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Neil Peart November 18th, 2019 9:38 AM

Can't ever find anyone for max raid battles in the Wild Area
 
It seems as if every single time I try to get three other actual humans to run a max raid with me by clicking on the glowing dens with laser beams, I'm waiting there the full three minutes or whatever and nobody joins. I do see people posting messages on Y-Comm saying they're starting one, but there's no quick way to join, which kinda blows. So far, I find the Y-Comm to be a bit of a joke. Why would you have all of these announcements that you just can't interact with?

Am I missing something, or do I have bad luck? Is there an easier way to go about this?

Storm-DC November 18th, 2019 10:49 AM

Y-Comm sucks for me too. Isn't there a discord or something for quick and easy groups?

Maedar November 18th, 2019 12:49 PM

Same problem here. I can't do Surprise Trades either.

bobandbill November 18th, 2019 1:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Neil Peart (Post 10089312)
It seems as if every single time I try to get three other actual humans to run a max raid with me by clicking on the glowing dens with laser beams, I'm waiting there the full three minutes or whatever and nobody joins. I do see people posting messages on Y-Comm saying they're starting one, but there's no quick way to join, which kinda blows. So far, I find the Y-Comm to be a bit of a joke. Why would you have all of these announcements that you just can't interact with?

Am I missing something, or do I have bad luck? Is there an easier way to go about this?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Storm-DC (Post 10089337)
Y-Comm sucks for me too. Isn't there a discord or something for quick and easy groups?

Yeah, it stinks. We've just put together a Daily article about it: https://daily.pokecommunity.com/2019/11/18/quick-guide-to-max-raid-battles/ And we have a forum section and discord channel on our server for organising raids! See bottom of article for links.

Louise28 November 18th, 2019 10:38 PM

yeah it does suck almost at the end game looking for more people for raids

Neil Peart November 19th, 2019 1:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobandbill (Post 10089431)
Yeah, it stinks. We've just put together a Daily article about it: https://daily.pokecommunity.com/2019/11/18/quick-guide-to-max-raid-battles/ And we have a forum section and discord channel on our server for organising raids! See bottom of article for links.

It's just a huge mess. Sometimes, there are three or four people standing outside a raid hole looking for players. They'll say "if only someone would join me in Y-Comm!" and no one is even there. Hopefully this gets better with time, because this entire area is a bust in my eyes.

kaisen246 November 19th, 2019 4:42 PM

It's been a mixed bag for me. Most times I usually get 1 or 2 people joining me when I do a 5 star run. Then other times no one joins at all. It kinda sucks that it's not more consistent because this really is a cool feature

Sheep November 19th, 2019 6:01 PM

I finally have working WiFi, so I'm going to mess around in raids tonight and see how things go. Maybe luck will be a bit better for higher-tier raids rather than the 1 and 2 star ones I keep seeing... ): But otherwise, yeah, my luck's been about the same as everyone else here. I'll check in the discord channel next time I need help.

Couples-Consoling November 20th, 2019 12:42 PM

Dumb question: does it make a difference if you've paid for the nintendo wireless services?

Raicheot November 20th, 2019 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Couples-Consoling (Post 10090389)
Dumb question: does it make a difference if you've paid for the nintendo wireless services?

You can only access local wireless on the y com for raids, trading.. Etc unless you have a paid account which sucks but worth it

Maedar November 22nd, 2019 12:29 PM

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You can only access local wireless on the y com for raids, trading.. Etc unless you have a paid account which sucks but worth it
Thanks, I figured that was the case. It's pretty easy now.

PokemonMasterRy November 26th, 2019 3:21 PM

What does have a paid account mean is that what Switch Online is? Nevermind yes that's what it is. Just get it and join everyone else whose playing online to me if you've bought these games there isn't any reason you shouldn't have that.

Iceshadow3317 November 27th, 2019 7:31 AM

I have been doing fine with Surprise Trades, after I learned that you had to connect to the internet manually within the game after hitting Y.

However, raids, I think most people just solo because you don't have to compete against others to catch a pokemon. Only 1 trainer can Dynamax a battle, I think, and only one trainer can catch the pokemon. So, people avoid the competition and solo it because the computer players don't do anything but aid you.

PokemonMasterRy November 27th, 2019 9:32 AM

"I have been doing fine with Surprise Trades, after I learned that you had to connect to the internet manually within the game after hitting Y.

However, raids, I think most people just solo because you don't have to compete against others to catch a pokemon. Only 1 trainer can Dynamax a battle, I think, and only one trainer can catch the pokemon. So, people avoid the competition and solo it because the computer players don't do anything but aid you."

My problem so far with that has been that the computer Pokemon die too fast. They either bring in a low level Pokemon or one that's weak to the target type. Many of the 5 star Raids have thus far been impossible for me to catch because of that.


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