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I have now opened enough eggs to be sure that

those that spend on incubators will have a huge advantage from here on out over those that don't. About half of all 10K eggs in my area are Dratini (the highest), Larvitar, Chanseys. Folks that cycle these things quickly will build up huge rosters extremely quickly now that they are more common.

How will this effect the game? Will the general strengthening help against folks that are botting? Or make no real difference? Or perhaps Niantic will alter the meta in some way that we cannot predict as is rumored?

Either way I'm just glad that eggs are fun to hatch again....for the most part anyway.

Asked by JHVS8 years 2 months ago

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I am only getting Pineco. :(

Lol, just a dratini and pineco for me. Oh and the dratini was just 16 candies and 76 IV :/

lol. Me too! Pinecos, mantines make up about 2/3 of what I get. I did get a 76iv larvitar tho. Haven't hatched a snorlax lapras or dratini since last year

But... i remember back in October I was hatching chanseys a lot and would be irked thinking what the heck was I going to do with this big pink thing!!!

I feel you mate

I'm getting about 75% mantines and pinecos, 20% Dratini, 5% other.

Since gen 2 the only good hatches I've got were a larvitar and chansey. Dratinis aren't as exciting with the addition of pinap berries, dratini farming is much less of a grind.

Edit: just checked 10 mantine, 9 pineco, 3? Dratini(from memory), 1 chansey, 1 larvitar, 1 skarmony

Since gen 2 release, I've hatched 13 10kms.
No Dratini or Lavitar. You're just in a really good region I suppose.

Was there ever a time that hatching lots of eggs was not an advantage over those that don't?

Yes when it didn't result in one Blissey and Dragonite per week

Just because you have got lucky with Dratini does not mean the whole world has.

I have still only ever hatched 1 dratini, and then walked 340km+...and soon will have enough for my first ever dragonite.

...but I have always had an advantage over those that don't hatch a lot of eggs, due to the high amount of decent IV pokemon I hatch...and the amount of stardust I collect.

It has always been beneficial to hatch lots of eggs.

Not everyone is getting your luck.

My sample size is now 54 10K eggs. It's not really RNG at this point. Prior to the change I opened 7 Dratinis since the start of my play. I opened more than that total in 8 days after the change.

And it's not only me. Lots of others are stating similar experiences on Silph road. Maybe there is some biome dependence? Hard to say since I never had any luck with these prior to the addition to gen 2. I will say at this point if you are not seeing a better draw from 10Ks it's more likely poor RNG on your part than luck on mine considering how many have claimed much improved draws including right here.

Lots on this very thread are also telling you it is not everyone that is getting this luck.

I too have hatched many. Sure I have got 3 Larvitar in that time...but still no dratini. Please don't assume I don't have enough information to make an informed decision.

My original point still stands.
You asked if there is some kind of advantage to hatching eggs - I answered that there always has been.

Fair enough. Although hatching 3 Larvitar in a smaller set kind of validates the point I stated at the start about desirable Pokémon being more available in 10Ks than formally, no?

Smaller set...? Huh? Please tell me how much smaller my set is than yours.

Also, please tell me how many Larvitar a person might hatch before they added Gen2.
I will concede that the drop rate for Larvitar from 10kms eggs is far greater than it was before Gen2 dropped.

Sorry I thought you mentioned a number above. My mistake.

You are making this about certain Pokémon which wasn't the point. The point was the number of rare Pokémon that were desirable per egg before and after the change. And the fact in a couple weeks I hatched more of those than all of the prior months combined doing the same thing. Do you think that statement is true or false?

I will say congratulations on having good luck with your 10km eggs.

I am sure there are many around that wish they had been so fortunate...me included

I'm hoping the luck will be similar for everyone as we go along even if mine drops some to become more average. If eggs are really tied to biomes as strongly as some suggest in here that seems an unfortunate circumstance.

54 is a small n in my opinion. Might seem like a lot but in the scheme of ALL 10K eggs hatched in the game...just not convinced it is representative.

Hatched around 9 10km eggs received; 3 dratinis 2 of which were 96 and 97%, 4 pineco highest 85%, 2 Larvitar best being 86% and decided to invest in some incubators.