What is your biome vs. most frequent types caught?
I'm curious about the variation between biomes and spawn frequencies, so I looked at my totals in gold medals. I know the numbers are skewed by what we choose to catch (grinding pidgeys pumps up the normal/flying totals), but I was surprised by the next 3 types. So for fun, I'd like to know what you consider your biome type, your trainer level, and the total numbers for your top 5 types caught? Mine are:
Water/grass biome; lvl 35
Normal: 4095
Poison: 3366
Flying: 2723
Water: 2135
Bug: 1897
It strikes me as odd that grass is a distant 6th at 1555 in a supposedly water/grass biome. Should I consider this a flying/poison biome instead?
Answers
Arid biome (Growlithe, Ekans, Paras, but Meowth and Pikachu instead of Geodude and Ponyta). However I did play in a water/grass biome for the first few months of the game which has clearly skewed my numbers. I did spend a bunch of time farming Karps too. L37.
Normal 10,555
Flying 7,083
Water 5,907
Poison 5,447
Bug 4,146
Grass 3,213
Psychic 2,307
Fire 1,862
Ground 1,859
In my understanding, there are two main types of desert biome - one that has abundant fire and rock types, and one that has more normal types and no fire/rock. I consider the former "true desert" and the latter "arid," but of course there is a lot of variation between biomes. For instance, my biome clearly has an electric component to it - I see a lot of wild Pikachu and random Voltorb and Magnemite - but if I go a few miles east, there are more Nidoran and fewer Pikachu.
Biomes are distributed/assigned in a variety of different ways so that there are basically no two identical biomes. Characteristics are assigned on a large-scale, regional basis, but they're also assigned on the scale of something like several city blocks or one neighborhood, and then additionally are assigned at the point-and-line level of mapping (which is why you see things like a series of individual water spawn points along an old riverbed or a multi-block stretch of desert biome in the middle of a water biome or something).
I also found it interesting that my fire, rock, and ground counts are so low. I guess there just aren't nearly as many Pokemon of those types as there are of Grass/Water/Bug/Poison. I've caught just under 600 Growlithe, which would make them about 1/3 of my total fire catches.
I live in the Southeast US, but have played while visiting my kids. One in west L.A. which seemed almost desert-like, Fire/Rock/Ground dominant. The other in Portland, OR, which was nearly identical to my biome here. Wish I had time to travel more to compare different types (and catch a damn Militank!)
Yes i am a little bit amused when i check my medal, i live in water/grass biome also.
My water medal is surely no 1, but my grass 5th
Water 11855
Poison 7313
Normal 7061
Flying 5561
Grass 5396
I am sure i am at water/grass biome cos i caught a lot of exeggcute, have 67 Exeggutor (around 95% by evolving) with 2624 candy left
Edited forgot to add, i am at level 38
Yes, fighting is rare here, maybe 1 or 2 machop i a good week and none in a bad week
Same story with dragon, have to go around 5-6 km from home harvesting magikarp, and if i am lucky dratini (mainly for dratini but cannot pass on magikarp)
The hardest is ice for me, been catching swinub like a madman with the fire and ice event but only manage to get 185. But i am started at 20 ish before the event so not complaining here
