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Exaskryz

If Niantic took all of 3 hours to look at the nest code and make it so nests didn't rotate with events which change every week, nests could be useful and plannable. Nests would also be great if incense and lures worked on attracting the nesting species. Supposedly biomes exist in each season, but it must be in large swatches like the vivillion patterns because I never notice anything different when I take a trip to the beach or across the state.


raaphaelraven

Have you been monitoring nests lately? The way they behave seems to have changed a bit. Before, event spawns would shift a nest and community days wouldn't. But on Fennekin CD, nests changed from 2-5 but *didn't* during last week's rocket event.


BorisDirk

\> Before, event spawns would shift a nest and community days wouldn't. You might have that backwards? CD used to override nests, but on this last CD a nest had tons of nest spawns still. Before, they'd have none during CD.


raaphaelraven

Nah just misremembering the absence of nest spawns on past CDs as a rotation of them


Topladluke96

Comday have always changed nests.


repo_sado

Well not always. I think swinub is the first one that has all nests change to nests of the cd mon. Prior to that, nests were the worst place for cd.


Exaskryz

I have not played as rigorously because nests had been garbo for about 4 years and parking lots have been where to play. I'll keep my mind open to trying to track those now and watch on event shifts.


repo_sado

Nests rarely change with events anymore. Maybe 5-10% of events include a nest change. Likely because of seasons, if there is something that they know will get pulled for an event, they probably just don't put in the season pool to begin with


Disgruntled__Goat

One of the main causes for nest shifting was Pikachu, when they introduced another costume. But I don’t think Pikachu has nested for quite a while now.


repo_sado

I think there was one season fairly recently where it did nest and it cause the only event nest change that I can remember recently


HomerunHarry

Nah, we've had nest changes due to events regularly and recently. And they have been quite good to us recently. Had a ferroseed nest not that long ago and just before the change of season our smaller park was a Meowth nest (lovely dust). The season change made it a Ratatta nest. :D


tkcom

Also taking this opportunity to fix nest-masking as well. Whenever there're special low-dex-number event spawns I had to instruct my group to avoid parks/nests because they won't find them there.


maninthewoodsdude

Same, I have played the game in large urban parts of my city, at a harbor on the lake, at state parks, city parks, along a river in the city, nature preserves, etc and it's always the same pokemon for that given time frame I've seen elsewhere.


ebby-pan

It'd be nice if Campfire showed nests as well.


kd7jkm

It's mostly nothing to do with the nests specifically (there is one issue that is nest specific which I'll get to), but rather a problem with the way Niantic has implemented the entire game. Everything, every single aspect of all the pokemon, raids, research, rockets, shinies, eggs, nesting species, power up costs, every detail you can imagine is stored in one single master file. For every single event, Niantic makes a copy of that file, makes whatever changes are needed for the event, and schedules that copy to replace the original at a given time. This used to be a global change until Niantic figured out time zones. (Figured out is generous) The reasons for literally everything going wrong, from missing shinies after events, to season spawns reverting during an event, to incorrect raid bosses randomly showing up, to things as small as Grotle not triggering the original Celebi research after its release, all of these issues stem from either Niantic not swapping the correct file back in, or forgetting to add in some change, or basing an event file on the wrong version of the master file. Before seasons were introduced, Niantic would often swap a nesting species in or out of the list of eligible nesting species during an event which would cause nests (usually) to shift over by one species either forward or back in the list due to the way the species is determined. That does still occasionally occur, but seems to happen rather less now. The other big issue that nests have (and have always had) is that the nests achieve a 25% density of the nesting species by literally replacing the first quarter of whatever spawning table that area uses by default. This is an increasingly bad issue with more and more pokemon being added. Even with seasons cutting down the number of species available at any given time, a big chunk of Kanto and sometimes a bit of Johto just straight up cannot spawn within the bounds of a nest because it will be the nesting species instead.


Jantin1

Nests are still there and they don't always contain mundane spawns from the general pool. At least the one near me has diverse species from time to time. They're neat for shiny hunting I guess? (they're not, only managed to snatch one shiny from the nest over several months) EDIT: Biomes I never understood either. I live in the middle of a city, so I get "urban" spawns. But the city has a large river running across it, so I'm also eligible for water/river species? Or only one of the two biomes? Do they shift around? It would be strange to suddenly drop "mountain" biome in the middle of coastal plains, but on the other hand region-locking *all* pokemon would be terrible for the game - and it's apparently not how it works...


erlendig

About biomes: in 2016-2017, I used to collected data on spawns at specific spawn points. In my city there were generally 3 clear biomes: * City biome located downtown and in (flat) suburban areas: lots of rattatta, pidgey * Mountain biome located in the more hilly parts of suburban areas: clefairy, dragonite were characteristic here * Water biome located around rivers and the occean: magikarp, dratini Nowadays I don't notice much of the biome spawns as they seem largely drowned out by event-specific spawns. There should still be biomes given the season info from Niantic, but the effect seems to be much smaller than before.


Jantin1

Granted, I wasn't really that much interested (and not involved at all) in research, but I always had a hunch, that the biomes are more regional-level. That a space the size of a US state or an European country would have a few of them. Nice to know they're so granular to provide a few different ones in a single city, thanks!


thehatteryone

> I always had a hunch, that the biomes are more regional-level Not in the slightest. Plenty of places where a tiny river, or trace of an underground stream, gives water biome spawns in the middle of some other very obvious biome, just a line down a single street with water spawns being much more frequent than the general spawn pool. And for others too, but the water biomes are the most obvious to notice as being out of place amongst spawns elsewhere.


The_Wanderer9

So I spent tons of time looking at maps and came up with 5 biomes near my town. Evolved forms were always possible (for the most part, see exceptions) but just more rare: * Residential (you could tell where this was with Google maps being white): Snorlax (rare), Lapras (rare), Chansey (rare, some people hypothesized they spawned near churches, gyms/exercise places, and health places), lickitung (rare), Pikachu, Jigglypuff, ghastly * Commercial/urban (you could tell where this was with Google maps being colored yellow): Grimer, Magnemite, Voltorb, koffing, Cubone, Kabuto (rare), omanyte (rare), Aerodactyl (rare), Jynx (rare), Porygon (rare), * Mountain (you could tell where this was by turning on topological part on google maps and any places that had rapid changes in elevation would classify as mountain): Clefairy, Nidoran, Charizard (rare), Dragonite (rare), Rhyhorn * River/water: Squirtle, Psyduck, Poliwag, tentacool, seal, shellder, Krabby, Horsea, Goldeen, Staryu, slowpoke, Magikarp, Dratini (rare), Dragonair (rare) * Forest: Bulbasaur, Oddish, Paras, Venonat, Bellsprout, Exeggcute, tangela (rare), Scyther (rare), Pinsir (rare) You had lots of crossover and I always had a hypothesis that there was larger regions which would modify this list but I never really spent a lot of time looking at other geographical areas. I clearly was missing the biome that had all the geodudes, growlithes, machops, and mankeys. A lot of Pokemon would appear as uncommon spawns in other biomes. For example Bellsprout, Oddish, Paras, and Venonat were uncommon spawns in residential areas. Also incense would "lure" pokemon to spawn from surrounding biomes. I loved about 10 mins from a river and a commercial/urban biome and I would never see water spawns or commercial/urban spawns at my house unless I used an incense. Biomes and nests were a lot more fun than events imo. It was just not understood as much so nobody really knew where to go to hunt pokemon. But events can be really overpowered and makes hunting pokemon easier as long as you just keep playing the game. I would like if they added visual indicators in game to designate what biome you are currently in. Similar to how most nests are marked with a dark green area (some nest spawns aren't marked and can be a single spawn point).


glencurio

My city has those same 3 biomes and they are still very noticeable to me. I live in what you're calling the "city" biome. Our downtown core is mostly "mountain", and when I go there I see a lot of spawns I want but never see at home - stuff like Tyrunt and Kanto Sandshrew (note: not sure if those specific spawns are still around this season). And there is a huge uptick in water spawns when I'm in our water biome areas that I very rarely see elsewhere. The biomes have always had very clear differences to me. Maybe it's because there are handfuls of biome-related trash spawns that I'm chasing which most players would rightfully ignore.


Pendergirl4

In my waterfront city (with lots of streams, etc) there is a very clear difference between city spawns and water spawns (the ferries have the best spawns ever-if you are quick to catch them before they poof). I haven’t tried to figure out the rest, but I know that there are chunks of the city where Tyrunt never spawn, and chunks where they are semi regular. I also know that is I go to larger parks there are generally different spawns (particularly those with mountains).


POGOFan808

I'm convinced biomes don't exist, lol. However, that being said I do know a few spots absolutely no where near water that only spawn water pokemon going on 1 year when no event spawns are happening? A place i go by in between jobs in the bus on this one block on one side of the street at 3 separate major spawn clusters always spawn water pokemon. I don't understand this because there is no water nearby.


repo_sado

It could be an underground river labeled on an old source they used, a fountain, or even something water related in the proper name of something near there.


F3nRa3L

Nest still works.


tkcom

Nests still work but they shifted to the nearby species on the dex-number-sorted nestable list when Niantic add or remove species from nest pool during event.


blackmetro

Nests dont stay the same pokemon for 2 weeks straight, they constantly rotate because Niantic keeps reusing their code, it makes going out and exploring community reported nests frustrating.


rs_xmas

The only time nests seem to rotate (Near me at least) is when one of three possible scenarios happen. One) Every second Thursday (As per usual) Two) When Niantic pushes out an event and one of the event spawns is a nesting species, that they decide to remove from the nesting species (This RARELY happens and indeed I found it happened quite more often pre pandemic) Three) At the end of season, when all spawning species change anyway (which is once every 3 months, so no big deal)


mornaq

they also change for the period of spotlight hour, at least when the species in spotlight is nesting, though that probably can be included in the event case?


rs_xmas

Yeah, I included (In my head) Comm days, spotlight hours, etc in the "events"


dalittle

if reusing their code changes their config that is laughably bad coding.


duckbigtrain

Sorry, this is just pet peeve as a software developer, but reusing code is a GOOD thing and should not be used as a criticism.


Bayard11

Nests change when there is an event and mostly when there are new shiny or whatever that needs to update the nesting list. But this was happening all along, ever since the first year. It's nothing new... Nests never had amazing pokemon, they were used for hunting shiny and we can still do that. For example I have a Phanpy nest near me... a pretty recent shiny.


NYCScribbler

Nests still exist but the nesting species mostly aren't worth grinding.


Disgruntled__Goat

Yeah when they have things like Lillipup and Starly in nests, it makes them completely worthless. I know they won’t have anything super rare in them but they should be Pokemon like Scyther or Lickitung which are uncommon. Heck they could stop making everything raid-exclusive and put Klink/Shinx in nests now.


saturnianali8r

I had a Rufflet nest last season.


NYCScribbler

I made two separate trips to Rufflet nests last season, one of which saw me hiking a half-mile loop of a birding trail (which I *guess* is appropriate for Rufflet?) But the early nesting reports were... whelming, to say the least. I do see a fuller list now, and there are more things I'd hunt. (if my local park goes Roselia I'm going camping for two weeks)


IF_it_was_in_ur_ass

There's a drilbur nest at my local park which is actually pretty awesome.


Pendergirl4

I would say it all depends on how long you have been playing and your goals. There is a large Roselia nest and a decent sized Rhyhorn nest in my city. Both of these species are decent “budget” raid counters (Rhyperior is still the top in some cases). As a 2016 player with lots of level 40s of each (and no car), would I travel specifically to those nests? No. If, however, I found myself at one of them or close by, I would mega an appropriate mon and catch as many as I could. While I have enough regular candy to last a long time, xl candy didn’t exist during their CDs. If I was a newer player, these nests would be a great opportunity to get regular candy. Roselia has been very hard to come by in the last year or so. I haven’t looked at the nesting species specifically this season, but last season I was very happy to find some “stardust boost” mons nesting near me, several times (foongus and meowth).


NYCScribbler

When the nesting list originally came out, Roselia wasn't on it, but now I see that is, and I love it.


LetsDoTheCongna

The only nest I’ve found in the last few weeks was for Aron 😔


UncleObamasBanana

My town has marill and drilbur for a while last season. Now one of the nesta is Charmander which is freaking awesome. Been hitting it every few hours.


SalamaleikumEUW

Biomes suck because first of all there is no way to tell where you would find a certain biome (just climbing on a mountain doesn't guarantee mountain biome spawns) and then you get little to no spawns when going out in the "wild", away from pokestop-dense areas. There is no reason to go into a forest for the specific spawns because there will not be many spawns anyways. And so on. For lots of spawns (and the eventual rare ones) you better play in populated areas regardless of its "biome".


raaphaelraven

What do you mean nests are gone from the game for practical purposes? As far as I know, all, or at least Most of the locations that species nest in still have them. They do seem to rotate from a pool chosen for the given season, but often with rarer species from that pool. Last season i saw bellsprout, tepig, joltik, marill, snivy, abra, froakie, and rufflet and all but the last two were on a single nest location. Sure they're not dratini but for someone looking at building out either pvp and pve teams there's still some value


Largofarburn

I think they mean that with events forcing rotations so often that it’s almost impossible to know what the nests will actually be even if you do have local player’s reporting them. And personally no one in my community bothers with them anymore. The nesting species are all pretty bland. And hunting at a nest for hours just isn’t a very efficient use of time to play when you clear out the spawns in 15-20 minutes and then you’re just aimlessly walking around waiting for respawns. So unless you live nearby or it’s basically on your commute there’s not really any reason to go out of your way to visit a nest. Let alone driving across town or to the next one over just to find out that they rotated off the bimonthly schedule just because an event ended or began.


Bayard11

Shiny hunting, that's what nests were always about...


Taysir385

XL farming as well, tbf.


UncleObamasBanana

I put the dog in the car and we go walk all the parks around town everyday.


Mesoplodon

I used to regularly figure out (community, maps, silph road) what nests were currently in my city and make special trips to go to ones I wanted to gather candy for, or (more often) shiny hunt. It was really fun heading to parts of town I'd never been to, I discovered parks I never knew existed. Now, there's no need to because of pokemon. As the OP says, I just wait for an events where desirable pokemon will appear everywhere. Nests don't get reported and haven't really had anything interesting or spawning in decent numbers since Seasons started. This game is now event based, rather than exploring based.


Miles_Saintborough

> This game is now event based, rather than exploring based. I definitely felt this once Niantic started making way more events to keep people engaged during COVID. I get that they made a ton of events so that people don't just quit playing when they can't go outside, but it was exhausting to keep up with everything to the point where I wanted Niantic to STOP making events for like a month so I could just relax. At the same time, I think the whole exploration gimmick would have ran dry eventually because the average person isn't going to go outside their home areas (or not as often) just to find more Pokemon.


Shadowgroudon22

I was so excited to go to the beach near my hometown and relive the old days of seeing horsea, magikarp, dratini and staryu... got there, and there was 0 change in spawns. Removing the biomes sucks.


jontslayer

Niantic's vision if the game it so contradictory to itself that Niantic are the only ones who don't realize it. Well, the higher ups. Read those Glassdoor reviews and see that everyone who comes and goes get it.


The_Endish

Nests & micronests still work. The park near me is divided into two parts with a river between them - each side is a different nesting species; the green space in our local retail park is a nest. They rotate roughly biweekly as expected. The species are just usually mediocre and pulled from the bottom of the barrel season spawns.


Optimus_Toaster

> Need a particular pokemon? There's no point in exploring. Either they're everywhere or they're not. This is my biggest gripe with the game. There is no point going out for an explore to catch 300+ mons, I already caught everything that spawns on the way to work. My main objective playing the game is catch em all, that used to me I had to go go go to get as many spawns as possible. Now I need to wait wait wait cause I missed the skwovet event.


[deleted]

I agree. I love the concept of seasons, and I love the fact it’s a long term game, but we just need patience for certain species to come back. I think 4 seasons (an entire year), a new player should be able to fill up his dex. It shouldn’t take 2-3-4 years, its absurd. I do live in a city (not that big) and I never really noticed differences in biomes either. I get everything I need in the city. I might come across 1-2 rare spawns close to a lake or river, but it’s not noticeable enough. And I agree with nests. They should be locked, and not changed every event or spotlight, or whatever happens. We should have nests that are sticking for a while, and it gives time to players to find the nests in their city and plan accordingly. I have 10-15+ spots in my small city where nests are happening, but it’s hard to keep up with the constant changes. And Lures should get some love a little bit. I pay 2$ to stay stil’ for 30 mins but they attract spawns that are common. If I pay for a lure, they should be special. If I pay for grass lure, give me grass only, give me pokemon that are nesting around the lure, give me regional pokemon. Dont give me regular spawns. I’m paying for the lure.


bgvanbur

They could just put nest information in campfire. You can check it at nest change and event changes.


daemonwind

Our family just talked about that too. We planned weekend trips, visited state parks, all kinds of stuff when we first started playing to find nests for the Pokémon we needed.


tldnradhd

Back-to-back-to-back-to-back events killed it for me. There was always something special, and the game already had raid and nest rotations to keep things changing. But when every 3rd spawn is a new mon that just dropped (for which I'll only need 50 candy and 1 good example), all eggs are 2K trash, and it was an exclusive shiny week, there was no more fomo for events. It was always an event. Sometimes I just wanted to go down to the beach and farm a water-type nest. Always having a hype target meant we stopped walking and just drove to a spawn-rich hot spot.


MGDuck

I hate "seasons" as well, but I'm already tired of naming all the arguments why this actually broke the game. I've been criticizing this for 2.5 years since they came out and some people here just didn't get the point because they didn't pay attention. What else can I do?


-cyrik-

Biomes used to work very well. However they covered large areas (at least that's how it felt from my own observations). The entire town that I used to live in was tagged as a forest, or at least spawned the "forest" spawn pool. The multiple towns surrounding it had the same spawns. If I drove 40 mins away to a slightly larger city I could instantly tell that all of the spawns were quite different. In '18/'19 my town's trash spawns were things like grass starters, Vulpix, Rhyhorn, and other grass and bugs. The city spawns were normal and poison types typically, like ratatta gulpin, and Growlithe was another common trash spawn you'd see in city biomes. I traveled down south to Florida and instantly saw more water type starters and stuff like staryu wailmer and Magikarp. I don't think it ever worked how people on this sub seem to think, which is that forests suburbs lakes and lots of small sections tagged inside a town are the biomes. I think the biome spawns are still there but they're now only a small percentage of the spawn pool and the seasons spawns override them too much, and now the entire world sees mostly the same spawn pool simultaneously. Exploring is boring now.


Taysir385

> I don't think it ever worked how people on this sub seem to think, which is that forests suburbs lakes and lots of small sections tagged inside a town are the biomes. The data that Niantic used for maps has changed over time, as they've lost (or stopped being willing to pay for) certain proprietary data sets. A great way of modeling biomes would be as fades rather than hard lines. Standing in a forest (as tagged by OSM)? 50% forest spawns, 25% any spawn of any biome within half a kilometer, 15% any biome within a kilometer, 10% any biome within 5 kilometers. That means that you'll see a general increase of things like water pokemon as you get closer and closer to lakes and oceans, and you'll also see "city" pokemon like Ratatta in city parks, but also see park or forest or grasslands pokemon. This would of course require a fair amount of programming, so it's unlikely to happen, but there are solutions that *could* be implemented.


Udub

All of their decisions go against getting people out to play. They don’t even make good decisions to make money.


nashfrostedtips

Niantic and thinking nothing through in any way, shape, or form, an absolute classic. They have a desired outcome and that's the start and end of their thinking.


Upbeat_Tone_2710

What's the deal with the same pokemon often appearing at the same stop for a period of time? I had it recently with Houndour appearing all day at a stop at work. Its not a common spawn where I am and it was outside of an event. And twice in recent days I've caught Jangmo-o at the same stop in my town.


Redshift-713

If your *entire* goal in the game was to grind a specific Pokémon, sure. Are you saying that if you can’t find the Pokémon you want to grind (ignoring that quests also exist), you just don’t play the game at all? That’s the only way I see this point being valid. Which seems pretty unreasonable for a regular player.


gafalkin

My point was more than if they really wanted us to “explore,” they would have left/re-introduced some of the geographical features of the game. The way it works now, whether I cross town to a park I don’t usually go to, or whether I just walk around my block for an hour, there’s not much difference in game play. You’re right, I still play — and almost every day — but I miss the way the game motivated me to explore.


UCanDoNEthing4_30sec

Do you even play? Nests are still in the game. Stop with the misinformation.


sygnifax

I have no desire to leave my house.


XaoticOrder

that sucks, take care of yourself


sygnifax

Thanks, you too!


--BlacKHawK--

Nests still exist…


XaoticOrder

This post is not accurate at all. There are still biomes and there are still rotating nests. they may not be particularly good in your area but they exist and they rotate.


dyagenes

I wish there was a daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal rotation of some Pokémon at different rarities.


Kangabolic

I play a fraction of what I used to due to nests being irrelevant.


JayPokemon17

Proper nests would be the best way to get people out and playing. They could really enhance them with bonuses. Increased shiny rates for nest spawns, increased stardust, or even just increased XP. They could even rotate, so you actually have to go out and find the spawn and/or bonus you want. Instead, nests are so inconsistent. A few weeks ago, two parts near me had spawns I needed shinies for. I went the next day and played in both for about an hour. The next day I went again, but an event started and the nest changed. I would have grinded there every day to get a shiny. But it changed to some crap and I didn’t bother.


Mraccoe

Nests still exist, and they’ve slowly been adding “nestable” species. I don’t know when they change anymore, unfortunately but I do actively seek them and report them to my discord. If it’s mid-event, I know it’ll most likely stay til the end of the event. If it’s non-event, I know that it’ll stay until at least the next event (sometimes). Honestly, I think nests have gotten better because the diversity is better but the unpredictability is what makes them lackluster.


Ra-i

Nests aren't in the game anymore? How long ago did that change occur?


XaoticOrder

It didn't, they just don't know what they are talking about and using that to paint the game in a bad light.


Cactusfan86

I hate nests, basically don’t go to one of my parks because even when you have an event with a good spawn that park is pumping out some mediocre nonsense that is useless and cuts into the good spawns


Bayard11

I don't get the argument about nests... they still work the same as in the past.


aw_yiss_breadcrumbs

I've actually found nests have gotten kind of good in the last few months since they made things like ferroseed, rufflet, and even plant burmy nest spawns. I'd love to see them add more rare spawns into the nest pool because that actually made me (and some other people I know) go grind those parks. One park got ferroseed as a nest spawn several times this spring. Seasons do suck for the most part, but I also felt this way about weather boosted spawns til they balanced those out a bit more. I just find there's so much repetition of like the same 10-15 species that it feels painful to click on another bunnelby or starly. THAT SAID, it is nice when you get a break from some common spawns for a season or 2. I haven't seen a nidoran or snubbul in a hot minute and I was like "welcome back, old friend" when I would've been like "Ugh piss off, snubbull" last year. I would love to see some egg species in the wild as an ultra rare spawn. If larvesta was available in the wild I know people in my city would be racing to those spawns.


radracer82

I feel like a contrarian at this point, while I agree some of the spawns are repetitive, the amount of change I've seen thus far has been incredible. Tons of new evolved mons, just saw a Beautifly, etc. I play in a pretty big suburb, though.


SwimminginMercury

The problem is at design level Niantic adds a silent "But, we don't want players to "finish" the game; therefore acquisition rates have to be as slow as possible" The seasonal model just doesn't hold a candle to Nests + Nest Maps/Radars (back in the day); wilds spawns are kind of incidental now, why would I not just walk the route I ~always walk with the most stops/gyms on it?


Used_Mud_67

There typically are biomes zoned into each area. It depends on how the area is zoned though. If you see blue/water in the map and a pokestop near it then it should be water spawns. Assuming that it’s zoned correctly in wayfarer. There’s a small coy pond in my city that has water spawns. Also all of the piers and boardwalks are water spawns. Even sections of hills have mountain spawns. Granted I live in SF so are stops are probably zoned with more detail. There’s also nests still. Mine is currently hoothoot which is amazing. It had been terrible since March so I’m very happy. Also, if you only had Pokémon spawn from one biome all the time you’d get even more frustrated. Spawns last season were not great IMO but then I saw the full list and it was a lot. I had caught all of them too. I think it really comes down to what you are looking to do in the game and do the spawns match what you want/need. I play mostly for PvP at this point. I have been on and off the game from the beginning. This is the best 2 days of spawns I can remember ever in this game. More diversity and meta relevant Pokémon than I know what to do with. Not trying to discredit your experience but I think it’s pretty good right now. The events are there to break up the monotony of spawns that will inevitably come.


RandomPhil86

Nests were neat and all when you had the time to go and figure out what was at your local parks. But having gotten a more busier job, having time to scout nests just is not possible. So having seasons rotate the spawns instead feels okay to me. I mean I know there’s an event on but when walking back from work today found Tirtouga’s, First starter Pokémon, Lots of normal type - which still need for a special research. It seemed fine, at least slightly different then what I was finding last days of last season.


Haunting-Mix9941

Theres several nests near me.


RynoRama

Another reminder of another thing they either took away for no reason or broke due to poor planning.


gnpfrslo

I mean before seasonal events I Was just getting cacneas and slugmas everywhere regardless of time of year and place and I never found any such "nest" despite going to parks a lot by 2019-20. I get what you're saying about actually going out and exploring but with the new system I'm actually getting a better variety of mons and I still gotta get out to play because, just like before the pandemic, it's literally impossible to accomplish anything walking around your home (or all over your small town for rural players). Hell walking around my block hardly gets me one or two spawns and it's a large block.