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The most useless Raid Boss

Who do you guys find to be the most useless?
I find it to be mawile, sure its good against dragons with fairy, but its so weak in stats it cant do much. IT lacks the one thing that made mawile good in the first place, its mega and more importantly huge power, so even if megas are added, it still will be useless as its attack is pitiful.
If anything its only real use is getting the fairy and steel medals easier. Are there any other raid bosses you shouldn't waste your passes on?

Asked by MetagrossMaxis5 years 10 months ago

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Mawile has another use in addition to medals: catching it for the Pokedex. Raid boss is the only way to catch Mawile

I'd say Marowak. Cubone are easy to find, Ground-medal is one of the easiest to complete, and Marowak has zero competitive use in a game without Thick Club.

Shuckle

Pretty much all the Tier 1s and 2s are that way unless you factor in shiny hunting. Possible exception is exeggutor and magikarp for the gyarados evolution.

If I had to pick one, I will choose shuckle.

I would say Latias and Sucuine are more useless than at least 4 of the tier 2’s we’ve had. Ho-Oh is even relatively useless.

Turn of the year I played the PvP on Draconius and it was somewhat entertaining, though I was just level 16 and barely aware of the types/characters. Most players sucked worse than me though.

I just wonder if Niantic would say 6 in a battle party but no repeating species: Rayquaza, Dragonite, Salamence, Latios................Latias. I caught a boosted Latias 15a 96% and got enough candy to take it to 30, so I have already. A harmless speculation and Latias has been easy/convenient to beat.

Shuckle, relative to its CP (and only relative to its CP), has a very high gym defence performance. This along with its very low motivation decay rate and its low Potion requirement makes it a useful gym defender in certain neighbourhoods.

It takes Machamp 13 seconds to defeat Shuckle, both maxed. That's high performance for its CP for sure, but that doesn't really matter when there isn't any significant advantage to having cp much less than 1k. Hatched Chanseys and L20+ Wobbuffets are much more useful for low turnover areas.

True point. Wobbuffet and Chansey are better dfenders.
Shuckle is still more Potion efficient though. Shuckle can potentially get away with one Potion after using a Revive

Does nobody remember Metapod being a raid boss? That gets my vote for most useless.

Caterpie candy is useful for evolution, and with 12 candy needed per evolution, it's like Pidgey with Lucky Eggs

I dont know about that...Mawile was the only T2 (except Eggy) I ever did if it wasnt for an EX Raid gym.
Mawile is good for the dex and there is a shiny form. He is pretty popular where I live tbh

Aggron

All the bad tier 4s we've had. Aggron, Victreebel, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Poliwrath, Walrein. These pokemon aren't terribly useful or rare but require a group to take down. The reward to effort ratio is much worse than for tier 3 or tier 5 raids, I believe they are by far the least raided ones out of everything.

Mawile is a raid exclusive, potential shiny. Besides Muk, it's the only tier 1/2 raid that I like to do.