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Is the raid badge broken? Been stuck on 31 for a minute now and have won about half a dozen raids since. Before you would add to the medal without capture, was this changed recently?
I have the same issue. Legendary battles don’t count.
So I had 2 exciting experiences today. First we had a small group for a Lugia raid, with 6 people who said they were only 5 minutes away. 15 minutes later they finally responded they couldn’t make it. We had only 10 people but as 6 of us had already spent a raid pass before we backed out of a larger group to wait for the 6 Imbeciles who backed out at the last minute. We had several strong players so we decided to give it a try with 1 minute left on its timer.
We started off strong knocking out more than half the beasts health in the first 2 minutes, its future sight was ineffective against our TRez army and we where fighting strong. Then disaster struck, one player disconnected then seconds later a second had his phone lock up on him.
We fought hard 8 of us batting for all we were worth. The time was ticking down, but we fought hard and with only 3 seconds left on the clock we claimed victory!!
Later in they day I managed to snag a 96% blue bird! Excellent day in raiding!
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One of my best raid experiences was back in July. Lugia and Articuno were just released after GOFest and I went out on my second hunt to try and capture one of the birds. I beat two Lugias that day but they eluded capture. Overall, that put me 0-5 on capturing a Legendary bird. I was discouraged to even try another raid that day. However, an Articuno raid was nearby and my friends wanted to do it so I healed up some Mons and we headed to a park well known to Pokemon go players because of the abundance of poke stops. When we got there one of my rivals was there and some lower level trainers that had started playing again because of the birds being released. As we waited for more people to arrive I shared with them what would be effective against the Arti and spun some poke stops.
The battle started and the Articuno’s Ice beam was wrecking everyone’s Mons. One by one trainers were shouting out when their first 6 Mons had been defeated. With the Articuno nearly defeated and my last Mon being the only one still visible in the arena I asked if everyone was on their second team and they were. My Snorlax held on for the win and I got another chance at catching the bird. I caught it on my 5th throw and then proceeded to appraise it. It was a 100IV Arti. I was so happy with my capture I shrieked out of excitement and immediately appraised it again because I must of read Candelas appraisal wrong. Cheers to Pokemon Go for bringing out the kid in me. Nick named the Articuno “Look Away” to remind me not to dump all of my stardust and rare candies into it just yet. Here are a couple pics from that day.
Nice work on the 100% Articuno @SCArsenalGunner.
My only good Raid Story goes way back to the start and the second day The Raids were released. Having no idea how many it was going to take to take these on the crew of 3 others myself, the Wife & Daughter played with when we used to hunt Dratini and Larvitar got together to have a crack. The fist one we came across was a Lugi so we all jumped in and failed to take it down. We had another crack for the same result. It was clear we would need another 2 to do those.
Next we set off to find an Articuno and found one quickly. 6 was enough to just win this one. Only 3 of us were successful with capture. One of the group was on Face Book Chat and found a group headed to a Lugia so we head off that. 17 all up in this battle so that was won easily. I was the only one of our crew to catch it.
At the time I didn’t realise how lucky I was to be 2 Raid wins and 2 captures. The best bit was they were both good IV’s. It’s all been down hill with Raids since apart from the 98 & 96IV Zapdos.
Pics of the first Articuno and Lugia.
Lugia all powered up to maximum game possibility
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I got to experience my first legendary raid yesterday at a major tourist attraction in our city. It was so awesome being part of a group and being able to take down a
Nervously walking up to the spot I was warmly welcomed by others all ready to go to battle. After defeating the legend we all had the chance to capture our own. This was as much fun for me with my first, to the 9 year old who flippant told me he already had 6, but still broke onto the biggest smile at his seventh. I know it’s a fake world but for a few minutes there was a sense of being part of something and a great achievement (even if it’s isn’t a high cp pokemon).
Thanks for the fun everyone, looking forward to the next one.
Do you remember you first?
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I have one gym in walking distance (2 minutes) and yesterday it had an Entei Raid with 30 minutes left. It was the last raid of the day and I still had my free raid pass. So I sent a message to my whatsapp group if anyone would be interested. Only 2 people responded and we where not sure If we can make it with 3.
We decided to try and after 4 failed attempts, with 2 minutes left on the raid, we managed to beat it.
It was the 7th Entei raid for me and the 3rd I caught so far.
Pretty happy all worked out so well and I have my first good IV Entei!
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Since creating the maxed out Machamp Army on my own account and creating strong ones straight from elvoving 1000CP Weather Boosted Machops on the other family accounts I’ve discovered the big four T4 Raid Bosses in Tyranitar, Snorlax, Aggron and Lapras are all punching bags for these Machamp battle squads.
Over the last week and a half between Rayquaza Raids I’ve been specifically targeting any Lapras Raid close to home. It’s been bugging me for ages with numerous egg hatches and catches I don’t have a 90IV+ Lapras.
In the last 6 days I’ve done 13 Lapras Raids and finally got a 91% on my own account and a 98% on the Wife’s. I’ll keep going with them as I really would like a 100% for the collection.
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The raid system is kind of broken.
Unless you live in a big city, then you have almost no chance of getting level 4 raids, never mind legendaries, especially mewtwo.
Not at all, even smaller towns can host EX Raids if communication between the players actually exist
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All my town’s players communicate, but there aren’t enough
I’ve seen mew2 three manned, so if you get an EX pass and show up at hatch you should be fine
Do you have 8 players in your town?
I have 5 low level active players in my town. I guess now it’s just the waiting game for
A) us all to level up
And b) the legendary birds come back. Articuno and zapdos would be useful for ho-oh and lugia, so if you can’t beat the first, it’s a kind of vicious circle.
My son and I both caught weather boosted Lugia after school. He is 4-4 on catching him. I’m 2-4.
So what happened when the legendaries came out? Did you quit for a short time?
do you still play?
the funny thing is… you still play!