Do you Buddy your favorite pokemons?
Say you have a 100% larvitar and only 110 candies, would you buddy it? Does the fact that the "Walked x.xxkm with" sentence at the bottom of the pokemon make it lose value?
Answers
I still walk pokémon for candy income, not just for fun. I am in dire need of Larvitar candy so until now I walked Tyra, but that's not very productive. Lately I've been having plans to target pokémon I'll try to have as luckies. The idea is that I would be more inclined to power up luckies further than non luckies. For that, I must also have candies easily for that species. So I focus on very common species and/or low buddy distance pokémon. It's often not the best pokémon, but if I can take a Houndoom to level 35-38, it will be a nice complement to a lvl 30 Tyranitar.
I walk whatever I need candy for, prioritizing getting new mon typically. Right now, I'm walking a Gengar; I ended up needing roughly 800 candy but only finished (after evolutions) with around 350. Add that to Gengar raids, catches, and hatched and eventually it'll catch up. I have multiple Machamp with 300KM+ walked already.