That said, it can increase DPS as it gives more chances to use powerful charged moves, especially with Glass Cannons Having your entire team faint/having to re-enter takes about 10 secondsĭodging will increase your TDO, but tends to reduce your DPS a bit as you’re not attacking when it’s used. This has been calculated in the proceeding graphs via the Swap Discount option in the DPS/TDO Spreadsheet Outside of using the early-start exploit, the game will usually take 5-7 seconds to actually start the raid, and the timer is going the entire time.Įach time a Pokemon faints, you will have about 3 seconds of 0 DPS while your next Pokemon takes the field. Frequently they do not, meaning you’ll actually need even more DPS and/or TDO than what’s calculated in order to achieve the win Keep in mind that the DPS and TDO mentioned are based on everything going perfectly. This is why Chansey is considered a laughably easy Tier 3 raid boss, while Shuckle borders on low Tier 4 difficulty. But it’s not the Pokemon’s base HP that matters! In fact, the base HP of a boss is literally thrown out the window when a Pokemon becomes a raid boss, as all raid bosses in a given tier have the same HP value assigned to them. While Attack, Defense, and Moveset are all large factors as to how hard a given boss is to beat, the main factor is HP. So what exactly makes a boss of one tier more powerful than a boss from another tier? Is it their base stats? Their movesets? Well, yes, but actually no. A more technically correct way of describing Tier 5 would be “Enhanced Tier 5”, but since the raid boss HP plots to the same point where a Tier 6 would rest, we’re going to continue to refer to it as “Tier 6”. Tier 6 raids show up as Tier 5 in-game for all intents and purposes, with the only way to tell the difference being the CP of the raid boss. To begin with: Tier 6 technically does not exist. In order to shed some light on the subject, we have compiled a list of the major arguments for and against Tier 6 raids, some opinions on how the issues with the tier could be fixed, and a list of Pokemon that are projected to be Tier 6 in the future. It is our hope that this will put the situation into focus, and show just how much of a difference this actually makes for players seeking to catch the elusive Pitch-Black Pokemon.īefore we can comment on the Tier 6 situation, let’s first try to understand it. However, that doesn't change the fact that many players are now voicing their discontentment with this tier and the lack of advantages that it now brings. This change was not terribly unexpected it started with the initial free-release of Mewtwo into the raid scene, and seems to follow high-profile Pokemon and Mythics when they are released. Players new and old alike were excited this would be a great opportunity to catch this wonderful edition to the family of Psychic- and Ghost-Type counters! After a few calculations, it was discovered that Darkrai would be a comfortably beaten 3-Trainer raid given optimal counters in most situations, which had many players even more excited for what was to come.Ī few days later, October 17 rolled around and we saw a strange CP total on raid-boss Darkrai, a CP that told a tale Darkrai would be a Tier 6 boss, and dreams of the comfortable 3-man raid victory were over. On October 14 2019, it was announced that Darkrai, the greatly anticipated Mythical Dark-Type Pokemon, would join raids for the upcoming Halloween event.
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