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Pokemon Go Raid Battles Timings




Pokemon Go raids are now available for level 5 to level 40 players, when raids first launched they were only available for level 35 to level 40 players but over time Niantic invited more players to participate in raids, with new gym system its understandable that players will be less focused on taking over gym and more focused on participating in raids. It is important to participate in raids to increase your raid badge so when legendary raids are here you will have enough raids under your account to get a legendary raid pass and hopefully fight against a legendary monster and even catch your own legendary.

Only problem I see with raid battles is timings, as far as my observation and number of online sources suggest first raid starts at 7:00am and last raid ends at 9:00pm and these times are local times of that area, for example if you are in GMT+7 then raid for you will start at 7:00am GMT+7 timezone and raids will end at 9:00pm GMT+7. First raid egg should appear at 5:00am as raid egg takes 2 hours to hatch players will have enough time to find gym where raid is available and participate in raids.

Pokemon go raid battles also give you some rewards like golden razz berries, rare candy and TM Fast or TM Charge, also revives and 3000XP. On the top of that raid boss becomes catch-able as bonus challenge, this is excellent opportunity to catch Snorlax or Tyranitar as its almost impossible to find these guys in wild but with new raid system its rather easy to look for level 4 gym raids and catch your first Snorlax. Problem is you only get 1 raid pass and raid pass is received every day after 12:00am and there is no raid for next 7 hours so its kind of hard to wait that long and if you wasted your  raid pass on lower level boss like bayleef or magikarp you are left with lots of regret when you see level 4 raid one option is you can purchase raid pass for 100 pokicoin but that will mean either you will have to get 50 coins for two days or spent some dollars on those.

I would suggest that you look for level 3 and level 4 raid bosses during 7:00am to 9:00pm as these are the times during which raids are going to happen in pokemon go. What do you think please let us know in comments below

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