Eggs, Eggs, Eggs and More Eggs
Between today, yesterday, and the day before yesterday, I’ve walked about 10 kilometers. With that 10km, tracked in Pokemon GO, I managed to hatch an egg. It gave me an Espurr, a Pokemon I forgot that it even existed. But as soon as that egg had hatched, I was already trying to pick what egg I should try and hatch next. I opted for a 12km egg, because I am looking for a female Salandit. That’s stupidly rare as it is, but these 12km eggs won’t hatch themselves. The problem is, I can’t hatch eggs fast enough with just the one incubator.
Yeah, I only have the normal free incubator. So picking an egg to hatch is a bit awkward. Especially since I don’t have any 2km eggs. But the problem is, I can’t get rid of eggs fast enough. Currently, I have 8 5km eggs and one 10km egg, plus the three 12km eggs I have in the bonus storage. Since I can only hatch one egg at a time, I’m basically stuck with what I have.
No Choice.
What makes the problem worse is that I can’t really choose what egg I get after I finish hatching my current egg. That one slot is filled up almost instantly, the second you spin a gym or Pokestop. There’s apparently a chance to get 10km eggs from gyms, and Pokestops tend to give out 2km eggs, but most of the time I just seem to get yet another 5km egg. But if there is an event coming up, you might want to crack through eggs quickly and make as much space as possible. At the same time, you have to avoid spinning Pokestops and gyms, because otherwise you can easily fill your slots just by spinning them. Not spinning Pokestops and gyms for more than a couple of days though is pretty rough, and plays havoc with your streaks.
And then there’s the reward for hatching an egg. You get a bunch of stardust, some candy and a Pokemon. Each egg has its own pool of Pokemon that you can hatch, alongside a sort of rarity guide. Generally, the best stuff is the rarest stuff, which you most likely won’t get. It can take a long time to hatch eggs, depending on how active you are, but are the Pokemon you hatch worth it?
No, of course not.
The main reason I haven’t tried hatching all my 5km eggs is quite simple. The Pokemon you get from them are pretty useless, or, worse, available in the wild. Why do I want to hatch a Swablu when I caught one earlier in the wild? All the eggs have terrible pools of Pokemon, and some of the rewards feel like a slap in the face. I’ve genuinely hatched 12km eggs and gotten nothing but Skrelp. A Pokemon that is useless and shouldn’t be rare at all.
The only good things in eggs are generally baby Pokemon. So stuff like Pichu, Budew and Togepi. But these are both rare and hard to get shiny Pokemon for. A shiny baby Pokemon is one of the rarer Pokemon you can find, simply because they’re tied up in eggs filled with rubbish and there’s no way of checking them en-masse like you can with normal Pokemon.
So why do I hatch eggs? Because I still want a chance at the Pokemon in them. The rare ones, I mean. But there’s very little chance that I’ll get what I’m looking for. In the mean time though, at least I get stardust, and I also get walking distances with my buddy Pokemon. I just wish eggs weren’t such a pain in the ass…