Raids in Pokémon GO offer the ultimate challenge for trainers in the endgame. The fight against raid bosses is particularly difficult, however, if you are alone or with a team of a few players against the bosses. In order for you to succeed in these battles, we’ll give you a number of tips here in our guide to maximize your chances.

In Pokémon GO, the raids are part of the endgame and offer challenges on various levels. Normally, you need a certain number of players for each raid if you want to defeat the respective boss as easily as possible. The Tier 5 raids have the strongest bosses in the game and are the most challenging for Pokémon trainers.

An even bigger challenge awaits you, however, if you – either deliberately or simply out of necessity due to a lack of enough teammates – tackle a legendary raid or a Tier 4 raid with a smaller trainer team than would actually be recommended. If you decide to do so, there are a number of things you should keep in mind. Based on an article from Pokemongohub, we’ve summarized these points for you – so keep the following tips in mind to maximize your chances of winning with smaller raid groups.

Pokémon GO: Raids in small groups – preparation is everything

Even more so than with normal raids, the mantra that applies to battles that you want to fight alone or with smaller groups of trainers than is actually necessary is: preparation is everything. Therefore, before you set foot in the raid arena, be sure to heed the following advice:

• Assemble your raid team with the appropriate feature in advance. Time is extremely limited in the raid (see below), so be sure to set up your team before the fight begins to save time.
• Know the best movesets for your team’s Pokémon and the raid boss beforehand. In particularly challenging raids, the attacks of the Pokémon participating in the raid battle play an especially important role – without appropriate counters, you won’t stand a chance. You should also find out which attacks the raid boss will use under which weather conditions. In certain weather conditions and with certain movesets, the individual raid bosses are easier to fight than in others.
• Focus your team selection on the Pokémon that have the best attacks, and upgrade only those Pokémon in advance of the raid via stardust and candies.
• When upgrading your Pokémon, consider the associated offensive and defensive breakpoints, especially if you don’t have enough candies and stardust to sufficiently upgrade your entire team. This way, you’ll get the most out of your team despite limited resources.
• Get rid of normal and super potions in advance: This may seem counterintuitive when preparing for a raid fight. However, in the raid, you’ll primarily need items that revive your Pokémon with maximum health. If you then have to scroll through the mass of useless potions, you’ll only lose time unnecessarily – and that can take its toll later on.

Pokémon GO: Raids in small groups – simulations and other little helpers

Once you have put together your Pokémon team for the raid, you should simulate the outcome of the battle under optimal conditions before a specific raid battle. One way to do this is to use Pokebattler, where you can find a simulator for individual Pokémon battles. There you can specify the Pokémon involved in the battle, including their stats and attacks, as well as the weather conditions. Then click on the “Battle” button to simulate the battle. The website will then show you the probability of your Pokémon winning the battle. The simulator also provides you with all sorts of useful additional information, such as how long it will take to win, the number of potions you’ll need, or the amount of damage you’ll have to inflict.

The “time to win” plays a particularly important role: this number shows you how long it takes to defeat the raid boss with six Pokémon of your chosen type. Keep in mind that a Tier 5 raid always has a timer of 300 seconds (in practice, usually a little less) per trainer participating in the raid, so you’ll need to defeat the boss within that time to emerge from the raid successful. However, in addition to the “time to win” displayed, you will need to calculate the time it takes to heal your Pokémon (usually around 15 seconds). Add that time to the “time to win.” If the total time is less than the raid time limit, you have a real chance of winning.

Pokémon GO: Raids in small groups – On a knife’s edge: The actual raid battle

Once you’ve completed your preparations for the raid, it’s time to get down to business. To ensure that all your efforts beforehand are not wasted, follow these tips to maximize your chances:

• Due to a glitch, bosses regenerate a portion of their health under certain conditions: if all of your Pokémon fail and you go to the lobby to heal them at the same time as all the other trainers participating in the raid, this glitch will occur. To avoid this, you can use an empty slot in your team to ensure that you fail before the other trainers and have to regenerate your Pokémon. Alternatively, end the battle manually and head to the lobby once your last Pokémon has joined the raid battle.
• Slight lags on slow attacks can affect the battle: if one of your Pokémon faints shortly after you press the button for a charge attack, the next Pokémon to join the battle will perform its attacks with a slight lag. To avoid this, spam normal attacks as soon as your Pokémon is about to faint.
• The dodge glitch still causes problems: If you try to dodge a one bar charge attack that can knock your Pokémon out with one hit, the Pokémon will simultaneously dodge and not dodge the attack. Although the game will count the dodge as successful, your Pokémon will then show up as knocked out. Therefore, to save time, avoid dodging such attacks at all costs.

We hope that these tips will help you a bit if you want to take on the ultimate challenge in Pokémon GO, which is the Raids in solo mode or with a few other trainers in the team. Do you have any hints that we haven’t mentioned in our guide yet? Then write them down in the comments and read more news, specials and tips about Niantic’s mobile app on our Pokémon GO topic page.

Pokémon GO

Pokémon Go is the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s popular Pokémon game series for Android and iOS. It is a so-called “location-based game”, i.e. a game that uses the player’s immediate surroundings. It is based on the principle of augmented reality.

Pokémon Map: Between landmarks and sights

Pokémon Go uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine the player’s location and displays it on a map that also represents the playing field. The map is based on OpenStreetMap maps. The game is played mostly outdoors and uses landmarks, landmarks and other notable or eye-catching objects in the world to position either PokéStops or arenas there for you to battle for supremacy. Join either Team Intuition (Team Yellow, Zapdos), Team Wisdom (Team Blue, Arktos), or Team Daring (Team Red, Lavados). Under their flag you can then fight for the arenas, which are placed at hotspots like churches or similar. Pokémon can appear anywhere, though.

Pocket monsters visible on the Pokémon Go Map are randomly loaded into the game’s virtual map by the game server. If several players are playing in the same location, each player can see and catch the Pokémon independently of the others.

Pokémon Go Updates, News, Raids and More

The developers at Niantic regularly provide Pokémon Go with new updates or special raids that should only be tackled in a group of several people. The Pokémon Go Raids are therefore very popular, as they also offer the prospect of particularly rare Pokémon. For example, in the past, legendary Pokémon could always be caught on special occasions (Pokémon Go events). For particularly eager mobile or smartphone Pokémon trainers, there is also an external IV calculator, such as the online tool from Pokemon.gameinfo.io or on Pokefans.net, to check the values of your Pokémon.

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