Pokemon Go – Most Efficient Way to Use Additional Incubators

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I really like to hatch eggs, and the 3 uses / incubator per egg give a huge impact for the more or less decent price. So I usually have 6~7 incubator active. First I applied them when ever they were available to what ever egg I just had but it felt kinda inefficient to do so for me.

It started feeling more efficient when I only applied the infinite incubator to the 2.0 KM eggs. But I can't really get why this should matter.

So is there any most efficient way to apply incubators to eggs to get the most use of them before they are expired?

Or doesn't it matter at all?

Best Answer

They expire when used 3 times regardless of the egg. So basically you only have two options:

  • Hatch everything with anything:
    • Fast and expensive due to incubators expiring faster.
    • Good for mass hatching to increase chances for 10 km eggs.
    • Just make sure you don't hatch 2 km eggs with a limited incubator when your unlimited one is still available. Use that one first.
  • Hatch 2 km eggs only with the unlimited incubator:
    • This saves incubator time, but eggs are hatched slower.
    • Better chances to hatch decent Pokémon due to the nature of sitting on more 5 km eggs.


Both ways have their pros and cons.

I don't hatch 2 km eggs with limited incubators (and with the unlimited one only 2 km eggs to make room for new eggs for a 10 km chance), because they're just too rare to waste them on Pidgeys.
If you're aiming for 10 km eggs and you have enough Pokéstops around to refill your egg collection it's better to use your incubators for all kind of eggs, preferably 2 km eggs due to their faster hatch time. This is of course more expensive, but a lot faster as well.

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