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I wasn’t even able to do a single raid 😢🙄
Same😢😢😢😢
Me neither i was in lile 25 groups and none started the raid
I didn't even see a Mega Rayquaza Raid
I know it sucked
Yeah same
All my community leaders have practically given up on this game. I had to step up and organize 2 separate elite raid gatherings. We ended up doing only 3 elite raids due to how far apart all of our local EX gyms are, even though we have at least 25 gyms in total in the area.
Niantic needs to scrap elite raids. They aren’t fun, and they aren’t convenient for anyone.
instead of Scrapping Elite Raids, they should've made a progression of making a regular gym into Elite Gym
I agree with you on a whole nother level. Elite raids shouldn’t exist, especially with the tiny playerbase this game has now. Sure I wouldn’t say it’s “small”, but oh boy have they lost at least 50% of their playerbase since like 2021? I want to assume that. Game is still going, but at the cost of it’s players. Sucks to see it tbh. Good luck guiding your community though man! I know you can do it! 🫶
Agreed
Was out the full day and same experience. Did only 3 due to large distance between raids
Was not ideal
@@courraffe only gyms in dark green area are elite raids, so if you want more elite gyms add them in parks(or other areas with dark green area)
The thing I don't get about elite raids is.. what's "elite" about them nowadays? No special spawns, no extra passes, limited availability and for what, just to fight a stronger Pokémon? Which screws over small communities?
Yeah it is just shadow raids but worse
@@NaveSutlef I agree. And nowadays it's super hard just to find other pokemon go players or communities.
@@NaveSutlef I hate shadow raids too. They seem pointless. You can't invite friends, and unless you have an army of other pokemon goers next to you.
@@klaus-mikael_son I really don't understand why on earth pokemon created shadow raids or elite raids. It really makes no sense. It blocks people from rural communities from playing. Pokemon go gets no benefits from this because players have to go in person, rather than having the option of remote raid passes which is literally pokemon go's biggest asset. And nowadays there are so many violent crimes it seems better to do remote raids. On top of all that elite raids only seem to be available in parks or outdoor locations, so if you live somewhere where the weather changes rapidly it could cause many players to not be able to participate.
@@GahostyDaCat6859 I think pokemon go wants people to go out and play. Like they benifits from location data of players smh.
Still these in person only raids just sound pointless
I took my lunch break at a park where there was a Mega Rayquaza raid active. There was also a softball tournament going on. Hundreds of kids, not only playing but just running around the park, + all their parents. The level of defeat when I tell you that for 30 minutes I entered that raid over and over and over and not a single other person ever joined me. Wtf.
Such a sad story
The same thing happened to me yesterday. A softball game and everything. Saw someone far away do a party hat bulbasaur raid but they never came to the Mega Ray raid.
I waited at a park, in the South Texas heat for 40 minutes and no one showed up. I wasn’t even surprised at all
Says a lot about the state of the game now. I wouldn’t be sad if the game dies.
Yeah, I met a couple of guys with my raid team and they said the same thing, If we hadn't shown up they wouldn't have been able to get any.
They need SERIOUS maintenance!
One- The hours are scattered around. 12-1 and then 5-6? Just make it a 3-6 hour day event.
Two- If they don’t want to not include any remote raiding for this feature, give us more bonuses: increased damage with friends, more XP, etc.
Three- I don’t know what happened with the 24 hour egg system, but that was very helpful so trainers in a community could plan ahead where to meet up.
Four- More raids in gyms. It doesn’t make sense to go from one side of town to another when you could walk around and have more access to raids than driving your car to one side of town and then the other. It defeats the purpose of going out and walk
It’s the strongest attacker in the game. I think it needs to keep its exclusivity. But yes elite raid gyms need to be revamped.
I was excited to get the XL candy to max my Hundo but a strong storm hit my city and the roads couldn’t be driven on until 6. Nobody thinks about what happens with elite raids in bad weather areas. It’s hurricane season in florida just let us remote
@lifelangueleo nah, primal groudon/kyogre and origin palkia/dialga did not have limits like this
Normal mega raids would be fine. Raid day would make Ray easy, but elite raids made Ray almost impossible for most players. Even tho we did like 5 of them in almost 40 people, but it is safe to say we have very hardcore comunity.
@@lifelangueleo Exclusivity doesn't mean shitty maintainence. Even if they wanted to conduct elite raids they could've done so much better than what they did.
It makes no sense that Mega Rayquaza was available in regular raids and now it was tied to Elite Raids.
Such a massive step backwards. 😂😂😂
As someone who partook when the normal raids were up and then heard from my friend that they can’t get one because it’s now only local broke me. Dude I can’t even beat one of them locally because nobody else plays in this area that often. I don’t even think throwing them in elite raids gives a financial boost either. I feel for you bro. Hopefully they hear our cries and change it up next year, but who’s to say they will ever listen 🥲
for real
Boohoo. You have to go out a play a game where you're meant to go out as opposed to sitting on your couch doing remote raids
@@far22186florida.. arizona nobody wants to go outside in florida so sthu
@@far22186Imagine defending Niantic
Not a single raid, in 270 MILES. "Free" meteorite my...... Locked behind elite raid achievement, so no, Niantic can bite me. I now associate rayquaza with dissapointment and disgust.
I feel you man. Same situation here
Womp womp, mine was only 300 miles and walkable
What is wrong with you, you shouldn't act like that man , no need to womp womp @@OPingHei
This event felt really gross, and sometimes downright dangerous. It was not uncommon to see vehicles blocking traffic flow and causing lots of congestion. It felt very nerve-wrecking racing the clock, and underwhelming when you did accomplish the end goal of getting rayray... I hope mega raids get tuned to address these problems...
Terrible idea for the event. Absolutely terrible way to treat the player base.
But the vision...
Niantic is filled with stupid bums
imagine how boring the game would be in the go battle league if everyone had this
I didn't get to catch mine
Imagine expecting the community to get together and play. 🙄🙄
Niantic really said SCREW YOU GUYS! cmon man😭😭😭
And then when we complained, they decided to be petty and essentially took away our ability to properly prepare for this event.😭🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭
They would have made way more money if they made rayquaza a regular raid day. Doesn't even make good business sense
I was very lucky and managed to find two close together at the same time but didn’t spend anything in the event.
@@anne-marieward250same
Yes I thought the same thing before and now after the raids
I don't get Niantics logic if they want players to play in person why don't they give them more incentive by giving 5 free raid passes & shiny boosted odds. Not even Niantic knows what there doing.
Yeah they would have made money getting poke coins but no they were like “No we gotta put this exclusive Pokémon that everyone loves into the worst raid feature in the entire game
I think the reason they're so scarce is to incentivize a ton of people going to 1 specific spot rather than spread across a bunch of different raids. I think if executed correctly, this couldve been okay, like if shiny odds were REALLY REALLY good, around 1/5, they lasted for a week+, and if they balanced it well for people not in mega populated cities. Where i live, all legendary raids are just impossible, unless its a community day in a dense area. So mega rayquaza is just out of the question.
This is actually such a good suggestion ngl, would fix the entire problem of people hating elite raids, or even better, niantic could just change it to a normal raid day and profit off the ticket buyers
And instead of one raid per gym they could've given one raid per hour.
some people also can't spend the day from noon to 7pm chasing monsters. I was lucky enough to do one raid at noon and another at 1, there were no others in the visible area where I was playing.
I work super early mornings. I managed to get 2 side-by-side after work by driving 30 minutes away. My raiding buddy asked if I wanted to wait 2 hours for the next raid, another 15 minutes out, and I just told him I was going home and taking a nap.
Worst part for AZ players is that its 110 degrees out and its only in person at specific locations... makes it so hard to stay out and get enough raids in.
I'm in Vegas and I feel your pain.
AZ player here. Heat was too much everyone was in cars. Even in the car, I raided 6 times and three ran from me. They were spread too far apart. Will never do elite raids again.
We have the same problem in winter when it's only light for 5 hours and there's high winds, sleet, rain and snow with temperatures around freezing and wet numb hands after three minutes of play. I usually just ride public transportation from November through March and play from a bus or tram, if it's not like "screw it" the second I look out of my living room window. During winter you've got good weather for outside play, during summer we do.
That's what you get with a global game in real time I suppose.
12 raids, 0 shinnies. Elite raids suck.
Did 26 raids, 0 shinies. Very much agreed
I did 4 raids, all with 12-20 people at them. I saw 1 shiny all day (not me). No one got meteorites either.
12 raids also no shiny, best I got was a 93. No meteorite either. Raids were glitching the whole time. It was suppose to be a good experience and ended up being terrible.
I did 22 raids not a single shiny but A Meteorite dropped from the raid for me so , i’ll take this as a win
I did 10ish raid in total. I got 2 shinies and one of the guys I was with got a shundo
I literally was only able to do one with only a total of 7 people in the raid (including me) and had 2% health left but the raid timer ran out and then the raid ended 😭
This is so depressing, I'm sorry that happened to you
Happened to me with 6. So sad.
We did I think 3 of them with 5 people (1x lvl 50, 1x lvl 46, 1x lvl 43, 1x lvl 40 and o 1x lvl 31) but we managed to win with like 25 seconds left
Always remember to party up for the party power it makes a huge diffrence
SAME
I did 17 raids yesterday, driving to each gym. No shinies, and nothing even in the 90%’s. It’s a shame honestly
Thats just bad luck tbf
dude… stop complaining. you have been able to do 17 raids. a lot of us could only make one due to bugs in the game. be happy, that you got mega energy..
@@SirMopy lol ur missing my whole point. It’s a stupid feature in the game.
Did 18, no shiny nothing above 84%.
I did 3 and got a shiny with bad IVs
I couldn't do ANY Rayquaza raids . No one showed up .
Managed to get 10 raids done, no shiny, mid ivs, terrible design...just terrible
What is even the actual point of elite raids. There is nothing good about them. Niantic removed every good aspect of them
So my biggest complaint.
Was catch rates. See, I was lucky of the ten I battled I caught seven But others in my group were not so lucky lucky. Even with all excellent throws golden razz boosted it still wouldn't stay in the ball.
Like if you could not complete or find an Elite raid!
I hope Niantic did not cause a lot of car crashes on the elite raid day….just trying to do 3 raids in one hour, I had to drive like a maniac. At least I did better than those without a car who can only do 1 raid
Yeah, and the research still required you to do elite raids even the bonus one that you got on the online web store for the follow goal
I’m a small, rural town player. Luckily we have 2 EX gyms in town. Unfortunately they are both on the farthest ends of town. Our Pokémon go walkers don’t come out to these gyms (and don’t want to ride with people they don’t know very well yet in one case). We had 4 players for each of the 2 raids we had and beat them both with about 35 seconds remaining.
With the scarcity of these gyms, it would have been nice to have the have raids during each time slot. It would have given us 8 raid total to potentially battle at the set times. Instead we had one at 12 and one at 6. Which interrupted other things we had going on (one guy left his family at a local lake to come help - not that he could be in the water anyway due to a health thing). If we knew we’d be able to get together and do 2 raids at 12, and 2 more at 1 (or the 5 & 6 times) then go on with our day without having to plan around another time. It would have been nice cause we would have gotten more raids in and been able to enjoy other things.
As a rural player yeah it’s hard. There is only 5 gyms that are elite kinds and during the event, 2 of them started at 12, 2 started @5 and one @6. My normal raiding group couldn’t do the 12 so most of us participated for the 5 and 6. So that left us with only three chances to do the raid.
So yeah it wasn’t that fun if an event for us 😓
Yep our raid group spent the whole time in our cars as each raid was so far apart, there was no way we could of done them all on foot
I live in a mid-size-city in SoCal, and we did between 15 and 20 raids. We were in cars and drove around, but I don't think we drove more than 10 minutes between gyms. It was usually about 5 ~ 8 minutes. I know one thing that made it easier for us is that we had a couple guys in our group who strategised and mapped out the best routes so that we could maximise the number of gyms we could raid. The eggs not spawning until HOURS after they were supposed to almost screwed us!
All that being said, I have to agree with other folks: Elite Raids are a DRAG. I did manage to get quite a few done, but that doesn't mean it was a fun and exhilarating way to spend my Saturday. What a slog! Racing around like headless chickens, some of us not having time to heal up between raids, half the time we had one or two people who couldn't get a signal and had to skip a raid or two, etc., etc. I would not be sad if we never had Elite Raids again.
I got 3 rayqazas, but no shiny and I missed meteor by 1 minute 😭
I'm sorry that happened, I forgot to claim my meteorite too and now I can't mega my Rayquaza 😢
The raid itself was so unfairly rare. There are like 15~ gyms in my rural area, and none of them had Rayquaza
How many of those 15 gyms were EX raid gyms?
Most people in these comments carrying on about the lack of raids were in a area with 4 EX gyms max
Same we had 4 gyms in town that were close to each other, and some located elsewhere but walking distance, none of them were elite raid gyms >~
I got lucky as someone organized a community event at the 11th hour where enough gyms lined up. My nephew in Japan lived in a smaller city and couldn’t find a gym with spawns. He was devastated.
For me, the thing is, these raids are at the SAME gyms every single time they have them. So, I literally went to the same gyms I went to for Enamourous, caught Rayquaza with TWENTY other players, and went on with my day.
Spent my entire day in the car yesterday driving from raid to raid. Never talked to a single person. Feel bad about the gas and pollution caused. I guess this is the experience Niantic is looking to foster???
that might just be a you issue, it’s not their fault you are too overweight to get your steps up and walk from raid to raid in a group
Sounds like a you issue, you could’ve EASILY walked during the event.
Go cry to PETA about it
Idk about that. I run 5-10 miles a day. With the timing and locations of the raids in my area (very rural, ex-gyms very far apart), walking or running wasn't an option. I did 1 raid at 1pm, which I drove straight from work for. Then another 2 at 5pm. The first was 5 mi from home, the 2nd was abt 8 miles from home. Then the one at 6pm was in the next town over, about 12 miles from home and 6miles away from the 2nd 5pm raid.
Not everyone lives in a city or has access to tons of Ex-gyms. For many rural players, driving was the only option...even for those of us (me) who run marathons 6 times a year.
I assume you're just being a little smart-ass hater who just enjoys talking sh!t. But I'm gonna stand up for the OP from this BS.
@@no_u_420 No actually? Depending on where they live the specific gyms are possibly MILES from one another, depending on how far you won't make it in time for the next one after defeating the first. I live in a rural area and it only has 3 gyms around the entire place and none of them had the eggs for rayquaza. Meaning I would need to drive 30 minutes or longer to the closest town just to check if there is even a single rayquaza egg.
To add more. In my case it was 100 F outside, and group was jumping from raid to raid in suburbia. Some raids were 5-7 miles apart and took about 10 mins to get to with increased traffic during the day. For raid days we stay local within a park with multiple gyms, or 1/2 to 1 mile radius of gyms around the neighborhood.
the massive amount of backlash the community has said made me feel really happy i had a raiding group..
it can't get much worse than this, right?
I got no shinies but did 5 raids, so i felt the day went well :)
We arranged a huge meet up through campfire at a large park. Some people drove for an hour to get there. I live in Florida and right at noon when the first raids kicked off there was a huge thunderstorm with lots of lightning. Unfortunately, all the EX-gyms were way out in the open with no shelter anywhere around them. So, I stood out in the rain and lightning with a bunch of other idiots to do a Rayquaza raid. There were a bunch of raids in this park at noon and 1. I attempted to do a second raid, but everyone quit because a of lightning. I was really frustrated because I was looking forward to getting a bunch of raids in. If this would have been a regular 3-hour raid event, people could have stayed in their cars and drove to any raid they could reach.
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I’ve given up on elite raids, community is really just fed up and nothing really excites me for this game, didn’t even purchase a go fest ticket this year for the useless marshadow
I came back for the shiny legends and mythicals that are shiny locked in the main games hoping it was better than when i left. Pokemon knows what they are doing by selling pokemon back to the community and on top of it driving all over with gas prices as they are....the game needs a redesign badly. Once I get the shinies I need im out as the actual experience is basement level.
Love the vibe in the intro!
Out of the 4 Mega Ray raids I did yesterday, I experienced bugs in 2 of them. Rayquaza kept disappearing during the raid. Made me nervous because I didn't know if I had gotten booted or what was going on. During the 3rd raid, Ray was invisible for about 3/4 of the raid. I've never seen that before.
Also...there was supposed to be an increased chance of getting Meteorites from raids. I raided with tons of people and no one ever got. Meteorite. Seemed to be very low shiny rates as well.
Either way...I still had a great time and it was much better than I thought it was going to be.
In a major city, not a single person in a single raid, almost like pokemon go is unplayable most of the year in arizona
I actually enjoyed the elite raids 🤷🏽♂️ it’s great actually interacting with ppl in the pogo community. But I definitely understand why ppl would be frustrated in a rural town.
I live rural and most gyms were this guy so plenty of choice imo
I live in a huge major city, have a car, and saw 0 elite raids spawn.
I was not able to do one raid because it was an elite raid😭😭😭
Worst part of the elite raid day was that I couldn't do the research for the meteorite since you need to win a élite raid to get it.
It was so annoying no one joins me and my friend.
yoooo i was quick
Same
Real
I travelled 1 hour 30 mins to London primarily for this event and I’m not even sure I could say it was worth it. While I was lucky enough to do 10 raids with a big group, 5 fled, only 1 was 3 stars and no shinies. But more importantly, as someone who doesn’t like to spend money on the game, I burnt through basically all my premium raid passes, with half of them being for nothing. Additionally, to only get 6-8 balls after taking down a 6 star raid is ridiculous. Pretty common PoGo L
From what i've seen, the raids were primarily in parks. I had no problems getting raids in SF in the Presidio area and golden gate park
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We had a local meetup with around 45 players, within the first wave we managed to reach 5 raids while walking. I managed to play 4 raids and caught 4, one of which is shiny.
This system really sucks especially as you can’t invite rural friends.
Does Niantic post stats on how many people actually raided Rayquaza to regular events? Would love to see the difference
Seeing Santa Monica getting so little rayquaza raids makes feel a little better about it spawning once where I live. A town with 20 something gyms and poke stops like crazy. Had to drive about an hour between places to hit it twice (which many of the other local players refused to do).
in the country I was in, for some reason the Elite Raid gyms chosen were so weird and not in the more popular locations so i had a hard time doing it.
i live in a small town, but there are actually a decent amount of pogo players here. we had 20 people sign up for the raid day on campfire (also first time i really used campfire to chat). but in my whole city, only 3 raids spawned for the entire day. one at 6pm at a baseball field, and then TWO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOUNTAINS at 5 and 6. i noticed it was the exact same gyms that spawned an egg on the Enamorus elite raid day. i was only able to get to one raid, after we missed the one at the baseball field we ran up into the camping grounds in the mountains on the outskirts of our town. i wish the raids were less rare to spawn.
I live in a very small town, only a handful of continuous players. We were lucky to have two Mega Rayquaza raids yesterday, and we had 4 players show up to the first one. One of them didn’t even join, and drove off while we were waiting for them to join the lobby. Obviously we were thoroughly crushed, we didn’t even get it down to half health. So no luck on the first raid, and I didn’t even bother going to the one at 5. Moral of the story is, Pokemon Go in a small town is toooouuuugh man 😫
Multiple things can fix these. Either make more pop up rather than just a couple. Make them remote pass accessible or just get rid of elite raids all together.
I'll be honest I met a good few people doing elite raids and it was quite fun finding new players in my area that I've not seen before! However 88,000 CP is a joke when you have smaller communitys who probably couldn't get this.
I got three of them in my Gdańsk district of Piecki-Migowo all at walking distance in a two-hour period. Had I taken a risk by walking ten minutes to a different gym I could've gotten four. Had I planned better and had a group together, perhaps I could've gotten six or even seven, as there were also two hatching in Siedlce and one in Suchanino a few tram stops away.
And while Gdańsk is a large city for Polish standards, for global standards it's just a medium-sized town.
What I did notice on Campfire was that there were far more hatching in the residential districts and in the suburbs than in the touristy old town.
I didn't Realise how luck I was with Retiro Park here in Madrid, the whole park about 15 gyms had eggs on them from the 6am start period. The biggest complaint I could say was having the mix of 5/6pm starts mixed in with the 12am/1pm starts, so we didn't have the same grinding opportunites that we had with the Primial raid day.
yeah i live in a same town.. so i was kinda hoping when rayquaza came back i would be able to remote raid, and even if i had people to go out and raid with there was only ONE spawn at 5pm
I’m so lucky New York is right next to me, missed when they released mega ray last year and got to do a bunch of raids in Central Park and secure my favorite shiny and it’s my best ray, a 90% iv🦅💃
I didn’t even see a single raid
I happened to be in KC for a trip with some friends and another friend in the group plays GO so when I heard there would be Mega Ray (which I missed before) I was super excited since we were already planning to bar hop that day in downtown KC, a big city with lots of gyms. We were downtown pretty much all day long and we never saw a single mega ray raid anywhere within sight. There were tons of other random irrelevant raids that happened near where we were but it was crazy we never even saw a mega ray. And that was in the downtown area of a big city…
I have 8 gyms near me and the only one to get a raid was one nobody could go to as it was blocked off by gates in an agricultural center. Ended up driving to 4 raids at the end and didn't get a shiny. That's 4 rayquaza events for me with no shiny.
I stopped playing last year when it was available, so I was excited for its return to raids. Had to work most of the whole time and when I was off, I found 2 raids total and couldn't get anyone to raid with me.
Was in cinncinatti at the zoo yesterday for raid day and we got absolutely no rayquaza across 8 gyms for the 12/1 raids! I understand not every gym would have one but the amount of eggs spawning yesterday was horrendously low
I think the raid timers were skewed to the afternoon spawns. The gyms I went to were 3 to 1 to the evening spawns. I got one bugged raid due to gps drift but caught every one so it wasn't too bad. This cycle would be a strange spot to have a weekend raid day since ho-oh is solid for the new players that came in.
we walked around for 2 hours straight, literally no time to stop to do 6 raids from 12 to 2pm,
and yes, we were lucky that we even had that many but it was 10km walking in the burning sun just to reach the gyms.
this was such a fucked up event. i am so sad that i wasnt active when rayquaza came for the first time
and please imagine someone, who's not good at hitting excellents throws, trying to catch the pokemon with less than 10 balls [because our group was so small that it took long to defeat it] while rushing through the heat.. i think i never had this low level of fun playing pokemon go before, for something that was supposed to be exciting.
I managed to do 8 raids in a couple of hours thanks to a bunch of elite raid gyms in a park, but ugh.. the weather was so awful. Drizzle and just swamp level humidity. It was so unpleasant to be slogging around. But at least 3 of them were shinies. Highest IV 96, sadly not on the shiny.
The Campfire app has big issues. I thought there wasn’t any in my city but you need to zoom in to be able to see all the raids. When you zoom out some are going to stay but when you move the map it updates and most disappear.
The only rayquaza raid i found wasnin some graveyard💀
I live in Queens NY so I always go to Central Park, had planned out the route but was only able to get 3 raids, and forgot to consider the walking distance. I would have been great if it were every hour, the 15 minute break that way you have time to walk to the other gyms. Also when I got home I didn't realize about the research had to eat quickly and go back out since I had 35 minutes left to complete which were easy😂
Able to hit about 14 raids. Had a community of 200 who showed up. But nothing but driving from one stop to the next. Niantic needs to scrap elite raids.
I made it to 2 raids. I had to take a bus for 30 minutes, raid one at 12 (it ran away...) walk another 30 minutes, wait for the 1:00 spawn (the only 1:00 raid in my entire city-- luckily I caught it), and then I had to go to work. Getting 1 rayquaza cost me 2 1/2 hours that I could have used to do literally anything else
I was in Las Vegas this weekend and I was hoping MAYBE I would be able to do a raid or 2. Unfortunately I only saw like 3 raids total on the strip and I didn’t have a car or the time to go do them…
I tried using campfire but the queue was so crowded that it took 20 minutes just to find one raid, I found two raids but the first host couldn't start the raid somehow (probably ran out of raid passes) and the second host just disconnected... I sadly couldn't get into any raids as none of the raids near me were spawning elite raids😢
I too did not get a chance to do a raid. I’m in a decent community but, I already have a 98% shiny mega so what was my motivation? What was my fellow trainer’s motivation when they already have one too?
I have a nearby park(technically 2 parks and a historical society property) with 8 gyms, it's great usually(considering it's the suburbs).
However, not a single gym is an EX/Elite gym, even with the map showing it as the dark green of a park.
That none of those gyms have ever been updated to be fixed as EX/Elite raid gyms is baffling to me.
I did one elite raid, had a family gathering and then when I got home for the 6pm hour I drove very far south before a friend taught me about campfire’s map for the raids. Then, I drove all the way up north just in time to catch one and just miss one by like 1 minute. But, I got a 15,14,15 Ray to compliment my Shiny Ray from back when I first started playing in July 2023!
I couldn’t get to any either but got quite a few in London U.K. last year during both go fest events so am enjoying these, but would have loved to be able to get to one or two yesterday, the Rays were just too far away
I am super lucky that our city has 1 park with 10 gyms, all of them elite, so was able to do a lot of raids with huge turn out. But most players got screwed with this
It was pouring all day in my town, and all the raids were at outdoors so no one showed up even in their cars. We have a massive mall that could have an elite raid gym, but nope. I'll never get a rayquaza 😢
I really, really miss EX raids. It really brought my old community together. Someone in the group , played with even figured out the EX raid algorithm, and we got so many EX raids. It was amazing.
Yeah, my whole day was spent driving from one side of my town to the other because how far away each raid was from eachother
I didn't even bother going out because despite having 15 local players at least, battling for the gyms, none of them will ever be out there together. Local raids SUCK in my area. Nobody wants to actually join up or play together for them.
Went around to try and do a couple. Was only able to try and do two f them. But both only had 3 people raiding so clearly couldn’t even get it done. Was a waste of a couple hours
I got an extra meteorite from catching one of the Rayquazas, I didn't know that was possible. I also got really lucky on the elite raid day, I caught a shiny Ray and a 100% Ray despite only doing 6 raids.
thought i secured a mega rayquaza on the elite raid day but i realized i only had 375 energy after the raids were over. and theres no way for me to get any more until next time 😩😩 literally so sad
Here in Tampa we had a huge turnout in Al Lopez Park about 90 or so people and we raided 6 for the first half and 6 or 7 for the second half. I was surprised on how many elite gyms were within a short distance of each other. Many got lucky with multiple shiny and some unlucky with none. The only thing I would have changed about the event was to increase shiny chances for elite raids. And we all got hit with a thunderstorm but everyone safely took shelter in the park restrooms but we all had a good time. @mystic7 I hope to see you in New York. I’d like a to take a selfie with you. Everyone in Tampa loves your videos. Keep them coming.
We were at the end of the Santa Monica pier but had to run a mile away to catch the raid. Then ran another 1/2 a mile, then the last raid a few blocks away. I got two mega Requazas with one being shiny. We live in Orange County caught two raids here then bolted to Santa Monica. It was crazy.
was able to hit 10 raids in sydney, had to full on plan out a route to hit as many as possible on foot. caught 8 but no shiny :( did get lucky and get 2 meteorites from the raids themself
I got super lucky in Australia, Melbourne. I used Campfire to find some groups and we went to a spot with a bunch of the raids. I managed to get 8 elite raids in which I'm very thankful for 🎉 hopefully Baequaza comes back in regular raids instead
I'm a noob to the Pokémon Go game and community, so this was my first elite raid and community raid. I had a ton of fun meeting the nearly 100 trainers that came to Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Definitely got my steps in!(20,000😅) Managed to catch 9 Rayquazas. Only 2 were 3 stars, no hundos, no shinys, but i had a ball meeting so many experiend trainers. That being said, I really hope Niantic takes to heart the concern of the long time supporters of their app. Meaningless cash grabs never bode well for those who implement them, and I hope this community sticks around for a long time.
As a rural player, I didn’t even SEE any mega rayquaza. And I’m not a fan of elite raids. I’m one of three semi-active players in my area. I’d have to travel over an hour to even get to a city where there MIGHT be enough people to complete a raid. But the incredibly limited 30 minute raid times make it nearly impossible to get a group together in time in a different city/community. A truly awful feature. If people in Santa Monica are struggling, how are they ever expecting people in small cities, let alone rural players, to ever do these. If I were to do one I’d be forced to travel by car to get there, and that while I live in one of the most walkable countries on this planet…
i was able to have a great time you just gotta look for a pretty big park using turbo over pass and campfire combined and it’s super fun lots of close ones are big parks
I actually had a pleasant mega ray elite raid experience. A good amount of raid eggs in my area and lots of people showed up. It was my first special raid ever since Deoxys EX raids too. And I actually get the idea behind it but I really don't understand why the eggs didn't spawn 24h in advance. Coordination was really difficult. Also, the distribution system is completely fuxked. They really need to work on their Elite Gyms system - I was lucky, but most cities only have a few of them, which sucks (and travelling to another city in advance is difficult too due to the aformentioned issue of late spawns)
I'm in a Rural area and couldn't find any raiding. It was much better with EX raids. There was always a set time and before it was taken away, you could send elites to frinds to join you at the gym. Bring those back
The car thing is so true. Was only able to hit the 5 pm ones. Luckily there was a park near me with 2 on top of each other. Pulled up there were a TON of people there, knocked them out and that was it. Glad I raided the hell out of this last year before the Mega came out and the remote nerf happened.
I actually had a fun time, planning the route before going, gathering people to play with, walking across the whole city, taking tains and bus to join differents raid. And I am a casual player.
there wasn’t even a elite raid on pier 39 in san francisco ( one of the biggest tourist spots )