I Caught the New #1 Pokemon in Pokémon GO!

[@DMac1234ist]

For anyone who is new to dynamax and don't have the best pokemon yet, just do three ghastly dynamax battles, trade them with a friend, and then it's free to evolve from Haunter to Gengar. This way, you've got three dynamax gengar for these battles, instead of bringing 3 starter pokemon that won't contribute at all to the battles. Hope this helps 🙏

[@Thormangaming]

Thanks

[@V80ctane]

Did this and it still doesn’t help AT ALL 😂

[@colecampbell1906]

Nah they're better off with metagross. Gengar gets 1 shot most of the time while metagross can take like 3.

[@CatsLilaSalem]

@@colecampbell1906 I used Blastoise with bite, Metagross and Gigantimax Gengar for big damage (after i got one, before that a second Blastoise since those do also not get oneshot most times)

[@DMac1234ist]

@@colecampbell1906 was more of a suggestion for the noobs who bring scorbunny to a G-Max battle, not so much for people with the option of bringing decent counters

[@logan3322]

cant really blame anyone for not having maxed treams with how stupidly expensive it is, everyone already has shinies,hundos,megas of all these pokemon. and are entirely wasting them to just reinvest in the gmax versions after.

[@DarkPyroZero]

It's why I'm ignoring the feature entirely, as I have a few hundos that I've invested in, and they can't even participate, so this feature is not for me

[@Ditronus.]

If you calculate the 3-pack buys, which give the biggest discount, each gigantamax costs 70% more than a normal raid pass.

[@mobious01]

Wrong gmax mons are not that better since you cannot change the attack so they are just an extra attacker to build your roster

[@Ditronus.]

@mobious01 think you missed what he was saying. He's saying why bother with gmax/dynamax raids if the only place you can use the pokemon you get from there are more gmax/dynamax raids.

[@murthann]

gengar is honestly pretty easy to beat without anything maxed out, just evolve some dynamax and beat it with 15 people without powering up anyting, and considering the stardust he gives as reward we can easily power up at least metagross and get it back quicky

[@JackandCrack4301]

“Do NOT do Gigantamax Raids”, proceeds to grind g max raids 😂

[@jimmybgood982]

mystic standing on the side of street sucking sausage if not for niantic

[@kirapatatochips]

This is his job its different

[@AKA_LC69]

2:00 That cute little innocent Gastly vs The big scary Gigantamax Gengar! (Sad Hamster background music) 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@Luzbl34...]

Thts something i would do... 😂😂

[@doughguy]

Where

[@AKA_LC69]

​@doughguy sorry the time I set was off! It's that Gastly in the first battle 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@okemaharcher]

8:42 w random guy

[@lifelangueleo]

Maybe if every content creator told everyone to power up their mons instead of telling everyone not to do this, than maybe that would help

[@Lister-Eyad]

One issue most of pogo players are f2p and are currently broke in stardust and most of them live in cities that aren’t western like Alexandria for example and thats why the dynmax raids are impossible unless if ur in a western nation

[@Marsteel2012]

I live in a western country and they are still very hard to take down

[@lifelangueleo]

@@Lister-Eyad understandable. I don’t spend much dust, so I have some to use. And at least they started with the Kanye starters, got lots of candy for those stocked up.

[@lifelangueleo]

@@Marsteel2012 ya, really makes it necessary to use campfire to find a group

[@ashleyarreguin2823]

Facts

[@Casual_TK]

@ 15:54 your teammate also shielded, so that's why they're being targeted the next cycle. If more than 1 person shields, then it will randomly choose 1 to target attack.

[@Oogly]

Yup, his awareness is not great. Like with dodging when prompted, which is the large attack btw, he changed his mind on whether it works or not a bunch of times when the game actually tells him when he dodged. Not that he reads these comments as we saw with how long it took him to figure out you need to swipe your mon onto the D-max bubble instead of tapping it and saying it doesnt do anything. Idk maybe he's going for that youtuber vibe where they are just bad at the game for views

[@Led00t-du9rj]

I don’t even blame spoofers at this point, Gmax raids are so unbelievably difficult

[@sonatawashere]

Mystic7 is a spoofer too

[@Superrchargedd]

​@@sonatawashereI don't think so

[@seerepetrov2708]

Why would you blame us? We saved your @$$ when Giga Blastoise, Charizard and Venusaur came out...

[@NaveSutlef]

This was painful to watch. The amount of money he spends, complains about people bringing in Scorbunny (which is valid) but then he doesn't even change his Metagross' moveset..

[@stringed_in]

Bro it sucks being in a rural area where we've been neglected since 2022, so no gigantimax for us😢

[@Sparky_Pup_Slays]

@@stringed_in rip

[@BlakeSommer-l5d]

Facts

[@AlexResh-l2r]

Same here

[@harryerviniv3518]

Same boat

[@BubbleD-]

Dang me too, but I just decided to spoof now. Because of that, I use a secondary account, so I won't get banned on my main and transfer some pokemon that are hard to get, like g max, to my main

[@HalcyonRyan]

I feel like we went from dynamax to difficult dynamax to gigantimax so quickly... I don't have nearly enough stardust, candies and MP to get them high enough in time, and i've been going crazy on them... so I can't imagine what its like for those who are very casual... So of course we are getting people bringing in sobbles and wooloos at low levels. You need so many resources for not much ROI...

[@randygault4564]

By the way, greedent with dark moves makes a good healer defender vs gigantamax gengar.

[@thejacksonmurphy]

Brandon, it’s worth saving your dust and candies and just getting the different attacks leveled up. CP is more or less irrelevant on these bosses.

[@AKA_LC69]

8:41 I bet bro was laughing so hard while editing this! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FERNANDOMxcn]

Thank you for showing the struggles New Yorkers are feeling. Just because we have the quantity does not mean we have the quality. It’s not city players vs rural, it should be Pokémon go players vs niantic

[@goldlucario5371]

Niantic has failed miserably with this mechanic for many reasons: 1. Lore accuracy - in the games, ANY pokemon can dynamax. In the end game, you get “max soup” which unlocks Gigantimax for any pokemon that can do so. Solution? For a cost of 800MP, we should be able to unlock the potential for ANY pokemon to dynamax. That way, it’s one pokemon a day for free, and it connects all our old progress to this new mechanic. Eventually, they should introduce an item similar to “max soup” (“max candy”?) that you could earn as a rare drop from defeating a dynamax raid. 2. Group play vs. Individual play - like you said, Niantic needs to get with the times. Not everyone likes to play with random strangers in a group. Solution? - this wouldn’t be an issue with the changes implemented in my #1 point. 3. City players win again - it’s frustrating that Niantic is targeting this game towards an audience that plays in a densely populated area. This encourages more spoofing. 4. No incentives to do dynamax since you need dynamax to do dynamax. If you want, you could just ignore the mechanic all together. Sure, they’ll eventually release pokemon you can only get through dynamax, but nobody will be able to do them except the target city player audience or the hardcore player. 5. Does not reward the dedicated player - I’ve been playing since day 1. Yesterday, I went out for two hours to attempt to complete a Gigantimax Gengar. We had 11 players and couldn’t defeat it. Sure, some of the players were probably just going in with nothing powered up, but maybe they’re the smart ones? I’m the one looking like a fool because I’ve powered up 3 dynamax pokemon to level 40, maxed out all their moves, and still can’t beat a Gigantimax raid. All those resources wasted when I already had pokemon from the same species powered up to level 40+ with two moves on each. After how bad the first round of G-max raids went, nobody around me wants to even try anymore. Me, being a dedicated player, doesn’t mean a thing when I have to rely on others for game content. It’s not fair.

[@qc7511]

2:42 BRUH 💀 People complain about how hard GIGANTAMAX raids are, but then they go and use Charmanders and Sobbles just like this, smh.

[@Shreyash_Malvi7]

Finally someone said it😂😂😂

[@HappyGamingHeadset-wu5us]

fr 😂

[@Yutaka-h1l]

He's in New York. That's where a lot of people start playing Pokemon Go so not everyone in his party are high lvl players, meaning that they do not have enough resources to power up/evolve their mons. smh.

[@lightning_round]

@@Yutaka-h1lexactly

[@goldlucario5371]

Maybe they’re the smart ones. Should we really be investing tons of resources into this mechanic? I did, and still couldn’t beat it due to the lack of numbers.

[@samnewman7383]

There's over 500 people in my Discord group. The consensus is that the skill cap and the requirements for the Gigantamax raids are either too high or virtually impossible to organize groups for. What makes it worse is that joining the raids remotely isn't even an option. Because of all of this, nobody in my group even *suggested* tackling the Giganamax Gengar raids. Frankly, the difficulty for these raids is so high (even with favorable counters), that even if you manage to somehow get *ONE* Gigantamax Pokemon from any of the raids, you should consider yourself extremely lucky. For the rest of us living in smaller residential areas, the Gigantamax raids are essentially an unplayable feature with a reward that likely won't be worth the risk. 8:52 The fact that you even managed to have the opportunity to catch Gigantamax Gengar, especially a shiny one, makes you part of a very small fraction of the total player base. Chances are, this video will be the closest thing that a majority of players living in rural areas will have of experiencing it in-game.

[@danallen8388]

I started playing Sept 2023, these Gengar raids have been pretty easy with metagross. We took a charizard down with 14 people on Saturday. Spend resources wisely and use pvp tactics to switch. You can get ‘em.

[@ben9580]

The best things you can do in this raid is TALK TO PEOPLE. Make sure the low level ones enter in last so more teams have higher level Pokemon and the lower ones die off quick so they can cheer.

[@KingMoe254]

Blastoise with Bite as a fast move so you can use Max Darkness, super effective 👌🏾

[@Eze_dnb]

The dodge works, usually the warning is for 2 of the 3 spots so I try to go to the empty spot. It’s how I was able to do the beldum raid with just cinderace. It just took hardly any damage if any at all.

[@RandomContent100]

I am a free player, never spent a penny, never been to a go fest in person, no spoofer, played since 2016 and played nearly every day and I am level 39 Jk started a few months ago but still no spoofer and no money

[@pingui422]

Do more legendary raids for more xp

[@pingui422]

And upgrade level with friends

[@RandomContent100]

@@pingui422 thanks

[@azedobs]

I spent like 5$, since 2019 (I actually played from 2019 to 2021, I played for a month in 2022, and I started playing again 1 month ago in 2024), and im level 37 (and not playing everyday)

[@MoonDog05]

Bout to be lvl 37 myself

[@randygault4564]

"one of the most difficult bosses" Uh no. They told you they nerfed it. Specifically gigantamax Gengar.

[@Toadie1058]

Still really hard

[@Ditronus.]

They officially said they did? Where? Even so, it is still one of the hardest the game has to offer. Mainly because people haven't p2w'd their pokemon to high levels.

[@honestfan420]

Why so angry lmao

[@logancundiff9172]

Unpopular take, gmax gengar is easy, able to do it easily with 15, 12 or less if it has poison or psychic moves. Really no excuse not to have at least 1 max metagross considering we recently had a beldum c-day classic and dynamax beldum was easy to solo. Dynamax beldum was also relatively cheap to battle at 400 a piece, or 2 a day for free. Really the only bad thing about gmax raids is cost and accessibility.

[@anaconda201]

As someone who lives in a rural area I don’t even care about these events as the only way I am getting one of these is through trading

[@Aries4Told]

I used two metagross and 1 gengar for mine and they did really well against it. I'm hoping to get more Gigantamax today after missing last weeks 🎉

[@CatsLilaSalem]

We did one with 14 players today, it used a weatherboosted sludge bomd. Team was almost dead, but we beat it. And not everyone had super invested counters on top of that. Another one bugged i think and used multipleattacks wiping my team in a few seconds (with dark pulse, which does not even oneshot my team), but with that one we had a big group and did still beat it.

[@A.K.Z.Channel]

1 like = catch a Pokémon in Pokémon go

[@nigelhawthorne2010]

Where are those people? Literally no one there. Maybe ghosts.

[@alisayyed3649]

I was also thinking about that, I think the ghosts are spoofers, maybe😂

[@danieldias5010]

yeah its spoofers

[@Sanchez567]

It’s 100% spoofers in New York. It’s the most popular place to spoof

[@angelaa1611]

Spoofer friends.

[@comeback4437]

Lol and they complain spoofers are bad, they are helping legits complete these trash raid things

[@steelformrarity4590]

Wasn't able to do any of the kanto starter gmax raids and was p pissed. Was able to do 2 gmax Gengar today and both were 98%, definitely a lot better. I think people communicated a lot better this time around, I was able to easily find a group in my community this time around at the Parthenon

[@POKEIV20]

Thanks for 2.216 subscriber ❤❤❤❤

[@MarcelSupaarawOndemkeys]

A tip from doing a ton of Gmax battles. Charged attacks don't seem to boost your meter. So if you don't have a strong mon but charged max attacks focus on only hitting your fast attacks as fast as possible

[@seagletime3848]

don’t forget putting 200 coins in doubles the stardust you get

[@AKA_LC69]

2:40 I wander what the pokemon must feel while battling the Gigantamax Pokemon? Looking up or attacking?🤣🤣🤣🥺

[@wiktolego]

3:14 I do this with people, but we need to coordinate who was with who and what is the role of everyone. Clicking random isnt winnable

[@BB_Phoeh10]

Is the sc on your hat stand for storm chasers

[@NEGASONIC-TEENAGE-WARHEAD]

I love how the gigantamax pokemon are basically something you have to pay money for because of how most pokemon players live in small communities and don’t live in a place like NYC or LA

[@willigaming1200]

I got a 98 shiny gengar G-max! The luck was on my side the halloween event

[@ghosty4]

Oh, sweet! Me, too! I caught it at Disney California Adventure before the Oogie Boogie Bash started for the night. LOL

[@akifauni3403]

Nice Catch for Shiny GMax Gengar 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ToMu29]

2 guard and a heal is the way to go bro, and 2 tank and 1 attacker is the best combo. we took down gmax gengar with 15 people yesterday

[@CheeWonJunMsh]

they use wooloo for payback. it's dark type

[@PlzBelieveIt916]

It's basically raiding in MMO's like WOW. First rounds of raids, people need to bring their pre-best in slot pokemon to contribute to the groups progression... people not doing that are just there for a carry / free loot.

[@terrencemiltner1005]

Brutal early raids, there. I found out about a group raid for a bunch of Gengars yesterday and today. Nothing above 84% but did get a Shiny

[@adebateman2457]

3:00 bro swore

[@Joeyr8]

Didnt even notice that lol

[@SexyxSeds]

its the end of the world 😢

[@BraxtyBoiGt]

Where

[@justagoose5253]

​@@BraxtyBoiGt at 3:00

[@shanehorsell1852]

Heard it too

[@franinnocen]

Dude I started pokemon go this January and I've already walked 2800km this year. Super fun game. Anyways great content you help me keep up with what's going on

[@milomopia3036]

i did it with a group of 13. My team was metagross blastoise and gengar. maybe lvl 30. We kept backing out until we got a gengar with the moveset sludgewave and psychic. Just spam max defense on metagross, every once and awhile switch to gengar for max phantasm. I did it without metagross dying

[@TKs3DPrints]

what is the app you use for checking your pokemon cards.. i have seen a few but one i had was not that accurate at identifying the cards :)

[@Kvngdvon]

My second beldum was an 4* I knew I should’ve kept going lol

[@zun7586]

come to the community ambassador raids at columbus circle tomorrow dude

[@nickvansteerteghem8262]

A karge attack is not dodgable in my opinion, a normal attack can be dodged if you see the "take cover" lines above your pokémon though 😅

[@jakemccann1487]

I’m more interested in that new India costume pikachu

[@sinister_steve_442]

I beat it with a team of 24 players barely with 40 players we won in 45 seconds we made a campfire and all became friends sorta old and young

[@huomin9320]

for dodging, only swipe once, if you try and swipe again before the dodge window ends than it fails and you take full damage

[@stephanieferguson8659]

IT IS NOT A Carotene CATCH!!!!!!!!

[@kelvinmendez7013]

We done it with a team of 8 only metagross and dodge when gengar dont have Sludge Wave

[@murthann]

damn this is leechers town, all thoses people who didn't even bother evolving just getting carried by people who powered up their mons, honestly we should be able to do private lobby for cases like that.

[@The_Jsonn]

I'll be real Gmax gengar is so easy. Me and I think 18 others with decent mons' took it down reliably

[@pedromata4989]

I feel so sorry for the guy. Ppl are legit going in with scorbunnys. Ppl just want to be carried. The casuals are ruining it

[@Pezz7]

I dont find Gmax pokemon to be useful since they can only be used in dynamax or gmax raids but it could change in the future but I doubt it. They still do look cool though.

[@justinepaulcordovilla5852]

Tbh the reason why we settle for 30 people above on raids and leave when it doesnt reach that much is to simply be sure that there are higher chances of people not bringing just scorbunnys and sobbles lmaoo. Atleast evolve what you get especially you get a lot of candies from max battles. You dont have any reason to not have fully evolved pokemons at the very least.

[@Colehamm14]

8:42 the guy in the back got me distracted

[@mannyk1986]

So the best team is Blastoise, Blastoise, Metagross. What is the best tank Dynamax Pokemon released so far, outside of Blastoise? Those folks who are looking to get carried because of the lack of stardust, should at least evolve their pokemon to their final form.

[@808pokeventures]

How are you able to show yourself and game play at the same time? What equipment would I have to use?

[@MarcelSupaarawOndemkeys]

The issue is the level 30s and below that think they can do these battles with just random dmax. I back out every single time because the team absolutely matters

[@jakobabbott5084]

The real new number 1 is froakie with a witches hat. Dude got top tier costume.

[@atrickster_3450]

Your first raid was a disaster, wrong moves, wrong counters, wrong order lol Jesus Christ

[@Carrnage101]

16 trainers. No problem. Shout out from the BPL (Buckeye Pokemon League) in Buckeye AZ!

[@directedfilms6691]

49 Raids... 49. One shiny.

[@spidersoldier1039]

Congrats on the shiny, i hope i can get one tomorrow with a group.

[@lelouchchanbc]

Predicted the rest G max for Kanto Pokemon. Christmas and Holiday event, Gmax Lapras. It should have Light Festival with Gmax Pikachu but it will be 2025 New Year Event? Bug Out Event, Gmax Butterfree. Water Festival Gmax Kingler. Pokemon Go sleep Gmax Snorlax. Team Go Rocket with Jessie and James returns Gmax Meowth. World Pokemon Champions 2025 Gmax Machamp. An evolution event Gmax Eevee.

[@cocolanfofolan2508]

I get not having powered up pokemon, but unevolved pokemon is a whole different case.

[@rdust_]

my 1 dmax greedent could live with enough people, every time just dont joint below 15 people, while doing gengar and ur good, take care

[@PineappleFin]

are the galarian birds still in the game

[@jacoblowery9178]

I just love living in rural Kentucky for these.

[@Damien2388]

If i could get a good one. I would invest. But investing candy, dust and particles into a 11/12/10 isnt a good idea.

[@stevelabute5080]

As a rural player I can NEVER do these raids and i am in the majority not everyone lives in a big city , and has a large youtube following to get other competent players in a raid. So just like the Shadow legendries I will never get one. Kudos to niantic for putting a challenge in for a raid that a large majority of players will never be able to do. Before you say go to a city I can only imagine the whining if Niantic ever added a feature that you would have to travel several hour out of the cities to do( don't worry they wont)

[@MilindJadola]

Congrats for your new shiny 🎉

[@ronniedeaton3067]

I've already got the shiny ✨️ Gmax gangar with really good stats

[@jordanammon8560]

Ended up getting back to back hundos on my first two battles!

[@babyseal8822]

People who use unevolved Mon is actually spoofer,IM remember my friend screaming "who freaking use SOBBLE "

[@ville2973]

I got a shiny from second raid without paying any mp's. And it was 3 stars. We had a nice group of 40 people, and that was easy af.

[@AshleyOCE]

Got the hundo last night with our local group of about 15 with pretty average lvl 30 pokemon

[@dracocatgames6536]

Will there be a video on the India exclusive pikachus

[@CR75716]

How easy is to beat a (let’s say) gastly raid? (Like how many people)

[@mega_d1016]

The people who have weak pokemon are probably because they don't have good pokemon, so they use the worst pokemon so they can instead cheer for their team instead of using there mid pokemon

[@callahanmarchand]

If you go in the g max pokedex you can find all the next gigamax pokemon i think

[@mariussm7797]

Bro is using Focus Blast (fighting move) against a ghost type 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@simple7708]

Joined a group today. Failed the first attempt, but succeeded on the second with 12 people. Then we did another with 8 people using the Gengar from the previous one. And I got a shiny one!

[@angelaa1611]

Congrats!

[@Reshiram-j6s]

I got my shiny from the first ever gigantamax Gengar battle lol And it's ivs are pretty decent it's a 3* 86%

[@joshnolan7189]

I have been wanting to do gmax raids but where I live I can't get enough people at all and I been to heavy populated area and no one was playing

[@crystaldrewes5089]

Got lots of game raids but no one even plays by me and I can’t even get them or defeat

[@N7X_edits]

spoof

[@pokechannel9758]

I have a doubt, what if some of my teammates bring weak Pokemon and die early so that they can cheer as cheering increases the dynamax meter quickly so I think it would be better that way. Like 5 or 10 out of 30 die quickly to cheer would that be a good idea?

[@SnooWords97]

No necessarily, because you end up doing less damage overall due to less people attacking

[@lelouchchanbc]

Predicted two others than Kanto and Galar Gmax Pokemon. Gmax Garbodor sustainability event. Gmax Meltmetal, when Pokemon Go co operate with others Pokemon game and need to transfer between Pokemon games by using Pokemon Home. Like pre evolution Gmax Pokemon such as Pikachu, Meowth and Eevee please don't have evolve button down this Pokemon but Niantic will not implement it! If you accidentally evolve it no Gigantamax form on post evolution. After hard Gmax raid, no Gmax Pokemon on your collection. Players will cry😭 until tear flow outo finish until dry eye. Those Max Attack, Max Guard and Max Spirit then these this up definitely useful in Max raid but players need spend many Stardust and xl candy to achieve these. Most of players play in conventional way and those who is new Pokemon Go players is hard to so many stardust in their Pokemon Go account. Also those newly Pokemon makes it debut in Pokemon Go which normally have less amount of candy and XL candy. This is already very few players who played Pokemon Go for 24/7 and spend so much money for this game in order to max out these three max moves.

[@samax6006]

I wish I could do them but I don’t live in a dense enough place

[@rampantpikachu]

Go someplace else then.

[@DeadpoolGaming22]

I’m curious how much stardust he made in total of all those gengar raids lol 😂

[@JonathanPerez-yj1xl]

Mystic7 under 1k stardust is scary I Hope he isn't planning to stop playing

[@annmoomau881]

These are not raids, they are battles. Words man!

[@yogantarawayan]

People with baby pokemon is pain 😂😂