Nests in Pokémon GO are a cool feature, our author Noah thinks, but lately they have become increasingly useless. Here we explain how nests could become more interesting again.
What are nests? Parks or green areas that are also recorded as such on OpenStreetMap are usually nests. Here you will always find a certain species of Pokémon spawning more frequently.
Almost every Pokémon has nests, except for the really rare monsters. Since the release, Niantic has been following this concept, but by now it is simply no longer useful for me.
Nests are often useless – change is needed
This is the situation in my city: It has been ages since I last enjoyed a nest in my city. We have 5 really good nests in our small town that hold many Pokémon, but recently I didn’t want to catch any of these Pokémon.
Nests of Dummisel, Mantax, or Magmar are piling up here, and really useful Pokémon have not been around for a long time. I often take a wide detour around the parks in my city when I know I’ll encounter ball eaters that bring me nothing at all.
Recently, the largest park in our city was blocked for two whole months. Starting with Dummisel, Baldorfish followed, then Girafarig, again Dummisel, and finally a Schluppuck nest. All Pokémon that have no value whatsoever or at least can be shiny.
This is the problem: Currently, there are simply too many Pokémon that can appear in nests in Pokémon GO. Many of these monsters are simply useless and block the park for two weeks until a nest change finally occurs.
There are so many monsters that are just pointless. Why is there a Schluppuck nest when the Pokémon is sitting on every corner anyway? What do I need a nest with 20 Baldorfish for when the Pokémon is bad and cannot even be evolved?
Add to that, nests of starters are now just annoying. Every starter Pokémon that has had a community day, you simply do not want to see in nests anymore. You have hundreds of candies, numerous shinies, and balls that are too precious for an 800 CP Flemmli.
This is how nests used to be: For me, nests in Pokémon GO at the time of release were one of the best features in the game. I remember my trip to Milan in the summer of 2016, where I spent an entire day in a huge Glumanda nest. To this day, it remains one of my best memories of Pokémon GO.
The list of potential nest Pokémon was not very long, and almost every monster could be at least somewhat useful. I was always excited about nests of Kabuto or Amonitas because that was really rare back then.
Of course, there were also some duds as nests back then, but 80% of the nest Pokémon were really good.
This needs to change now: The principle of nests has been the same since 2016. A revision is urgently needed here. Pokémon that cannot be shiny yet and sit on almost every corner have no place in nests in my opinion.
A while ago, they removed common Pokémon like Taubsi or Rattfratz from nests; nowadays, I would be glad to have these Pokémon back. In return, you can gladly remove Schluppuck or Mantax.
Likewise, there is no need for Baldorfish or Girafarig nests anymore. The Pokémon has been in the game since 2017 and the majority of the community should now own an example. You can spawn the monsters a little more frequently in the normal wild to fill the PokéDex as well.
In return, all potential shinies, except the starter Pokémon, could appear in nests. This way, nests can effectively be used to farm a shiny. Pokémon like Tanhel, Larvitar, or Dratini could also be added to the nest Pokémon. After community days, everyone should have them, but unlike most starters, they are at least still useful.
Nests need to finally receive a fundamental overhaul for me so that I don’t have to take a wide detour around my city parks anymore, but can also enjoy visiting the nests.
It seems that while the nests will not be revised soon, the weather will be:
