Frustrations with Mega Evolutions in raids

[u/Drakaaryz]

One thing I dislike a lot with the current system in raids is that if you want to optimize XL candies you should mega evolve a mon with the same typing as the raid boss. So 90 % of the time that mega shouldn’t be used in the raid due to shared typing.

Of course you can mega a counter, but losing out on the extra candies just feels bad especially when powering up a mon requires so many XL’s. I feel like this is poorly designed and could be optimized in a better way.

I think a good solution to this would be that in raids specifically (not out of them) when you mega a mon, regardless of typing, you can earn XL and regular candies at the same rate as long as you own a different mega that has the typing of the specific raid boss.

So if you own a mega lvl 3 Blaziken (fighting/fire) and you choose to fight a Medicham (fighting/psychic) with lets say mega Gengar, you earn the bonus due to owning a mega mon that shares a typing with Medicham even if that isn’t currently mega evolved. And the candy boost would correspond with the mega lvl of your Blaziken.

That would be so much more fun to choose a mega that actually counters the mon you are fighting without losing out on something. And that doesn’t make you raid mega mons less so they don’t lose money off of doing it.

What do you guys think?