Pokemon Go fans discover important new invite feature for Raids

  ❘   Published: 2023-03-15T20:34:05

  ❘   Updated: 2023-03-15T20:34:13

Pokemon Go players found a great quality-of life feature that allows them more friends to join ongoing Raids, without having to leave the lobby.

Many aspects of Pokemon Go are easy to enjoy, like hunting down Shiny Pokemon, filling in the Pokedex and so on, but there are still many elements that will test you.

One of those is the Raid battles groups of trainers can partake in to defeat and capture some of the game’s most powerful Pokemon. These Raids are often difficult and will require friends to coordinate, especially Elite Raids.

It appears that Pokemon Go has a handy feature that allows users to invite friends to join ongoing Raids.

Pokemon Go players create new Raid friends

After a trainer pointed out that players can invite more friends to raids after 30 seconds, if there isn’t enough room, a post on TheSilphRoad subreddit caught the attention of the Pokemon Go community.

In replies to the post, the OP clarified what actually occurred in the attached video. According to them, “Every 30 seconds after selection of 5 friends, the invite button unlocks, allowing as much as three groups of 5 to be invited if you’re fast enough!”

Before this feature was introduced, players could only invite additional trainers from their friends group if they left a room and returned to the raid lobby.

Immediately, fans voiced their concern that this feature would be quietly removed by Niantic as they figured it wasn’t intentional. Although Niantic is known for implementing useful bugs as official features in the past, this concern is not completely unfounded.

“I can’t believe this is not a bug. With Niantic pushing in-person raids, 5 additional remote raiders and facilitating additional invites goes a long way away from their point.”

Others were simply happy that the feature was in the game at all, as one trainer said, “This is a really significant improvement, with no obvious downside. I’m shocked and impressed!”

With Niantic’s renewed focus on in-person content, this handy friend list update will certainly make raiding just a tiny bit easier on fans looking to speed things along.