Solo raiding the new Tier 3 Raids: Scyther, Omastar and Porygon

1. does it drop anything good? if not I’m not gonna bother wasting raid passes

   • I mean, you can get a porygon?

     • I couldnt get the proygon 🙁 i dont have any machamps, i need one or 20 more seconds.

   • It drops the exact same items that any other raid does. And you get the chance to capture the pokemon you just beat. Were you expecting anything else?

     • not really, right now there is nothing to be excited about in the game. Was just hoping to see some “new stuff”

       • i think what they are trying to do is make raids easier- so you don’t need huge groups and can increase ur chances at the EX raid pass

   • When raid is done on gym with your colors solo r3 can give reward comparable to group r4/r5.

2. We need team rocket raids. Where team rocket takes over a gym (maybe capturing a mythical Pokemon?) and then you have to battle your way through grunts to the admin.

   • good idea

   • That was probably the original idea but was probably discarded when the Pokemon Co. didn’t accept it. Probably likely they didn’t want to emphasize any game with a specific villain organization with Ultra Sun and Moon about to come out.

     Pokemon Go feels like much story was planned but became unnaproved by the owners of the franchise. Leaving the game as an empty casket of what could have been.

     This is all just theorizing of my part of course.

     • yeah possibly. Or maybe a whole new team, but I dont understand why they can’t just use team rocket. It would be a great way to introduce mythical pokemon into the game (if you beat the rocket admin and can try to catch the mythical pokemon) and they wouldn’t even have to use like Giovanni, which maybe I can see that being the only problem.

3. It have limited sense to mention Omaster with Rock Throw as attacker, becouse almost nobody have one with this legacy moveset …

   • Yes, I didn’t know Rock Throw is a legacy move until I read your post. I spent 3 or 4 Fast Change card to change my Omastar’s fast move, it can get Water Gun and Mud Shot only, never get Rock Throw. Now I understand. Damn

     • Be careful, never use more than 1 Fast Move TM to change the move. Most Pokemons only have two fast attack moves so using it once WILL get you the other option 100% and using it twice will get you back what you started 100%.

       I’m not completely sure ALL pokemon have ONLY two fast moves possible but most pokemon are like that.

       Charged moves will need more TMs as the list is longer.

4. Ursaring (Counter/Close Combat) should be more efficient on porygon than the mentioned Poliwrath …

   • I was about to post that till I read this. I solod porygon using 3 ursaring, machamp, donphan, and a dragonite (because I didn’t have another decent machamp to use). I’m level 32.

5. Omaster solo RIP. 4x Execcute, 2x Venusaur with Solar Beam . Not totaly maxed. Dodge a few Acient power required.

6. To add to this I wouldn’t say porygon is necessarily “easy” provided I am only level 32 and don’t have any of the 6 pokemon I used maxed and only had 1 machamp I barely was able to solo porygon. I had around 6 seconds left on the clock.

7. Porygon has Electric and Grass moves (fast and charged) so Poliwrath is out of the question. Heracross, Machamp are great. Also nice are Exxegutor and Raikou. And as suggested a good Ursaring is also nice.

   Scyther is no problem, Golems are best with Rhydon helping (but Rhydon’s fast are atrocious against Scyther). Fire and Rock are beast. Maybe a Hurricane Dragonite might help. Do not use Psychics or Ghosts.

   For Omastar beware of Mud Shot vs Venasaur, Exxegutor fares much better. Raikou will hate Mud Shot which Zapdos will not worry about, but Zapdos will be destroyed by Charged Rock moves. Machamp and Poliwrath are also good options.

   Thanks Go Hub, you could include the list of their attacks, it’s not so space consuming.

   • Exeggutor with Solar Beam is decent option, done soloing porygon this morning
     Exeggutor (31), Machamp (30), Exeggutor(30), Machamp (30), the rest party is unused, im level 37 btw. Porygon had hidden power and solar beam. beat it with 10 sec left. im using Meizu M2 in case you wonder why take it so long to beat it.

8. Just soloed an Omastar and agree with the article it’s no joke. Level 39 beat with 1 second left.

   Used 5 pokemon. None are fully powered up although if I were to do it again, I would power them up a few more times as well as switched the second vileplume with a Victreebel (it was my sixth slot, higher IV, same level).

   Exeggutor 2747 (lv36.5 93.3%)
   Exeggutor 2741 (lv36.5 91.1%)
   Venasaur 2276 (lv32.5 95.6%)
   Vileplume 1986 (lv30 88.9%)
   Vileplume 1904 (lv 29.5 66.7%)

   All have solar beam except one Vileplume with petal blizzard.

9. Um wouldn’t Articuno also be good for syther

10. Its true that Porygon is easy me and my 3 friends (4 of us) destroyed it with no super effective moves in about 30 seconds I don’t think it deserves to be 3 difficulty

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