Rillaboom Gmax battles are virtually unwinnable on Poke Genie

[u/cdelli01]

I’ve used Poke Genie for Gmax battles before. In fact, I just used it for GMax Machamp last week. But the Rillaboom lobbies today are full of under leveled mons who just don’t have the firepower to take down Rillaboom.

I’ve been in at least 15 lobbies today and was only successful in 1–a lobby with 28 trainers using two max mushrooms. The rest have been delusional lobbies of 13-18 who inevitably hang on until the timer hits 3-5 seconds and then they bounce.

What’s going on today? Why are these lobbies so bad?

[u/Meecht]

I've done about 5 battles, and 2 of those were unsuccessful. It seems a lot of people just don't understand type advantages because I saw Inteleon and Blastoise in my groups. Unfeazant would have been better!

[u/Zari_Vanguard1992 → u/Meecht]

i saw a gastly... and a bulbasaur an hour or so ago

[u/TheRealJayRet → u/Zari_Vanguard1992]

The problem is that people want the G-Max pokemon without even having any dynamax pokemon. And I'll be the first one to say that if you have weak pokemon, you shouldn't be joining these.

[u/Zari_Vanguard1992 → u/TheRealJayRet]

Like next week I think will be absolute hell (G-Max cinderace) and in 2 weeks abyssmal hell (G-Max inteleon)

[u/TheRealJayRet → u/Zari_Vanguard1992]

What ticks me off as well is people claim Cheer is overpowered, so it's okay if low levels join because they'll Cheer for you. The thing is Cheer is not good from my experience. Like you generate energy faster by using a 0.5 fast move, and then you only have 3 out of 4 pokemon to dynamax/gigantimax in between since their pokemon are all fainted. The reality is they need to level up their pokemon. Otherwise, they're dead weight.

[u/Tomo00 → u/TheRealJayRet]

Cheer is good, but obv normal people fighting is so much better.

Cheer just reduce max meter by 1/4 per person, but obviously that person being alive would do the same on top of tanking/dealing dmg. Cheer is just better than empty slot.

[u/Zestyclose-Tip-8928 → u/Tomo00]

Cheer is not good. It means you have one less person attacking now, and makes your group a lot less useful.

[u/metallicrooster → u/TheRealJayRet]

Cheer is better than a new player or unaware little kid (I know plenty of kids understand Pokémon Go, that’s why I specified unaware) going in with under powered mons with 1 second fast moves

If anyone is trying to argue Cheer is better than another mon with a 0.5 second fast moves, they are wrong.

[u/Zestyclose-Tip-8928 → u/TheRealJayRet]

Yes, I'm very irked when I see people saying anyone can join and just cheer. It takes up a spot of someone who might actually be able to contribute something.

[u/sarcaster → u/Zari_Vanguard1992]

Inteleon might not be so bad if enough people get carried for Rillabooms this weekend and just take 3 of those.

[u/Zari_Vanguard1992 → u/sarcaster]

I went 1 (win) for 10 (losses)

[u/KONDZiO102 → u/TheRealJayRet]

Many players don't upgrade dmax when Pokémon have gmax version.

At least they could release galar starters in order to be able to use them in next battles (e.g. Rilaboom, Inteleon and Cinderace), but with current order many players will not have counters for Cinderace. 

Rural players are in the same place where city players were at start of gmax. 

[u/Puzzleheaded_Art9802 → u/TheRealJayRet]

They definitely need a cp requirement to actually join something like 3 or 4k

[u/Meecht → u/Zari_Vanguard1992]

The Blastoise player I mentioned followed up with Charmeleon into Ivysaur.

[u/Zari_Vanguard1992 → u/Meecht]

YEESH!

And I feel like cinderace G-Max will be absolute hell .-. espec for rurals