Ever since it started I have one major question how long does it last and just two seconds you answered almost all my questions thank you very much I’m glad I signed up for this group
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Anyone else seeing errors on Raids? This happened to me twice. I’m in the Gym waiting for the Pink Raid Boss Egg to hatch. It shakes, starts to hatch and then I get the Red Error banner. Then I get a screen with pre-selected Pokemon. I have no idea what I’m fighting. The timer counts down and as soon as it says go, I get another Red Error message. This happened twice. So I exit the Gym, reboot my phone and try again. This time I was able to battle and complete the Raid. I wrote it off as GPS drift for this Gym around tall buildings.
So I walk to another Gym that has a Yellow Egg Raid pending. I meet three other trainers there. Same thing happened to me again. The other trainers easily defeated the Raid Boss and I was stuck there with a Red Error message and trying to solo.
How do you do Raids? Where do you do raids? Can someone answer me on this please.
4/4. Today’s wall trophy: Snorlax.
6 people total. I was a little scared. My lineup: Machamp, Alakazam, Scizor, Golem, Ursaring, Snorlax (Lick, Beam) All maxed but the snorlax (still over 3100).
We go. Trounced. First try. I was actually disappointed and giving little evil laughs. I kept checking the timer bar vs health (like I outlined before) and just thought “That can’t be right.”
It was. Done with about 15 seconds left. The starters were waaaay harder. He was a lick/quake, so that worked supremely in our favour. Thing about quake is, when you first start to see the dirt flood up the field is actually the perfect time to let off and Dodge. The damage comes that late. With such an obvious indicator AND being a lick it was about the worst defensive move roll. I mean, I was still on glass cannons when 2/3 of his health was gone. Awesome. Good prize.
3 snorlax candies for the catch, and 8 snorlax candies for the raid. Oh. I mean rare candies. Silly me. Same thing though.
@jstaylor62 I’m seeing error in normal battles. When I have taken down two or three, it suddenly starts showing error, each time I’m starting to battle the next one. I end up giving up. As I was half way through battling down a gym, and this happened, someone added a new Pokemon with full motivation, so I gave up. Not worth wasting all my revives and potions. The gym was full of Pokemon that had been there for over a day, so I was doing them a favour sending them home.
Might as well do one per day since that’s how many free passes you get. I did a Bayleef today and beat it (again by myself) easily. There is a quilava right now, but not worth me leaving my house to get it. If I haven’t used my raid pass by the time I’m driving home, I just use it before I get home.
Today the timing was off, there was a gengar and a lapras close to my job, but I couldn’t leave. I work in a city, so I want to try raiding because I think there is a higher chance more people will participate. Would love to find a tyranitar, but if that happens and I don’t have a pass I’m sure as hell buying one
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Once you’ve hit Level 25 you should be getting notifications in-game about raids at gyms within your nearby radius. There’s a two-hour countdown, then it’s revealed what Pokémon you’ll be fighting if you go there. If you decide that you want to you go to the gym, select “battle” on the screen (spending a raid pass), wait for two minutes during which you can select your team and the game will try to match you with other players that want to do the raid, then you automatically go into battle.
Raid bosses stay up for an hour after they’re revealed and in that time you can try as many times as you’d like to defeat it. Once you win you can’t try again, though.
Oh, and you get raid passes either for free (one a day from spinning Pokestops) or you can buy them in the shop for 100 coins (one at a time, but as many as you want in a day)
Ok, so help me out. You know how I always spout of yada-yada rock throw/edge Golem is the best stuff, right?
Oh, I still am. This is just adding to raid prep.
Question: He’s both-types super effective against…all three kanto birds, right? I mean articuno “could” hurt him worse. But I’m right, yes?
I need to crank a 2nd one. Maybe a third…
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I like to read you, no answer, sorry.
But you have to think in the poor not native english speaking, hahaha. You can’t imagine the energy I need to read your posts. But, please, don´t stop, it’s a lot of fun to try to understand you. 
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I tried my first level four raid. It was in the middle of a downtown area during lunch time and we only had 4-5 people doing it. Tried several times, but only got the charizard down to about 1/3 of its health left. An army of vaporeon could barely make a dent.
If niantics goal is to get me to want extra raid passes, they are failing. It’s a waste of resources. They need to match the difficulty to how many people are fighting. I don’t see how I will be able to ever have a large enough group for a level four boss much less a legendary when the time comes. They are going to turn off a large portion of their player base from caring about raids
I’m a lvl 36 trainer and I paired up with a lvl 32, and 31 trainer this past weekend to try and take down this lvl 4 Charizard! I only got to use 4 of my Mons before we timed out. We tried a second time but the outcome was the same. So one valor player, one mystic, and one instinct parted ways off to real world obligations. Until next time Charizard, until next time 
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Finally took down my first level four…it was a snorlax. Tried three times before we got it. Ended up taking nine people and we just barely got him down with about ten seconds left. I got my first tm and a bunch of other stuff and caught the snorlax on my second throw…he’s a keeper
Also, there was a freaking tyranitar 4-5 blocks from where I work, but I couldn’t get away to try it. That’s the first one I’ve seen.
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Getting ready to do a raid with at 8 other players. First lvl 4 raid. Looking forward to it
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First raid was a giant fail, but I did join a local group that communicates the raids. They sent out a ,essays and we ended up taking down a 34000 CP tyrantitar with 15 players. Cooperative group play really does make it fun to raid.
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Don’t we all fail sometimes? So far a tyranitar, snorlax, machamp all ran from me lol
In my village it is impossible to defeat a level 4 Raid boss unfortunately. No one shows up. I have to go to the big city and hope for the best. I once had luck with a Tyranitar. It was exciting but at the end not a challenge at all because we ended up beating it with 15 trainers. That’s too easy. I would love to try to beat it with 6 or 7 trainers.
My only real challenge is to defeat a level 3 boss solo. I haven’t had the opportunity yet so I have no idea if I stand a chance.
Yes you do have a chance , I’m a solo player and lvl 37 with a lot of alakzam (19) vapes(24) dragonite (6) and machamp (18) most have fighting moves now the machamp , plus high power arcains spelling errors im sorry and gengar with shadow claw shadow ball you just have to use there best se movesets like vaperon has to have hydropump and so on I got lucky to have a mix of everything where I live I mean tons of mixed up spawns and slot of time playing .but I don’t win all the time if there is lag but I do solo lvl 3 bosses
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I tried three times to take down a Magma by myself today, and almost did it. But almost wasn’t good enough. Had to walk away, with a sore finger!
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I’ll have a try one of these days with my best SE mons. I’ll let you know.
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Don’t give up eh? 
Did you use Water or Rock mons?
They are best against a fire Raid boss.
For example:
- Vaporeon with Hydropump
- Golem with Rock Throw/Stone Edge.
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