Primal Groudon has returned as a Raid Day Raid Boss in the weekend of Verdant Wonders event.

Back in Hoenn Tour, we have shown how Primal Groudon can be defeated as a Duo Raid without weatherboost with Mega Swampert, due to its double weakness to Water-type. A year since then, we now also have access to more different Water-type raid attacker. Additionally, we also have learnt about how Primal Boost works as well as a new feature - Party Power.

While there are some decent Water-type Pokemon released in past year, admittedly, the difficulty of Primal Groudon raid does not changed much since then. Overall, Shadow Kyogre is the only Pokemon released after Hoenn Tour that can potentially push the limit of Water-type further than they were in Hoenn Tour. Specifically, Primal Groudon can be defeated by a team of Shadow Kyogre without weather boost and Mega/Primal Boost.

Unfortunately, there is not much buff in Water-type raid attackers in past year that can help us having a better time on Primal Groudon. However, Primal Boost and Party Power are capable to boost Water-type Pokemons' strength drastically, making Primal Groudon raid much easier this time around.

In the Water-type Party Power analysis, we had used Primal Groudon as the raid boss for simulation and calculated the strength of Water-type Pokemons under Party Power. In the analysis, Primal Kyogre has shown to be able to achieve 7265 TDO and 72.12 DPS against Primal Groudon without weather boost and with 10% friend bonus. With the seasonal friendship bonus boost and Rain weather boost, Primal Kyogre's can further power up to having 9231 TDO and 94.66 DPS against Primal Groudon.

Primal Groudon, as a Primal Raid Boss, has 22500 HP in total. With 94.66 DPS, it can be defeated in 237 seconds. Which means, with Party Power, seasonal friendship bonus and rain weather boost, Primal Kyogre can defeat Primal Groudon on its own. Of course, in order to activate these bonus, it would need a partner Primal Kyogre to aid it. Which means, Primal Kyogre is capable to defeat Primal Groudon as a mock solo raid.

This time, we will try to replicate the simulation results empirically, where Primal Kyogre will challenge Mud Shot/Fire Blast Primal Groudon as a Mock Solo Raid, under Rain Weather, with access to Primal Boost and Party Power support.

Similar to Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre would charge its charged move - Origin Pulse, faster than Party Power. With damage energy from Primal Groudon's attack, Primal Kyogre would usually take ~12 Waterfall usage to charge up Origin Pulse, while Party Power requires 18 Waterfall to be fully charged in a 2-players party. Similar to Primal Groudon, the best way to incorporate Party Power into its move cycle would be activate Party Power in the midway on charging 2nd Origin Pulse and also when firing 3rd Origin Pulse.

However, as everyone knows by now, Party Power is buggy, and often failed to apply when players tapped on it. Thankfully, since this is a Mock Solo Raid, it would cause a very noticeable HP rubberbanding effect when it is glitched, where Primal Groudon would regain its HP. Since we know precisely when did a Party Power failed to apply, we can mitigate the glitch by activating Party Power once again immediately when we spot HP rubberbanding on the raid boss. With Primal Kyogre's slow move cycle, the issue can usually be mitigated with minimal performance degradation.

At last, Primal Kyogre has managed to defeat Primal Groudon in last few seconds. While it can defeat Primal Groudon in 237 seconds theoretical analysis, it has to quit the battle and heal twice since there can only be 1 Primal Kyogre in the team. If we also consider the time loss caused by healing and regen glitch, it can be said that Primal Kyogre has indeed gained a performance boost close to theoretical analysis.

Pokemon used:

CP 6672 Primal Kyogre - Lv50 15/15/15 Waterfall/Origin Pulse

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