5 Reasons Why You Should Be Walking a Magikarp

Magikarp is the best Pokemon. People call it a joke, but it’s the best thing around. Some Magikarp are so good that they can flip-flop over hills and leap over mountains. When a Magikarp grows tired of being awesome, it then evolves into a Gyarados, a massive flying sea serpent. One that can mega evolve into a monstrous dark water beast.

Magikarp is also cool in Pokemon GO. Except that it takes 400 candy to evolve into Gyarados. No need to worry though, you’ll get that candy, don’t you worry!

Anyway here are 5 reasons why you should walk a Magikarp.

One Candy for every One Kilometer.

As you walt a pokemon in Pokemon GO, you slowly earn candy for them. Magikarp, being the awesome fish that he is, gives 1 Magikarp candy for every kilometer you walk. It’s by far one of the easiest ways to get Makigarp candy. Magikarp does spawn in the wild and in events too, and isn’t just restricted to watery areas.

Granted, other Pokemon have this as well. Rattata and Aron are good examples. But neither of them are as interesting as Magikarp. And neither of them evolve into giant sea serpents. Aggron tries, but is monstrously out-classed.

XL Candy and Mega Candy are easy to get too. Once you’ve evolved a mega Gyarados, you can recover lost Mega Energy with ease. Why? Because of that same one candy per kilometer buff. XL Candy isn’t quite as reliable, since it’s based on your Pokemon’s CP. However Magikarp is cheap to power up and will get XL candies quite often.

Easier to do research task

There are always annoying Research tasks that require your buddy. For example, the Earn 3 Candy with your Buddy task. Why continue to walk another 5 kilometers when you can just walk 3 kilometers with a Magikarp and complete the task with ease?

Unless you are already nearly at 3/5 kilometers already, Magikarp is still faster. With a Magikarp, you can get your earn-candy-with-your-buddy in exactly 3 kilometers. A starter like Charmander on the other hand, at 1 candy per 3km, is already beaten when it comes to fast candy times. Even if you are at, for example, 2.9km out of 3km, you still need to walk 6.1km with your buddy to complete the task.

It’s a cute, derpy fish.

I mean, look at it.

It’s a cool derpy fish. It’s a fish that turns to gold when you see the shiny form, and evolves into a badass red water serpent instead of a blue one.

Magikarp is also somehow more realistic than other water Pokemon. They flop about when taken out of water, just like any normal fish does. Yet for some reason Magikarp is a joke, despite being literally a fish out of water. Hardly any other fish-type Pokemon do this, despite also being Pokemon that require water.

Walk a Gyarados if you want

If you really don’t want to be walking a floppy fish, then you can walk a Gyarados. The floating sea serpent has a lot of uses, as a budget (power-wise) option in raids, as a cheap water type. Its mega form is also pretty good, making it a top tier dark type. And Gyarados has settled in a nice place in PvP, in multiple leagues.

So walk a Gyarados instead.

Walking a Magikarp pays homage to the best Magikarp ever.

This isn’t the only place where Magikarp can make a splash. Aabicus went through Pokemon Red with one, and everything turned out great. That Magikarp is the best Magikarp ever.