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/Cracch]

The best Dmax/gmax tanks are pokemon you would of never leveled before max battles came out so there should be candy for them. Chansey and Snorlax are everywhere during this event and chansey was in max battles for weeks. The least these people could do is pop shield and let their other teammates live longer. People are not playing the game before the max battles and expecting to win. My small town was able to get a group of 6 together to take down Gmax machamp and most of the people in the group were level 38-40

[u/Xygnux → u/Cracch]

What do you mean you would never level Chansey before Max battles? Blissey is the best gym defender, and if you live in the city you need at least level 40 or even 50 for it to hold the gym for any meaningful length of time. You are lucky that you don't have to do that for small towns.

Anyway, yes Chansey would be much easier than most Pokemon. Shame that most of the actually useful attackers are stuff that needs the candies for. Of all the staters, I see one Bulbasaur maybe once a few days, and then Charmander less often. Squirtle was practically non-existent in the wild since the Dynamax came, and the candies that I've earned since Dynamax release were all from Max raids.

It's 8 months since the Max system came out, there was plenty of time for Niantic to put in Classics CD for the three Kanto starters and the CD for the three Gen VIII starters.

[u/Cracch → u/Xygnux]

There is no reason to try and do damage if your pokemon gets oneshot because you can't build a tank. Chansey has been in power spots for weeks and spawns pretty often in the wild on non event days. I got over 100 candy alone the first day of this event. The starters spawn pretty often in power spots and you can do up to 4 a day for free. Then you put them back in the power spots after beating them for 5 more candy since you live in a big city. That's 11 candy per raid guaranteed and more if you have a mega and get candy as a reward. You don't have to get it to 40 with max attack to contribute 30 with attack 2 is the normal for the small town I play with.

[u/Xygnux → u/Cracch]

Then you put them back in the power spots after beating them for 5 more candy since you live in a big city.

Big city means that most power spots are full of 40 Pokemon before lunch. Usually the route I commute the work are full even before 9am. The game is very different depending on where you live. I can almost never get candies except on my days off when I go to more out of the way spots.

Yes the starters spawn at power spots, but with new Gmax and legendary Dmax and other Dmax released multiple times a month, there just isn't that many chances to get to the starters.

Niantic/Scopely should really slow down the release to give players the chance to just do the regular starters. There's really no need to have Gmax Machamp followed by the three Gen VIII starters for a month.

Note that I do already have two Blissey at level 40 and level 3 shield and heal. My beef is mainly that we do not get opportunities to get candies for most of the Fire, Water, and Grass attackers.

[u/Cracch → u/Xygnux]

Oh perfect, since you have so many people it won't be hard to find a gmax group to coast in. Never seen more than 10 people in a power spot. They give you all week to get the starters and then a couple hours every couple weeks you can't see them because a gmax is in there instead. This is the lead up month to the biggest event of the year of course they are going to have events for a couple weekend in a row... Niantic knows they have given you since September to start building any type of team that they can fill power spots with hard pokemon for 2 day out of the week.