Raids

I haven't tried a lv3.

I did go to the center of town when a lv 4 showed up. It hatched, Snorlax popped and I was hype....except that no one came. I waited at a level 3 one....hatched Machamp! Super rare here, it never spawns and I would like one as much or more than any other mon. Waited 5 minutes, no one showed.

I live in an affluent town of 50K in the limits, probably pushes 80K in the immediate area.

If there aren't going to be notifications of some kind this isn't going to work here, sadly.

I'm not giving up though. Maybe traffic will pick up or something or I dunno. Something

I battled rhydon and we did it quite easily with 5 people. However some showed up last and tried again with 4 and couldn't do it. All were decent levels (34-37) and they came very close but always timed out

I battled a tyranitar earlier with 3 other players and we got wrecked. I showed up with 5 mins to spare since I was stuck at work, but I heard the group before us had around 7 and it took them several tries.

Battle against lapras we were 7 on first try and failed we timed out. I tried 3 more times with no luck...

Against lapras you need hard attackers... i was using jolteons but the others was using more bulkiest mon

I did LVL4 snorlax raid 3 people. Cant kill it with 3. %20-30 hp left.
I did lvl 3 raids with my wife. Totally doable. Just hard with this laggy gyms atm.
I soloed few lv2s. Easy af.

Level 1-2 easy can be done solo. Level 3 Machamp I could not do it myself was close, 2 people came and it was easy. Did another level 3 Machamp with myself and 1 other we beat easy ( I'm lvl 36, he 39). Also beat lvl 4 Tyranitar with 7 people easily and caught it after with Bite/SE 82%. Caught both Machamps 84% C/CC and 69% C/DP

I would recommend find a Facebook group to join where people post raids, I also joined a private raid group people post levels and form groups to meet for higher levels.

To catch wild raid boss ia hard.
My first raid boss is vaporeon and he flad..

Other player catch vapo with exelent and golden ras.

Are the boss only carch with exelent trow?

Tried a lvl 3 Arcanine multiple times. It was frustrating, it used crunch nonstop, with the lag and glitch combo it was impossible on some runs and I would restart. On two smooth runs I got him down to about 5 percent health and ran out of time.

So Arcanine IS doable solo with a high lvl squad and a smooth connection. I just didn't manage to get it...this time. Will be powering up some counters a bit more for lvl 3 raids shortly.

Was using a couple of 3200+ dragonites, 2600-2900 Vapes, a 2900 Gary, a 2800 rhydon. A few other randoms. Was not prepared.

I've had a dedicated attack team of 6 for a long while. I'll be ditching that in favor of making dedicated lvl 3 attack teams, glad I've been saving dust:)

Lvl 3 Arcanine - solo with 4 lvl 38.5 mons, top counters: 2 golems, 1 rhydon, 1 vape, 1 second left. My kid did it in fact, longer version a few questions below.

Lvl 3 jolteon - FAIL- a lot of tries, not even close, needing like 60 more seconds. But used some lvl 30 mons then. And I don't have strong ground only combos neither on rhydon nor golem.

I was trying tyranitar with 3 people (1 noob) and 50% hp left. I think 4-5 people can do it.

I did my first raid today and it was a lvl 3. I did it solo and got my arse kicked really bad. I managed to lower the Alakazams health by perhaps 20%.

That said, I was hardly perfect in my dodging and attacks and as I rarely power up my Pokemon (apart from a Blissey that I power up twice to about 1900 CP), my Pokemons were hardly the strongest.

Also, I wasn't quite sure which Pokemons to use (can't remember fighting an Alakazam before) I read a list of good Pokemons to use on another site and the ones I ended up picking didn't seem to work that well, so I got a bit screwed over by that site.

Maybe if I power up some Pokemons and pick the right ones against a lvl 3 raid boss I'll do a bit better.

Didn't have a chance to try Tyrannitar, but I did a Lapras level 4 raid today. We managed to beat it on the 3rd try with a team of 5 trainers from level 30 to 36. It was so close.

I used Jolteons to start that got beaten pretty fast, and followed up with some hyper beam snorlaxes. On the run we won on, we tried hard to use effective damage.

I tried two level 3 raids by myself today. I started off getting my butt handed to me, but I came up with a strategy that paid off in the end.

No dodging, just spam attack with Super Effective the first 6. Then after all your 6 are fainted, come back with the best you got.

Dodging takes way too much time away.

So yes, level 3 possible with only 1 attacker!

I have finished 5 raids today, lvl 1 and 2 solo. Next lvl 3 twice with a friend, we wrecked vaporeons two times. Next one was lvl 2 again (exeggutor). The last one we tried was tyranitar. Some kid joined us before fight, he told us that he was trying a lvl 2 raid against weezing solo and he couldn't do it. I told him to bring as may vaporeons as he has and he answered that he has only one so this guy wasn't very helpful at all. Tyranitar survived with 50% hp. My friend and I were using only water attackers and we weren't dodging (lvl 29 and 33).

I tried a level 3 Flareon solo and just barely timed out; it was down in the yellow with 10-15% health left. I was using the Vape army with wg/hp and wg just doesn't have enough dps. I switched out to a Gary with bite/hp with about 40 secs remaining and it seemed to do better, charged the hp faster for sure. I'm pretty sure I could have taken it down if I had 6 Gary's (I don't).

After that, itching for a win, I soloed a level 1 Magikarp (lol). It only had cp1159, and I took it out with one Eggy solar beam. Somewhat anticlimactic and took under 10 secs, just long enough to charge the solar beam. I was surprised to lose 8 hp on the Eggy since I thought splash had 0 dps. I did catch the bonus Karp on the second throw (gave me 11 chances).

I am level 37. Just tried to solo an Alakazam (C/FS) with FC/XC Scizor, B/FB Tyranitar, and B/C Gyarados, along with some Dragonites. ALMOST did it but just barely timed out. If I hadn't put my SC/Sludge Bomb Gengar in a gym, I think I might have been able to do it....

Also tried to solo a VS/T Jolteon and didn't even get close.

I'm wonder I did battle Lapras boss lv 4 alone and I did cut almost 1/3 her HP so if I have 3 more team mate, we will win ??