Dratini Quest drains my stock
The "Evolve 10 water type pokemon" quest this month is like a double-edged sword to me. Glad it rewards a Dratini and it's also not very rare (like Chansey quest or Larvitar quest), but my pokemon and candy stocks are rapidly drained out after finishing 5 quests (accomplished in 2 waves, 2 together the first time and 3 together the 2nd time). Living in a place where Fire, rock, ground types dominate, it's really hard to charge up any water type pokemon and their candies. So how do you think about this quest?
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I'm having second thoughts about it. The most efficent way to do it is by doing other quests that gives you water-type pokemon as reward (Like the Poliwag ones, that requires catching 5 weather-boosted Pokémon). If you don't live in a water biome it would be nightmarish to do it. It's complicated to do.
I loved near a water biome, now I dont so i've been really having to grind for these. I like how this is an actual challenge unlike the catch a dragon type one which is mostly luck based. (yes finding water types is also luck based but its much easier to find 10 water types than a single dragon type)
Right, finding 10 water types is still much easier than finding 1 dragon type. Yet you need to have enough candies to evolve those 10 water types. Although I still have several hundreds candies for each Gen 1 & 2 water type mons, but given that they are very rare to encounter now (especially for trainers like me not living close to water biome), candies could be soon drained out. Let alone those like Magikarp or Wailmer which requires 400 candies to evolve.
I'd say evolving 10 water types would be harder right now by candy cost alone. Obviously it's much rarer to find a wild dragon type but the fact that Dratini is a research reward from the water evolve one makes this an easy chain.
It seems like most times this has been a research task there's been another, much easier method that can be used to chain it. If memory serves correctly it was available while the Lati were raid bosses, while the "Win a T3 or higher raid" encounter was available, while A-Eggy was a raid boss, and now this evolve 10 water types. If anything this one is made difficult simply because the catalyst research is hard, had it only been 5 water types it would be much easier.
