Spawn Rates Of Pidgeys, Rattatas And Zubats Reduced In Pokémon GO

Niantic, why didn't you do this from the start?! You realize how many eggs I hatched? I never got new Pokémon from eggs! They were ones I've already caught.

But what about the Drowzees?? They're everywhere!!

Pidgeys are a great way to level up but I guess I'm more interested in completing the pokedex now. All the gyms round my way are level 10 and unbeatable anyway. 😭

This is a great update. More variety of Pokemon and less of the most common ones should make the game more interesting.

This is music to my ears (.. or rather, eyes)

But the downside to this is now my area is swarming with Paras. In fact, four of my five typical rare 'mon nests have been converted to Paras nests. Hopefully that doesn't last too long

They really need to roll out these announcements and update notices in-game. If not for hearing about the news second hand through sites like Nintendo Life, I'd be missing out on so much...

Edit: Though, I guess this does give some credit to news sites for being the "megaphone" in this situation.

So spawning season is over? I'll see myself out.

Still haven't played it. Maybe I'll just wait until it's a super refined experience. There's still a few things to iron out, like the muggings and danger posed by HGVs.

Too little too late I'm afraid...

Pokémon species don't use plurals

About time,

That's what made me stop playing. Everytime I turned it on it was nothing but pidgeys and rattatas.. ruined it for me after a few months of catching dozens of them while never seeing 50% of the Pokédex

I wonder what will replace them..... (I'm guessing more starter's )

Good changes for sure. Though I still see Weedles a ton. But it's all star dust fodder for the big stuff.

Interesting. I may load this back onto my phone and give it another try. I couldn't care less about leveling up now.

Great news. So I fire up Pokemon Go and what do I see? A pidgey and Rattatta. O well. My interest continues to be at an all time low. The Halloween thing was interesting but all the eggs I hatched were the same old things I have 100 of. So wasn't that great.

Eh. All we have here is weedles, so this doesn't help.

They need to add later generations already. I don't really care about catering to nostalgic Gen 1ers. Give me all 700+ 'Mons

Last couple days I'm getting more eevee, paras, krabby, Kangaskhan, poliwag, with a couple horsea and tentacool.

The Eevee rename trick no longer seems to work, at least it didn't recently for my fourth or fifth eevee evolve.

2km eggs also seem more common for me.

10km egg seems more rare. I went like over a month without getting a single one. Finally picked up two during the Halloween blitz (although I did run a bunch of incubators at once to take advantage of the extra candy)

This (and other dumb things Niantic did) really killed the hype of Pokemon Go

Zubats?!! They're not that common for me, I've been suffering from a weedle infestation around these parts.

I can't find any Pokemon, at this rate, I'd actually be kinda glad to see a zubat.

I very rarely run into Zubats. I need a few more so I can evolve one into a Golbat.

@KTT don't forget metapod

I guess that explains why they're more fire types appearing in my neighborhood now, which is a rare type in my area.

They also changed the nesting spot again. My local Park (Prospect) went from a Drowzee nest (before Halloween event)to an Onix nest (after event). Guess I better get the Onix candies ready for when gen 2 comes out.

I wish they had made Eevee a 5k hatch before I hatched two of them for Halloween.

Ironically, pidgey and zubat were already uncommon at best in my area. Seeing as how pidgey is the easiest way to get experience(by that tiny 12-candy evolution bonus) this makes leveling up harder...If this means I might actually see a rare spawn sometime, then that's good I guess? But man, I've been stuck at level 23 for nearly a month. That level 20+ experience spike is a doozy.

I hatched a darn eevee from a 10km egg 2 days ago now I want to die.

WHAT?!? You've added ANOTHER pokémon to 5k eggs? Noow I'll NEVER get that porygon.

@KTT - Nah, I used the Eevee naming trick three times and I was three for three successful. Actually thinking about it, it was four, I wanted another Jolteon.

@DanteSolablood erm... you can catch them in the wild

@Incarta Well I've been trying for a month, literally the ONLY pokémon I've needed for over 30 days. You might "theoretically" be able to catch them in the wild.... but for me it seems eggs are my only chance.

Especially now Niantic have killed 3rd party tracking.

@Prizm Hm. Maybe it was luck? I thought it was confirmed the trick works only once per name.