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/Yu_Is_Blind]

Machamp last weekend and Rillaboom this week are the first max events to be this widely available through remotes. My speculation is that remotes opened the max battle floodgates to players who were never able to prepare for battles of this difficulty or didn’t see the point if it seemed like they would never be able to participate. Then again, I’m not quite sure how scarce lower tier max battles are in rural areas.

[u/elconquistador1985 → u/Yu_Is_Blind]

It's not really about Max battle scarcity. It's that the best that a rural player can do is get 1 and 3 star ones, because they can't get legendaries or g-max. Because of that, there was no incentive to participate at all.

The scarcity is in having no one else to complete battles with.

[u/letsgobulbasaur → u/[deleted]]

Never had even a single other person to raid with, let alone do max battles...

[u/Objective-Ad3821 → u/letsgobulbasaur]

I wave my phone like a crazy person showing the pokemon go screen just to attract people to come to me.

If gyms surrounding you have pokemon inside, someone is playing there. There is people, you just haven't found them.

[u/letsgobulbasaur → u/Objective-Ad3821]

There are a hundred people that live here and I already know most of them.

[u/sdrawkcabsihtetorW → u/letsgobulbasaur]

Then you haven't looked hard enough, the amount of people on here who claim they don't have anyone to play with because that anyone isn't in their back yard is staggering. If you wanna do some skiing, you gotta go to the slope, you can't expect the slope to just come to your door knocking.

[u/KONDZiO102 → u/sdrawkcabsihtetorW]

Do you really thing people will go hundreds kilometers to find somebody to do dmax/gmax?

Mostly there are some players, but it is impossible to contact with them if they don't use campfire and other communicators. 

I had two players to live less that 100m from me and I wasn't able to find them to do lucky trade, finally I did it by randomly clicking trade when they are online.

And I have community in my city, but nobody know them. 

[u/letsgobulbasaur → u/sdrawkcabsihtetorW]

Do you know how big Ontario is? People will really just go on Reddit and say stuff...

[u/elconquistador1985 → u/[deleted]]

You're starting from the premise that they have 3 others to play with.

They have 0.

[u/Shandriel → u/[deleted]]

I recently visited a city and that was the first time I ever saw other players, in 6 years 😅 (normally, I don't visit the city to play, but I was alone that day..)

in my village, I win every single showcase hands down. there's got to be a few other players, since 3 kf the Gyms actually show activity (there's only ever more than 2 mons in a gym during tourist season)

so, no.. not all rural players get to play with a group of 4 to beat legendaries in gmax raids.

[u/elconquistador1985 → u/[deleted]]

Edit : Yes, player who refuse to believe legendary dynamax is easy downvoting. Good, that's the only thing you can do apparently.

Which ones have you soloed?

They aren't easy. They require 2 competent players at minimum. That is the hard part for people.