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Raid Battles and New Gym Features are Coming To Pokémon GO!
- Thread starter Broken Joystick
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Icyflamez96
Member
Please come alongside a balance update.
Icyflamez96
Member
Ah, making them play Pokemon go so they can realize after a week that it is not no one who is playing Pokemon go, but it is them.
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Neoriceisgood
Member
Sweet, actually a reason to even look at gyms at all.
I still like catching random pokemon, especially during type-boost events; but gyms have always felt kinda pointless to me.
Hope this will give me significantly more reason to check them out.
I still like catching random pokemon, especially during type-boost events; but gyms have always felt kinda pointless to me.
Hope this will give me significantly more reason to check them out.
Icyflamez96
Member
Apparently potions will only drop at gym Pokestops? Not sure if that's confirmed.
Niantic's support page says only that gyms have a better chance of dropping items useful in battle.
https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/221957688
I think it should be interesting. There will definitely be a lot more turnover on gyms, since people will actually want to have their mons occaisionally kicked off.
Gym stuff sounds good. Gets rid of the 10 pokemon gyms and requires people who control them to do a bit of maintenance to keep their spot. Also gives you another reason to use berries. Gyms were fun for the first little while but eventually they became impenetrable fortresses.
This is actually true! I'm not currently playing that much, but I came back for a bit when the new species had already been out for a while and... you start seeing the lures and noticing other people playing the game a lot more when you are playing it yourself.
This is actually true! I'm not currently playing that much, but I came back for a bit when the new species had already been out for a while and... you start seeing the lures and noticing other people playing the game a lot more when you are playing it yourself.
Having gyms flip that frequently would be too frantic, IMO. It sounds like raids will be happening all day long. There's an image that shows the raid finder, and there's like 5 simultaneous raids going on at once. I don't think they are going to be rare events.
Trainers will actually want to get their pokemon back at regular intervals now, so it won't just be a contest to see who can make the most unbeatable tower and stay on it the longest. Only time will tell how stagnant gyms end up being, but I don't think forcing them to flip is a very good way to prevent stagnation. I'd be pretty upset if I just fed my mons a bunch of berries and then all of a sudden the Gym flipped due to a raid.
AmaterasuOkami076
Member
I've got a perfect IV Blissey with the worst possible moveset. This is a godsend.
CrunchyFrog
Member
That's how gyms should've been from the beginning. It was impossible to beat gyms as even a slightly less than hardcore player on account of people having ridiculous cp mons due to playing 24/7. It's definitely what turned me off as a casual player with absolutely no chance to compete. And it's about time they implemented the raids they teased in the very first trailer. They need to put more of that money to use and beef up the content more than they have.
chrominance
Member
Reading up on how raids work, I'm more interested than I thought I'd be. The implication seems to be that raids will happen pretty often, and with a bunch of new gyms also in play (it looks like they added five or six in the immediate area around me alone!) it seems like raid participation will be pretty easy, at least for urban players. I think one of the screenshots showed a mixed-team raid group as well, which means I could theoretically play with my friends, who are both on different teams.
Bruno
Member
I kind of doubt it, what city?
Tickets for the first Pokemon GO Fest event in Grant Park, Chicago, IL on July 22nd sold out in 6 minutes. Game must be dead!
Velcro Fly
Member
I have two stops and a gym right in front of my house so having another place I can go and get items is always good.
I have almost no interest in battling so this doesn't change much for me. I just like walking anyway and having something to do while walking has been a lot of fun.
I have almost no interest in battling so this doesn't change much for me. I just like walking anyway and having something to do while walking has been a lot of fun.