Pokemon Go Raids

Raids are here
And in order to currently access them you must be level 35, for now. They are limiting who can access them so they can be fully tested and unglitched before they go into full effect. That being said, it was not the smoothest experience at first due to it being my first raid.

So I got a notification that there was a raid egg nearby. We had just pulled into town and had 12 minutes to get there. We park, walk up, and the timer ran out. And then a new timer started for 60 minutes, bit it was still an egg. We fought some local gyms, figured it was bugged but that we would still waiting out and see what happens.

Well a Croconauw spawned from the egg. Now we had the opportunity to check it out. There were three of us, a 35 a 36 and a 40 (in level). After a 90 second countdown the battle began!

And in no time we cleaved that gator into nothing. I was expecting more of a fight but hey, first day you could get a raid pass and first raid, I'm happy it worked.

Premier balls for gym control at the time it spawned, amount of fellow faction members in our raid group, damage done, and for defeating the boss itself.

And then it was time to catch him. I had 13 balls, got him in the first ball. Balls do not carry over, they are only for that raid boss attempt. Overall he is simply amazing with a 15 (max) in attack.

Totally blew my theory of only end evolution Pokemon for raids, but whatever. It was a cool experience and I enjoyed it greatly. I will definitely be trying for at least a raid a day as that is the daily limit for raid passes you can acquire via spinning a gym stop. They are also in the in game store.

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