I just want to say fuck you to the four people who brought dragon types to a Tapu Fini raid and made us lose.

I just want to say fuck you to the four people who brought dragon types to a Tapu Fini raid and made us lose. Yes, the four of you. I am blaming all four of you for failing a raid that should have been comfortably doable with three people. I’m just one person. Sure, I’m one person with an ARMY of Kartanas, a bunch of powered up Zekroms, a perfect Shadow Magnezone and 4 level 40 Metagrosses, but I can only do so much damage. I need the rest of you to bring Pokemon that Tapu Fini is also weak to. Tapu Fini is a water/fairy type, which means it has three and a half weaknesses: grass, electric, poison and steel.

Now, you, level 28 player, I won’t be too harsh on you. You probably don’t have any Metagrosses to use against this boss, as Meteor Mash has been unavailable for a while, and good poison types have been missing for a while too. The only real usable steel type that we’ve had recently is Dialga, and Dialga is part dragon type. And, to make matters worse, you kinda want to use normal Dialga, because Origin Form Dialga (the worst-looking legendary form in the game) doesn’t have any steel type moves. However, we probably want to focus on the water type weaknesses, since they are more common. That being said, water does have two strong weaknesses in the form of grass and electricity. And we have had some grass and electric types wandering around. Kartana was in raids somewhat recently (at least recently enough for you to have been around to reach level 28) and that was a solo-able raid, easily done with 2 people with only basic counters. Kartana is actually a great pick against Tapu Fini because its steel secondary typing protects it from Tapu Fini’s Ice Beam. Electricity though is a tad harder to find, we haven’t really had a good electric type for a while, not since Shadow Raikou left legendary raids back in March.

However, the rest of you, surely you have something? We have three weaknesses here: poison, grass and electricity. And grass and electricity, while not being THAT recent, they have been available for a while. At a push, I guess you could have used a bunch of Victreebells from the April Community Day.

But using normal dragon types? Why? Why are you using Rayquaza? Rayquaza brings absolutely nothing to the table. Sure, Mega Rayquaza is kinda busted, but if you are going to use a mega, then Venusaur, even with poison moves, is more useful, because it’s moves are super effective. Super effective damage is almost always better than neutral damage. And this is the one time you can pull out Mega Beedrill, with its poison typing.

Although I must be honest, Pokemon GO’s recommendations for this raid absolutely sucked. For some reason, rather than recommending me grass and electric types, it recommended me anything but. Considering how I have plenty of powered up Pokemon from doing Primal Kyogre raids (which is definitely harder than Tapu Fini), the game recommended absolutely none of them, and I had to make my own party. The game did keep on recommending a Shadow Mewtwo of mine that had Thunderbolt, but it wasn’t particularly high level so I opted for grass types. It also recommended Rayquaza to me, despite mine having dragon and flying moves. I’d say that the other players got the same recommendations and simply went with them, but frankly, after level 30, you should know better.

But still, why dragon types? Why the fuck is the game recommending dragon types? And why is it not recommending Zekrom, the only dragon type that would actually be useful here?

Either way, I still want to just say fuck you to the four people who brought dragon types to a Tapu Fini raid and made us lose. Because, come on, it’s a fairy type with ice moves. That’s just asking for trouble.