How to ACTUALLY Beat Gigantamax Bosses...

[@WompWompWoooomp]

I think part of the problem is that people were rolling up with unevolved starters and expecting a free ride.

[@ShadyRK9]

Yeah. It's not like with raids where once you've fainted you can just revive your Pokémon and come back in. Once all your 3 have fainted you're done and can do nothing but watch!

[@PoolKid75]

It works in normal Raids, especially when you have a full lobby. It should work in G-Max raids too.

[@khronic_fury]

Best I could do at the time was fully evolve the galarian starters. Got them to lvl 30 and a couple max moves. My candy was limited. Still is tbh.

[@kimakashi]

Exactly

[@RancorSnp]

While without a doubt true. It's not like people were given much of a choice. All Pokémon you can use in these raids are gen 8 starters, dubwool, squovet, and phalinx. None of them are especially good Gengar counters. Edit : also reviving plays a huge role in raids and is what makes legendary raids possible duo

[@KalleSpecialle]

Max guard actually makes the boss target you so max guard is really useful too, you want to use max guard if someone is full on hp because otherwise it's a wasted 1/4 of a max spirit while max guard actually makes a difference

[@th3joker212]

I liked the difficulty of G-Max but like you said that they didn't do a slow build-up so people didnt have enough time to catch and power up D-Max mons. And the MP limits should have been raised if they were going to release 3 pokemon at once. It just felt rushed.

[@kritorys514]

Yep. I would love to see the stardust, candy, and some coin purchase analytics for everyone who didn't think the event was an issue. Some of the event defenders might have successfully followed data leaks, announcements, and daily grinded dynamax leading up and gotten through without issue. I'm going to bet a key difference between many successes and failures boiled down to how much money people were willing to spend on particles during meetups. But Mr. Kritorys, isn't that how all the features go in this game? I'm pretty sure I've been able to engage nearly every single raid day in a small group, sometimes solo, and recieved free passes during the event...

[@AutobotPrelude]

i grinded every day since dynamax release and it was fine for me. the biggest issue was people caught like 4 dynamax tops lol

definetly felt slow for a bit then sped up alot

[@vdsp1]

According to Trainer Tips, using Max Guard makes the boss target you, so its even more important than the heal. They have attacks that hit just one pokemon and attacks that hit the whole party and the tank can agroo the single target ones by using max guard. If that is the case, could be good having a dedicated healer on top of the dedicated tanker, because the tank will probably just spam shields. And if you are an attacker in a team that has a tank and a healer DONT DO THE SWITCH STRATEGY, because your damaged pokemon has to be the one dinamaxing to be healed and you will not be receiving single target attacks so use the atacker to fill the meter faster.

[@alexxander7470]

Daxi: did you know that you can save 800 max particals if you quit the gigantamax before its health reaches zero.. Was down to my last 800 max particals and didn't wanna do anymore Gigantamax battles. So I'd jump in the battles with lobbies around 20-25 and help them battle enough and then quit the max battle. This way they get the help to push them to get their encounter, while I saved my 800 max particals. Did about 5 gigantamax battles just battling and then quitting right at the end. Felt good helping out trainers that were struggling to beat them. Felt like this tidbit of info might be helpful for FTP that didn't want a 5th gigantamax venusaur. And was waiting for a G.Charizard or G.Blastoise to populate

[@pittpenguins5871]

200 coins for double rewards is such a waste. I honestly think if they did 50 they would have A LOT more people buy it.

[@ankurbhattacharya5184]

To be honest, 25k dust, 25k xp, 30 candies and 1 rare xl is decent rewards. I think it can be doubled if it's z pokemon that you need those candies for. It's not terrible.

[@alpha0090]

Yeah they're not gonna do that, cause it'll be too exploitable.

[@bufuCS]

well there is no shown timer on these GMAX battles but if the battle takes longer than exactly 5 minutes, the GMAX 'mon will become 'desperate' and oneshot everything no matter what (shields don't work against it). So if you can't defeat the GMAX boss under 5min, leave and try again. Also, apparently the person that uses shields will be the only target within that group when the GMAX boss attacks, so having someone put 3 shields up during the first max-phases could also be a good idea. Once all their shields are gone, put up 3 shields again (prefferably MAX shields and maybe someone else) and go back into attack mode.

[@jendaar]

Great video. Thanks for putting it together. However, there us one major obstacle to these that can be almost unpredictable with a large group: PEOPLE Are they out there? Do they know about the meet up? Do they have the circumstances to show up? Will they show up? Are they a high enough trainer level? Do they have the right counters? Are their counters powered up with max moves? Can they afford the candy, XL candy and dust to power them up? Are they connected to social media to even know this stuff? One comment that you read, daxi, was someone said there were kids there with bad pokemon. Thats a factor that should be included. Families that play together is the community and connectedness that Niantic is after with this feature. Theyre throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

[@narrakasa81194]

Very much all of this.. I only joined SocMed for PoGo 6 months ago.. I was blown away with info overload learning about Hundos and what spoofers are learning what mons I'd missed etc. I'm also semi rural so I was the casual Singaporean grandma as niantic like to say who loaded the game whenever I was out and about.. so much passed me by. Now I'm lvl 43, missing some serious mons and candies for mons I now need for gmax because I didn't partake in com days I have solo'd falinks many times so I have the levels and mons but lacking candies to get say Charizard maxed out. If these were the mons they were starting with we should have had a few spotlight hrs weeks before so people could grab the candies they didn't know they would need.

[@jendaar]

@narrakasa81194 I totally get it. I'm in a similar situation. 46 yr old. Been playing from day 1 (July 2016). Play daily but have gotten tired of catching the same stuff for no reason. I think I had 500 squirtle candies and now I feel like I'm being punished for not catching every single one in existence and trading them for XL candies. I can't believe how much Niantic relies on the meta to communicate with its playerbase. Meta being metaverse (KZbinrs, tweets, social media, etc). The sad part is a lot of that is telling conflicting stories and the poor people in NZ/AUS are sacrificial lambs to figure out how to do stuff.

[@narrakasa81194]

@@jendaar it's scary. My local discord was apparently dead ti I came along and set it on fire. Dropping info graphics and badgering people to talk to me. 😆

[@anthonyvrooman1804]

I don’t mind the daily cap on max particles from power spots, but there should NOT be a limit to max particles from walking 2km. If I want to grind and walk 10k some day to save up particles to max out my max moves or to be able to do 2 gmax raids in one day without paying money, I should be allowed to do so. Especially considering its 2km for 300 particles which should then ENCOURAGE getting out more. Smh Niantic

[@CressofLight]

From what I’ve heard if it’s correct… ‘max guard’ also draws the attention of the boss towards you making it attack you more and less on your group until the shield 🛡️ is gone, this might could be useful on when using mons that tanks such as Greedent, as with the extra HP you’ll gain with shield 🛡️ + its normal typing would make it resist ghost fast & charge attacks allowing it stay on field longer and taking most of hits allowing other players Pokémon lasts longer before being taken down.

[@st.petessavior6055]

Should have just put these damn things in 5 star raids. The majority hated elite raids. What did niantic do? Double downed until people started quitting. Tried to get rid of remote raids. People still hate it. Now this stupid greedy system that is basically a much harder elite raid that you cant even use the pokemon you already powered up. Im going free to play. I dont want to team up with people in person. Most of us dont. The fact that they are forcing it is a blatant middle finger to what we the consumer want.

[@boggart159]

It's a game meant for you to meet with people in real life and go outside. Most people would actually rather meet up with fellow fans and game enjoyers

[@alpha0090]

This feature is not for you if that's how you feel. Maybe this whole game actually.

[@AndrewJShirley]

Max guard isn't useless, it draws the attacks to you instead of those in your four person team and you get to take up to 60 power worth of hits from the G-Max.

[@Oogly]

I liked it a lot, especially vs G-max Venusaur

[@horusmasterjc]

Alot of people are level 40 or above, but i doubt even they have all that candy and xl candy to fully power up, niantic made it hard and expensive, we would need more community days that guarantee xl candy to power up the pokemon, and at the same time hunt for a good stats Pokemon or trade to get lucky, too many steps not guaranteed, makes me want to return to the switch, less chance, already paid for and niantic aint spying on me

[@hologram952]

Watching this video is the second time this week I've considered quitting. I have social anxiety and just can't with large groups. I also have young kids, work, home responsibilities. And local groups are only doing these in areas that are an hour away from where I live and at times I can't go. They're not doing the local ones in the park across the street from me. I can't drive two hours round trip for just one of these, cause I'm not spending real money on this feature. I'm gonna continue but the G-MAX feature isn't getting any play from me. Unless it becomes a doable with a team of 4 prepared and maxed out like the original teaser implied. I don't remember seeing large groups in the teaser. I love the speed of the Dynamax raids. I'll still do those when in line places.

[@PoolKid75]

Step 1: Have an army of friends that are dedicated Pokemon fans that have as much free time as you. Step 2: Defeat G-Max raids Step 3: Wake up, you're dreaming.

[@llusix]

step four get better at the game..

[@PoolKid75]

@llusix and the other 39 people too? Are you gonna order them? Do they take orders from you?

[@llusix]

@@PoolKid75 yes those 39 trainers also need to get better. if there’s 40 of you and you can’t take it, gigantamax isn’t for you.

[@PoolKid75]

@llusix 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you missed the point entirely

[@dcarvalho6144]

Yeah, I've seen people doing Gmax battles with 8 players, all of them had some investment done + already owned some Gmax. To be a be able to beat Charizard with 8 trainers, you'd need: -15+ people to earn a few Gmax Blastoise -invest a ton of stardust, candies, XL candies and Max Particles to power up those counters and their Max moves -make sure 7 other trainers alongside you do the same in some capacity, and were also able to get some Gmax pokemon earlier -use the proper strategy, and make sure you beat the boss fast enough before it "enrages" It's pretty easy, right? Except that if you miss any of these requirements you won't beat any Gmax. 😂

[@lillianmoon4573]

I found the largest meetup in my area for the weekend, we had about 80 people traveling around together so we constantly had groups of 40. With that many players all the gigantamax raids were cake, even with no prep. Highly recommend making the trip out to a big meetup if you're struggling. My only complaint was how much MP* I had to buy to keep up.

[@llusix]

you bought SD?

[@enhidri160]

@@llusix prob meant mp

[@MarkFonts]

*max particles you had to buy

[@Ragman312]

I live in Phoenix. I was part of a group that had around 270 people in attendance. In spite of the heat during the daytime, we all had a blast getting to talk to people in person with a common interest. I'm not even a social or interesting person, but the experience has you wanting to come back for more. I recommend it too.

[@lillianmoon4573]

@@MarkFonts thank you

[@beaudavies1737]

Yeah I think it was just too soon, people need to get ready and find people and maybe book time off work to do them.

[@Pearl7sp]

having a popup when you click on a gmax raid the first time that says “hey! this is a strategy heavy feature and communication between trainers in highly recommended if not necessary.” would be SO helpful both with expectations and getting people to go to meetups

[@victormagana14.30]

The most effective way I've found to defeat Gengar is by organizing the group strategically. Make sure the strongest trainers stick together, with their Pokémon having max gard and max attack. Group the weaker trainers separately. Since their Pokémon are likely to faint first, they can contribute by cheering and helping fill the Dynamax meter faster. This support allows the stronger trainers to stay in the battle longer, deal more damage, and take less damage overall

[@vdsp1]

This battles ARE timed. After some time the pokemon will "start to become desperate" and OHKO everybody, essentially ending the battle. This takes time, but be aware that you have to do damage as well, not just survive.

[@Manannam]

The switch strategy between tanks and attacker is actually not a good (eficient) one if you have a designated healer in your group. The healer will heal your untouched attacker so its a waste heal. And as other comments are saying, max guard not only "gives you extra HP" but makes your pokemon the target of boss single attacks so you're effectively tanking damage and protecting your team

[@Fragrances_n_Fur]

We def struggled with our first gigantamax battle with a Venusaur with 19. Thankfully four more rolled up just as we started, so then with 23 it was easy. Afterwards there were 9 scorbunnies that were left at the spot. I think the first issue is too many people are trying to make it without investing candy/dust. The second is people didn't unlock spirit as many didn't think it was useful. Little did they know. Third - don't use that switch strategy as when you use 'Guard'(as you should be doing every round) it goes away when you switch back to the 'tank.' I don't like that strategy at all as my raid group didn't do this and it is making this unnecessarily complicated and we had one max 3 healer in each group. It is YOUR job to guard and attack x2 every turn. This will keep you alive and maximize damage. Cheers!

[@GanZee76]

i love yap sessions! i have been watching even the past ones since i have recently come back to the game :)

[@Mikey___]

Step 1: have an active community in your area... Sadly many people, me included, cannot overcome this step. I have a small community of people in the town I live in, it's a mid sized town and there are only maybe 15 active people total in the town, of those, only 7 or 8 are truly active, we have a chat group that we're in. But, even if all of us turned up with levelled up Dynamax pokemon, we would fail. If we're going down the route of getting people together in big groups, then we need some in-app (not Campfire, there is one post in there from the last 4 years in my county) support to help people group

[@KitDoctor]

5:08 Unironically the funniest thing I've seen today

[@PoolKid75]

"Pecker! Wait! that's not a woodpecker. It looks like someone's-" - Austin Powers 2

[@CyclePC]

I want to share something that happened to a friend of mine. He’s been part of our local Pokémon community for a long time because he truly loves the game. During the G-Max event, he often organized community meetups for battles. A few days ago, a group of new players (about 10-20 people) suddenly joined our group chat, saying they wanted to participate in the G-Max battles too. However, they kept disagreeing with the time and place we’d arranged, I was a little concerned. On the day of the meetup, these newcomers arrived in a car about five minutes early. Even though it wasn’t time to start yet, they rushed everyone to join the lobby. My friend tried to get everyone to wait for a few more players who were on their way, but some of the players joined anyway. Because of that, there weren’t enough players left to battle on time, which really upset my friend. To make things worse, those in the car just laughed at him and acted rude in the chat (the mods did nothing). My friend later told me he felt so disappointed in the community that he decided to delete the game and leave the group chat. I feel really sorry for him, but there’s really nothing I can do.

[@oganthony1]

Tell him to toughen up download the game and try again, sometimes things take another try, just send him my message

[@CyclePC]

@ will do, but i think maybe he just need a break, he will come back to the community someday…

[@MarkFonts]

if this is a monetized, 3-times-as-long version as nick’s vid, brilliant

[@jasonseely9049]

Nianitc should make events for people that don’t work M-F 9-5

[@austincrabe2992]

Strategy i used to help and I don't have any level 50 dynamax is follow these steps except I would switch to my main counter pokemon when the dynamax count down started then I used 3 shield and the key is to keep those shields when you are down to your main counter. I was able to solo Falinks using this Strategy. And when I used this Strategy against the gigantamax battles I would be one of the last people out.

[@mfmageiwatch]

Max Guard is not just damage prevention for yourself, it is also a taunt mechanic for the party, where the boss focuses your defender, so it is more useful than you made it out to be around 26 min in.

[@finalboss1015]

I guess I'm also used to doing the near impossible/Herculean efforts in raids. So, in light of observing the discussed strategies, we noticed that the same 3-8 players were carrying the other 15-30 players for more than half of the raids. Now that they're easier, we'll see what we're capable of doing.

[@pokeballdkdenmark8464]

Ups! "Metagross doesn't do so much damage". You should know the Dynamax moves are very powerful and Metagross is actually the best counter against Gigantamax Gengar at the moment. The teams who beat Gengar with 4 people all used Metagross as their main attacker but made sure they were battling the Poison moves Gengars.

[@Hambam123]

Woooo also maxing the max moves instead of level 50ing is more important

[@HomeSliceHenry]

On god we gotta teach this man how apostrophes work 😭

[@ShirleyCarlton]

Was looking for this comment lmao Glad someone else noticed

[@alexthomas2667]

If you're talking about the thumbnail, "it's" is actually correct. It's = It is / It has

[@ShirleyCarlton]

@@alexthomas2667 looks like it has been corrected, before it was “I’ts”

[@Zombi3610]

I feel like their motto should be "gotta catch 'em all", as in everything is catchable regardless of your location or situation. Like if I have a group of 10 friends, not small but not large either, I feel like we should be able to beat it And again this comes from how certain region locked mons will be available during events, so I don't have to buy a plane ticket

[@wiktolego]

One thing about Attacks of our Enemy Gmax: They can use diffrent attacks in the same battle. We fight with Gmax Blastoise and in the first half of battle we go easy, because he attacks our Venesuars with Hydro Cannon, but then he start use Ice Beams, so its not 1 - 0 that he have that or this attack in the fight

[@mikeyfromsantee]

Boss attacks are actually assigned at the beginning of the battle. One Charge move will be the “Large Attack”, which will hit all 4 trainers at the same time, and the other Charge move will be the one that only targets one trainer at a time. The moves may change if you fail and retry, but for any one battle there are only two Charge moves. It will more likely appear like the move changed the further into the battle you go, but that is only because as your partner trainers lose all their Pokémon, you are more likely to become the target and will start seeing the other move, thus why you would want to prioritize keeping everyone from fainting. Once you know which two moves are involved, you can switch to the appropriate tanks to take the damage for your main attacker.

[@sambeaumont395]

The 25k stardust is a nice bonus, better than a much smaller amount, but putting some context into it - it costs around 225k to level up one Pokémon (20 -> 40). So three Pokemon would cost 675k. So you need to win 27 GMax battles to recoup the dust. Then the best GMax will probably get powered up so another 27 after that. And heaven forbid you get better ivs after the fact. At 1-2 capped per day for free to play that is insane. And just reenforces how much the game is pay to play/win.

[@Jacquesss08]

i also think it's worth noting that the boss scales up with the attack bonus in the power stop. This is just what I've noticed when battling dynamax alone.

[@joegaribay3324]

I believe coordination on when you join the battle is important. We know we will be placed in teams of four and that we want specialist on the team. If everyone just jumps in the raid then the players are placed into teams based on the order they joined. If you go through the effort of putting together a team of four trainer and decide who will do what you want that team to stay together. That team has to join the battle together with on one else jumping in the middle. The alternative is to try to find the other trainers you are paired with and hope you can build the proper mix of guard, healer, and attacker before the battle starts.

[@cocolanfofolan2508]

Every dodge youre able to pull off is a heal that you dont need to do and instead can be a max attack.

[@jaggedbrace1263]

I was using level 35 pokemon to conserve dust and found max guard a lot more useful to avoid damage all together. I got one of each kanto starter gigantamax and never needed to heal.

[@mikek43]

Our very first meet up that was on Facebook 90+ people showed up. We had two full lobbies. Also “slightly” easier not easy

[@AlmondClamp]

If you want to save some resources, prioritize leveling up your max moves since the damage increase from leveling them up is much greater that powering up a pokemon to level 50.

[@yurishorino633]

Gmax Blastoise with the ice attack was 💀

[@Tf03]

Love your account pokidaxi! Absolutely gorgeous scenery! Can’t wait for the play all day pvp day

[@jacechunn1531]

I feel like the "party of 4" in a group of 40 was a hint to use the barely mentioned "Party thing" to share items and complete goals to get items.

[@jacechunn1531]

... this coming from someone who hasn't even gotten to trade ONCE in 8 years 😅

[@danb9665]

Something that needs so many people should be done in an elite raid kind of thing. I’m in the end game and do want a challenge, in actual gameplay. Gathering so many people is the challenge.

[@DaxisNumberOneFangirl]

If they’re gonna make it like an “oldschool” MMORPG, they should make it so the players can see who the boss is individually targeting and have a raid frame with the option to move teams around. Maybe give people like ambassadors leader roles.. Maybe that would just complicate things more idk.😅 I’m just happy I can secretly healer-carry again.. 🤣 Also I like the overalls, you would probably make a great chicken farmer… 🤭😘

[@CosmicCorviknight]

I ended up skipping G-Max raids last weekend when I heard the early reports on how tough they were but I've been levelling up a team this week and will give it a go against G-Max Gengar tomorrow 🤞

[@achristopher509]

Want your hands warm & your phone is dying?? I found a Zippo brand hybrid electric hand warmer/phone charger & I'm looking forward to using it once it gets colder here in Texas!

[@Herbu21]

Step one: Having hot players in you area to help you for the battles!

[@RHall1]

LoL! New Yap Session motto. “Is that a woodpecker?” 😂

[@bornfromthenaga9063]

You can give people all the time in the world and they still wouldn’t be prepared. There were a lot of players that were against this thing from the get go. But to keep it short. I love the aspect of it. I loved the challenge. I love the trifecta of tank, healer, DPS coming from an RPG fan. It was fun. We are lucky the Boston community is huge. I’m sorry for rural players but this is also like end game content which this game is really missing.

[@violeth2255]

1. Prioritize TDO (total damage output: basically resistances and defense first and foremost with super effective damage if possible or neutral if not) over DPS. One of the biggest hurdles to gigantamax battles were having Pokemon survive until the first Dynamax. The best ways to do this is to prioritize more defensive counters that resist the boss' attacks and to power them up to level 30 or higher. 2. Max spirit only heals active pokemon, so switching in to your undamaged DPS mon actively prevents your healers from doing their job. Do not utilize this strategy outside of a final push before or during the point of the raid boss getting desperate. 3. A use of max guard grants more temporary HP to your pokemon than any one use of an equivalent level max spirit will heal it. Using it once per Dynamax or every other Dynamax makes it less likely for you to faint and lets your healer keep up your best mon for the entire battle. Furthermore, max guard appears to make the boss target the pokemon with shields for individual attacks that can be dodged rather than constantly using large attacks that hit everybody and can't be dodged. This further limits the amount of healing that needs to be done per round and thus allows for more damaging attacks to be used. 4. The boss pokemon in Dynamax or gigantamax battles will only ever have 2 moves chosen from their pool of possible charge moves (elite moves included). One will be the large move that hits everyone, while the other will be the targeted move used on individuals. These are randomized everyone time you start a Dynamax or gigantamax battle. Certain combos will be vastly more difficult (gmax Venusaur with solar beam as its large move), while others will be much easier (gmax Charizard with dragon claw as a large move). So don't be afraid to try more than once if you should fail. 5. Cheering affects every team in the raid, not just your own. Several times nobody in my team would have been fully knocked out yet and we'd get the cheering notification on the side anyway. So cheer any time you can once your Pokémon are down. 6. Damage fills the max meter. Your fast & charge moves ought to both be doing super effective damage if they can or neutral if not (never resisted). PS: Given our available mons and gengar's extensive charge moves pool, the best counters to it are bite/med shot greedent (if it doesn't have focus blast and especially if double ghost), zen headbut Metagross (if it doesn't have ghost/dark moves or is a full poison moveset), or bite blastoise (if it has both). Blastoise is the safest option, but also the absolute worst of the 3. Greedent is the next safest option with a slim chance of either an exceptionally great or exceptionally poor performance. Metagross has the highest chance of failure (with 3 of gengar's 7 available moves hitting it for super effective damage) but it also shines the brightest when it works (double resisting 3 of gengar's possible moves and taking neutral damage from the last one). Given how most often I'd either still be on my first pokemon by the end of the raid or by the time the boss got desperate (at which point it would start one shotting monster through full max guard shields with double resisted moves, so your weaknesses and resistances stop mattering), it might just be best to bring one of each.

[@mikeyfromsantee]

I second this as the best advice available. I agree that Blastoise/Greedent/Metagross is the best team to bring to the Gmax Gengar battle.

[@violeth2255]

@ minor adjustment after doing some gengar. Charizard is a preferable 3rd mon to Blastoise. Takes neutral from most of gengar's moves, but resists focus blast which hits the toise a lot harder than anticipated.

[@alexg9869]

I know this is a little counterintuitive, but Pokemon Go should really have that one Pokémon and a legendary raid could be a legendary. It could be like something extremely difficult like you have to work as a team 30+ players and it would be a Pokémon that we would constantly use and would actually be useful for everything raids/Pokémon battle league and many other things, but it would be extremely difficult making it extremely worth it

[@DE5A13]

well someones a fan of "the bear" ahahah sick jacket!

[@DogeCowboywastaken]

ooh a 35 minute daxi vid!

[@DogeCowboywastaken]

22:55 its Max Phantasm

[@lelouchchanbc]

Another make up day need to do for Gigantamax Kanto starters. Max out season finale will be repeat entire season events. May be Gigantamax Galar starters during this event? Gigantamax Rillabom, Gigantamax Cinderace and Gigantamax Inteleon debut during this event?

[@GahostyDaCat6859]

Max guard can be useful for attackers. It can reduce damage and the shields most likely add up.

[@justinprice2315]

Here's the thing, generically speaking. If you want to raid to improve your Dynamax IV's you can't power up max moves. If you want to power up max moves you can't raid. On top of that you have to use your candy to power up max moves, evolve the base evolution to final evolution, and your CP. That's a triple whammy on candy that most players don't have. Niantic needs to sort out the compounding resource requirements or these things will continue to look less favorable then your standard raids.

[@klepper8282]

Just throwing this into the void, but with the group I was with we seem to have the best luck with two attackers and one Pokémon with guard and healing that role would guard the first round all three attacks that alone in almost every battle was enough to keep us alive until it went down

[@MilkImpact]

Would've been so cool to cap it at 4 people per raid to embrace smaller groups and more controlled strategy

[@SpeedyBlu]

The yap session must go on!

[@seedspittinspacecowboy]

I bet Niantic was collecting data on a certain criteria of trainers to flag them on a watch list considering the frenzy of temp bans from the last Gmax weekend.

[@GahostyDaCat6859]

I will like to mention intelleon has a VERY high attack stat, so using that as a attacker in a team of blastoise would be very useful.

[@BrandonMF]

Personally the difficulty was fine, they do not need to make them easier. Gmax should not be able to be beaten with less than 10 people. The people complaining are the ones with all base evolution mons or they evolved to max evolution but didn’t bother with powering up Max moves. The raids were easy and I live in a rural area, just takes some thinking.

[@leonli844]

It absolutely should be able to be beaten with less than 10. Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokemon aren't valuable enough to be that much more difficult than the hardest regular raids. It simply becomes more accessible to make it require less people or have it be remoteable. Good, consistent raiding communities are a rarity in rural places, and frankly most places that aren't cities. Just because you've got yours, doesn't mean everyone does.

[@MrDoverfield]

Can they make the dodge feature actually work? I have to keep swiping to get my Pokémon to move only for them to move back into the attack.

[@profpuffofficial2]

dodge works via the three lines flashing, if you dodge at the first flash it doesnt hit

[@PoolKid75]

5:10 Hack for Playing Pokemon Go in winter: Get a stylus with a soft tip and a wrist strap, use that to play in the winter when it's too cold to go outside without thick gloves.

[@lillianmoon4573]

Smart!

[@gutiera88]

The stardust reward is appreciated, I spent about 1.5 million dust for the gmax raids... having a somewhat decent team ain't stardust cheap, especially since our prior pokemon can't be candidates for d/g max

[@Feemo]

Awesome video Dax. My team would be DMAX Gengar for attack rotation / DMAX Metagross with all psychic for defence and max meter spam / GMAX Blastoise for tanking My tweet made it into this video 27:12 😂🎉

[@SaviJundGuy]

They really should do another redo of the Kanto Gigas.

[@davidcalixte9785]

Dude the fit is 🔥

[@AnthonysFishyFriends]

It's pretty hilarious battling beldum with a gigantamax charizard. I decimate them almost as easy as my first dynamax battle. Yes you can gigantamax in dynamax battles😮

[@Nunya37]

We beat it with a group of 9 people. Mostly buffed Metagross. A few Blastoise and Greedent.

[@finalboss1015]

They were tough to catch and with 10 balls to catch. The difficulty stacks.

[@iancarroll1337]

Hey Daxi, i see you rocking The Bear jacket 🫡

[@DidierLedezma-f9e]

I just did a Gengar gigantimax raid and got it shiny first try

[@GahostyDaCat6859]

I really think niantic should give more rare candy as rewards for gigamax raids. It will get more people to participate, and it would allow them to power up pokemon more easlily. To be honest I get up to 2000 stardust per day just by battles in pokemon go.

[@ianoleary8122]

I’m gonna use the strategy of only evolving,using no stardust and going to the one busiest g max battle downtown to use my one free battle a day, maybe 2 if I didn’t use my mp the day before..Not worth wasting dust and xls on mons I already have maxed out ones of for megas and raids.

[@johnp1854]

Not only is my group that plays to small. But on top of that we don’t have the candy resource to max anything I used all my chamander candies just evolving and making attack maxed. I can’t even evolve my bulbasaur all the way. I’ve only been playing for a year.

[@triplelegacy414]

idk why people are saying its too hard. like give it a few months and it will become easier. once everyone gets a chance to get there hands on them and more people get them then it will become easier in time. the face that they made it easier already its not a good sign because in a few months everyone gonna have them and it will just be too easy after while. like this needs to be hard and not easy. i drove 40 miles after work to get one of each and 2 of them got away. idk once they lower it they really cant go back and make it harder and once this is too easy then everyone gonna want more content. either way i enjoy playing and gonna keeping

[@tufungagreen5571]

You shouldn't have to travel miles to play a damn game, people got things to do, traveling got nothing to do with skill or how hard a raid is, it just means you lucky to have a group of people

[@triplelegacy414]

@@tufungagreen5571 lol lucky to have a group? i drove to get to them lol thats not lucky lol

[@Bruski.420]

They’re trying to force people to buy max particles

[@meph2806]

I didn't have a problem with the difficulty, I had a problem with the fact that you put down 800 particles (which you can't even stack) down on a single raid and the pokemon flees while you've been throwing golden razz excellents 90% of the time. 2 out of 3 gigantamax starters I was able to fight fled.

[@yurishorino633]

A year from now Gmax will be part of the past and people will be taking them down as easily as we do with raids nowadays. It's all about mindset. We had plenty of time to max out good IVs Dmax, people just weren’t interested. Idk bout you guys but I feel like it's easier to get good IV's o the small Dmax bosses but that's just my experience. We were able to defeat the Kanto trio Gmax bosses with our small group of 26 in my hometown. The only thing I'd say would be the best for rural players would be to match the boss difficulty’s with the number of people in the raid. So it would be hard for everyone but everyone could have access to them. Something to think about Niantic.

[@colenaber7409]

Your point is well taken, but I think it's also defending a poor decision by Niantic. Why should we have to power up new counters specifically for these raids? I'm a day-one player, and at my peak, I was what most people would consider a "hardcore raider." Why would I want to spend more time and resources powering up new counters whose ONLY advantage is they can be used in max raids? I can't dynamax or gigantamax in pvp, in non-max raid battles, in gym battles, etc. And nearly all of the max pokemon that are out there are severely outclassed in their respective typings in their normal forms. It just doesn't make sense.

[@yurishorino633]

@ Day one player here too. I mean I get it, but after maxing out all the best Raid counters and some pvping mons, what is there left to max out? Plus you can use Dmax mons in raids just like the regular version?

[@colenaber7409]

@yurishorino633 I sort of agree if you're still dedicated to the grind. It's just crazy to me that, after all the time, money, and resources players have spent to date, and we're not able to put those pokemon to use for these raids. And there's no precedent for that, btw. The mainline games that introduced DMAX and GMAX didn't have any such restrictions. And yeah, you can use them in raids, but not in their max forms (at least as far as I know, at this time). Most of the pokemon currently available from Dynamax and Gigantamax raids aren't near the top of their respective typings. The only ones that are close are Gengar and Metagross, and even the latter got nerfed recently. I don't remember the last time I used a non-mega starter pokemon in a raid battle.

[@yurishorino633]

@ my biggest fomo would be for Niantic to unlock them 🤣 Can’t agree more on the restrictions tho, I guess it’s Niantic cashgrab endgame 🤣

[@chrisdcane5451]

I love the yapping vids

[@MateoOld]

I heard of large groups failing them so I didn’t even leave the house lol😅

[@LucasZunigaP]

Sorry I'm super shy and my crush roams the local community, I won't communicate with him x///x

[@RandolphCarter_Randy.C]

A problem with G-max raids that no one is talking about - the fact that they spawn for so long, actually coordinating everyone to be at the same location at the same time is made infinitely more difficult. Raids, easy. Most know to rock up when the egg hatched and go from there. G-max raids spawn for ages no one can coordinate. And don’t start me on campfire. It is soooo desperately lacking in features it’s borderline unusable.

[@lifelangueleo]

METAGROSS!! Power it up, it’s a tank. More than Greedent and Gengar

[@scubasteve7950]

Home Alone called, they want their outfit back lol

[@treoliver9731]

They need to decrease the gigantamax spawns so that those spawns have a more concentrated number of ppl and lower the difficulty.

[@pambulama973]

Also could Party Okay count. We could get into parties first that means we teamed up that way when entering battle. Also with Party Play the fast attack being stronger.

[@bennaylor3658]

the issue is local towns vs city's it is impossible for me to talk them down bc your not getting a part bigger then 5 local people during a big event on the weekend in my town we didn't even take 2% off our attempts

[@That_bucketFloppa]

Hi Poke Daxi i wonder how do I not fall behind if I live in a country that there is not that many people that plays Pokémon?

[@tufungagreen5571]

My point exactly, I live in South Africa and feels like no one plays here

[@wojtek7779]

Useing shield is usless Healing way better Teams must have 2 healers 2 attackers

[@alpha0090]

This is definetly not true. Shields make the gmax pokemon target ONLY YOU. Meaning your damage dealers can stay with the best offensive pokemons without the threat of a knockout if you use all 3 dmax shields.

[@wojtek7779]

@ healing have more value for now But nothing wrong with 1healer 1 shielder but I saw team with 2 healers bested thoes battles with 8

[@sushib0y222]

Hey Daxi, Should I evolve my good iv dynamax Pokémon’s right now even tho legacy moves aren’t available yet??

[@HanserEU]

As Someone who hasnt done a fall/winter pokemon session yet, are gloves an option or do you need to suffer and switch to the handwarmer from time to time?

[@lelouchchanbc]

First of all, Happy Diwali to those who is celebrate it. Today is the Diwali Festival.🕯 Oh no, Niantic is not organized Light Festival this year Pokemon Go game event. I shall challenge Niantic to do double in game event for Pokemon Go for example, Halloween & Light Festival event at once. This is never to be happen in Pokemon Go until shut down!

[@PoolKid75]

Venusaur is a better tank than Greedent because Gengar has a Ghost, Fighting and Poison type charged move. Venusaur is neutral to Ghost and Poison and resists Fighting. Greedent resists Ghost and is neutral to Poison but is weak to Fighting.

[@LucasZunigaP]

But having a slight attack advantage against Gengar is still better than the neutral or not effective damage that Venusaur can do with his Grass and Poison attacks

[@vdsp1]

​@@LucasZunigaP Both would be used as tanks, so they wont use max attacks when they dmax and thats where most of the damage is being dealt. And also, for a tank, resistance advantage is better than a little more damage if it was the case.

[@mikeyfromsantee]

@@vdsp1A tank should not be a liability to the Dynamax meter charging, though. Part of protecting attackers is charging the Dynamax meter as fast as possible so that there are less of the Boss’ Charge attacks and more of the team’s Max attacks. Venusaur’s Vine Whip and Razor Leaf would be working against the Dynamax meter while Greedent’s Bite and Crunch would be working towards it.

[@ellietheeevee]

here before the typo in the thumbnail gets fixed