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Porygon solo: doing something wrong?

According to the guide:
"Its stats are simply too low to pose a risk of failure. Even a team of the right level 20 attackers can solo a Porygon with time to spare. At level 30, pretty much any halfway decent attacker can partake in a Porygon solo with success."

So, I am level 33 and have many "halfway decent attackers" but have about minus 15 seconds to spare. Either they already tweaked the boss to be more difficult after the guides were written or I am doing something wrong. I failed 4 attempts.
My lineup included a mix of:

Tyranitar B/C 2921
Dragonite DT/OR 2904
Alakazam C/FB 2524
Donphan C/E 2501
Golem RT/SE 2407
Pinsir RS/CC 2241
Venusaur VW/SB 2212
Ursaring C/HB 2188
Poliwrath RS/IP 1890 or B/DP 1992
Primeape LK/CC 1607

Obviously I don't have good Machamps, my only one is BP/CC 2205. Ideas? Note that I dodged charge moves (HB and SB).

Asked by Oscarv7 years 4 months ago

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I'm lvl 31, I used a lvl 30 Machamp (C/DP), lvl 31 Rhydon (MS/E), lvl 31 Rhydon (RS/E), lvl 27 Alakazam (C/FB), and lvl 31 Dragonite (DT/H). Beat 2 Porygons that had Solar Beam, with about 15 seconds to spare.

Your Machamp seems ideal. What will the outcome be if you do not use it? Do you dodge the charge moves?

I can't dodge for crap, my phone's laggy. Well, I'd just shove in my second best (the exeggutor maybe, or the jolteon) and would probably still deal enough damage, but would have to start with the Alakazam since he's squishy and he'd deliver the FB slower. Some teams can do well even if below ideal, but you might need to choose a different order, your squishiest glass cannon must be first.

I used two Machamps (Lv 30 and 33), a Lv30 RT/SE Golem, a Lv30 RT/AP Golem and I think I finished with Lv34 Rhydon (MS/SE). Had probably 15-20 seconds to spare.

The Porygon had Zap Cannon, but it also had HP that was SE against the Machamps. Probably would have been a bit quicker otherwise. Definitely use your Machamp to start.

Your lineup is plenty good enough. I would put them in this order:

Alakazam C/FB
Pinsir RS/CC
Ursaring C/HB
Poliwrath B/DP
Dragonite DT/O
Donphan C/E

I don't see how you can fail with this lineup. My guess is you are dodging too much. Dodging usually kills DPS. Only dodge if it will allow you to successfully launch one extra FB, HB, or EQ. You shouldn't need to dodge more than once per attacker, and only for those three. Survivability shouldn't be a problem. Don't worry that the 'Zam and Pinsir die quickly; they will do more than their share of DPS.

Do you have any TM's? A fast TM for the Machamp would move it way up on the list. Also, the B/DP Poliwrath would be a good fast TM candidate. I find it useful to have at least one tanky double fighting Poliwrath.

Thanks for the good advice. I will try to dodge fewer charge moves.

I would like to do more raids to get TMs. There are quite a lot of days I cannot use my raid pass. TM drop rate has resulted in 3 or 4 TMs since July and my total received rare candy is 70.

Machamp is a way better candidate to be TMed than Poliwrath.

Porygon can be tricky. It all depends on moveset. I usually start with Machamp with C/DP and dodge only charge move. If I'm lucky he can take half of raid boss hp by himself. Then I just bring some heavy hitters like Dragonite with DT/OR or Tyranitar with B/SE to finish the job. Gyarados with DT/HP works too.

Starting with Machamp is the way to go. If you have some fast tm to spare it would be preffered to get Counter on him.

My C/E Donphan also took half of the boss HP, but the clock went down from 180 to 60 seconds left... I guess it does not inflict a high enough DPS not being of fighting type.

You are doing something wrong if you start with donphan. With your team I would start with the zam, you should be able to fire your FB before his charge move and then dodge his charge. This should allow you to fire a second FB and then don't dodge with him again. Next I would use the machamp, with him what you really want is to fire CC as fast as possible, since BP sucks on machamp, and the way to do it is not to dodge, but to tank the charge move. With luck you will get 2 charge moves out of him. If you do that you should be way ahead of the clock. I would probably use the pinsir, DP poliwrath, dnite and ursaring in that order. I think you will not use the Ursa as the dnite will finish the job.
Good luck.

I'm level 40 and I have 3 lv30 moderate IV Machamp and it was still a close call. I don't know where these people come up with this but I struggled more on Porygon than Cloyster.

I've got a team of 6 Machamps, 3 of them at Level 32+, and when I did a Porygon raid when they first came out, Porygon was insanely easy... when I used the Machamps.

I started by letting the game choose my attackers, and it didn't choose a single Machamp (turns out the Porygon had a Psychc power and Zap Cannon). It included 2 Ttars that were Level 33, and Rhydons - I didn't beat the Porygon. Then I chose my own team of Machamps and the Porygon went down in about 120 seconds with only taking down 3 of my Machamps. I was astounded at just how easy it was.

Maybe I just got lucky (which is possible), but it was ridiculously easy using Machamps. Even with the Porygon doing SE damage to them with the Hidden Power.

Day 2 of porygon, test drove with

1536 CP poliwrath Bubble/DP
2368 Machamp C/CC
2437 Machamp C/DP
2438 Exegg E/SoB

Didn’t get to 5 or 6. Dodged a couple hyperbeams only if necessary to get off my charge attack. Won with 20 seconds left.

Based on this, I think that the Zam, Pinsir, poliwrath, and dragon should get you pretty close. Fast TM on your Machamp also a good idea.

TM that Machamp to C/DP if it has a decent attack stat. I'd start there.
Rock smash for Poliwrath hits a breakpoint at level 31 against Porygon for a 15 attack Poliwrath. Not sure what your Poliwrath's attack stats are but it seems like they are around level 27-29 so you aren't that far from another breakpoint. You could power those up too.

Even without STAB, that Pinsir should be able to put out a good bit of damage. I'd still use him. Same for Ursaring.

And to state the obvious, try and do more Machamp raids. I hit gyms hard and Machamp, Ttar, and Dragonite are my most used attackers. Even if you can't solo, possibly find another smart player in your area that can duo Machamp with you. Machamp is an easy duo.

I will return to the Machamp raids if I can find them nearby. I have joined a Telegram group in my work town that lists them. In solo my team got wiped with 35 - 20 seconds on the countdown.

Don't feel bad, I'm level 38 and failed 3 attempts against the "very easy", "doable at trainer level 25" Scyther with Aerial Ace.... (and let's not even mention Cloyster with Avalanche ;-)

I do have an older phone (Galaxy S5) and considerable lag (rarely get more than 174 sec), but I had just easily defeated another Scyther with Night Slash and thought this would be easy.... not! Lost my whole team once and timed out twice.

I'll do some research and get better counters than all D'nite with one Tyranitar next time. And you will beat Porygon as well!

Best of luck.

Scyther is easy with Golems, but dodging is mandatory.

No, actually, dodging with a lineup of Golems is absolutely NOT necessary to easily defeat Scyther. Where do you get these ideas? You seem to often comment very confidently and declaratively with information that is just plain dead wrong.