"For those who have yet to find a Lapras, I think I found out what biome it spawns in"

#PokemonGO: So we all know that Lapras is arguably one of the most rare top tier Pokémon in the game. Some correlate it with water, yet some reports indicate that it does not always spawn near water and certainly not any stretch of water.In Hong Kong, there is a dratini hotspot in a coastal shopping mall (around 5-10 spawns per hour) which at least a 100 people per day camping this area. This area is full of water spawns and some regular city spawn points. Yet, Lapras has never spawned in this area. So I set of to understand why this is the case.There are a hand full of Lapras hotspots in Hong Kong, these areas are all by water, yet, the biome differed from the said shopping mall. Although there are still water spawn points, these Lapras hot spot areas are also electric biomesFrequent spawns in these areas include:Magnemite and magnetonVoltorb and electrodeMeowthShellderSeelWater spawn points in this area also have a tell tale sign of shellders, which the dratini hotpot I mentioned never have.Now, this electric biome is associated to coastal areas, but are not as frequent as regular water biomes. They seem to occur on headlands, peninsulas and some piers (but not all piers), basically areas of land that bulges out to the sea.I though this was interesting so I checked a few sighting reports of them in the states and Europe, low and behold, these were also situated in electric biomes.Now, I'm not saying that all Lapras spawns in these biomes only, nor am I saying that if you find such biomes, Lapras will spawn there. Keep in mind that Lapras is still very rare!So if you are still missing a Lapras or want to get more of them, find an area with aforementioned tell tale signs and good luck!It would be great if others here can provide any confirmation on this.TLDR: Find a coastal electric biome with frequent magnemite, votorb and shellder.Edit 1: Wow, I am amazed with the number of responses. Didn't expect my post to make it so high up on the sub. It appears that not all electric biomes are associated with Lapras spawns (e.g. Austin TX, my condolences but man, what a great city this is). This helps me further refine my observations:Added seel as part of the tell tale signsIt's worth to clarify that Lapras do not share the same spawn point as voltorb and magenemite, but rather, share the same point as shellder and seel.for the sake of this discussion, let's call this shellder and seel spawn point as water2.Water2 differs from the typical water spawn point. Water2 seems to be located by water near electric biomes. Usually, because these points are located on or next to water, there will also be a healthy mix of regular water spawn points.Thus, we may be able to explain why not all electric biomes have Lapras spawns, it may be because there are no bodies of water near these electric biomes that are suitable for Water2 points to exist.FURTHER RESEARCH REQUESTED Our next step is to figure out what causes a electric biome as they certainly do not occur exclusively on coast, nor to they cover entire coasts.Once again, thank you so much for all the responses!! via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2fhRdr5