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r/pokemongo•
macboot

Coming back after a year, this feels so much better! But I have questions...

Question

I just fought a raid where it recommended 5 people, but I took out the quilava with just 4 pokemon? Is the difficulty adjusted? Also, I earned 12 white balls to catch it, but I failed the whole time while using razz berries and a nanab I had(I don't know what that does...).

Also, there was a lugia down the road the other day, but I couldn't make it to the raid, so was that just absurdly lucky and I'll never see it again or do I have hope?

And does everything give more XP now? Because it really feels like I've been getting a lot of XP!

Sorry for the noob post, just hoping some people can help me get back into it now that I have data!

Posted Aug 18, 2017, 12:00 PM UTC

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Frocharocha•

  1. Some Raid bosses are soloable.

  2. You can find Lugia until august 31.

  3. Sorta, they added new ways of getting xp with first trows and raids.

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macbootOP•

Thanks a lot! I better start hunting Lugias....

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bubs13Valor Lvl 40•

Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos are also available in raids (in case you didn't already know) until the 31st as well.

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Yugi2017Vaporeon•

To defeat Lugia you need to have 8 lv30+ players.

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Mike9797•

I'd say if you have a group of 8 that are over 30 need to have a great lineup for Lugia. I did one with 11 and couldn't get it done. I think for all the others 8 will be enough but for Lugia you will need to make sure the line up is stacked.

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Yugi2017Vaporeon•

Uhm probably:

4-5 lv30+ players for Moltres

6-7 lv30+ players for Zapdos

8-9 lv30+ players for Articuno

10-11 lv30+ players for Lugia

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Roberto87x•

And also bonus xp depending on whether you throw a "Nice", "Great " or"Excellent" throw.

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RJFerretis a passenger.•

The raid recommendations are for lower level people with limited Pokemon using the poor game recommendation lineup. Tier 1 and 2 (number of face icons beneath raid indicator) can be soloed. Tier 3 may be by higher level/capable players against certain movesets. Tier 4 tend to need at least two. Tier five often need a half dozen, a dozen or more.

If you got Golden Razzberries, use them for catching legendaries, they offer most bonus. Regular Razzberries offer a small catch bonus you can see on regular wild catches (the ring color changes).

Nanab Berries slow the movements of what you are trying to catch, so it just makes it take longer for a legendary to fly back down to where you can reasonably catch it.

Pinap Berries increase the candy you get when you catch something.

Lugia, Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno may appear until Aug. 31st, then who knows. Find a local chat group (Discord most popular) to organize with other players to do them.

There are more sources of XP than there used to be.

Welcome back! :-)

PS: Gyms are radically different now, incredibly boring/too easy to take down, and you don't get benefits particularly. You can get up to 50 coins per day if someone knocks you out of a gym that day. The accrual rate is a coin every ten minutes, so you want over eight hours in one gym, over four in a couple, etc.

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Mike9797•

The last point is after an hour you are in the gym for every 10 mins after that is a coin, is what I believe anyways and I may be wrong.

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RJFerretis a passenger.•

Not sure what you are trying to say I'm afraid.

You get six for the first hour (one every ten minutes). If just in for ten-nineteen, you get one coin, unless you've already hit your fifty cap that day.

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Mike9797•

Sorry I'll try to articulate better as I saw it may have been a bit confusing to read. So my understanding is that when you put a pokemon into a gym that you have to wait for an hour to pass after which every 10 mins you will receive a coin from then on. You don't start collecting immediately after you drop one in you need to let 1 hour pass and then you start every 10 mins to collect. I hope that makes sense.

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RJFerretis a passenger.•

Yup, makes sense but doesn't work that way. :-) You get one coin if kicked out ten mins. to 19. Get two 20-29, etc. There's no minimum other than ten mins to get one. (And yes, I've gotten one coin multiple times.)

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mrbarricade•

the people you where playing with carried you

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