I’ve tried a couple pokémon go apps for raids and this is my most favorite, by far. It’s easy to use. For the part, other trainers are good about quickly adding you to their friend lists and starting raids quickly. Occasionally, you get a troll. Though, I’ve realized sometimes it’s new ppl using the app that do not understand how to successfully conduct a raid. Instead of explaining this is the issue, they’ll simply leave the raid room. It can be frustrating. Especially, if you recently joined and purchased coins. You will lose the 50 coins you used to Auto Join the raid if the trainer botches the raid. Now that i check in daily and have accumulated heaps of coins, it’s not as bad of a loss. Coins: if you check in everyday for a week, you get a 5-25 coins per day. On day 7 you get 50 coins. if you continue to check in daily, you get 50 coins every day. If you miss a day checking in, it starts over from day 1. it’s a fantastic perk~worth a daily check in. All in All? It’s an excellent app. If you want to make friends for long distance gifts, they have a room for that. I’m there for raiding usually from midnight to 5am when there are none going on in my country. I highly recommend PokeRaidApp!

Be aware that there are either bots who will never start the raid or inexperienced people who botch things up and not invite everyone in the raid, or do the raid with people who showed up and no one in your group gets invited. There are times where the host forgets to or is too lazy to close the raid group after it has started, and once it’s finished and people leave, you run the risk of getting placed into a completed raid by the auto join feature. Some tips: You can use the same raid pass if you lose as long as it’s the same raid. If you can’t move just restart and rejoin, sometimes it asks you to buy another raid pass but you will only use the one you already activated. Also if it prompts you to use a regular pass instead of a remote pass, just restart the game and try to join ASAP. Lastly, pay attention to the host ratings, I wouldn’t join anyone’s raid with less than 4 stars As far as I know, you will not be refunded coins even if it’s wasn’t your fault that you were not invited. We gotta be able to dispute this so we don’t just keep losing money without being able to do raids.

So you have to pay for coins in order to even join these raids first off, which is stupid and profitting off of the Niantic’s community’s hard work. Next let’s talk about the queue they make you wait in after you have already given them your money. Example, to join an Uxie raid I waited from 1am my time in a 8,000+ person queue, finally at 6am I am down to 35, and then the app bugs out, kicks me out, and when I rejoin I’m waiting after 3000+ more players again. Then we’ll talk about how you loose money. Well out of 5 raids THAT I HAVE PAID TO JOIN, I’ve gotten in 2. Meaning I’ve thrown away the other money it took to get through those nasty, long queues just to get ignored or have the raid end in 1 minute, or the whole group won’t join and there’s not enough to carry so we inevitably loose and loose our pass. Finally we’ll talk about the rating system. This system could save the entire app, not allowing people with bad ratings to participate as often. Instead, you rate someone who screwed you or insulted you poorly, and then they keep getting to ruin other people’s experience. These ratings should be what is determined as to whether people get charged or not, or make sure everyone gets to complete the raid. There are many improvements this app needs. It is a great concept, but with many greater flaws. DO NOT download this, do not waste your time in never ending queues, and DO NOT PAY THEM A DIME.

The raid rooms appear in a list with”waiting for guests” or “raid full”. You have to click on the open raid and in the slim chance the room is not already full, you have milli-seconds to click join raid at the bottom of the screen. Most of the time it will tell you the room is full. Occasionally it will let you join a room where the raid has already startedOr even finished. It appears that if someone leaves the raid (like when they beat the boss), the computer sees an opening and puts the room back in the que. This is very frustrating, so you eventually buy coins so you can auto join. I have had 7 successful raids that were great. However, I have had 4 failed attempts at raids. I sent the friend requests, and the hosts never invited me to the raid. Another time I made it into the battle only to find that there were only 4 trainers total (for a mega). Invites failed to go out to half the room. A minute in everyone dropped out. I got my raid pass back, but the Poke Raid Coins were waisted. Save your TIME and frustration. Look elsewhere.