k from that hatch is if you are also running a lucky egg.

Stardust isn't it either. You can always get stardust through grinding.

The real benefit of 10k hatches is always getting the quality candy and maybe even a high IV quality mon, meaning Chansey, Snorlax, Larvitar and Dratini. For many players, hatching those eggs are the only real way of getting that crucial candy for those mons. Walking 5km for one candy is too slow no matter how much you walk. Even walking 10k every single day only gives you a total of 60 candy a month. Even a single 10k hatch can give you up to 33 candy (including sending to the trainer). For instance, I have been walking Chansey forever. During my last batch hatching of 10k eggs, I got two Chansey combining for 60 candy. That just saved me 300km walking.

So basically you hatch 10k eggs for:

1) The chansey/snorlax/larvitar/dratini candy
2) The possibility of a high IV chansey/snorlax/larvitar/dratini
3) The stardust
4) The xp

So for your play style its more for the candy. This makes sense, the hatch candy output is more than the walking of a single mon. What mon candy comes out of the hatch maybe a mystery but it's still better than walking 10 for a single candy. I understand.

The EXP from 10km eggs isn't anymore than hatching any other eggs...5k EXP for a 10km egg takes twice as long as getting 2.5k EXP for a 5km egg...(or 1k for a 2km egg)...so the exp for 10km eggs is actually the same.

I'm still saving my 10km eggs for a double candy event since the candies are worth a lot more than the EXP for me...I do walk a 10km egg (just hatched a Larvitar with 32 candies) when I get my 8th 10km egg though.

I also think/am sure there will be a July 4th event since that's the actual anniversary of PoGo launching and there will be different rewards...

(Perspective of a f2play player who rarely runs 9 incubators).