Niantic really screwed the pooch with this one. They need to enable G-Max battles to be able to remote battle. It’s not fair for the folks who work or live in rural areas.
It’s not fair to anyone that doesn’t live in the areas that always get special events lmao. Had 7 people this morning and only took down a centimeter of Charizard’s health 😭
If they make remote raids, then that ruins the whole purpose of power dens. You have to get close enough to battle them in sword and shield, so that’s the same for Pokémon go. They won’t be adding remote raids anytime soon especially with the currency being max particles.
@@mobious01 yeah 200 coins for extra balls when you cannot see the cp of the raid boss before the catch encounter i did try doing 200 coins 8 times to test if i would get something better always not shiny and bad cps so do not boost the outcome of what you get you better off buying more energy to hope for a shiny because shiny is 1 ball catch with 1/20 shiny odds.
As someone who loved the Dynamax feature, Gigantamax is friggin awful in its current implementation..lol, it's completely set up to manipulate people to spend money. Hopefully we get a rework similar to the one for Megas.
Here's what I discovered: it is utilizing a traditional raiding mechanic. Suggest groups: 1 tank, 1 healer, 2 dps. Groups are created as you enter (and can’t be adjusted once you enter), so determine who is healing/tanking ahead of time so THAT group of 4 enters at the same time (instruct others not to enter until group 1 is done..then go to 2, etc). Suggested group of 4: 1 Metagross, 1 healer (of appropriate counter) and 2 x dps (of appropriate counter). You can view which group you’re in by clicking the group info right above the “ready” button. Healing. You only heal yourself and the people in YOUR group ONLY. As you get into the Dynamax ability screen, you will see your group at the top and what moves they're doing...if you're a healer, notice what health bars are at....everyone full, do a dps move. Tanking. Certain Pokemon are getting taunts, such as non evolved Pokemon, Falinks and Metagross. Tanks should maintain 3 shields (3 is max)..if they have 3, do a dps move. Only tanks need to shield. My Intellion used no shields, no one in the group used a shield...and he didn't take any damage for 3 meter fills (the tank took the damage). Suggestion: 3 Metagross DPS. Just DPS, let the healers heal and tanks shield. Like some feedback on this...
That's what I'm saying. I have guard and spirit maxed out and I kept my whole team alive and full health. If they are dodging the moves as well you barely need to heal
Here at Puerto Rico our community did the same thing as you’ve suggested and took blastoise down with only 14 players. All of them LVL 50 pokemon and all stats to the max.
@@MightyCrazy there are hundreds of games that utilize this concept. Wasn't "hard" , just needed to actually power up things properly and not expect others to carry. we cleared with 15+ in the morning
You can't get 10 trainers, to power up pokemon? We'll then that's your problem. They shouldn't make everything soloable for people who want everything handed to them.
@@Survivalist-of-war even with 10 players it still require them to max out their dynamax mons to lvl 50 and their max move to lvl3. it would cost hundreds of candies, which not every players are blessed with
Every one I've done has gotten down to the last 3 balls..lol, and I'm talking Golden Razz+Excellent on almost every throw, plus I've got my relevant catch medals maxed.
I still find it disgusting that you need 30+ trainers to take these down and the damn thing can flee. Still annoyed that i lost a hundo zacian so it fled after 18 balls and about 10 excellent throws with golden berrys
I think its a bit hard to know how many players you actually need because everyone just seems wholly unwilling to engage with it on even a basic level, in that gmax venasaur fight there was 3 Blastoises even Brandon didn't have a pre set team ready with the necessary max moves leveled up. All this is a faux pas for normal raiding but because its dynamax its a failing of the mechanic?
Totally not 30+ able to do it with 20 (still a lot) but Brandon had his pokemon hovering around a CP of 1600. Everyone that I played with we all agreed to engage with powering up dynamax and even the gigantamax pokemons that we caught and became even easier. Not hard, just put in a little effort lol.
my wife and 2 of our friends and i beat charizard with a total of 14 people. my wife and the friends have only been playing for a month. its not as bad as everyone makes it sound. My wife was using sobble, metang, and sobble. the max spirit is so key for these and come in clutch
We finally did it after 2 hours of trying with 27 people. A lot of us had to use 1M+ star dust and hundreds of candys to power up pokemons to do it. We also organized groups so every group has 2 healers and 2 attackers. This way we finally beat it.
Was able to have 30 people + raids in a suburb in San Diego. Had no issues taking down any of them except blastoise, but blastoise we were only about 21-26 people. Metagross is goated against venausur btw
@@ZEVENXOFFICIAL Assuming people will keep doing these, you need to invest so much time and effort to max out your mons. And then you can catch a gmax mon and upgrade that again to catch more gmax mons and so on and so on... I have a lot of high iv mons from playing for the past 8 years, really wish i could use them for this
Thanks ‘Brian’ it was really nice to see you in person and to get your help and advice on this new feature in game. ‘Rubin’ is a really active ambassador, the trip over to Bulach is always worth it. Enjoy the rest of your journey and finally your trip back home. If you still want that hundo Mr. Mime you can, safe in the knowledge it was a hundo before the trade 🙃.
We had 182 people show up today for this gigantamax battles it was crazy crowded and took these mons out like 1 star raids lol. Lucky to live in a city..
Yeah, living in a city isn't always enough. I live in the 7th biggest city in Denmark. Granted the city isn't big compaired to American cities and such, but it still has a population of 60.000. Precovid there was about 300 active players. That number declined rapidly during covid and the last straw was the price increase on remote raid passes. Now i have to use pokegenie or equivalent to raid. It's completely dead.
@@martinslvsten428 that’s completely true. As much as people used to enjoy this game alot of the community had backed out due to different reasons. I am in Toronto and we have a campfire community of 3000 plus active players.We still have people joining in everyday so totally agree with you it all depends on players if they are really into gaming
Did not beat 2 with 32+ players, but worst was defeating 2 and not able to catch them. Used coins to do one more but would not buy more coins to not have a guaranteed catch.
newbie here. a lot of learning with your videos. hopefully be able to join your raids when in singapore before the year ends. Sad that do not have much players within my area. but still grinding
I joined a local Community Meet from within the app led by Cirici. The two community leaders wete really well organized. We raided with 35 people but we organized 25-30 attackers (10 of those had to have maxed dynamax pokemon and moves) and the rest would be "healers" (those with less 2000 cp pokemon), we eve had people with just 1 woolo help with cheering and this worked as a strategy. The problem is when everyone just wants to attack! There must be team work.
The key is you need to level up and evolve your mons. We took them down quite easily with 14 trainers. Even in this video, hes going in with 1500cp mons yes obviously its gonna be hard if you didnt power your mons up at all. All we did was power up our mons to lvl 40 and it was easy. Its crazy to me peoplw think they can just put zero investment in and should be able to win.
It's also a good idea to dodge the attacks. It's a difficult timing, but I got rather good at it by the end of our session. We were pretty succesful with just 16 players. Love the feature, but it's too difficult.
I didn't care for the Gigamx since I have all 3 as 100Dynamax and simply wait till they activate Giga for the dyna mons. The main problem is ppl don't have powered up and skill trained pkmn.
Greetings Brandon. We were sooo many meeting from the Pokemon go community in Oslo yesterday for the gmax event .I got 2 shiny Charizards, one of them being a 96%. I also got a shiny Blastoise ❤
Here in Ingolstadt Germany we did a couple of raids with 22 and with 20 people, we did it but it was so close (at the end 2 mons were left when we did the charizard raid with 20 people)
I don’t have time to drive two hours round trip (local Campfire groups are going to populated areas like large malls that are farther away), as well as spend half hour strategizing, the 10-15 minutes fighting only to very likely not catch one of these. This seems unreal for a mobile game. I love the lower level dynamax cause I can pop those out solo while walking or waiting in line somewhere. This sounds online MMO level. I understand this is supposed to be a slow burn but a lot of my frustration comes from the fact that when I get to the point of finally being able to have a chance at one of these, players may be done with the older releases.
0:38 Oh, come on! You have basically the most stardust of everyone in the world. Why on earth would you not power up your Pokemon before battle? Maybe you want to wait until you get a hundo or something, but at least level up your Pokemon to level 30.
I see a lot of hate on this update in the comments but honestly think it’s rly cool that Niantic did something like this. A true good challenging boss fight that requires more strategy than just what Pokémon you bring and can be easily Beaton by 1 or 2 maxed out players but instead you need more people. Oftenly. Great vid Brandon thanks!!!
Heading back into the city later to try and catch a couple more zards. Yesterday however, was brutal. I spent an hour just trying to raid and catch one Blastoise - G and thirty minutes for a third zard. Only for that zard to reset. Too many came unprepared and expected the rest to carry. The teams I was placed in brought baby pokemons... Rarely did I ever see a fully evolved team of type advantage pokemons while I was raiding. (Saw plenty of Metagross, Sobble
I know everyone is upset about this but honestly, what’s the point of these? They’re useless. You can’t D or G max in pvp , gyms, rocket battles, or legendary raids. They also have no outside effects like megas. They’re just trophies
Looking over this weekend event, especially for smaller city or town. Instead of bringing people outside to meet and raids, end up totally doing the opposite. People just stay home instead and not to bother as they know they won't win. In normal raid hour or elite raids for example, we could get 15 - 20 out raiding together in our local community.... this weekend no one....
Spoofers & city players are all that will be left it seems. We were able to win with 25 people but unfortunately once the MP ran out we had to stop. If youre going to make content this difficult and the MP held so low you need to allow 1 or 2 remote raids per person at the event. Very disappointing to have the desire to play but bricked by the minimum amount of players and the system in place to fix that being unusable. Niantic.....do you want everyone to play your game or just a select few? Im confused if youre running a business or an exclusive clubhouse?
Time and RESOURCES. Dust and candy usage is wild for these. Maybe we just need to invest enough to power up a small team of each in order to get one gmax? Maybe, I guess the initial investment to beat one gmax battle might be worth it if only that 1 gmax mon can help win further gmax battles.BUT, then we need 20+ ppl to meetup and have the same setup. I am rural so I don’t plan on wasting any resources On dmax and gmax mons. Esp bc they can only be used in dmax and gmax battles. I’ll just keep looking for regular hundos and shinies. It would be awesome to be able to participate with the community but that’s just not my reality. 🫡
People are going in with unpowered dynamax pokemon. Not much strategy other than saving your strongest and switching to it for when you go into dynamax. We were able to do this raid with only 20 people and we just used meet ups. Get them to around level 30 and with a group it's very doable. The only thing I think is scummy about this event is that Niantic limits you on how much particles you can collect from stops and 2km walks. That literally enforces us to buy particles which I think is dumb, it more so should be for convenience.
3 things: get a group of 12 people with 3 blastois ( lvl 40/50) getting max spirit and shield never use the max attack. Make sure charizard only has a fire attack on al 3 lobies else just remake. And you can take it down with 12 people it just takes time. ( but y who has max g max pokemon 😅)
It's so annoying to live in a small town with exactly 12/13 trainers (in the entire town...) everyone is just spread out too far and everyone hates eachother xd
both gigantamax and dynamax raids are bullshit. Niantic have run out of things to do so they want everyone to catch every pokemon all over again in these new forms. There is never enough people to take down a gigantamax pokemon and if there is they do not have their mons powered up and moves maxed. These new raids are the biggest flop in pokemon go history. I cant be bothered to do them anymore and Im sure 80% of the player base is feeling the same. And if these gigantamax pokemon do more damage in pvp then the regular versions, Pokemon Go will lose hundreds of thousands of players.
Instead of pay to win maybe make things in the shop more affordable, than people might stop hating. Raids should be easy shouldn’t have to try, should be lvl 50 with out paying
Title: there is z way to defeat them... Answer: give up your job, become full time pokemon go pleyer, become popular pogo content creator, go to a big city and advertise youre going to be there, 40 people will turn up to help... Simple, dont know what everyones problem is.
When people go with the "rural players?" thing I do feel bad. Best I can say is "trade with someone or take your opportunity if you ever travel to a big city". MANY of the things already impact rural areas (people for raids, stops before someone submit them for approval, spawns). But what I truly have to say is, it was a wonderful, glorious achievement when our community got together to beat it. There was barely enough, players called old/retired players to join and we even considered a joint effort with other groups. In the end it was 1 Venosaur, 1 Charizard and 1 Blastoise done. It's the ONE game from the franchise that is centered around IRL and meeting ppl, if that's to be taken, then why make it in the first place.
Niantic logic is that 40 people entered the raids are not random, not unknown, and they are friends, and they are army, they will manage each other to level up all mons to lvl 40 and ask the beginners to leave the raids, dont join, fxxking waste the time of 99 per people worldwide. Only please a small group of people holding the raid party. Non sense and bullshit😂.
I am angry because niantic ask us to go in person raid. And we did go there, but failed raid even full lobby of 40 random players who run charmanders, not the fault of them, is the fault of moron game designers. Brainless. Finally wasting my precious time in first day try, no one were interested in second day, just garbage spot shown up on map, and block us raiding the one star dynamic mons
In order for it to be a fair comparison, every aspect has to be the same. Example: Benchmade Griptilian or Bugout Mini vs. Microtec/Marifone Custom Sitch. Both us companies. Thats the only thing they have in common. One is mass produced. The other is a one of custom. All of which youll need to know or figure it out yourself as im not explaining. None of the same materials
Local town pogo group chat got together 26 trainers and one shotted Zard 😎 got the kanto trio and had alot of fun overall even tho it was pretty challenging tbh. Big day for our small community here in Quebec.
unfortunately i live in a small town so getting a gmax pokemon seems out of the picture lol hopefully they get easier in the future or im able to get one via trade in the future
Power up your Dynamax to Level 39. Max Move, Level 2. Get 18-20 others with the same specs, and it's doable. We took down all three with 18-20 people. We struggled the most with Blastoise. It took 2 tries, but it was done. Problem is 20-25 people will show up with first evolution dynamax and expect others to carry the load. If that's the case, you're going to need 30-40 trainers.
W Pokemon GO gram prawie od samego początku i muszę stwierdzić, że ten ficher z pokemonami Dynamax i Gigantamax to jedna wielka pomyłka NIANTIC. 1). Pokemony te do niczego nie są potrzebne. Nie można ich wykorzystać w PVP, ani w rajdach. Nie wchodzą do pokedeksu jako nowe pokemony. 2). Ażeby pokonać Gigantamaxa trzeba zebrać ze 30 osób. Na filmiku YT widziałem, że 27 osób nie pokonało Charizarda. :-) Te czasy już dawno minęły, że na rajd np. Tyrka przychodziło 50 osób. Teraz zebranie 5-10 osób, to szczyt możliwości chyba, że ktoś nazywa się Try lub Cushi :-) poza tym wygrany rajd nie gwarantuje złapania takiego pokemona. A jeśli ktoś już złapie, to CP jest niskie i przeważnie dziadowskie IV. 3). Ażeby wejść do lobby, to trzeba zużyć 800 MP energii, czyli można zrobić 1 rajd, albo trzeba dokupować MP za pokecoinsy lub płatne boxy. 4). Ażeby te Dynamax pokemony w rajdzie na Gigantamaxa miały jakąś wartość, to trzeba zużywać cenny stardast i XL candy na powerapowanie, wzmacnianie ataków, tarcz, życia. Nie można także wykorzystać pokemonów złapanych dużo wcześniej. To tak jakby do gry Pokemon GO dołożyli zupełnie nową grę Dynamax. 5). Ten nowy ficher powoduje, że telefon często się zawiesza i zaraz po wejściu do pokestopa MP (zapomniałem jak to ustrojstwo się nazywa) trzeba restartować grę, a to skutecznie odstrasza do wchodzenia w to "Dynamaxowe ustrojstwo". Dla mnie ten ficher to wyciskanie kasy z graczy. Z tych powodów odpuściłem sobie Dynamax i tym bardziej Gigantamax. Ciekaw jestem waszego zdania w tym temacie.
Doesn’t the gengar have focus blast in its move pool? Depends on the move set of gmax gengar they could be really easy with all ghost attacks just bring greedent and dubwool but if it has focus blast or sludge bomb it’s doable with gengar but yea, it all comes down to the move set it has
@@brattiespoet6797 The rules are different for the D-max pokemon you battle. Your dmax pokemons dmax move is based on it's fast attack. The dmax pokemon we battle doesn't have that handicap.
Ya I would have to do a 3 hour trip to London if I want to do these and even then I would have to be lucky and pray people are playing, so it would be a waste and then another 3 hour trip back
I got blastoise and charizard in Times Square with 31 people. I couldnt catch g max vensaur which is bullshit. It was down to the wire. I’m very disappointed because they aren’t really much different from the basic dynamax versions. If only they give all the max moves. Or we customize their ivs. They are pretty wack all honesty.
when we get "BrandonTan91 crashes a wedding!" video? yeah these were not the easiest thing to take down, though it's kinda refreshing change from the norm of today's pokemon go, where almost all 5* raids are 2 man raids if you have the right lvl50 counters for them. though it will take some time until everyone has good teams for these battles.
What I've learned from this is to not go after gigantamax pokemon. I can't even get 3 people to go after a normal raid let alone 40
So true 🤦🏻😂
Yup this is like the disaster of the elite raids. Q
Pokegenie
And after all that, he didn't even get to catch it
Then the rewards ARE TRASH 😭😭😂
I don't wanna be a negative Nancy but that's unfortunately another feature a lot of players can't use
yeah but neither shadow raids and they still do it lol
@@Lantheoneandonlyshadow raids only need like 3-4 people for most of em
You guys are just bad if you can’t duo shadow raids 😂😂
These should atleast be auto catch mons. Imagine going through that gruelling battle for it to only flee at the end 😂😂😂
@@Lantheoneandonlyshadow raids does not need 40 members tho 😂😂😂
Niantic really screwed the pooch with this one. They need to enable G-Max battles to be able to remote battle. It’s not fair for the folks who work or live in rural areas.
lol too bad
It’s not fair to anyone that doesn’t live in the areas that always get special events lmao. Had 7 people this morning and only took down a centimeter of Charizard’s health 😭
If they make remote raids, then that ruins the whole purpose of power dens. You have to get close enough to battle them in sword and shield, so that’s the same for Pokémon go. They won’t be adding remote raids anytime soon especially with the currency being max particles.
@@Imfriedhelpme But it’s a mainline game, is there even anything that you can do remotely? Lmao
@@JustJoshIsUnavailableraid battles, global events, etc.
Seeing that 10 excellent toss end up in nothing deflates final motivation to go to the mall tmr for this event 😅
Meanwhile I got 2 of mines within the 3rd throw, and totally missed the excellent 😅
Thats why you buy extra balls
You are weak
@@mobious01 yeah 200 coins for extra balls when you cannot see the cp of the raid boss before the catch encounter i did try doing 200 coins 8 times to test if i would get something better always not shiny and bad cps so do not boost the outcome of what you get you better off buying more energy to hope for a shiny because shiny is 1 ball catch with 1/20 shiny odds.
As someone who loved the Dynamax feature, Gigantamax is friggin awful in its current implementation..lol, it's completely set up to manipulate people to spend money. Hopefully we get a rework similar to the one for Megas.
I have money to spend but cant beat it. Money doesnt buy dust or candy or friends.
Im confused how can you pay to beat gigantimax?
@@NoHeros247unlocking max moves and powering them up.
I did it easily with a meetup
Here's what I discovered: it is utilizing a traditional raiding mechanic. Suggest groups: 1 tank, 1 healer, 2 dps. Groups are created as you enter (and can’t be adjusted once you enter), so determine who is healing/tanking ahead of time so THAT group of 4 enters at the same time (instruct others not to enter until group 1 is done..then go to 2, etc). Suggested group of 4: 1 Metagross, 1 healer (of appropriate counter) and 2 x dps (of appropriate counter). You can view which group you’re in by clicking the group info right above the “ready” button.
Healing. You only heal yourself and the people in YOUR group ONLY. As you get into the Dynamax ability screen, you will see your group at the top and what moves they're doing...if you're a healer, notice what health bars are at....everyone full, do a dps move.
Tanking. Certain Pokemon are getting taunts, such as non evolved Pokemon, Falinks and Metagross. Tanks should maintain 3 shields (3 is max)..if they have 3, do a dps move. Only tanks need to shield. My Intellion used no shields, no one in the group used a shield...and he didn't take any damage for 3 meter fills (the tank took the damage). Suggestion: 3 Metagross
DPS. Just DPS, let the healers heal and tanks shield. Like some feedback on this...
That's what I'm saying. I have guard and spirit maxed out and I kept my whole team alive and full health. If they are dodging the moves as well you barely need to heal
Here at Puerto Rico our community did the same thing as you’ve suggested and took blastoise down with only 14 players. All of them LVL 50 pokemon and all stats to the max.
This definitely worked, we cleared with 15+...Charizard with fire was tough, but 2nd attempt was dragon and cleared it....
This ain’t WoW, it shouldn’t be this hard.
@@MightyCrazy there are hundreds of games that utilize this concept. Wasn't "hard" , just needed to actually power up things properly and not expect others to carry. we cleared with 15+ in the morning
We lost 5 times in a row on Blastoise with 17 players. Only able to do it with 27 players with Rillaboom and Venasaur with max shield each team
bullshit event. Another thing I'll never be able to do.... And they wonder why people spoof....
spoofers freeloading in the early timezones with ones from research made it harder for in person as well ol
You can't get 10 trainers, to power up pokemon? We'll then that's your problem. They shouldn't make everything soloable for people who want everything handed to them.
@@Survivalist-of-war even with 10 players it still require them to max out their dynamax mons to lvl 50 and their max move to lvl3. it would cost hundreds of candies, which not every players are blessed with
Defeating it and then nog catching it this gigantamax is bs
Every one I've done has gotten down to the last 3 balls..lol, and I'm talking Golden Razz+Excellent on almost every throw, plus I've got my relevant catch medals maxed.
ITS HAPPENING TO ME TOO??
I BEAT VENASAUR AND CHARIZARD AND CAUGHT NOTHING
@@shindoesnotdovidsthat's annoying fr
Whaaaaaaaaatttttt 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I was not able to catch venasaur
I still find it disgusting that you need 30+ trainers to take these down and the damn thing can flee. Still annoyed that i lost a hundo zacian so it fled after 18 balls and about 10 excellent throws with golden berrys
I think its a bit hard to know how many players you actually need because everyone just seems wholly unwilling to engage with it on even a basic level, in that gmax venasaur fight there was 3 Blastoises even Brandon didn't have a pre set team ready with the necessary max moves leveled up. All this is a faux pas for normal raiding but because its dynamax its a failing of the mechanic?
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Totally not 30+ able to do it with 20 (still a lot) but Brandon had his pokemon hovering around a CP of 1600. Everyone that I played with we all agreed to engage with powering up dynamax and even the gigantamax pokemons that we caught and became even easier. Not hard, just put in a little effort lol.
Nah you only need 10 good players
my wife and 2 of our friends and i beat charizard with a total of 14 people. my wife and the friends have only been playing for a month. its not as bad as everyone makes it sound. My wife was using sobble, metang, and sobble. the max spirit is so key for these and come in clutch
Love your spirit for the game! Thank you from Frankfurt, Targyria
People need to evolve their pokemon, too many Wooloos and first stages
We finally did it after 2 hours of trying with 27 people. A lot of us had to use 1M+ star dust and hundreds of candys to power up pokemons to do it. We also organized groups so every group has 2 healers and 2 attackers. This way we finally beat it.
It’s really awkward when Brandon is shouting to the crowd lol
Zero aura
@@GhostOfZion😂
It's a bit cringe tbh
Was able to have 30 people + raids in a suburb in San Diego. Had no issues taking down any of them except blastoise, but blastoise we were only about 21-26 people. Metagross is goated against venausur btw
also starting with charizard is the way to go ! once more people start acquiring gmax pokemon it will all start to become more manageable as well.
@@ZEVENXOFFICIAL I live in SD, how'd you guys find a way to all meet up?
@@ZEVENXOFFICIAL Assuming people will keep doing these, you need to invest so much time and effort to max out your mons. And then you can catch a gmax mon and upgrade that again to catch more gmax mons and so on and so on... I have a lot of high iv mons from playing for the past 8 years, really wish i could use them for this
Can't wait for 7 star Eternamax raid let's gooo
We are never getting eternamax eternatus, it’s way to strong. You can’t even use it in the main series games
@Toadie1058 if we could tho I'td be horrible to try and get
Minimum 100 people with level 51 pokemon needed to take it down
Can’t some Pokémon beat eternamax
Nahh, 5 star gmax raids are already near impossible
Lol, the difference between the response to, "Hi everyone!" and "Are you ready to take down...", pretty much sums up my weekend. 😂😢😂
When in random 40 person parties, i have about a 30% win rate. You pretty much need a big party of players you know will bring good pokemon.
Thanks ‘Brian’ it was really nice to see you in person and to get your help and advice on this new feature in game.
‘Rubin’ is a really active ambassador, the trip over to Bulach is always worth it.
Enjoy the rest of your journey and finally your trip back home. If you still want that hundo Mr. Mime you can, safe in the knowledge it was a hundo before the trade 🙃.
We had 182 people show up today for this gigantamax battles it was crazy crowded and took these mons out like 1 star raids lol. Lucky to live in a city..
Yeah, living in a city isn't always enough. I live in the 7th biggest city in Denmark. Granted the city isn't big compaired to American cities and such, but it still has a population of 60.000. Precovid there was about 300 active players. That number declined rapidly during covid and the last straw was the price increase on remote raid passes. Now i have to use pokegenie or equivalent to raid. It's completely dead.
@@martinslvsten428 that’s completely true. As much as people used to enjoy this game alot of the community had backed out due to different reasons. I am in Toronto and we have a campfire community of 3000 plus active players.We still have people joining in everyday so totally agree with you it all depends on players if they are really into gaming
Did not beat 2 with 32+ players, but worst was defeating 2 and not able to catch them. Used coins to do one more but would not buy more coins to not have a guaranteed catch.
Hopefully I can get em and glad ya got great communities everywhere ya go man!
I discovered yesterday that if you slow the cheer tapping to half of mashing speed it increases faster.
They don't want everyone to have them all.... makes sense... Ash didn't..pick wisely...I guess....lol
We did it with a group of 17. Had 2 people spamming heal and shields, then 2 attacking. Half the people died but we beat it before the timer ran out.
Got myself a shiny 98% GMax Charizard today. Was a blast!!
newbie here. a lot of learning with your videos. hopefully be able to join your raids when in singapore before the year ends. Sad that do not have much players within my area. but still grinding
I joined a local Community Meet from within the app led by Cirici. The two community leaders wete really well organized. We raided with 35 people but we organized 25-30 attackers (10 of those had to have maxed dynamax pokemon and moves) and the rest would be "healers" (those with less 2000 cp pokemon), we eve had people with just 1 woolo help with cheering and this worked as a strategy. The problem is when everyone just wants to attack! There must be team work.
The key is you need to level up and evolve your mons. We took them down quite easily with 14 trainers.
Even in this video, hes going in with 1500cp mons yes obviously its gonna be hard if you didnt power your mons up at all. All we did was power up our mons to lvl 40 and it was easy. Its crazy to me peoplw think they can just put zero investment in and should be able to win.
99% of the game can be played without doing that though
@t3hsolo 99% of the game can not be done without leveling up pokemon. Stop smoking Crack.
That blastoise was so sad 😢
It's also a good idea to dodge the attacks. It's a difficult timing, but I got rather good at it by the end of our session. We were pretty succesful with just 16 players. Love the feature, but it's too difficult.
I didn't care for the Gigamx since I have all 3 as 100Dynamax and simply wait till they activate Giga for the dyna mons. The main problem is ppl don't have powered up and skill trained pkmn.
Me too
I must be one of the very few that actually enjoy this, I love the challange and the game cant accommodate for everyone
I love in a city with a good player base, but it is still uncommon to have 40 players gather at once unless there's a special event going on
To paraphrase a famous sentence from the past: Niantic doesn’t care about rural people!
Greetings Brandon. We were sooo many meeting from the Pokemon go community in Oslo yesterday for the gmax event .I got 2 shiny Charizards, one of them being a 96%. I also got a shiny Blastoise ❤
Here in Ingolstadt Germany we did a couple of raids with 22 and with 20 people, we did it but it was so close (at the end 2 mons were left when we did the charizard raid with 20 people)
Imagine being the team that designed and coded this for it to never be played.
Guys if u guys do dmax or gmax raids wait till your max move is fully powered it dose more damage.
The white ring around the move is a timer
I waited all day for this video!
I don’t have time to drive two hours round trip (local Campfire groups are going to populated areas like large malls that are farther away), as well as spend half hour strategizing, the 10-15 minutes fighting only to very likely not catch one of these. This seems unreal for a mobile game. I love the lower level dynamax cause I can pop those out solo while walking or waiting in line somewhere. This sounds online MMO level. I understand this is supposed to be a slow burn but a lot of my frustration comes from the fact that when I get to the point of finally being able to have a chance at one of these, players may be done with the older releases.
suntec city in singapore was filled with people:) so thankful for that mall did 11 gmax battles
0:38 Oh, come on! You have basically the most stardust of everyone in the world. Why on earth would you not power up your Pokemon before battle? Maybe you want to wait until you get a hundo or something, but at least level up your Pokemon to level 30.
Exactly!!!!
I see a lot of hate on this update in the comments but honestly think it’s rly cool that Niantic did something like this. A true good challenging boss fight that requires more strategy than just what Pokémon you bring and can be easily Beaton by 1 or 2 maxed out players but instead you need more people. Oftenly. Great vid Brandon thanks!!!
Heading back into the city later to try and catch a couple more zards. Yesterday however, was brutal. I spent an hour just trying to raid and catch one Blastoise - G and thirty minutes for a third zard. Only for that zard to reset. Too many came unprepared and expected the rest to carry. The teams I was placed in brought baby pokemons... Rarely did I ever see a fully evolved team of type advantage pokemons while I was raiding. (Saw plenty of Metagross, Sobble
I know everyone is upset about this but honestly, what’s the point of these? They’re useless. You can’t D or G max in pvp , gyms, rocket battles, or legendary raids. They also have no outside effects like megas. They’re just trophies
U can mega evolve them still and use them in battle while also having a good gmax pokemon without having to make 2 stardust investments
Event was really fun for me. Had enough particles to catch one of each.
Me too i’m trying to get a shiny charmander but can’t find people it sucks i have to hit the city tmr for the last day…
I wish you the best of luck 👍
Looking over this weekend event, especially for smaller city or town. Instead of bringing people outside to meet and raids, end up totally doing the opposite. People just stay home instead and not to bother as they know they won't win. In normal raid hour or elite raids for example, we could get 15 - 20 out raiding together in our local community.... this weekend no one....
Spoofers & city players are all that will be left it seems. We were able to win with 25 people but unfortunately once the MP ran out we had to stop.
If youre going to make content this difficult and the MP held so low you need to allow 1 or 2 remote raids per person at the event. Very disappointing to have the desire to play but bricked by the minimum amount of players and the system in place to fix that being unusable.
Niantic.....do you want everyone to play your game or just a select few? Im confused if youre running a business or an exclusive clubhouse?
Yeah, hard pass on Gigantamax. Looks like a huge waste of time.
Time and RESOURCES. Dust and candy usage is wild for these. Maybe we just need to invest enough to power up a small team of each in order to get one gmax? Maybe, I guess the initial investment to beat one gmax battle might be worth it if only that 1 gmax mon can help win further gmax battles.BUT, then we need 20+ ppl to meetup and have the same setup. I am rural so I don’t plan on wasting any resources On dmax and gmax mons. Esp bc they can only be used in dmax and gmax battles. I’ll just keep looking for regular hundos and shinies. It would be awesome to be able to participate with the community but that’s just not my reality. 🫡
People are going in with unpowered dynamax pokemon. Not much strategy other than saving your strongest and switching to it for when you go into dynamax. We were able to do this raid with only 20 people and we just used meet ups. Get them to around level 30 and with a group it's very doable. The only thing I think is scummy about this event is that Niantic limits you on how much particles you can collect from stops and 2km walks. That literally enforces us to buy particles which I think is dumb, it more so should be for convenience.
I live in a city with like 30,000 and there’s a few Pokémon players but 40 of us joining is bananas you can only do this type of raids on big cities
brandon, when you use the g max move u can wait for the circle to complete 3/4 then use it as it does more damage!
we had full lobbies and didn’t loose a single one
Good ending:
Keywords: full lobbies
Tl;dr The way you defeat them is to live in a big city and be a popular Pogo Influencer. There now you don’t have to watch the video.
They need to make it remote battle also cause some of us like being alone. 😂😂
3 things: get a group of 12 people with 3 blastois ( lvl 40/50) getting max spirit and shield never use the max attack. Make sure charizard only has a fire attack on al 3 lobies else just remake. And you can take it down with 12 people it just takes time. ( but y who has max g max pokemon 😅)
Like every new feature in the game for good or bad needs time to be solid, just lets hope Niantic listens to the community feedback.
2:17 Bradon is ike, the boss only a quarter down, and 35 Pokemon remaining but he will stay optimistic
actually lesser mons surviving is good. cheer make the meter up faster. you got more dynamax up time so lesser raid boss damage window
@ but sooner or later you get less mons, so why sooner?
@@fenrael3021 but sooner or later you get less mons, so why sooner?
Niantic will definitely nerve those G-Max 🤣 They don’t earn any money this way lol 🤣
It's so annoying to live in a small town with exactly 12/13 trainers (in the entire town...) everyone is just spread out too far and everyone hates eachother xd
Step 1: DON'T
both gigantamax and dynamax raids are bullshit. Niantic have run out of things to do so they want everyone to catch every pokemon all over again in these new forms.
There is never enough people to take down a gigantamax pokemon and if there is they do not have their mons powered up and moves maxed.
These new raids are the biggest flop in pokemon go history.
I cant be bothered to do them anymore and Im sure 80% of the player base is feeling the same.
And if these gigantamax pokemon do more damage in pvp then the regular versions, Pokemon Go will lose hundreds of thousands of players.
The way you defeat them is to not do them so niantic makes them easier. Such a scam fore money. I'll skip.
Instead of pay to win maybe make things in the shop more affordable, than people might stop hating. Raids should be easy shouldn’t have to try, should be lvl 50 with out paying
Title: there is z way to defeat them... Answer: give up your job, become full time pokemon go pleyer, become popular pogo content creator, go to a big city and advertise youre going to be there, 40 people will turn up to help... Simple, dont know what everyones problem is.
When people go with the "rural players?" thing I do feel bad. Best I can say is "trade with someone or take your opportunity if you ever travel to a big city". MANY of the things already impact rural areas (people for raids, stops before someone submit them for approval, spawns). But what I truly have to say is, it was a wonderful, glorious achievement when our community got together to beat it. There was barely enough, players called old/retired players to join and we even considered a joint effort with other groups. In the end it was 1 Venosaur, 1 Charizard and 1 Blastoise done. It's the ONE game from the franchise that is centered around IRL and meeting ppl, if that's to be taken, then why make it in the first place.
as a rural player i approve of this message.
Niantic logic is that 40 people entered the raids are not random, not unknown, and they are friends, and they are army, they will manage each other to level up all mons to lvl 40 and ask the beginners to leave the raids, dont join, fxxking waste the time of 99 per people worldwide. Only please a small group of people holding the raid party. Non sense and bullshit😂.
I live in a town of 25k people. We struggle to get 8-10 people at a raid or event and we have a group for it. This is just ridiculous.
I am angry because niantic ask us to go in person raid. And we did go there, but failed raid even full lobby of 40 random players who run charmanders, not the fault of them, is the fault of moron game designers. Brainless. Finally wasting my precious time in first day try, no one were interested in second day, just garbage spot shown up on map, and block us raiding the one star dynamic mons
In order for it to be a fair comparison, every aspect has to be the same. Example: Benchmade Griptilian or Bugout Mini vs. Microtec/Marifone Custom Sitch. Both us companies. Thats the only thing they have in common. One is mass produced. The other is a one of custom. All of which youll need to know or figure it out yourself as im not explaining. None of the same materials
We beat Charizard with around 18-19, and that's with nobody powering up a single DMax/GMax mon
Legendary Gigantimax requires 65 minimum and maxed out Pokémon’s.
crazy how they can just dip away 😂
Local town pogo group chat got together 26 trainers and one shotted Zard 😎 got the kanto trio and had alot of fun overall even tho it was pretty challenging tbh. Big day for our small community here in Quebec.
unfortunately i live in a small town so getting a gmax pokemon seems out of the picture lol hopefully they get easier in the future or im able to get one via trade in the future
My university group is panicking over this tommorow, we are not certain that our 40 best could take it down lol
They are not your best if 40 of them cant beat it
Power up your Dynamax to Level 39. Max Move, Level 2. Get 18-20 others with the same specs, and it's doable. We took down all three with 18-20 people. We struggled the most with Blastoise. It took 2 tries, but it was done. Problem is 20-25 people will show up with first evolution dynamax and expect others to carry the load. If that's the case, you're going to need 30-40 trainers.
W Pokemon GO gram prawie od samego początku i muszę stwierdzić, że ten ficher z pokemonami Dynamax i Gigantamax to jedna wielka pomyłka NIANTIC.
1). Pokemony te do niczego nie są potrzebne. Nie można ich wykorzystać w PVP, ani w rajdach. Nie wchodzą do pokedeksu jako nowe pokemony.
2). Ażeby pokonać Gigantamaxa trzeba zebrać ze 30 osób. Na filmiku YT widziałem, że 27 osób nie pokonało Charizarda. :-) Te czasy już dawno minęły, że na rajd np. Tyrka przychodziło 50 osób. Teraz zebranie 5-10 osób, to szczyt możliwości chyba, że ktoś nazywa się Try lub Cushi :-) poza tym wygrany rajd nie gwarantuje złapania takiego pokemona. A jeśli ktoś już złapie, to CP jest niskie i przeważnie dziadowskie IV.
3). Ażeby wejść do lobby, to trzeba zużyć 800 MP energii, czyli można zrobić 1 rajd, albo trzeba dokupować MP za pokecoinsy lub płatne boxy.
4). Ażeby te Dynamax pokemony w rajdzie na Gigantamaxa miały jakąś wartość, to trzeba zużywać cenny stardast i XL candy na powerapowanie, wzmacnianie ataków, tarcz, życia. Nie można także wykorzystać pokemonów złapanych dużo wcześniej. To tak jakby do gry Pokemon GO dołożyli zupełnie nową grę Dynamax.
5). Ten nowy ficher powoduje, że telefon często się zawiesza i zaraz po wejściu do pokestopa MP (zapomniałem jak to ustrojstwo się nazywa) trzeba restartować grę, a to skutecznie odstrasza do wchodzenia w to "Dynamaxowe ustrojstwo".
Dla mnie ten ficher to wyciskanie kasy z graczy. Z tych powodów odpuściłem sobie Dynamax i tym bardziej Gigantamax. Ciekaw jestem waszego zdania w tym temacie.
Got my first today!
We went with 21 people and beat Charizard and Venusaur 💪
Doesn’t the gengar have focus blast in its move pool? Depends on the move set of gmax gengar they could be really easy with all ghost attacks just bring greedent and dubwool but if it has focus blast or sludge bomb it’s doable with gengar but yea, it all comes down to the move set it has
The Dynamax move is based on the fast move, so with that in mind, Gengar only has Ghost and Dark type fast moves.
@@Hadien789really? Then how is gmax blastoise able to use skull bash and falinks can use megahorn? How does that work?
@@brattiespoet6797 The rules are different for the D-max pokemon you battle. Your dmax pokemons dmax move is based on it's fast attack. The dmax pokemon we battle doesn't have that handicap.
I apologize for the mixup, my mistake.
@@Hadien789 it’s alr you good dmax is a new and weird feature anyways
I was out for a few hours today and never once dud someone else join a gigantamax battle...
imagine being a rural player and barely able to complete a gigantamax battle (if possible) for it to just ran away 😂
Ya I would have to do a 3 hour trip to London if I want to do these and even then I would have to be lucky and pray people are playing, so it would be a waste and then another 3 hour trip back
where were you playing? I was lucky enough to get a hundo venosaur on my second gigadynamax
I got blastoise and charizard in Times Square with 31 people. I couldnt catch g max vensaur which is bullshit. It was down to the wire. I’m very disappointed because they aren’t really much different from the basic dynamax versions. If only they give all the max moves. Or we customize their ivs. They are pretty wack all honesty.
I have returned to the game 2021. Quitting 2024. This was too much even without remote or a group search. There will never be a full lobby for this
Looks like I’ll never be getting any of those
where do you find local gigantimax groups thanks
How you can get Frenzy plant and hydrocannon pokes??
As a rural player i look at these like the shadow legendary s I simply will never be able to do them
the bots are too fast!
How did you get enough max particle to do 2 raid ???
Tap with alternating fingers. It's frustrating to see how slowly you're filling that Max Meter!
Bell sound🎉❤
Does anyone have any idea of what the shiny odds are for the Gigantimax Raids?
I can’t even get a group to defeat Falinks 😭
when we get "BrandonTan91 crashes a wedding!" video?
yeah these were not the easiest thing to take down, though it's kinda refreshing change from the norm of today's pokemon go, where almost all 5* raids are 2 man raids if you have the right lvl50 counters for them.
though it will take some time until everyone has good teams for these battles.
They just renamed elite raids to gigantamax.