MEGA RAYQUAZA ELITE RAID DAY DISASTER in Pokémon GO?! (2024)

[@Gilbert88ita]

I have waited an entire day someone to show up. Nodaby came and i wasted an entire saturday. Only Niantic could fuck up megaray event.

[@sunshinesunny9657]

I wasn't able to mega evolve

[@louwe05]

⁠@@sunshinesunny9657I wasn’t able to raid and I was at Rome!

[@sunshinesunny9657]

@@louwe05 Let's cry together

[@stormsOFfire]

I agree with you. EVERYONE was racing around in convoys of cars. Up to 10 cars rolling up in neighborhoods probably shocks many people. Alot of money used for gas and time driving around. I wish I could of raid a few easy spots or remote it.

[@tylero2112]

It was dangerous. I was following a truck that was doing 45 in a 25.

[@bongintom32]

My group had a few people get upset when 7 vehicles pulled up in front of their houses that were beside small parks

[@stephenmallon7194]

Yeah It sucked. I was at work all day. Would have liked to at least get the meteorite by being able to do a remote raid but can't do that. So I'm not really too happy about this event

[@chelsealittle4900]

Me too

[@MonsterEnergy2460]

Same

[@KattifyFPS]

Same here with ya, was looking forward to get one to complete the hoenn dex but was at work all day and the closest one was up the street 🥺😅

[@Ditronus.]

I call this game Pokemon Gas N' Go. The core of the gameplay loop is raids, and yet if you don't live in a mega city, you're practically forced to drive everywhere to do raids efficiently. I went to Sendai pokefest, and it was so easy to walk around and do as many raids as I wanted. But in America, especially on shadow raid days, you're frantically driving everywhere, consulting campfire, coordinating with others on discord, trying to beat lights so you can get into that lobby on time, etc. It's horribly designed gameplay, to be honest. I feel like it's OK for *other* events to get you outside with other people, but raids should be accessible remotely as an online feature. That, or make it where raid gyms have such short timers where myself and others can meet at ONE cool raid gym spot and redo that raid every 10 min or so as much as we want so we don't have to drive around.

[@swendoodle]

I really wish they would have just done a regular raid day. Luckily, in our town of about 10,000 people, we were able to get about eight people together to do the raids, and thank goodness for that. We initially started with four people, but even with party boosted damage, we ran out of time but got it the second time. I feel bad for places with even smaller populations that weren't able to participate and get Rayquaza. Also, some towns around me didn't get 12pm or 6pm raid eggs. This was such a disaster of an event right before Global GO Fest.

[@Ihatebamm]

I wasn’t too mad about it being it being in elite raids but the fact that there were no raids in a 45 minute walking vicinity in all directions is wild to me

[@tupacsleftnut4995]

i didnt have any eggs from 2-4 man it was rough

[@Lambo-Playz]

Same but we walked it and we had no one to raid with

[@basillah7650]

All game news should be in game no social media legit only reason to give that news to people not even playing the game.

[@XxOmarCruzXx]

At this point im just waiting for regular rayquaza to come back and get it that way

[@Free_BMJ]

I skipped the entire thing

[@niteshban1223]

Its disaster here in Australia, Sydney. Went to 3 raids with noone showing up 🗿🗣️😭💀

[@qiyuxuan9437]

Had all fully lobbies in Sydney CBD, but I know some people went to bankstown because the eggs in CBD did not show up until 10:30

[@orangeroadlove7185]

it's because simply the elite raid gym is rare in the community. only 1 elite raid in our community. I was able to raid just one time. for other people, it is not enough to collect 400 energy.

[@Official_Triple_D]

Didn’t feel like shiny boosting. I did about 16 total raids 8 per across two phones, not a single shiny

[@Heart-pq3oi]

Because it not

[@uhhhpersoniguess]

We had more than ninety catches in our group, with zero shinies. I don't know what Niantic are doing with rng

[@aksav.b]

I did 32 raids, 0 shiny, 1 decent IV (15. 15, 12) 6 run away, spent the whole day traveling here and there

[@scoogyskoogz1869]

Mystic7 didn’t seem to have a problem getting a shiny with the two raids he did! All these streamers have super increased drop rates

[@junrycalvo]

We only have 2 elite raid in our area despite hundreds on gyms. Worst thing is we need to find other elite gym, such a waste of time. We're so few. It took couple of attempts. Some of our friends wanted to help but they're miles away. This elite raid is incredibly dumb & stupid. we just bought couple of premium raid passes not knowing we are only going to raid 2 mega rayquaza. Such a bummer.

[@orangeroadlove7185]

yea. same here. there are about 20 raid gym in our neighbor but only 1 elite raid. can't get even energy to mega evolve. what a failure event.

[@YaboiGLitch935]

I'ma be fr this was the worst day that happened to me 1. Bc Rayquaza is my 2nd fav pokemon and I would have finished the weather trio 2. I live in a suburb area but barely anybody plays Pokemon go and there was no eggs 3. WHY NOT A RAID DAY?! 4. Niantic sold hard bc alot of ppl (including me) live in suburb or rural areas where not a lot of people can go and raid

[@AdventGO]

they just hate you guys I think thats it

[@Courraff]

3:24 this was basically a Tier 7 raid boss and local only, thats painful

[@loomnatinoscopers]

it felt like a real raid boss, even with top tier counters he still knocked out your mons in 1-2 charge attacks, and he could actually spam outrage making you go trough more than a full team in a lobby of 14 people (even when dodging he did like 1/5 of the hp)

[@goth.baby420]

Niantic really wanting people to use teleporting, and other hacks lmfao.

[@libradawg9]

You touched on my problem raiding Ho-Oh. I kept getting trash ones until the last remote pass I had. As for Rayquaza, everybody I know quit because Niantic keeps doing idiotic, senseless garbage seemingly designed specifically to hurt us, even if they don't profit either.

[@WTFLOLXD999]

Can confirm in NZ. We had FOUR eggs across all of Auckland (most populated city in the country) by 11am. 1 of which is a 45 min drive away from the central city. The other 3 were a 30 minute drive in the other direction from the city. Myself and some friends drove out to the three thinking that’s all we were getting, right after we beat it, we see eggs have spawned all over the city after we have driven all the way out to this random location. We were able to coordinate with some folks on the campfire and do some more raids in the city but we were very let down that we had to do everything last minute. Also haven’t heard anything about Niantic making good on their screw up haha. That all being said I don’t like trashing on the game, my friends and I really enjoy Pokemon go and I’ve been walking 60+ Km a week while I’m on break from uni because of it. Just feeling really disappointed after being excited over this event…

[@CoolkidKruz]

I HATED IT IT WAS STUPID

[@Theonewhoknocks879]

The shiny odds almost definitely were not boosted in my experience. My community really showed up for this even and I kid you not there were probably 30-40 people there and we collectively did 5 raids in the first round of hatches. No word of a lie 3 people got a shiny out of the entirety of the group.

[@Blyfee]

The whole event was a big middle finger to the players in my experience. I went out to 4/6 elite gyms in my area at 12, 1, and 5pm. Recently moved house so not really found much of a "community" yet. I managed to complete a whole 1 raid all day. I had assumed it would be similar to Kyogre and Groudon but no, what a stupid assumption to make. So I finished the event with 1 Rayquaza, 200 mega energy (not enough to mega), and 0 meteorite.. Gone are the days where you could just open the app and take part wherever you live. I feel sorry for any parents that went out with their kids who were excited by the prospect of getting Mega Ray in their collection only to be incredibly disappointed by all the hoops they're expected to jump through. Niantic have really failed.. again. EDIT: Also, Twitter and TikTok as their main channels of communication, absolute joke. And just because a pokemon is strong does not validate making it so difficult to obtain, that's their issue for not balancing power, players should not be for them being lazy.

[@TonyWang]

I'm glad this post is here so I can have a support group.

[@Lambo-Playz]

For me and my friends in australia, we had a group of 3 with decent counters. We planned for this riad like a few hours ahead and we were really excited. But as it turned out, the elite raids were a huge fail. We had 3 raids in the area like 10km apart. We had to walk to each raid and due to lack of communication, we waited at 1 raid for 20 mins with no people and then we went to another raid. As we got there, over 10 people showed up AT THE FIRST GYM WE WENT TO and by the time we got back, they all left. Feeling kinda defeated rn and doubting niantic a bit

[@QuriouslyCurious]

For sure you should do a community poll and see the percentages and hopefully niantic sees the stats too!

[@ChameleonDance]

I have a different perspective. I live in a very rural community. I never see people doing raids in person, and struggle to do these as it's only me and my girlfriend most of the time. This time around, I met a bunch of people and made some friends to do in person events together in future. I didn't get any good Rayquazas but it was a genuinely fun day out. If this was a normal raid day, it would have been another remote raid fest for many. I think criticism is good to always push a game forward, but this channel seems to be trying to generate hate recently. It's a shame because you have the best videos on meta pokemon. I hope you take other perspectives to heart. ❤

[@basillah7650]

raid days is shiny boosted it was elite raid so of course no shiny boosted only good thing they did was increase mega energy from the raid so could get enough for alt

[@anggalesmana5386]

i bet the guy who get 98% and a shiny would say the opposite if he didn't get those lol, but honestly if i get 98% and a shiny would happy with the result aswell but not gonna say niantic is doing a great job handling this

[@carebearstare5000]

there was only 1 egg for my closest town for 12.01pm. None at 1pm and then 2 at 6pm. Managed to get 6 people to raid the first one but only got 150 mega energy so I didn't go back 5 hours later to be disappointed. 30 minute drive each way. Biggest complain was not raids. Awful compared to normal mega raid day

[@justsavagegaming4966]

I forgot to claim the meteorites 😭😭😭😭😭 woke up 2am in a hurry to claim it and was so sad it was gone

[@WesMaldonado]

We live in Seattle which is easy level even for these raids BUT we were out of town in a medium sized beach town with enough raid gyms but we had to drive 20-30 minutes to get to the raids and nobody showed up and I used campfire l, etc, etc. My family of 4 with high medium level 35 avg stood no chance here. We finally found 4 other people at one raid (of 4-5 we tried) and got one. *sigh* My 8 and 10 year olds were so bummed.

[@craigchilman3649]

If it was a normal raid day, I would’ve purchased between 10 to 15 remote raids as I live in a rural area, plus the extra little thing but instead I did not do one raid because rural area in Australia get nothing so obviously they don’t like money

[@kristinl.7063]

Things ended up working out so my friends and I could participate, but man was the set up for this event stressful. We got lucky we ran into more ppl because we only had 5.

[@Earzentail]

Ayyy, my fav pogo youtuber featured me in a video. That's crazy.

[@Jjunclejj]

Honestly, I enjoyed it. Only played two hours and I was able to do 7 raids. I didn’t get a shiny or any good IVs but that’s ok for me. However the people in my community were all really angry and in a bad mood which I honestly didn’t understand but I’m a new player so that’s why probably

[@rudya8504]

I was surprised since my first raid I got a meteorite from completing the raid so now I have my max mega rayquza 14/15/14 and now I have two more chances to mega two more with out spending money this game really needs some development love if they want to reach 10+ years.

[@tmanhawk51]

Even trying to go out multiple times they were so far apart it was tough to do more than just a couple per hour.

[@AdventGO]

I guess they wanted their players to give up and not touch grass like the game's whole purpose of existing was

[@Cool_Penguin]

I am extremely fortunate to have a big pokemon go community. I managed to get 10 raids and got the shundo.

[@Lovely_lily_1]

i got 14/13/14 lvl 25 n a shiny 11/15/15 lvl 20 which 1 should i invest should i lvl up first of new move first

[@Ditronus.]

The one with 14 attack is much better. You normally always want higher attack (max of 15 if possible) as you'll miss out on fast attack break points if it's too low.

[@Lovely_lily_1]

@@Ditronus. Truee but 11/15/15 is master league 18 while other one is 256 so I guess meta knows better

[@evilras]

Ok so I managed 14 raids in Hyde park in London (every raid had 20 people) and caught 12. 2 shinies, 2 x 93% and 1 x 89%. Sadly despite living in a big city I had to spoof to bounce around the park as I had IRL things to do. I remote raid 5 times a day. I'll remote raid during the ultra beasts events. But I had no other option. Other than missing out on the number one Pokémon.

[@officialulti]

3 Teenagers that were together out if 30 people got 2 shinies each 😂. 1 other got just one. but 26 people didnt get a shiny and we ran 14 raids. congrats on the teens though. But got damn niantic slide at least 1 shiny to some more people. Side note : 2 high 90 I.V’s fled from me. All i got was a 13/13/15 as the main. the rest 💩

[@MarcoFD]

was out of town, went into the village i was at on a gamble around 1pm. second gym i walked to i saw 3 people with a total of 7 phones, we did 4 raids. first 2 raids i got a shiny (no kidding, didnt need them eather already have one) last 2 raids didnt hit shinies but 1 of them did have 98 ivs. had been saving up rayquaza candies for a month, ended up with just enough after the 4 raids to get 100 candies to teach rayquaza a second charged move, meteorite it and mega it. shiny rayquaza truely looks epic.

[@thamSihou]

Niantic messed this up! The egg spawn timing and the experience from this elite raid suxk. Lucky for me, I got a hundo during last year Go fest. That was a fun event to farm Mega Rayquaza and the catch rate is easier, but not this! I just fight this elite raid for the meteorite quest.

[@mattgreen543]

I work weekends so couldn’t participate in this event, even if I was free,I don’t have a car and the torrential rain all day would have put off trekking for miles in the hope of finding an elite gym and praying other people turned up to battle.

[@smucklord]

It wasnt too bad for me i had a duo a fouund a raid group at a college, after that we found a pretty cool park with 2 raids there and played in the water while waiting for the 6 o'clock raids to start and my friend got a shiny Rayquaza.

[@Liam5971]

I have 2 accounts + 2 strangers also failed to take the Mega Rayquaza down. How I wish some spoofers appear when I need help.

[@orangeroadlove7185]

playing in 0.75 speed is much better

[@Bedqs]

I tried i was runnig around my small town and did only one raid and didn't even completed it with 7 other Trainers😢

[@Ditronus.]

That's surprising. I had a group of 5 people, with probably mid-ish accounts, beat it with like fifty seconds left 🤷. He's strong, but he is double weak to ice, so mamoswines, dodging, and party power do a lot.

[@Bedqs]

@@Ditronus. That's problem i had lot of my good Pokémon knocked out And i am playing like one month i don't know what happend that we didn't Killed him we Lost only because of time we got him to the red part

[@Ditronus.]

@user-um1me4uh3i gotcha. Sorry to hear it was a bad experience for you. I hope Niantic makes a lot of changes!

[@alexisespino9305]

Should've been a raid day. I missed the first couple of hours and could only make the latter half and only a few gyms had raids left. Same thing happened with groudon and my brother and I were still able to complete 16 raids.

[@hobbycrusaider4468]

Was a terrible event - of the two gyms, I got to as I work Saturdays, @ 5.05pm had 4 players which meant we couldn’t take it down (with 3 tries). Then the second Gym @6.00pm had me! So no Ray, no win, no research complete and no meteor - free research - Oh and a pile of revives and potions reviving the 26 Pokémon that feinted… Not getting the meteor is the biggest bummer I’ve 1457 mega energy from GoFest last year and would like a chance to get another mega…

[@alongcameanelephantmarloan9212]

I couldn’t complain about the number of raids. I had 5 nearby and I live in a rather small city. However NO ONE showed up. We were a team of 4, including one child and just got our a** whooped. I’m most disappointed about the difficulty and the lack of people showing up. Also, campfire wasn’t aligned with the game. You could start hosting the elite raid (which was filled in seconds) but you got blocked when trying to add the trainers to the raid. It’s stupid to allow people to get that far in the process + no way in announcing you can’t continue with the raid because you only have fixed answers to use in the campfire chat. Complete disappointment, especially for the kid.

[@OLYMPIAN_ZEUS]

This event sucked! I made a group on campfire with 18 people. 1st problem was about 26 showed up. Nobody waited to split the raid and 20 jumped in leaving the other 6 alone. Then after the event one guy messaged me on there since I was the group leader and asked if I would help him walk back to his car since he had a leg amputated last month. I did, and I turn around the group left us and by the time I get to the next raid they have already moved on. I organized a group and was only able to do one raid and it was a shitty Rayquaza at that. I’m annoyed with Niantic for making this an Elite raid and annoyed with the group I put together for being selfish. This was supposed to bring our “community” together but all it did was bring problems. I would have spent money on remote raids. I live in a relatively small town and getting groups together for raids is damn near impossible/fucking annoying

[@mrteyssere]

Totally agree with the comment saying Rayquaza is the best in the game and it SHOULD be hard. I really hope Mega Mewtwo will be similar. What's the point of playing this game if everyone gets the same Pokémons. Make Mega Mewtwo Elite+ raid with 10-15 minimum to beat it and a catch rate of 5%, only a few players will be able to get it.

[@floppyo_o9394]

My girl and 2 kids+ me went out and had a blast. All got meterite but was kinda hard for my 2 grand parents. They were lvl 20ish cuz they don’t play, both unable to super charge attack for the metrite. Ik it’s not really important for them (they just wanna see grand kids happy and don’t really care about the pokemon part vs social part). but just for thought for new players who wanted Ray. The grand father even got a shiny Ray and was like why was it black not green like ours😂had a blast and glad we had some others chasing raids near me though

[@ButterfliesAreNinjas]

Well I went out with 7 friends ranging from level 45-50. We didn’t have any raids at 12 or 1 and 3 hatched at 5. We did 2 and barely defeated both with 8 players with 3 seconds left! I’ve done all the previous elite raids with 5-6 people no issues and also did rayquaza raids last year and they were not nearly this difficult! This was ridiculous as was the bs research We all used party play and recommended counters with zero added luck!!!

[@Pokebattleleague]

[1] X is mostly free speech now thankfully. [2] I'm thrilled every person on earth didn't get the rayray because it would have ruined one of the best mons in the game. [3] inclusivitty ruined battle league ruined the characters does everyone really want the best mons in the game being Equity as well ? I don't! Iv grinded my a## off for the mons and ivs I have and I don't want them all being worthless trash because.....Equity ehhh....and why on earth should everyone have the best mons in the game and it be easy to get? What is even the point if the quest bears no fruit because its to easy ???? The game is literally pointless if you get the best everything for zero effort.. everyone went to go get some frenchcries and waahburgers

[@ozcarp92]

I spent most of the day coordinating with players around the area, drawing maps and answering questions. The event was a success for our players as most of us managed to get 20 raids done, and my self I was able to catch 14/20 one even being shiny! The only issue and honestly it is a significant issue is the fact that the timed research doesn't even attempt to give you the rewards if you don't get to claim them. I was so overwhelmingly distracted helping others I never claimed my rewards from the timed research before it disappeared 15 mins after the last raid. I got home, took a shower and I was met with the time research gone and no way to get a meteorite anymore. I am locked out of getting my shiny mega Rayquaza for an indefinite amount of time 🙄. I get it It's my fault for not just clicking claims, but the system should not even work like that. They should just lock your progress but with the ability to claim any already earned rewards or at least give you the unclaimed rewards before they delete the event from your screen. I'm just very frustrated with this whole deal but at least I still have my shiny NopeRope....

[@antoniodittman5820]

42 raids (2 accounts) 33 catches 1 shiny a 93 &91% and nothing else above 90... ive never had this low of a catch rate or this consistently low IVs. Im fine with them incentivizing in person play, but do something to make in person raids more accessible. Scale difficulty to lobby size or something

[@PlzBelieveIt916]

I was in a car of 4 people, traveling in a group of 10-15 cars. My car did 10 raids in the last 2 hour sessions, and we all got a shiny thankfully. But many in the whole group didnt get one, and some people were struggling to get decent IVs. Saddest thing was 2 people in my car were newish to the game, and didnt pay attention to the timed research. They checked for it when we got home after the raids, shortly after 7 and the research was gone, no meteorites for them. 1 of them had a 100% IV that cant be mega evolved... RIP

[@abrahamv.7714]

I used campfire and there was already a schedule in my city (not a big city), and had to go with the group. We were like 25 people driving around but, WTF with the distances... had to drive miles between each raid. Managed to catch 2 of 5 between 12-2pm, and got a shiny but only 82%, no hundos. And the problem was, the raid was capped at 20 people, so if you didnt time it well, you either got in too soon and got not intonthe team or too late and the team was full.

[@brynngragg6462]

That day was a big pile of Garbodor. Was the only one one at each raid, completed all the tasks but the win elite raid, lost the chance for a second mega rayquaza and a sliver of a chance for a shiny and didn't feel like pursuing it because the rewards just weren't worth all the effort and stardust to invest into it just to fail. So I focused on shadow Raikou instead since I didn't have it and already have a 15-15-14 mega level 3 Rayquaza anyway. Got a 15-13-11 out of that so that was worth missing out on the elite raids.

[@ZombieZebra3]

I did a ton of raids but only because I joined the raid train in my community with like 20 other people. I intensely dislike joining the raid train because it’s always very stressful driving from one location to the next, raiding, and then immediately driving to the next. I only caught so many because I wasn’t the one driving. I would have had more fun it it had been a normal raid day. Final count was five shinies (everyone in our car got at least one), one 98%, and I got enough XL candies for max my hundo from last Go Fest.

[@Ashley-lz9jh]

Not trying to complain because I got 4, but near the end, I did an elite raid with 6 people, I was the lowest level (31) and the other people were mid to high 30’s. We were friends, had a party bonus, and I rejoined over and over and over. We still couldn’t beat it :( I had to revive 38 Pokémon from that one raid and I had 0 revives left 😂

[@isaactheriault7999]

1. M.Rayquaza Raid day suuuuckeeed. 2. I will say I actually enjoyed the difficulty increase. If these were remotable, the day would have been a huge success. There is next to nothing that is challenging for me to battle in this game anymore but id rather delete my account than put in effort for another ERD.

[@SammyR2]

It went pretty well for me because I was lucky enough that a single park had like 11 or 12 raids but it was very tiring because the park is ginormous and me and my friends had to run a lot. All 3 of us each did 8 raids. Only one of my friends got a shiny and the other got a Hundo which he had to master ball. Even though I had the worst luck out of all my friends I’m very lucky and I agree they could’ve made this event wayyyy better if it was just a normal raid day

[@JuanSanchez-is1jq]

There is something weird about this event. I went to a park and walk to the back where there was s a gym in the open space. I needed to walk to get in range of the gym. After 5 min, i see 17 players joining the raid loby and nobody around the park. I raced to get the pass and joined. Beat the raid, but was shocked that there was no group around that I could see. Again, the gym was in a wide open space that trainers would Be visible if they wanted to raid. Is there a way for people to remote and join local raids whiout being there ????? I am so confused..

[@Tokamak3.1415]

I was only able to catch 1/6 despite always hitting excellent curveballs. I caught 18/19 Shadow Mewtwo so didn't feel like wasting raid passes if this is Niantic's way of doing things now. I'll just make 10 alts and spoof.

[@TREOL]

My group of 4 did 10 total. I got 3 shinies and the didn’t get one. Prior to yesterday I’ve only been able to do 5 total due to work. I took off for it and my friend group was able to knock em out with just 4 people for the 3 we had to do like that. Plus 1 person’s glitched way more than ours did. Like unplayable bad.

[@mattv2099]

This event is why I clamped 16 devices to my bicycle.

[@Mat-qo3hh]

Hi luckybunz! this is a bit unrelated but i saw your gbl guide, and im wondering to get up to rank 20, is sacking the first few days of sets to get easy opponents and going 4 wins then 0/1 viable? thats what ive been doing but idk if i should just try to win as much as possible up till rank 20 before doing 1 and 4

[@maganhassan2627]

Too many players means connection issues for me thats my experience there 😅 I feel like due to too many problems elite raids might of well be scrapped. I liked the idea of certain pokemon like mythicals spawning there but..I stopped caring about that now😂 Golden lure bonus was good 👍

[@roseakanotfakegoku]

I was so mad because I did 20+ raids and didn't get any good ivs nor shiny. I had a 98% so I'm not too mad about ivs but the shiny did get me upset. And I had a huge advantage of being on a trip for this elite raid day so I was driving all over the place already. I can't imagine people in rural area being frustrated about not even getting 1 raid edit: another shocking thing is that I only got the 2 meteorites from the free researchs. I was expecting the meteorites to have a boosted drop this time

[@shadowdrakes]

The driving in cars is so true how they say they build the game for players to get out and explore but cause it to be so spread out or hard that no one truly walks around on foot. Most drive or spoof and Niantic never thinks how game breaking that is. Years before covid, I'd complain on spoofing but then remote raids seemed to be the perfect middle ground. Then they nerfed it and have shown no sense of concern to players who are affected. So now I say, want to spoof go for it.

[@Yung7Troop]

It wasn't too bad for me, my local ambassadors hosted 350 plus trainers on campfire here in St. Louis Tower grove park Niantic has hosted events there before I've got lucky with a shundo guess you need to be in a big park with a lot of elite gyms

[@falsaai]

I got 2 hundos during this event. Don’t get me wrong, I still hate Niantic for forcing us to go through this horrible experience. This should have been a normal raid day like they’ve done with Primal Grodoun and Kyogre.

[@exogaming1983]

mewtwo, groudon or rayquaza which is better overall? I personally think rayquaza is the best due to the mega(which I got during the global go fest last year, since there was not a single elite raid egg in my area). Though what is your opinion

[@ThePunisher005]

Did over 50 Raids, got zero Shiny. Niantic broke most of their ToS lately, they don't respect their own announced ratio, they seem they dont know the differnce between ratio and average as if numbers doesn't mean anything.

[@chaosdragun1608]

Even if they allowed just 5 remote raids it would have gone a long way. Elite raids are fitting for thier name and they are only for certain players and a middle finger to 95% of the community. 100% agree with the evaluation of the situation though. Great vid

[@mattimeikalainen4075]

19:53 Not sure how much truth there is to this but throwing excellents in a row without resetting the circle may be bugged/glitched to some point. From my experience resetting has guaranteed better chance of catching as the raid boss hasn't displayed the behaviour of jumping out after the first shake multiple times in a row. It would be interesting to see this tested on a larger scale for more accurate results

[@davidthewhitelizard3681]

From 9 raids, 8 of them fled,mostly I managed to get excellent throws with golden razberry and even still they fled unfortunately I live in small city so I was forced to travel by train an hour to get into capital city and some other raiders, spent half day on it and ať least one which Ive got have a tree stars but even still a terrible day.

[@Diadas66]

Niantic is and always will be a mapping company...there vision crap they keep saying they want to force is just bull to make players go out and about to get location data for the real companys they only care about. thats why they do events like this, hell it makes sence for them to only do certain areas, must be places they need for mapping info on, how to fix is do an event like this one and make people go to the places

[@robertk1726]

I only had 3 raids within reasonable driving range. We were able to defeat each of them and I got 36 balls in total. I was able to throw 30 excellent curves with golden raspberries but all 3 fled. Disappointing but I did get the 2 meteorites.

[@mongchang8532]

As of March 2024, the lifetime revenue for the Pokémon Go app is over $5.3 billion. 🤔 You think Niantic gives two shitz about content or players? 🤣

[@Miklo_1]

You say spoofing takes away the fun but do you use that Go plus machine to catch for you? Do you buy your Pokemon? I don’t spoof but it does look like fun. Especially now that Pokemon Go is so negative towards the community.

[@scoogyskoogz1869]

I spent so much time communicating and driving all over that I missed one of the meteorites almost didn’t get any! I realized in the last 15 mins that the research was 5 hours! Barely got it! Should have made it claimable for 24 hours

[@Grdian]

10:00 their profits focus on selling data based on user movement. their "goal" is to get players out and interacting is insidious in that they only want you out and moving so they have data to sell. As the data begins to show nothing of use or dwindle in buyers, they are swapping to other tactics to make money (selling tickets that players have to pay cash for).

[@tylero2112]

I feel bad for everyone who dodnt get one so my complaint isnt as important, but smh i swear i did 14 raids no shiny. Missed a meteorite due to a code?? And also ive been on a 42 non shiny streak lmao when my buddy caught 3 and one shiny ..

[@Dmoneymonster]

Remember, this is a game, so some people lose and some people win, that drives FOMO, so next time those that missed out will continue to thirst over future events. Also Niantic is not your friend, they are a business. Sometimes business can be fun, but sometimes business is business. Play smart

[@0thunderstorm01]

Honestly I feel like they are not listening to the community and will not in the future. They just do whatever they want and making the situation worse with every update and event, I quit the game 3 times in the past year already. The game is just flooded with bugs and issues.

[@Ryusola]

I'm just spitballing here but why isn't there an algorythm that scales the raids difficulty up based on population/stop/gym density??? Surely it's possible.

[@brandonfox319]

Event was aboustly horrible they need to listen to the people the game is dying and is to much pay to play for a any true success in the game . Playing a game at half potential is no fun or fair . Giving us options then taking them away all the time with everything. Is wrong and Pure garbage.

[@tonyh2596]

I was lucky to have done 8 Mrays raids, but I was only able to catch 2 of those and no shiny. Felt sick to have thrown an endless amount of excellent throws with a golden berry each time and only got 2. Gross

[@baeleef_]

wonder if the mega mewtwo launch format will be similar to when Mewtwo was originally launched w the special elite raids back in 2018 :D when you had to be “invited” to the raid 😂

[@AdventGO]

worst raid day ever, I hope everyone who participates gets AN ACTUAL free meteorite cause there were too many bugs and too little time to beat the raids and then finish the timed research especially if you have a job

[@chrishoward8483]

Had to work 12 hrs could not make Niantic sucks If there were remote raids a lot of people would have been able to play.. I don't think Niantic cares about how we feel.

[@jorgeesparzadiaz1993]

Fellow trainers, I want to Mega evolve a Rayquaza. The candidates are a Hundo Rayquaza OR a Lucky 14/14/15 Ray. Suggestions???

[@KadenJoshua-w1n]

Even after so many raid I didn't get a shiny requaza at this I would say 100iv pokemon are easier to get then shinys because I got a 100iv on my first raid and my remaining raid passes were just a waste 😢

[@ordinaryman9986]

I think these elite raids were just tested to see what the people are willing to do for it so the next one could be better or more likely paid to get access to it. One example is premium remote raid that cost pretty penny can only be bought and have expression date.

[@russellstewart9012]

It was such a garbage day! I don’t spend any money at all whatsoever anymore. They have truly ruined this once lovely game. It’s sad. But they do the same that they do to all their games. Oh well

[@MateoOld]

I was able to do 5 raids from 12-1:30 ish. Walking with local group definitely not worth it. It’s always 1step forward and 2 steps back with go

[@Rizebenihime]

I was so upset, absolutely no elite raids in my town, can't uses remote passes, and I had cancelled plans for the day just for this event, all to be slap in the face and told "nah, nothing for you".

[@Jiri-or-jira]

me and my friends needed 9-18 people to beat rayquaza