I have hatched 4...and I have 40 candies.
I figure I will hatch another eventually, and get my candies that way.
If I walk it then the next one I hatch will be a disappointment - at least if I am still waiting for candy, then the next hatch will still feel useful.
My suggestion is to stick with Snorlax/Lapras candies from your buddy.
Anybody walking Togepi as buddy?
My second togepi was hatched on 1/1/2017. Since then, never got another. For 19 more candies, I need to walk 95km. Am I being stupid? For all these distances travelled, I could have gotten 19 lapras or snorlax candies.
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True that...if I had a Dragonite then I would walk it too. My smallest of my 4 dratini is my buddy - but I only mentioned Lapras and Snorlax as they are what the OP mentioned.
A city of over 2 million people and a dratini nest has not been documented for weeks - but that is me getting side tracked now.
Agreed...
For folks with gym endgame priorities, then Snorlax/Dratini/probably Chansey and if high enough level, Lapras is good to walk, but I think a lot of folks don't even bother with gyms to care much and only want to catch them all (since most people view gyms as just 10 coins per gym and not the stardust boost).
For those folks, I think walking Togepi is fine since I've noticed after they catch them all, they stop playing so that's their endgame...My brother stopped playing probably 2 months after launch after he caught them all already and laughed when I just started after he and many others stopped.
Some people just can't be bothered to waste 10 minutes or more on taking gyms and rebuilding/prestiging gyms.