Bubble Strat, gen 2

And the people at Silph Road published the latest about Bubble Strat.

Haunter with Shadow Claw versus Kadabra with Confusion was pretty much a no-brainer since Confusion was boosted from 15 to 20 damage with the associated prolonged cooldown.

It also pretty much follows from the same Haunter doing the job against an Abra with Zen Headbutt since pre-patch.

And you should be able to generate 1000 prestige this way, since the Haunter versus Abra did and still does.

The obvious drawback is that it's a major pain to set it up. Finding multiple microscopic Abra will take a while.

Add the cost for evolving them and hoping that we'll end up with the correct moves, while at the same time doing power up on Alakazam number two (that has to get Psycho Cut and Shadow Ball) since Psychic went down the drain.



The interesting news is Diglett (Scratch) or Krabby (Bubble) attacking a Raichu with Volt Switch.

While it seems this won't generate 1000 prestige, chances are you have some left over level 1 Pikachu since the Christmas event when they were found everywhere.

Thus this pair is a lot easier to find.

The main drawback is the brutal candy cost, but the very Christmas event referred to earlier should have you well prepared to handle this.



Basically the 'death of bubble strat' mainly hurt the pairs that depended on the defender having Bubble as a primary attack. Those pokemon were common, and hence the candy cost neglible.

Bubble strat isn't dead -- Bubble is.



Lastly, the raid team I belong to never relied on a real bubble strat. We use a similar method where our attackers most definitely take damage. In that sense it's less effective. We set it up early september, and it still works. Adding a new player into the loop is a matter of hours, worst case. Chanses are they're ready to go, but they just don't know it yet.

Valor and Mystic players in Gothenburg have learned to despise the lowly Parasect -- at least for the three minutes or less it takes us to kick an empty gym to level ten. Our record is two minutes fifteen seconds, and half the raid had problems with their phones that time. If a spoof free environment the gym should effectively reach level 10 in under one minute.