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Just a quite terrible day

This is not really a question, but I just felt like venting some of my frustration over a quite bad day.

Since it was the last day for Articuno I really wanted to try and get another one (had caught one a few days ago), but as I'm like 10km from the nearest town I have to keep checking a group on Facebook where people post about local raids.

Just after waking up I saw one post about an Articuno raid, but there wasn't time for me to get there (could probably have made it late, but no point when everyone else has already done the raid).
So that was my first miss.

A bit later I was close to town and another Articuno raid started. Some people were going to meet there and do the raid.
The gym is located at the top of a tall hill, so getting to it is quite the workout.
Got there, but we were only a few people so we had to wait for more, but none came. In the end we tried to do the raid, but after two tries we realised that we needed perhaps just one more to win, but the time ran out without anyone else coming by.
That was my 2nd miss.

Immediately after that failure two Articuno raids popped up and someone wrote about it on FB and quite a few said they were going to one of the raids.
I suggested that we would go to the one with less time left and then move on to the other one, seeing as they were like 2 minutes walk from eachother.
But to my surprise nobody wanted to do the other raid. With Articuno leaving at days end, who in their right mind says no to an Articuno raid?! WTF!?
So there was little point for me to try to do it myself.
That was the 3rd miss.

But for the raid we were all at, surely that would be the one where I'd finally got to defeat Articuno?
Hell no!
Some people started without telling the rest and by the time I found out the fight had already started. So me and two others wasn't allowed to join. And beating Articuno with three people wasn't really an option.

So four fucking Articuno raids. One I missed, one I failed because of lack of people showing up, a third I had to skip because nobody could be bothered to walk a couple of minutes to do a raid (with fucking Articuno!!!) and the fourth I missed out on because nobody made sure we all knew when to start.

So yeah, I'm sort of pissed off.
Sure, I already had one Articuno (okay IV, terrible moves), but seeing as we don't know when it will show up again (this year, next, never?) it would have been nice to get just a couple more.
But I had to settle for one because of a day with just pure bad luck (other, non-Pokemon related, stuff happened as well).

Also, with Articuno the timing of it's raids has been all wrong for me. When I'm in town there's no raid, but when I'm not or in a hurry to get somewhere a raid is always on.

I hope I have better luck with moltres.

Sorry for this long (probably boring) post without even a simple question, but I just had to get this off my chest.

I hope you all had better luck.

Asked by The Idle Fellow6 years 7 months ago
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I'm so so sorry this happened to you. It seems to be the case with most rural and semi-rural players, but that doesn't make it okay. I feel your pain, I truly do.

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I stopped at 5 arti raids today and met a total of 4 people. Yesterday was just as bad chasing Lugia raids.. People are just waiting for Moltres now.

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The only raid I was able to do in the last two days was a Lugia, and my game crashed at the end, so I didn't get any items or the chance to catch it.

Today, I walked over to one of the two gyms in walking distance of my house, where an Articuno raid had been going on. Nobody wanted to fight it, but I did get bitten by a dog on my way there.

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I was able to find only 1x a group for Articuno. did that one and the bugger escaped. Attempted 5-6 more and the max# of people showing up was 2. And I was one of them... So I batted 0 for the 1st pair.

Heck, I can't even get a group for a L4 raid. I still dont have a TRex.

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At least you got an Articuno. I didn't discover a Facebook and Discord group near me until yesterday.

After spending about half of the day going around town doing raids with our group, I ended up going 0/2 on Articuno, 1/3 on Lugia, solo'd a Muk and right at the end of the day found a Machamp, which I also got.

I saw a few more Articuno, but nobody wanted to go to them.

Today I was feeling pretty sick and it's a 35 minute drive to meet up with everybody, so I ended up passing on my last chance at an Articuno. I really wish I had found these groups earlier.

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by haltsy 6 years 8 months ago

Niantic: making in-game outcomes less and less associated with skill or effort since 2016.

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It may make you feel better to know that I - and several other people here - don't have a single legendary.

But I do wish you luck with other legendaries! If you managed to get one Articuno, chances are you will be able to get more legendaries.

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From what I saw, many trainers were not doing Articuno raids today as they already have plenty. They were saving todays free raid pass to get Moltres tomorrow with 2 free chances

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Yeah, I posted something to this effect 2 days ago...

I think it's wise to try to get ALL the legendary birds NOW since when and if they come back, there is probably other things to catch or new flavors of the month, whatever and it maybe hard for some people to get a large enough raid group together (esp when people don't want to use a paid pass to get something they already have (pretty much pay a dollar). Also, if people had to drive farther, that makes it less likely to get more people.

This is especially true for Lugia since it takes more people normally and I've noticed when raiding, there are loads of low level people lately (< Level 25)...

Right now, I see discord filled with Moltres messsages...I don't see folks do Tyranitars much and that only takes 5 (or 4) people safely with non-maxed out mons.

We all did get 1 Articuno and 1 Lugia already so kids are already not as interested to go out and get more now.

I'm 1/3 for Articuno and the 2 Articunos that ran from me was after 16 out of 17 hits (1 Excellent, 7 Great, 8 regular hits using the delayed circle set/throw strategy). You need RNG on your side still...

TL:DR - Get Moltres like today or tomorrow IMO if you have trouble getting enough people for the best chance...After that, it may/will die down since people are pretty hardcore at the moment to get it...also use a group chat app to organize raids.

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Sounds like you didn't have good luck and a bunch of other people didn't make your life better for you.

Welcome to the real world.

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I've had a lot of frustration too. The opportunity to do raids hasn't been a huge problem. But after defeating many many legendaries, and getting 11-13 premier balls per raid (I've been the highest level trainer at most of the raids I've been part of and was dealing a lot of damage), and hitting with 90% greats or excellents, they all fled. It's hard when your hopes keep getting raised, then getting disappointed.

Anyway, eventually got a couple, but I was ready to quit and sell my account on eBay ?

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