Move Sinnoh Stones To Pokéstops And Gifts

Obviously Niantic would want you to use pvp. But forcing people to use pvp even if they don't enjoy it, can drive people away from playing PoGo, and I guarantee that Niantic doesn't want to drive people away by forcing pvp on them.

Neither friendship nor lucky pokemon are so detrimental to the game that you have to use both trading and gifts in order to get everything you want. Baby and alolan pokemon would almost be the exception but you have a choice as to which way you would rather get them. They also aren't needed for completing the pokedex, unlike evolution items.

The other evolution items, which are relatively more detrimental to the game than gifts/friendship and lucky pokemon, can be obtained outside of 7 day pokestop spins at a relatively reasonable rate.

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