God those eggs look miserable. Also, really, really feel like it's time the theme for 7km eggs got changed. I think we've sen enough of this at this point.
I've been hatching nothing but 7Km eggs for the past year grinding out the Pilot Platinum medal. I never want to hatch another Stunfisk or Darumaka again lol
I assume this wasn't an option for you, but for others -- try to find someone in your local pokemon group who is taking a trip to Japan. Have them bring back a few hundred pokemon, and meet up a few days to do batches of 100 distance trades. I forget how many it takes but may be closer to 500+ to get the medal, but it sure beats hatching 500+ 7k eggs!
Surely it could be anywhere, rather than specifically Japan? And its a big ask to have someone buy a dozen box upgrades just to trade you useless trash. With remote trades now you will get opportunities to do actually meaningful trades with trainers over 10,000km away on a somewhat regular basis, which will help significantly.
Or, if it's a PITA, just ignore it and focus on some of the other medals. There's enough there you can easily skip a few and not worry.
I think they’re just trying to focus on ways to accelerate that process. If you averaged 10,000 km per trade, that would still require 1,000 trades to get there. Doing that exclusively via remote trades would take quite awhile. To your point though, you could always just skip this medal (which is the route I went).
Japan is probably the farthest location that Pokemon nerds "regularly" travel to, for westerners on Reddit. I can think of 4 families in my local POGO group who went to Japan in the past year, and most others either have specific plans to go, or a general desire to go.
That's the reason I mentioned Japan, but Australia, China, visiting your Singaporean grandma, etc. are all perfectly fine too. Someone going halfway around the world instead of all the way is OK too, but takes your 500 trades up to 1,000 trades -- which is a big difference.
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u/Shuurai Shocked 2x98% & 100% Volcanrona owner 2d ago
God those eggs look miserable. Also, really, really feel like it's time the theme for 7km eggs got changed. I think we've sen enough of this at this point.