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Obtaining Lapras

Back in 2016 I was one of the few in my friend group to hatch a Lapras out of a 10k egg. I have since noticed that you can no longer get them this way, and have never seen one in the wild. Does this mean that you can only obtain them from the research task for winning 5 gym battles? I foresee a lot of walking for candies in my future...

Asked by Silver7725 years 2 months ago

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I've hatched a few from eggs, although none recently, have caught them in the wild, as well as gotten them from research, and at a few points, Lapras was also a Tier 4 raid boss. Being an older pokemon (Gen1) their occurrence is diluted with every generation. For newer players wanting one for PvP or as a flying dragon counter, probably tough to get candy. (For the latter, think about Mamoswine, who we all will have in spades after next weekend.)

mmm yes, I am greatly anticipating Mammoswine, as I have a Walrein as well, but Spheals do not spawn very regularly in my area

No, you can still find Lapras in the wild, I found one in the wild about 2 weeks ago. There are, of course, a very rare spawn.

Though, I'm curious as to why you'd want candies for Lapras anyways? Unless it's for PvP or if it's your favorite pokemon and you want to power it up. Otherwise, it's not really worth the effort. Just curious.

I do think it's a cool pokemon, also mine has Ice Shard and Ice beam, which are both legacy at this point, and is also lucky due to my friend and I trading each other our legacy ones. Mainly wanting it for sentimental reasons as the first 'rare' pokemon I got in PoGo. Thanks for the response!

Completely understand. I've got a useless Girafarig powered up for sentimental reasons as well.

I just traded this IS/IB from an old account to myself, I had to take advantage of this lucky event! (j/k was caught in 12/16). I still have my original IS/IB from 8/16 at 2325cp level 33, I have 172 candy but got that from playing a very long time.

Win 5 Gym battles task = Lapras.

The task is unfortunately fairly rare, almost as rare as hatch 5.

I did list that as the only way I was aware of in my question

I live in a water/ice biome, and catch them in the wild from time to time, but assuming your biome is different, there is usually a water event and/or a Kanto event at least once a year, when Lapras spawns more frequently.

How can you find out what biome you are in?

The general climate you live in is a clue, along with the pokemon that commonly spawn, not including nests or pokemon that spawn everywhere like rats & pidgeys. It's harder to tell now that weather boosted spawns supercede biome-specific spawns most of the time, but if you see a lot of Krabbys, Shellders, Seels, and Spheals even when not weather-boosted, you might be in a water/ice biome. If you tend to see a lot of Sandshrews, Growlithes, Doduos, Numels, etc., you might be in a desert biome.