We couldn’t find anyone to do raids with, but we started to engage and join a community and now we made friends and meet up and do everything together. That’s what this game is made for
Same. I think we need a challenging class of raid built just for solo play. I think Rockets were intended to be that, but they aren’t difficult once you’re well equipped.
In most games, end-game content is never solo-able at launch. The cycle is to learn the content with a group. Gear up from that content, which then leads to solo/low man. Some examples are pokemon go, wow, ff14, destiny, gw2.
I loved this video, this is actually the first one I've seen from your channel and I'm thoroughly impressed at the content and it's delivery. I couldn't agree more about your point at around 6:30, same trainers have enough dust and candy to roar of time for 24 hours for videos, but didn't want to spend anything powering up lol.
I think for Kanto starters we shouldve got a special research with a Gmax Starter which we then would use to beat its weakness then use that to get the other weakness ie Charizard to get Venusaur to get Blastoise.
This is the most refreshing video on the dyna/gigantamax system. I did a G-max gengar with a healer/guard metagross, but 2 of my 4-man team brought only wooloos. I prepare for raids to help finish raids faster and to help smaller groups that may need an extra player or two. TL:DR : When people are rewarded by leeching off raids/max battles, they will never feel obligated to power up anything.
I wasn’t able to make it out to the final meetup in my town yesterday, but I know that some of the more casual players showed up and were asking what they should power up. They didn’t win. It’s much harder content to be carried through, and I appreciate that.
Couldn't agree with you more on every point. Had so much fun. I can really only here the pleas of of rural players I suppose, but this brought my smaller community out and about so often, made it a real challenge and therefore a more fun experience. I also agree so heavily with the point about how large streamers were interacting with the system -- couldn't really believe it when I saw it. Thanks for the vid!
I live in an area with about 100k people, and maybe 40 PoGO players (some with multiple accounts) that would consider meeting up for something like this. Today we had the most I've ever seen, at 33 accounts. Most are young adults, and everyone has conflicting schedules. It's hard to coordinate, but if no one tries, no one wins.
"It was about as epic as tapping a phone screen can get!" I love this! I found your pointed rant about community engagement (willingness) to be satisfying. As a gamer coming from WoW, I hadn't thought about the similarity to MMORPG games that involve group strategy and planning, but I totally agree. I hosted 2 groups on Campfire, one yesterday and another today, and we were able to get the G-Max's down with 10 people by the end, although there were a lot of people cheering, lol. I found this a stark contrast to the previous weekend, where we banged out heads against the wall for hours, unable to get any done (Sunday was different - more people, more strategy, but I wasn't able to make it). Going from that to leading local groups wouldn't have been possible if not for that MMORPG experience, and something else? Persistence, perseverance, the expectation that failing a bunch of times is okay? I don't know what to call it, but this weekend, we weren't going to give up, and if anybody didn't want to interact with the group, that was totally fine. We actually always had people off on the sidelines playing "solo." Great perspective today. Thank you for this passionate content. While I will disagree with the multiple accounts, maybe Niantic could use the data they've collected to see how many players are in any given area, and add some NPC's that jump in with people during raids or G-Max battles? It would take some serious work for a feature like that, but it could be fun. Still, I've been rescued by trainers with multiple accounts enough times that I'm not going to look down on anybody.
It was my experience from Destiny & Destiny 2 that directly lead me to where I am with the PoGO community around me now. Destiny required a smaller group (6), but MUCH more by-the-second coordination and a heavy time investment. It become unsustainable as our clan members started to build careers and families. It's funny, because playing GO gives me those little hits of nostalgia for my Destiny days. I had the same roll with Destiny as I do now with GO: provide strategic information and coordinate the group. It's a lot more people to manage, but a lot less strategy. I'm all for multi account users. If they can split their brain that way, power to the gamer. I haven't come across a single compelling reason for why it would be considered cheating, except from Niantic's POV where a single individual would technically get more "free" content. Even if they're kicking themselves out of gyms for coins, it's not much different from just coordinating with a friend/family member to do the same. I've thought about the NPC thing, too, like the mainline games have. I think it would unfortunately just take away from the point of getting a group together. Now that we're seeing groups of under 10 people (very well equipped), completing the battles, it proves that, given time, even small, dedicated communities can get it done.
@@PokeeSeanGO I love the thorough response. I hope you're right that we'll continue to be able to do these in small groups; I hope the decreased difficulty will continue. :)
Personally, 2 accounts are a bit much but good for places with a lack of community, just to allow people to enjoy the game. I built a second account back in 2018 with the purpose of helping out people. After I built up the account to be a reliable attacker, the main use was to log on when stray people arrived late to a raid and missed the group. Haven't used the 2nd account since 2020.
so true about the multiaccounts. We were 7 players today and everyone had 2 phones except the pre-school boy - who lets be honest usually the father plays both accounts and he just plays not to be bored when he is taken on those events - meaning the father actually has 3 accounts lol.
you have genuinely became my favorite pokemon go content creator this format of video feels like i’m sitting down with a friend and just debriefing together about the game and our experiences with current events going on really thankful the algorithm led me to your channel you truly have something unique and i can tell you have alot of passion for creating these videos and it’s obvious you have passion and love for the game and it shows in the content you make thanks so much for taking the time to invest into creating such informative videos i always learn so much hope you and your family had a fun and safe halloween!! 🎃
For the Charizard, Venusaur & Blastoise weekend, my mom and I joined a local group from Facebook, and won the battles pretty easily, since we were about 40 accounts on Saturday. On Sunday there were fewer people since many just took all three on Saturday and were fine with that. But we still succeeded with 19 people against a Charizard. For Gengar we met up with a smaller group and took it down with only 15 accounts (and some hadn’t even dynamaxed before). We were probably only able to win because of our prior experience and established strategy.
@ Totally agree, we haven’t seen this level of unity since the pandemic (or more accurately the introduction of remote raid passes). I wish more of the bigger content creators realized how good this is for the game.
When they introduced the remote pass, I started spending $100 weekly. We had 3 consistent players in our comm, unless we drive 40+ minutes to the city. So the 3 of us could invite up to 5 others and typically have 5-7 players in raids. It was the best. Then they nerfed the remote pass. Raised the price and limited the amount you can even use. Well its amazing how much money they have saved me by doing that. I was so addicted to playing it never bothered me I was spending a car payment on a game every month. But I was not the only one I was in groups from other countries. But sadly Niantic decided they did not like $ after all, so they killed our groups by killing remote content.
I am fortunate to live in an area with an active community ambasador in Campfire. He has been posting group events that have brought large clusters of people to do the Giganttttttamax battles. Large enough that we encountered some police who feared we were forming up to riot. Groups over 140 eople. It feals a bit like I heard the first few weeks were like. I started the game in 2018, and getting a group of more than 20 together has been something of legend until Gigantamax. I don't know if this is sustainable, even in my active commuity area.
I really like that this takes a lot more strategy. I’m a big Pokémon fan, and fell in love with the turn based gameplay of the main series games. I’ve been playing Pokémon Go since 2017, and always found the combat boring. So I’m very happy there is finally a part of this game, where you both need to plan ahead and think while in battle.
Did one max raid and the damn thing ran , I was pissed , I didn’t get much more hope after cause me and 10 others kept getting that same glitch so I just did my daily snd went home , it’s cool to see more stuff happening but man they have to fix these bugs that happen to often it’s making me scared to even attempt a raid but good video keep em coming sir knowledge king 👑👻
GMAX Gengar was having error for me... i am in a community who was almost 100 players during this weekend every GMAX gengar i was trying to enter as soon battle starts the game just crashed and when not crashed appears a message saying "Cold not start Max Battle. Please try again later" the only way i was able to do some gengar battle was to log out my account then log again in another phone where the battles was working well :/ In all i like a litle this max content, but i hate this thing of using particles to upgrade my pokemon HAHA Another thing, is worth it to reserve those Froakies and Rowlet to evolve in December? I mean maybe we will have an day where can get CD moves for them rigth? (This is the first time i have then)
Definitely wait until the December Community day to evolve then, they’re much better with those moves. I found out my error was because I was trying to join the battle with Pokémon I had left at a Power Spot 🤦🏻
Gigantamax is difficult but getting 25k per raid was great and I did it with 6 people but we had maxed out Pokemon edit: I hope in the next Pokemon game coming out their will be new content released with Pokemon go as well
They should have released just one of the kanto g-max boss, not all three. That way we could have built pokemon effectively rather than having to build three rushed ones. And as i type this, you mention it 😂
there should have been progress with dynamax. going from 3star max battle that can be done solo to a 6star where 40 people fail is ridiculous. you need to let people build up a comfortable roster. it's like having primal raids in 2016... it would just be impossible. also raid days give you extra passes, this should have been done here as well. we get 800 to 1000 particles. i can power up pokemon and raid with different items. DM and GM you need to use the same. imagine you can power up your mewtwo only by feeding it a raid pass...
I am a long term player and must say im stoked to work on powering up thes g-max pokemon. The difficulty is too much though. They should scale difficulty to how many teams are entering the fight.
I’ve been thinking about scaled difficulty as well, but I think they specifically want it to be a ‘meetup’ style event. I think they should have capped the players at 20 and just kept the difficulty, but roll it out slower. Seeing 40 people fail at it discouraged a lot of people. Even requiring just 12-16 people would probably be the sweet spot.
@PokeeSeanGO yeah true. We were pretty good today until we only had 16 people left. Then we started failing. Its frustrating tbh. This feature has so much potential its just not fun failing that much.
I have mix feeling with max raids. That feature has a lot of potential and to be honest, I think it's already better than regular raids. It needs some strategy, coordination with other players and requires different amount of max particles to enter the raid, depending on the raid tier. Comparing to regular raids, where you just need some strong pokemon, mindlessly taping the screen and on top of that you use the same raid pass to get into the raid, despite its tier. At the same time I'm completely disappointed that my entire storage means nothing now. I've been playing since the very beginning of the game and there is nothing more discouraging to me than telling, that I have to start everything almost from scratch. Before, I was able to help casual players or new players with low level accounts to do the raids. Now, unless I powerup a pokemon that I don't want to powerup (because I already have it a hundo at Lv50, with a special move, max mega level etc.) my progress means nothing more than the progress on an account of a random kid that has started to play the game a week ago. I want max raids be the true end game content - even more difficult that the initial launch of gigantamax starters, but letting me go all out with all of my pokemon. Instead of being the team leader and helper, I've got nerfed into a newbie. I'm not gonna engage into that.
I’m thinking of it as a sequel. I was heavily involved in Destiny as it moved to Destiny 2, and pretty much everything people are saying about Max I’ve heard before. At least the game and our Pokémon didn’t actually get left behind for the sake of new content, unlike with Destiny.
@@PokeeSeanGO - I agree. Our old Pokemon still have all the value they had before for gyms, raids, and PvP. Now there is new content which we can do or not, without much concern about how it will impact the other aspects of the game. Going forward, I will of course plan to power up my best Gigantamax pokemon, rather than having one for raiding and another for max battles.
I especially hate it when shills defend Niantic that Raid Boss encounters are simply Bonus Encounters and not the real reward for defeating the Raid Boss. Especially with the Max Battles now, I want to see these shills seethe.
I totally do raids for the Max Revives and Fast TMs 🫠 The raid boss is the main reason to do a raid - ridiculous to think of it as a bonus encounter in a game where catching Pokémon to the whole point!
Definitely not doable if you want to remain solo. As it is we were able to do it with 25ish. Id love the ability to remote these so i can play as much as i want but as a general feature its fun
I think it would have also worked better, honestly, as an activity that absolutely required 4 players. Then it’s not out of a reach for a crazy solo player with 4 phones.
Group of max 4 people. Some actual strategy to beat. Great idea. Why turn this into an Elite Mega Rayquaza day? Why even design the UI for groups of 4 if you need 20 people? :(
I think they want ‘meetup’ style content. At least it isn’t like Elite raids with 45 minute timers. Gives adults time to actually coordinate their lives a little. They do need content like what you’re describing though. Give a party of 4 something truly engaging to do.
I think what niantic needs to learn is that some working adults play their games. Its hard to get all your friends off at the same time when you all have full-time jobs. Also, i live in a rural area, so theres only a few pokestops, one gym, and one max spot around. I stopped playing a few years ago because of this,, i came back, and its basically the same. I want to play this game, but having to drive 30-40 minutes is not always possible for me, especially when i just got off of an 8-hour shift, and i have to be atwork early the next day, i dont always have the time. Ive come to realize this game isnt really for me. Its for people who have a bunch of time and money on their hands, i have neither, so it might be time to stop playing again.
@@PokeeSeanGOI feel that. I dont work on the gmax stuff bc I dont have any around me, and I dont have a big enough community to help me take them down. It just feels like sometimes playing this game you HAVE to have money, or play in the city to enjoy it.
The highest highs definitely require money. I focus on event days where I can get a lot of condensed play and bonuses, like free raid passes on raid days.
The video below pretty much sums up what I think of Gigantamax Pokémon. The feature is amazing, but due to it being so isolated and polarizing, I haven't bothered with it yet, and I probably never will. ua-cam.com/video/ydLN3oWi2o0/v-deo.htmlsi=VM9ejy8Kdk6iOVLG
calling anything raiding or catching related endgame is rather strange. once you've caught everything, finished every platinum medal and every collection, the only remaining true endgame is PVP in GBL... if Niantic would take better care of the gamestate
Calling PVP endgame is strange. Never heard of another game where the players consider PVP to be end game content. It's just PVP and sort of it's own thing. If you started the game today, the end game would first be 5-star raids, then Gmax battles. Collection isn't so much end game as it is just an inevitability of playing long enough.
The combat System is very Bad. Had more gigantamax fights today. We have all won. But i had fights there i lose 0 HP and fights there i get 1 hit. To evate an attack its pure luck if you want Dodge it. I hope they will fix it.
@@PokeeSeanGO I am rather new (since this spring) but the part about the moveset the raid bosses have for maxraid to me should be fixed. If they want us to strategize to take them down (which I love btw) and then having to re-lobby to get poison attack for metagross to be the beast I want it to be ..... It is very very hard to coordinate with 20 people. And for the love of god please let me team up using party, I don't want to play with 2 randoms having underleveled wooloos ..... My lvl 3 shield doesn't matter much if the rest of the team cant do any damage!
Totally agree. They should just use moves of their type and you should definitely be teamed with your party when joining. Greedent would have been the hero if Gengar was always using Ghost moves.
its not end game content bcz anything you achieved during the game doesnt matter and same way you can start and be on higher level than end game account. Its just a new mechanic that doesnt match anything other from the game and is just so useless for whole game except this part of the game which most of the people cant even do bcz they live in smaller cities its insane to call it end game content xd
Many games require you to gear up for the endgame content after a new expansion drops. Pokémon are the weapons and armour of GO. The Max system is an expansion. It’s simplified, because GO is a dead simple game, but the concept is the same. A new raid boss introduced in the regular raid system that can be demolished by your existing roster of Pokémon isn’t even worth calling new content. It’s just a cosmetic.
@@unclejamesx9808 Ik lmao but realistically speaking walking around and catching wild pokemon isnt really end game content, and although raids are a good way to play end game content they usually require more than 2+ people to beat. And dynamax well you might as well start your own army at that point. Truth is, the majority of players play the game causually, only making time for it during weekend events or really good events
That’s sort of the thing about ‘end game’ content - it’s not for casual play. Any other game I’ve played, the end game required more from a player to complete.
When a new expansion releases for a game, you generally need to gear up for the content. You don’t just walk into the final boss with your over-levelled character. In a game as simple and basic as GO, collecting and powering up new Pokémon is the bare minimum.
@PokeeSeanGO usually when a new expansion releases for a game, it's more than just of the previous content with something simple effects added. This is almost like a soft reboot, running in parallel with the original game. Sure. There's some new mechanics, but they weren't explained well in the game. It's like niantic just depends on the community to fill in all the blanks that they seem to not wanna bother with.
The big thing they’re missing is the the ability to bring something from the expansion back into the main game content. I thought Gmax would have a perk, like Mega Pokémon, at minimum. Something like using MP to activate a Gmax Pokémon and give you a stat boost. Anything would have been nice. Just being a Pokedex entry is lame.
Niantic bumps up the difficulty slightly and everyone loses their minds. Coming from an RPG fan I love the new battle system. Every game has an end game content and this is Niantics version of it. People don’t wanna spend their resources and be carried through the game. I’m just speaking about communities who have enough people and still couldn’t beat it. Excellent video!
I disagree. Pvp is wholly separate, with completely different gameplay and tactics. I’ve never played another game where the players considered PvP to be end game.
It's statistically unlikely that you'll catch every single raid boss you ever encounter, even if you always throw golden razz excellents. With only 10 balls for Gmax, and the way Premier balls work by slightly increasing your odds with each throw, it's no wonder we've heard of even the best players not catching every one. It's just a numbers game.
@PokeeSeanGO what I'm saying is if your gonna complain about it then quite playing go if you have such a problem with how the game is don't play simple as that
@@TrollFace-f2udid you watch the video? The game is fun. My point about people using multiple accounts is that it made these raids doable by our community. Not enough players otherwise.
It's cheating because you can because best friends then lucky and keep self trading lucky legendary you should stop your the reason Niantic has so many little stupid rules
Who cares if they can lucky trade every few months or so? Unless you Master league PVP this only benefits the community. Also real resources/time had to be invested on both accounts to even have legendaries to trade. I wouldn’t really call it cheating or a ban able offense
So two people trading legendary shiny Pokémon in a lucky trade isn’t cheating, but two accounts used by the same person is? What’s the difference? Considering how little IVs matter, especially going from an IV floor of 10s to 12s, that can’t be it. The stardust discount is the only other advantage, and any trade can randomly go lucky to help with that.
@@PokeeSeanGO frequently of the trading gives that person a unfair advantage they do 10 mewtwo raid and there already lucky friends with themselves they trade and now they have the possibility that the 3 2 stars are now high 3 over a matter of a week. But the big question is why do you need 2 accounts
the endgame has always been "just be more players, bro!"
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We couldn’t find anyone to do raids with, but we started to engage and join a community and now we made friends and meet up and do everything together. That’s what this game is made for
i want solo end game content tbh
Same. I think we need a challenging class of raid built just for solo play. I think Rockets were intended to be that, but they aren’t difficult once you’re well equipped.
But in the main game this max raids are community based well right?
In most games, end-game content is never solo-able at launch. The cycle is to learn the content with a group. Gear up from that content, which then leads to solo/low man.
Some examples are pokemon go, wow, ff14, destiny, gw2.
isnt gw2s endgame just the gnome trials and theese fights aginst gnomes where you play as a robot cat/dinosaur?
I loved this video, this is actually the first one I've seen from your channel and I'm thoroughly impressed at the content and it's delivery.
I couldn't agree more about your point at around 6:30, same trainers have enough dust and candy to roar of time for 24 hours for videos, but didn't want to spend anything powering up lol.
Thanks! It’s a new type of video for me, but hoping I can do a bit more like this.
I think for Kanto starters we shouldve got a special research with a Gmax Starter which we then would use to beat its weakness then use that to get the other weakness ie Charizard to get Venusaur to get Blastoise.
That would have been nice, and rewarding. Choose a Kanto starter and evolve it into a Gmax 3rd stage.
@@PokeeSeanGO instead we got a choice of the galar starters, which was cool but they were released in the wild at the same time beginning of sept.
This is the most refreshing video on the dyna/gigantamax system.
I did a G-max gengar with a healer/guard metagross, but 2 of my 4-man team brought only wooloos.
I prepare for raids to help finish raids faster and to help smaller groups that may need an extra player or two.
TL:DR : When people are rewarded by leeching off raids/max battles, they will never feel obligated to power up anything.
I wasn’t able to make it out to the final meetup in my town yesterday, but I know that some of the more casual players showed up and were asking what they should power up.
They didn’t win.
It’s much harder content to be carried through, and I appreciate that.
@PokeeSeanGO the more information that came out about max guard and spirit. This content doesn't feel overwhelming, IMO.
Keep it up with the videos!
Couldn't agree with you more on every point. Had so much fun. I can really only here the pleas of of rural players I suppose, but this brought my smaller community out and about so often, made it a real challenge and therefore a more fun experience. I also agree so heavily with the point about how large streamers were interacting with the system -- couldn't really believe it when I saw it. Thanks for the vid!
I live in an area with about 100k people, and maybe 40 PoGO players (some with multiple accounts) that would consider meeting up for something like this. Today we had the most I've ever seen, at 33 accounts.
Most are young adults, and everyone has conflicting schedules. It's hard to coordinate, but if no one tries, no one wins.
"It was about as epic as tapping a phone screen can get!" I love this!
I found your pointed rant about community engagement (willingness) to be satisfying. As a gamer coming from WoW, I hadn't thought about the similarity to MMORPG games that involve group strategy and planning, but I totally agree. I hosted 2 groups on Campfire, one yesterday and another today, and we were able to get the G-Max's down with 10 people by the end, although there were a lot of people cheering, lol. I found this a stark contrast to the previous weekend, where we banged out heads against the wall for hours, unable to get any done (Sunday was different - more people, more strategy, but I wasn't able to make it). Going from that to leading local groups wouldn't have been possible if not for that MMORPG experience, and something else? Persistence, perseverance, the expectation that failing a bunch of times is okay? I don't know what to call it, but this weekend, we weren't going to give up, and if anybody didn't want to interact with the group, that was totally fine. We actually always had people off on the sidelines playing "solo." Great perspective today. Thank you for this passionate content.
While I will disagree with the multiple accounts, maybe Niantic could use the data they've collected to see how many players are in any given area, and add some NPC's that jump in with people during raids or G-Max battles? It would take some serious work for a feature like that, but it could be fun. Still, I've been rescued by trainers with multiple accounts enough times that I'm not going to look down on anybody.
It was my experience from Destiny & Destiny 2 that directly lead me to where I am with the PoGO community around me now. Destiny required a smaller group (6), but MUCH more by-the-second coordination and a heavy time investment. It become unsustainable as our clan members started to build careers and families. It's funny, because playing GO gives me those little hits of nostalgia for my Destiny days.
I had the same roll with Destiny as I do now with GO: provide strategic information and coordinate the group. It's a lot more people to manage, but a lot less strategy.
I'm all for multi account users. If they can split their brain that way, power to the gamer. I haven't come across a single compelling reason for why it would be considered cheating, except from Niantic's POV where a single individual would technically get more "free" content.
Even if they're kicking themselves out of gyms for coins, it's not much different from just coordinating with a friend/family member to do the same.
I've thought about the NPC thing, too, like the mainline games have. I think it would unfortunately just take away from the point of getting a group together.
Now that we're seeing groups of under 10 people (very well equipped), completing the battles, it proves that, given time, even small, dedicated communities can get it done.
@@PokeeSeanGO I love the thorough response. I hope you're right that we'll continue to be able to do these in small groups; I hope the decreased difficulty will continue. :)
Personally, 2 accounts are a bit much but good for places with a lack of community, just to allow people to enjoy the game.
I built a second account back in 2018 with the purpose of helping out people. After I built up the account to be a reliable attacker, the main use was to log on when stray people arrived late to a raid and missed the group.
Haven't used the 2nd account since 2020.
so true about the multiaccounts. We were 7 players today and everyone had 2 phones except the pre-school boy - who lets be honest usually the father plays both accounts and he just plays not to be bored when he is taken on those events - meaning the father actually has 3 accounts lol.
The End Game. Spoof to a big city and finish the game.
If it was not for the ban hammer I would have. I was looking into it just before remote raid pass.
6:28 this exact moment in your vid! 100% agree!!
you have genuinely became my favorite pokemon go content creator this format of video feels like i’m sitting down with a friend and just debriefing together about the game and our experiences with current events going on
really thankful the algorithm led me to your channel you truly have something unique and i can tell you have alot of passion for creating these videos and it’s obvious you have passion and love for the game and it shows in the content you make
thanks so much for taking the time to invest into creating such informative videos i always learn so much hope you and your family had a fun and safe halloween!! 🎃
🥰🥰 Thank you for saying all that. More to come :)
@@PokeeSeanGOHey buddy it's not letting me comment on here 😮 Only reply! Do you know why this is happening?
No idea. I don’t have anyone blocked on the channel. The UA-cam mobile app does that to me sometimes.
8:09 this part too!! Totally agree!
lol just a little dunking on other UA-camrs 😛 They’re all making videos praising the challenge now. I think they all got called out many times.
@ ya I think so too 😃 I was definitely one of them in the comments 😂
I’m not bitter about particles :) I was getting all my particles and leveling stuff and doing battles every day.
Right. I think it's fun.
For the Charizard, Venusaur & Blastoise weekend, my mom and I joined a local group from Facebook, and won the battles pretty easily, since we were about 40 accounts on Saturday. On Sunday there were fewer people since many just took all three on Saturday and were fine with that. But we still succeeded with 19 people against a Charizard.
For Gengar we met up with a smaller group and took it down with only 15 accounts (and some hadn’t even dynamaxed before). We were probably only able to win because of our prior experience and established strategy.
I had a great time both weekends, too. The community felt united for the first time since I started playing.
@ Totally agree, we haven’t seen this level of unity since the pandemic (or more accurately the introduction of remote raid passes).
I wish more of the bigger content creators realized how good this is for the game.
When they introduced the remote pass, I started spending $100 weekly. We had 3 consistent players in our comm, unless we drive 40+ minutes to the city. So the 3 of us could invite up to 5 others and typically have 5-7 players in raids. It was the best. Then they nerfed the remote pass. Raised the price and limited the amount you can even use. Well its amazing how much money they have saved me by doing that. I was so addicted to playing it never bothered me I was spending a car payment on a game every month. But I was not the only one I was in groups from other countries. But sadly Niantic decided they did not like $ after all, so they killed our groups by killing remote content.
I think they did you a favour :P The game was basically “pay for a level 50 Pokémon every week” back then.
The MP is annoying & the limit just frustrates me more 😂
Yes!!!! I dont have a lot of max spots near me, but I'm always full bc I walk the 2km everyday so annoying!
I am fortunate to live in an area with an active community ambasador in Campfire. He has been posting group events that have brought large clusters of people to do the Giganttttttamax battles. Large enough that we encountered some police who feared we were forming up to riot. Groups over 140 eople. It feals a bit like I heard the first few weeks were like. I started the game in 2018, and getting a group of more than 20 together has been something of legend until Gigantamax. I don't know if this is sustainable, even in my active commuity area.
That sounds amazing. I’m sure it will die off a bit, but if you can maintain a core 15-20, that’s the best.
I really like that this takes a lot more strategy. I’m a big Pokémon fan, and fell in love with the turn based gameplay of the main series games. I’ve been playing Pokémon Go since 2017, and always found the combat boring. So I’m very happy there is finally a part of this game, where you both need to plan ahead and think while in battle.
Did one max raid and the damn thing ran , I was pissed , I didn’t get much more hope after cause me and 10 others kept getting that same glitch so I just did my daily snd went home , it’s cool to see more stuff happening but man they have to fix these bugs that happen to often it’s making me scared to even attempt a raid but good video keep em coming sir knowledge king 👑👻
There aren’t that many Gmax forms, so hopefully we’ll get a better shot at them again soon.
GMAX Gengar was having error for me... i am in a community who was almost 100 players during this weekend every GMAX gengar i was trying to enter as soon battle starts the game just crashed and when not crashed appears a message saying "Cold not start Max Battle. Please try again later" the only way i was able to do some gengar battle was to log out my account then log again in another phone where the battles was working well :/
In all i like a litle this max content, but i hate this thing of using particles to upgrade my pokemon HAHA
Another thing, is worth it to reserve those Froakies and Rowlet to evolve in December? I mean maybe we will have an day where can get CD moves for them rigth? (This is the first time i have then)
Definitely wait until the December Community day to evolve then, they’re much better with those moves.
I found out my error was because I was trying to join the battle with Pokémon I had left at a Power Spot 🤦🏻
Gigantamax is difficult but getting 25k per raid was great and I did it with 6 people but we had maxed out Pokemon edit: I hope in the next Pokemon game coming out their will be new content released with Pokemon go as well
6 people?! Nice. Just shows that it’s only going to get easier to get the required numbers to fall as everyone gets better Pokémon.
They should have released just one of the kanto g-max boss, not all three. That way we could have built pokemon effectively rather than having to build three rushed ones. And as i type this, you mention it 😂
lol definitely.
there should have been progress with dynamax. going from 3star max battle that can be done solo to a 6star where 40 people fail is ridiculous. you need to let people build up a comfortable roster. it's like having primal raids in 2016... it would just be impossible. also raid days give you extra passes, this should have been done here as well. we get 800 to 1000 particles. i can power up pokemon and raid with different items. DM and GM you need to use the same. imagine you can power up your mewtwo only by feeding it a raid pass...
Exactly. The on-boarding was terrible.
I am a long term player and must say im stoked to work on powering up thes g-max pokemon. The difficulty is too much though. They should scale difficulty to how many teams are entering the fight.
I’ve been thinking about scaled difficulty as well, but I think they specifically want it to be a ‘meetup’ style event. I think they should have capped the players at 20 and just kept the difficulty, but roll it out slower. Seeing 40 people fail at it discouraged a lot of people. Even requiring just 12-16 people would probably be the sweet spot.
@PokeeSeanGO yeah true. We were pretty good today until we only had 16 people left. Then we started failing. Its frustrating tbh. This feature has so much potential its just not fun failing that much.
This video is actually a great one! especially when it comes to content creators lmao
lol thanks
I have mix feeling with max raids. That feature has a lot of potential and to be honest, I think it's already better than regular raids. It needs some strategy, coordination with other players and requires different amount of max particles to enter the raid, depending on the raid tier. Comparing to regular raids, where you just need some strong pokemon, mindlessly taping the screen and on top of that you use the same raid pass to get into the raid, despite its tier. At the same time I'm completely disappointed that my entire storage means nothing now. I've been playing since the very beginning of the game and there is nothing more discouraging to me than telling, that I have to start everything almost from scratch. Before, I was able to help casual players or new players with low level accounts to do the raids. Now, unless I powerup a pokemon that I don't want to powerup (because I already have it a hundo at Lv50, with a special move, max mega level etc.) my progress means nothing more than the progress on an account of a random kid that has started to play the game a week ago. I want max raids be the true end game content - even more difficult that the initial launch of gigantamax starters, but letting me go all out with all of my pokemon. Instead of being the team leader and helper, I've got nerfed into a newbie. I'm not gonna engage into that.
I’m thinking of it as a sequel. I was heavily involved in Destiny as it moved to Destiny 2, and pretty much everything people are saying about Max I’ve heard before. At least the game and our Pokémon didn’t actually get left behind for the sake of new content, unlike with Destiny.
@@PokeeSeanGO - I agree. Our old Pokemon still have all the value they had before for gyms, raids, and PvP. Now there is new content which we can do or not, without much concern about how it will impact the other aspects of the game. Going forward, I will of course plan to power up my best Gigantamax pokemon, rather than having one for raiding and another for max battles.
It was nice to be excited about the Kanto starters again, but maybe I’m just a Gen 1 boomer now. 😝
Ah yes the king returns with more knowledge 🙏🙏🗣️🗣️❤️
I agree with everything you said!
I lost 1 gmax gengar today , most of the throws were excellent even though I lost it, i dont think they reduced the difficulty
They did reduce it.
@@unclejamesx9808 may be
It took me more throws to get than I was expecting.
I especially hate it when shills defend Niantic that Raid Boss encounters are simply Bonus Encounters and not the real reward for defeating the Raid Boss. Especially with the Max Battles now, I want to see these shills seethe.
I totally do raids for the Max Revives and Fast TMs 🫠 The raid boss is the main reason to do a raid - ridiculous to think of it as a bonus encounter in a game where catching Pokémon to the whole point!
Great first “self” video
Definitely not doable if you want to remain solo. As it is we were able to do it with 25ish. Id love the ability to remote these so i can play as much as i want but as a general feature its fun
I think it would have also worked better, honestly, as an activity that absolutely required 4 players. Then it’s not out of a reach for a crazy solo player with 4 phones.
Group of max 4 people. Some actual strategy to beat. Great idea. Why turn this into an Elite Mega Rayquaza day? Why even design the UI for groups of 4 if you need 20 people? :(
I think they want ‘meetup’ style content. At least it isn’t like Elite raids with 45 minute timers. Gives adults time to actually coordinate their lives a little.
They do need content like what you’re describing though. Give a party of 4 something truly engaging to do.
I think what niantic needs to learn is that some working adults play their games. Its hard to get all your friends off at the same time when you all have full-time jobs.
Also, i live in a rural area, so theres only a few pokestops, one gym, and one max spot around.
I stopped playing a few years ago because of this,, i came back, and its basically the same.
I want to play this game, but having to drive 30-40 minutes is not always possible for me, especially when i just got off of an 8-hour shift, and i have to be atwork early the next day, i dont always have the time.
Ive come to realize this game isnt really for me. Its for people who have a bunch of time and money on their hands, i have neither, so it might be time to stop playing again.
I have maybe 4 hrs a week to get out and play the game. I think it can be enjoyed without working on the very small Gmax pokedex.
@@PokeeSeanGOI feel that. I dont work on the gmax stuff bc I dont have any around me, and I dont have a big enough community to help me take them down. It just feels like sometimes playing this game you HAVE to have money, or play in the city to enjoy it.
The highest highs definitely require money. I focus on event days where I can get a lot of condensed play and bonuses, like free raid passes on raid days.
The video below pretty much sums up what I think of Gigantamax Pokémon. The feature is amazing, but due to it being so isolated and polarizing, I haven't bothered with it yet, and I probably never will.
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I like his channel - I’ll give that a watch, thanks!
Gmax battles at worst for new players and way bad for Small community
Definitely not built for small communities or new players.
calling anything raiding or catching related endgame is rather strange. once you've caught everything, finished every platinum medal and every collection, the only remaining true endgame is PVP in GBL... if Niantic would take better care of the gamestate
Calling PVP endgame is strange. Never heard of another game where the players consider PVP to be end game content. It's just PVP and sort of it's own thing.
If you started the game today, the end game would first be 5-star raids, then Gmax battles. Collection isn't so much end game as it is just an inevitability of playing long enough.
Hopefully one day they lower the amount of people needed. 😢
It will lower as everyone powers up. Even in my small community where we all communicated and helped, I saw unevolved Pokémon and sheep.
The combat System is very Bad. Had more gigantamax fights today. We have all won. But i had fights there i lose 0 HP and fights there i get 1 hit. To evate an attack its pure luck if you want Dodge it.
I hope they will fix it.
A lot depends on the move set of the boss.
@@PokeeSeanGO I am rather new (since this spring) but the part about the moveset the raid bosses have for maxraid to me should be fixed. If they want us to strategize to take them down (which I love btw) and then having to re-lobby to get poison attack for metagross to be the beast I want it to be ..... It is very very hard to coordinate with 20 people.
And for the love of god please let me team up using party, I don't want to play with 2 randoms having underleveled wooloos ..... My lvl 3 shield doesn't matter much if the rest of the team cant do any damage!
Totally agree. They should just use moves of their type and you should definitely be teamed with your party when joining. Greedent would have been the hero if Gengar was always using Ghost moves.
its not end game content bcz anything you achieved during the game doesnt matter and same way you can start and be on higher level than end game account. Its just a new mechanic that doesnt match anything other from the game and is just so useless for whole game except this part of the game which most of the people cant even do bcz they live in smaller cities its insane to call it end game content xd
Many games require you to gear up for the endgame content after a new expansion drops. Pokémon are the weapons and armour of GO. The Max system is an expansion.
It’s simplified, because GO is a dead simple game, but the concept is the same.
A new raid boss introduced in the regular raid system that can be demolished by your existing roster of Pokémon isn’t even worth calling new content. It’s just a cosmetic.
finally a guy with common sense.Very well articulated.
thing is the end game content should be accessible to everyone
It is, u just gotta go 😂
@@unclejamesx9808 It's not "Pokémon Stay"
@@unclejamesx9808 Ik lmao but realistically speaking walking around and catching wild pokemon isnt really end game content, and although raids are a good way to play end game content they usually require more than 2+ people to beat.
And dynamax
well
you might as well start your own army at that point.
Truth is, the majority of players play the game causually, only making time for it during weekend events or really good events
That’s sort of the thing about ‘end game’ content - it’s not for casual play. Any other game I’ve played, the end game required more from a player to complete.
@@PokeeSeanGO my guy, the "more" you are refering too is just real life money that you whales need to throw at niantic for that mp
End Game... Where you have to get all new mons? No thank you
When a new expansion releases for a game, you generally need to gear up for the content. You don’t just walk into the final boss with your over-levelled character. In a game as simple and basic as GO, collecting and powering up new Pokémon is the bare minimum.
@PokeeSeanGO usually when a new expansion releases for a game, it's more than just of the previous content with something simple effects added. This is almost like a soft reboot, running in parallel with the original game. Sure. There's some new mechanics, but they weren't explained well in the game. It's like niantic just depends on the community to fill in all the blanks that they seem to not wanna bother with.
I completely agree. It’s their idea of end game content. They’ve been shown to not have the best ideas.
The big thing they’re missing is the the ability to bring something from the expansion back into the main game content. I thought Gmax would have a perk, like Mega Pokémon, at minimum.
Something like using MP to activate a Gmax Pokémon and give you a stat boost. Anything would have been nice. Just being a Pokedex entry is lame.
Niantic bumps up the difficulty slightly and everyone loses their minds. Coming from an RPG fan I love the new battle system. Every game has an end game content and this is Niantics version of it. People don’t wanna spend their resources and be carried through the game. I’m just speaking about communities who have enough people and still couldn’t beat it. Excellent video!
the end game content has always been GBL lol
I disagree. Pvp is wholly separate, with completely different gameplay and tactics. I’ve never played another game where the players considered PvP to be end game.
It’s bad but thankfully it isn’t relevant.
Easily skippable, agreed.
Be better if your not good enough you don't deserve to catch it you don't deserve a raid boss
It's statistically unlikely that you'll catch every single raid boss you ever encounter, even if you always throw golden razz excellents. With only 10 balls for Gmax, and the way Premier balls work by slightly increasing your odds with each throw, it's no wonder we've heard of even the best players not catching every one. It's just a numbers game.
@PokeeSeanGO what I'm saying is if your gonna complain about it then quite playing go if you have such a problem with how the game is don't play simple as that
@@TrollFace-f2udid you watch the video? The game is fun. My point about people using multiple accounts is that it made these raids doable by our community. Not enough players otherwise.
@PokeeSeanGO after the nerf 12 people with semi powered up did it I feel that's fair
L take
Brain rot comment with no explanation, nice contribution to the conversation
@GhostOfZion I contributed greatly
It's cheating because you can because best friends then lucky and keep self trading lucky legendary you should stop your the reason Niantic has so many little stupid rules
Who cares if they can lucky trade every few months or so? Unless you Master league PVP this only benefits the community. Also real resources/time had to be invested on both accounts to even have legendaries to trade. I wouldn’t really call it cheating or a ban able offense
So two people trading legendary shiny Pokémon in a lucky trade isn’t cheating, but two accounts used by the same person is? What’s the difference? Considering how little IVs matter, especially going from an IV floor of 10s to 12s, that can’t be it. The stardust discount is the only other advantage, and any trade can randomly go lucky to help with that.
It’s like calling someone who lives with another Pokémon Go player is cheating because they can easily do 100 trades a day.
@@PokeeSeanGO frequently of the trading gives that person a unfair advantage they do 10 mewtwo raid and there already lucky friends with themselves they trade and now they have the possibility that the 3 2 stars are now high 3 over a matter of a week. But the big question is why do you need 2 accounts
The only one is getting cheated is Niantic, I guess. More free daily raid passes 😂 That’s probably why it’s against the TOS.