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Any tips on catching rare Pokémon?

So I have some of the rarest Pokémon but can still not seem to find some of the rarer Pokémon. Does anybody have any tips on finding chimecho, bagons, trapinches, mudkips, ralts, Baltoy, lileep, beldum, and of course uknown. I live near a couple cities that I can occanisionly go to but I primarily catch a lot where I live, which is a small neibourhood with a couple poke stops here and their. Any tips on cracking down on these rarer Pokémon.

Asked by mrcake3317 years 4 months ago
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by pipjay 7 years 4 months ago

Some of those might be weather and/or biome dependent.

I am in a desert/grass biome and see frequent Trapinch, Baltoy, and Lileep in sunny weather. Get tons of all the grass and fire starters, hardly any water starters.

Ralts spawns a lot in windy and cloudy weather. Bagon and Beldum are pretty rare, but should probably spawn more with wind also.

Chimeco reportedly was spawning a lot during the only Gen3 event, but has dropped off since then.

Unown... best chance other than a local scanner (and still incredibly rare even then) is to go to an event where they spawn spelling out a word.

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Unown is THE rarest pokemon in the game. Encountering one outside of an event without a map is as likely as winning in the lottery. Either get absurdly lucky or travel to an event.
Beldum and Bagon are pseudo-legendaries, expect them to be as rare as Larvitar.
The rest you listed are biome/weather-dependent. Very rare in the wrong biome and wrong weather.

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This is what I see in my area in Bucharest:
Mudkip is almost everywhere, but not as common as dust fodder. It's there no matter the weather. But I still liek mudkipz enough to catch it when I see it.

ralts - almost as common as mudkip, can be found in parks but may pop up in areas with buildings too, especially at playgrounds.

baltoy - sometimes pops up almost as much as mudkip. Your best bet is to find a nest though.

lileep and anorith - these appear during partly cloudy. Keep an eye out. Best found in some parks.

beldum - I see one from time to time in a park, sometimes they arrive at the playground near me, it's not really rare here.

unown - I've never found one, but some people put it in gyms here.

trapinch, chimecho & bagon - i've never seen a wild one, so your best bet is to hatch them out of 10km eggs.

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Most of my rare evolutions are from hatching. I might run into a rare once in a blue moon but never enough to evolve a final form.
Hatch as many eggs as you can afford.

I've been told that the higher trainer level you are, you're able to see more rare spawns. What level are you currently?

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Agree on hatching eggs. The pool is quite large thought. It's going to be difficult to hatch what you need.

Weather conditions definitely help. Ralts becomes fairly common under windy or cloudy weather. Mudkip in rain. Beldun seems to spawn more with wind, but it is still one of the rarest together with bagon.

I don't think that level influences wild encounters. Not in PoGo.

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I think your best bet is to look for them during their boosted weathers, especially windy for beldum and bagon.

I managed to catch three beldums near where I work on a windy day last week and where I work is in no means a very diverse biome.

Haven't run into a bagon or trapinch yet, but see notifications of them from time to time in my discord. These are probably better left to egg hatching or events (like the rock event last spring, the only time I ever really saw wild larvitars before weather).

If you're in a rural area and don't have a scanner, the best advice would be to go to an area that you know has a lot of spawn points when the weather is posted as windy.

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Wait for the correct weather and hope.

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In my area of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Machops are most common, more common than Pidgey, Rattata, Natu, Hoothoot etc. Clefairy is also rather common, followed by the Nidorans. No problem at all with this arrangement. This was the case even before 'weather'; I've now got a Dothraki-scale horde of weather-boosted Machamps to tear down the typical gym defenders.

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I see lileep, along with other rares (anorith, omanyte) on the beach or at the coast a lot. Mudkip nest. I see ralts sometimes (grass biome, may be weather dependent).

Some others can be hatched, but some (unown, and of course regionals) I don't expect to ever catch.

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