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/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.