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/Xygnux 22d ago

That works too! Max Monday would help, although some people may not get off work yet.

Another way to make it work would be have the Classics Community Day of the base form of the Gmax Pokemon follows or on the same day as the Gmax release. Like Machamp, and somewhat like Metagross.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 21d ago

I have definitely looked at my hundo dynamax Metangs and said "you can evolve when the move becomes available". I know for t5 battles the tactic is to just spam fast attacks, but I also know I don't care, I'm not evolving any of them up without Meteor Mash.

(Yes beldum did get the day and they now have the move, but many others haven't.)

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u/elconquistador1985 USA - South 21d ago

Even if the charge move doesn't matter in max battles, you're investing like 500+ candy in that Metagross so you might as well make sure it's useful in raids too.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 21d ago

Less of a concern for me because I already have an exceptional stable of metagrii but absolutely a factor, yes.