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What's the funniest/saddest thing you've seen in a raid? Let's commiserate!

I love reading comments about the horrible "counters" that people use in raids. For me, I have to walk a line between trying to maximize my typically limited raid group and laughing at the level 12 kid using the best options he has (Noctowl, anyone?).

But this is a safe space to let it all fly. We are mostly experienced and knowledgeable players, so let's share some stories. For instance:

That time a Dunsparce made an appearance in a legendary raid. When I lost a Moltres raid with 6 and was out of time to try again in part because attentive was using an Exeggutor. After autoselect told me Lugia would have hydropump, I loudly told the whole group to watch out if you were going to bring Golem that he wouldn't last long. I mentioned some common decent counters that I know the newbs have (vaporeon, lapras, cloyster) before mentioning "if you have them, Dragonite and Gyarados would be good". Battle begins and there's the glorious and majestic Rapidash fighting alongside a Machamp. I chose not to say anything.

Help us all laugh through the tears!

Asked by dantheman25877 years 9 months ago
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I was fighting Moltres in a group of 5 but one of them was using his girlfriend's account without a lot of stuff so technically 4 of us.

I didn't concentrate during the fight as I wanted my first wave to faint before pulling out the big guns in the second.

The guy with the GF account started with a sneasel

I told him: hey mate, you know that sneasal is weak to fire, yes?

Then he used a Steelix, and I told him again, this is not a good Idea bruv

Then came a clefable...

He literally used everything that was weak to fire or NVE to fire except a chansey in the end...I'm lost for words

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Maybe there's a bug that when you do the LEAST damage, you get +6 bonus balls...

Jokes on all of us powering/maxing Golems :) while spoofer/cheater Dan sits back with his Blissey/Chansey army in legendary raids.

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Niantic is so stupid to have the damage reset upon rejoining the raid. It greatly punishes those players focusing on the max DPs and rejoining and beating the raid boss while benefitting those selfish people whose only goals seem to be staying alive with blisseys

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Don't you know by now that Niantic hates high level players and coddles newbs and casuals?

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by Sebhes 7 years 9 months ago

Noctowl always gets me for some reason. That stupid large bird pretending to be something good.

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Saw one in a raid yesterday, just checked...both Raticate and Furrett have high Att. Stat (not that they'd survive one attack but still).

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this pic should be self-explanatory

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-Saw someone use a Venasaur as their first mon vs Moltres.

-Saw some lunatic cracking a full sized wip near my car at a raid in a park.

Not sure which of these is crazier.

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Dragonair against a Moltres. Just shoot me now...

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I'm still waiting for someone to get the autoselect freeze and come in with Wobbuffet (I have no words how broke the game is for that to be AUTOselected)

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by daltry 7 years 9 months ago

I answered a call for reinforcements on facebook. They said "have 6 people, time is running out, need some help". Well, it was Articuno so I figured 7 of us would be fine. None of them were above level 22 however. So... we lost. One guy could not get in, and 3 players were like level 15-18. I told them the best few counters and I hoped for the best. At one point I saw a Sudowoodo. So at least I was able to get a smile from the experience.

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"That Articuno just OHKO'd my Dragonite"

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Articuno against Moltres.
Also, in another Moltres raid, I saw a giant ice block appear out of nowhere Someone was using Blizzard on a fire bird.

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The saddest thing is showing up at a tier 4 or 5 raid and no one else does (or not enough others). There's nothing funny about it, Niantic has really screwed this up.

Close to level 37 I feel excluded from a major part of the game now.

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One time I had my headphones on and I was listening to the sounds of the battle against a Lugia.

Out of nowhere I hear the distinct cry of a Drowzee entering the arena. His cry is unmistakable, and now unforgettable. The funny part is that I didn't see him at all so I assume he was blown to bits before his model even loaded onto my screen.

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