Gym glitches now Brutal
So Niantic STILL hasn't fixed the gym glitches involving dodging. Something about being under half-health just insta-kills your Pokemon. Though they're not really KO'd, you still can't use them.
They've been kinda annoying until now, sometimes you get lucky and can dodge. But because of how strong Kyogre is, it's become super-frustrating being almost helpless and getting OHKO'd by it! Even with 20 ppl I'm running through at least 3 Pokemon, mainly due to the fact Dodge doesn't work properly.
Does Niantic plan to ever fix this? Or will they be overhauling gym battling anyways and don't care about it now?
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The dodge bug has been brutal for a long time, it’s been around in some form for over a year. It’s a disgrace that we can spend hundreds of thousands of dust and hundreds of rare candy to have our pokemon one shotted.
If the dodge bug wasn’t around, my Raikou could dodge 4 Blizzards and I wouldn’t need 10 revives after every Kyogre raid. Added to the fact that revives don’t drop from normal stops anymore I am having some revive issues. Time to go back to one raid a day.
The Dodge Bug occurs when failing to dodge a move (Fast or Charged) would result in a Pokemon's fainting. I've heard this is because the way dodging is calculated is the move's damage is first applied then the Dodge applies after, creating a situation of the Pokemon not being fainted but being unusable. This makes one-bar moves more dangerous than multi-bar moves since the bug is applied at higher Hitpoints.
As bad as it is, it's still not useless to dodge if a Pokemon will faint anyways. It'll save you a mint in revives. After the battle you should find your Pokemon with low HP but still alive.
