I Defeated The 'IMPOSSIBLE’ Team Rocket Leaders in Pokemon GO
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Thanks to a bug in Pokémon GO, the Team GO Rocket has become more difficult than ever. Many people have had people fighting against the team rocket leaders which some deem as impossible.
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Fought Cliff about 10 times before googling “why are team go leaders impossible now” lol. Was glad to find i wasn’t alone
Without the pause between charge attacks and pokemon switch, team rocket's just bombards my pokemon with attack's. Those few seconds of pause makes a big difference.
LMAO same 😂
The problem is their 10k CP 4-5 of their strong fast moves are enough to destroy us. First they were way too frikkin easy now they're way too much hard
@@necrozmashadowlumina9138 no they aren't, just need the proper counters and bait them to waste their shields using the first pokemon.
@@andrewregard7250 the only difficult one is Arlo everyone else is easy.
I can’t beat giovani for the first time ever and I’m shocked that they made the leaders so much harder now.
same i want crypto lugia but I cant get it because they are to good
Dude I’m stuck on that shadow lugia… it’s really hard right now. So bulky
In lvl 35 my Pokémon suck but I wad able to get two shadow lugias
@@MrdesenditYT2.0 I'm lvl 37 and i take super effectiv pokemon but I can't beat it
its not that much harder even at lvl 30 im able to beat giovanni almost as easily as before
I had the same experience as you did. Even after powering up and changing my team several times, it took me over 30 minutes to defeat Arlo with shadow gligar, lapras and snorlax. Lapras and Snorlax were above 9000 CP and Gligar was above 5000cp. I survived with 1 hp remaining on my Melmetal. These battles also consumed a lot of my potions and revives.
Use articuno against gligar and spams icy wind, and then use fire type (I use magmortar) and then cleans up his backline (mawile and scizor), but if snorlax is its last pokemon, the battle will be tough, even if you use a fighting type.
Lucario kicks Arlos ass 😉
Its a glitch but i think its fun
It added more intensity to the game
For a while it was kind of boring to do rocket battles cause it was easy.
Agreed!
Same. It was getting monotonous. I actually have to work a little and pay attention to defeat the Leaders lol
I tryed to beat arlo but he had night slash gligar, lapras and gardevoir so it was impossible
@@samueljanovsky5317 use mamoswine for gligar, machamp for lapras and mine always had scizor at the end i was able to beat it with charizard
I honestly think it’s okay they don’t have a delay. The only change I would make is lower the Cp on the shadow Pokémon so they don’t also have a huge attack advantage
yeah the cp needs to be nerfed. dragonite/ttar over 10k cp mauls everything with fast move pressure even things that resist their moves
Ya
There still easy mode for me I don't mind the challenge because the challenge makes it more fun if it was to easy like before the game would be boring and have no point in playing the game
@@brandonwilliams5526 either you’re not a high level or you spend money on the game. Casual players can’t spend all their resources fighting grunts now. Every battle you need revives and potions to keep mons alive. Potions and revives are only common for heavy raiders. It’s not fair to those players, regardless of how easy it may seem to you. i have an alt level 32 and the grunts are still easy. It’s not the same fighting grunts and leaders at level 46 with limited supplies.
@@chan-ms3sg Nah boss Im a level 47 player and I go free of charge and Niantics makes very little of me because Im sitting on 64 gold badges my friend so Ive done fairly well but its the lower level trainers that are gonna feel it and I got enough potions that can heal of Africa lol good luck brother👍
Yes, they shouldn't have removed the cooldown for team rocket grunts. I use so many revive and potions just to lose again and again.
Invest your stardust in a few reliable Pokémon, you shouldn't lose with a few pokes at lv 35-40. Tyranitar, Mamoswine, Metagross, Garchomp, Machamp, Swampert and so are not that hard to lvl up and they make it pretty doable. Regarding -2500 task, it's much harder and you need a few teams with specific Pokes.
Hey im sub
Same
@@JaviuntComedy thats impossible for most people but sure
@@oreos2653 most of those pokes have recently been available to grind, you don't need meteor smash un metagross, confusion psychic is enough as your psychic type attacker. Same goes for dark type Tyranitar, Surf EQ Swampert, etc. So its actually a matter of farming or lack of knowledge
No wonder Giovanni was so difficult! I always do the fighting type switch in for the Persian but it was very quickly back to battling. First time he had rhyperior, no chance. Nidoking was manageable and I got my shadow Lugia this week!
Was surprised the first time I faced a leader but I understood what was going on straight away. Now there is more emphasis on finding perfect counters. I wouldn't mind if the 'difficulty' was kept for players above lvl 40, or if such a 'difficulty' yielded a couple more rewards like rare candy or silver pinaps.
I got an Arlo with a Lapras and a Snorlax, definitely took a while
I recently fought against a grunt that had 3 snorlax.
Hardest grunt fight ever, but still far easier than arlo
@@leyley23004 Me too but the shadow snorlax fled 😔
I got a grunt with 2 snorlaxs and a poliwrath. I came so close to losing
Try cliff with machamp and tyranitar 🥵 i got my butt kicked!
I had the same experience as you did. Even after powering up and changing my team several times, it took me over 30 minutes to defeat Arlo with shadow gligar, lapras and snorlax. Lapras and Snorlax were above 9000 CP and Gligar was above 5000cp. I survived with 1 hp remaining on my Melmetal. These battles also consumed a lot of my potions and revives.
I couldn't defeat Arlo since it took me like 20 tries, but found a Cliff and after another like 10 tries I finally beat him and got a shadow shiny grimer. So it was worth it in my opinion. lol
It took me 20 tries to beat the Arlo with Lapras and Scizor.. I used Mamoswine, Shadow Machamp, then Blaziken. Had to double shield gligar with mamo, Gligar has only a few hp left, come in with Machamp to farm down, hit the dynamic punch on Lapras, then swap into Blaziken to farm down Lapras before it can reach surf to smack the scizor with a blast burn. 🤯
The glitch make fighting the Rocket Leaders so much more FUN!!
Ive seen many of your videos but i subbed today because I watched you pidgey story time video. Very nice.
I loved this stuff. It was like real pvp with monsters. Resistances are everything, baby.
The leaders are really hard to defeat now
I really liked it honestly... Having to actually think about resistances on this fights was nice.
I loved this video, you showed everyone to stop being lazy and know your counters and resist. Even though I'm far from level 50, I enjoy the challenge that this new leader team presents. Thanks for your videos ❤ I'm a sub n a fan. ❤
7:07 thank you LOL I had the same reaction when i faced cliff with machamp and ttar 😭
lmao I laughed so hard
I took out Sierra with 2500 cp or less last night. My team: Poliwrath, Melmetal & Groudon in the back. I reached L49 last Friday, Saturday is when everything went harder with rocket battles. Going to look out for Sierra two more times to get that bit of the challenge completed 😥 It makes me feel a little better that Brandon is finding the leaders pretty tough too though, so thanks for relieving my anxiety, Brandon 😊
They are definitely tough. Forcing me to power up my mons before I want to, lol!
If this happened during the double Lapras Sierra, it would be chaos.
Arlo is insane!!! Shadow Gliscor, Shadow Lapras, Shadow Gardevoir kicked my butt this morning....about 5 times.
Omg I thought they had just realised the grunts were easy and now made them how they were meant to be... So glad they're going back!!
Rocket leaders should be difficult. We don't need an artificial delay.
One of my favorite openings on all of UA-cam.
Doing Giovanni without lag was way harder. Especially with shadow lugia. Reason why I’m just now doing Giovanni was because you can apparently unequip your rocket radar, which I didn’t know until recently. So I never got any team leader battles to finish misunderstood mischief. But funny enough the game still gave me the Giovanni encounter with lugia. And it took me 3 attempts, I couldn’t have beaten it unless his second Pokémon was Nidoking. Rhyperior and Kingler were both impossible despite using the #1 recommended Pokémon.
I returned to Pogo during this time, and they were surprisingly hard. I had an old team rocket Quest, so i had to do that first. But got 2 shadow Lugia with just medium difficulty. Definitely lost the first times finding out his team.
I cant imagine what Giovanni would be like 😳
He’s not impossible but it’s still really hard. I managed to beat it in 1 try by using my highest Pokémon basically. I’m only lvl 33 and don’t have any crazy counters. Lugia destroyed my lineup but I won still lol
Took me forever to find right combo to beat Arlo other day
Most impossible grunt to defeat right now from which we get shadow snorlax. Man it's impossible to defeat. 😡
Actually i am glad to see how much harder team rocket became, they are now is something that is really difficult, and you really need deserve shiny shadow pokemon
Niantic please dont fix this issue i have been having soo much fun battling leaders and wanna try with Giovanni
I don't mind the rocket Mon attack delay being decreased/reduced as this simulates how a human pvp opponent will behave (having the bad guy stop attacking so many times in the middle of a battle was always a goofy concept to me ... I mean if they spouted some cheesy Team Rocket lines when this happened that's would've made sense).
However if they want to keep that, then they need to dial down the damage intensity the 2nd & 3rd rocket Mon are outputting.
Just my 2 cents
EDIT
Gligar is flying/ground so Melmetal with Thundershock & Rock slide is only doing neutral damage against it - it's better to lead against it with Ice (4x weakness - something like weavile or mamoswine) or water (something spammy like Swampert)
Oh i definitely do not want to fight team go rocket now😬
The leaders are challenging but still ok. It teaches trainers to use the right counters and tbh, more fun but it would be annoying for those who does shadow rocket grind though. The real challenge are the double snorlax rocket teams. I did a single snorlax and it was pretty hard, can't imagine double.
I managed double Snorlax and finally a Dragonite. Thankfully level 50 Lucario and level 40 Shadow Machamp followed by Mamoswine but was only just.
Obstagoons are here for you
I did arlo, he’s easy as a grunt, cliff is the hardest
Not if he got lapras and gardevoir
@@fikrimzk
Truth ... I had to cheese a Cliff team with the Gardevoir in the back using two Metagross, felt really cheap but had to be done
Grimer & Nidoran are both poison types , so you can use the exact same starting tactic for Cliff as you use for Sierra
@@fikrimzk seems like you don't have Metagross or Machamp leveled up. No leader should give any player troubles if they have proper teams.
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Nicely done niantic. I am a level 33 with no very good pokémons and have been stuck with giovanni for 1 week. Lost motivation to play cause I putted so much rare candy in to level my pokémons, but nowp still cant beat em😑😔
Never ever had this problem. Sand tomb garchomp makes everything trivial.
It looks like it is fixed now. I just battled Cliff and MewTwo took out grimer in 3 shots. I never even got to my 3rd Pokemon before Cliff was defeated.
I beat Arlo - it took 4 battles
Mammoswine - Machamp - Charzard
No shield necessary vs Lapras or Scizor
The triple snorlax grunt lineup is impossible
Hi Brandon just curious how many times youve beaten team rocket members since they came out since someone in my area said hes beaten them 16000 times and it was normal
Gligar's Arlo with furry cutter + night slash is so sick. I can't beat him even with multiple try.
Can someone explain how to judge wheter a shadow pokemon is good or bad? I just came back to the game and trying to learn new stuff. All the video on UA-cam comparing 0iv shadow amd 100iv normal pokemon, does that mean the lower the iv of a shadow pokemon the better? So, confused.
Arlo has been hard to beat as of late especially when he has Lapras & Snorlax
I mean it's still not hard. They should keep it like this.
yep
@Doge86758 it just makes the Rocket battles more challenging
@@AmitM_15 not if i want to farm them
Indeed it makes team go rocket leader harder to defeat
for some reason grunts also aren’t stun locked for me; every rocket grunt is really hard to fight which is annoying
It was nice to finally have a challenge. However, once I put a team together it became kinda easy tbh
I fought a grunt with snorlax, gardevoir, and gyrados. It took me 10 battles to win and i was raging so much
had no idea this was a glitch
For the past couple days, i was like why are these battles so hard?? 😅😅
Same! Couldn't understand why I was losing to a grunt when before I could breeze thru using just one mon.
When the top player in the world has difficulty, you know that they are too tough. I am at level 44 and my pokemon teams are mostly level 35 and 40 but I did just barely manage to beat Sierra yesterday.
A friend gave me advice on how to beat the leaders. He said “get good or get better.” Lol
Well he’s not wrong lol
Cliff is impossible to defeat...omg it was disaster for me first
They aren't too bad, you just have to use the proper counters. I have been questing a shiny/hundo shadow nidoran so I have been using Vaporeon, Meltan and Machamp with some sucess.
I've beaten two of them. Looking at you Siera!
You are best
Keep grinding
Seems like a great challenge
I'm not fighting the leaders until they come out with a patch, fixing the issues.
Also, I don't like the Pokémons you get as a reward for beating the leaders.
I’ve changed mewtwo attack from psicho cut to confusion, and it breaks all cliff team it him doesn,t use tyranitar, it helped me a lot after 20 min trying to win him
Well since the glitch has happened I have fought only cliff and although it was very difficult and a close one but I managed to win but only by using 2 level40 mons .
This update makes the game more fun, I have crap poke's compared to yours
I was pissed when arlo knocked 9 of my Pokémon… not so much the items I miss. It’s the time
when is the jhoto tour event details video coming can't wait
Hey Brandon have you encountered a triple shadow Snorlax team since this update? I fought it twice with no luck it was to tough! I used a level 50 shadow machamp, level 40 lucario, and a 98 conkeldurr all with fighting moves. Thanks Edmon400
Same,2 Snorlax and a Dragonite at the nd I can’t beat them.And I haven’t level 50 Pokemon.i used 2 Machamps And a melmetal and nothing.change 1 machamp with conkeldurr nothing.it was frustrating
For cliff I used unfezant for grimmer charizard for venasaur and machamp for tyranitar
I have been using Scizor, Machamp and rhyperior and always win. Go with them and it's always a win.
Bruh... They are easy for me, just have to have good counters and strategy
I was unaware of this glitch, and had my first encounter with the double snorlax grunt the other day. I thought it was some out of season April Fools joke
I know what you mean😂✌🏼
Arlo was always the easiest for me. I used swampert (2.5kcp, 100iv) to knock out gligar and burn the 2 shields.
Sadly, the other 2 leaders are tougher for me.
this makes the leaders and the boss much much harder
I am only level 33, it got really hard to defeat the team leaders. I need to try at least 3 times to finally defeat one of them
At the first time , i think it is impossible to beat giovanni now , but at my 2nd try , i actually beat him with the team rocket bug ( i use machamp , ampharos and rhyperior )
It really affected small trainers like me
Because we dont have usually level 40 or 50 pokemons . I usually use my ultra league pokemons 🥲
So the 14 CP Challenge is near impossible thnx to this
I didn’t find it that tough honestly. I beat Arlo with a shield and two Pokémon still alive. I forget which one it was, but one I did have to do twice because I didn’t know their lineup and it auto picked what I used before the new change. But after that it was fine
How is this a mistake? They announced this sometime back right before it happened. I stopped battling the leaders... I toss the rocket radar the second I get it.. IF THEY want to take away the pause, they should show us the lineup so we can better prepare and not waste our time and resources. Give and take Niantic... give and take...
I've noticed a boost in difficulty but not impossible with the right poke. I have 2 accounts.
I took 2 Garchomps, and Dragonite on my sock account.
I took 2 Garchomps and Rapidash (fairy variant) on my main account.
I need to beat the boss for a mission and I can’t even get pass the 2nd Pokémon no matter what Pokémon I use I can use like 50 Pokémon combos and I will lose
I fought the “don’t bother - I’ve already won” grunt with double snorlax and it’s literally impossible. Both of them had lick too. I have no idea how to beat that team.
Yeah it is man I tried to superpower it with my melmetal but everytime my attack was reduced and my melmetal www doing very little damage
You can use a pokemon with focus blast cause that move if I know correctly one shots shadow snorlax
@@ironfirehero1005 But snorlax licks or zen headbutt you down.it takes so long to focus blast
@@Django84 oh yeah I forgot about that and thank you for pointing it out
also you can tm a darkrai to get focus blast which if I may say it resists both the moves
Cliff is easy if you use Malmetal with rockslide and kyoger in front. I've beat him twice and not had to bring out my 3rd
This "bug" actually make team rocket interesting now. They are finally a challenge which they supposed to be. Not lvl 1 mobs
I thought it was weird that I was getting bombarded with charge attacks from the leaders. I still came up victorious by just outspamming them with Swampert and Mewtwo, but my goodness it was tough. Unpopular opinion, but I actually had more fun with this difficulty....
oh thats why i used so many revive :D
Yo brandon i hope you get the shundo machop on thé december weekend comminty day
My idea I have which has helped make team rocket better... I just stopped fighting then completely until they fix it 😂
I would too! However, I need one more leader battle to level up to 45. Figured the glitch would appear when I'm sooo close to completing the task.
They should scale the cooldown by level: trainers under 30 get the old 2 seconds, trainers under 40 get 1 second, and trainers over 40 get nothing. That would keep it fun for higher level players and still make it possible for a player with no level 40 or 50 mons to win at their level.
Cliff is the only one, that I was not able to win against, but my motivation is low because of grimer.
I have noticed another glitch that has to do with the team rocket grunts when you go to spin poke stop that have a grunt. After you spin the poke stop it will almost freeze up and won't allow you to battle the grunt battle and forces you to force close the game every time. Don't know if anyone else is having this same issue as me?
The need to hurry and fix this the glitch made the fights fair because we all know battling we the trainers get lag and we actually sit still too... So having them sit still after a switch or charge attack just balanced the game... It's like every raid I've done I don't start attacking until about 5 seconds have passed on the clock... This makes the battling so unfair. They need to fix this ASAP
i used swampert-dialga-dialga. Swampert consistently beats nidoran. Dialga consistently beats second and third pokemon regardless of what it is, and resists everything. Good luck. Btw the bug is fixed this week.
I don't know if it's happening to only me but when I fight team leaders super effective charge move doesn't count for 10 super effective charge move research
Maybe it only counts for gym battles
Strange....before the glitch, it did count my charge move. So dunno....
Hi love ur vids Brandon
Can we get Niantic to increase the 40km trade distance to cover the whole Holiday event? With the new Covid variant increasing in cases it'll keep more people indoors. Plus not everyone is gonna have time to do trades during Christmas/Boxing day.
I like this. It used to be too easy.
My goal is to complete the shiny shadow pokemon of rocket leaders but unfortunately until now i didn't get one :(
For grimes I use butterfee which seems to do the trick
It took one machamp to destroy sierra just make sure it has a fast charged move
Yesterday after 30+ battles I finally defeated 3 Leaders using 2500 Pokemon... It took so much of my Revive and potions.. also had to power up few Pokemon as well ... 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
uhm... I just always throw together a random team with the only exception being that giratina leads with dc to wipe the shields 😂🤷♂️