Everyone talks about rural like you have to live in the sticks to have no community. I live in a large suburban sprawl that connects two cities in the UK. It’s not rural but I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been able to join a legendary raid in person. Occasionally I see a few people on community day but people generally keep themselves to themselves. I use remote raids to catch one of each legendary for the Pokédex. I’m not even thinking about gmax.
@@pyro-playseven with campfire it’s hard to find people to play that are playing at the same time as you. Like during go fest you can find people but on a regular day or even a raid hour it’s hard to find people and this is coming from someone in FL which is surprising
Our original group chat had 100 players ish at people and I only see 5-10 talk regular now ... Not enough to do these raids and you would have to convince them to use their hard earned dust to even attempt them.
If it can't be done with 3-4 people, I'll never be able to do it, is the reality of the situation here. And I already have an insane deficiency of stardust at the best of times, so I can't really afford to pet up anything that isn't going to be useful in multiple ways in the future. I've been enjoying the Dynamax system, apart from the insane difficulty jumps from T1->T3 and T3->T6. Hell, me and my 2 local friends can still only barely succeed on a Falinks max battle. And not every time.
By myself I can almost beat a falinx without dumping all my resources. I forced my gf to play with me (she plays but not much and her dynamax roster is especially pitiful) and we beat it easily
It has been successfully been defeated with 4 so just metagross it As far as falanx I can do that and beldum with one mon. Lvl 40 something and max out its move and it melts
@@Yuritau • Trainer 1: Blastoise 40 - Blastoise 40 - Metagross 50 • Trainer 2: Blastoise 40 - Blastoise 40 - Metagross 50 • Trainer 3: Metagross 40 - Blastoise 40 - Metagross 50 • Trainer 4: Metagross 40 - Charizard 40 (due to limited options) - Metagross 40 Maxed move as well as shield. They claimed it was not necessary to heal on this one Its move resets each attempt for the raid so your looking for moveset Moves used by G-Max Gengar: • Psychic (Single Target Attack) • Sludge Wave (Area Attack)
I'm a day one level 50 player, my community is no longer a thing, campfire has not has posts in months in my area. I'm sure I will never be able to use this feature unless I travel a long distance. Thanks for the info!
This confirms I'm out on this feature entirely, I'll transfer extra dynamax mons I have going forward. If my wife and I can't get a friend or two together to play the feature, it's not worth it. Plus, it's only good for future dynamax raids, so it's hard to even care. I haven't even fully powered up all the stuff I already have, and now they want me to start over again with this feature. It's exhausting. Between this and the remote raids being completely gutted and price hiked, I feel like this game is moving in a direction I can't follow anymore, which is so frustrating. I really enjoy the game, but I'm over them making controversial changes and adding limited features that only positively impact people in big communities. Appreciate the transparent view on your experience, all the same. Hopefully it becomes more fun and accessible for people
1:08 it’s important to say that the people who did it with 9 said that it was an awful experience and took an extremely long time and took a lot of resources. They also said they would never attempt it again with just 9 people
I have no rush doing this, sorry I have no intention of getting with a group of 40! Have I lost my mind? I intend to slowly build an amazing team in a year or 2...and try that when I have a team of level 50 Metagross with the legacy move on, there is no reason to try before that point, and there is no rush at all, these Pokémons are completely useless outside this system anyway. this system is designed to grab money and a lot of it, now put all the tickets on top of that, and the regular cost to just do a regular event and this is starting to lose all propotions, it costs more than the Nintendo Switch, and there you can play on so many games. it's a joke.
I'd say if there is a group of 10-20 people near you on a Campfire meetup definitely try to join it if your intention is to get into G-max anyway in 2 years. They become so much easier to beat once you have 1 G-max pokemon, and you can just get that by just showing up and cheering with your wooloo's
@@Candyy248… if you got time to sit around n wait for everyone to turn up .Increase your hit rate you have to power up max monster 2/3 days before. 20 people have weak monsters you all get penalized, It sucks basically.
As someone who starting to just pvp , even with the stardust buff I can't see a world I have enough resources to do both. Powering up new mons for Great League, let alone Ultra and Master - I just don't have the time or mental to do both. Unlocking a great league mon can sometimes be 50k stardust for a move and an additional 110k per mon to power up. Just feels like I'mma have to wait til the majority of the community who does these has maxxed out mons to be carried but that feels bad and still would take years, not even guaranteed to happen either.
Like... imagine explaining this game to a new player... "Yeah, no, they're not raids. They're kind of like raids, but a LOT tougher. There's forty people doing this together... No, yeah, you're in a team of 4, yes... but like, there's 10 other teams of 4 doing the same raid - er, I mean battle... Your mon got one-shot? Yeahhh, like I said they're really tough... But now you can dynamax... Oh, what? You have the wrong move? Oh, yeah, no it's based off the FAST move.... Yeah, no, you CHARGE up the max meter so you can use your max move that's the same type as your FAST move... Oh, all your guys have fainted? That's okay, you just -- yeah, no, you can't revive them.. just keep tapping your empty screen til that cheer button fills. It'll help your teammates. Who are your teammates? I dunno, they're SOMEWHERE here amongst the 40 of us blocking the sidewalk on this residential street because this power spot is someone's home office. Just keep tapping your empty screen for the next 5 minutes.... There, now you have a gigantamax Blastoise. It's pretty tanky, so it'll be good for Gengar... No, it doesn't get max darkness, it only gets max cannon... No, Bite won't turn into a --- yeah, no, I know what I said, but --- bite won't become max darkness on g-max blastoise... Because.......... G-max is, um... ... But, yeah, what do you think? Simple, right? Fun, yeah? Think you'll come back??"
Imagine thinking a Lv5 player SHOULD be doing a T6 gigantamax raid. Like just trade it to them. Maybe you should make sure they have A mega pokemon or even just a starter trio.
@@Frosty0-f4e Straw-manning a Lvl 5 player into the argument. Nice easy target you made for yourself there. Really showed me. I showed a Lvl 34 player the circle-lock technique on a Darkrai yesterday. "New" player can mean a lot of things. You can trade them your max mons. I'm one and done on these stupid things thanks x
The absolute hard part of G-max isnt the difficulty, it's catching the damned things. Imagine my mood after hooking up with the community to take down G-monsters and after spending all dem particles not one but two Blastoises just would not stay in the ball. I was pretty sour having spent 2.4k particles on my Max turtle, which you have to manage like a ninja to get the 1080 a day. Im a bit put off with regards to their fabulous new feature
Niantic either needs to allow some invite capacity to these things or honestly go back to the old EX system. They could also to make it so when battling dynamax pokemon that have Gmax forms, there's a small chance it has the Gmax ability instead of the dynamax ability, that way there's still value in battle dynamax starters vs only wanting to go after the Gmax final evolutions
increased catch rate??!?! dude with the effort strategy and cost to even have CHANCE to defeat these pokemons it should be guaranteed catch bloody hell
What we found was that yes, you could do it with fewer people. We did 2 with 14 trainers. But that was after a number of those people had powered up, and everyone had caught G-max Gengars to field. I'm going to guess the fact I caught a hundo and immediately maxed everything on it helped. Also, the move set was such a lottery. Gengar is a glass cannon, so it's not hard to damage it. But it also hits hard. If it has dark pulse, metagross is wiped. And focus blast isn't much better. And murders greedent. And psychic hits other gengars badly, and so do ghost moves. The move set changes every time you try the same raid. So it's a lottery when you go in. You have to spend all this time accumulating enough people to do it, only to find it is using moves that specifically hurt the team you chanced on.
Seen a vid of a guy doing a 1 party(4 People) max battle against Gmax gengar(Fully maxed+Lv. 50), and they managed to get it down to about 30-40ish percent health(In the yellows), so it is definitely way easier. They were doing it with Metagrosses and Greedent. I haven't tried doing it against gmax gengar yet, but from my experience with the kanto starters, it seems that a pokemon's survivability is way more important than that a little bit extra damage.(Experienced this when going against Gmax Venusaur when I won it for my community purely because I brought high level metagrosses instead of them bringing their Gigantamax Charizards.) If that truly is the case, Metagross would be more favorable one against Gengar since it would survive way more than Gengar damage dealer wise. And to your point of how much of a lottery the moves Gmax gengar has feels, IDK about this but somebody told me that bringing Greedent, Metagross and Gengar might be an idea needed to be talked about since something like focus blast that would deal neutral to Metagross and supereffective to Greedent wouldn't deal a lot to Gengar, same goes for Poison type moves against Metagross and Ghost type moves against Greedent. But if this is the case, if your only mon that resist those move died during battle, you have no chance of doing anything significant to the Gmax gengar because you'll be dead since no one would tank the hits from it. So as somebody who already defeated Gmax Gengar, what is your opinion on bringing in Dmax Blastoise? Might not resist any move but no moves would deal supereffective to it either, it alsohas high defense and it can learn fast move bite which is a dark type that would deal supereffective damage to the Gengar.
Unfortunately I live in my capital city, and there's still not enough players to gather a group large enough to take on one of these. I was very excited for the refreshing change that Dynamax was bringing, but to have it locked behind such a massive social wall really sucks.
Good thing is that they are Tradable, so aside like Special Research that may happen at some point, or some easier variants of this - you totally should treat it like Regionals and hopefully trade them over from other people, whenever you visit some bigger city with friendly players. It's not ideal, but at least it's some solution. I do feel like some of these will be at some point 4 people doable (Venusaur technically was), but you probably will need to max out some of the base DX Pokémon or use quad effectiveness (Excadrill for Toxtricity will be essential). Also if Campfire is available in your area - or will be, you should try checking there. There may be some bigger local community you are missing, especially on some other side of the city. And those definitely will come back, so you probably should be able to get stronger with other locals to finish them, when they return. Especially after they introduce some better counters like Carbink/Coalossal for Charizard.
When I heard the 25k stardust was part of the rewards, I thought that was good. I think also they should increase the number of candy you receive to a greater number, like 50 or 100. Thanks for experiencing and sharing G-MAX Gengar tips for us.
We were able to get a Gmax Blastoise done with 13 people in my local community, which felt pretty impressive considering what I had been seeing online regarding it
Thanks for your news on GMAX Gengar. Our community in Southern California had a different problem during a Saturday meetup for the GMAX debuts last weekend. We had about 45 people show up. We couldn’t win with less than 30 so that meant some people were restricted by the cap of 40. Of course, few of us were as prepared as we will be for GMAX Gengar. But it was a real kick in the teeth for a few trainers each battle. We’ll meetup this upcoming Saturday for GMAX Gengar and might still be in a conundrum if 45 or so people attend.
I honestly want to wait a little longer because some people are getting banned doing these. I'd rather just take my time and power up mon and I get good IV's and do some in the future
My local group managed to beat a handful of the kanto starter gmax raids with a group as large as 31 and as small as 18. Tips: 1. Power up your mons to level 30 or higher. This will not significantly boost your damage, but it will let you survive 3+ resisted moves from the gmax boss until your team hits the first Dynamax and can heal and shield. 2. Prioritize resisting the boss. Getting super effective damage is a nice benefit when possible, but dealing neutral damage is wholly acceptable if you get better resistances in return. Good resistances mean that you need to be healed less and your max guard shields go further allowing more damaging max attacks to be used during each Dynamax. 3. Max guard grants more temp hp to an individual mon than max spirit would heal it (max spirit hits every active Pokemon in your group, so it can heal more overall). Max guard also encourages the boss to attack shielded pokemon individually rather than spamming large attacks that hit everyone. Together, the regular use of max guard means that your team takes less damage overall, needs healed less frequently, and can deal damage more often. 4. Level up your max moves. While powering up your Pokémon makes it easier to make it to the first Dynamax without losing a mon, your overall survivability and damage output depends significantly on the level of your max moves. You don't necessarily have to go all the way to level 3, but try for level 2. 5. Sort out who is in groups together and communicate during the raid to make sure moves aren't "wasted" (2+ people using a max spirit when 1 use would've done the job).
An online mechanic to these is the only real way to save this. Make it each max spot have an online matchmaking for others at max spots to make it more reasonable. Gen 8 was so fun for me with sword and shield it’s a shame to see them ruin it in PoGo
Tagman in Nz posted a video on his youtube of 4 of them with lv40+ counters & maxed moves doing about 70% damage (getting it well into the yellow). He reckons 2 more would have the made the difference & got it done. So it's looking like 6+ players is doable with the right counters against Gmax Genger with poison attacks. Difficulty I'm facing now is most the local players here are done with Gmax entirely after not being able to get close to taking one down after all the investment in less than great pokemon that we did last weekend. I can't say I blame them tbh, hoping I can find at least 5 others with powered up counters to give it a go, otherwise Gmax battles aren't happening for me anytime soon :(
We would have been so much better, if they released Drilbur before this... Or a stronger Normal / neutral Steel type, that could resist it well and counter back with SE hits. The issue right now is that Metagross and Gengar are weak to Ghost moves, resist all Poison really well. Regular (!) Blastoise resists nothing, but is the strongest offensive option. And then Greedent is just too weak to carry it, but it is the strongest Normal type with a Max Quake.
Dark attack bite only works on dynamax Blastoise not gigantamax Blastoise. It uses the water type gmax attack, it might be a bug but I saw gameplay and they confirmed it.
some kind of item that lets you turn a few of your older pokemon into gmax pokemon would probably help turn around some opinions here. people would be a lot less reluctant to spend resources if their hundo metagross from three years ago was suddenly a viable option
I feel like maybe they need two different levels depending on your area, if your in a big city it should be harder 20 people or so needed but maybe if you live in a rural area you should be able to get a less powerful version you can take down with like 5-10 people as I didn’t even try and get the starters as I knew there wouldn’t be enough people locally
Let’s be honest. 95% of people completely failed or didn’t even bother. Congratulations you’re in the top 5% of the only ones that could do these things
12:58 couldn’t get my community together for the release weekend but I think we are actually going to attempt the gengar. A group of 4 has completed a gmax gengar so we can’t ignore the stardust. Plus after beldum day everyone can 40 max their metagross as well as power up their move and shield which are the most important for this particular boss according to the group of 4.
Lots of players leave the Battle once all their Pokemon have fainted. They should stay and Cheer! It still does damage and may be the difference between failing the battle and winning the battle for the whole group!
I think it helps that we have 1 target vs 3. The cap of daily mp really only allows to prepare for 1 in a weeks time so even those who had the idea to prepare for the trio weren't able
As a community admin I have a controversial take. My community has never been more alive, yes it's super hard but since covid we've never had 30+ people attend a meet up. Its so difficult that multiple community leaders had to pool together resources/trainers to get it done! I think this is exactly what Niantic was aiming for. Yes, solo & duo players will struggle. But this would maybe nudge them into going on Facebook/ campfire & finding small communities to battle with. Even if it's just once a month for Gigantamax.
I'm good have fun ✌️.... Rather stay to myself then go to a group I have never met before say what you want but I rather stick to how I want to play not how much he games forces you too play there other things fun then gmax battles
Last weekend I took part in two different meetups in two different "suburban" towns about 15 miles apart from each other. At the first one we had nearly 40 players present, in a town of 20,000 people. On the second day we had lobbies of 40. I was kind of worried a 41st would show up as we probably wouldn't have been prepared for groups of 20 at that time. The same two groups will be doing G-Max Gengar this weekend.
I honestly don't think that they'll be able to keep Dynamax as a solely in-person raid. If they do, they're going to have to add a way to either catch G-max Pokemon in special research, or add a way to turn already caught D-max into G-max, like the Max Soup does in Sword/Shield.
Lovely to see your gameplay and experience. Here in semirural Japan where the majority of weekday players are retired, it was impossible to take down Gengar yesterday. I went to a park during lunch break, hoping that the younger working trainers would be off on their lunch break and keen to try. Everyone stayed in their cars though, and there was no coordination. It’s very difficult to get people out to try these here. We had 7 people and we got it halfway down. Sadly, most of them left after 3 attempts. As with legendary raids, it will be easier on the weekends. Thankfully I’m now able to go out and play on the weekends 😁 So here’s hoping I can get my first Gmax Pokemon 🤞🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm glad to see that it will be easier. But also, as you said, people have learned what they need to be doing from this last weekend. I'm definitely excited to go do some of these! And don't forget your Starpiece for that extra dust :)
My community took down all 3 Gmax starters with 20-22... probably 5 of those were irrelevent alts or kid accounts. The others were properly powered up. I spent half a mil in stardust last minute to get ready. Having trouble mustering the troups for Gengar which surprises me 😢
My number one advice for Gigantamax Gengar battles....... Keep your powered up psychic move Metagross/es alive and use max guard quite frequently in between max attack.
I see this feature dying off if they don't decrease the amount of people required. If people were leaving the group to not get another, that's how I see it going in the future. Once most people have it, they're not gonna have incentive to get more. New players, or players who are leveling up or ones who didn't have time during the first runs, they're gonna miss out and not have any chance at these.
Have two Hundo D Gengars so I powered them to Lvl 40 and 2-1-1 Max Powers. Already have a Hundo Dubwool at 2-2-2 as a healer shielder. Gengar is my favorite creature so I want to take a swing. We'll see where I can find a group. But I have a wedding to attend so timing may be an issue. Thanks for rhe tips
There's no easy way to obtain counters. You have to spend your 1k particles to get about 4 tier 1 Pokémon a day while also trying to power up their moves with spare particles. For regular raids, there's an abundance of pokemon to catch at all times, along with spotlights and community days, and etc. It really feels like if you want to craft yourself a solid team in time for a gmax introduction you need to spend money on particles for moves and raids, which is not fun at all.
I think it was a fail on all sides, Niantic didn't help by not explaining and jumping from very easy to really hard. We also failed because we thought numbers would be enough (used to throw numbers, even if just caught, and just re-lobby) on parties of +34 when a lot of people had first stage evolutions.
As someone who dident touch the broken system that was Mega evolutions untill they made the needed changes, I don't see myself trying to hard for this. I don't want to hunt for pokemons with such a limited usage, and where you can't even see its new form unless you press a button in your inventory or in a limited feature.
Thank you for your video. I do believe that Niantic should at least have another classic community day for the Kanto starters. That way we can be a little bit more prepared and power up those main three..
Niantic needs to get this into their empty head already: rural players and disabled players need the help of remote players in this type of raids, shadow raids, elite raids, and so on. Like limit how many remote raids you can do in a day to I don't know 1 or 2 but let people join all this type of raids remotely.... Otherwise people will either quit this game, either start spoofing and trade what they get with their main accounts, AND this is what I started to do , and I will not apologize for saying it. I don't have any other way to get them, and I can't force people to start to play or just play with me either. So yeah I get them and trade them to my main account. So yeah at the end of day, Niantic is hurting their bussiness by either having players quit the game because is just not accesible to everyone either by turning most of them into spoofers.
This game is not intended for rural or disabled players... That's why they have the original Nintendo games.. at least that's what a lot of people told me when I complained.
If you live in a rural area, you probably don't have a flag football team nearby, or if you do, you probably have to travel miles to find another team to play against. If you are disabled, you may not have a sports program for people with disabilities at all, or maybe not for the sport you want to play. Pokemon Go is no different. It requires you to go outside and be mobile, and some aspects require group play. You can either travel to another location for group play, just like for sports, or you can pick a game designed for solo play.
At the end of the day they’ve improved it but not enough. There is no reason to lock them from being remoteable, I will argue this point daily (or until I get bored lol)
Wouldn't be suprised, if these become Special Research rewards at some point, not to mention they all are tradeable, so in my book smaller communities people, should just consider them as regionals they have to trade for like once per year.
Some of the Kanto GX were disproportionately easier/harder than the others. Namely Charizard had all the blasting moves and even Dragon Claw usually hit with good neutral damage - taking even the fire resistant Pokémon with ease. But most importantly - we did not have any Max Rockfall users. Have they released DX Larvitar or Stonjourner or Carbink (especially good for all moves) or even some silly Sudowoodo - instead of the damn Falinks, people would have had a better experience. We had no Pokémon that resisted Charizard properly beyond Blastoise and frail Inteleon, which at the time didnt feel proper to train even. I have actually heard of groups of 4 being able to finish Venusaur, as Metagross fully counters it and Charizard mostly counters it. And those were the strongest Pokémon everyone had at the time, due to training them for Beldum and Falinks raids. Blastoise was also partly countered by those Metagrosses (Ice Beam on Blastoise), but for that you had to have teams of like 10-15 to properly heal up. Most important they are crazy for releasing first 3 GX during the same event, on only 2 days, with no Particle limits taken off, it was the biggest cashgrab since the beginning of the game! This should have been done in order, starting with Venusaur and finishing with Charizard and in a span of months, with a Stardust event in between. And the Particle event just should be twice as big for the whole game. Or at the very least for the rest of the Maz Out season (still 2400 or 3200 would have been way better limits to have).
It would be nice if they scaled things down for smaller communities like make it doable for four man teams like the main series games. Or remote so people can actually do it in rural. But meh after the Kanto trio my community attempted with 13 players we lost the battle and spirit and no events for future G max have been posted sense. Rip to this new feature they look cool…. Just can’t get em unless we travel to a bigger city lmao
As someone who started 4 months ago, going hard with an auto catcher. Walking minimum 70km a week. I cannot even get the Kanto starters strong enough to help people. And yes I’ve been leaving the starters in every dynamic raid I’ve done (62 of them). This feature is unplayable for newer players.
100%, it's stupid ... so many powerspots & you can barely interact with 4 or 5 of them before you're capped on MP for the day (goes against the whole "get out & explore" vibe that Niantic wants us on)
This Dynamax/Gmax event has kinda been the pits. I'm on a break from the game right now, and as far as I can tell, I'm just not going to be able to do these max battles. I missed the early, easier mons to get, and now I'm speced out of being able to participate. Kinda sucks being almost level 42 and unable to do something because I was taking a break from the game when I was supposed to be getting these dynamax pokemon.
the easiest way to get back in the game is find ghastly dynamax, or trade it from somebody. You probably have plenty candy for this one, so a small army of 2 of these, and one other type will not be two hard to create. You can only use 3 pokemon in a raid anyway. When you have 3 evolved ones, start using max particles to add abilities. If you collect 1000 max particles each day you will have an ok team in a week.
Firstly Happy Halloween, hope you all had a fun day! As for the topic at hand, I'm not even gonna bother with G-Max Gengar. Dragon Age The Veilguard is out and I'd rather enjoy that. Though even if I didn't have a prior commitment, the requirements for a large group are still not something I feel like trying to arrange on Halloween. I'm sure I can manage to get the Toxitricity since I'm going to a park to play the Wild Area event, but these G-max raids are not something that I personally can do since Niantic wants to force their community nonsense down our throats. Outside of a big event, most people in my area play above the city and I don't want to drive an hour just to meet up with people for a raid we may not even be able to beat. I appreciate them trying to listen, and I'm glad it is easier for the people willing to get together for them however.
Yeah, i won’t be attempting these until there is the inevitable special research that teaches you how to do this. Even then, i’m just not interested in GMax enough to really spend the resources and try. I think having a strategy element to raiding is a great idea, horrible implementation.
A group of 40 isn't failing if they have evolved mons with STAB moves, no Dyna move levels needed. Our 40 squads had a lot of kids and more casual players with less optimized setups and we were successfull. A failing 40 squad has just too many people with no investment into it.
First Gengar had poison move, that is much easier than sime other ones with Metagross . That could also explain the difference. Each relobby gives new moves.
I got a good IV GMax Venusaur, a mid GMax Charizard and Blastoise ran from me. My dog was pulling on my arm so a couple balls were wasted unfortunately. Here's hoping Gengar goes better. I do feel dumb for Level 50'ing my Dmax 98% Gengar but here's hoping this goes smoother this weekend.
Our small community still isn't really seeing what the point is of this new system. We did one of each of the Kanto starters and no one has been buying any MP packs or trying to do additional ones as they just don't seem as interesting or as farmable as raids are. I still think the system needs to go back to the drawing board entirely.
Looking forward to more D Max battles, leaving G Max alone. So not worth it. I will be asking for G Max Pokemon in Lucky trades to hopefully get them that way just for collection. Hope Niantic further nerfs them to be more accessible. Thanks for the info Zoe. :)
I would absolutely love to take part in these battles but I personally don’t think I’d take part as the overwhelming amount of people needed for this would affect my social anxiety too much! As silly as that sounds but I really don’t fancy trying to interact with that many people to organise a battle
Honestly I think everyone is overreacting with the irrelevancy of powered up dynamax Pokémon when their Gigantamax form comes out. Like for me, when I get a gengar, I’ll still use my other 2 which I have powered up, cause then I have 3 good ghost types, and I’ll just dynamax the gmax one. They are still good, just not as good as the gmax ones
I live in a small town in Washington having recently moved from a big city and let me tell you even in our big city it would have been difficult to get the people to get this done but here it’s impossible. My wife and I (both lvl 50) won’t be doing anything Gmax. 😅
It’s pretty much just my husband and I, we don’t know any people or groups to play with so if we can even get one more person it’s a miracle. That being said this is a feature we CAN’T be a part of and honestly don’t even WANT to try. Niantic made this impossible for people like us and it makes us feel quite excluded. Unfortunately we’ll just have to wait until they release in some event or special research.
I managed to do my first gmax raid (gengar) today in NZ. Had to travel into the cbd though and probably had 38 people. Raid went super fast. I can't really see myself using this feature often as I don't have a large enough community nearby unless I travel into the CBD as raids will still probably require a fair amount of people.
On the other hand it doesn't have any good resisting Pokémon for the Ghosts moves. Greedent is literally the strongest available Pokémon we have right now. Metagross/Gengar being the best ones weak to Ghost and regular Blastoise being the strongest neutrally hit attacker. Compare it to Venusaur that was fully countered by Metagross and partially by Charizard and you have major difference there. GX mons shouldn't have been released for at least next 6 months, really (well at least some of us can just forget about them after this). There should have been like Carbink or Larvitar release before Charizard. And we totally would have been way better with like Snorlax and Sandile (or even just Drilbur) released before the Gengar.
@tabeebyeamin9986 it really doesn't, unless it uses one of the obnoxious moves like Focus Blast. Other than that, you can easily heal back up. And whenever it only has Ghost moves - you can even do it with Greedent.
The community close to where I live drove an hour out of town to find enough people that had time or cared to do the Gmax battles. So I'm going to have to pass again.
The group i was with had 12 people. The first two times we tried it we all died almost killing it both times. The third ime we had a 13th person and we FINALLY beat it
For me this is too much over the top. I have not pushed any Dynamax pokemon because those that I got are all crap. Plus I will never ever do any Gigantamax raids, this feature is not for me. In my opinion this is just a waste of Stardust and time.
Does star piece work to boost the 25k reward? I remember lucky egg not working on some of the xp rewards for tier1 dynamax raids so just wanted to double check before using a star piece for these giga raids
I'm going to start by saying great video here's my thing with these type of raids lot of people don't have the resources to Max all the moves out save for instance a new player came into the game that doesn't have a lot of Bulbasaur candy to fully max out a dynamax Venusaur so they won't be able to max it out as fast with Niantic should have done like when dynamax Gengar came out they should have put a lot of spawns of gastly in the wild Even if it was for just one day that could have helped out new players get a lot of resources because you have to use candy in order to max the move like for me I Don't have enough Bulbasaur candy to max my 100% IV that I got to make it optimal to use so it's kind of bad I have to wait until they drop a event where Bulbasaur will pop up in the wild because I'm a fairly new player I do like the system but that's just my opinion what they should have done
Unfortunately it's just not a feature I'm gonna be able to participate in. I even downloaded the campfire app, and while there are apparently 240 people that are members of a community near by, coordinating around my work schedule is just not possible. Really wish niantic would focus more energy into more solo play options
Even as a rural player I really enjoy the mechanics of d/g maxing and spent the weeks leading up harvesting max 1,080 daily and powering up my moves. The galling part was the absolute leap in difficulty forcing me to drive hours to get a big enough group. If it was that a group of 4 lvl 50 max counters playing optimally could do it then I'd be 💯 on board but taking a minimum of 10 is my entire local community and then some all needing to invest far more than the casuals in our group are interested in.... One of my main raid buddies bounced off the difficulty so bad they just trashed the DMAX they didn't want to keep IVs for and stopped playing max battles altogether.
g-max blastoise doesnt get a dark max attack, dont use g-max blastoise, only d-max! the difference with g-max gengar having poison moves to for example ghost moves is MASSIVE, its much easier when it has poison and significantly harder if it has ghost moves since our gengars and metagrosses will drop like flies. I bet that was the main difference between your battle 1 and 2
Unironically, if we had more time - getting those lvl 40/50 Greedents would have been the way to go for the Ghost moves. I genuinely don't understand why at least Drilbur wasn't released a little bit earlier. Larvitar instead of Falinks would also have helped a lot with both Charizard and Gengar. Not to mention some hard counters like Sandile or Diggersby, they had opportunity to introduce, but oh well.
Additional Tips: 1. With using the G-max Gengar on other gengar be sure to hide it in the back until Maxing time or it will not last long enough to use 2. Also one of the craziest mechanics about the g-max form is each raid instance rerolls the move the boss uses unlike regular raids. So you may have to cycle in and out until a survivable move is on the boss 3. G-Max Pokemons max moves are NOT based on its fast move, only Dynamax mons so your G-max mons as attackers don't work as well as attacked with out being super effective typing naturally. I'm so disappointed still seeing people pop in these raids with un evolved mons.... . Also still bummed with how fast all this was tossed out, it hurts so bad wasting dust powering up poor iv mons to attempt these :/
Agreed. I was waiting until I got a 91% or better mon before I was going to put any resources into it, and once I got one, I convinced myself a 96% or better was just around the corner. But a 10/10/10 IV mon is still going to be around 97% as good as a 15/15/15. Does that extra 3% really make that much of a difference practically speaking?
I live in a rural area and have 10 players MAX in my area , i dont drive so im unable to go to a bigger city to play which is what they all do during big events and features like this, ive never met a single player during events like gofest or gotour so im basically on my own , not to mention i work weekends and in order for me to play events like gofest i need to put in for vacation time 2 months in advance , i was super hyped for gmax and dmax to be introduced till i found out you couldnt use preexisting pokemon in your storage. Thanks for all the info but i think ill be skipping this feature
Maybe I’m just an optimist, but I love the strategy aspect of the battles. I also love the fact that it forces the community to interact with one another more to attempt to bring down the boss.
First of all, Happy Diwali to those who is celebrate it. Today is the Diwali Festival.🕯 Oh no, Niantic is not organized Light Festival this year Pokemon Go game event. I shall challenge Niantic to do double in game event for Pokemon Go for example, Halloween & Light Festival event at once. This is never to be happen in Pokemon Go until shut down!
