Gen II monsters are finally in Pokémon GO, but Niantic has disappointed some fans by choosing not to introduce them in the wild. Instead, these 'mon are hatched from eggs which are one of the game's premium items. The debate about whether or not Pokémon GO is now "pay to win" is best left for another day, but the fact of the matter is for the time being, the dream of Gen II pocket monsters involves a lot of walking.
Before we proceed, it's worth noting that not all Gen II monsters have gone live in the game as yet - in fact, the list is quite small. It should also be stated that you have to use eggs which you have obtained following the launch of the latest update - eggs from weeks ago don't seem to have Gen II monsters inside them.
At the time of writing the list below (along with the egg distance values) is believed to be correct by knowledgeable Pokémon sites like Serebii and the Silph Road, but it should be considered subject to change:
- Pichu
- Hatch 2km Egg
- Cleffa
- Hatch 2km Egg
- Igglybuff
- Hatch 2km Egg
- Togepi
- Hatch 5km Egg
- Togetic
- Evolve Togepi (50 Togepi candy required)
- Smoochum
- Hatch 10km Egg
- Elekid
- Hatch 10km Egg
- Magby
- Hatch 10km Egg
All of these monsters are babies, with Togepi seemingly the only monster from this first batch which can be evolved into a full-scale Gen II 'mon.
Do you have any observations on the new Pokémon, or have you discovered some information which contradicts what we've started here? As ever, post a comment to tell us, and indeed the wider world.
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Do people outside of Japan still play this game? I used to see hordes of people playing it, and now I hardly see anyone.
Smoochum requiring a 10k egg is the greatest injustice of our time.
As an Italian, I take dibs on the "Naples will be the place to find Trubbish" joke right now before Generation V hits.
Step 1: Have a Pokestop near you.
looks on map, a barren wasteland
....>_>
goes back to Pokemon Moon
@Joeynator3000
Yep, the "actual Pokémon game" throne still belongs to the mainline series.
I walk a lot so I'm ok with hatching eggs as a means of acquiring new 'mon. Pat of the one And I have left to get are egg hatches. The only thing that is annoying is the low frequency of 2k and 10k eggs. I get 90% 5k eggs.
@Ogbert I haven't gotten a single 10k egg since I started playing in July. I used to get a mix of 2k and 5k, but now its all 5k.
Given the fact only baby pokemon (and one of it's evolution) were included, I'm guessing the rest will probably get added in the wild... eventually.
Since the coloured eggs came in I have yet to see a 10k egg. Picked up a couple of eggs since update so hoping for a gen 2 baby. Also, where are all the festive Pikachu? I have never seen a wild one since July so thought there would be a few more like the gastly/cubone fest that was halloween. Clearly I was mistaken for applying logic to these events.
I just want Niantic to put delibird in the game before christmas.
@Ogbert yep, same. It's a constant stream of 5K eggs. Had about 2x 2K egg and 1x 10K egg in the last couple of weeks.
I'm just happy I don't run into 20,000,000 Rattatas in one second anymore.
@XxYoshiGamerxX
I still do...
Step 1: hatch all existing eggs because they still don't tell you which ones you've picked up most recently.
Seriously what's with that? I've picked on one 5k egg since the update but since I had a few already it got lost because they don't display in any particular order. And they actually seem to shuffle when you pick up a new one. So now I'm trying to hatch a 5k egg with no idea if it's new and if it will even have anything new in once hatched. The fact that egg contents are predetermined is frustrating. Why not literally grab a random Pokémon from the list of possible ones upon hatching? They really need a way of just swapping eggs for candy if you don't have any use for them. What if you've already got all 2k Pokémon? You have to hatch it just to get rid of the egg. Let us trade it for candy for a select Pokémon, 2, 5 and 10 for the respective eggs. Would make picking up eggs worthwhile and evolving much easier if you could trade them in and pick which type candy you receive in return.
Bought some incubators to clear out all of my eggs when they added these... now hatched about a dozen eggs since and only got a single Pichu.
This is exactly the sort of problem I was predicting when I was warning against the addition of gen 2... terrible spawn chances.
Adding them in with the same chances as existing Pokemon just makes them too rare, and if they'd given them higher chances then it would have lowered the chance of finding already rare Pokemon... they'd need to be balanced perfectly, which Niantic are clearly incapable of doing, due to their repeated failures at balancing other aspects of the game.
On a side note... the Pokemon you get from eggs appears to depend on the Pokemon available in the area you got the egg from, and this will likely apply to the new additions as well... so you'll have to find an area where their evolved forms can spawn to even have a chance of getting an egg with the matching baby.
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