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[Ganoncrotch]

Cloudman said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Here is the full listing of which pokemon need how much walking to reward a candy.

While some bits on there make some Sense like Snorlax being a slow one to gain candy... having to walk 15km for a single upgrade for the Pokemon is just nuts, considering he can't be used as a Gym defender while you are doing the walking, at all.

Also strange about the list is where Tauros, Farfetch't and Kangaskhan are in comparison to Mr.Mime, I guess us Europeans are known to enjoy a good walk so we have to go further for our Pokemons candy, what a mess.

But yeah I think I'll be dumping in a shit Magikarp as my buddy along with most other users and start walking my way towards a Gyarados, because even though he needs 400 candies at 400KM to get them in comparison to something like Squirtle which needs 125 candy but ends up at 375 for the complete starter Pokemon rather than a powerful Gyarados.... never thought I would consider a Magikarp a buddy but what you gonna do I guess. Almost at level 27 now and over the 1m exp collected mark, great get fit idea, terrible game though.

(also a touch counter productive in the logic that if you walk somewhere you should have a candy... I mean... is that a good message to send out?)

I figured it used the egg list as well.

It is pretty crazy that it can take a long time to work with a single pokemon, but I can see why they designed it that way. It's not meant to be the main means to get candy, but as a support. While you're trying to get candy for certain pokemon, chances are you'll encounter that pokemon in the wild or in an egg, so those few candy can make all the difference. That's what I plan to do, since I have many pokemon that lack just 2 or 3 candy, and are quite rare for me.

If getting candy through the buddy system was made too easy, that would take some of the challenge and main purpose  of the game out of it. At least, that's how I see it.

But you're looking at it from the point of view of someone who plays the game a lot still, I mean the buddy system could have been used to entice those who installed it but got annoyed with the chore element of the game to come back if it was made very rewarding, hearing reports that over 80% of the players have quit the game should be fairly alarming for Niantic but stuff like a system to evolve starters by walking almost 400km is not going to get your average casual player to pick up the app again. it just wont.

 

As for the eggs = KM, Mr Mime can't come from an Egg, only be caught in EU lands, the same way that tauros, khangaskan and farfetch't are the pokemon for US, AU and Asia respectfully, so the fact that Mr Mime is a 5k walk but the others are 3 is just weird, like I said... maybe Eu people are known for enjoying a long walk more than US and co haha.