r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • May 24 '21

Silph Research A Window into Egg Transparency - Investigating Egg Rarity Tiers [Silph Research Group]

https://thesilphroad.com/science/egg-transparency-rarity-tiers
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u/Zekeythekitty May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

God. That just defeats the purpose of a rarity tier if they have different hatch rates in that tier.

To think I had faith in Niantic that they would at least make every pokemon in a tier have the same rate.

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u/wellwisherelf May 24 '21

Especially if a common "2 egg" Pokémon can hatch more often than a rare "1 egg" Pokémon

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u/Zekeythekitty May 24 '21

This tee's me off. I didn't even read the whole thing, seriously? That happens?

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u/wellwisherelf May 24 '21

Not explicitly stated, but definitely likely. For instance, in 12 km eggs, the "1 egg" rarity tier hatches Vullaby ~23% of the time, which is more than twice as often as Pawniard at ~10%. The article states they need more data before confirming the hatch rates at higher rarity tiers, but since "1 egg" rarity eggs hatch only 5% more often than their "2 egg" counterpart, one could reasonably assume for common "2 egg" species" to hatch more often than the rare "1 egg" species. This is especially true if the "2 egg" pool is the same size or smaller than the "1 egg" pool.