I’m having a difficult time figuring out when to dodge. The battle mechanic of a raid seems different. Fortunately, they were normal raids and had no problem taking them down by myself without dodging but I imagine if/when I am battling a lvl 4-5 raid, dodging will be important.
Anyone else experiencing similar or have any insight on how to effectively dodge in raid battles?
As awesome as it may sound. I experienced some hm rather I don’t know how to feel. I missed a Tyranitar and Snorlax raid as I watched them time out before my very own eyes. Haha that’s how it feels for some people who can’t leave the house. I I was with my family so couldn’t run to play. I did manage to join in a venusaur raid. Spent about 1 hour as I kept losing to it (lvl 4 difficulty). There was only myself and another 2 spoofers and we couldn’t win over that massive venusaur. I mean flareon, Alakazam, Charizard, Arcanine, Lapras, Jynx, Pinsir, Exxegutor didn’t damage anything I couldn’t even finish him myself. It was so tough. If it was you position, you would you chose to go against a venusaur boss. Let me tell you he is worst than the normal blissey. I can confirm with gym level 4, we need at least 5 people that doing super effective or just 10 people at least! Oh well how about blissey and snorlax? How are we gonna battle them ? It’s kinda crazy
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Tried my first raid, unfortunately I was the only one raiding. It was a Jolteon and I had no chance by myself. Used two raid passes and I could barely get his health to the yellow both times. I tried to matchup with ground and rock types the first time and the second time I went with pure attackers and got the same result.
I don’t have a lot of players in my area, so I hope they can do something to address this…either make it easier for single players or issue more than one pass per day so more people do raids
doubt it.
if solo’ing higher level eggs became an option, spoofing would be worth way more.
You should find/create a FB group for pokemon raids. since all teams can participate together, you can partner with others. explore the social aspect of it
My first raid was a Rhydon at over 30000 CP! We did it first time with just 4 trainers (although it recommended 17 lol)
You can use more then 6 pokemons when your battleing in raids
So you have to use another raid pass if you don’t succeed on the first attempt? That’s a bit annoying since I don’t like spending money on microtransactions and so will mostly be working with free passes (plus what I can get with gym coin rewards, split between incubators and raid passes)
No once you use a raid pass you can try as many times as you want during the hour the raid is up
Very good experiences. Just two catches yesterday and today. I’ll share my findings.
Yesterday was a level 2 Muk. I’m 38. Im by myself. I set up the party of 6 all careful. Then I hit the item button with the extra time to heal up my guys. I guess that tells auto fill cause the team was back to what ever the game wanted. No time to change it opened me…
Rock throw, stone edge Golem. Now, look me up. I’ve long been spreading the word that he is the best attackers in the whole game. My opinion hasn’t changed. I enter the battle. Easy solo kill. Not just solo, as in by myself. Solo as in just the Golem. Muk was little more difficult then an average blissey.
So…my summation. Purple eggs are easy solo hits. Lowering g the level cap was good for that. On to this morning…
Yellow egg. Raid level 4. Rolled up on it 5 mins til. Luckily 2 others in another car. I’m 38. They’re 32 and 30. We go…charizard. Over 28,000 cp. Flipping dragon claw. That’s right. They gave us dragon claw. We times out.
Beyond a best blissey ever fight. Luckily, retries are free. Jumped back in. Timed out. Started readjusting.
You see…timing out. I’m not dealing enough damage to kill him. But he’s not dealing enough damage to kill me either. I started leaving out tankier guys for glass cannons (alakazam etc). One more person showed up. Level 30. Yes. Now 4 people. Went double vaporeon, Golem, alakazam, two others can’t rightly remember.
At one point I was like. Stop dodging everyone. Just spam it all!
At the buzzer. Literally, 0 on the clock we got it.
In my area there are only three gyms, like 10km apart.
Today I found a raid in one of them, but I had to return home and could not fight it… it was level 1 so I could have handeled it.
Not enough gyms to experience the raids… hope they created more gyms nearby and at least tell when there were raids in gyms you have already visited, even if you were not in range. THen we would have some oportunity to travel there in time.
I have a question can some one answer it
Hahaha, well, if I could see the question…
I was fighting a raid and after I defeated the Boss it showed me the cp of the pokemon what I will get before I got to the catching screen. Is this thing in pokemon go
Now the connection has come back…
To me has happened the same, the Boss (a Bayleef) had 4500 CP, but after winning the fight, the Bayleef to catch as a price (the same Bayleef) has now 702 CP. Really not Mon special, I have not used my Golden Razzberry…
But I was informed before, the Boss to fight and the Boss to catch can’t be the same. Imagine, to catch a Magikarp of more than 1000 CP, what a Monster of a Gyarados would come out, once evolutioned?
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This is just a rant about the gyms:
Pros:
Allows me to get high IV Pokémon
Not a lot of pros, are there…
Cons:
Impossible to solo many raids
I play in a rural area, so it’s only me trying to take down 20,000 cp Pokémon
You cannot really hang on to raid passes without spending money
If legendaries are released in my area as a raid which me ( and the 2 other people that play the game) cannot take down I will quit.
What’s the point if the game is centred around the city play and the large group play as well.
I have posted this on another thread of it looks familiar
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Having so much fun with these! My first ever raid was against TTar. Didn’t realize how aggressive it’d be, so I failed to catch it, but happily took 3 charge TMs out of it to change my Blissey’s charge move to DG.
Been making a lot of new friends with these and a FB group chat has opened up to alert everyone in the town of raids. I pointed out a second TTar raid that I managed to catch, and now I’m happily stocking up on rare candies for legendaries.
You only get rewarded charge TM when you bet a boss with level 4 and not sure about level 3
Just beat my first raid boss. It was a lvl 2 electabuzz. I had to beat it by myself because once again there weren’t any other players. I can’t beat lvl 4 guys by myself and haven’t tried lvl 3 yet. Very frustrating.
Just wait for the egg to hatch then battle them? Priories for lvl 4 bosses: Tyranitar, Snorlax & Lapras. I mean unless you wanna farm golden berries & rainbow candies it’s better at being selective.
Hahaha it sounds like you had good times. I had to fight a venusaur that day as well. Me and 2 spoofers. I know how it feels when the healt bar just barely reduce. I was just spamming attacks and the spoofers didn’t know how to fight. They don’t know how to deal good damage.
At least there are plenty Vapourleon ready for the Charizard. The venusaur wasn’t, it’s like I’m barely doing any damage at all haha! So spoofers are friends spoofers are the help these days !
