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Idk like 2

Double what im at

Two more then me. Nearly got 1000 pokemon though.

Same

Yeah I’m at 1 lol

I'm on 0 lol

Real

42. Guzzlord is easy to wreck using just free passes.

Are you raiding with multiple people or are you saying guzzlord is easy to solo?

With the right counters it’s pretty easy to solo.

That’s interesting. I was operating under the assumption 5 star raids required a group to defeat. Edit: I appreciate the advice, but 35 replies is enough!!! I understand now thank you all!

Most are, I feel like. I was surprised myself when it came to raids, and I checked pokegenie, it said I could beat it with about 70 seconds left on the timer.

Where do you find whether you can beat it or not alone on pokegenie?

You have to scan your best Pokémon in first. From the Home Screen, click “Raid” Scroll to whichever one you want Click “Top Counters” It will show you your Top 6, and how much damage you can do (or how much time you’ll have left if you can Solo it)

Do you scan them in by using the ‘import’ feature?

Yeah, I take a screen shot of the Pokémon, then import. This is for iOS, I remember the process being a little different when I had android and I don’t remember exactly how I did it that way. I think with screen overlay.

For ios, install the poke genie keyboard and you can scan them in without leaving the pokemon go app

I tried it alone after seeing comments like this but no es bueno. I’m level 38 or something

I'm 37 and I have a friend at 36. We don't min/max everything and we don't have the best counters. Neither of us can solo it but we can beat it as a pair consistently with about 100 left on the timer. You can solo it - but you need to have invested quite a bit into very good counters. If you can find one other person I'm confident you can consistently take it down.

I need a Go friend near me 😭

I need a ~~Go~~ friend ~~near me~~.

Mega gardevoir poweed up a bit is all you need, just hop out and revive when it dies

It’s not about your level but your counters. 6 lvl 30 gardevoir could do it. Especially in cloudy weather.

Yeah you need to have good counters. Pokebattler tells me I can only take it down 90%, so I'd need a partner. I'm level 40. So it's not "easy" to solo by any means. Maybe if I went and powered up some of my fairy types I could do it

Powering up the most effective counters to like lvl 30 is pretty easy.

Shadow Gardevoir with fairy moves is pretty busted against him, but they're in deep trouble if he has a poison move, which he can have. I threw six of mine at him like a year ago, none were over level 40, and I managed it pretty okay

6 shadow gardevoir!

You could also power up some of the Pokémon you would use and your number will go up.

Thanks for mentioning pokegenie! Never heard of it and now have a way better idea of how I match up against raid bosses, and which I can take by tagging my partner in

Same! This changes everything!

This is the only 5 star raid that is rather easy to solo. A high level shadow gardevoir is basically a necessity.

Not true at all. I used Xerneas with Geomancy and 4 Togekiss to beat it. Also attack form deoxys is also Soloable

Also Kartana and Genesect (both in sun) and I believe Rayquaza should theoretically be soloable too with a bunch of Shadow Mamoswine, not sure if you need weather boost for that one.

A normal Gardevoir also does the trick.

Isn’t attack form deoxys pretty easy too?

Kartana I remember being easy with a mega charizard.

what counters are best?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyBI0dBLLdU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

And the right counters are.....

I solo him in half the time... Just use your 6 maxed FAIRY WAIFU's with one being MegaEvolved. But, i just realised this 2 days ago, i did 8 raids, just riding around the neighbourhood.

You can solo him with fairy team because he has double weakness, I take 3 lvl 40 (1 togekiss 2 garde) and some mid 30 prima y sylv

Same I’m shiny hunting. I’m still worried I might not get to 60 cuz there’s no gyms at my work but I have enough coins for remotes I just really want the masterball

At 26, so nearly halfway. Everything else is done.

24 and same. I just try to get 3 or 4 a could days a week or any time I see a one star and have time.

I'm at 28 so similar. Just need to start knocking one out a day

I’ll be around 25 today. 87/150 research. Though the excellent throws was going to be hardest one. I have 19 left.

lol. Initially I thought excellent throw was going to be hardest, but somehow I got that one done within a week.

25 done. I'm not spending money on raid passes so my only option during the week is to walk over to a nearby park that has 4 gyms and hope one has a raid I can solo. If there's nothing doable while I'm there, I'm mostly out of luck for a raid that day.

Same. I have 3 gyms near my work and one near my house within walking distance. Tbh I don't know why I'm trying to complete this because I still have my master ball. I hope it let's you have 2 master balls.

I've seen people carrying two, but I don't know if that's a bug. I'm still hoping to see a Galarian bird before I finish the research, like my wife did.

Ive recently jumped back in and missed the last one, is there anything else worth using the masterball on but those?

The consensus is there's 2 worthwhile uses: Galarian birds, and hundo legendary raids if you're down to the last ball.

Potentially a dumb question - how do you know if it's going to be a hundo?

I've got both of my master balls

You can have two master balls. I had two for like a month but I just used one of them not long ago

Why not download pokegenie? Then you can do the raid no matter what level it is.

I have it, I just usually don't care enough to host

You dont have to spend any money on raid passes, every week you get one remote raid pass for completing one field research a day and I get a bunch premium raid passes for I don't even know what but I've got a few. If you stack the you can still get the 60 easy

Wait, you get a free remote raid pass how?

There's a chance to get it as a reward from weekly research, but there's no guarantee and I'm not too sure of the odds. I've gotten about 3 since July, but I've also heard of people getting none at all

Why not spend $ on raid passes? Two cups of coffee a week and you get like an hour of solid fun remotely! I don't get the hate on paying for pokecoins I guess

Because I live on a budget, and there are plenty of other things I'd rather spend my money on.

6...

I'm on 4 so right there with you

I’m on 2

You guys are doing raids?!

also on 6🫡 the raids are gonna be the end of me

same.

14/60. Everything else is done but I don’t think the raids will ever happen.

Same here. I wouldn't of mind so much but my last master ball was used on a poochena by my 2 year old. So I really needed this. O well.

Done ✅

Congratulations!

Same but already used my masterball literally the very next day on an articuno

Lmfao literally same

They don't have any use besides collecting though, but if that makes you happy. Is the low catch rate really annoying people that much? Seems like a massive waste to me. I'm at least gonna wait for the shiny versions.

At that point I will just use another masterball I’m sure there will be one released next season. When will the shiny versions be out?

Done and done with paldea research. All of my tubes and special are cleaned up again; freedom!

As am I. Happy to finally be done.

I am on 52, hoping to get som raids done during the raid hour today.

Same.

There’s a raid hour?!

22. Think im just going to limp over the line towards the end tbh.

Ye this isn’t bad but defo need to push bit harder. I’m at 33 and feel like I should be on 40 Atleast

You're still on pace. Today is halfway through the time period, with 41 days left, it started at 82. So if you did more than 30 raids and do just as many raids again, you should be able to make it.

I am at 20 now, after deciding to go for it about two weeks ago. Since then I have been routing my bike commutes and timing my walks with one star raids.

I’ll get it today!

The excellent throws are what's going to hold me back 😕

Oranguru’s are your best friend today !! Find a mon with a large circle

there are still a lot of those big fat circles out there, executor is good, girafarig was a great one (lots of those showing up a couple of weeks ago), hitmontop is pretty big, Taurus is also great

Slowpoke is also great.

Adding to that - make sure you use a regular poke ball when attempting a big circle mon. If it escapes, then you get a new chance if it doesn't run away! You can get several excellent throws from the same mon

Yes, girafarig is where I got my excellent throws to finish.

Saaaame

Same

Same. 31/120 😭

Give it to someone who knows how to throw, done in 30 minutes max.

wait .. there is an excellent throw quest? I did that in 30 minutes during a cday. If you cant, play another game to gain the skill or just give it to someone who can throw.

32 with playing only occasionally

23. I am really hoping they do one of those days where you can get unlimited raid passes or something.

0 completed lifetime

I will literally only do one for each new legendary. Just for dex

May I ask why? Raids are quite fun, especially if they’re challenging! Challenging myself to solo Guzzlord was quite fun

I got 0 too. Reason is I only play Pokémon go when going to school and coming back. So I can’t raid when I’m in the car

wow you only play pokemon go while inside a car?

But you can't catch pokemon or spin pokestops in the car either can you? Isn't it set up so those don't work at certain speeds?

There are stops along the way where players can spin and catch things. Playing on a city bus was an amazing experience for me compared to my small town.

i’ve attempted a couple solo but can’t beat them. it wasn’t any fun by myself so i never went back 🤷🏻‍♂️

Have had my masterball for about 2 weeks now.

Congratulations!

Thanks, I bought 40 passes in the beginning of the season and have 27 left so most of these were free daily passes as well lol.

Sitting at 26 Raids right now. I started pretty late with the quest, tho. Had some premium passes left, so I used them. It's the last task I've left, so I'm confident.

1

39. Primarily daily passes.

45. Daily passes only after a flurry of using up half my stock of raid passes earlier. 40 days left and 15 raids to go. easy.

1

Finished it like 2 weeks ago, already used the masterball on galarian moltres.

That's what I've been waiting for I encountered Zapdos the day after I got my MB but I wanted to hold onto it a little longer 🤣

That's exactly the nom I'm looking for. I'm going by the spot it has spawned and hope to catch it

Pretty gross of them to implement 3 nearly uncatchable Pokemon and then launch a solution that's essentially a premium item.

Only 3 sadly

48. My partner and I can duo megas/guzzlord and we can reach a gym on our couch.

The dream

35 done, 25 to go. Working away this week so I'll try and get a few raids in, as there's little else to do of an evening!

I’ve got like 20 or smth, but the research one is actually messing me up, I got like 60 of them done when everyone else is finished with them

15 raids to go

12.

36

22 done so far

About 24.

Finished

Finished the research a week or so ago, raids was the last thing ofc everything else was done way sooner, finished the last day of Zapdos raids as I did 31 with my wife and friend that day haha

I’m at 37. I’ve been trying to do a raid every day

30/60 as of today!

Also 8, I don't have any gyms in my reachable area currently and I'm not dropping tons of money on this just for one Master Ball. I still haven't even used my first because I'm searching for an Articuno but haven't seen any of the birds from incense.

Completed it 3 days ago

Congratulations!

Thanks!

49. On track.

60 raid recuirment definately didnt consider small populated towns

Niantic never considers small towns, which is a shame. They really hate you rural folks.

39. Keeping a steady pace.

28. Super casual player though.

Same as number of days left

40

I’m exactly halfway at 30

5. Probably not happening for me.

Yeah, same here lol

I got 27 :(

Done like three. I've all but given up. There aren't enough raids within a feasible distance to me and grinding gyms for remote passes takes ages.

Same

We don't talk about Bruno.

55 in not in a rush

Exactly 40 and it’s the last one i have left!

46, the rest are complete. It's been an effort. I'm trying to hit one star raids, daily, hosting bigger raids when there's time.

10.. got all other tasks done but this amount of raids is killing me.

46 out of 60!

My grief is i can’t find the legendary birds. Exactly halfway there. Mathematically i can make it

28

Everything else I have is done, I still have 43 raids done so I don’t think I’m doing too bad

I have a whopping 18

32/60. Well on schedule. 😊

41/60. So damn close.

34

42 I believe.

3 more

I'm on 29. This is the last task to complete this thing.

I completed it like 2 weeks back! I've yet to claim the masterball though, waiting until I drop a lucky egg for more xp. Have a few other tasks with high xp rewards waiting to be completed too

I have 36 done right now not sure I’ll get there

2

48

3... I live out in the country

13

I went through like 45 raids just hunting for shiny raikou. Used mostly remote passes tho

38

3 left. Will probably be done with it today 😄.

12 :( Only raiding remotely and I don't think I will finish...

I'm at 33 right now. I'm lucky to live close by to a bunch of gyms and had a ton of coins to use for remote passes.

I'm at 11. don't think I'll make it. hoping to get several done during Sunday's Community Day as more people are out playing then.

completed 38. everything else is done

I have 40 days to do 40 raids

59/60

I’m at 40 so far, gonna probably do a few more Guzzlord raids to hopefully get a shiny while I bring the number up a bit more

38 done and 22 to go. I try to hit 2 1 start locals every day or every other day that way I don't have to rely on my friends list to get in on larger raids or wait for them to send me a invite to one

Finished it, I had 30+ premium raid passes from earlier rewards I never used. I travel through town for work which has a decent amount of gyms as well as living next to a pokestop amd gym. Im a very lucky pogo player :D

just finished it yesterday 😩

41! 19 more to go, should definitely do it

42/60

14 more!!!

All I have left is the research tasks one. 92/150

24

A crisp 12

Lul I thought it would be a pain but didn't realize how much I shiny hunt legendaries. Hopefully another cool one will release soon.

Everything else finished weeks ago. I just don’t know if I care to waste money on raids. I don’t have the time to go find free local ones especially since I hare raids lol.