The egg pool in Pokémon GO is currently quite disappointing, says MeinMMO editor Noah Struthoff. He mentions 3 reasons why the eggs should be revised.
Here’s the current situation regarding the egg pool: It almost seems like Niantic has forgotten the egg pool. For months there has been no rotation, and you feel like you only get 5 different monsters from the eggs.
You can see the complete egg pool in our egg list 2020 for Pokémon GO.
I haven’t been actively hatching eggs for a while now; I just let the infinite incubator run. When I have 9 10-km- eggs in my inventory, I do use the bought incubators, but I still get frustrated with the contents.
In my opinion, there are primarily 3 reasons why the egg pool is currently so poor and urgently needs a revision.
Reason 1: Nothing has changed for months
The basic egg pool has remained the same since the beginning of the year. Since then, some new Pokémon from Gen 5 have been added here and there, but you can almost count them on one hand.
The adjustments to the egg pool have not been very significant; Niantic stated at the end of December 2019 that they had made larger adjustments.
Since then, you find the same monsters in the eggs, which is pretty disappointing. In any case, the Pokémon you get from the eggs are mostly not useful, but at least I would appreciate a bit of variety.
Currently, I find Pokémon like Picochilla, Ponita, Felilou and Toxiped incredibly common. If I could at least hatch a few other duds instead, that would be a bit refreshing.
Reason 2: The Pokémon are mostly bad
As mentioned above, the quality of the eggs is not very impressive. Most of the Pokémon are simply bad and can usually be thrown away without even looking.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want the rarest Pokémon to be thrown at me here. But I would wish for a few more useful monsters. Rotomurf, Machollo, Elektek or Kokonodon have strong evolutions and thus belong to the best attackers in the game, but are no longer found in the eggs.
Instead, some duds could be completely thrown out. I actually haven’t seen anyone who was happy about a Toxiped or a Schwallquap in the eggs.
Reason 3: Really good Pokémon are just too rare
The egg pool contains some rare Pokémon, such as Kapuno or Milza. These are also real highlights in the eggs, but they are just way too rare.
Of course, such Pokémon should be rarer in the eggs, but the chance is almost cheeky. For example, if you look at the egg list on TheSilphRoad, the chance for Kapuno and Milza is one percent. In 310 10-km-eggs, there were only 4 Kapuno and just 3 Milza.
Instead, the 10-km-eggs contain Pokémon like Barschwa or Golbit. They and their evolutions are useless and are also extremely common. Among the 310 eggs from TheSilphRoad, it was 72x Barschwa. I also have the Pokémon in every 3rd 10-km-egg. In my opinion, the chance of really rare Pokémon should be increased a bit.
However, there is good news in the daily quests. There it seems Niantic has removed the annoying raid task.
