Thread: Pokewalkers. Fun or frustrating?

I never even touched my Pokewalker. It just never appealed to me to have to carry Pokemon with me all the time.

I've used the Pokéwalker for months, unlocked all the routes, caught all the rare Pokemon, found lots of Rare Candies. But I kind of cheated, because I didn't walk with it. I rhythmically bounced it up and down on some music. If you don't do it too fast, it records it as steps.
Total Watts: 115881 W
Total steps: 2485703
(one small downside, cheating like that looks like you're ehmm.. doing something nastier)

I used to use the Pokewalker a lot. I unlocked pretty much every Pre- Elite 4 route, I would get a ton of steps when I walked around at work (over 20k at times) Eventually I stopped using it because I got bored of it and the batteries in both Pokewalkers are dead. It is pretty fun at times, collecting steps and Watts, or finding a rare Pokemon, but not really that fun.

I thought the idea was novel, but once BW came out stateside I didn't use it as much. Never found it to be frustrating though.

If I go to a con or a long walk I'll put it on, but otherwise it just sits on my dresser.

They were a fun way to find new Pokemon in my opinion. I had about four of them when HG/SS came out, and I wore them as fashion accessories. It was hilarious. I don't use them anymore since I've already collected all the special Pokemon, but I still have them somewhere. Maybe I'll take them out again soon.

I was on a min-maxing craze when I played HGSS. Carefully calculating berries and stuff so I could get the most out of not playing.

Therefore everytime I would have the pokéwalker to farm for Heart Scales. Not taking the Pokéwalker meant three Heart Scales lost, which would've meant going to grind for them when I'd rather just play the game.
That said, I ended up with plenty of them.

I also used it as a convenient pocket watch.

I like the Pokéwalker and I still carry my SoulSilver Pokéwalker in the pockets of my jeans. I think it is very useful for counting how many steps I've walked since its release date on 28 March 2010. So far I have walked 7,215,186 steps with it and I've unlocked all the available routes for it.