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Revive/Potion ratio

Just checking to see if I am the only person getting an odd revive to potion ratio the last few weeks.
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I have a lot more revives. Normally I seem to have a good balance so that I can revive, and the max all my battled pokemon with a combo of potions so that I run low on both fairly equally.
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The last few weeks, I have been short on potions so that I revive and then battle with half health pokemon just to make use of the excess revives. I like having a full team obviously and this is especially annoying when prestiging in which my pokemon are already low CP.
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Anyone else?

Asked by 2Crom7 years 11 months ago

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If I was niantic it will be really hard to balance revive and & potions even if you have set to 50/50 it just depends on the player usage and play time.

Think if of this way its better to have revive and no potions and a lot of potions with no revive.

I would actually prefer that. It would encourage me to swap before they faint. As it is now, I am encouraged to suicide any low health pokemon in my last battle so I can at least boost them to 50%. It seems weird to do this as an effective strategy, but who wants to select 10% health pokemon next matchup?

I get what you saying, but I can still function with only revives. You don't know how many times I have tried to switch out a pokemon, only for it to not work, causing the game to stick in my last pokemon to take 1 more hit and then even another pokemon after that...I have lost 3 pokemon trying to switch out 1 more times than I can count.

I do see how it can be difficult to get an equal number because there are 4 types of potions and only 2 types of revives. I can see how those numbers could lead to messed up drop rates.

But I think we can all agree that it is a little absurd to have to spin pokestops for 2 hours just to do a little battling. I feel like Niantic is trying to keep battling to a minimum, but I'm not really sure what exactly that promotes. It seems to help spoofers, who can spin stops all day, a lot more than casual players that just want to battle some gyms. I would love a way to be able to test pokemon out in actual battle without having to worry about how I am ever going to heal them back up.

You can still beat a gym with six revive pokemon with 50% health.

You can't beat a gym with 6 fainted pokemon with 1000 potion

if you power up fainted mons, most of the time they get 1hp. At that point you don't need revives. Just potions.

Who does that? Thousands of stardust to revive a pokemon? No thanks!

I've done it when I've actually wanted to power up the fainted mon.

I do this all the time after leveling up and a gym guy comes back...I have to revive/power up/heal to max anyways so it gets powered up first, then I heal them with a hyper usually or a max if I don't have hyper's left...

Same here, Put it seems to go better to day. Previously i toss lots of potion.

The revive rate is way out of balance. I can get up to 10 revives while spinning 15-20 pokestops.

I thought about dumping my excess revives, but have room in my bag and was thinking, soon it may be reversed and I'll get a lot more potions!

This sounds crazy but when I don't need potions from spins I intentionally leave a mon or two short of receiving their full potions. I swear, I'll then get way fewer potions.

When I have no mons in the "needing potions" category that is when the potion spigot is on.

I agree. Also, the amount of pokeballs is insane, I recive almost 60% of my items pokeballs, and just the regular ones. I´m just pissed with the actual ratio of items.