Pokemon Go's Wild Spawns Prove I Am Cursed

thegamer.com:

I am a cursed Pokemon Go player. Despite the fact there is no worthwhile daily reward system or routine (as I have complained about recently), I still play the game most days and keep my trainer level ticking along. Catching wild Pokemon used to be the only thing the game was about, but (as I've also complained about before) wild Pokemon barely matter now. Whenever new Pokemon debut, they may have a period of semi-regular spawns, but after a while they fade away to be replaced by the usual fodder. As you might have guessed by now, I complain about Pokemon Go a lot, even though I love it, and I'm here to do the same today. Now though, I'm not complaining about any specific mechanic in the game, but about life, and how it hates me.

Catching Pokemon isn’t really a viable way to fill my PokeDex anymore, so that leaves me with three options: win rare candies, hatch eggs, or walk my buddies. The first one is fairly unreliable, but can often be a major reward. As a solo player, I can only really do raids up to three stars, meaning I get limited candies at a time. Also, as a casual and more stationary player, I don't participate in raids regularly - maybe two or three times a week at most. Still, I can collect a decent amount of candies through this, plus the special research rewards, and I can't begrudge the game for offering fairly simple ways to accrue more that I have chosen not to engage with.

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Even though I'm a more stationary and casual player, thanks to Adventure Sync I don't need to be playing Pokemon Go when I'm out and about for it to track my steps. While eggs are unreliable, take a long time to hatch, and are often full of fodder, this makes buddy walking the most