I only like Max Raids because I can solo them. It's SO HARD to get a group together to play. Unless it's a MAJOR event (like GoFest) I cannot get people together, its such a pain
Same and what’s crazy is I’m in multiple Facebook group chats for Pokémon go in my area and almost no one wants to do in person raids. They just talk about Pokémon & life but never want to coordinate meet ups😔
For me, personally I dont agree for Max Battles to replace Raid Battles. 1. The fun of raiding globally for raid battles could not be replicated by the Max Battles. 2. The Max Particles system is not feasible and feels like a pay to win feature.
I keep hearing people say that its pay to win meanwhile I've done 4 dynamax raids each day for free and have a Lucky of each Bulbasuar, Charmander, and Squirtle, already. Ive spent Nothing
1 you dont even talk to them. 2 you cant even participate in them more than once a week without paying money. Lol dynamax is a lot more fun with friends... and you can do them for free more than once a day. Failing to see your points.
If this will happen, there 2 major things that will happen as well: 1. Remote raids will die, and communities as well. Because you cannot join Max Battles using remotes. 2. Spoofing will increase massively, and that's because of point 1. I'm ok with removing Tier 1 and 3 raids and replace them with Max Battles since they are easier to do. But leave Shadow Raids on all levels, and leave Tier 5 raids where they are so people can do them remotely.
I don't get how no remote raids will kill your community? It's better for the community to actually meet outside and play together. Not everyone from their home.
Not only are remote raiding not currently an option in Max Raids but you can’t even stack the particles you get meaning it’s all about money. So when a legendary comes out as it costs your whole amount of particles you can’t use your previously owned stack of passes (some of which you earned for free through tasks) but gotta pay instead now for more particles.
I like your earn to play idea. That would seriously let us spend more quality time with our pokemon and then we aren't just ditching them as soon as we get the better IV one.
Talking about training, the very first gym system was basically training your mons to go into a gym. Bringing that gym system back (without being able to put in multiple of the same pokemon coughchanseycough) would be a more fun way to work on your training medal compared to battling the team leaders.
It’s funny because he’s always saying “don’t raid if you’re only going for a shiny/hundo be happy with whatever the outcome is” but has been harping on this for months 🤣
Kyogre for me too No Hundo yet either I've seen 639 & caught 549 & 16 Lucky's and I can't get the Hundo to save my life. Please Niantic give us bottle caps
@@robbiewilliams5065 I did 900 raids during Go Fest month - in about roughly 7-9 days - without a hundo. Tell me about it... I was gunning for any random hundo and still couldn't get a glimpse of it. Shiny luck however was off the chart but cmon! 250 Necro raids with 17 shiny and no hundos. 900 in total - no Hundo.
Billy is correct. The player base is adults... not kids. For sure. I got into it for my nephew and now here I am - playing this game for years while my nephew has quit it dozens of times.
@@Geek4God324 We joined 3 years back. I am still playing and he keeps quitting as soon as he starts. I wish he keeps playing because we are Best Friends in game!! I am missing on those Lucky Trades.
This is great & really interesting to think about, Billy. Both the innovation and limitations are really clear (so far) - I especially like the idea of developing “earn to play” rather than always only pay-to-play options in PoGo. And too much RNG!
Veteran players don't want to raid recycled raid bosses so at least this dynamax system is something fresh for them. Newer/casual players have both max battles and raids for options which will keep them more invested because there's lots to do.
I’m surprised how people don’t like it easy. I like it. I already have a job that requires me to meet too many people. I want a break from people while playing this game, unless there’s a big event around. I think it’s good to have an option to play alone and join whenever I want to. That sounds way healthier to me.
I like how this is sorta a side quest at the moment. You get rewarded energy by walking, which covers the main mission statement of the game. You can only do these in person, however you can passively help other players by leaving a pokemon in the gym. If you are a long time player all of the candy you have accumulated can be used to evolve and power up the exclusive dynamax pokemon. For free to play players you can do multiple battles in a day. Great way to ear rare candy to help alleviate the grind of powering up Legendary Pokemon.
Loving the "Free" Max battles, but all my Power mons are sitting unused; 98iv level 50 Shadow Metagross, 91iv level 50 Shadow Metagross, 96iv level 49 Shadow Salamence, 93iv level 50 Shadow Mamoswine, 93iv level 45 Shadow Mewtwo. If they could be left at Power Spots to help win, and me profiting from that, it would be perfect.
It's basically a reset. You have to power up pokemon that you have already powered up. I'm not getting another 296 XL's to power up another Metagross or Charizard. This will probably be my breaking point with Pokemon Go. I've already had one foot out the door.
I love that I can do Max battles as a passenger in city traffic. It doesn’t kick me out when traffic starts moving and gives me time to catch. Battles are so easy I hit the screen without looking so driver might even think I’m paying complete attention to her monologue. Occasionally a power spot appears within range of my living room which is good as I am disabled and don’t walk very far. I’m level 50 and very very rarely get inspired to do a regular raid, they got boring about a gear ago and seldom feature mons I don’t have.
One small problem with Dynamax “taking over” raids. You can remote Dynamax raids in the main series, but they’ve cut that completely. So unless they do what they did for regular raids (add the remote pass for those who can’t get a party for a legendary), raids will be in person only. I know, the OGs gonna say “it was better that way”. For me at least, it is a very unfavorable future without any chance to remote to get a party bigger than 3 people
Don't no how far the distance goes but I did one at a stop light yesterday light turned green so I had to go and I was still doing the max battle four lights down the road (battling dynamaxing rewards and catching) 😂
I'd love to see a way to train pokemon up to better stats. Using a pokemon in battles, interacting with them in-game, maybe even challenges done with a buddy would be possible. It'd add a new element to the game and reduce the issues caused by randomness.
I see Max Battles as a more accessible alternative to Gym raids. The Power Spots are separate POIs on the map that don't follow the eligibility rules for regular Pokestops and Gyms. The Power Spots include businesses that show up in Google Maps, which mean that Power Spots are more dense, even in semi rural areas. I work in a warehouse complex where there are no Pokestops, however, Power Spots are more abundant. I don't think Max Battles will fully replace traditional raids but Max raids will be used mostly for lower tier Pokemon, and traditional raids will be more advantageous for legendary raids. We still don't know enough about the potential of this feature as it is not yet fully developed yet.
I feel like there should be a new heart level after Best Buddy, where you need more hearts and maybe some missions. Once you finish that, your buddy could Dynamax. That’d be cool! Who doesn't love completing missions?
Yeah, I don't mind Max Raids, but I think they need to keep them all solo-able, except maybe Eternatus. I also definitely agree we should have some research, hopefully monthly repeating research or every season, for a Bottlecap item to increase one IV of one Pokemon by one point.
Dang Billy. I resonate with this. I’ve been playing since day 1 because Pokemon’s been my childhood. The concept of this game is incredible and it sucks to see players get tired of it due to repetitive events, pay walls to advance, etc etc. I get Niantic is a business, but I can’t get over some of these game mechanics.
I like being on the ground floor, I love the concept and the ball throw and how they aren’t limited to an hour and how they are new spots, but they need to speed it up once they are ready. I don’t want it to just be 1 new random dyna every 3 weeks not to mention gigas
I appreciate your thoughts, it helps me put the new max raid system into context and see where it might go. I still don't like the max raids, I dislike how complicated it is and I can't seem to keep track of how many max particles I can gather in a day. I basically just stopped doing them as soon as I'd completed the research. Also I hate that all my hundos are worthless in this new system.
Can't takeover until they figure out how to balance max battles into raids...no easy task. NOW I do believe the no timer thing would benefit greatly. I also love that I don't believe you lose your max particles until you win. The other part is the gym system...gyms and raids share a location...max battles do not...again there's a lot of work to be done here.
I don't have the time to play like I did in college (as I have a busier life) but I do approve of the multiple lower level pokemon per day. I'm not a fan of starting over, but I can do a max battle at my part time job, which is cool!
So I've played the console version of dynamax and later on in the game you have access to collect max mushrooms which will allow you to g-max gmax compatible pokemon so Niantic may or may not incorporate this later on
I let a 100% IV Zekrom go when I wasn’t able to catch it back when he originally was introduced to the game. I was incredibly upset and to this day I am still salty over it. If they introduced something into the game where I could grind to get increased IV points, it would completely change that dynamic. It’s crazy that I’m salty over something that happened years ago but that’s what this game does with the RNG system.
Billy, i think you are SO RIGHT. I dont have problem with new dynamax system EXCEPT the fact that they force us to basically raid again to get hundo and shiny, now all our hardwork from before just goes to waste. If they keep this, i think its like what you said, people will just quit. Whats the point i have a shundo squirtle but i cannot dynamax it, and i have to raid again?! Hopefully niantic sees this problem. Generally my friends arent keen on this new system making us raid again they arent even participating..
Some will call this a conspiracy but I've seen and heard many that believe that casual/newer players have better shiny/iv odds because it'll encourage them to play more. A friend of mine who's been very casual (nowadays barely plays at all) gets multiple shinies often and has gotten lucky with good ivs too. Rng unfortunately seems like the norm but on the flip side more effort (and money, can't forget the money) invested should eventually yield better results too. But the rng i guess is how they get you especially when they have events with an "increased chance" of a shiny. This supposed increased chance has no definite meaning or numeric value that's been shared so the hardcore players either continue to take their chances or could consider going the casual route. But also regardless of how often a person plays, nothing should be guaranteed because that ruins the fun/surprise factor. Honestly, revealing the meaning behind phrases like "increased chance" would go a long way but niantic would never do that because it could potentially hurt them financially.
I'm enjoying Dynamax battles so far and think the new in game currency of max particles has also been fair. This is a maneuver to slow the game down in regards to releasing new generations of Pokemon while also rewarding those players that have been actively playing when you see how much candy is needed to increase the dynamax moves on your new pokemon. It is also a new mechanic to make pokemon that you otherwise would not see in the wild more readily available to players who may still be looking for one or missed previous events. I'm just glad that Niantic has eliminated the game mechanic (I hope) by which MewTwo was released. Those exclusive gym raid passes that were rewarded randomly and gave you a specific time to do the raid were awful.
Really hope so - people calling it boring are right because it’s still in its funky soft launch phase where training wheels are on and the challenge isn’t there. Lots and lots of potential though
I think that if you want functional Pokemon, the difference between a 98 and a 100 is not noticeable in function and is pretty much purely visual. If IV's mattered in functionality much more then I would agree with what you're saying.
In terms of people saying it's pay to win, if we look at it comparatively, it's better than Raids. You can do 3, 4 Max Battles if you do the little work around for Particles. Which is much better than the free 1 a day from Raids. And ofc they have to monetize it to some degree, that's how a business works + it's a mobile game as well.
In the original Gameboy game you could improve the stats of Pokémon you caught. It was very expensive though. It would be cool to implement a similar ability
Max Battle Raids are okay right now. I would keep the Gym raids as well, but get rid of the Shadow Raids, They have been dead since they first came out. I haven't done one 5* shadow raid since Articuno came out last June. Even though I have a local group, they can't really meet up on most weekends. We do meet up for special raid days though. Also, increase the Max Particles to well over 800. I believe both systems can exist in the same game. My 2 cents worth!
I'm not big on trainer on trainer battles so battling in raids is what I go for. Like some people, because it's so HOT where I live, not too many people want to go out and raid in a local park, etc. I enjoy raiding remotely...especially with friends around the globe. What I don't like is not being able to trade Pokemon with friends around the Globe. I'm one that likes to find as many Pokemon in my Pokedex and you can't get specific Pokemon unless you live in a certain area. These max battles are OK but if you can't use the Max Pokemon in regular raids it takes some fun out of it. I'm might get into earn to play but since I only have time to play before work and maybe late at night...the tasks may be harder for me to achieve. I spend ALOT of money on Pokemon GO and the way things are leaning...it may be time for me to hang up the game. They need to have a special week for trading Pokemon globally to get some of the Pokemon you want.
I think the interesting thing is that pokemon already has a system that raises chances of useful pokemon in pokemon go... wait no, that was pokemon lets go with the catch combos. I think that has to be the solution. A catch combo could easily affect shiny odds or ivs. This would especially affect raiding.
I think it is a big mistake to limit the MP one can catch in a day or how much can be held. Or at least increase those numbers by a whole lot. I also don't like having a limit on the number of gifts that you can hold. Who wants to have to give gifts while out playing rather than when you get home to give more than 20?
Makes sense. Just waiting to see how they’ll rectify the lack of use any preexisting Pokémon are experiencing in the dyna-verse. Big let down to know that all my Hundo Pokémon I’ve built will be fazed out if a max conversion mechanic isn’t incorporated.
I'm hoping it's as big of a rework as megas were upon release. It is beyond stupid with as much money as some people have spent in travel costs to get exclusive or rare Pokémon, only for Niantic to basically soft-reset our accounts saying anything pre-dynamax can't be used for these raids, but also the only ones that you can still use are those you got in the raids to begin with.
I wish they would add moves like Payday to Meowth or higher coins after 8 hours in gyms. And more players would then get to buy more items or passes needed to get better to level up. Thanks again Billy for this.
I feel the exact same thing about hundos. I have been playing since it started and have caught thousands of Beldums and used 20+ lucky trades and I have a ton of 98 percents, but still NO HUNDO. Not shundo... just a regular hundo. We ABSOLUTELY should be able to TRAIN our pokemon to give them better stats.
It would be interesting, as it would have to be a system that could include all Pokémon, but this system I think has been long overdue. Perhaps 1 bottle cap per every in person event you attend to sweeten the deal (including global tour/fests of course) in those masterwork researches. Then once the bottle cap is used it activates a progress bar to do X amount of things and that IV point will increase. Like I said it would be interesting as it would have to apply I think to all Pokémon: shedinja, legendaries, smeargle, and any other Pokémon who have limitations on them per battling/defending.
The only downside is to get 800MP you have to earn it everyday by walking or collecting from Power Spots. A free raid pass by just spinning a gym daily is much easier for those who don’t want to grind MP everyday.
It's kinda simple for me, if they add Max soup eventually and we can turn our existing hundos into Dynamax/Gmax, I'M IN! If not, this will be one of those "If I'm walking by it, sure why not" kinda features. Can't be bothered grinding everything AGAIN.. (Just imo)
Hey Billy , hope all is well man. This is my whole thing with the max raids. I personally don’t think they can increase the amount of trainers that can participate in a max raid because that would be deviating even more from the main series games because in sword and shield you could only have four trainers per max raid and implementing that feature from Pokémon sword and shield so if they change it up like that to me, that would be a deviation and it might look good for some, but for others that have played the main series games they may not like it as much. Then again I could be wrong and everyone might be all for increasing the amount of trainers from 4 to 6 to 8 to 10
I have wished for "earn to play" system in this game for a long time but as we know niantic loves to level the playing field by giving new players a chance to keep up with the hard-core players. Also niantic isn't a gaming company so they don't seem to care about making a better more trainer friendly game which is not a great way to go about it. Definitely with you on the earn to play instead of the RNG and pay to play route they have been taking.
Unless they let us dynamax all of our pokemon then it could never replace regular raids. Maybe for new players but not for anyone thats been grinding for years
I don’t think a 100% or a shiny Pokémon should ever been guaranteed. The odds should be up front, but we can’t play ourselves by spending so much money and then get frustrated when we don’t obtain what we were looking for. Not everyone will be a winner, that’s what makes rare stuff special.
I like the max raids right now because you can solo it, but once they introduce legendary max battles people won’t be able to do them if they don’t have a local community. I can’t see max battles replacing raid battles.
Just replace the raid passes with a similar thing. Tier 1 raids require 1 raid pass. Tier 5+ requires 5. And you get 5 free raid passes every day. Or call them raid pass shards.
Old school level 4s were easy when you know Pokémon. Vaporeon and venusaur made rhydon easy! But that aside, if battles take over raids then that would mean passes better transfer into particles, particle capacity better go to like 10k, no cap on collecting, get like 500 per spot, a battle would cost 250, and rewards equal to what raids give now. If that all happened I'd love it tbh. Especially with the leaving behind mons to help do more damage and earn candy! Plus non remote, big win for that with what the game is designed for
@@justinfitzgerald5885 not really unlimited, it would still vary by location and such. what i said is probably the most extreme kind lol. but thats only cuz its in person, you'd have to make the player base feel ok with no remotes again and telling them you can do up to like 10 raids for free every day would certainly do it!
With how much I walk regularly with my phone, I get dynamax battles regularly. I can see them doing gigantamax raids to get the special forms of the Kanto starter, kingler snorlax, and lapras to use pokemon that's already in the game. At this point my only two hopes is that they do meltan gigantimax raids while still doing the meltan boxes and introduce a gmax berry or item that allows me to convert the pokemon I already have that can gmax into gmax pokemon I'd love to convert my buddy pokemon into gmax pokemon forget having to retain the gmax pokemon I want to do battle with my buddies in gmax raids.
Great video, and I agree! Started to play with my son, and kept on playing for years after he quit. My community is mostly 40+, and grandmas 80+ is showing up for raid hour🤣
Being able to somehow train certain Pokemon to get better IVs..just the legendaries or something like that. I can’t put money into the game so may only be able to do a couple raids. Really frustrating to get a 10/10/10 rayquaza
Why Niantic removed size XXL & XXS records in Pokemon Go Pokedex in recent update. Due to no water festival in game event in Pokemon Go year 2024. Next year, 2025 water festival must be do in more big way. Generation 7 water type Pokemon Pokemon debut Wishiwashi and Pyukumuku and Generation 8 water type Pokemon debut Chewtle, Drednaw, Arrokuda, Barraskewda and Cramorant.
I DEFINITELY hope you're wrong. Where I live, its very difficult for me to raid with others because the ONLY regularly active raid group within a few hundred miles of me does ALL their community activities while driving. I don't drive, so, unless I get lucky and can ride with someone, I am screwed as far as raids with others go. So, I usually use Pokegenie to make up for this. But Pokegenie will be useless if all raids become local only. Brilliant way to gatekeep and further isolate sections of the community. Maybe thats the plan?
Tier 4 still exists, mega raids are 4 'star' If tier 1 is 250 MPs then t2 would be 500 and 3 would be 750. T4 =1000, T5 =1250.... Surely the Dynamax band would make any mon maxable, when best buddies makes sense. It was great for about a week. Now it's meh. You're right about the whole lack of training abilities. And why don't the mons says their names instead of those strange noises
Considering Megas aren't going to dymanax likely and catching them isn't going to be a max battle I don't see them getting rid of gyms and regular raids. It's just not money wise and there's too much invested in them anyway. When we get gmax if we do those may not but even then they could do a mega a gmax and a legendary. That keeps people going out and spending to shiny and or iv hunt
I love the fact that you leave dynamos pokemon in the gym and collect stuff for you So there is purpose to do every day do more and more and use old Pokémons So I don’t feel that “I have a strong 100% IV one and delete the rest of them “
1. It's called DLC now. Developers don't like to have you earn in game currency to unlock items. 2. I did over 200+ Nercozmas. No hundo. Still pissed. 3. they switch the raids to dynamax. Adios
I want them to keep both for players to have a variety. I like Max Battles because of how much xp they give and how easy they are. I hope the higher tiers give alot of XP. But I also like some of the costume pokemon , or easy raid days like Falinks . Also What about the comm day raids after comm day hours?
It's too early to say whether it's cool or not, we're not even all that familiar with how the 3 different attacks work or how to collaborate with the other 3 trainers since you can solo them right now. Right now is the time to hunt for good iv's and prepare for harder max battles that WILL come eventually
I’m sorry, but I hope they never let you use Pokémon that you already have to do dynamax raids. I love that we have to start over. It would be so boring if we already used the Pokémon we already have.
yet, they smack a 200 pokecoin button smack dead in the middle of a screen at the end of a battle, which in no way is worth what you get for ir. I will be highly upset if i press that button by accident, I wish they get rid of it.
Niantic is making the old Pokemon worthless by not allowing them to be worth something in new raids. They want you to start all over again. What a Scam.
I am jaded with the game . So max battle is great. I prepare to forget my old Pokémon & normal raid and just pay max now. The game play and level up are much more exciting hehehe and I don’t even have to spend money . I just do a couple or max battle everyday. Shiny and normal raids are boring. I have a ton of legendary can’t do much with it
You've made some excellent points in the video. But I don't see the Max Battles ever replacing Raid Battles. They will probably complement Raid Battles. Max Battles are lame and gimmicky. Does anyone really care about these ridiculous +100-foot Pokemon? Come on. These Max Battles have been out for a couple of days now and I'm already tired of them. It's a joke that you can't use wild-caught Pokemon in these battles. It goes everything against what a Pokemon game is. I think Max Battles can be a fantastic feature for rural areas. You can add a Pokemon to help your fellow trainer to take down the Pokemon. But the Raid Battles in big cities are booming and there is zero reason to get rid of them. The moment Max Battles replaces Raid Battles, this game will die.
I only like Max Raids because I can solo them. It's SO HARD to get a group together to play. Unless it's a MAJOR event (like GoFest) I cannot get people together, its such a pain
Easy for now because they're just starting and they're just 1 head difficulty but they will get harder. Just like the raids.
Same and what’s crazy is I’m in multiple Facebook group chats for Pokémon go in my area and almost no one wants to do in person raids.
They just talk about Pokémon & life but never want to coordinate meet ups😔
Feel you there.
@@Dark-Wolf271, people often dont remote when they can go outside 😅,2 someone often dont join remote cuz you Cant trust that the raid will be done😅
I agree
For me, personally I dont agree for Max Battles to replace Raid Battles.
1. The fun of raiding globally for raid battles could not be replicated by the Max Battles.
2. The Max Particles system is not feasible and feels like a pay to win feature.
The entire game is pay to win...
I keep hearing people say that its pay to win meanwhile I've done 4 dynamax raids each day for free and have a Lucky of each Bulbasuar, Charmander, and Squirtle, already. Ive spent Nothing
I agree with your first point. Raid battles have always been pay to win
@traverserred I've got a hundo charmander and a lucky 98 bulba. Working on my squirtle now. Haven't spent a dime 😊
1 you dont even talk to them.
2 you cant even participate in them more than once a week without paying money.
Lol dynamax is a lot more fun with friends... and you can do them for free more than once a day.
Failing to see your points.
If this will happen, there 2 major things that will happen as well:
1. Remote raids will die, and communities as well. Because you cannot join Max Battles using remotes.
2. Spoofing will increase massively, and that's because of point 1.
I'm ok with removing Tier 1 and 3 raids and replace them with Max Battles since they are easier to do. But leave Shadow Raids on all levels, and leave Tier 5 raids where they are so people can do them remotely.
I like that idea.
Agreed. If I cannot do legendary raids remotely, I will start spoofing.
Removing Tier 1 and Tier 3 sounds like hell for lower levels tryna to get good pokemon. I would pray they have some folks to raid tier 5 with
I don't get how no remote raids will kill your community? It's better for the community to actually meet outside and play together. Not everyone from their home.
@@PoGoReeFeR I agree. This game is meant to be played outside, which is what Niantic intended for it to be from the moment it was created.
The addition of power spots with everything else makes the map look crazy in city settings.
It’s ugly
Not only are remote raiding not currently an option in Max Raids but you can’t even stack the particles you get meaning it’s all about money. So when a legendary comes out as it costs your whole amount of particles you can’t use your previously owned stack of passes (some of which you earned for free through tasks) but gotta pay instead now for more particles.
I like your earn to play idea. That would seriously let us spend more quality time with our pokemon and then we aren't just ditching them as soon as we get the better IV one.
Talking about training, the very first gym system was basically training your mons to go into a gym. Bringing that gym system back (without being able to put in multiple of the same pokemon coughchanseycough) would be a more fun way to work on your training medal compared to battling the team leaders.
RNG has really gotten to Billy. 550 Necro is unforgettable lmao.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s funny because he’s always saying “don’t raid if you’re only going for a shiny/hundo be happy with whatever the outcome is” but has been harping on this for months 🤣
@@cedricgant8535 Thats because usually trainers are below the Hundo odds of 216 raids. At 550, he has crossed it 2.5 times. Its painful honestly...
Kyogre for me too No Hundo yet either I've seen 639 & caught 549 & 16 Lucky's and I can't get the Hundo to save my life. Please Niantic give us bottle caps
@@robbiewilliams5065 I did 900 raids during Go Fest month - in about roughly 7-9 days - without a hundo. Tell me about it... I was gunning for any random hundo and still couldn't get a glimpse of it. Shiny luck however was off the chart but cmon! 250 Necro raids with 17 shiny and no hundos. 900 in total - no Hundo.
Billy is correct. The player base is adults... not kids. For sure. I got into it for my nephew and now here I am - playing this game for years while my nephew has quit it dozens of times.
My grandson did the same to me 😂😂😂
@@Geek4God324 We joined 3 years back. I am still playing and he keeps quitting as soon as he starts. I wish he keeps playing because we are Best Friends in game!! I am missing on those Lucky Trades.
Agree with earn to play. We should be able to train a pokemon from 98 iv too 100 like in a month. Let say it take 30 days
This is great & really interesting to think about, Billy. Both the innovation and limitations are really clear (so far) - I especially like the idea of developing “earn to play” rather than always only pay-to-play options in PoGo. And too much RNG!
Veteran players don't want to raid recycled raid bosses so at least this dynamax system is something fresh for them. Newer/casual players have both max battles and raids for options which will keep them more invested because there's lots to do.
I’m surprised how people don’t like it easy. I like it. I already have a job that requires me to meet too many people. I want a break from people while playing this game, unless there’s a big event around. I think it’s good to have an option to play alone and join whenever I want to. That sounds way healthier to me.
I like how this is sorta a side quest at the moment. You get rewarded energy by walking, which covers the main mission statement of the game. You can only do these in person, however you can passively help other players by leaving a pokemon in the gym. If you are a long time player all of the candy you have accumulated can be used to evolve and power up the exclusive dynamax pokemon. For free to play players you can do multiple battles in a day. Great way to ear rare candy to help alleviate the grind of powering up Legendary Pokemon.
It' cool for the first 2 days, after this is feels like outdated feature
Loving the "Free" Max battles, but all my Power mons are sitting unused;
98iv level 50 Shadow Metagross,
91iv level 50 Shadow Metagross, 96iv level 49 Shadow Salamence,
93iv level 50 Shadow Mamoswine,
93iv level 45 Shadow Mewtwo.
If they could be left at Power Spots to help win, and me profiting from that, it would be perfect.
This is 100% one of the best videos you’ve done in ages. Always appreciate real talk and not just hype.
It's basically a reset. You have to power up pokemon that you have already powered up. I'm not getting another 296 XL's to power up another Metagross or Charizard. This will probably be my breaking point with Pokemon Go. I've already had one foot out the door.
I love that I can do Max battles as a passenger in city traffic. It doesn’t kick me out when traffic starts moving and gives me time to catch. Battles are so easy I hit the screen without looking so driver might even think I’m paying complete attention to her monologue. Occasionally a power spot appears within range of my living room which is good as I am disabled and don’t walk very far. I’m level 50 and very very rarely get inspired to do a regular raid, they got boring about a gear ago and seldom feature mons I don’t have.
One small problem with Dynamax “taking over” raids. You can remote Dynamax raids in the main series, but they’ve cut that completely. So unless they do what they did for regular raids (add the remote pass for those who can’t get a party for a legendary), raids will be in person only. I know, the OGs gonna say “it was better that way”. For me at least, it is a very unfavorable future without any chance to remote to get a party bigger than 3 people
Don't no how far the distance goes but I did one at a stop light yesterday light turned green so I had to go and I was still doing the max battle four lights down the road (battling dynamaxing rewards and catching) 😂
I'd love to see a way to train pokemon up to better stats. Using a pokemon in battles, interacting with them in-game, maybe even challenges done with a buddy would be possible. It'd add a new element to the game and reduce the issues caused by randomness.
Rip pokemon go if it does.
I see Max Battles as a more accessible alternative to Gym raids. The Power Spots are separate POIs on the map that don't follow the eligibility rules for regular Pokestops and Gyms. The Power Spots include businesses that show up in Google Maps, which mean that Power Spots are more dense, even in semi rural areas. I work in a warehouse complex where there are no Pokestops, however, Power Spots are more abundant. I don't think Max Battles will fully replace traditional raids but Max raids will be used mostly for lower tier Pokemon, and traditional raids will be more advantageous for legendary raids. We still don't know enough about the potential of this feature as it is not yet fully developed yet.
I feel like there should be a new heart level after Best Buddy, where you need more hearts and maybe some missions. Once you finish that, your buddy could Dynamax. That’d be cool!
Who doesn't love completing missions?
That was very well said. Each and every point of it. Thank you so much Billy, we appreciate you to represent our voices!
Yeah, I don't mind Max Raids, but I think they need to keep them all solo-able, except maybe Eternatus. I also definitely agree we should have some research, hopefully monthly repeating research or every season, for a Bottlecap item to increase one IV of one Pokemon by one point.
Dang Billy. I resonate with this. I’ve been playing since day 1 because Pokemon’s been my childhood. The concept of this game is incredible and it sucks to see players get tired of it due to repetitive events, pay walls to advance, etc etc. I get Niantic is a business, but I can’t get over some of these game mechanics.
Yes, being able to TRAIN your Pokemon should have been in the game at release. Not a "power up" with Stardust feature..
I like being on the ground floor, I love the concept and the ball throw and how they aren’t limited to an hour and how they are new spots, but they need to speed it up once they are ready. I don’t want it to just be 1 new random dyna every 3 weeks not to mention gigas
I appreciate your thoughts, it helps me put the new max raid system into context and see where it might go. I still don't like the max raids, I dislike how complicated it is and I can't seem to keep track of how many max particles I can gather in a day. I basically just stopped doing them as soon as I'd completed the research. Also I hate that all my hundos are worthless in this new system.
Can't takeover until they figure out how to balance max battles into raids...no easy task. NOW I do believe the no timer thing would benefit greatly. I also love that I don't believe you lose your max particles until you win. The other part is the gym system...gyms and raids share a location...max battles do not...again there's a lot of work to be done here.
I don't have the time to play like I did in college (as I have a busier life) but I do approve of the multiple lower level pokemon per day. I'm not a fan of starting over, but I can do a max battle at my part time job, which is cool!
Yup , glad I’m in exile, Nerfantic is so spiteful that they’d do anything to eliminate anything Remote Raid related, dope vid too billy
So I've played the console version of dynamax and later on in the game you have access to collect max mushrooms which will allow you to g-max gmax compatible pokemon so Niantic may or may not incorporate this later on
I let a 100% IV Zekrom go when I wasn’t able to catch it back when he originally was introduced to the game. I was incredibly upset and to this day I am still salty over it. If they introduced something into the game where I could grind to get increased IV points, it would completely change that dynamic. It’s crazy that I’m salty over something that happened years ago but that’s what this game does with the RNG system.
Billy, i think you are SO RIGHT. I dont have problem with new dynamax system EXCEPT the fact that they force us to basically raid again to get hundo and shiny, now all our hardwork from before just goes to waste. If they keep this, i think its like what you said, people will just quit. Whats the point i have a shundo squirtle but i cannot dynamax it, and i have to raid again?! Hopefully niantic sees this problem. Generally my friends arent keen on this new system making us raid again they arent even participating..
Some will call this a conspiracy but I've seen and heard many that believe that casual/newer players have better shiny/iv odds because it'll encourage them to play more. A friend of mine who's been very casual (nowadays barely plays at all) gets multiple shinies often and has gotten lucky with good ivs too. Rng unfortunately seems like the norm but on the flip side more effort (and money, can't forget the money) invested should eventually yield better results too. But the rng i guess is how they get you especially when they have events with an "increased chance" of a shiny. This supposed increased chance has no definite meaning or numeric value that's been shared so the hardcore players either continue to take their chances or could consider going the casual route. But also regardless of how often a person plays, nothing should be guaranteed because that ruins the fun/surprise factor. Honestly, revealing the meaning behind phrases like "increased chance" would go a long way but niantic would never do that because it could potentially hurt them financially.
I'm enjoying Dynamax battles so far and think the new in game currency of max particles has also been fair. This is a maneuver to slow the game down in regards to releasing new generations of Pokemon while also rewarding those players that have been actively playing when you see how much candy is needed to increase the dynamax moves on your new pokemon. It is also a new mechanic to make pokemon that you otherwise would not see in the wild more readily available to players who may still be looking for one or missed previous events. I'm just glad that Niantic has eliminated the game mechanic (I hope) by which MewTwo was released. Those exclusive gym raid passes that were rewarded randomly and gave you a specific time to do the raid were awful.
Really hope so - people calling it boring are right because it’s still in its funky soft launch phase where training wheels are on and the challenge isn’t there. Lots and lots of potential though
I think that if you want functional Pokemon, the difference between a 98 and a 100 is not noticeable in function and is pretty much purely visual. If IV's mattered in functionality much more then I would agree with what you're saying.
In terms of people saying it's pay to win, if we look at it comparatively, it's better than Raids. You can do 3, 4 Max Battles if you do the little work around for Particles. Which is much better than the free 1 a day from Raids. And ofc they have to monetize it to some degree, that's how a business works + it's a mobile game as well.
In the original Gameboy game you could improve the stats of Pokémon you caught. It was very expensive though. It would be cool to implement a similar ability
Max Battle Raids are okay right now. I would keep the Gym raids as well, but get rid of the Shadow Raids, They have been dead since they first came out. I haven't done one 5* shadow raid since Articuno came out last June. Even though I have a local group, they can't really meet up on most weekends. We do meet up for special raid days though. Also, increase the Max Particles to well over 800. I believe both systems can exist in the same game. My 2 cents worth!
I'm not big on trainer on trainer battles so battling in raids is what I go for. Like some people, because it's so HOT where I live, not too many people want to go out and raid in a local park, etc.
I enjoy raiding remotely...especially with friends around the globe. What I don't like is not being able to trade Pokemon with friends around the Globe. I'm one that likes to find as many Pokemon in my Pokedex and you can't get specific Pokemon unless you live in a certain area. These max battles are OK but if you can't use the Max Pokemon in regular raids it takes some fun out of it. I'm might get into earn to play but since I only have time to play before work and maybe late at night...the tasks may be harder for me to achieve. I spend ALOT of money on Pokemon GO and the way things are leaning...it may be time for me to hang up the game. They need to have a special week for trading Pokemon globally to get some of the Pokemon you want.
I think the interesting thing is that pokemon already has a system that raises chances of useful pokemon in pokemon go... wait no, that was pokemon lets go with the catch combos. I think that has to be the solution. A catch combo could easily affect shiny odds or ivs. This would especially affect raiding.
I think it is a big mistake to limit the MP one can catch in a day or how much can be held. Or at least increase those numbers by a whole lot. I also don't like having a limit on the number of gifts that you can hold. Who wants to have to give gifts while out playing rather than when you get home to give more than 20?
0:29 I love the new future, in my opinion it's the best thing that happened to this game in years
Makes sense. Just waiting to see how they’ll rectify the lack of use any preexisting Pokémon are experiencing in the dyna-verse. Big let down to know that all my Hundo Pokémon I’ve built will be fazed out if a max conversion mechanic isn’t incorporated.
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I'm hoping it's as big of a rework as megas were upon release. It is beyond stupid with as much money as some people have spent in travel costs to get exclusive or rare Pokémon, only for Niantic to basically soft-reset our accounts saying anything pre-dynamax can't be used for these raids, but also the only ones that you can still use are those you got in the raids to begin with.
I wish they would add moves like Payday to Meowth or higher coins after 8 hours in gyms. And more players would then get to buy more items or passes needed to get better to level up.
Thanks again Billy for this.
Do you think they’ll add the max mushrooms so we can dynamics or Gigax Pokemon we already have
Good point, I'll love that
I agree with you Billy
I feel the exact same thing about hundos. I have been playing since it started and have caught thousands of Beldums and used 20+ lucky trades and I have a ton of 98 percents, but still NO HUNDO. Not shundo... just a regular hundo. We ABSOLUTELY should be able to TRAIN our pokemon to give them better stats.
It would be interesting, as it would have to be a system that could include all Pokémon, but this system I think has been long overdue. Perhaps 1 bottle cap per every in person event you attend to sweeten the deal (including global tour/fests of course) in those masterwork researches. Then once the bottle cap is used it activates a progress bar to do X amount of things and that IV point will increase. Like I said it would be interesting as it would have to apply I think to all Pokémon: shedinja, legendaries, smeargle, and any other Pokémon who have limitations on them per battling/defending.
Raids are still better (for now, they’re just more dynamic) dynamax will get less boring w/ time.. but I really hope they just keep both.
The only downside is to get 800MP you have to earn it everyday by walking or collecting from Power Spots. A free raid pass by just spinning a gym daily is much easier for those who don’t want to grind MP everyday.
It's kinda simple for me, if they add Max soup eventually and we can turn our existing hundos into Dynamax/Gmax, I'M IN! If not, this will be one of those "If I'm walking by it, sure why not" kinda features. Can't be bothered grinding everything AGAIN.. (Just imo)
Hey Billy , hope all is well man. This is my whole thing with the max raids. I personally don’t think they can increase the amount of trainers that can participate in a max raid because that would be deviating even more from the main series games because in sword and shield you could only have four trainers per max raid and implementing that feature from Pokémon sword and shield so if they change it up like that to me, that would be a deviation and it might look good for some, but for others that have played the main series games they may not like it as much. Then again I could be wrong and everyone might be all for increasing the amount of trainers from 4 to 6 to 8 to 10
Agree billy
I have wished for "earn to play" system in this game for a long time but as we know niantic loves to level the playing field by giving new players a chance to keep up with the hard-core players. Also niantic isn't a gaming company so they don't seem to care about making a better more trainer friendly game which is not a great way to go about it. Definitely with you on the earn to play instead of the RNG and pay to play route they have been taking.
Unless they let us dynamax all of our pokemon then it could never replace regular raids. Maybe for new players but not for anyone thats been grinding for years
I don’t think a 100% or a shiny Pokémon should ever been guaranteed. The odds should be up front, but we can’t play ourselves by spending so much money and then get frustrated when we don’t obtain what we were looking for. Not everyone will be a winner, that’s what makes rare stuff special.
I like the max raids right now because you can solo it, but once they introduce legendary max battles people won’t be able to do them if they don’t have a local community. I can’t see max battles replacing raid battles.
Just replace the raid passes with a similar thing. Tier 1 raids require 1 raid pass. Tier 5+ requires 5.
And you get 5 free raid passes every day.
Or call them raid pass shards.
And if/when that tier 5 raid boss run from you after you've used 5 raid passes for it, then what?
Old school level 4s were easy when you know Pokémon. Vaporeon and venusaur made rhydon easy! But that aside, if battles take over raids then that would mean passes better transfer into particles, particle capacity better go to like 10k, no cap on collecting, get like 500 per spot, a battle would cost 250, and rewards equal to what raids give now. If that all happened I'd love it tbh. Especially with the leaving behind mons to help do more damage and earn candy! Plus non remote, big win for that with what the game is designed for
No way that would happen. That's basically unlimited raiding for free.
@@justinfitzgerald5885 not really unlimited, it would still vary by location and such. what i said is probably the most extreme kind lol. but thats only cuz its in person, you'd have to make the player base feel ok with no remotes again and telling them you can do up to like 10 raids for free every day would certainly do it!
With how much I walk regularly with my phone, I get dynamax battles regularly. I can see them doing gigantamax raids to get the special forms of the Kanto starter, kingler snorlax, and lapras to use pokemon that's already in the game. At this point my only two hopes is that they do meltan gigantimax raids while still doing the meltan boxes and introduce a gmax berry or item that allows me to convert the pokemon I already have that can gmax into gmax pokemon I'd love to convert my buddy pokemon into gmax pokemon forget having to retain the gmax pokemon I want to do battle with my buddies in gmax raids.
Great video, and I agree! Started to play with my son, and kept on playing for years after he quit. My community is mostly 40+, and grandmas 80+ is showing up for raid hour🤣
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU! slowly losing interest in the game
I'd love to be able to earn things in this game, totally agree
Billy..I've Watched Your Videos For 6 Years Man...& They're Consistently Educational & Fun....You're Great At Doing This...And I Thank You
Being able to somehow train certain Pokemon to get better IVs..just the legendaries or something like that. I can’t put money into the game so may only be able to do a couple raids. Really frustrating to get a 10/10/10 rayquaza
Wouldn't they be losing money overall?
Yes
This would be a disaster. We need to be able to use the Pokémon that we have worked so hard to get leveled up.
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Tbh Eternus will probably be a research encounter I think
I DEFINITELY hope you're wrong. Where I live, its very difficult for me to raid with others because the ONLY regularly active raid group within a few hundred miles of me does ALL their community activities while driving. I don't drive, so, unless I get lucky and can ride with someone, I am screwed as far as raids with others go. So, I usually use Pokegenie to make up for this. But Pokegenie will be useless if all raids become local only. Brilliant way to gatekeep and further isolate sections of the community. Maybe thats the plan?
Tier 4 still exists, mega raids are 4 'star'
If tier 1 is 250 MPs then t2 would be 500 and 3 would be 750. T4 =1000, T5 =1250....
Surely the Dynamax band would make any mon maxable, when best buddies makes sense.
It was great for about a week. Now it's meh.
You're right about the whole lack of training abilities.
And why don't the mons says their names instead of those strange noises
Considering Megas aren't going to dymanax likely and catching them isn't going to be a max battle I don't see them getting rid of gyms and regular raids. It's just not money wise and there's too much invested in them anyway. When we get gmax if we do those may not but even then they could do a mega a gmax and a legendary. That keeps people going out and spending to shiny and or iv hunt
I do way more 3-star raids because they can be soloed. Unless I’m at a huge event where there’s enough players for a legendary raid
I love the fact that you leave dynamos pokemon in the gym and collect stuff for you
So there is purpose to do every day do more and more and use old Pokémons
So I don’t feel that “I have a strong 100% IV one and delete the rest of them “
I started playing again but I haven't spent a cent. Until I feel like it's worth it again I won't spend
1. It's called DLC now. Developers don't like to have you earn in game currency to unlock items.
2. I did over 200+ Nercozmas. No hundo. Still pissed.
3. they switch the raids to dynamax. Adios
A thing that's wrong w dynamax rn is in the game only one person can be dynamaxed at a time where as in go all four trainers can be dynamaxed 😂
What is holding the game back would be adapt joystick without teleport for people with physical disabilities
We all feel the same way. But most won’t say it.
I want them to keep both for players to have a variety.
I like Max Battles because of how much xp they give and how easy they are. I hope the higher tiers give alot of XP.
But I also like some of the costume pokemon , or easy raid days like Falinks .
Also What about the comm day raids after comm day hours?
I think it's lame. Way too easy and slow. Also, wheres the comm aspect of it all?
It's too early to say whether it's cool or not, we're not even all that familiar with how the 3 different attacks work or how to collaborate with the other 3 trainers since you can solo them right now. Right now is the time to hunt for good iv's and prepare for harder max battles that WILL come eventually
@@JZrezI'm mostly solo
The community aspect is when they are harder you will need people in person to beat it.
Well I’m not interested in Dynamax raids so I guess the day will come when I quit raiding, followed by quitting altogether!
i agree! felt bad for the woman and little kid running to the port a potty lol.
I’m sorry, but I hope they never let you use Pokémon that you already have to do dynamax raids. I love that we have to start over. It would be so boring if we already used the Pokémon we already have.
I started playing to get outside with my son. Now he only does raid days he is excited about. So most raid days I'm solo😂
yet, they smack a 200 pokecoin button smack dead in the middle of a screen at the end of a battle, which in no way is worth what you get for ir. I will be highly upset if i press that button by accident, I wish they get rid of it.
Idk sounds like it’s an invitation for “inflation” where prices can and will inevitably increase for the max battles
Niantic is making the old Pokemon worthless by not allowing them to be worth something in new raids. They want you to start all over again. What a Scam.
my guess is gigantamax forms will be a random thing like a shiny or a background.
I wouldn't mind IF they're do gym battles to actually gyms like the games
I am jaded with the game . So max battle is great. I prepare to forget my old Pokémon & normal raid and just pay max now. The game play and level up are much more exciting hehehe and I don’t even have to spend money . I just do a couple or max battle everyday. Shiny and normal raids are boring. I have a ton of legendary can’t do much with it
At least get 10k xp is alot easier.
I agree with you. Well said
You've made some excellent points in the video. But I don't see the Max Battles ever replacing Raid Battles. They will probably complement Raid Battles. Max Battles are lame and gimmicky. Does anyone really care about these ridiculous +100-foot Pokemon? Come on. These Max Battles have been out for a couple of days now and I'm already tired of them. It's a joke that you can't use wild-caught Pokemon in these battles. It goes everything against what a Pokemon game is. I think Max Battles can be a fantastic feature for rural areas. You can add a Pokemon to help your fellow trainer to take down the Pokemon. But the Raid Battles in big cities are booming and there is zero reason to get rid of them. The moment Max Battles replaces Raid Battles, this game will die.
Plus, we don’t know if you need high leveled Pokémon for all 4 players. Raids allow up to 20 people.
i got really upset about rng when it comes to the tm system, i think it's stupid and the elite tms should just be normal tms
It's cool, UNTIL they aren't tier 1 and the only people that will benefit are cheaters and city players.