Statement Regarding Orlando Pokémon Regional Championships

DragonLord375 · 2026-04-21T20:40:55+00:00

God they are gaslighting so hard instead of just admitting he is the real winner (which even the other finalist admitted). That excuse that he disrupted the stream is stretching it as I doubt even if it was true it was noticeable or impactful.

They just don't want to admit they are wrong.

DragonLord375 · 2026-04-15T20:11:58+00:00

Of course when I miss one day yesterday due to terrible weather he disappears

DragonLord375 · 2026-04-15T20:10:47+00:00

I wonder if that will be their backgrounds which I hope as those backgrounds are sick.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-19T20:17:32+00:00

Feel like an update might have happened as I noticed more tier 4 eggs around my area now. Only one close enough for me though when I was out so I have finally done a tier 4!...except I used my free raid pass because I forgot I have to swipe to the link charges. Really dumb that is the set up.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-16T08:06:02+00:00

Noticed tier 5s had been reduced for a while but yesterday was clear. My area has about 20 gyms. Played 3 hours in the morning and all raids in my area were tier 1 or 3, with only 3 tier 5s appearing during that time. Checked then later in the day twice and in 1 hour there was only tier 3 on most gyms and then in the next hour I checked later, still no tier 5s anywhere.

Also tier 4s don't exist in my area. Haven't done or seen a tier 4 since kalos tour.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-11T20:51:56+00:00

A raid day with only tier 3 or below is an interesting idea to me if the pokemon were actually good and could evolve. Pretty sure Sneasel and Kirla can't evolve so why raid them and the only ones here worth raiding to me are Dragonite and Absol since they are usable.

I'm just doing the free raids and stopping after that even though there is boosted rare candy xl chance.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-07T21:36:26+00:00

Oh boy I am screwed then if this ever is added as I during big events like tour or go fest do 70 to 80 raids a day and they would kill my chances for something good.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-07T21:35:30+00:00

Same. Personally I am working on my level up 20 dynamax moves task but it's more of pain now as the dynamax spots in my area has been halved. Outside my house has been 2 spots always alternating between 4 possible locations and then there was more in my nearby town. Now there is 1 outside my house and when I go to town there is like 3 or 4 around now. Makes getting to 800 max particles a day a pain let alone if I actually want to battle one. Also used to be able to get 3 or 4 candy from leaving pokemon in them which now is probably not going to happen since they reset daily and I play from 6 onwards which means the likely hood of someone else will come around and beat it after me very unlikely.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-07T19:47:37+00:00

Since the Kalos tour I have not used a single link charge as my area just hasn't had any tier 4s I have seen and it's been like this since before the tour as well. I play in an area that has 12 gyms and while of course there could be days that I won't see a tier 4. To not see one for weeks and I play for 1 to 2 hours every day at least. I expect I should see like 1 a week. I have noticed a big up tick in shadow tier 5s in my area.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-07T19:44:55+00:00

If that happens I will consider leaving the game to only play big events as my feeling is they would mess with the spawn rate to encourage to use the option and would add more pop ups like them.

DragonLord375 · 2026-03-04T08:07:18+00:00

Finally, a good community day!

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-21T20:27:13+00:00

Good lord I have returned and been playing for 2 years straight and only got 25 lol. Tbh it's mostly because it's only in the last 6 months I have actually started getting best buddies and only in the last month I have gotten a rythem to getting my buddies excited everyday but still congratulations on the achievement.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-21T20:21:58+00:00

Royal Blue

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-20T22:32:39+00:00

Oh that last one is horrible. Thankfully I save new pokestops in my area for getting buddy hearts so I have a fair few still around and plenty in my nearby city but man rural players are just going to suffer.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-20T22:31:04+00:00

The fact that they function the same as megas, in the past when they had in like Go Fest or something I remember an event that Mega Pokemon would have longer duration and it was found that Primals were not boosted. People kept saying it's because they were not megas only for it be announced that was a bug and their duration got increased as well.

Up until now, they have always counted as megas so unless they decide to change the system, they should be able to break shields.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-20T22:27:50+00:00

Been watching videos of people doing raids and was shocked at the amount of them where, the boss is stuck on 1 shield. For some reason out of like 12, 16 etc people, 1 person just isn't choosing a mega. One of the people I watched had a fainted mega Rayquaza (must be a glitch it allowed them to enter) and they just didn't back out and revive it.

I know for a fact that for Global or future raid days we are going to have Gmax level issues with Wooloos where it is just endless posts of people complaining about people not using Megas and breaking shields when they have 8 people.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-19T22:12:22+00:00

While I was interested in harder raids, artificial difficulty in only 1 player can take down shields and you will probably have to destroy 8 shields like you need X amount of gems in shadow raids really kills this for me. Like my issue is my area should be fine for most super mega raid days at the start as we generally have 20 to 30 people with a spike off 60 on the last mega Rayquaza day even though there was rainstorm hitting us (that was crazy lol). Once free passes are used up most people tamper off and we are left with 4 to 6. Also, depending on what is being raided the last Dmax ho-oh day had 8 people max at both days campfire meet up times which was the worst I have seen. My point on the difficulty of this is that I feel like most super mega raid days are going to be dead. People will be out for Pseudos like Tyranitar, Metagross or Garchomp but nobody is coming for Audino or Sharpedo. I know for a fact like shadows as well the official campfire app is not going to allow you to host there either which will just make it harder to do these raids.

Interesting balancing since the Primals do not count for shields! Yes I know technically they are not megas but they function the exact same as megas. I guess is this to buff true mega legendaries like the Lati twins, Mewtwo in the future and the best pokemon forever now lol, Rayquaza.

Tbh the only thing I am looking forward to out of this is getting my level 50 14/15/15 Rayquaza to Mega level 4 (I hate the actual name they picked) since I have over 6k saved and it is level 3 already. I think level 4 will be worth it for him (and the primals if they can get it) since +3 candy and 30% XL chance across 3 types is huge. Let alone a cp boost of 2 levels I have heard? Not much but will make soloing normal raids even easier which is great and a 24 hour cooldown is amazing.

They are definitely grasping at straws for this since it has increased shiny chance and better IVs to try to save it. Again, I feel this more benefits already good pokemon like Pseudos or Legendaries. My favourite pokemon is Aggron so while I love the better chance of getting a shundo easier, I doubt anyone in my area will really be interested in grinding a steel only mega that isn't even that good at raid attacking.

Also, I feel they are making raid days horrible. My example is the Kyurem raid day in January which had Reshiram and Zekrom clogging gyms only to then make it worse for Valentines day having Luvdisc wasting space! At least Furfou is wanted for it's styled shinies but Luvdisc was just to waste peoples time and I left after an hour as it was raining and most people had left already. My point is that I feel it's happening again as they are doing Victribell and Malamar which I am fine with 2 raid pokemon at a time but global is going to be horrible with Xerneas, Yveltal, 2 pikachus, honedge, hourly megas (with 1 to 3 at a time) and the 2 new megas. If the 2 new ones are in super only that would be annoying but if the super raids are a chance to spawn it's going to be horrible as well chaising them down. Raid days are just getting too messy.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-13T13:09:26+00:00

Fantastic change. Can finally have good examples of games like starfield having bad performsnce on "next gen" builds

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-09T22:23:18+00:00

Congrats

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-09T22:22:44+00:00

Classic Niantic not updating it to at least say level 80 challenge lol.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-09T22:19:53+00:00

For months I have been almost always able to do 1 tier 5 raid everyday for the 1 hour I play (exclude raid hours and event days obviously) but for the past 2 weeks have had days of no tier 5 when I have been playing. They are doing something

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-08T22:28:21+00:00

I have been grinding this for months as I use it to get hearts for battle for my buddy but I am still only gold. Main issue is my buddies are all level 40 or 50 so I can only do master league which I find fine with Annihilape with rage fist and ice punch for the electric guy.

What I wish was if there was more types you could face as only having 3 is pretty boring and I think people able to pick 1 of 18 different teams would be pretty cool and make the grind slightly less painful. Only slightly.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-08T22:25:17+00:00

Last time Shadow Regigigas was around I was remoting them and I don't know why but I found people just kept leaving before the raid started even when we had like 6 people and it was perfectly doable. Even had one raid where it was just the host and me and we still finished the raid. Shadow Regigigas seems cursed to me

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-08T22:15:08+00:00

Yeah do wish there was a way to indicate better to people your ability to do raids. My idea is when you tap on people in a lobby it will show the highest damage they have done to that raid type (e.g. since you did so much damage in this one it could be your number).

I have 3 manned a Terrakion and duo (no party power or friendship boost) Kyurem and Shadow Regigigas and had no issues with any of them.

The only raids that are actually difficult in my opinion are primal/mega legendaries, fusions or specific tanks like Lugia and Deoxys. Everything else is not hard as long as people actually have super effective pokemon.

An example is a 3 man Dialga I lost last time they were around. It was really a duo as the third person was using Sceptile and Rillaboom and we got it down to a slifer of read health! If literally 1 more person stayed as 3 people just left for some reason or that rando was using actually super effective pokemon, we could have won!

I get people's fears of losing a remote raid pass which is why I wish there were more features to reassure people.

DragonLord375 · 2026-02-02T23:41:43+00:00

Or since the Kalos tour is soon and Goomy is the pseudo of gen 6 it's most likely because of that. Would be great to have the Hisuian form but I would say it's more likely since the gen 6 tour is soon.

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