How is a solo player meant to catch shadow Lugia when all of the raids seem to be local-only?
by br0kenmachine_
Pokemon Go
How is a solo player meant to catch shadow Lugia when all of the raids seem to be local-only?
by br0kenmachine_
38 Comments
No
That’s the best part, you don’t
Problem is, Lugia is so tanky that a majority of players will struggle to win since the average trainer group should have 8+ to even have a shot at beating it
Niantic has made it clear, if you don’t live in a major city they don’t care about you and your experience playing the game unfortunately.
That’s the fun part, you don’t
Same thoughts, very unfortunate
You get some friends
That’s because Niantic thinks everyone is in god damn Tokyo and balances every ascept of the game around it. Your only bet is to search for local groups that are somehow still active. Overall you’re out of luck because Niantic is physically imcapable of fixing their fu**ing game
You’re better off talking to your woman than bothering with it
That the neat part , you don’t .
Unless you have 6 cell phones and 5 more Pokemon go accounts because you kind need that !!!.
Today I learned Shadow Lugia is currently in raids
I also learned I won’t be getting one…
I play rural, we had a solid group of 4 today (all lv 33 and higher)
We. Got. Spanked.
You need ATLEAST 6-7 decent trainers.
Start an event in campfire, it is how it is done around where i live.
You hit up that companion app campfire, or you look for your local discord community.
Also, you show up.
What you’re meant to do is show up at the raid and see if anyone else is there to raid with you. Whether that’s going to actually solve anything, though, is an entirely different question.
I get all the hate to niantics policy and I‘m clearly not a fan of it since I‘m solo playing most of the time too.
But: the game isn‘t intended as a single player experience. People tend to forget that.
Most of the comments here don’t make sense. We were a team of 4 players (37, 33, 32, 32 were the levels) using 1 mega tyranitar, 1 mega gengar and 1 charizard X. We beat lugia with 4 seconds on the clock (using the party feature is KEY, purified gems also). I’d say that the raid is definitely doable with 5+ players. Happy raiding!
Yeah I ain’t managed shadow raids since they became a permanent addition. I wish they would would just be restricted to the shadow events like this one but they pop all the time in my gym. Waited all day for Darkrai last week but got a Shadow Moltres instead which I couldn’t do.
I have one from beating Giovanni way back in 2021. Maybe it will come back!
Forget shadow lugia, I’ve stood on a shadow moltress raid twice for 40 mins and not a single person showed up. I kept leaving and joining hoping someone sees me here in the game. And this is in hyde park in London.
I’ve already accepted that I’m not getting one when living in a small city
It doesn’t matter if you are not getting one, it’s a dex filler for 99% people
You can’t. We just failed with 4 because I was the only one throwing gems…
You aren’t meant to do the raids. This is Niantics vision, to have a bunch of raids no one can do everywhere ruining the weekend.
I live in a fairly populated player area, and I still can’t get locals to meet up for these. I had to travel to SF on PTO from work to get an Shadow Mewtwos.
As much as I will get down voted, best bet is to wait on giovanni rotation and pray for a good one, if you want the shiny, well….maybe arceus will send someone from the future to help you.
Use campfire to get people to join. Used it for the first time last week and was surprised at how quickly we filled the lobby.
spoof
Get a bus , drive, or use your feet.
I know lots of solo rural players who come tomth3 City for raids.
You lazy.
Shadow raids are only local anyway.
You can download the campfire app, and see if you have a local community. When I searched my city on campfire, I found a link to an active discord.
Alternatively you can search ““Your City” Pokemon Go” on Facebook to try and find an active group.
If both of those don’t work you can try going to a gym in the busiest location of your town/city and keep entering the gym so it pops up on other peoples games. Sometimes that will attract nearby players.
Good luck.
Why did they even add local raids
Yeah totally pointless. I live in a quiet area where hardly anyone plays. So you’re never going to get 5 people at once in the same park/area to do a Shadow raid. I went into town this morning hoping there would be some joining Lugia raids. Not a single person.
100% this is the fucking problem. Niantic is out of touch and 5* shadow raids are ONLY FOR EXTREME PLAYERZ WITH 4PERSON GROUPS OF NOLIFERS ONLY!!! ;P
Niantic: One does not simply catch a Shadow Lugia
That’s the neat part, you don’t!
Noice girlfriend 👍
The same way you were meant to get regular Lugia back in 2017 or so. By coordinating with other players.
Gotta hope there’s still a community Discord or whatever for your area after remote raiding rendered it useless.
You don’t. Because fuck us that’s why.
Or you go to Japan because my friend is there now and apparently all the raids constantly have people. I bet those Singapore grandmas are also at all the raids too.