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What changes did you enjoy most out of Saturday's raid day?

We got some unusual new aspects for RD we hadn't been given before. First, no legendaries. I think this is great since it has the potential of rivalling c-days super grindy nature by helping make some species great while also giving out the final form outright.
Second, we could just evolve previously acquired mons into the final form and get the exclusive movesets. Beats c-day by a mile in my opinion just because of this but many will not agree. C-day has bigger chances for finding shinie tho.
Third: shiny final forms, skipping all pre-evolutions from getting shiny forms. I don't think we have any other evo line in which this happens which is... interesting?
Fourth: Did I mention we could just evolve previously acquired mons? I did use my 5 free passes and then some green ones cause the raid groups were amassing and it was super fun. But I still ended up with better Gengar candidates from saved gastly acquired through research tasks that I evolved. So I wasn't screwed up by bad luck because this game has turned me into an obsessive prepper.

They should just combine them and force all raids to become the final evolution of the featured species during c-days.
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Asked by Bellick6 years 6 months ago
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I admit, that i am using 2 acc mainly to have more challenge at duoing T4, as i already done the T3 solo
So for a raid day that actually can be done with two player is where i enjoyed it the most. Just walking from gym to gym and raid it. I purposely not joining my pogo grup because of this, i wanna enjoy the battle instead of rushing from gym to gym
So moltres and gengar raid day is actually the most enjoyable for me. Articuno and Zapdos i do some with the group and try to duo it later. Close but no cigars, but i dont mine that, still fun
All the shiny i consider it as a bonus, nice to have but wont break my heart if i dont get one

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Wait what, we could just evolve Gastly and get Gengar with lick?

I hate my life

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Ya. That was posted many times. Should have kept your eyes open!

It's only Gengar anyway, Gengar is over-rated around here.

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My team never loses in damage when I use my gengar team, overrated!?!?!?! I agree any 1 gengar is super squishy but a team of them is as good as it gets.

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What does the "as good as it gets" actually get you though? The difference in DPS between Gengar and Tyranitar is much smaller than what you get if you add in another player using Aggrons. Sadly, the number of people matters much more in raids than how good your counters are.

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How is this different from other CDs? We’re able to evolve previously caught Pokémon during those as well. Actually I prefer those, if they continue to do it like Beldum Day, with an extra hour for evolving and trading.

And they’re free. Raid Days only have a “free trial”.

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Yeah, but it was the OP who was comparing them to CD’s

Edit: sorry, meant to leave this on the next comment down lol

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This was a raid day, not a community day. The work under different, yet a bit similar concepts.

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Still yet to enjoy one of these raid days due to the Saturday nature of them all & work commitments but at at least this time I was able to evolve afew previously saved Gastly, so better. Just wish they would throw an odd Sunday one in like they do with CD's so I could experience it for myself.

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I liked the Sat/Sun CD that Eevee had, and think that would be a fun format for a Raid day(s). Two hours on two separate weekend days, or Fri/Sat, or Sun/Mon. Many people only use the 5 free passes, and that doesn't take 3 hours unless gyms are very sparse in your rural area.

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We did 5 in 25 minutes; 2 adjacent gyms, one about a block away, and 2more an additional 2 blocks away.

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by pipjay 6 years 6 months ago

Unmentioned benefit compared with previous raid days: Not a special trade. Anyone that missed the event can get a lot of players' extra Gengar for cheap and without waiting multiple days.

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Good point! So far I haven't gotten any good one from trades but it's much more convenient to be able to trade a bunch in a day rather than just one

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I wouldn’t count on rerun of this type of event it seems like it was incredibly under attended and few of the people that showed up used more than the free passes. I live just out side New York City and my local park gets an easy 700 - 800 people no matter the weather for non Meta Community days and 1000 - 1200 for Meta important ones and had easily that many during the Birds raids days. My Sister near Boston and my Cousins near Chicago and Atlanta are blessed with killer parks with equally active Pokémon Go community’s like mine.... All of us saw maybe two hundred people raiding in our respective parks... The huge drop off in raiders across 4 different Pokémon hotspots suggests this event was a flop for some reason, personally I loved it. Or maybe those for parks just had had off days?

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