"How trading a single pokemon helped me 2 man Tyranitar on the spot"

#PokemonGO: 2 level 40 players, we decide to try and 2 man a tyranitar and fail. Maybe 10% of it's health left over.Pokebattler says my account is good enough that I need 1.7 trainers to do this. This suggests my +1 has a much weaker team. So I offer to trade him a level 35 Machamp and he accepts.I selected a 49% machamp to trade away (which happened to be my 4th best machamp per pokebattler results), he received it as a 62% or 64% IV but still level 35 and still with Counter / Dynamic Punch.With that machamp replacing his worst of his top 6 it became his 3rd best attacker.We go back in and beat the Tyranitar with 20 seconds remaining, a huge improvement with just one pokemon traded.The moral to the story: If you ever find yourself failing a raid and have any spare high level pokemon, no matter how bad the IVs, trading one to a weaker player could make the difference. via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2zDYi2D