"54 "caught" Suicune (or Starmie, or Porygon/Porygon2, or Togepi/Togetic, or Unown) are needed on average for a complete collection of all 16 Hidden Power types"

#PokemonGO: TL;DR: to get all Hidden Power types, 54 successful catches are needed on average.Assume you want to collect all Hidden Power types (all types but Normal and Fairy which don't exist).To get a new Hidden Power type, on average 16/N catches are needed, where N is the number of Hidden Power types still missing to the collection.So the total number of catches needed for a complete collection is 16/16 + 16/15 + 16/14 + 16/13 + 16/12 + 16/11 + 16/10 + 16/9 + 16/8 + 16/7 + 16/6 + 16/5 + 16/4 + 16/3 + 16/2 + 16/1.In numbers, it's 1 + 1.07 + 1.14 + 1.23 + 1.33 + 1.45 + 1.6 + 1.78 + 2 + 2.29 + 2.67 + 3.2 + 4 + 5.33 + 8 + 16 = 54.09 average catches.This is of course an average, because in theory it's possible to get all Hidden Power types with just 16 very lucky catches, or to never get a specific type after thousands of moderately unlucky catches. In practice I wouldn't be surprised by numbers between 30 and 80.Fun fact: the first ~25 catches are responsible for the first 13 Hidden Power types, while getting the last 3 requires ~29 additional catches. So if you have 13 unique Hidden Power types in your collection, you are only at 46% of your quest. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2zvlLC2