Was the Donphan T3 nerfed?

They have boosted the type effectiveness, with super effective being 1.6x, resistance 0.625x.

What ^ said. The "super-effective" multiplier used to be 1.4x and is now boosted to 1.6x (and double effective from 1.96 to 2.56). If you used to find thrill in the challenge of soloing Doniphan you can now actually solo Rhydon as a tier 4!

In addition to the super effectiveness change, most raids also got slightly easier with the rebalance of defense and hp. Raid boss hp depends only on the raid tier and since defense was reduced for most pokemon, most raid bosses ended up with less bulk post-rebalance.

Personally since all of the solo tier 3s are easy 100% wins now, i wouldn't touch them if not for being a low risk medium reward option. Also catching legendaries are stressful as hell, catching tier 3s or 4s are much easier.

Today was a good day

Suddenly a let down, isn’t it? I was building a team for Jolteon as my last unfulfilled T3 solo challenge, now I totally lost taste for it. Well, I can still just use it for Heatran duos, which is far from an actual challenge too.