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Quote from Riako

I see some comments saying that certain Pokemon should be excluded from the EggDex count.

I personally disagree with this. We are talking about shiny hunting literally the ultimate Pokemon. Mewtwo, Deoxys, etc. are meant to be the ultimate rewards for the Dex.
If someone really reaches the point where shiny Arceus (or the others) becomes a serious concern for their collection (e.g. shiny Dex), then I'm convinced that they're also able to get their hands on a ditto egg, the Regi eggs etc.

For some, these are hard to get, sure. But none of them are impossible.
And again: hunting these shiny Dex rewards is like the "ultimate long-term goal". It's not something a player should aim towards after "only" a few hundred hours of game time

Full agree. I also think that excluding certain eggdexes wouldn't be a good idea.

I'm aware that some of the eggdexes can be tricky to be obtained (like magearna or some gem legends) but we don't have to forget that this is a boost reward. You can still hunt those legends without the boost, but slower.

There are plenty of species to hunt before these legends and, under my point of view, this boost is thought for those who completed most part of the goals in game.

Also excluding them, just because they are hard to get, will just make it easy for everyone to obtain the boosts.


It's meant to be challenging, that's why there are some people (like me) try and get 100% egg dex for each region so it feels like you fully completed it. Or even more challenging get 100% OT for all of the mons.

If the game becomes too easy, people will get bored. People who have completed all their pokedex can now have another goal if this gets implemented.

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I don't think ANY eggs should be excluded from the percentage. For pretty much the same reason others have been saying.

If you do a prize for every eggdex section, then I think the ever asked for increased event breeding chance for the Emera eggdex would be great. There's no reward for the regular completion, but people who have the eggdex completed for that are more likely to be the people who are shiny/SM hunting events.

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Note aside regarding the suggestion some people did in comments about eggdex reward for emera pokemon:
I full agree that an increased event breeding chance for the Emera eggdex would be great. But I see a couple problems on it:

1) Unlike regional pokedexes, Emera pokemon are always growing with every new event release. So, the best way to implement it would be to set an specific amount of eggdexes to accomplish the reward for this specific region.

2) There are still some pokemon whose eggdex are unobtainable (color magikarps mostly, because retro tentacool belongs to a different group). Giving them a way to be obtained or deleting their eggdex would be required.