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/TheRealHankWolfman UK & Ireland - Yorkshire - Mystic - L50 Aug 10 '25

The first one was happening long before the trick was patched. You shouldn't do raids close to the boss refreshing unless you're sure you can beat it without your team fainting.

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u/Substantial_Mix_1634 Aug 10 '25

Doesn’t that just amplify the fact that they should be fixing problems like this that actually matter?

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u/ManagerHot8709 Aug 10 '25

But this also is an old problem that most raid players have adapted to. And forget bugs, if you somehow fail the raid, you'll be screwed regardless.

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u/Substantial_Mix_1634 Aug 10 '25

What’s your point? It should still get fixed.

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u/ManagerHot8709 Aug 10 '25

My point is that there is a point where the player is also the problem.

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u/Substantial_Mix_1634 Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

If you’re able to use a raid pass and join a raid, the game shouldn’t kick you out and let you waste it. End of