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Hiidoran July 17th, 2016 8:09 PM

So much for Farfetch'd...
 

So a few places now, including Serebii, are now claiming there are at least four continent-exclusive Pokémon:

  • Farfetch'd - Asia
  • Kangaskhan - Australia
  • Tauros - North America
  • Mr. Mime - Europe

While I believe the consensus is that you can still hatch these Pokémon outside of their respective continents (?), there are no places to find them catchable in the wild outside of them. Which throws a real wrench into my plan to start a Farfetch'd army, honestly.

What do you all think about this? Are you angry you can't get three of these in the wild? Or does this whole thing seem too, well, Farfetch'd?

Altairis July 17th, 2016 8:37 PM

I wish they hadn't done this. I mean, there's no REAL reason why these Pokemon are in the locations they are, right? It's not like Pokemon Go has really been obeying geography; I find Water-type Pokemon in the middle of the street, nowhere near the water at all. They really expect us to travel all the way across the world to catch a Pokemon? Or we're supposed to trade it? It's not like we can find someone online to trade with, like in the games..

Squirrel July 17th, 2016 8:37 PM

Whilst that does feel annoying, I swear I saw a live map with several Tauros and Kangaskhan on it in Cambridge, England? I'll take a look and see if I can find it...

Mister Coffee July 17th, 2016 9:31 PM

I'm a bit disappointed that I can't get Farfetch'd or Kangaskhan (if this information is for sure true), but if trading does for sure become a thing in this game, then I'll probably get my hands on at least one or two of them eventually.

Migit78 July 17th, 2016 11:20 PM

I can confirm we have Kangeskhan in Australia, and I'm yet to see the other 3.
I haven't heard of anyone having them either.

Flowerchild July 17th, 2016 11:27 PM

Farfetch'd is my favorite Gen I Pokémon so I'm awfully disappointed by that. Guess I'm moving to Japan or something.

Sirindu July 18th, 2016 4:49 AM

I'm not mad. The developers said that someone who wanted to literally catch them all would have to either travel the world or make good use of the trading system. So now it makes a little more sense why they would have said that.

Have patience. It's stuff like this that is going to make this game epic in the long-term, not just a load of fun right now.

Esper July 18th, 2016 10:05 AM

Tauros are available in North America. I have one. And I have not seen any of the others, either myself or in gyms.

Personally, I don't really care for any of these Pokemon so I'm not really disappointed as much as I am confused that they would do this without having trading available. I guess they're just trying to come up with a way to drag this out so that people will keep playing after a week or two.

VisualJae July 18th, 2016 10:14 AM

Tauros are a dime a dozen in NA (at least where I am).

Also, I've heard other "regional" Pokémon can still be acquired via eggs, though I've yet to confirm this for myself.

Hiidoran July 18th, 2016 10:53 AM

Yeah, I too live in North America and have quite a few Tauros; seems legit.

I'm kinda bummed about Farfetch'd and Mr. Mime though. While they're not the strongest, they are iconic in their own ways.

Squirrel July 18th, 2016 11:05 AM

Turns out the map I mentioned earlier was actually a map of Boston and they just happen to have an area with the same name... oops. I that case I reckon this is probably true! Disappointing to have Mr. Mime as our regional Pokémon but I like the concept anyway, it's interesting having this global aspect to the games.

FireSnow July 18th, 2016 11:46 AM

You can definitely get the others through hatching eggs, at least Mr. Mime in North America, havn't seen anyone with the other two and it seems everyone has a Tauros by this point in my city so I can buy into the regional Pokemon being legit

Sirindu July 18th, 2016 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireSnow (Post 9327150)
You can definitely get the others through hatching eggs, at least Mr. Mime in North America, havn't seen anyone with the other two and it seems everyone has a Tauros by this point in my city so I can buy into the regional Pokemon being legit

On one of the PokeMaps that are popping up and being crowdsourced for Pokemon spawn locations I saw several Mr. Mime listed in Chicago...

Was this possibly just someone reporting an egg hatching when they shouldn't have? Maybe. But there were two within several blocks of each other...

Altaria July 18th, 2016 12:38 PM

It's kind of disappointing, actually. There are people that can't realistically travel that far due to financial reasons, job demands, physical condition, etc. If it ends up being true that kinda sucks. I know it's not as big a deal once the trading feature is added, but..I dunno. Kind of strange.

Aeroblast July 18th, 2016 1:12 PM

right now you can only catch farfetch'd in south korea, and even there you have to move to the northeastern corner of the country for pokemon go to work. (which is already full of people trying to catch pokemon now)

though region exclusive pokemon leads me to believe we can trade pokemon in the future.

Hiidoran July 18th, 2016 1:56 PM

Yeah the region-exclusivity almost certainly confirms trading will happen eventually, but I wonder in what capacity? It'd be somewhat easy if we could trade online, but I wonder if they're gonna make it that easy on us... It would be kind of awful to only be able to trade in person. I don't personally know many people who travel outside the continent that often. ]:

Leviathan July 18th, 2016 2:07 PM

Okay but why is Mr. Mime the European exclusive? Is it because miming had its roots in Greece? Or was it a more benign reason like how Magmar and Electabuzz used to be version exclusives? Hmmmm.

Aeroblast July 18th, 2016 2:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hiidoran (Post 9327477)
Yeah the region-exclusivity almost certainly confirms trading will happen eventually, but I wonder in what capacity? It'd be somewhat easy if we could trade online, but I wonder if they're gonna make it that easy on us... It would be kind of awful to only be able to trade in person. I don't personally know many people who travel outside the continent that often. ]:

maybe people from your contact list? I haven't really thought about the details.

Meganium July 18th, 2016 2:48 PM

Do you guys think Niantic is actually encouraging us to explore beyond our neighborhoods and homes? I mean, it's kinda extreme for them to make some Pokemon continent exclusive, but I have hopes that we could actually get them via eggs and trading. Hopefully they'll put in a fix for that, because I know a lot of us really want to catch them all.

Astinus July 18th, 2016 2:50 PM

Wow. I was really hoping that I'd be able to catch a wild Farfetch'd. Now I have to wait to get it in an egg...hopefully.

This really does confirm that trading is going to be possible soon. I hope that it's done in a way that makes it easy to trade across continents. Like how many people know world travelers or someone in every continent?

I was going to say that Tauros is a weird choice for North America, but maybe it's to relate it to the American bison? Or cowboys. https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-clint.gif

Esper July 18th, 2016 3:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aeroblast (Post 9327634)
maybe people from your contact list? I haven't really thought about the details.

That seems a bit invasive, even for this game. I really hope they don't go that route, particularly because I don't really have anyone in my contacts who isn't from my immediate area.

Aeroblast July 18th, 2016 3:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esper (Post 9327702)
That seems a bit invasive, even for this game. I really hope they don't go that route, particularly because I don't really have anyone in my contacts who isn't from my immediate area.

eh, I just made that idea up on the fly.

what do you think they'll do? better yet what's your suggestion?

dryingpan July 25th, 2016 12:44 AM

I can hear both sides of this but ultimately I wouldn't have had any region exclusive Pokees. What if an American's favorite Pokemon is region exclusive elsewhere? Doesn't really seem fair.

Squirrel July 25th, 2016 8:19 AM

I Googled this for quite a while last night and I can't find any solid proof that any of these Pokémon have been hatched from an egg from regions other than the ones listed, but there have been a lot of people saying that it's possible regardless. It's tough to know right now so I'm assuming the answer is that you can't hatch them outside of those regions but really hoping you can. I think until one of us has managed to do it it'll be hard to trust anyone on this haha.

Hiidoran July 25th, 2016 8:43 AM

I thought I read somewhere that Niantic even mentioned you could hatch them outside their respective continents at their Comic Con press-release. I could be completely making that up though, as a lot of speculative information is being passed around.

But you're right, I've never seen anyone hatch them outside of their regions, personally... and I don't believe I've ever see anyone post about it here or elsewhere.

Who knows.


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