How to get it
- Available from the beginning of the game. You do not need to buy replacement uses.
How to use it
- Open Pokémon storage, select the Eggs tab, choose an Egg, and start incubation with this incubator.
- Walk the displayed distance. An incubator holds one Egg at a time; you cannot remove the Egg partway through.
Worth knowing
Keep this incubator working on short-distance Eggs when you want to clear space while preserving paid incubator uses.
Hatch pools are determined by the Egg you received. Buying a faster incubator does not itself improve Shiny odds or IVs.
Choose between freeing a slot and saving limited uses
An incubator can hold only one Egg, and an Egg cannot be removed after incubation starts. Your choice commits that incubator until the Egg hatches.
The unlimited incubator is a natural place for short-distance Eggs when your main goal is to free Egg slots without consuming another item. Longer Eggs can justify a limited incubator when you want to hatch several Eggs during the same walk. Neither choice changes what is inside the Egg.
Sources & further reading
- Pokémon GO: A Quantitative Approach by nick blackVersion 1.0.6 (October 4, 2026), §5.3, p. 33
Event rewards, shop offers, and limits can change. Check the current in-game description for event-specific rules. Worked examples are illustrative calculations.