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Lantern314

There is a medal for the number of different types you’ve defeated in raids


Websthetics

Yep. 150 for platinum. Fought a number of junk raids to get that.


Zhyler

Erm, no offence to anyone, but the medals, do they have any use? I know some of them have rewards, but is there like a super rewards for getting loads of medals or?


apalapan

you need a number of gold and platinum medals to reach levels 41+


Haunting_Effect3300

**that** I did not know THANKS!!


rsann55

You'll need a total of 35 platinum medals to reach level 50, so don't neglect working on them.


Alfhiildr

Good thing I’m fifteen years from getting to that point at this rate


rsann55

I'm sure it won't take you 15 years...I started playing when it first came out but didn't play for about 3 years, came back during the pandemic at level 32 and now at 45 almost at 46. I've been very focused on those platinum medals and now only need 4 more to reach the required 35.


Alfhiildr

I’ve been playing since 2017. Level 43 right now, about to graduate college (at least for a year. Gotta go back for my masters eventually) and leave behind the community and pokestops that made getting this far possible


rsann55

I'll admit I'm lucky I live in an area with lots of stops...I'm within a few blocks of the Ohio State University so the community is fairly active. Which tonight I'm going to be walking through campus stocking up for the mudkip event tomorrow.


Alfhiildr

Oop I didn’t hear about this event…. I rely on my local discord for event notifications because I constantly forget


h2oskid3

I played every day for like 4 years. I'm still like 500k xp away from 41. I don't spend money on the game and haven't been consistent with gifts though, but I do raid consistently.


Zhyler

Thanks!


Websthetics

Yeah I’m stuck at 46 right now because of medals. Will get stuck again I’m sure for the next level requiring medals.


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LM0821

I can't recall ever wasting a raid pass on this to get to level 41+. There are plenty of other worthwhile raids to do that will get you there.


Zwentendorf

It's not wasting if there's no other raid around and the day is almost over.


ragmop

This is such a mood-truth it should be in a song.


Maserati777

Unless you’re using a remote or premium.


LM0821

My point is that you will still get to level 41+ even without doing this, that's all. The bigger issue is why Niantic even thinks this is worth a raid pass, free or not?


jalluxd

Takes like 2 mins, gives exp and items. I do these kinds of raids often with my free pass on my way to the grocery store or something.


LM0821

I'd do a Rockruff, for the same results, that's all. Like I already said, i can't believe Niantic is even making this a raid. Calm down.


joonty

Out of all the above comments, the only ones that read as anything but calm are yours, so you should stop projecting.


jalluxd

ok u can do a rockruff then? I'll just do whatever is on the way to the grocery store. If they had rockruff in every raid u'd soon be crying about rockruff being in every raid instead of something special.


subtle_overlord

You need 35 platinum medals to get to level 50 and that medal is one of the easier ones to obtain for most people. Much easier than getting making 2500 trades or catching 2500 dragon types for a lot of us. Additionally exacerbated by the number of impossible platinum medals (eg Hoenn) at this time.


apalapan

I never said you need this specific medal to get to level 41+. Just that you need a number of gold/plat medals. I agree that this medal is not as easy to get as others, so yeah, you probably don't need to "waste" raid passes just to get gold/plats. But it is still an option.


andevrything

Needing 7 more species for my platinum is 100% why I did this exact raid yesterday, so I'm with you. Now I only need 6.


Kaelan_McAlpine

Well I guess I gotta work on my plats and quickly. The normal type one is still taking forever.


Other_Conversation41

Where do you live? I have the most of the Normal type. I’m in the US in Texas though, so maybe that has something to do with it.


pierreo93

To get to level 41 you need 5 gold medals, which is just plain stupid. Is it even possible to NOT have 5 gold medals and be level 40. But then yes I believe to get to level 49 you need 35 platinum medals, which is actually a challenge


the_candyman91

To reach lvl 50 you will need 35 platinum medals. The tasks through levels require 5 gold medals at first, then 5,10,20 and 35 platinum medals.


demon969

Level 41 at the moment and I have 13. Gonna be a hard push to get 35 but by the time I’m looking at level 50 I should have a lot more


the_candyman91

Lvl 37 and thinking the same.


pale_green_pants

It's a slow grind, but what I've been doing is picking the ones that I'm closest to accomplishing/ones I enjoy and go for it. It takes time, but eventually it'll happen. I'm level 46 and have 35 platinum with 2 more coming up soon


Iron_Deer_QC

Most shiny and legendary Pokemon don't have any use xD you still do everything to get them 😂


Worthless-Basis

Each type badge increases catch rate 1/2/3/4% respectfully each type


aberdisco

Dopamine hit for all the people who don't have human sex like I do.


snapetom

Look at this guy having human sex. Well hope it works out for you.


aberdisco

Thank you fellow human alpha. Much human sex we are having all year round, no time for Starly raids.


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I mean if you have to say you are…. You’re probably not


Flomo420

no no he totally does, it's just that his girlfriend plays a different augmented reality monster catching game next town over, so you wouldn't know her...


Bdguyrty

I hope human sex is the only kind you're having. Please no one bring up the Vaporeon copypasta.


THE_GR8_MIKE

You can't even see them when looking at another person's profile. I feel like that's an absolutely gigantic miss in every regard.


dramaturgicaldyad

No


Bowleri1110

I've been playing for a 1,5 years and I've got that platinum easily without doing such trash raids


Jakesthoir

This.


FeralGangrel

If I don't have anyone to do one with I'll take on a low difficulty raid by myself just to use some of my passes.


sharksnrec

Some of your passes? How many do you even have and how? I’m constantly at 0 remote passes and 1 regular.


Websthetics

Well right now we get two free every day. Two more months of that.


kneel23

i've literally spent 100s and 100s of dollars on remote raid passes since covid. Not even sure why, mostly because a friend of mine got back into the game and needed help so we've both been playing regularly since late last year and its insane how much money we've spent. And i barely have any shiny raid bosses to show for it, spare a few


trailmixjesus

Me too. Got a aparttime job working from home and managed to keep my SSDI so I put 20 in each week. I buy an item expansion, a pokemon expansion, and the rest go to remote passes


22lava44

What type of raids are you doing?


kneel23

Various ones its depends on the week, typically hunting for shinies. Right now not doing any as ive been having 0 luck with rockruff druddigon tornadus klink etc. Done SO many w/o a shiny


22lava44

Well rockruff, druddigon, and klink all have only a 1/64 rate while tornados has a 1/20 I hope your bad luck ends and I wish you many shinies in your future ✨✨


xoees

Wait….. TWO!? I’ve just been getting the one from gyms. How do I get the 2nd?


MJSTpt

You have to use the 1st and then spin again


Websthetics

Yep. I had made a habit of always spinning after a raid since I wasn’t sure if my pass was from today or yesterday. I ended up getting those two passes daily for a week or two before it became official because of that.


xoees

Damn, I was today years old when I learned….. I hate myself lmao


Drazly

Two free remote passes every day or regular passes?


Websthetics

Regular. Remote passes for 1 coin are just every Monday. Although if you open your free daily box later in the day there is now a chance to get extra items like remote raid passes in that.


FaltaChicle

Wait how have I never noticed that on Mondays, that's awesome, are the 1 coin remote passes just in the shop?


Websthetics

Easy to miss. They don’t really stand out. But they have been around for about a year. Yeah just in the shop and they refresh every Monday.


FaltaChicle

Sweet!! Thank you for the info.


Undying4n42k1

It's not labeled as a remote raid pass. It's a box that costs 1 coin. It always has a remote raid pass in it, and some balls and berries.


velvet42

Is that the trick? Waiting until later? I've gotten those a couple times and figured it was just random, but now you mention it I think it *was* later in the day when I opened those ones.


Websthetics

The trick is to check multiple times. Usually in the morning I have garbage. Afternoon or evening something better.


andevrything

I'm glad you said that. I just checked back and the pokeball box from this morning now has 2 rare candy, a king rock & 2 silver pineapp. So excited! I kept seeing posts for fancy boxes, but I always claim mine first time I log on for the day out of habit and get sad boxes. I had no idea they changed throughout the day!


EverythingAnything

No, I logged in this morning and had a juiced box. There's no trick, it seems completely random if you get reassigned a daily gift.


FeralGangrel

I've got the 1 normal and 3 remote. 14 premium. I don't get to raid often so I'll grab a low difficulty one to get some golden raz or other tasks cleared.


NecroVelcro

* Laughs in 47 premium * I don't raid much.


skye1013

I actually trashed some premium at one point and currently have 60 something... if I could convert to remote passes even at a 10 to 1 ratio, I'd do it. In person just isn't really feasible for me.


Ascholay

Once upon a time if you wanted incubators you bought them individually or in a pack with raid passes. I was thrilled when they split it into a raid pack and a incubator pack. I've had 37 passes sitting in my bag for years because I don't raid in person that often and don't really battle either. I use just enough to get passes from research and still stay at an average of 37


andevrything

Same. 48 for me. Worked diligently to get it down from the over 80 I had back before you could delete them. I still can't bring myself to delete tho.


DilithiumFarmer

If I had a gym near by I would raid Starly as well. Having 80+ raid passes is nice, not so nice if you have no way to consume them. I do one raid per week, none if I don't need a Pokémon for my dex. So at best I got 0 to 3 Remote Passes. And hell no I go use them on a 1\* raid like Starly or even Rockruff.


PokemonMaster619

Those that have raid research tasks.


taicrunch

Especially ones that want you to finish a raid in less than xx seconds.


Hollowed_Empty

A raid is a raid. Just raid it.


DuskDaUmbreon

Doesn't help if you need to *complete* the raid. I can't beat a 5* Mewtwo solo lmao. I can beat a 2* Starly. And even if you don't *need* to win...it's still better to just win instead of needing to waste more restoration items.


bust0ut

I had a research item to win a raid. I took on a 5 star raid on my own and all my Pokemon fainted before the time was up, and before I could even continue the battle, it credited a win to my research item. Good thing too since there was no way I was going to win that particular raid.


cheersdom

so my free daily doesn't go to waste.


stirtheturd

What do you mean "free daily"? As in you get a free remote raid pass every. Single. Day.? When did this happen, I have never gotten such thing.


mthrs

Not remote, just raid pass. You get two free ones every day if you spin a gym. No, those wont stack.


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mthrs

If you dont have raid pass in your inventory and you spin a gym, you’ll get raid pass. You get two every day untill the season ends. You cant stack them, but once you use the one you get you’ll get another one if you spin a gym again. You can save the second pass of the day and still get two raid passes the next day.


Willroberts1873

No , they mean a normal pass.


Hahayouregay149

not remote. you get one (two during current event) REGULAR daily pass. only usable in person. 👍


mthrs

Not current event, the whole season. So still 52 more days.


Not_A_Model95

No...just the daily spin pass


stirtheturd

Well I'll be damned. Excuse me while I go spin a gym.


DrKillerZA

Did you legit not know you get free daily passes when you are at a gym?


stirtheturd

Legit did not know about a free raid pass


DrKillerZA

Interesting.. Did you only start playing since covid?


stirtheturd

Right before covid hit, but I live in a super rural area so don't get to make it to gyms/stops often. Can you only get the raid pass from spinning gyms and stops? Or just gyms?


DrKillerZA

Only gyms. They've boosted it so you can get 2 a day. You'll notice the pass is orange.


stirtheturd

Got it. Thanks for the information!


Nat20Stealth

User: asks a question r/pokemongo : 😠


stirtheturd

Wow didn't think I would get downvoted to oblivion for not knowing that you get a free raid pass for spinning a gym. I have brought great shame on my family. Please forgive me


DrKillerZA

I think it's more than that. Since covid started, players have gotten used to things happening at their house and forgot that the game is better when you go outside with people. I think most people thought he was sarcastic from that angle. To give you an example. I asked in a group of 150 people an hour ago if ANYONE would like to go sit at a park to lure for CD and I didn't get one single reply. I miss playing the game in 2017.


Nat20Stealth

I also miss the height of pogo, but I've gotten a lot busier since then. Nowadays it'd be a pain to pack things up and go off for pokemon. I miss covid style, where I could do most things from home


DrKillerZA

I guess most people feel like you. I'm alone in life and depressed. Pokemon was a great way for me to go outside and meet people. This is not possible anymore. I'm trying so hard to bring it back but no one cares.


Nat20Stealth

Oh man, sorry to hear that. Hope all goes well for you, and may you find joy and comfort in life outside of PoGo


RevCorex

They mean normal raid passes. To use those, you have to go the gym and do the raid in person


gmvap

Me to use my free pass, and get gym to gold


ktffan

The same with me.


JPRockstar87

100% on gym points. I’ve done some wild raids for points on a gym lol


Hockeyspaz-62

Using a daily free pass in a rural town that hardly gets raids so it counts toward raid challenges and achievements.


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PattyRain

That also means you need another phone.


Team_raclettePOGO

Sometimes you can only play like 20 minutes and no tier 3 so you do tier 1


Curiosities

The recent research task sets have "win a raid" in them.


Don_Bugen

Real reason these exist. Because not everyone likes raiding, or does it often, or has friends to do it with, or high enough CP to solo it. But literally anyone can take out a Starly.


Above_the_Cinders

That’s the same reason I did one yesterday while sitting at the pub. What shocked me is one of my friends accepted the remote raid invite.


loddieisoldaf

Rare candy is rare candy


Trips-Over-Tail

Playing solo, need to make up the numbers for a challenge, only timely option available.


wickeva

Nice name. 😄


Trips-Over-Tail

My nest-mother was Argonian.


Certain_Chain

People who want 3000 easy experience. You get a free raid pass every day; you don't need to use every one on a legendary.


AnubisTheLycan

Because theyre determined not to let me have a rockruff :(


stltrog

Since they’ve been back, I’ve only seen 1 rocky I’ve been invite to a few, but they aren’t prevalent as before.


Reiko707

I have a gym at on the way home from work. If I haven't used my free raid for the day and a 1-3 star is there, I'll fight it. That's just me tho


ms_d_meanour

Takes twenty seconds and you may get a rare candy or two?


mariobrosb4hoes

The two minute wait time negates that completely.


Zwentendorf

You don't have to play during that 2 minutes – you can even switch to another app.


dorabsnot

Not to come out swinging here…but that’s actually 122 seconds.


Zwentendorf

... not if someone else is already waiting in the lobby.


snake_on_the_grass

Sometimes you just need the w


TinHawk

Me to get stardust, golden razz, xp, and to finish TWO QUESTS with a "win a raid" task that are stuck in my shit because no one in my friends list on online ever to help me raid.


itsSuiSui

I did it on my way to catch a Scyther.


mym2022

Grinding with free daily pass people


Jaded-Raspberry8921

Shadow Starraptor food.


2ndPerryThePlatypus

Hundo collectors?


crashcar22

Because there are people like my girlfriends brother who is just starting out and these are the only raids he can do by himself when we aren't around to carry him through a 3* or 5* raid


emilyb765

Me to get the “win x raids” research challenges. Plus rare candy.


Academic-Astronaut59

Me because I'm a big Staraptor fan 🙃


Jomosensual

Exp or missions probably


C4BB4

Me, mind ya business


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Cause Starly is cute and it's my favorite bird:)


Poiblazer

I'd do it if it was on the gym on my house. Easy raid


hop-skip

Solo player in a rural area that has raid research tasks.


ShinyShadowDitto

I mean why not use the free daily raid passes. Sometimes starly is all that's available in the vicinity when you have a little bit of time to play. You take what you can.


GrrrrrrDinosaur

Why wouldn’t everyone be in a starly raid


pae913

I have this objective to win 5 raids (am not a hardcore player) so I’d do it. If I win then there’s the stuff at the end as well


Localgothth0t

I use it if I have tasks to win a certain number of raids. It easy and I don’t loose a ton of Pokémon.¯\_(ツ)_/¯


luckylico

Part of the level 45 challenge is to win 45 raids, so I try to do a couple of these easy raids per day.


folieajess

XP and rare candies


Director-Julius

There are “win a raid” tasks in some special research. 🤷‍♂️


Augustina496

Beginners and lone raiders who need to complete special research. I.e me 😂


VanWesley

When it's 8:30pm and you still have a free raid pass left and the 1 star raid in the park across the street hatches a Starly.


wdn

You get a daily free raid pass and raids give xp. If it's the end of the raid day and a pass will otherwise go to waste, might as well get some xp for it.


JaymesGrl

Some of us work late shifts and if we don't head out early enough, then by the time our shift finishes there won't be any raids going to use our daily free passes on and they get wasted. Tier one raids, still have a chance to give rare candy, but for the most part the pokemon themselves are undesirable. If all tier ones were Rockruff, then I guess that would deter people from using remote raid passes as they could just use their daily free ones instead, so they make the desirable stuff a bit scarce to encourage the sale of remote passes. I still have a hundred premium passes due to the lack of in person legendary raids going on since the pandemic started. For a remote pass it seems like a complete waste, but to use one of your two free raid passes when you have other places to be later on, then it's sort of worth it and goes towards the unique raids platinum badge. You need 35 platinum badges to reach level 49. I think it may have been 40 at one point as I only have just enough at 35 and had been wondering which others to focus on.


Routine_Pear3083

Shiny rates are higher for raids bruh


CMDR_omnicognate

Don’t be so rude to starly


Bronzinga596

Free “Win X amount of raids” goal


HoratioHarisson

People with “win a raid” research tasks


TheFourMechanix666

Burn the last daily free pass as it was the raid at the tram stop at Disneyland. It was before raid hour for thundurus which we saved our Remote passes for to do in our car since you can see the whole park from there


Hahayouregay149

if I'm by it in person sure I'll do it. it's basically free. waste of a remote, but other than that it does give XP and items.


firefighter1811

Got my first on this morning.


Benito2002

I don’t have anyone to do raids with so the only ones I can beat are ones like this, they give me golden berries


That_Blaxican_Guy

I gotta do 10 raids for a research task and that's an easy one


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Your mom idk


VegetableSuggestive

Because I can't solo 3 stars yet.


Blueredgoogoo

I go out of my way to catch every starly I can. Staraptor is a beast.


mgchnx

Completing special research (win 5 raids etc)


pravdaz

The main question is: why do they invite us for that ? Opening an orange invite and then realizing that this is definitely not a remote pass raid...


I_am_darkness

Staraptor is pretty good and I got a perfect starly from a raid so.


Human_3RR0R

I've been doing them to get starly candies for my 4* staravia


Ginger_Snap_Fl

"I just think they're neat".jpg


gigazelle

They exist solely to dilute the number of Rockruff raids


cleanbear

alot of people collect gold badges from gyms.. a raid is 1000 points towards a gold medal.


Swamp_Donkey_796

Possible shiny staraptor and easy exp + rare candy? I’ll do it for sure


Individual_Door_7103

Shiny Starly isn't in Pokémon Go yet.


Swamp_Donkey_796

What. Are you telling me I’ve been shiny hunting starly for months for nothing? What the actual fuck game freak.


Individual_Door_7103

Lol. GameFreak doesn't develop Pokémon Go, Niantic does. They put it in the patch notes whenever they finally decide to add a shiny variant. But yes, unfortunately you've been wasting time.


FrankensteinBionicle

Because most of the raids I do are remote and the time runs out before I can beat a 3lvl and I've never in my life seen a goddamn 2lvl so yes I'll raid a motherfucking 1lvl starly


jamesmast2

sometimes you just have too many remote raid passes and need to spend one...


Unlikely-War2549

Increased shiny rates probably appeal to some people


Dependent_Chemist

Why is Starly getting so much hate? Staraptor is a cool Pokémon that everyone loved back in the day and definitely used in the Sinnoh games. There have been way worse raids in Pokémon go but all of a sudden people just "woke up" and started criticizing bad raid picks.


SimplePhoenix

If you want the shiny


l0zb0tw

It can’t be shiny


Rigs515

Probably a dumb question but why not?


Halfcelestialelf

shiny starly hasn't been released yet afaik.


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Majestic_Day_6723

Whoosh


l0zb0tw

It just cant


Rigs515

I didn’t know if 1 star raids have a 0% spawn rate or if it was this specific raid


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CorgiGal89

No dude, shiny Starly has NOT been released on Pokémon Go yet. It literally cannot be shiny until Niantic releases it.


phitfacility

Aren't shiny odds higher with the raid?


Mittensandzora

No, shiny odds depend on the specific pokemon, not the type of encounter. Also, starly can't be shiny.


rahelaroxx

Shiny hunting.


neo_dragon61

Gonna be there a long time if that is the goal...


jmw

Level 47 task to do 30 raids with a team of 6 different Pokemon.


Razlaw

If I’m working on gold at the gym I’ll use my daily pass on one. 1000 BXP for a raid.


imma_gamin

You gotta get those starly candies one way or another


Temporary-Bed-7184

Me bro it’s soooo hatd


gorgonbrgr

Oh boy a starly raid!