PokeRaid - Raid From Home Reviews

by Newsthatstaken

8/10 times all the raids that pop up after refreshing are completely full.. the other two times the raid is full after you click on it. I have been attempting to use PokeRaid for weeks but i have NEVER gotten into a single raid from the general home menu. The only times i managed to get in a raid is through the search raid function. i got the coins waiting a whole week using PokeRaid everyday (or you can buy coins... DONT) finally i was able to search the raid i wanted and of course there was not near enough hosts... i was number 400 in a queue. I decided to wait a few days for a different raid, when i finally got in, it was all level 20s, i wasted a raid pass i had paid for. Fast forward another week of not being able to normally join the raids and building up the free coins i searched for another raid only for the host to not invite anybody, i had to wait another week if i wanted to join any raid off PokeRaid for free. If you decide to try out PokeRaid you need good internet connection to get a spot in a lobby and a lot of patience. i would never suggest to buy the coins as theres no guarantee youll get all the way through the raid youre searching for. Just find a raid discord, you can get in the raid you want without having to pay.

by The Bird Flew

I have used PokeRaid time and time again and at some points it has been working. However after taking some time on PokeRaid , as time went on I have found a lot of cons and very little pros such as not being able to join any raid whatever the tier may be it forces you to use coins in game just to auto join a raid that may take 1 hour when the word auto means automatic, also when playing this I realized that even when you do find a raid that says 1/11 when entering it changes to 10/11 allowing time for the screen to hold you there thinking your joining when you are really not, after seeing this I have realized they are trying to copy Pokémon Go’s success and get a quick buck, I know this one comment won’t change anything but please at least look into PokeRaid and think about it before just settling and ask “is it really worth it a waste of time.”

by DankSolo

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 PokeRaid 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 PokeRaid 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.

by Ndv44566788

As the title suggest it is no longer a smooth and easy process to get a “full” raid room in a short amount of time. Ever since the new update I have encountered waits of 15-25 mins to fill up a raid room of 5 people + myself as the host. Prior to the update I would host a raid and have 5 individuals ready within the blink of an eye. I don’t know what you all did but it needs to be fixed. I should not have to wait 15-25 mins as a host for 5 people. This is ridiculous and you’re doing a disservice for the PokemonGo community.

- Also I would like to add that I attempted to manually join any raid group for the same Pokémon (Latios) manually without auto-join assuming it would be easy and explain why there was such a long wait to find 3-4 people for my raid group that I attempted to host and found it next to impossible to join as a raid group would appear and fill up within seconds. Something is very wrong. How can it take 15-25 mins to unsuccessfully fill my raid group I’m hosting then find it impossible to manually join a raid group for that same Pokémon?????!!! Very disappointed.

by Marknate

Trying to host a raid has been the most frustrating app experience i have had in a long time. PokeRaid refuses to verify my Azelf raid screenshot even after manually entering the pokemon name in the proper spot.

And just to get to that point is frustrating. PokeRaid asks you to select pictures for PokeRaid to access, but the selection screen doesnt automatically upload it. I have to select it, then hit ok, then pull it up and deselect it, then do that again, and then the third time i allow the photo to be used, it finally lets me upload that photo to PokeRaid ... which then proceeds to get stuck in a perpetual “verifying screenshot” screen.

I waited 10 minutes for the screenshot to verify even though it says it may take up to a minute, and it just never happened. Whats the point of asking me to manually enter the pokemon name if it cant read the screenshot, but then making PokeRaid verify the god dam screenshot anyway?

by Deadman2496

To be quite honest with you this has been the most disappointing 5 hours I’ve experienced in a long time. After waiting an hour for my account to verified, I had the pleasant discovery of learning how much of a pain it is to get into a raid lobby. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I found a raid room woth 1/6 or 1/11 or 2/11 people I would join in and try to join the team just to find out that a bunch of people with the auto-join people had joined it. And I might leave that menu empty for 2-3 minutes but when I wanted to join it it would randomly refresh and suddenly 8 people would appear. I tried it with the thundurous, rayquaza, and a swellow raid to see if maybe a non legendary would be like easy just to but completely and utterly disappointed that no in fact I basically need to shell out 25 US dollars for a chance at a chance of joining a raid group for a chance of battling a raid pokemon and a chance of catching said pokemon. I’m not sure if it was great before but it certainly feels like a waste of space now.

by Harryme2

PokeRaid at first seemed like an awesome idea. I even managed to catch a Pokémon that wasn’t in my region. Unfortunately, the amount of time spent to do this is exhausting. I had my phone waiting for almost 12 hours today because I was in an auto join l, not even the manual. Once I finally got into the raid (after eleven hours) I didn’t manage to catch the Pokémon, meaning all that time was wasted for nothing. The worst part was that if PokeRaid was fixed, I could have waited at most an hour and lost, which would have been perfectly fine with me. Overall, PokeRaid has a great idea but they can’t seem to monopolize on it because they are either lazy or don’t know how to properly incentivize the users in order to get them to host raids. Also, the auto join addition to PokeRaid has absolutely ruined it. It is impossible to join a raid unless you spend in app coins to auto join, where it puts you in a line of over 15,000 people. Fix your app please.

by Bigzdubz

Look this app is good and easy to use. I’ve been happy with the opportunities I’ve had to catch some nice Raid bosses. However, it’s become well known and overcrowded. Raid sniping has become increasingly difficult to do and almost impossible during peak/surge raid times. I’ve once spent 20-25 minutes trying to snipe a raid spot and even when I selected the raid I wanted to enter (with status saying 1/10 trainers in raid room at the time I tapped the room) it told me raid room is full. So options are quit/delete PokeRaid , keep sniping with the hopes you get incredibly lucky and secure a spot, or wait in a line of 6,000+ trainers in auto-join which could take literal hours to do so. IDK I’m kinda tired of competing with crowds on PokeRaid. Wasting time sniping is literal minutes/hours lost in my day - maybe time to find the next best app for this and let the masses fight over spots in raid rooms on this app.

by AlexLarsen

I download PokeRaid to help join raids in other regions of the world where only certain raids were being offered. I coughed up $1 to use the auto join feature because I was wasting too much time trying to manually join a room. Every time I would hit the refresh button 20 to 50 times then finally see a room that was open and had some space, I was never quick enough to get into the raid before somebody else jumped in ahead of me. I used the auto join feature and waited in line for about 20 minutes before a room became available. The worst part was that I could not navigate away from PokeRaid or close my phone down I had to sit there and keep my phone awake for the entire 20 minutes otherwise I would lose my place in line. PokeRaid seriously needs a way to alert me when my place in line is getting near and allow me to navigate away from PokeRaid . It would be awesome if PokeRaid was smart enough to notice the rate that the line is moving and give me a two minute warning when my place is almost up. Anyway, I finally joined a room for 50 coins and the person never invited me to the raid so it was all a big bust. There is no way to recover lost coins so it feels like a big rip off. It’s a good idea for an app, but there’s lots of room for improvement.

by Cejdocornwgatsofknfbshsucnfnfn

PokeRaid does what it’s supposed to do, and I’ve caught a ton of legendary Pokémon from it, but my only complaint, and it’s a big one, is that PokeRaid literally eats your money. You need to buy in app currency to join raids and you need to wait in a queue before you can open Pokémon go to join the raid. That’s all good and dandy, anybody would expect that. However if you leave PokeRaid for any reason while your waiting in the queue it uses up your in app currency, I mean if you switch apps for a second you need to rejoin and you’ve lost the money you just spent, if your low battery banner pops up you need to rejoin the queue and you’ve lost the money you just spent, if PokeRaid bugs out you need to rejoin and you’ve lost the money you just spent.
I’ve lost a lot of money without realizing this.
I still use PokeRaid mainly because I’m addicted to Pokémon go and don’t know any other raid apps and again I like the layout and PokeRaid does what it’s supposed to do in terms of getting you into raid battles.

by Syayayai

PokeRaid works great if you’re committed in finding a raid room. Sometimes I spent a good while refreshing rooms to enter a raid and for them most part, it’s effective. You get to use the coins you accumulate to auto join raids which is cool. Now for the most annoying part of PokeRaid: raid hosts. Sometimes you enter a raid thinking you’re in for a specific Pokémon, and it turns out to be another. Sometimes raid hosts don’t answer messages, or they add you in PoGo but they don’t invite you to raids. Sometimes you have to wait 15 minutes for a host to show signs of being alive. Sometimes they forget to close rooms. Sometimes they won’t add everyone in the room. It’s a waste of time. I strongly suggest an update where we can review and rate a host and the raiders, just so we know who that we’re pairing up with a decent group.

by Dannyboy217

I love the concept but had a very bad experience the first time I used it. I couldn’t join any raids using the “free” feature, so I paid for coins to auto join. PokeRaid added me to a raid that had already concluded, and there was nothing I could do. I sent feedback but still don’t know if I will get my coins back. A very frustrating first experience.

Downgrading to 1 star. I turned on the auto join feature after paying 3.99 for 500 coins. It added me to one raid that was already over. I the. successfully did a second raid, and then I somehow got added to two more raids without my knowledge, and I am now out 200 coins. This is a rip off. I don’t think the developer is a fraudster, but the design is so poor and there is no control. I feel robbed of 150 coins.

Upgrading to 3 stars because their customer service is responsive. They really should have a pop up before you take an action that costs coins. I was quickly down 200 coins because I didn’t at first understand how the auto join feature worked. I was confused and took a series of actions that resulted in debits to my coin balance, but I had no clue that I was doing something that cost coins.

by Battlegods18

If you’re hosting a raid, this is awesome. Can usually depend on at least 3-4 to actually join the raid with you, but often all 5 invitees join the raid. Very useful if raiding by yourself and need to get help quick.

If you’re trying to join someone else’s raid, it can be difficult to get into a raid room because there’s so many users on PokeRaid now. The wait times can be quite long, upwards of 30+ minutes before you get into a room during peak hours. Otherwise, still very useful, especially when the raids aren’t active in your region anymore due to the hour of the night.

My biggest feedback is there must be a way to confirm that raids are actually weather boosted. Some trainers lie about it being weather boosted, and we get tricked into wasting our raid passes, which we spent money on to use. m0rb1u5scuni is one such user who lied about a raid being weather boosted and everyone in the room was incredibly frustrated about this false information which we only knew after it was completed. Please integrate coding to be able to verify the weather boost before we use our passes please!

I’ll give it 5 stars because it’s actually a genius platform that just needs more development.

by Wife2Dan

I love PokeRaid and have been using it almost since its release but with the most recent update it bars certain level trainers from joining a room becuase there level is too low. personally for me this is a big problem i have done upwards of 60+ raids and have only ever failed if one or two people just outright leave. Im level 33 and can more than handle the legendary raids but due to the most recent update i cannot join raid rooms if there are other level 30s in it which is a big problem. it makes PokeRaid almost entirely unusuable unless i spend money to auto join raids.

by Wuhgshjib

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.

by Wilstev

PokeRaid came around at the perfect time and helps a ton when trying to find the last few raids, especially with the new collection challenges. Their support so far has been amazing as well, so on the rare occasion that the raid leader abandons the group or is a troll that leads to wasting coins on an auto-join, they have refunded the coins within a couple days. Most recently, I was unable to do a raid as Pokémon Go itself was not allowing me to use the raid pass and tried to use a normal raid pass which obviously wouldn’t work. This wasn’t even a problem with this app, but the team still refunded my coins as a way to help me out. Such a great service and team of people.

by MaryProGaming

It is very easy to login in and PokeRaid lets you join any raid from anywhere in the world and you get to get the most powerful Pokémon go raids without a team so you almost always win the raid I did a Palkia raid with 6 people and I got 12 poke balls to catch the Palkia that had 2157 cp and I caught it and PokeRaid makes it sooooo fun to fight and catch Pokémon from raids and you get to talk to other people from other places there are raids always going so you can fight in a raid whenever you want and when ever you can!
I Love PokeRaid it is absolutely amazing and I get way more chances to fight in raids because PokeRaid allows you to do a raid from any were even if you don’t have a gym near you or one that you can walk to and if you don’t have a car that you can drive to a gym in this is definitely PokeRaid for you!

by SunglazHippo

Yes sometimes you have to use coins to “auto-join” raids. But most of the time it’s pretty simple to get into them without having to. It really depends on how sought after the current five star Pokémon is. For the most part I’ve spent at most $10 on coins, but have completed an upwards of 20 raids. And even then, the daily rewards are quite easy to rack up. Even on days you don’t join a raid, you can get 5 coins for your first login, then 5, 10, 10, 20, 20. And on the 7th day you get 50, and if you keep logging in every day it counts as your 7th day in a row logging in. Maybe I’m missing something but the other people that left reviews seem to have no idea what they’re talking about and are simply mad about user error. PokeRaid has made Pokémon go so much more fun for me and the service they bring is extraordinary.

by AidanCody

I highly recommend PokeRaid. I’ve been using it to find raids for a while. Out of the 20 or so raids I’ve done, I’ve only ever lost one (one person didn’t join in time).

I don’t have too much to say, everything works great. The process of joining and inviting people to raids is pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

One thing I would like to note is that you do not have to pay money to join raids. Yes, you can pay to get in a queue, but if you keep trying manually, you will be able to join a raid without waiting in line. It can be hard to get a spot, especially when it’s for a raid like Mewtwo on the first day, but it IS possible. You just need a bit of patience and luck. Your experience may vary depending on your internet speed. With that being said, if you can afford coins, it probably isn’t a bad idea to support the developers since alternatives to PokeRaid aren’t great.

by Paige581

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 started
Or 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.

by Disappointed12343212343210

Auto join has made this useless. I understand you’d like to make money by having people buy coins to use Autojoin, but PokeRaid is now useless as those folks flood the rooms and keep everyone else out.

by Anon652795

Since the auto join feature has been added PokeRaid is worthless - the people who finally get into my raid don’t reply because they are AFK - change it back to FCFS this is absolute trash will change to 5 star once PokeRaid is fixed

by Char715

Was a great app. Previously it could be difficult to get into rooms but if you just had patience it would pay off. Now it’s impossible without using auto join and when I used auto join the host totally bungled the raid and then I was told I could buy more auto join passes. No thanks.

by Googleblahgfdg

PokeRaid was absolutely perfect for those who are unable to raid in Pokémon Go regularly and/or in person. Once the Auto-join feature was added, it became impossible to join a room to raid. And having to pay for coins? A monetary grab by PokeRaid that will end up costing many of its users to abandon ship.

by Lcoc

It was pretty special but now impossible to get into a raid room or start a raid since PokeRaid doesn’t seem to recognize screen shots. Feel duped that I published a glowing review a couple of weeks ago. Disappointed with the updates and the need for coins for auto join which hasn’t worked for me and then uses the coins! Bah!

by MildewySpace

I’m not sure what happened, my guess is something went wrong with the last update. But whenever I try and host a raid my raid app AND Pokémon go crash and won’t load until I cancel the group. This hasn’t been a problem before, I would really like for PokeRaid to work because living in upstate NY in the sticks we don’t get many people playing Pokémon go, PokeRaid helps me and my friend get in raids, but sadly I won’t be using it until this is fixed.

by R1PC1TY

When PokeRaid was first released it worked pretty well. People were able to get in multiple lobbies of 6 people in each raid room. Overall it was a good idea for an app even if it was not that well executed. Any redeeming good qualities it had have been removed with the introduction of auto-join and monetization. I hope some less greedy developers will create a new free alternative because the latest version of this app is not only unusable but a complete money grab.

by Bananaboatrider

PokeRaid was great was such an easy way to organize raids until the introduction of auto-join. Rooms are impossible to join manually, queues are ridiculously long (>10 minutes), and notifications do not work and so half the people who join a raid are afk and waste a space. I used to use PokeRaid daily but now it is literally impossible to use without coins. Until auto join is fixed completely or removed, avoid using this application and save your time.

by Alipaki

Use to use this daily with no issues. One with the auto join feature, you never get onto raids manually unless you pay with coins. You’re better off using the sub reddit to find raids, it’s more reliable and free.

I used the free coins to do auto join and one, my host bailed on us and didn’t invite us to raid, and the second invited 3 of us, then left the room so we all had to cancel. If you pay for coins, just know your host will abandon most times and you’re left with lost coins for auto join. Don’t be scammed. Use the sub reddit or a discord to run raids.

by Edentel

3 days ago it was useful. 2 days ago they introduced the “feature” of using coins to “help” auto join. Prior to auto join it took a few minutes to find a decent raid to join. Once autojoin came in it was a 50/50 shot of your autojoin would work or you would lose the purchased join due to one app failure or another. Now this morning the coins have been monetized as an In-app purchase. It is impossible to find anything to join without buying in. I wouldn’t dare try to buy in as you have a 50/50 that your autojoin fails with no recourse.

by Darbythecat

I greatly enjoyed PokeRaid until auto join was implemented. It is literally now impossible to enter a raid room. I hope this gets fixed, but until it does, I’m not wasting anymore time with it.

by DHoberer

PokeRaid is an awesome idea! I’ve done several raids and I really love it. That being said, it does take a little time to get used to how to use it and it still needs some polish. I was lucky enough to get two 96 IV Kyurems and an 89! So happy I can raid from home.

by Bon Qui Qui Quinquistador

I’ve only had PokeRaid for a day and I’ve already managed to get invited to tons of five-star remote raids. Super helpful as long as you can get into a chat room quick enough haha

by Bob00000000000000000000001

this app is an amazing app to find friends to raid with and help you fight raids you couldn’t do yourself. PokeRaid has some bugs which can be frustrating at times (text errors, lobby errors, etc) but its likely due to it being a new app and they will be fixed eventually.

PokeRaid has enabled me to finally begin fighting 5 star raid bosses where as before I couldn’t do anything above 3 stars (being solo).

The enormous amount progression I’ve made in just a few weeks is entirely thanks to this app and its community.

Thank you devs.

by Mo7m7

I’ve done 10+ kyurem raids on PokeRaid and all have went well.