WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU POWER UP YOUR POKEMON in Pokémon GO! | New Raid Changes

[@LuckyBunz]

Niantic has made an official statement regarding these changes to raids. "Trainers, we have launched improvements to Raid Battles to increase stability, reduce latency, and provide the ability to expand them in the future. This may affect the timing of some Pokémon moves. We are monitoring these changes and your feedback and may adjust them over time." twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1831833501164777666

[@kipp14]

This doesn't change much in practice due the minimum team macros of one mega and five of the top 20-30 in their types on average is still going to be good enough for most people. Unless the legendary tier of dynamax includes event mythicals as part of the rotation most people aren't going to have your zarudes or other one offs.

[@michaelb1082]

The fact that they 'may' adjust them over time is worst case scenario in my head. For what time period will I have to wait for them to make any adjustments or know that they aren't making adjustments? I don't wanna power anything up for the next year plus lol

[@PokeeSeanGO]

I was just about to say it sure would be nice if Niantic let us know if these changes were intentional. Well... My brain is full of a lot of inaccurate information now, I guess. Meowscarada is ranked higher than Kartana now?!

[@fornal1321]

Hi, I have a question guys. I was doing kyogre RAID as 4 trainers today and it was crazy spamming Blizzard like he could use 3 Blizzards without any fast moves. We almost didnt menage to defeat it and we lost for 4 pokemon party each. Is it normal now?

[@kipp14]

@@fornal1321 no it wasn't normal and should be fixed with the current update

[@ButterfliesAreNinjas]

The shadow raids are the most broken. You can’t use gems when the enrage. The 5 star shadow are hit or miss if they enrage but no gems show up either way. I just did the new shadow lapras and it became enraged, the gems were they but I couldn’t throw them. They really need to fix these raids. I’m guessing the new dynamax raids did this

[@tiagopacifico9230]

I was so pissed off when I couldnt solo alolan marowak for some reason

[@SlickMcWillie]

On the other hand, we did a shadow suicune with 3 accounts last weekend and it never enraged.. downed in ~150 seconds

[@EpicXcake]

I had the same they just stayed enraged the entire raid

[@piouspigeon9327]

Never had this happen lol

[@connorsegren6066]

This glitch is so infuriating, I knew I could solo shad Lapras, but the engagement glitches and messed it up

[@naquinja]

So close to a maxed out Diancie & now she’s in the lower top 10s for both rock & fairy. 😔

[@Bigswollz]

😢

[@ryankriller1931]

Where do you guys find the new rankings?

[@kentrodrigoroble8822]

Me too. All my pvp rare candies went to my diancie and she is very low now. Sighh

[@SavedByGODsGrace777]

I was working on upgrading diancee too ironically enough. Oof!

[@thegamemattster]

my Hundo doesn’t care about rankings because she’s still god tier to me

[@hsg5630]

Tysm lucky. Only your videos on levelling up prevented me from levelling up even meta relavent Pokemons above level 30. Even my meta relevant hundo legendaries I have leveled up to max of level 35.

[@Mativicus]

Can Niantic stop taking such massive Ls? Release half baked Dynamax mechanic where none of your current mon are usable. Stealth rework Raid system so it throws a sledgehammer into teams we have been working on for years. Megas were already kind of a joke to use in battle and only really used to grind candies but now they are identical to it being not mega. Kinda fed up with it tbh. Edit: I forgot to mention the massive changes they did to the PVP season as well aimed for the 1% to really shake up the meta making the teams i've been using for a while kind of ass that I'm less mad about but still feels like a wrong move when the rewards are so high from it I kind of feel forced to play

[@MrWhitmen1981]

You need to reduce your expectations. They are incompetent.

[@ArchetypeGotoh]

The PvP rebalance was a real shock this time. Prior seasons felt mostly decent, but this time… they’ve just made Clodsire unkillable by making all the moves of all of its checks miserable. Easiest “skip all except the type-specific Cups” of my life

[@preemptivefaceplant5277]

Naintic has been taking L's since my childhood. Maplestory may ring a bell. Game was akways buggy and it was easy to hack the game. expecting much from them is funny. Dynamax isnt really half baked, its more of a start over kinda feeling. also.... you can completely ignore and it wont effect any part of your game. literally. heck you can just farm it for the little bit of extra candies for your starters ot power them up.

[@andrewcolorado9652]

Dude your videos are the best. I watch a lot of vids and yours are the most accurate!

[@isabethtaylor940]

Would love a fun video with the new updated raid meta, thank you for all your work! ❤

[@kevinbarajas8035]

That Raid Boss Charge move consistency is bogus. I did some Kyorge raids today and it was spamming 4 back to back Charge moves. It was happening consistently.

[@silverboomerang]

Came here for this comment. Raid Bosses are insane now. I've done about 20 Kyogre raids and seeing it spam Blizzard and Hydropump 2-3 times IN A ROW is freaking wild.

[@LuckyBunz]

It looks like Niantic updated charge move consistency and energy rates again. I've seen the clips of Kyogre, it's insane. I expect this to be adjusted again in the near future.

[@basillah7650]

@@LuckyBunz the normal kyogre is pretty much the same as primal was before the nerf if it gets blizzard spams it so lucky it was just the normal versions primals would have been insane with the current crapdate.

[@thegamemattster]

MAN your video is solid. Subbed. As a gamer this video stimulated every corner of my brain 🧠.

[@naamloos1337]

honestly, i only watch your "top x pokemon for y battles" videos who knows it could take half a year before niantic lets us know wether it's permanent or not. literally today i looked up one of those video's of yours ^^ (ofcourse hoping you updated it) anyways, thanks for what you do

[@kipp14]

Holy shit y'all insane. The type's that shifted are electric grass and ice from a pokemon to build and they all still have an accessibility problem. Ice and electric are still mostly shadow locked with their respective legends being an order of magnitude. Grass has the candy problem of the starters aren't always common enough to fast build a decent one. The only interesting thing that's happened is the non shadow shinoh stone pokemon are usable now. All the legendary pokemon that were top 20 are still solid grabs and most of the new pokemon were going to be decent budget picks anyway.

[@viking0228]

Except Kartana

[@silverboomerang]

New Raid Boss updates are hot garbage. I've done around 20 Kyogre raids and seeing it spam Blizzard and Hydropump 2-3 times IN A ROW is freaking wild. It can perpetually spam Surf almost the entire fight.

[@ldsoliz]

Thanks Lucky for all of your amazing videos. I'll be waiting for your next one.

[@jaustill237]

Draco Meteor was always better than Outrage on Salamence. The issue is you are looking at a simulation and the difference between the two would be decided based on if the Pokémon faints with built up energy. This is easily resolved by just running both. It has always been the case that you want to us DM until your Pokémon is about to faint and then spend the remaining energy on an Outrage.

[@iBenBenifit]

It has never been use Draco Meteor ... idk what your talking about . Literally Outrage Salamence was the budget Rayquaza raid attacker . When Dragonite got DM for CD nobody cared & evo'd there Dratini's after CD ended to get Outrage .

[@alecjoncas7764]

I mean unless you’re doing raids alone or with only 1 or 2 ppl it doesn’t really matter. At the end of the day you’ll win regardless. I feel like ppl freak out way too much when comparing who’s the “best” Pokemon. Like having a #5 rank vs #11 rank doesn’t make that much of a difference, they’re still good. All the really matters is making sure you matchup types correctly, if you can use the correct types that the bosses are weak against then you’re good even if they’re not ranked in the top 20

[@piouspigeon9327]

I did a xernas raid with some one right before it swapped to kyogre. I had the large health bar and they had the small one. We both took screen shots it was weird lol.

[@Moresi5]

You are the man!!!! Thank you!!!

[@SickTwisted]

yessss, we need an update for the best battle league/raid pokemon to use after this new update, i personally specifically just want to know what pokemon are ideal to power up for the battle leagues, specifically the ultra and master league

[@gafak47]

not sure if you have done this and it might seem dumb..can you please make a video on with pokemon to have 2 moves for mainly for raids and pvp for e.g garchomp is good for ground(earthquake) and dragon(outrage).

[@TreFKennedy]

Hey Lucky, Nerfantic reverted the raid meta changes so they’re back to what they were this summer, wanted to give you a heads up, Reshiram, Zekrom and Kartana are back to being the best in their respective types of

[@Initialxg2]

LuckyBunz with another great video. Always bringing the best information to the gamers 🙌

[@TreFKennedy]

Yea, I’m going into Exile, F**k Nerfantic for Nerfing Zekrom and Reshiram

[@SirMopy]

Omg yes pls make such a video! 😮

[@udajs]

If my Keldeo would have better IVs, I would have powered it up to lvl50 anyway, for now it stays at level 40. The same for Zarude. I hope that one day I will get mythical with good IVs that is worth spending my Rare candy XL.

[@ItsNicolau]

Niantic finally communicated the changes in game today, in one of those pop-ups when you open the game. Your videos ranking which Pokémons are best to power up are my favourite ones on KZbin! When are you planning on updating them? January 2025? Or can we expect a 2024 update? I really enjoyed the video suggestion you made on how you set up your raid teams, that sounds amazing!!! Thanks :)

[@khadeir55]

Would like to see the new update whenever you can get them up. That aside these past few weeks with these new updates kinda rub me wrong way. You’re basically said they Pokémon one had for years now and all that raids and Stardust gain to power up is basically irrelevant. And only thing we get it a “oh well 🤷🏾‍♂️”

[@basillah7650]

for raids they are fine you do not need the best for raids unless you solo raids can invite 10 people per player to a raid by waiting 30 seconds before inviting more

[@squall513]

Wow what a meta shake up. First PvP and now PvE. It’s almost like a whole new game

[@RespireUnlimited]

same sht… poeple stream and spoof and you cant do 1 shadow ride with friends from different country … ill not play this game without poke genie etc. im not happy at all … ill quit in couple days

[@mrgamer102-sl3bs]

Even i got a wild salamance when i was level 20. It was 3150 cp. I used it everywhere since it was my only Pokemon above 2000cp😅. But it is only 55 iv

[@joeyduran355]

you should show off your collection/dex as a free-to-play

[@basillah7650]

depends if he spoofs a lot of spoofers got better stuff than pay to play because can just spoof to hundos.

[@forrest8482]

I would like to see more once we’ve got some kind of confirmation from Niantic

[@mdotcuzz]

Hey Lucky, I have a Hundo Solgaleo. Any advice how I should go about fusing for Dawn Necrozma? Thanks!

[@kamikazedatho5231]

Unless you have a hundo necrozma, i would not fuse it. They take the stats of the necrozma and its not worth losing the hundo. You can however defuse them so they go back to normal stats however it does not refund the 1000 sun needed to fuse.

[@mdotcuzz]

@@kamikazedatho5231 I have a hundo Necrozma I was saving till I found out the details. So when i unfuse, both keep their prior IV's?

[@mdotcuzz]

@@kamikazedatho5231 I have a hundo Necrozma, was just waiting to be absolute certain about the details. So Solgaleo will keep it's IV's and stay a Hundo if i unfused it?

[@forrest8482]

@@mdotcuzzif you play master league, keep it as a solgaleo and try to power it up. You can fuse your good necrozma with a different solgaleo or lunala if you’ve got one. Either one is good for raids and master league

[@talhamedet2395]

@@mdotcuzzi have 130 neceozmas but no hundo🫠

[@shane_8796]

Earned my sub

[@waterycorn8692]

Wen will naianric confirm these changes tho?🙄 i dont want to change my moves and power thungs up that cud easily be reverted

[@BrianKreinbrink]

Honestly with how hard it is to Max pokemon out with XL's and Stardust, a major shakeup like this will likely just get me to quit. I came back to the game a year ago and spent all this time assembling and powering up these mons only to have them be irrelevant. No thanks.

[@perpexel]

Shadow magnezone being better than Shadow Raikou is the most hilarious thing to me.

[@basillah7650]

a lot harder to get a hundo shad magenezone though they spamming out raikou raids

[@youngatwista]

Not a positive change...battled a Kyogre today that threw 7 thunderstrikes ....4 of them back to back 3 more shortly after...followed by more. and they move to the side more tryin to catch

[@fafnir9690]

Terrakion uses Double Kick

[@keish2177]

Returning player here and honestly can I like throw money at you to help me clean up my pokemon?

[@feraligatrcomedordecabeludo]

give it to me and I'll do it

[@keish2177]

@@feraligatrcomedordecabeludo you down?

[@LuckyBunz]

Haha I wish I could offer a service like this 😆 I'd recommend checking out my Ultimate Storage Management guide, it has a step by step walkthrough that can help you clean up your Pokemon

[@YoBrohowareyou]

People's pokemons are dying pretty quick in Kyogre raids

[@jaustill237]

Duoed it for the first time, this round. I remember when it first came out and we struggled to knock one over with 5.

[@jaustill237]

Players are way too hung up on having 6 of the best possible Pokémon at all times. You don't need the best possible Pokémon. Power up good Pokémon that you have the resources to power up and that you like.

[@basillah7650]

the bigger change is raid bosses spamming charge moves you got to understand that people hitting the raid boss allows it to use charge move more as well.

[@brandonramsey9081]

Good video! My biggest issue lately has been broken party power. i have two accounts so i could raid alone, and even 5 star raids i could do with 100+ seconds left are now either barely won or lost completely. Sad face

[@drfeelgood3846]

7:00 groupon????????

[@thamSihou]

These change / updates really piss me off, how come a normal pokemon is stronger than legendary or pseudo legend 😂 it doesnt sounds right.. what for we raid so hard for legendary/ rare pokemon right.

[@Miklo_1]

It’s a money grab. Stardust cost a lot of money. Not me tho. I grind. I am not pay to win. What a waste that we power up our best Pokemon and they are not the best anymore. People spend a lot of money raiding Mega Lucario, thinking that he’s the best fighter. 😂😂😂 Pokemon Go git you!

[@basillah7650]

lucario got a new move so the counter nerf is not really a big deal it had a better move added before the nerf

[@perfectpersona5179]

im pretty sure stardust is the one thing in the game you cannot buy and that you get for literally playing the game. not sure if this guys still f2p but his bio literally says hes not pay to win

[@Miklo_1]

@@basillah7650 people went hard raiding because of that new move that put him at number one. But it’s true that he’s not number one anymore or is that lie? So it did affect him.

[@Miklo_1]

@@perfectpersona5179 so you are saying that by paying for coins, you can’t buy unlimited star pieces? You know those give you extra Stardust right? And yes, I am not pay to win. I grind on my own. I don’t need help.

[@Miklo_1]

@@perfectpersona5179 and there are more ways to pay for Stardust. Like people buy this little machine that catches for them. So you are buying Stardust because while others are not playing because they busy doing something, you are still playing. And catching gives you Stardust.

[@GabeGetsBuckets]

My dumb self accidentally purified my 98% Shadow Darmanatan today…how screwed am I? :(

[@kentrodrigoroble8822]

Yikes. I did the same with my 96% shadow honchcrow too. But that darmanitan is more useful than my honchcrow

[@thingsofinterest603]

Very

[@GabeGetsBuckets]

@@kentrodrigoroble8822 I hear you brother it was the stupidest silliest mistake ever but it happens hoping I can get a hundo shadow one soon maybe

[@Brobee911]

Unfortunate but shadow darmanitan is outclassed by reshiram, shadow entei, shadow moltres, heatran, and shadow blaziken. So it’s not the worst mistake at least

[@evilras]

I'm sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers..

[@bubbav1058]

noice

[@Cjperez1999]

Wait you guys care if your pokémon are good. Honestly I just keep the ones that look cool and I play for fun. Never really cared if a pokémon was good or not to be honest 🤣🤣🤣

[@masongroves4226]

I think people need to chill. So many people are so worried about min maxing….have fun. Enjoy the game. You can farm out and beat top tier raids with super mediocre Pokémon…

[@alecjoncas7764]

Right I said the same thing, like as long as you have Pokemon that are effective against the raid bosses type then you’re good. It doesn’t matter if they’re ranked 1,12, or 35 if they’re weak to the type then you’ll win

[@HeyoJB]

ftp ftw :)

[@Waltaere]

🍀🌭z 😃

[@sidzsky5637]

I love these types of Pokemon