Pokémon GO's Raid Battle Roster Gets A Rejig

Golem, Scyther, and Lapras are OK additions. Sableye is OK too for it's increased shiny chance.

But Metapod? I'd rather have Magikarp to use a spare raid pass on for it's shiny chance.

I don't think you can put a Metapod in a Metapod, so this can't be an Exibit meme. Wonder if they'll have gen 7 by the time gen 10 is a thing?

Call me when the app doesn’t crash every 5 minutes.

@JubilifeRival That's your phone, not the app. I changed mine and new one works a treat.

Why can't they do away with the rubbish raid system altogether. Penalises individual players, you never get enough together for a decent shot at the big ones without spoofers. And just starts arguments when people don't get one and have to meet up to do them. Just let us use our other Pokemon to battle the legendaries to bring their HP down.

@olrodlegacy My phone is an iPhone 6 and it’s perfectly functioning. There’s no excuse.

@JubilifeRival I have a cheap Samsung Galaxy phone and it doesn't crash not even once. So something must be screwing around with your copy of the game.

@olrodlegacy A good trick it to use the Discord app. I’ve got 35 people to one location for a raid before. It’ll also surprise you to see how many people are still playing actively!

@Slaz Lapras has been a raid boss from day one.

Tier two raid bosses got a big shakeup. Interesting.

It's nice to have a reasonable opportunity for Porygon, now.

Metapod - like a news story about a bloke with a beard on a box.

This is a tough one to weigh up, but I'm going to have to go with the changes making it worse than it already was.
The only two non-legendary raid bosses I was interested in before were Tyranitar and Magikarp... the latter purely because it can be shiny... Tyranitar has stayed, and Magikarp has been replaced with Sableye as the potential shiny... so it works out fairly neutral in that regard.
Most of the other Pokemon are just as pointlessly common before and after the change, so that doesn't make much difference either.
The only thing that did make a difference is the starters... we still have Gen 1, and we still have stage 1 evolutions, but we've completely lost Gen 2 and stage 2 evolutions... it would have made sense to simply swap them over, but they haven't.

I get the feeling that they might actually be preparing to remove some Pokemon from the game in order to make room for Gen 3... I've been concerned for some time about how the addition of more and more Pokemon will affect spawns, and removing some of the older Pokemon (perhaps implementing a rotation system) would be a perfect way to resolve this.

Noo, they removed Bayleef, I don’t have a really good one yet.

@JubilifeRival I play the game every day on my iPhone 6 and it works perfect, something has to be wrong on your end.

Metapod.
Metapod.
METAPOD.

Niantic gonna Niantic, I see.
We're not ignoring that elephant in the living room that's the timer on the legendaries anytime soon, you know?

WOW! This is BIG news!

sarcasm

Niantic has to be the worst so called game company ever!

@Indielink Haha oops, I forgot. That's probably because I rarely ever joined raids other than legendaries and solo Magikarp.