Pokémon GO: 10 Reasons To Start Playing Again
2. Now We Have Raid Battles
If there was one reason alone to return to Pokemon GO today, it would be these, and these alone. While revising Pokemon Gyms has tweaked the existing meta game, Raids are a whole new Tauros to tame.
Raids are a collaborative fight to take down and hopefully catch a rare and powerful Pokemon with friends and strangers, as well as get new and exclusive items like Rare Candy and Technical Machines. Raids pop up at gyms for two hours and need passes to enter that can be bought, but are also gifted once a day.
Raid Bosses are of truly ludicrous power levels, with even a typical low level boss clocking at double most of your team’s power.
You’ll run into people all gathering for high level raids and bonding for fleeting moments as you did with strangers in those early days of Pokemon GO, exploiting the lower tiers for those sweet, sweet rewards. It’s not PvP or trading just yet, but it’s a new, collaborative way to play the game that adds depth to a property that had been stuck in the shallows for too long.