Gengar is easy to solo...
...if i had the full 180 seconds to do it. Too bad that i only get 170 seconds (Start time: 174 / End Time: 4). This also happens to me when I try to solo Machamp. Do you think that Niantic will ever acknowledge or fix this?
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Just build your teams a little bit stronger. My champ team has about 30 seconds left. No mewtwo or anything crazy. No maxed level 40s. Catch eevee in partly cloudy. Catch Abra in windy. Evolve them. Have a draognite or a Lugia as an anchor.
Same think with gengar, though you'll have to spend some dust on some good ttars.
I do think Niantic will fix it. I know it's really popular to dump on them because they haven't fixed everything already, but they have steadily improved the game this year. It's gotten better and better! At some point they'll revisit raid timing.