r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilentKiller2809 South East Asia • Aug 10 '25

Discussion Raiding is RUINED

With the 200m raid joining "exploit" getting patched, raiding as we knew it has been ruined.

1) The raid ended in the overworld, but if you are in the lobby (120s) or if the battle has already started, you could do the raid no problem. Now if you try to heal your pokemon by exiting out to the lobby, or if they all faint, you'll get kicked

2) If you happened to be in the lobby when the boss dies, you would just automatically get to the "raid win" screen and get the encounter. Now, nothing happens automatically, okay, not the end of the world. But rejoin battle doesnt work either. The raid timer keeps counting down in the lobby, even though the raid has been defeated by other players, you think ok once it gets to 0 it will realize the raid has been won and give me the encounter. No, nothing happens. If the raid is over you don't even get the raid "rewards", much less the encounter. And you just wasted a pass and revives + potions.

And this is all in 3 raids. I was planning to go join my nearby community meetup around 2 pm to do atleast 30 raids, and do the active raid at my home gym in the meantime. This is a nightmare. Raiding is the thing I enjoy most and it has been ruined for me. Not to mention they keep recycling these origin forms with only a "chance" at the moves and apparently they are not even shiny boosted this time.

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u/SilverGoon UK & Ireland Aug 10 '25

From what I heard, it wasn't someone on here who brought it to the attention of Niantic. It was a community ambassador who literally showed someone at niantic the trick and asked if it was ok to do it.

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u/Bolf-Ramshield Aug 10 '25

I’m completely out of the loop, what was the trick?

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u/OSRS_Socks Aug 10 '25

Basically with iPhone you would see a gym nearby with a raid, swipe down on the top left of the phone (notifications have to be shown when swiping down) and then you flick that screen of notifications back up fast and spam join the the raid as you do. If done correctly you will use a green/orange pass instead of a remote. It wasn’t a a big deal. You still had to be very close to the gym to do it but it made raiding easier

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u/UndeadCaesar Aug 10 '25

I did it on iOS by switching apps back and forth really fast by swiping across the bottom of the screen. When you switched back to the app you could mash the join button.

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u/OttoVonWong Africa Aug 10 '25

You were able to join a raid within visual distance using a regular raid pass instead of a remote.

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u/TEFAlpha9 UK & Ireland Aug 10 '25

It wasn't in visual distance it was a specific distance, not too far but not super close. It really only benefited you if you lived just out of range of some raids or struggled getting close enough to a gym. It was really helpful and they should have just made spacial rend give you the same effect so it's a game feature instead of an exploit.

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u/Bolf-Ramshield Aug 10 '25

Wtf why did I never know about it before 😭