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Raikou - First Impressions and Results

So far it seems like he goes down a lot slower than Zapdos. But its probably because players havent beefed up their typing yet.

Did 2 raids and so far 2/2. Mostly happy to get a CTM finally! Gym control also helped for that.

1893 CP A14/D12/S15 91%/91.7%CPP VS/WC
1871 CP A12/D15/S11 84%/82.5%CPP TS/WC

Asked by jamesharden7 years 8 months ago

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We beat one last night with a raid group of 7 and had 75 seconds left. I thought it went down super easy, but then again we had some beastly lineups. I thought this thread was gonna be about using Raikou as an attacker... this thing feels like a monster already at L20.

Yea everyone was just using their double rock golems in my raids. I'm guilty of that as well. Only had 2 MS/EQ rydons at lvl's 23, 25.

Will be testing out Raikou tonight. I'm curious to see how TS/WC stacks up against zapdos' CB/TB.

Oh, TS/WC feels perfect. I will def power up one of these. :D

Just did my first raid vs Entei. 17 in the group, it started to shrink with 250 left... Caught it on the last ball, 91%, att 15. Not bad.

Next time split up to two groups. More balls and rewards for everyone.

We had enough people to split up by team.
Helped with getting extra balls.

It appears that Raikou takes super-effective damage from Dragonite (dragon attacks), but I thought he only gets super-effective damage from ground attacks. Is this an error, or has anyone else noticed this?

i had a nite in there and didnt see super effective with DT/OR. I think you were just seeing an overlap of others launching their MS/EQs while launching yours

He's neutral to dragon attacks. However I must ask is there a glitch when dragonite attacks electric typing. It Might be me seeing others using golem or rhydon but every time
I use dragonite and he gets attacked by zapdos or raikou, it keeps saying "not very effective". Anyone else experience this or am I mistaking it for other players golems/ rhydons?

Also to the OP, it would make total sense that raikou takes longer than zapdos. His defensive stats are higher so he'll take just a bit longer to dispose of.

My friend, I thought I was the only one. Afaik electric attacks were always neutral to Dragonite. However, lately I've been seeing the not very effective to my surprise.

I agree. Have been seeing Dragonite resist electric. Not sure why. Not upset about it at all.

Yes there is a glitch.
The effectiveness of Electric into Flying and Dragon uses a 1.4 * 0.714 = 0.9996 modifier. Because that value is less than 1.0 it shows the "not very effective" text.