Relation between buddies and egg hatching
Guys, sorry if this is a known thing but i haven't found this anywhere. I've been trying this for the past weeks with more than five positive matches which is certainly beyond coincidence: Choosing a buddy that matches with the egg in your current incubator will make that egg hatch the same type from your buddy!
For instance: today i set up a 5km egg to my infinite incubator and then chose Abra as my buddy, 5 km later an Abra hatched.
I've noticed a few thigs, this works only once, if i set another egg and keep Abra as my buddy the next hatch is random. For the trick to work ti needs to rotate eggs and buddys.
I've only tried this with the infinite incubator, have no idea if it works with the other types or with multiple incubators at once, you guys are free to try.
Edit - just remembered, the buddy needs to be set at the same time with the egg and left alone or at least changed at the earliest. i've tryed swapping buddies with a 5km egg which was about to hatch and it failed.
The pokemon type has to match the egg type of course, want a charmander? Set one as your buddy and put a 2km egg in the incubator. This is useful for gaining extra candies and egg pokemon usually have better ivs than the wild ones (or at least it used to be that way).
Please try and tell me .Sorry for typos, happy Holidays and good luck trainers!
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Abras here are super rare. Rarer than Snorlax and Lapras. I've seen and caught 8 Snorlax in the wild and 2 Laprases as well. With this dilemma, I made my 91% Abra (the only one I hatched) my buddy ever since just to complete the evolution branch. Never did I hatch an Abra during my walking and hunting days. Just a bunch of Nidorans and candy Pokémons. There are a few exceptions though such as a Good 98% Growlithe and a 100% Exeggute. I'll stand by my word thay you just got lucky or probably the new update is the cause but that's highly unlikely. Close to impossible if I may add.
I've noticed this pattern just recently and began trying to reproduce the "trick" i don't know how many went wrong but if i tryed to deviate from the formula it failed. Once i got five right in a row i decided to make this post and share the idea in order to encourage more people to test since i had only 5km eggs and it takes a little while to hatch them.
Actually there is a lot of research that says that eggs are randomly generated on the moment you pick them at pokestops, not when you start incubating them.
There are percentages of getting different kind of mons from a distribution. One way to proof that research is that for example on the latest update none of the eggs you had previously picked will hatch into a baby pokémon, if it where like you said and the egg mon was generated after, eggs prior to update could still have a baby and that's not the case ;).
You were just randomly lucky those 5 times, but if you look at all the eggs you hatched the % will be very low using this "trick".
It will be similar but can't be the same code because from my experience incense most common mon is pidgey and rattata (and those where removed from eggs) and lure spawns are more related to the place you are, if you use them on a water close stop you will get more water spawns.
But yes, for sure there is a lot of code re used, the actual percentage of getting the good mons is indeed low (starters and pikachu on 2k, porygon, grimmer, lickitung on 5k and Lapras, Snorlax, Chansey, Dratini on 10k), and now with the babies I don't know if there is a recent research saying the percentages of getting the one you really want/need.
i've just read a neogaf user saying that he got 2 gen2 hatches after the holiday event started, and both from eggs collected before the event, maybe it's unrelated or maybe the pokemon is not set in stone the moment you collect the egg after all...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=227184382&postcount=7303
I definitely understand why you might think that, but...
All evidence says that the species that'll be hatched from an egg is already set the moment you receive the egg.
A lot of bits of evidence confirm this. The one I find most compelling is that some people have stopped playing the game for a while, and then come back and hatch an egg that they picked up months ago, and the egg hatches a Pokémon with a "legacy" moveset that WOULD have been available when the egg was acquired, but shouldn't have been available at the time the egg was hatched.
But again, I can understand why you think that, cuz the first Growlithe I ever hatched came while I was walking w/ a Growlithe as my buddy. The first Dratini I hatched came when I was walking w/ a Dratini, and I've had a few other rare spawns happen while walking with that species.
But remember: those instances stick in your mind precisely because they seem so perfect, but look how many eggs you've hatched overall.
I've hatched way over 1000 eggs since I've been playing this game, so of course a small handful of them would come at a time to coincide with having that same species as a buddy.
Great post, thanks. I'm trying to find a pattern here, setting the buddy simultaneously with the egg seems to be the correct procedure. But yeah, i probably need more samples than five, and my post was to encourage more people to try it. I've noticed this just recently and tryed to reproduce the "glitch" with some of the rarer pokemons in my area since it's a pain to evolve them and eggs give a candy boost. Notice that i've used only 5km type pokemons so far, i've just set a kabuto with a 10km egg, let's see what happens.
