Strategy for saving revives
I am running low on revives, but today I managed to do 2 Kyogre raids and to get my raid team back I needed only 3 revives (plus more than 15 Hyper Potions). The trick, of course, is to switch out mons in the raid before they feint. Easier said than done. Blizzard and Hydro Pump are so devastating it is difficult to swap before they hit. I had better success with Thunder, as I was able to do significant damage but duck out near the end before feinting. In the first raid the app crashed when I ran away from the battle after all 6 of my mons were exhausted, but I was able to get back in.
Of course this uses more potions, and some mons need a Max Potion to come back from near death. But I have over 400 Hyper or Max Potions and yesterday I was down to 0 revives and 40 Max Revives.
Anybody else tried this strategy for saving revives, or have any other strategies that have worked well?
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I think I am part of the 1% of players that actually needs to THROW AWAY revives to make space for pokeballs, so no. And battling doesn't help either. Most revives go to the few 6-12 Pokemon that I lose during Kyogre raids and I still have to throw them away in bulk. I even end up reviving gym-defender fodder 'cause it feels "bad" to throw away the revives when so many players around the world could have eaten them instead. #FirtsWorldPokeproblems.
One thing I really find annoying is that when you switch to the next pokemon before it faints, it comes up again if the next pokemon is oneshotted and faints and then you either loose time by switching again or it faints before you manage to do so (since it is already very low in HP). The system should work so that the next pokemon in line automatically is selected as the next, not go back to the previous one..
