This feature is garbage. Not only is it literally impossible to do as a none city resident, it also serves no purpose - they're just glorified costume pokemon that only you can see. Not to mention it's expensive af... Someone needs to do a video on the amount of resources you need to invest to even do this crap.
Somebody already did explain it poke ak kind went through it a little bit but this absolutely sucks for me I am level 39 but I don’t play often so I could barely get my pokemon to 2000 cp and my stardust barely scrapes 200k so I can’t even get them to a place where I feel comfortable fighting them I will be doing some work on my gengar so I can at least try to win against gmax gengar but we will see cause I live in a somewhat rural area
@@bransonmoore6718damn bro I feel ya. I live in a 70k city so kinda bigger, and I scrape by with like 3-400k I usually go out, use 2-3 star pieces, and catch every single thing. I make like 50-100k a day when I actually play
@@NikoPLuSH0 I think it either needs a nerf or give us a feature where we can turn our current pokemon into dynamax so we can have a way to stand a chance and they can keep the difficulty cause hard can be fun but right it is no fun it is just agitating
Gigantamax is the biggest F You Niantic has done to it's community since Remote Passes nerf. 99% of it's player base won't be able to battle in these even IF they can get 20+ people
Niantic failed the community with this update. I can't even take the 3 star dynamax to half health with the amount of Pokemons I have. I have friends, but not enough to even get the 5 star gigantamax anywhere near half health. The other problem is the amount of dynamax Pokemon spawns. Not everyone lives in a place where they're able to have spawns near them. I give this update a massive L from me. 😕
I live quite rural with only like 7-12 Players who I only know from the trainer Tags of gym pokemon. And while enough g max raids spawn here, I just cannot beat them as a lvl 35, f2p player with almost no support
The whole system is flawed, and it doesn’t help that a few whales have no problem pumping dumping max particles to support their awful implementation of the system Thanks keep paying hundreds even thousands of dollars for this bullshit so they know it was implemented correctly
Dear Niantic, I am not driving 45 minutes (one way) to catch 1-2 Gigantamax pokemon (depending on my free max particles amount) that have no other use outside of the gigantamax feature. Especially with a pretty decent chance of them fleeing and/or being crap. Ill happily skip out on this feature just like dynamax.
At least with Dmax, we can solo and work our way up... I leveled up a charizard, venusaur and ciderace all below 2k HP and I can take dowm beldum solo with one mon with at least half an hp... with Gmax, there's no way to take down the easiest with 30 people with decent level... I have not tried falinks yet, but once I maxed out venusaur and cinderace or level two charmanders, I may be able to take down falinks solo...
Two major Fs from Niantic. 1. Released Gmax way too early. Not time to make a good team you want to power up and lack of available Dmax Pokémon. 2. No communication. Using heal, shields and cheering are apparently very important to beating the bosses. But Niantic don’t give any indication of how we should play. Should have been a warning as to how hard they are and a guide on how to play in the battles.
If people can’t use their brain than this feature is useless to them it’s been over a month to prep for this more than enough particles are the only big dilemma apart if you are rural or not
On part 1, I agree 100%. It was released too early. On part 2, I disagree. The heal and defense abilities were there the entire time, it was painfully obvious that they would need to be used in the future. And it was pretty obvious that this is one of those times.
@ I assume you are a younger player or someone who likes games. But the majority of players near where I live are not gamers and are on the older side. They generally do raids tapping on the screen while chatting and don’t really pay that much attention to the raid until it’s finished. For these players (and the Singaporean grandmothers) they need more of an explanation of hoy to the mechanics work.
@@matgreen4789 I'm in my 40's, but yeah I understanding gaming because I play games. But yeah, these events are made for you if you just tap the screen and not pay attention to what's going on. You just may not be the target audience of this type of event.
Honestly, that doesn't surprised me at all, big Niantic moment there. Glad that i dropped the game after they nuke the entire meta and everyone's candies and Stardust,
This feature is absolutely terrible. Yes I get that gigantimax Pokemon are cool and strong, but they don’t need to be this hard to take down. And Niantic thinks everyone lives in big cities and that everyone has access to a big Pokemon go community. I only live in a small town and I was able to recruit a few people, I think 8 or 9 to join the raid weekend with me and my friend. All of us joined a charizard, and even though that’s the ‘easiest’ one to take down, every Pokemon died in 30 seconds. Either make them easier or allow remote raids for gmax Pokemon. I agree with everything mystic said from 23:20
@@lugatina Charizard has the highest Attack out of the three, but it has the lowest Defense and HP out of the three, so it ends up being easier to take down than Venusaur or Blastoise.
I’m just making assumptions here, Mega rayquaza was considered to be one of the hardest bosses when it first got its debut. And now it’s an absolute small fry, maybe they’ll do the same with gigantamax Pokemon when they make their eventual return? (I heavily doubt it)
This is the biggest fuck you niantic has even pulled. As a rural player this is soooo frustrating. We have a raid group here were we usually have 14 accounts. Which is not bad i think, but will not ever give us a chance to get a gigantamax pokemon. Seriously this could be the end for the game for me.
its lucky and great you have 14 in your community, the reason i donteven care about the bullsh*t gigantamax is it has no revelance and just a drain for using dust on sh*t thats not usable other than getting more crap mons that have nopurpose
@@peves- I'm pretty sure anyone who had a gigantamax encounter flee, or missed half the event due to a false ban, probably feels like they got a big "fuck you." Not that I don't think Niantic can up the "fuck you" ante... but, speaking as someone who had a Blastoise flee (thankfully on an alt), it stings so god damn much. That single flee was three days of coins, and at least 20 minutes doing four attempts. Edit... obviously raid bosses can flee, but they're easier to take down, opportunities are plentiful, and base rewards for 4 and 5 star raids are arguably superior.
The fact that you CANT do this remotely immediately put me off even attempting this ALSO, this feature is terrible in the resource system. You can’t upgrade the 1000 MP limit, but you’re also limited in how much MP you can accumulate in a day without spending money. On top of that, the fact that you need MP both to enter Max Raids AND upgrade your max Pokémon, along with candy, making it difficult to manage these resources in general. In short, this is a terribly designed feature that’s not worth participating in IMO
I feel the MP limit is the worst part of this since you have to use so much MP to upgrade and to raid. I wish they'd split the resources if they want to do something like that so you can save for upgrades and raid.
Not a single person in my area were wasting their time on this. What's the point? You can't use it for anything but the same raids. Waste of time and resources.
@octavio_no All other pokemon you can actually use for things. I don't even know 30+ people that play this in person. So even if I wanted to 'collect' them, I have no choice.
@@octavio_nobut you can also transfer shinies that’s what I do. This doesn’t actually help you collect anything new or unique. They’re recycling the same pokemon over and over again. Have you noticed after anytime there’s a raid boss, when it’s out the rotation it will return as a shadow. Or some variation which forces you into the shiny hundo grind for each variation of the same pokemon. This way they have endless content.
The biggest cringe are Niantic bootlickers defending the Gigantas and how poorly it was implemented, to what end do you defend the corporation adding features that 75% of players (maybe more) can't do?
I disagree. I see it as a challenge. Just look up people on nearby city's and towns through campfire or something. My city had people from another city come over, we teamed up and had a blast. Nothing wrong with a little planning and effort, it makes the fruits of the labor sweeter.
@@Lulu-xl5cm you exactly confirm what original poster say. Because you has people do raids you expect everone got people enought to do raids. Like i can do current giratina easy solo when weather boost. Do i expect every player in pokemon go can do giratina raids as solo or even duo? no heck most player still need +5 player inside 5 star raids.
@@Lulu-xl5cmEven if we did it like that, these pokemon have no other functionality beyond max battles. There are no pvp max battles or anything like that. So even if you went to all the trouble and got the gmax pokemon, they can only be used for another gmax raid which takes all this effort all over again. It’s fking insane.
@@greykor140 Yes but there’s no difference to using their non max variant, which is much easier to get and power up. Not to mention most GMax Pokemon have terrible IVs. Even the ones in this video. So what’s the point?
I live in Thessaloniki in Greece which is the second-largest city in Greece, and we have a community of around 60-70 players in total, and we were barely able to meet up and find 30 people to do a few raids. Most of our raids failed, and we only managed to do around 5-6 raids in total. Once again, keep in mind that I am living in the second-biggest city in Greece, so no wonder how people can even bring down one of those raids in smaller cities. No need to mention rural areas or villages. Once again, Niatic completely excludes rural players just to make some quick money from a feature which serves no purpose. As it stands now, the only purpose Gigandamax Pokémon have is to just make it easier for you to bring down Dynamax and Gigandamax raids. They are completely useless outside of this feature. So I don't see any reason for them to be that hard.
Seriously They don’t even _stay_ Gigantamax-ed so you can have them as buddies and bask in their coolness… What’s. The freaking. Point. An invisible Pokémon…
Niantic failed us with this one… One of many sadly. Somethings they do are just nothing but useless malakies… It looks cool but if it’s going to be useless, yeah no point.
I live in a small interior city in São Paulo, Brazil. We have an active community of effectively 90 active people with the Niantic community stuff we have someone that's our community leader and we organize and gather often to play when cool events happen. We topped 27 people on that Kanto Starters GMAX event and 32 people on Gengar GMAX. This is not an easy task that you'll do with a 6 people friend group that only plays twice a week to spin pokéstops and catch the daily steaks. If you're not active enough to have the resources to power up the DMAX or GMAX pokémon required to battle you're not gonna do anything. All this game's community knows is how to cry and complain instead of actually play the game.
These raids are insanely difficult. If you live in a small town with like 5 total players you’re basically screwed out of ever getting one of these done
🤣🤣🤣 The most wishful thing I’ve seen in a while. Niantic only makes things worse. If they do rework it, they will just cost more and be even harder. Time to quit the game
@@adrianparente6034 i mean, mega evolving a pokemon is WAY more forgiving than it used to be. Back then, mega evolving was the same number of mega energy EVERY SINGLE TIME and pretty much forced you to farm mega raids since it was the only way to gain mega energy. Now, you still mainly get mega energy from mega raids, but gaining a candy by touching grass and waiting 7 days for the 1st level, 5 days for level 2 and 3 days for level 3. When that cooldown ends, you can mega evolve for free. For example, legendaries are usually 20km for a candy, but those that can primal reversion or mega evolve gains 100 primal/mega energy from that 20km, which is good on its own. Pokemons that needs 5km to gain a candy gains 25 mega energy when you walk with them
And to be fair, dynamax is so poorly implemented its not even funny. All they could have done is implement matchmaking so that everyone can raid those gigantamax, just like what they did with their latest game Monster Hunter Now with Hunt-a-thons, Elder Dragon Interception and the Dimentional Links. If they bothered adding matchmaking there, why they can't add it in pokemon go ?
@@affi6064 ik this is sarcasm so don't even try hiding it. Like i said, if they want us players to "enjoy" farming gigantamax pokemons, they could have at least put matchmaking cuz ain't no way 80% of the playerbase are benefiting from this, especiatly needing at least 25 players who has decent pokemons to "try" to stand a chance. If they bothered implementing matchmaking in MHN, they can do it here in pokemon go. This is just pathetic and lazy on their part. Even making the dynamax raids in general being remote raidable would be one of the best moves niantic would have done. What did they choosed ? Shutting the playerbase up and drop features that are as good as nothing and scamming us all whenever they can cuz let's not forget this. Their new terms of service literally makes them impossible to being sue and we were forced to agree or else its a kick from the game. They never cared for its community at all, even in 2016 when it peaked. All they want is sucking every last drop of money and they get away with it.
They didn't learn from Rayquaza raid hours...8 people and could barely do those raids since they buffed their charged attacks. Not even bothering with these and I've been playing the game since day 1. Also to add on to this, my Pokemon Go discord community for this area is having the most difficult time recruiting enough people for these...not a lot of people play anymore.
@@BasiliskFN-u2e I doubt if these were even half as easy people would be doing them tbh. Where most Gigantimax raids are they aren't going to allow a massive group of people to sit around and block places for 20+ minutes doing these raids...
@@ThePokemonMasters-Pokémon_Go they don't test their new features outside of Santa Monica and whatever area in California they test in. Their features fail outside of major cities. They give a damn about their money and that's about it. Shits absolutely frustrating.
I used PGsharp since 2022 for exactly this, that's why, while I don't support the use of PGsharp, I also don't support when companies force players to used them in the first place. Now i no longer play the game for stupid things like this, or destroying the meta and years of grinding just because 2 Pokémon we're broken, and honestly, I'm very glad I dropped it in time
We in a small community were able to take these down with 15 people with only 4 of us with lvl 40 pokemon with lvl 3 max attack an lvl 1 max spirit. It takes the right strategy and communication
Yeah, I would understand the rural area people complaining since they probably can't get 8+ people to do these with(Apparently according to simulations, atleast 8 people are needed to complete these with the right strategies), but for those who were able to get into 40+ player lobbies, I genuinely don't get those people being mad it's hard. Like genuinely, these people are complaining because they didn't invest into their max mons, I understand that people are disappointed that max mons can only be used in max battles hence making them useless(For now, atleast), but for those participating in these events and still complaining with so many people, maybe try powering up your pokemons, just like every other feature like raids, pvp, etc.
@@YourAvgWeebit’s boring lmao spending 15-20 minutes in 1 battle it’s not fun for anyone. I live in a populated area with tons of people who still play PoGo and no one, I mean No One plays these 😂 glad you enjoy this for some odd reason but man… what a stupid idea
@@PrinceSieburt 15 minutes? Just proves that you're being carried and didn't invest in your pokemons huh, I literally have done 16 people max battles and 40 people max battles, and it never takes more than 10 minutes, like ever. Those 40 people max battles even took less than 5 minutes including the lobby waiting time, it genuinely only took 2-3 max cycles. Pokemon Go Players Duality: Pokemon go players: "Oh I'm quitting the game, there's nothing new and the mechanics are boring, just tap tap attacks against easy bosses to take down" Niantic:"Ok, we'll give you a slightly more complex end game content that requires you to shield and heal to give you the best chance to take the boss down, and we're also going to make it a little bit challenging since everybody's complaining because you can regularly 2-3 people tier 5 raids. Even better, we'll make it so that doing a tier 3 Max battle will only cost you half of tier 5 max battles, and it's even less for the tier 1." Pokemon go players:"What is this new feature? Why is it so hard and why can't I tap tap spam all the way to win?" Genuinely, stop complaining Lmao, an end game content being hard and slightly time consuming is the last thing you would expect from an endgame content, like the only genuine criticism is that you have to spend max particles to level up max moves but that's about it, as of it requiring people to do it with, this game is literally built so that people have to communicate and interact with each other, and you expect you would just be able to do things by yourself. Genuinely, every Pokemon Go player should be thankful that Niantic sinking due to COVID and them not wanting the game to die, they created the remote raid passes to keep them afloat since there's nobody going out, they should just genuinely remove it from the game altogether after COVID and let the game be what it was before COVID.
i wish they didn't even bother putting them in my small communitys like mine, the most amount of players ive seen is 5 in the gyms and i wish i could just have more ghastlys to shiny hunt
I live in a mostly rural area, and it's almost impossible to find even 4 people in a max battle. Which really stinks since it makes it harder to get Gigantamax or even higher level Dynamax pokemon.
I wish that was the only issue here. The financial investment side is a factor as well. For people that are free to play, you get what, 2? Maybe 3 of these raids in the span of the 2 days? Assuming you can form a group that manages to win, the catch is not 100%. So if things all go perfectly, then you just BARELY manage to get one of each. But if you fail to catch one, then suddenly you're doomed unless you spend real money.
This feature is as worse than elite raids. It's impossible for 99.999%of players while simultaneous making all my past non max pokemon obsolete. It won't happen, but I wish max pokemon would all disappear and be removed forever. 😢
My community has a local raiding scene and we did a Blastoise yesterday with around 37 people. It came down to the very last person on their very last Pokemon. I can't imagine how people in smaller groups can successfully take these on.
@@lastlast2078 My group had 11 people, total. Couldn't get anymore than that. We all powered up all the counters we could until we ran out of Stardust, Candy, or both. Despite that, we couldn't beat them. So tell me, if we can't get more people and 11 is all we got and we spent every resource we have and don't have all that much time to gather enough to power stuff up, what are we supposed to do?
@@SnooWords97 Accept that GMax is not accessible to you yet. Don't return home to cry in comments that you feel you are entitled to access and want the game to serve you everything on a plate.
they really should have done online lobby queuing where if you show up in person to a gigantamax raid it will put you together with other ppl doing the same raid nearby to make extra teams
Yeah, that moment pissed me off. It's great that he can just dump hundreds of dollars into this game for making youtube videos. But how many players are actually whales like him? This game is becoming more and more of a cash grab, and it's becoming more and more obvious too. I would rather the sushi dinner because at least I KNOW I'm going to enjoy myself.
The biggest trouble with this event is two things, not having enough candy. And not having enough max particles per day. It’s just a cash grab they want you to keep buying more particles and nothing else.
It is possible to dodge but you can only dodge the attackt when those three line above your pokemon appear like you did here 4:33, so if you see that above your pokemon you just need to swipe to the side before it starts blinking red and then you dodge the attack. it has worked everytime for me. but you still somtime take damage even if you dodge but less damage, and sometime you don't take damage.
tried a gmax blastoise yesterday. took THREE ATTEMPTS. we only finished it with the entire lobby maxed out. 40 PEOPLE, and then i didnt catch it... if we're gonna need 30+ people per raid, at least give us more rewards.
The number in the rop right isn't people left its pokemon left so if 2 of yours are alive and you see 3 pokemon left then it means it's only you and one other person left
It’s cool that they brought a challenging raiding system into the game, rather than just tapping senselessly until the raid it over these actually make it very hard and require strategy. However, just like with most of Niantic’s products, the execution is putrid. I’m 32 years old, work 50+ hours a week, and have one or two other friends that play with me. I have absolutely 0 chance completing this as I also live in a rural area. Let use actually use the gigantamax pokemon in some other capacity in the game, and let it be accessed with remote raiding. I don’t know anything about management at Niantic, but it’s hard to imagine anyone could be completely tone deaf so often unless it was on purpose
Me and my community manage to beat this gigantamax but there's actually a few tips in order for smoother battles with friends. 1. Make sure to actually level up your dynamax pokemons, evolve them, and make sure you level up their max skills. To defeat this, you need both QUANTITY and QUALITY since if all your pokemons died, you are gonna be the cheering team. You can't just ask someone to carry you on this one, everyone needs to be equally and reciprocally strong. My community was about 27 people fighting in it, mostly final evolved dynamax pokemons (Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, Gengar, etc.) At least around level 30 pokemons. 2. Make sure to put some baby pokemons inside before the battle starts to increase power boost. Before the Gigantamax battle starts, make a planning with friends to fight the one tier dynamax raids to boost up the power spot. In case you don't know, before gigantamax spawns, the power spot spawns a tier 1 (grookey, sobble, scorbunny) or tier 3 (falinks) raid, recommended to just fight the tier 1 (based on current dynamax spawns). And a minimum of at least 25+(?) player's pokemon inside to increase the strength boost to 4. This will not only make the battle easier but increase your damage. 3. Reroll the raids. What I mean by reroll is keep restarting the raids until your team gets an easy-to-deal-with move. For example, if Gigantamax Blastoise uses Hydro Pump, you and your team should go out because that is a very strong, 1-hit-KO move, and you can not revive pokemons that have fainted. Everytime you restart a Gigantamax raid, the Gigantamax pokemon will change its move, so dealing with an easier move not only ensures smoother game, but reduces a lot of fatality. For Charizard, recommended move to get is Flamethrower, for Blastoise, either Skull bash or Flash Cannon. For Venusaur the best move to get while fighting it is Frenzy Plant. 4. Make sure to spam the cheer button once you are defeated for your teams. I don't really know full well regarding the cheer button, but what I know is, once u spam the button to the max, you can provide your surviving teammates with extra max energies, I think it fills like 50%(?), but pretty useful. So far this is all I know and collected after raiding gigantamax, the experience was painful but fun because get to see local communities gathered up to beat the Gigantamax. But yeah, Niantic really pushing to increase communities in small places, which makes it harder, cuz not all everyone has the right device to play pokemon Go, that's all on my take, hope this helps, and have a good raid.
For a casual, it shouldn't take this much planning and skill to participate when there's over 20 people. These are awesome tips but for most of the player base, this is just so much to do/learn for something that's very niche to the game at this point
@@victorobi26 so the newest, biggest, bestest feature is NOT intended for casual players, what a surprise. them testing the new feature on hardcore players isnt that bad, these would do everything anyway and that way the feature can improve while casuals dont waste anything, while they still can have normal dynamax starters tho no arguing that it does really suck for rural players
@@victorobi26 I'm grateful to have an amazing community to raid together for these kinds of raid. But I have to agree with you, this is unfair for casual players that has no community or not in a community. These raids requires a huge preparation and my suggestion is Niantic allow remote invites for this raid but I think Niantic would make it expensive as we all know how Niantic view business opportunity as. The ugly part about this event is in addition to hard to battle, the pokemon is also hard to catch, which makes the 'upgrading rewards" somehow significant to increase balls to catch the gigantamax. A few had people had theirs fled including minr. And my current negative in this event is it requires a lot of pokecoins to purchase the MP, upgrade the rewards which I don't really recommend. So, yeah. I hope this fact helps.
@@kentrodrigoroble8822 Yes, that is an undeniable truth about the Gigantamax raid. At least, try to find a group or community in your area. If there is at least about 20 strong players, the other 20 could provide support through cheering them in the battles
Bc they think 40 people means you can bring Wooloo and Skwovet to a Gigantamax Venusaur fight lol Numbers don't mean anything when your whole team is wiped before you even grt a chance to Dynamax for the 1st time and do actual damage. When most people want to be carried, there aren't enough carriers
I did 10 Gigantamax over the weekend. *The secret for those raids is to DEFEND and HEAL in priority. Max the defensive and healing skills of your Dynamax/Gigantamax pokemons and make sure everyone use buffs.* It does take a bit longer, but it is WAY safer. In all the raids we did (we were 40 on Saturday, but only 28 on Sunday), we managed to finish the Gigantamax with over 10-20 pokemon remaining in our teams.
True! I even maxed out my 98 dubwool: it was a True healing lling hero! Choose 1 healer per team of 4. In the end, we got a blastoise with 18 trainers.
@@alluro8607 the thing is its just about what Do you had. Or if the Spot already had many from others before. We did one with 20 yesterday and had 30 pokemons left. But thats because we already powered the spot
About someone also said it like this event makes no sense it cost 800?? But only can collect a amount a day?? That's only like two raids and then it's hard to beat them not everyone has money 😢
@@derrrick1407 not everyone has luck with gyms bro that's also another thing red team is pissing me off I just put my pokemon in a gym and they take it down it's tiring 😫
@@Stitch2shy4u that's just a location bias I assume. If you get to level 38, you can try promoting pokestops and conversely gyms, which would help you get more gyms.
@@Stitch2shy4u I live in (somewhere, not telling you my city), but I play as team valor and where I am from, blue team and red team are the most dominant. There’s like no yellow gyms. However sometimes it’s bad for me because my team gyms are often full. But I made a gym a park that is in the route I go to school with, so it’s 3 min walk away from my home. It’s worked out REALLY well for me. Trust me, nominating really helps.
I think Niantic is using G Max to force more people to use Campfire. If your community hosted a meetup the reward for checking in was 800 MP. My community had a large turnout so it wasn’t that hard to complete the battles, but without a campfire meetup it would have been impossible.
I liked the raids. Was nice to see people again. Enough peolpe seem to multi account these days too which helps. Plus the Cheer mechanic helps from dead players.
I live in Tennessee, the capital is Nashville. Anyone familiar with Nashville knows Broadway is always densely packed with people. I've been sitting in the heart of MY STATE'S CAPITAL CITY and can't even get a second person to join me. That. Is. A. Problem. This isn't even a rural issue, it's a THERE'S NO GOD DAMN WAY TO DO THESE RAIDS issue
Got 9 G-Max after 90min Sat and 90min Sun. Last one I did, we beat Char with 18 players and 40 Pokemon still alive. Yea it’s gonna be rough starting out, but it’ll get way easier over time. Maybe hit it with a 20% nerf?
Dodging does work, but these bosses have 2 attacks, an AoE that you cannot dodge and a targeted attack that you can dodge. the 3 line symbols that pop up above your pokemon's head tell you when to dodge.
This is insane I haven’t seen your channel in so long and it came across my feed. You’re still my name on Clash Royale, glad to see the channel is still thriving!
I came back to Pokemon Go, I was a heavy player in 2016 > 2017. I honestly cannot believe how expensive this game has become. There's basically no avenue to grind it and be rewarded for your efforts, like any balanced game should have. Listen, I'm Level 37, which really isn't high these days, and more I play, more cool Pokemon I get, which always put me in a position where I myst spend real money to expand my storage, while also struggling with my limited pokeball storage, while wanting to raid to get more cool pokemon, which costs money!!!! It is a never ending cycle of throwing money at this. To do basic stuff, with no real compensation for the grind. Now they put in this god-awful feature in the game, which's basically feeling like a side-game within Pokemon Go, with no real integration whatsoever with the system we've been grinding for since the start, it just feel not worth it to start this again. I'm sorry, this just feels dumb.
Same Man, I was a heavy competitive player until the update that bring this half baked mecanic just destroy the entire meta, Lickitung for example required a lot of Time to find, then resources and more time to max it out and when you're ready, he Is no longer one of the most have pokemon, in fact, his evo Lickylicky Is now better, so you have to do all Over again. Glad I stopped playing this game, I thinked it couldn't be worse but no, Niantic still dissapointing everyone, except who doesn't have to pay of course...
I think the play for now is that IF you get G-Max and they have trash IVs, wait for a Lucky Trade and mirror trade G-Max Pokémon. That way, you’re at least guaranteed to get somewhat better IVs.
@@Sephiroth144 Well that's hopefully with Niantic but haven't dyna traded yet either so didn't know went to trade shiny other day and 80,000 is a price tag I'm not willing to pay unless I wants it bad...
The main problem with this raid is people haven't maxed their move on dyanamax pokemon. Next thing people don't cheer after all of their Pokemon are dead. Cheering helps alot in road
Well I know and me personally why I not going to power up again a max level 50 charizard, venusaur or blastoise when I already have one.. that’s like going back again repeating again on the game… is like raids when they get repeated same thing goes when they forcing you to max those Pokémon again … no thanks, should of just let you use the Pokemon already you have
I feel like this feature is to be used to bring the community together. Maybe they can use this feature during a Go Fest. So if made as an “ambassador day” event, it cool be a cool feature, with a tweak or two.
The 200 coins extra thing for gigantimax raids is actually kind of worth it if you have the coins and have a lucky egg going. It's 100k XP per gmax battle with the egg and 200 coins
Same though I live in a city with a lot of gyms and pokestops, but finding big enough groups is near impossible, and campfire's utterly useless since active users live far away from me, this is literally designed for big city players only. And even then, even when we got 40 people with over 60 pokémon, we lost multiple times. We only managed when over 100 pokémon were used, insane how hard it is, definitely hope they adjust the feature in the future cuz this is ridiculous
Dude honestly only people in your situation can complain about this (I mean besides the bugs and shitty rewards). The biggest problem is anti socials don't want to interact with other people so they let their fomo want to ruin it for others.
@@starman1494don't even attempt it at this point. they're cracking down hard on cheaters nowadays. if anything, you'd need to make an alt account to do these gmax battled and trade them over to your main account because getting a 7 day ban is inevitable
I couldn’t get any of them at all had over 20 people to raid with we could not beat any during day one I wish Niantic made these easier so this feature can be more better for people especially in areas where people don’t play
I raided a Gmax charizard, 40 ppl and we defeated it, I hoped for a shiny but my game crashed as I was going into the rewards screen, and the raid disappeared so I never got the Gmax zard and it still took my MP
@@alascd yeah you're telling me. Gotta be one of the rarest spawn in the game. And I lost it because I pressed the AR switch and then it soft locked the game and I couldn't do anything else except for close it.
This is possibly the worst feature ever added to Pokemon Go to date. INCLUDING REMOTE RAID NERF!!! I live in Louisiana. L O U I S I A N A. There is almost zero active community here, not even in New Orleans. The most I've seen in one of these raids is 3 trainers, and I waited over an hour on the corner of a road on LSU's campus. This is absolutely bewildering to me as LSU has well over 40,000 students. I've written Niantic multiple times about this and have yet to receive an un-automated response. Something truly needs to be done, and I pray Niantic will finally hear us. LET RURAL COMMUNITIES PLAY YOUR GAME NIANTIC. YOU CLAIM CONSTANTLY THAT YOU WANT US TO SHARE THE EXPERIENCE, BUT I'VE YET TO SEE IT IN ACTION.
It’s amazing you did so well that first time with “only” 26 people! I had 40 people and it went from 120 monsters to less than 70 in a few seconds. We barely beat it. Clearly you need all leveled up people when not many. I was happy to see a lot of little kids out and joining, but less happy to see the Sobbles and Charmanders going down so fast.
Tried a raid with a couple friends, got decimated with full evolved type advantage dynamax pokemon and still got slammed, gave up and rethought my choice of mobile games and I’ve decided I’m going back to clash of clans
Honestly, I find it irritating that Dynamax and Gigantamax require you to recollect the same Pokémon you own. What's the point of farming 100% IV if they're gated in a specific portion of the game. Plus, I went really hard trying to get a Grookey through the Dynamax raids to get a 100% to only find out after doing research that I have to get a full team up to re-collect the same unit later on to get Gigantamax versions. SO a boat load of farming for something thats only useable in on facet of the game. Furthermore, the Gigantamax are extremely hard and no one in my area will do them. No thanks. Shows how out of touch the developers are with their design choices.
We had about 75 (or more) people show up today after everyone failed on smaller groups yesterday. Our train walked in an out & back at our park and outside of some fleeing (I lost one of each), it was successful. I made multiple new friends and the group was already trying to set up a time for Friday evening for Gengar. It’s difficult but with proper planning, can be pulled off.
Why doesn’t Niantic understand that a lot of people doesn’t want to play with other people. So please stop making stuff to force people to play with other people.
Hell. I don't mind playing with other people, but I'm dead-ass-serious if I were to stand in the busiest street in my city and promise free pizza to anyone who would join me for ten minutes at a set time of day on a specific street corner I doubt I could get 20 people to show up. If I have to coordinate an event for 20+ people, I best be getting paid.
The number at the top right are not people, but Pokémon. Also, dodging in Dynamax / Gigantamax battles is not broken. You can only move from side to side to collect the particle boost when it appears.
Consider G max basic pokemon that we can get from quests or easier raids. Then we can evolve them to G max stage 2. Makes gmax Pokémon accessible to everyone. Easier to get better IV. If people want challenge, they can do stage 2 at Go Fest or something.
The other dumb thing is that you can pre-load Pokemon into the Power Spot by defeating the low-level 1-tiers and leaving Pokemon at the spot... but you obviously can't leave your most effective, and you can't even tell what Gigantamax Pokemon is going to be showing up at the spot later on to know what type to leave, etc.
it was pretty bad for me, my first venusaur ran away, and the raids were hard overall. I also think trainers really need to invest into their pokemon to beat this, I've seen way too many gastly, wooloo, and grookeys on my team
You can dodge normal attacks by swiping your Pokemon as soon as the 3 yellow lines appear above its head. If you dodged correctly, you'll see the "Dodged" word in the chat on the right. When that happens, you've dodged the upcoming attack and you can keep attacking normally. When you see that the enemy Pokemon is "preparing an attack" in the chat, attack a few times, then stop and get ready to dodge. Dodging will really lessen the damage taken. You cannot dodge charged attacks.
I genuinely need them to make more updates you can do with like 3-5 people. Looking at a 3-4 star raid asking for 10+ people is insanity. I understand it’s supposed to be like a community thing, but that stuff literally doesn’t exist in the smaller towns. You HAVE to be in places like NYC or something crazy.
I've only seen dodging reduce the damage an attack does. Though I also try to use the Max Guard to help nullify damage. Against Falinks a double shield kept Metagross from taking any damage from Megahorn. Though given the damage Gigantamax pokemon likely do, triple shield might only buy you an attack or two. While many are around my town, I don't know if there are enough groups to beat them.
It’s sad to se that after how the initial Mega Pokemon rollout went, Dynamax seemed like it was off to such a promising start with the Tier1 mons. The most people I ever saw in a gigantimax raid lobby was 5 people.
I do not have nearly enough people to do these battles. I also have not invested any candy or max particles to power up my few dynamax pokemon either. It just wasn't a feature that interested me at all.
It's also possible with a smaller group if you have good communication and an actual strategy. I found a good strategy to stay alive....always make sure you have guard shields on, I had about 2 shields up at all times and healed and attacked when it was optimal..never lost a single pokemon when I was focusing on having shields up before focusing on the max attack. When you are put in your separate battle groups your blocks only work for your pokemon but the heal works for everyone in your separate battle group. Your can see your teammates health at the top so you don't always have to use your heal as other trainers will hopefully help where they can...get your shields up first everyone then focusing on health then attack when you can.
I was playing in a city and we managed to get like 36 accounts in the raid. But it was still very hard. Some of us were not heavly invested in the dynamax pokemons to start with so we didnt have the best counters. I am a F2P player and was only able to do 2 gigantamax raids. One Venusaur which I didnt manage to catch and one Blastoise that luckly was shiny for me! (but bad IVs ofc). After this weekend, me and many others as you all can see here on the internet, realized how freaking expensive and unrealistically difficult these raids are. There is NO WAY you would be able to gather the required amount of people to do these raids on a regular Tuesday afternoon. The amount of Max particles you need to invest in your pokemon and to even join the raid is really limiting the players and also the Max particle cap of 1 000 is really helping out a lot... And you also need to invest in a 2nd line up of every pokemon from here on out. This system just restets all players back to zero which I dont like at all. I don't know but so far I dont feel like dynamax/gigantamax will be anything that can give us any benefits. Yet another Elite raid - type of feature that no one will do in the future. I dont know why its so hard for Niantic to just come up with reasonable updates that every player can enjoy regardless of where you live. I would just like to see the existing content being perfected and utilize the potential to it's fullest.
This is the biggest frick you Niantic has ever done because 1. They are so hard, and you can’t remote raid them, which is a frick you to rural areas 2. I got reports that some accounts that got Gigantamax Pokemon were banned the day after the event as there was an issue where the admins thought that was not right, so they banned people. Worst event this year
While I hated this event and the pain of standing instead of just walking to next destination this was my experience with dodging @1:51 Dodging so far for me felt more like this Notification - Attack Incoming - wait until your pokemon flash a "red" indicator above em - spam the crap out of your dodge You should see a dodge notice on the side - indicating you actually dodged their attack whereas X is preparing a large attack this you can't dodge but you can swipe left and right to mitigate some damage Always setup at least 2 guards/shield when you g max to help your main dps survive longer as bloody hell these things hit hard...switching em out won't remove em from that dps but it won't pass on to switch in pokemon. Max stack is 3 guards/shields
I have several videos that shows the same frustrations and stress of these raids. Not worth it for pokemons that many of us already. Because we need to get dynamax and/or gigiantic ones and invest more dust power it up is just very frustrating....
Only reason I do Dynamax is for the xp. 5k each time and the animations take longer than the actual raid. Which leads to a rant on the shared eggs only being 15 minutes when animations take up around 5 minutes
The worst thing about this for me is that they are everywhere at every power spot. Like I live in a small town with some power spots and every single one of them has gigantamax Pokémon. Like pls bring back the 1 star raids so I can at least grind the power spots for smth
I lost five raids that had 40 people in them. I was in Midtown Manhattan. I was playing in the evening, so maybe all the folks with good stats were done for the day.
Here’s what I’ll say. The feature is unfair and needs to be rebalanced, but about 100 people showed up to a park in my mid sized town. It was the most engagement I have seen in this game since the early days, and I got a hundo venusaur. I’m a bit biased but I think it’s a pretty cool feature to drive in person engagement
I live in a small city in a small country. We have around 12 regular GO players in the entire area. We tried one of these Charizard raids and got absolutely destroyed. This feature sucks and I really hope they rebalance it in the future.
It occurs to me that this could be a method of getting more individuals to commute to cities on the weekend. It would be an economic boost to major metro areas and might pull money out of rural communities. The economic implications are intriguing.
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This feature is garbage. Not only is it literally impossible to do as a none city resident, it also serves no purpose - they're just glorified costume pokemon that only you can see. Not to mention it's expensive af... Someone needs to do a video on the amount of resources you need to invest to even do this crap.
Somebody already did explain it poke ak kind went through it a little bit but this absolutely sucks for me I am level 39 but I don’t play often so I could barely get my pokemon to 2000 cp and my stardust barely scrapes 200k so I can’t even get them to a place where I feel comfortable fighting them I will be doing some work on my gengar so I can at least try to win against gmax gengar but we will see cause I live in a somewhat rural area
@@bransonmoore6718damn bro I feel ya. I live in a 70k city so kinda bigger, and I scrape by with like 3-400k I usually go out, use 2-3 star pieces, and catch every single thing. I make like 50-100k a day when I actually play
bro i live in a city and i just cannot find people because its so big
If its just a costume, then why do you people complain about missing out on it? Grow up and go outside
@@NikoPLuSH0 I think it either needs a nerf or give us a feature where we can turn our current pokemon into dynamax so we can have a way to stand a chance and they can keep the difficulty cause hard can be fun but right it is no fun it is just agitating
Gigantamax is the biggest F You Niantic has done to it's community since Remote Passes nerf. 99% of it's player base won't be able to battle in these even IF they can get 20+ people
True! Yesterday I got a battle with 33 player and we lost without taking even 50% of the pokemon's life, it's difficult 😢(Sorry I wrote it wrong)
I beat it with 13 ppl
Beat it with less than 30. But people need to invest in the Dynamax pokemon. After a few have Gigantamax Pokemon it becomes easier.
@@raposo8394just say pokemon
@@raposo8394 i know this wasnt meant to be funny but i did chuckle at you refering to it as an animal 😂
Niantic failed the community with this update. I can't even take the 3 star dynamax to half health with the amount of Pokemons I have. I have friends, but not enough to even get the 5 star gigantamax anywhere near half health. The other problem is the amount of dynamax Pokemon spawns. Not everyone lives in a place where they're able to have spawns near them. I give this update a massive L from me. 😕
I live quite rural with only like 7-12 Players who I only know from the trainer Tags of gym pokemon.
And while enough g max raids spawn here, I just cannot beat them as a lvl 35, f2p player with almost no support
I have more spawns that gyms where I live, but not enough players, it’s annoying
They always fail the community when it counts😢
Pokemon is plural
The whole system is flawed, and it doesn’t help that a few whales have no problem pumping dumping max particles to support their awful implementation of the system
Thanks keep paying hundreds even thousands of dollars for this bullshit so they know it was implemented correctly
Dear Niantic, I am not driving 45 minutes (one way) to catch 1-2 Gigantamax pokemon (depending on my free max particles amount) that have no other use outside of the gigantamax feature. Especially with a pretty decent chance of them fleeing and/or being crap. Ill happily skip out on this feature just like dynamax.
For real
Fr, beldum was bad, this is way worse than
@@tripn8202beldum is at least soloable, but this update is horrid
At least with Dmax, we can solo and work our way up... I leveled up a charizard, venusaur and ciderace all below 2k HP and I can take dowm beldum solo with one mon with at least half an hp... with Gmax, there's no way to take down the easiest with 30 people with decent level... I have not tried falinks yet, but once I maxed out venusaur and cinderace or level two charmanders, I may be able to take down falinks solo...
My trip would be 4 hours my state Sucks
Two major Fs from Niantic.
1. Released Gmax way too early. Not time to make a good team you want to power up and lack of available Dmax Pokémon.
2. No communication. Using heal, shields and cheering are apparently very important to beating the bosses. But Niantic don’t give any indication of how we should play. Should have been a warning as to how hard they are and a guide on how to play in the battles.
If people can’t use their brain than this feature is useless to them it’s been over a month to prep for this more than enough particles are the only big dilemma apart if you are rural or not
On part 1, I agree 100%. It was released too early. On part 2, I disagree. The heal and defense abilities were there the entire time, it was painfully obvious that they would need to be used in the future. And it was pretty obvious that this is one of those times.
@ I assume you are a younger player or someone who likes games. But the majority of players near where I live are not gamers and are on the older side. They generally do raids tapping on the screen while chatting and don’t really pay that much attention to the raid until it’s finished. For these players (and the Singaporean grandmothers) they need more of an explanation of hoy to the mechanics work.
@@matgreen4789 I'm in my 40's, but yeah I understanding gaming because I play games.
But yeah, these events are made for you if you just tap the screen and not pay attention to what's going on. You just may not be the target audience of this type of event.
Honestly, that doesn't surprised me at all, big Niantic moment there.
Glad that i dropped the game after they nuke the entire meta and everyone's candies and Stardust,
This feature is absolutely terrible. Yes I get that gigantimax Pokemon are cool and strong, but they don’t need to be this hard to take down. And Niantic thinks everyone lives in big cities and that everyone has access to a big Pokemon go community. I only live in a small town and I was able to recruit a few people, I think 8 or 9 to join the raid weekend with me and my friend. All of us joined a charizard, and even though that’s the ‘easiest’ one to take down, every Pokemon died in 30 seconds. Either make them easier or allow remote raids for gmax Pokemon. I agree with everything mystic said from 23:20
Charizard actually has the highest stats out of all the gmax ones, blastoise is the weakest, so it makes since you'd struggle
@@lugatina Charizard has the highest Attack out of the three, but it has the lowest Defense and HP out of the three, so it ends up being easier to take down than Venusaur or Blastoise.
I’m just making assumptions here, Mega rayquaza was considered to be one of the hardest bosses when it first got its debut. And now it’s an absolute small fry, maybe they’ll do the same with gigantamax Pokemon when they make their eventual return? (I heavily doubt it)
@@lugatina I know but we did try all of them and lost to every single one, charizard in 1 minute, venusaur in 45 seconds.
My country is way smaller
This is the biggest fuck you niantic has even pulled. As a rural player this is soooo frustrating. We have a raid group here were we usually have 14 accounts. Which is not bad i think, but will not ever give us a chance to get a gigantamax pokemon. Seriously this could be the end for the game for me.
I think the Accidental Ban Wave that happened yesterday might edge it out
its lucky and great you have 14 in your community, the reason i donteven care about the bullsh*t gigantamax is it has no revelance and just a drain for using dust on sh*t thats not usable other than getting more crap mons that have nopurpose
Maybe u just suck my bro
I don't see this as a "fuck you" until they introduce a new pokemon that is only obtainable through dynamax. Which rest assured, will happen.
@@peves- I'm pretty sure anyone who had a gigantamax encounter flee, or missed half the event due to a false ban, probably feels like they got a big "fuck you." Not that I don't think Niantic can up the "fuck you" ante... but, speaking as someone who had a Blastoise flee (thankfully on an alt), it stings so god damn much. That single flee was three days of coins, and at least 20 minutes doing four attempts.
Edit... obviously raid bosses can flee, but they're easier to take down, opportunities are plentiful, and base rewards for 4 and 5 star raids are arguably superior.
Literally 99% of the players are not able to do this what's eternamax enernatus gonna become? 200 people?
lol fr
And probably 2,400 MP
Also the same catch rate percent as a Galarian bird 💀
I doubt eternamax enernatus will ever be in the game, it's designed not to be a playable pokemon.
True true
The fact that you CANT do this remotely immediately put me off even attempting this
ALSO, this feature is terrible in the resource system. You can’t upgrade the 1000 MP limit, but you’re also limited in how much MP you can accumulate in a day without spending money.
On top of that, the fact that you need MP both to enter Max Raids AND upgrade your max Pokémon, along with candy, making it difficult to manage these resources in general.
In short, this is a terribly designed feature that’s not worth participating in IMO
I feel the MP limit is the worst part of this since you have to use so much MP to upgrade and to raid. I wish they'd split the resources if they want to do something like that so you can save for upgrades and raid.
It’s really dumb. I can’t even get 5 people to do a normal raid let alone 20+ for a Gmax raid.
I cant even get 2 people in a raid my city is so small
@@mimi-rui use pokeraid
True that.
I’m by myself in my area
Same
Not a single person in my area were wasting their time on this. What's the point? You can't use it for anything but the same raids. Waste of time and resources.
Same
The game is about collecting Pokemon. What's the point of collecting any of the other Pokemon then? Waste of time and resources.
@octavio_no All other pokemon you can actually use for things. I don't even know 30+ people that play this in person. So even if I wanted to 'collect' them, I have no choice.
@@octavio_nobut you can also transfer shinies that’s what I do. This doesn’t actually help you collect anything new or unique. They’re recycling the same pokemon over and over again. Have you noticed after anytime there’s a raid boss, when it’s out the rotation it will return as a shadow. Or some variation which forces you into the shiny hundo grind for each variation of the same pokemon. This way they have endless content.
@@MsParisPlaysI agree but some collectors like the extra title of dynamax to their shiny, dex and Pokédex as well
The biggest cringe are Niantic bootlickers defending the Gigantas and how poorly it was implemented, to what end do you defend the corporation adding features that 75% of players (maybe more) can't do?
I disagree. I see it as a challenge. Just look up people on nearby city's and towns through campfire or something. My city had people from another city come over, we teamed up and had a blast. Nothing wrong with a little planning and effort, it makes the fruits of the labor sweeter.
@@Lulu-xl5cm you exactly confirm what original poster say. Because you has people do raids you expect everone got people enought to do raids.
Like i can do current giratina easy solo when weather boost. Do i expect every player in pokemon go can do giratina raids as solo or even duo? no heck most player still need +5 player inside 5 star raids.
@@Lulu-xl5cmEven if we did it like that, these pokemon have no other functionality beyond max battles. There are no pvp max battles or anything like that. So even if you went to all the trouble and got the gmax pokemon, they can only be used for another gmax raid which takes all this effort all over again. It’s fking insane.
@@PersonofInterest23621 Can't you use those pokemon in PvE as well? Pretty sure you can...
@@greykor140 Yes but there’s no difference to using their non max variant, which is much easier to get and power up. Not to mention most GMax Pokemon have terrible IVs. Even the ones in this video. So what’s the point?
I live in Thessaloniki in Greece which is the second-largest city in Greece, and we have a community of around 60-70 players in total, and we were barely able to meet up and find 30 people to do a few raids.
Most of our raids failed, and we only managed to do around 5-6 raids in total.
Once again, keep in mind that I am living in the second-biggest city in Greece, so no wonder how people can even bring down one of those raids in smaller cities. No need to mention rural areas or villages.
Once again, Niatic completely excludes rural players just to make some quick money from a feature which serves no purpose.
As it stands now, the only purpose Gigandamax Pokémon have is to just make it easier for you to bring down Dynamax and Gigandamax raids. They are completely useless outside of this feature. So I don't see any reason for them to be that hard.
Seriously
They don’t even _stay_ Gigantamax-ed so you can have them as buddies and bask in their coolness…
What’s. The freaking. Point.
An invisible Pokémon…
Niantic failed us with this one… One of many sadly. Somethings they do are just nothing but useless malakies… It looks cool but if it’s going to be useless, yeah no point.
I live in a small interior city in São Paulo, Brazil. We have an active community of effectively 90 active people with the Niantic community stuff we have someone that's our community leader and we organize and gather often to play when cool events happen. We topped 27 people on that Kanto Starters GMAX event and 32 people on Gengar GMAX.
This is not an easy task that you'll do with a 6 people friend group that only plays twice a week to spin pokéstops and catch the daily steaks. If you're not active enough to have the resources to power up the DMAX or GMAX pokémon required to battle you're not gonna do anything. All this game's community knows is how to cry and complain instead of actually play the game.
Hey mystic! Was amazing to be able to meet you in person and raid with you! Thanks for also including me and my friends in the video 😄👍!
These raids are insanely difficult. If you live in a small town with like 5 total players you’re basically screwed out of ever getting one of these done
i live in a place with 0 other players, im just beating drillburs on repeat
No lying.
@zedia79 that's terrible i feel ya
I do all my dynamx raids alone whether their 1, 3, or 4. I'm screwed out of the gigantamax.
These need to be heavily nerfed. We were 15 people and no succes.
Even with 40 its insanely hard
We did it with 19 ...and then again with 22
I don't even bother. Can't find 30+ people
what were u expecting dude these have been taking 30 people to beat
I live in a small town with no more than 6 players mac
I hope they come back out in a few weeks COMPLETELY reworked. Able to be taken out by smaller groups, give better rewards, and maybe some other things
🤣🤣🤣 The most wishful thing I’ve seen in a while. Niantic only makes things worse. If they do rework it, they will just cost more and be even harder. Time to quit the game
@@adrianparente6034 i mean, mega evolving a pokemon is WAY more forgiving than it used to be. Back then, mega evolving was the same number of mega energy EVERY SINGLE TIME and pretty much forced you to farm mega raids since it was the only way to gain mega energy. Now, you still mainly get mega energy from mega raids, but gaining a candy by touching grass and waiting 7 days for the 1st level, 5 days for level 2 and 3 days for level 3. When that cooldown ends, you can mega evolve for free. For example, legendaries are usually 20km for a candy, but those that can primal reversion or mega evolve gains 100 primal/mega energy from that 20km, which is good on its own. Pokemons that needs 5km to gain a candy gains 25 mega energy when you walk with them
And to be fair, dynamax is so poorly implemented its not even funny. All they could have done is implement matchmaking so that everyone can raid those gigantamax, just like what they did with their latest game Monster Hunter Now with Hunt-a-thons, Elder Dragon Interception and the Dimentional Links. If they bothered adding matchmaking there, why they can't add it in pokemon go ?
@@giratina2825 Yeah niantic is so famous company that they wanna people enjoying game and having good time XD
@@affi6064 ik this is sarcasm so don't even try hiding it. Like i said, if they want us players to "enjoy" farming gigantamax pokemons, they could have at least put matchmaking cuz ain't no way 80% of the playerbase are benefiting from this, especiatly needing at least 25 players who has decent pokemons to "try" to stand a chance. If they bothered implementing matchmaking in MHN, they can do it here in pokemon go. This is just pathetic and lazy on their part. Even making the dynamax raids in general being remote raidable would be one of the best moves niantic would have done. What did they choosed ? Shutting the playerbase up and drop features that are as good as nothing and scamming us all whenever they can cuz let's not forget this. Their new terms of service literally makes them impossible to being sue and we were forced to agree or else its a kick from the game. They never cared for its community at all, even in 2016 when it peaked. All they want is sucking every last drop of money and they get away with it.
They didn't learn from Rayquaza raid hours...8 people and could barely do those raids since they buffed their charged attacks.
Not even bothering with these and I've been playing the game since day 1.
Also to add on to this, my Pokemon Go discord community for this area is having the most difficult time recruiting enough people for these...not a lot of people play anymore.
fr bro
@@BasiliskFN-u2e I doubt if these were even half as easy people would be doing them tbh. Where most Gigantimax raids are they aren't going to allow a massive group of people to sit around and block places for 20+ minutes doing these raids...
Bruh, niantic really doesn’t care about anyone
@@ThePokemonMasters-Pokémon_Go they don't test their new features outside of Santa Monica and whatever area in California they test in.
Their features fail outside of major cities. They give a damn about their money and that's about it. Shits absolutely frustrating.
I used PGsharp since 2022 for exactly this, that's why, while I don't support the use of PGsharp, I also don't support when companies force players to used them in the first place.
Now i no longer play the game for stupid things like this, or destroying the meta and years of grinding just because 2 Pokémon we're broken, and honestly, I'm very glad I dropped it in time
Doing what u do best jumping on the train when ppl hate this is so stupid 0:21
We in a small community were able to take these down with 15 people with only 4 of us with lvl 40 pokemon with lvl 3 max attack an lvl 1 max spirit. It takes the right strategy and communication
Yeah, I would understand the rural area people complaining since they probably can't get 8+ people to do these with(Apparently according to simulations, atleast 8 people are needed to complete these with the right strategies), but for those who were able to get into 40+ player lobbies, I genuinely don't get those people being mad it's hard. Like genuinely, these people are complaining because they didn't invest into their max mons, I understand that people are disappointed that max mons can only be used in max battles hence making them useless(For now, atleast), but for those participating in these events and still complaining with so many people, maybe try powering up your pokemons, just like every other feature like raids, pvp, etc.
@@YourAvgWeebit’s boring lmao spending 15-20 minutes in 1 battle it’s not fun for anyone. I live in a populated area with tons of people who still play PoGo and no one, I mean No One plays these 😂 glad you enjoy this for some odd reason but man… what a stupid idea
@@PrinceSieburt 15 minutes? Just proves that you're being carried and didn't invest in your pokemons huh, I literally have done 16 people max battles and 40 people max battles, and it never takes more than 10 minutes, like ever. Those 40 people max battles even took less than 5 minutes including the lobby waiting time, it genuinely only took 2-3 max cycles.
Pokemon Go Players Duality:
Pokemon go players: "Oh I'm quitting the game, there's nothing new and the mechanics are boring, just tap tap attacks against easy bosses to take down"
Niantic:"Ok, we'll give you a slightly more complex end game content that requires you to shield and heal to give you the best chance to take the boss down, and we're also going to make it a little bit challenging since everybody's complaining because you can regularly 2-3 people tier 5 raids. Even better, we'll make it so that doing a tier 3 Max battle will only cost you half of tier 5 max battles, and it's even less for the tier 1."
Pokemon go players:"What is this new feature? Why is it so hard and why can't I tap tap spam all the way to win?"
Genuinely, stop complaining Lmao, an end game content being hard and slightly time consuming is the last thing you would expect from an endgame content, like the only genuine criticism is that you have to spend max particles to level up max moves but that's about it, as of it requiring people to do it with, this game is literally built so that people have to communicate and interact with each other, and you expect you would just be able to do things by yourself. Genuinely, every Pokemon Go player should be thankful that Niantic sinking due to COVID and them not wanting the game to die, they created the remote raid passes to keep them afloat since there's nobody going out, they should just genuinely remove it from the game altogether after COVID and let the game be what it was before COVID.
i wish they didn't even bother putting them in my small communitys like mine, the most amount of players ive seen is 5 in the gyms and i wish i could just have more ghastlys to shiny hunt
Fr at my local pub I sit there and just see 4 g-max and there is like 2 people that play Pokémon go in my village
I live in a mostly rural area, and it's almost impossible to find even 4 people in a max battle. Which really stinks since it makes it harder to get Gigantamax or even higher level Dynamax pokemon.
I wish that was the only issue here. The financial investment side is a factor as well. For people that are free to play, you get what, 2? Maybe 3 of these raids in the span of the 2 days? Assuming you can form a group that manages to win, the catch is not 100%. So if things all go perfectly, then you just BARELY manage to get one of each. But if you fail to catch one, then suddenly you're doomed unless you spend real money.
I hate niantic for it BRO I DON’T HAVE ANY GIGANTAMAX!
Fr
i got a venausar but charizard was impossible
Me too 😢😢😢
@@siva6272 yes
Me i try venusaur,but i fail we are 23 bro
That’s a you problem get friends
17:20 "cheering can essentially make the remaining players invincible, so don't leave". 5 seconds later: Leaves. 😢
Yeah, that was pretty disappointing
This feature is as worse than elite raids. It's impossible for 99.999%of players while simultaneous making all my past non max pokemon obsolete. It won't happen, but I wish max pokemon would all disappear and be removed forever. 😢
Or if they added remote gigantamax and made them easier to defeat and make it so that you don’t need ten people
@@TF2Soldier-f2p Yeah. That and I want to make my old pokemon into max pokemon. Give us the soup!
@@shimozu92 glad you agree with me 🙂
@@TF2Soldier-f2p Dumbest suggestion made to fix dynamax/gmax.
@@DarkKerialstraz ok, your opinion
My community has a local raiding scene and we did a Blastoise yesterday with around 37 people. It came down to the very last person on their very last Pokemon. I can't imagine how people in smaller groups can successfully take these on.
26 and Web did it 😂
Evolve and power up, invest in your teams, too many expect to be carried.
@@lastlast2078 My group had 11 people, total. Couldn't get anymore than that. We all powered up all the counters we could until we ran out of Stardust, Candy, or both. Despite that, we couldn't beat them.
So tell me, if we can't get more people and 11 is all we got and we spent every resource we have and don't have all that much time to gather enough to power stuff up, what are we supposed to do?
we took down charizard with 16 people. in total i personally walked away with 2 charizard (1 shiny) and a blastoise
@@SnooWords97 Accept that GMax is not accessible to you yet. Don't return home to cry in comments that you feel you are entitled to access and want the game to serve you everything on a plate.
they really should have done online lobby queuing where if you show up in person to a gigantamax raid it will put you together with other ppl doing the same raid nearby to make extra teams
That would be b!tchin' 🤙
Frr bro @@UndertakerU2ber
7:00 another $100 down the drain, but it is cheaper than the sushi dinner with the lady
Yeah, that moment pissed me off. It's great that he can just dump hundreds of dollars into this game for making youtube videos. But how many players are actually whales like him? This game is becoming more and more of a cash grab, and it's becoming more and more obvious too.
I would rather the sushi dinner because at least I KNOW I'm going to enjoy myself.
For some reason, when I tried, the gigantimax Pokémon were firing attacks rapidly, like with no time in between
The biggest trouble with this event is two things, not having enough candy. And not having enough max particles per day. It’s just a cash grab they want you to keep buying more particles and nothing else.
It is possible to dodge but you can only dodge the attackt when those three line above your pokemon appear like you did here 4:33, so if you see that above your pokemon you just need to swipe to the side before it starts blinking red and then you dodge the attack. it has worked everytime for me. but you still somtime take damage even if you dodge but less damage, and sometime you don't take damage.
THIS
tried a gmax blastoise yesterday. took THREE ATTEMPTS. we only finished it with the entire lobby maxed out. 40 PEOPLE, and then i didnt catch it... if we're gonna need 30+ people per raid, at least give us more rewards.
The number in the rop right isn't people left its pokemon left so if 2 of yours are alive and you see 3 pokemon left then it means it's only you and one other person left
It’s cool that they brought a challenging raiding system into the game, rather than just tapping senselessly until the raid it over these actually make it very hard and require strategy. However, just like with most of Niantic’s products, the execution is putrid. I’m 32 years old, work 50+ hours a week, and have one or two other friends that play with me. I have absolutely 0 chance completing this as I also live in a rural area. Let use actually use the gigantamax pokemon in some other capacity in the game, and let it be accessed with remote raiding. I don’t know anything about management at Niantic, but it’s hard to imagine anyone could be completely tone deaf so often unless it was on purpose
Me and my community manage to beat this gigantamax but there's actually a few tips in order for smoother battles with friends.
1. Make sure to actually level up your dynamax pokemons, evolve them, and make sure you level up their max skills.
To defeat this, you need both QUANTITY and QUALITY since if all your pokemons died, you are gonna be the cheering team. You can't just ask someone to carry you on this one, everyone needs to be equally and reciprocally strong. My community was about 27 people fighting in it, mostly final evolved dynamax pokemons (Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, Gengar, etc.) At least around level 30 pokemons.
2. Make sure to put some baby pokemons inside before the battle starts to increase power boost.
Before the Gigantamax battle starts, make a planning with friends to fight the one tier dynamax raids to boost up the power spot. In case you don't know, before gigantamax spawns, the power spot spawns a tier 1 (grookey, sobble, scorbunny) or tier 3 (falinks) raid, recommended to just fight the tier 1 (based on current dynamax spawns). And a minimum of at least 25+(?) player's pokemon inside to increase the strength boost to 4. This will not only make the battle easier but increase your damage.
3. Reroll the raids.
What I mean by reroll is keep restarting the raids until your team gets an easy-to-deal-with move. For example, if Gigantamax Blastoise uses Hydro Pump, you and your team should go out because that is a very strong, 1-hit-KO move, and you can not revive pokemons that have fainted. Everytime you restart a Gigantamax raid, the Gigantamax pokemon will change its move, so dealing with an easier move not only ensures smoother game, but reduces a lot of fatality. For Charizard, recommended move to get is Flamethrower, for Blastoise, either Skull bash or Flash Cannon. For Venusaur the best move to get while fighting it is Frenzy Plant.
4. Make sure to spam the cheer button once you are defeated for your teams.
I don't really know full well regarding the cheer button, but what I know is, once u spam the button to the max, you can provide your surviving teammates with extra max energies, I think it fills like 50%(?), but pretty useful.
So far this is all I know and collected after raiding gigantamax, the experience was painful but fun because get to see local communities gathered up to beat the Gigantamax. But yeah, Niantic really pushing to increase communities in small places, which makes it harder, cuz not all everyone has the right device to play pokemon Go, that's all on my take, hope this helps, and have a good raid.
For a casual, it shouldn't take this much planning and skill to participate when there's over 20 people. These are awesome tips but for most of the player base, this is just so much to do/learn for something that's very niche to the game at this point
@@victorobi26 so the newest, biggest, bestest feature is NOT intended for casual players, what a surprise. them testing the new feature on hardcore players isnt that bad, these would do everything anyway and that way the feature can improve while casuals dont waste anything, while they still can have normal dynamax starters
tho no arguing that it does really suck for rural players
@@victorobi26 I'm grateful to have an amazing community to raid together for these kinds of raid. But I have to agree with you, this is unfair for casual players that has no community or not in a community. These raids requires a huge preparation and my suggestion is Niantic allow remote invites for this raid but I think Niantic would make it expensive as we all know how Niantic view business opportunity as. The ugly part about this event is in addition to hard to battle, the pokemon is also hard to catch, which makes the 'upgrading rewards" somehow significant to increase balls to catch the gigantamax. A few had people had theirs fled including minr. And my current negative in this event is it requires a lot of pokecoins to purchase the MP, upgrade the rewards which I don't really recommend. So, yeah. I hope this fact helps.
Sadly, newer players and f2p will have a hard time for this. 😂😂😂
Not enough resources to power up unless get carried by a lot of stronger people
@@kentrodrigoroble8822 Yes, that is an undeniable truth about the Gigantamax raid. At least, try to find a group or community in your area. If there is at least about 20 strong players, the other 20 could provide support through cheering them in the battles
I flew to San Fransisco To Do This I GOT 40 People each time and even then out of my 27 battles I only won 3
Shouldve gone to nyc
@C7dx you still might lose because people don't know how to evolve their mons
@@Penterror yeah ive done 12 today so far
Bc they think 40 people means you can bring Wooloo and Skwovet to a Gigantamax Venusaur fight lol Numbers don't mean anything when your whole team is wiped before you even grt a chance to Dynamax for the 1st time and do actual damage. When most people want to be carried, there aren't enough carriers
This sounds like BS. We beat Charizard with 18 players and 40 Pokémon remaining.
I did 10 Gigantamax over the weekend. *The secret for those raids is to DEFEND and HEAL in priority. Max the defensive and healing skills of your Dynamax/Gigantamax pokemons and make sure everyone use buffs.* It does take a bit longer, but it is WAY safer. In all the raids we did (we were 40 on Saturday, but only 28 on Sunday), we managed to finish the Gigantamax with over 10-20 pokemon remaining in our teams.
We did it with 22-29 without it to Soweit part
True! I even maxed out my 98 dubwool: it was a True healing lling hero! Choose 1 healer per team of 4. In the end, we got a blastoise with 18 trainers.
@@Tabelsp00n123 did you had already pokemon from previous Fights?
We done charizard with 14 people
@@alluro8607 the thing is its just about what Do you had. Or if the Spot already had many from others before. We did one with 20 yesterday and had 30 pokemons left. But thats because we already powered the spot
About someone also said it like this event makes no sense it cost 800?? But only can collect a amount a day?? That's only like two raids and then it's hard to beat them not everyone has money 😢
bro just grind pokecoins with gyms, its not that difficult. I saved up for a month and did like 5+ in one day
@@derrrick1407 not everyone has luck with gyms bro that's also another thing red team is pissing me off I just put my pokemon in a gym and they take it down it's tiring 😫
@@Stitch2shy4u that's just a location bias I assume. If you get to level 38, you can try promoting pokestops and conversely gyms, which would help you get more gyms.
@@nplife9771 for what? For red team to always take it down??? 😂😂😂
@@Stitch2shy4u I live in (somewhere, not telling you my city), but I play as team valor and where I am from, blue team and red team are the most dominant. There’s like no yellow gyms. However sometimes it’s bad for me because my team gyms are often full. But I made a gym a park that is in the route I go to school with, so it’s 3 min walk away from my home. It’s worked out REALLY well for me. Trust me, nominating really helps.
I think Niantic is using G Max to force more people to use Campfire. If your community hosted a meetup the reward for checking in was 800 MP. My community had a large turnout so it wasn’t that hard to complete the battles, but without a campfire meetup it would have been impossible.
I liked the raids. Was nice to see people again. Enough peolpe seem to multi account these days too which helps. Plus the Cheer mechanic helps from dead players.
I’m watching this because I know I’ll never get one 😕
Me tooooooooooooo 😅
@@xxkuxx535 it’s so sad );
Yeah😢
WE NEED REMOTE DYNAMAX RAIDS
YES!
AND GIGANTIMAX
@@MewGaming-dw5pe 👍👍👍
Could use a pack of max particals from the shop as a remote raid pass. Then, add the ability to add or be added by friends to a Gmax raid.
The single pack is the same amount of particals as the raid itself. It would make them easier
I live in Tennessee, the capital is Nashville. Anyone familiar with Nashville knows Broadway is always densely packed with people. I've been sitting in the heart of MY STATE'S CAPITAL CITY and can't even get a second person to join me. That. Is. A. Problem. This isn't even a rural issue, it's a THERE'S NO GOD DAMN WAY TO DO THESE RAIDS issue
Got 9 G-Max after 90min Sat and 90min Sun. Last one I did, we beat Char with 18 players and 40 Pokemon still alive. Yea it’s gonna be rough starting out, but it’ll get way easier over time. Maybe hit it with a 20% nerf?
use campfire and look for community ambassador meet ups, we got 80 people in Memphis
I live in Baltimore and got nobody to join anything I was out both days all day
Drive up to goodlettsville. We had 40 people today raiding between 2-4.
@@Jmhockey1920 nah i did like 11 today from 12:00 to 4:00. I did the community ambassador ones. We had well over 40 on both meet ups we did
Dodging does work, but these bosses have 2 attacks, an AoE that you cannot dodge and a targeted attack that you can dodge. the 3 line symbols that pop up above your pokemon's head tell you when to dodge.
This is insane I haven’t seen your channel in so long and it came across my feed. You’re still my name on Clash Royale, glad to see the channel is still thriving!
I came back to Pokemon Go, I was a heavy player in 2016 > 2017. I honestly cannot believe how expensive this game has become. There's basically no avenue to grind it and be rewarded for your efforts, like any balanced game should have.
Listen, I'm Level 37, which really isn't high these days, and more I play, more cool Pokemon I get, which always put me in a position where I myst spend real money to expand my storage, while also struggling with my limited pokeball storage, while wanting to raid to get more cool pokemon, which costs money!!!!
It is a never ending cycle of throwing money at this. To do basic stuff, with no real compensation for the grind.
Now they put in this god-awful feature in the game, which's basically feeling like a side-game within Pokemon Go, with no real integration whatsoever with the system we've been grinding for since the start, it just feel not worth it to start this again.
I'm sorry, this just feels dumb.
Same Man, I was a heavy competitive player until the update that bring this half baked mecanic just destroy the entire meta, Lickitung for example required a lot of Time to find, then resources and more time to max it out and when you're ready, he Is no longer one of the most have pokemon, in fact, his evo Lickylicky Is now better, so you have to do all Over again.
Glad I stopped playing this game, I thinked it couldn't be worse but no, Niantic still dissapointing everyone, except who doesn't have to pay of course...
I think the play for now is that IF you get G-Max and they have trash IVs, wait for a Lucky Trade and mirror trade G-Max Pokémon.
That way, you’re at least guaranteed to get somewhat better IVs.
What kinda stardust you think that would cost though
Its just a standard special trade@@tylersmith2429
@@tylersmith2429would only be 20k lol
@@tylersmith2429 If its a mirror trade, (i.e., both people have the GMax), should be a hundo; at least, that's how Dynas work out.
@@Sephiroth144 Well that's hopefully with Niantic but haven't dyna traded yet either so didn't know went to trade shiny other day and 80,000 is a price tag I'm not willing to pay unless I wants it bad...
The main problem with this raid is people haven't maxed their move on dyanamax pokemon.
Next thing people don't cheer after all of their Pokemon are dead.
Cheering helps alot in road
Yes! I played once when many cheered and Boss couldn't even attack
Well I know and me personally why I not going to power up again a max level 50 charizard, venusaur or blastoise when I already have one.. that’s like going back again repeating again on the game… is like raids when they get repeated same thing goes when they forcing you to max those Pokémon again … no thanks, should of just let you use the Pokemon already you have
Or have the right pokemon
@@LuisGarcia-qd3qx it's just to keep the game alive
@@Tiese2807 that's there
I feel like this feature is to be used to bring the community together. Maybe they can use this feature during a Go Fest. So if made as an “ambassador day” event, it cool be a cool feature, with a tweak or two.
The 200 coins extra thing for gigantimax raids is actually kind of worth it if you have the coins and have a lucky egg going. It's 100k XP per gmax battle with the egg and 200 coins
1:40 lebron James caught trying to tap on dynamax bubbles?
Where dude?
@@Alpha22gaming click on the time stamp and look on the dynamax bubble
Got all 3 but i had to spoof to get them. Literally impossible in my town with 2 pokestops and one gym
I swear I wish I knew how.
Same though I live in a city with a lot of gyms and pokestops, but finding big enough groups is near impossible, and campfire's utterly useless since active users live far away from me, this is literally designed for big city players only. And even then, even when we got 40 people with over 60 pokémon, we lost multiple times. We only managed when over 100 pokémon were used, insane how hard it is, definitely hope they adjust the feature in the future cuz this is ridiculous
Dude honestly only people in your situation can complain about this (I mean besides the bugs and shitty rewards). The biggest problem is anti socials don't want to interact with other people so they let their fomo want to ruin it for others.
I wish I knew how to spoof without getting in trouble with niantic
@@starman1494don't even attempt it at this point. they're cracking down hard on cheaters nowadays. if anything, you'd need to make an alt account to do these gmax battled and trade them over to your main account because getting a 7 day ban is inevitable
What's the point on even wasting gas. Not going. To give myself a headache anymore I'm already over this shit...
18:58 This guy is like a person everyone knows. Someone that says a game is trash but still spends a ton of money on it and plays nonstop.
I couldn’t get any of them at all had over 20 people to raid with we could not beat any during day one I wish Niantic made these easier so this feature can be more better for people especially in areas where people don’t play
I raided a Gmax charizard, 40 ppl and we defeated it, I hoped for a shiny but my game crashed as I was going into the rewards screen, and the raid disappeared so I never got the Gmax zard and it still took my MP
Rough dude
Typical. Reminds me of how my game locked up when I encountered a shiny galarian Zapdos the first day they released. Still not over it.
@@cheesewheel that's a crazy loss man
@@alascd yeah you're telling me. Gotta be one of the rarest spawn in the game. And I lost it because I pressed the AR switch and then it soft locked the game and I couldn't do anything else except for close it.
Rip people who don’t live in a populated Pokemon Go community 💀 (including myself)
Everyday spoofing becomes more and more necessary
This is possibly the worst feature ever added to Pokemon Go to date. INCLUDING REMOTE RAID NERF!!!
I live in Louisiana. L O U I S I A N A. There is almost zero active community here, not even in New Orleans. The most I've seen in one of these raids is 3 trainers, and I waited over an hour on the corner of a road on LSU's campus. This is absolutely bewildering to me as LSU has well over 40,000 students. I've written Niantic multiple times about this and have yet to receive an un-automated response. Something truly needs to be done, and I pray Niantic will finally hear us.
LET RURAL COMMUNITIES PLAY YOUR GAME NIANTIC. YOU CLAIM CONSTANTLY THAT YOU WANT US TO SHARE THE EXPERIENCE, BUT I'VE YET TO SEE IT IN ACTION.
It’s amazing you did so well that first time with “only” 26 people! I had 40 people and it went from 120 monsters to less than 70 in a few seconds. We barely beat it. Clearly you need all leveled up people when not many. I was happy to see a lot of little kids out and joining, but less happy to see the Sobbles and Charmanders going down so fast.
I live in The Bahamas where this will be next to impossible for me to even attempt with 2 people let alone get 40. Fuck this game
Tried a raid with a couple friends, got decimated with full evolved type advantage dynamax pokemon and still got slammed, gave up and rethought my choice of mobile games and I’ve decided I’m going back to clash of clans
Clash of clans is worse than Pokemon go another money grab money
Honestly, I find it irritating that Dynamax and Gigantamax require you to recollect the same Pokémon you own. What's the point of farming 100% IV if they're gated in a specific portion of the game. Plus, I went really hard trying to get a Grookey through the Dynamax raids to get a 100% to only find out after doing research that I have to get a full team up to re-collect the same unit later on to get Gigantamax versions. SO a boat load of farming for something thats only useable in on facet of the game. Furthermore, the Gigantamax are extremely hard and no one in my area will do them. No thanks. Shows how out of touch the developers are with their design choices.
2:24 that’s how you know he doesn’t read his RUclips comments, we’ve been telling him to slide! Lol
We had about 75 (or more) people show up today after everyone failed on smaller groups yesterday. Our train walked in an out & back at our park and outside of some fleeing (I lost one of each), it was successful. I made multiple new friends and the group was already trying to set up a time for Friday evening for Gengar. It’s difficult but with proper planning, can be pulled off.
8:49 respect the sobble!
Why doesn’t Niantic understand that a lot of people doesn’t want to play with other people. So please stop making stuff to force people to play with other people.
Hell. I don't mind playing with other people, but I'm dead-ass-serious if I were to stand in the busiest street in my city and promise free pizza to anyone who would join me for ten minutes at a set time of day on a specific street corner I doubt I could get 20 people to show up. If I have to coordinate an event for 20+ people, I best be getting paid.
Who else thinks the Gigantimax raids are to hard!
👇
Me 🫡
What is the point of them? It’s another useless variation
The number at the top right are not people, but Pokémon. Also, dodging in Dynamax / Gigantamax battles is not broken. You can only move from side to side to collect the particle boost when it appears.
I appreciate the honesty. Long video but very good and amusing video.
Consider G max basic pokemon that we can get from quests or easier raids. Then we can evolve them to G max stage 2. Makes gmax Pokémon accessible to everyone. Easier to get better IV. If people want challenge, they can do stage 2 at Go Fest or something.
The other dumb thing is that you can pre-load Pokemon into the Power Spot by defeating the low-level 1-tiers and leaving Pokemon at the spot... but you obviously can't leave your most effective, and you can't even tell what Gigantamax Pokemon is going to be showing up at the spot later on to know what type to leave, etc.
22:45 how are u supposed to dodge when the attack is nearly as big as a normal gym when u have ur normal pokemon sized against it?.any explanations???
it was pretty bad for me, my first venusaur ran away, and the raids were hard overall. I also think trainers really need to invest into their pokemon to beat this, I've seen way too many gastly, wooloo, and grookeys on my team
Charizard is the hardest if he is weather boosted with overheat
Blastoise is a close second with ice beam
Then Venasaur
You can dodge normal attacks by swiping your Pokemon as soon as the 3 yellow lines appear above its head. If you dodged correctly, you'll see the "Dodged" word in the chat on the right. When that happens, you've dodged the upcoming attack and you can keep attacking normally. When you see that the enemy Pokemon is "preparing an attack" in the chat, attack a few times, then stop and get ready to dodge. Dodging will really lessen the damage taken.
You cannot dodge charged attacks.
I genuinely need them to make more updates you can do with like 3-5 people. Looking at a 3-4 star raid asking for 10+ people is insanity. I understand it’s supposed to be like a community thing, but that stuff literally doesn’t exist in the smaller towns. You HAVE to be in places like NYC or something crazy.
I've only seen dodging reduce the damage an attack does. Though I also try to use the Max Guard to help nullify damage. Against Falinks a double shield kept Metagross from taking any damage from Megahorn. Though given the damage Gigantamax pokemon likely do, triple shield might only buy you an attack or two. While many are around my town, I don't know if there are enough groups to beat them.
I think the radius around the max raid should be extended,Maybe a couple blocks or so? And remote max raid also should be available in some capacity..
It’s sad to se that after how the initial Mega Pokemon rollout went, Dynamax seemed like it was off to such a promising start with the Tier1 mons. The most people I ever saw in a gigantimax raid lobby was 5 people.
I do not have nearly enough people to do these battles. I also have not invested any candy or max particles to power up my few dynamax pokemon either. It just wasn't a feature that interested me at all.
@13:30 theres a McLaren Senna in the background, that's dope
It's also possible with a smaller group if you have good communication and an actual strategy. I found a good strategy to stay alive....always make sure you have guard shields on, I had about 2 shields up at all times and healed and attacked when it was optimal..never lost a single pokemon when I was focusing on having shields up before focusing on the max attack. When you are put in your separate battle groups your blocks only work for your pokemon but the heal works for everyone in your separate battle group. Your can see your teammates health at the top so you don't always have to use your heal as other trainers will hopefully help where they can...get your shields up first everyone then focusing on health then attack when you can.
G-max gengar:
Greedent (fast+charge dark moves
Blastoise (bite)
Metagross (psychic)
Use metagross as switch max attacker strategy
I was playing in a city and we managed to get like 36 accounts in the raid. But it was still very hard. Some of us were not heavly invested in the dynamax pokemons to start with so we didnt have the best counters. I am a F2P player and was only able to do 2 gigantamax raids. One Venusaur which I didnt manage to catch and one Blastoise that luckly was shiny for me! (but bad IVs ofc).
After this weekend, me and many others as you all can see here on the internet, realized how freaking expensive and unrealistically difficult these raids are. There is NO WAY you would be able to gather the required amount of people to do these raids on a regular Tuesday afternoon. The amount of Max particles you need to invest in your pokemon and to even join the raid is really limiting the players and also the Max particle cap of 1 000 is really helping out a lot... And you also need to invest in a 2nd line up of every pokemon from here on out. This system just restets all players back to zero which I dont like at all. I don't know but so far I dont feel like dynamax/gigantamax will be anything that can give us any benefits. Yet another Elite raid - type of feature that no one will do in the future.
I dont know why its so hard for Niantic to just come up with reasonable updates that every player can enjoy regardless of where you live. I would just like to see the existing content being perfected and utilize the potential to it's fullest.
If you actually wait for the charge on the circle on your dynamax move to wait until full, I am pretty sure it does more damage
This is the biggest frick you Niantic has ever done because
1. They are so hard, and you can’t remote raid them, which is a frick you to rural areas
2. I got reports that some accounts that got Gigantamax Pokemon were banned the day after the event as there was an issue where the admins thought that was not right, so they banned people.
Worst event this year
Dodging works, if you side step while the lines are blinking. But it doesn’t avoid damage it only lessens it a small amount
19:01-19:07. I couldn't agree more 💯‼️‼️
While I hated this event and the pain of standing instead of just walking to next destination this was my experience with dodging @1:51
Dodging so far for me felt more like this
Notification -
Attack Incoming - wait until your pokemon flash a "red" indicator above em - spam the crap out of your dodge
You should see a dodge notice on the side - indicating you actually dodged their attack whereas
X is preparing a large attack
this you can't dodge but you can swipe left and right to mitigate some damage
Always setup at least 2 guards/shield when you g max to help your main dps survive longer as bloody hell these things hit hard...switching em out won't remove em from that dps but it won't pass on to switch in pokemon. Max stack is 3 guards/shields
3 shinies in 33 gigantamax battles. I originally thought shiny rates were 1/20, but I would personally agree that shiny rate is 1/10
14:07 after my first line of the evening
I have several videos that shows the same frustrations and stress of these raids. Not worth it for pokemons that many of us already. Because we need to get dynamax and/or gigiantic ones and invest more dust power it up is just very frustrating....
Only reason I do Dynamax is for the xp. 5k each time and the animations take longer than the actual raid. Which leads to a rant on the shared eggs only being 15 minutes when animations take up around 5 minutes
The worst thing about this for me is that they are everywhere at every power spot. Like I live in a small town with some power spots and every single one of them has gigantamax Pokémon. Like pls bring back the 1 star raids so I can at least grind the power spots for smth
finally something challanging and bringing community back together, had fun doing it ;) we made around 40 of them
I lost five raids that had 40 people in them. I was in Midtown Manhattan. I was playing in the evening, so maybe all the folks with good stats were done for the day.
Here’s what I’ll say. The feature is unfair and needs to be rebalanced, but about 100 people showed up to a park in my mid sized town. It was the most engagement I have seen in this game since the early days, and I got a hundo venusaur. I’m a bit biased but I think it’s a pretty cool feature to drive in person engagement
I live in a small city in a small country. We have around 12 regular GO players in the entire area. We tried one of these Charizard raids and got absolutely destroyed.
This feature sucks and I really hope they rebalance it in the future.
It occurs to me that this could be a method of getting more individuals to commute to cities on the weekend. It would be an economic boost to major metro areas and might pull money out of rural communities. The economic implications are intriguing.