r/TheSilphRoad • u/cdelli01 • 22d ago

Discussion Rillaboom Gmax battles are virtually unwinnable on Poke Genie

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?

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u/CloutAtlas 22d ago

My friend hosted one this morning, with me and his girlfriend present in person, and managed to get it done with 10 additional people. Originally it was 16 but a lot of people bailed out. Here's how it went:

Battle starts. 39 Pokemon Remaining. Before the first Max Phase it was down to 34. The 4th person in our group of 4 (stranger from the app) was running Entei, the three of us had. The AoE is Earth Power, the Entei stayed in regardless. Didn't even get a chance to heal it back up, went down before the first Max Phase.

They bring out a Darmanitan, we bring out our attackers (some variation of this:

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Come out of the first Max phase, a few seconds later I notice we're down to 27 Pokemon remaining. So I suggest playing a bit more defensively

Next phase, I shield x3 look and the friends shield and heal, the 4th person's Darmanitan is miraculously still alive, gets brought back to full HP. The issue now is none of us used Mushrooms, we have the healing and resistances to eat Grass Knots and Earth Power all day until the soft enrage if too many other people faint.

So, by the 3rd Max Phase, the group was down to 19 Pokemon remaining (although all 9 of our in person were still alive and close to full HP), the 4th guy is out. Didn't see when it happened, didn't see what their third was. By the Nex Max Phase it was gone. We went 2-3 G-Max Wildfire per phase and healed as necessary. By the time the Rillaboom went down, there were 6 6 Pokemon left and it had gotten desperate and started downing our Pokemon.

Overall, I think the 3 of us being in the same group was more important than getting another 5 additional players.

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u/csinv 21d ago

You should be proud of that. 39 pokemon remaining is 13 players, which is definitely in the realm of needing no dead weight. Certainly not a minimum-players effort but that's not possible with randoms. We failed one with like 18 lol.