Time to remake your Battle Teams!
I just tried to do a raid this morning and my battle teams were gone!! So before you go into your next raid, make sure you build your teams. And FYI, I hear you can not level up a Pokémon that is in a battle team.
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I suspect they are working the kinks out. Eventually, powering up while in a team will be fine, and if your pokemon is in a CP capped league team, a warning will come up if it exceeds the cap on powering up. Until then, they are just blocking power-ups for team pokemon.
Further, when swiping to the left, where the teams were, there's now a "Gyms and Raids" icon, and the teams we form go there. I suspect that there will be a "PvP" icon soon (when they turn it on) which will allow the building of PvP teams and some of the battling features.
Wonder if it will go live at 4:00 PM EST today or tomorrow? We'll see.
This explains why I couldn't power up my Gengar.
I assume the deletion of battle parties has to do with the updating of the party system to include PvP teams alongside raid teams. I downloaded the .apk earlier in the week/last week/whenever it was made available and it was one of the first things I noticed after the long overdue new loading screen.
Smart in theory, but I feel like there's other ways to go about this. The power up window showing what the CP will change to is a good first step. Other ideas that would be less clunky:
- Gray out the power up button if the Pokemon is in a league that powering up would remove it from
- Display a message stating the Pokemon cannot be powered up due to it being in a party
The fact that you can't power it up and there's no message stating why made me initially think it was a bug and not a feature. If it is a feature it needs to be refined more.
