Upticks in reports of Pokemon Go’s raids spontaneously becoming more difficult overnight left players baffled over the cause. Across multiple community subreddits, users reported struggling to best raid bosses they’d previously had no issue defeating. Gen 3 legendary Kyogre , which returned to PoGo’s raid rotation on September 3, was singled out, in particular, as being far more potent than before.
“Why is Kyogre suddenly 10 times harder!?”, claimed one now-deleted post , with more following suit, questioning, “Is it me, or are raids three times as difficult as yesterday?” and outright slamming the feature as being “in a horrible condition right now.” On September 6, Niantic rolled out raid “improvements” to “increase stability, reduce latency, and provide the ability to expand on them in the future.” The developer stipulated that said adjustments could “affect the timing of some Pokemon moves”, and that it “may adjust them over time.
” Trainers, we have launched improvements to Raid Battles to increase stability, reduce latency, and provide the ability to expand them in the future. This may affect the timing of some Pokémon moves. We are monitoring these changes and your feedback and may adjust them over time.
Players attributed the freak appearance of supercharged raid ‘mons to Niantic’s changes, specifically citing how raid bosses now use Charged Attacks immediately and without cooldown as the core issue. “They changed the energy ga.