Why We Don't Battle Before Catching Pokemon

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We can thank Pokemon's mascot Pikachu for allowing us to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go without the hassle of battling them first. I personally liked that part of encountering and catching Pokemon but it's kool... it's kool. This isn't a confirmed easter egg, though if Niantic included this scene from the anime into the game, it would be an easter egg. 

If you haven't watched the anime, then hold up before reading the rest of this post. It may contain spoilers. If you don't wish to watch the anime, and or spoilers don't matter to you, then go right ahead and continue reading.  

This scene begins with Ash stumbling upon everyone's "favorite" Pokemon to catch, Pidgey. Ash demands Pikachu to attack, which instead of listening to his trainer, Pikachu decides to find itself a limb to climb on and lay down. Ash, being the stubborn trainer he is, decided he doesn't need Pikachu's help, he can just catch the famous Pokemon by simply throwing a Pokeball at it.



This can also be done in the games; not weakening a Pokemon before trying to catch it. Ash isn't the only stubborn master. It is more plausible that this feature was put in the game to speed gameplay up a bit. The main objective is to "catch'em all". But... it's more fun to believe this was an easter egg intended to be found. Niantic confirmed a while ago, there were still several unfound easter eggs within the coding. I'm unsure of how to find out for sure, we all know Niantic won't respond, but I may have found other easter eggs in the game, so I will be covering what I have found over the next few days.

One thing that would have been nice for Niantic to do; like in the first episode of the anime, Ask doesn't catch Pidgey and it ends up fleeing. Did Ash lose his Pokeball? No! But It's okay that's not a very important feature. Who knows maybe you don't lose a Pokeball after a Pidgey flees, I sure haven't been paying attention to that. 

How Much Stardust You Get From Eggs

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This may not be 100% useful information, but interesting nonetheless. This past week I have been collecting candy and egg data of 2km, 5km, and 10km eggs. It all started when I was typing my "Get the Most out of Thanksgiving" post. I was hoping to include both experience gain and stardust bonuses, but I couldn't find any figures over how much stardust is gained from hatching eggs.

I spent a good half hour to an hour seeing many people searching, but no one with the answer. I don't have a whole lot of data so when you hatch eggs, don't worry about the candy, I have the candy numbers marked in the top columns, all I need from you is the amount of stardust respectfully placed in the correct "candy" column.
2km Eggs
5km Eggs
10km Eggs

Based on the figured I have done so far, 2km eggs are the best to hatch if you want to farm stardust, but 10km eggs give the most stardust per candy ranging around 80-100 stardust per candy while 5km and 2km eggs range from 60-80 stardust per candy. To get these figures, just divide the amount of stardust by the amount of candies.

The reason 2km eggs are better to farm; even though you can't choose which egg you get, you can still focus on certain ones, the distance traveled for 10km eggs can still give you 1600 stardust which is the max amount for 5km eggs. This makes the average stardust given from 10kms anywhere from 160-320 stardust per kilometer, 160-320 for 5km eggs, and as for 2km eggs, 200-400 stardust per kilometer.

Those 2km eggs seem to be a lot of unwanted Pokemon and are the most hated egg to get, the now seem to hold a better purpose than what's inside. 10km eggs on the other hand, if you have all the Pokemon you can hatch from them, are almost useless in the sense of stardust, candies to even; 16 candies from walking 10 kilometers, no thank you.

Still uncertain, I think you get a base amount of stardust, depending on the eggs you hatch. The bases I believe are the same as the experience; 2km 200 experience, 5km 500 experience, 10km 1000 experience. This would be irrelevant if true because either way you get so much per candy and it will be hard to determine rather or not this is true.

There is a Missing Team in Pokemon Go?

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Returning to the joys of my childhood TV series, Pokemon Indigo League, I came across a few stunning scenes. Though this is all fan based, it is still fun to believe that the Pokemon world is deeper than what as kids, once thought. I highly recommend, no matter your age, you watch the anime series.

Here is what I have found thus far...

It's just Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur, right? Look closely, not too closely, though or you can clearly see that I just used my phone to take this picture; I don't own any of these Pictures. If you can see that then you are looking to hard! I want you young and old trainers to look at the symbols setting behind the Pokemon.

Squirtle's symbol is red, Charmander's Blue, and Bulbasaur's Yellow. Meaning, in the Pokemon Go community, Squirtle belongs to Valor, Charmander belongs to Mystic, and Bulbasaur belongs to instinct. I can safely say, I am a true instinct. 

Where does that put Pikachu then? Ash starts with him, does that mean Ash isn't a part of a team? Or, just hear me out now, Ash could secretly be a part of team rocket? No, no, no, that wouldn't make sense because team rocket is always after Pikachu. But does that mean Team rocket isn't the missing team? Well, I'm not sure yet. Things got a little hairy as I progressed through the second episode.

This is an ancient hieroglyphic found while archeologist discovered King Tuts pyramid; not really, that would be interesting, though. The hieroglyphic above shows Moltres, Articuno, Zapdos, and Arcanine. Moltres, Articuno, and Zapdos; also known as the legendary birds are Pokemon goes team symbols. 

Moltres is team Valor, Articuno is Mystic, and Zapdos is Instinct. Where's Arcanine and its team? First of all the color would be green as seen in the picture above, but Zapdos is green and Arcanine is Yellow. Is it Possible Instinct took out this "green" team? 

Let's try and see if we can come up with a name for this so-called 4th team. A friend and I pondered over it for a brief moment and decided on Team Legend. There is a reason I agreed with him, that I didn't mention to him. We will go over the definitions of the team names really quick, shall we. 

Valor: great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle

Mystic: a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

Instinct: an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli

Legend: a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated

Something tells me "legend" isn't the most accurate guess, but it works. Arcanine's Pokedex entry is "a Legendary Pokémon, Arcanine is known for its bravery and fierce loyalty." That is why I sided with my friend on "Legend" being the missing team. 

What happened to team "Legend"? Could team Legend be team Rocket, or did Instinct win the theorized Pokewar? 

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