Changing meta game due to raid boss

With the switch from kyogre to rayquaza as the legendary raid boss a change in the meta game is both clearly visible as well as rather obvious.

I'm talking the gym raiding part of the game rather than the boss raiding one.

Since kyogre made short work of your lineup the problem with a general lack of potions and revives got further aggravated. Unless the lobby got filled you were likely to leave the boss raid with less material for gym raiding than what you had when you arrived.

Rayquaza is a push over and on average you should end up with a surplus of hyper potions and revives.

Indirectly this means you'll have more material with which to start hulking into gyms, which translates into a devaluation of the golden razz berries for gym defence.


In short:

Two weeks ago berry feeding gyms meant running the attacker dry on potions and revives.

Now stubbornly hacking into gyms, especially if you're two or three attackers, means depleting the defender's berry storage.


The change is brutally clear when opposing teams meat before a boss raid, two attacking into the gym and one defending it. The number of casual attackers is visibly increased since they have the potions and revives to afford joining into the fray. This in turn accelerates berry depletion since the defenders go down that much faster.

In the end it means it's harder to defend other gyms since you're running even lower on golden razz berries.