The level 40 squad

Didn't come to visit in the first place.

For some peculiar reason I've been dragged into some kind of high level network, which is kind of funny since I avoid getting too much XP.


These are people who are brutally effective at amassing XP, especially the level 40 ones.

Some seem to be really good at attacking gyms and adding prestige to friendly ones.

But...


... I get the feeling they're rather poor raiders.


While most of the tips and tricks on this blog is aimed at increasing individual performance, that part takes a backseat when it comes to raiding.


Really, it does.


If you have the organisational skills and charisma needed to get a dozen players to get outdoors day after day after day, then you'd probably do perfectly fine by just evolving the highest CP mons you caught and throwing around power ups at random.

Half a dozen players hulking into a gym will tear it down in minutes no matter what crap each player uses for a lineup. And if five or six gyms in an area gets pumped up to 10 and filled with mons, multiple times per day if needed, it doesn't matter at all what kind of crap goes into those gyms. Players from rival teams will just look at them with disgust and give up.


That's raiding. It's a social skill, not a technical one.


The level 40 squad caught pokemon, spun stops, made the elevator-ride in a gym, popped the lucky eggs and hatched a horde of eggs -- alone. Cause ganging up on a gym means a loss in terms of getting XP.

Ganging up on gyms. That's raiding. Doing it over and over and over again, that's being a raider.

That's my game.