20 Things Only Pokémon GO Fans Will Understand
16. Never Feeling Anywhere Near Confident Enough For Gym Battles
Speaking of gyms, if you've tried them you've probably failed, and if you won... it definitely didn't feel like a confident show of force - more 'wailing and hoping for the best'.
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Precisely because of the constant amount of hand-shaking going on between Nintendo's servers and the entire world, battling and taking over gyms requires a ping back across the globe, resulting a huge amount of lag and unresponsiveness.
As a result, gym battles always devolve into complete mash-sessions of tapping the screen as fast as possible, occasionally getting a dodge in if you're lucky, but mostly just going for broke and seeing who survives on the other side.
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