Can Snorlax Still Be Found in the Wild?
I'm a pretty new player - just started a month and a half ago. (I'm level 29 right now, which I feel isn't too bad for such a short time.) I really want to get a Snorlax, but I have tried and failed several times to get people in my community interested in the Snorlax raids that have been popping up the past couple of weeks. Everyone is so focused on Mewtwo that they are ignoring the other raids, and I'm sure that most of the long-time players have Snorlaxes galore. Is my only hope of catching a Snorlax to try and convince some people to join me in one of those raids, or can he still be found in the wild like in the early days of PoGO?
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They’re out there, just rare. I found a wild one in a parking lot a few weeks ago, and one at a Pokéstop a few months ago. They can also be hatched from 10km eggs. Keep trying for the raids, once you get a few Machamps you can do it with less people, I did one the second day of Mewtwo raids as we waited for another raid to hatch. Good luck!
I have been working on powering up my Machamp squad, so that should help if I can get another couple of people to raid with me. I didn't know you could get Snorlax out of a 10k egg, though! I hope I can get one, although the odds must be really low. I have hatched quite a few 10k eggs and not found one yet.
Friendly advice, you're also better off ignoring the other raids (maybe dratini is worth for you) and focusing on Mewtwo with the rest of your community.
Yes, Snorlax is out there but a very rare species. It also depends on where you live. In more than two years playing the game I can still count with the fingers of one hand the number of wild snorlax I encountered. The first snorlax took me longer than one year.
Your better chance of getting a good snorlax is hatching 10 km eggs.
Snorlax is rare, but it is more common in certain biomes, namely the Meadow biome. Meadow can easily be identified outside of events by it spawning a lot of Teddiursa and Eevee and you can also guess where it might exist by looking at openstreetmap tags, but that's more advanced stuff.
There were 2 small spots of meadow near my old home and during the 2 years that I lived there, I saw 10+ Snorlax in total in those 2 spots and 1 outside of those spots in the same area.