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/Elect_Locution Aug 10 '25

Easier said than done. I'll host a raid, it'll take 10-30+ minutes waiting for my lobby to be up, 1-3 minutes to get people ready. The options are either repeat the process and hope for a better timed raid (if I can find one), or roll the dice on it going smoothly. I can't tell you how many times I've nearly been able to start a raid, but it'd end just as my lobby is ready.

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u/Ok_Sea8789 Aug 12 '25

This is why I only create lobbies while it's still an egg. The queue time is too long on PG. They should make them shorter. I'd rather be timed out sooner than be disappointed after nearly an hour kol