I have just had to go out retaking gyms late at night because of this new format.. it is creating MORE GREED here, and people are playing this late because they hold them overnight, stealing from locals.... before I could clear them whenever and get my coins... now I had to go out and remove random car drivers from gyms because I had hardly any left just to get a claim for tomorrow... this is a massive flaw..
Eh, at least this is still so much better than the coin drought that was happening earlier, so I'd not call it "massive" flaw. Be thankful of what you got. I certainly miss the time my strategic placement give me a lot of coins daily, but now I learn to appreciate the value.
Anyway, got to do my first two raids.
First: 30k CP Rhydon
For my first one, I'm pretty happy to deploy my Vaporeon division, although I already regret putting one with ATail in an outskirt neighborhood of my team's stagnant territory that he'll never go home. We got few players apparently, and it took more than 90 seconds to bring him down. Blitz wasn't kidding, this isn't meant to be solo.
Took me one Vappy fainted and the other at half health. Got only 10 balls, and somehow they're still quite aggresive, attacking and jumping too often. Still caught it in first try with a berry+Great throw. Outstanding IV, moveset is double Ground.
Second: 18k Machamp
I used the pass I got yesterday, and I got another today. Anyway, in first try, it ended up into a solo run because of me crashing. I missed the right group of people.
I don't have enough Psychic Pokemon with me (decent one is only near perfect, perfect moveset Alakazam
? I haven't raised yet, an Espeon, and Exegutor
?. Predictably, failed the solo run, with his HP around 10% and I got wiped out once.
Second try, another player joins. Seeing how close I was, I think I could do it this time, and yeah, we did. Even though the other player was dumb enough to use a Tyranitar against a Machamp.
Got around 12 balls. Turned into a Counter / Close Combat one. Not bad, I suppose. But this one is really, really annoying, I had to wait for him and throw the ball in near the end of his attack animation. Got it with 3 balls, berry included.
Seriously, you'll want to keep practicing ball throws.
All of these, I got Rare Candies immediately turned into Larvitar candy. I know I'll need army of kaijuu for facing legendaries. No TM, sadly....
I'll have to raise my team. High DPS 'mon will be in high demand, I think I should start maxing out Alakazam. And probably evolve newly hatched Eevee yesterday into Espeon....