Research tasks not properly coded?
So, since the start of the Fighting event, we have the quest „Use a super effective charge moves in 7 raids or gym battles“, which grants a Charge TM, which isn‘t bad. Picked up one of them yesterday, but didn‘t get around to doing the quest yet. From my experience, you could just use a super effective Charge Move on the first Pokemon in a gym, and then sweep through without any more SE Charge Moves and it would still count for every Pokemon you defeat until the last one (for example, full gym, you attack the first Pokemon SE, that one Charge Move counts for all other Pokemon too, so you get 6 on the counter. Now today, I did a Dialga raid, had a whole Fighting team, but didn‘t get a single „SE Charge Move“ for the counter, despite firing off multiple Dynamic Punches and Close Combats. Anybody else having issues with the quest in regard of raids?
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There's been a lot of smaller things too. Incorrect raid bosses being released, Luxio hatching from eggs, people not being credited their entire Adventure Sync walk distance rewards, Espeon/Umbreon being made raid bosses with a 0% base catch rate, stuff like that. Stuff that may not affect everyone individually but reading about it makes you think "quality Niantic programming".
Well there's your problem, still using Close Combat on Machamp. /s
Seriously though, that task has always been bugged. Despite saying "raids or gym battles" it's only ever counted for gym battles. As long as you use one SE move against the first Pokemon in a gym sweep it'll continue to check off after clearing each consecutive battle, regardless of if another SE move was used or not. Frankly I don't mind it working this way, makes it easier to clear IMO.
One additional clarification--you have to defeat whatever pokemon you used the SE charged move on to get credit. I was battling a gym from a subway doing this quest and I got kicked out of the first battle after using a SE charged move but before the pokemon was defeated and didn't get credit towards the quest
Since you posted this, Niantic dropped the word "Raid" from this task. So now correctly only for gym battles. The glitch is still working as today I received "super effective charge" from each successive battle even when there was none used as long as the first one was SE. I tried using NON SE in one first battle and subsequently did NOT receive SE credit.
