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/PokeReddit1188 Aug 10 '25

I wonder how long it will take for Niantic to see that they didnt do themselfes a favour with patching that slight gps-drift. They gain ten raidpasses less perday only from me because of that.

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u/HovercraftDry7850 Aug 10 '25

I personally hope they revert this change asap. The reduced raid radius doesn’t make sense, and you’re now forced to stay within the small radius of the gym until the boss is killed, just in case you faint or the app crashes. Groups can’t even start walking to the next raid after starting the first one.

Raiding is by far the most profitable thing in this game - why on earth would they reduce their capacity to make money off raiding??

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Aug 10 '25

I doubt they would revert the change to allow the glitch but maybe they could officially increase the radius

Also, there is obviously an optimal radius size or they’d just 10x the radius for “profit” and let you use raid passes on anything you can see and call it a day

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u/bloop-loop Aug 11 '25

The better way to increase profits is probably increasing the catch rate. I could've done way more raids if the catch circle was green like some other raid events.

Since the adventure effect move is so rare I did not want to just flee encounters, so throwing Premier Balls at low catch rates slowed down my ability to do more raids.

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u/Unambiguous-Doughnut Aug 12 '25

Hell Ive had it golden razz and excellent curveball on every shot and the git still ran away.... others I missed the circle and didn't golden razz and it caught straight away, gotten to the point where I will throw a normal pinap berry until 5 balls remain then golden razz because I don't see the increased catch rate the golder razz supposedly provides half the time.