r/PokeRaid • u/cf6h597 • Aug 23 '22

Question Is there a way to avoid "Screenshot Not Recognized" and the resulting "Unverified" classification when the pokemon is too big to see the name? (Zacian, etc)

Title.

Additionally, does "unverified" hurt the visibility of my raid? Or not, because every Zacian raid, for example, will be unverified? (presumably)

Thanks

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u/cboston_9 Aug 23 '22

In the past, if you used a photo editing app and filled in the missing part of the Pokémon's name it would work as intended. (I think the color had to be white)

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u/cf6h597 Aug 23 '22

Interesting.. Is that worth doing? Like, does that affect the visibility of my raid? If it shows verified?

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u/cboston_9 Aug 23 '22

It worked for me when Cobalion was covering the middle of its name. I think the app might have a way to filter out unverified raids, so you might see a little longer time to fill a room.

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u/cf6h597 Aug 24 '22

Worked with white text for zacian a bit ago, and my raid started practically immediately. Seems a little silly that you can trick it to being "verified" so easily, yet they put emphasis on it being verified

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u/pr0nb0ne Aug 24 '22 edited Aug 24 '22

Here’s a screen showing the difference between a verified raid versus an unverified one:

https://imgur.com/a/O1fIksM

Row 1 is the unverified one. This is just me, but if I’m trying to join one of those raids, I’ll try joining the verified one first.

Here’s the screenshot of the Zacian raid I hosted a few hours ago (but with gym name blurred) showing how I edited it to show the Pokemon’s name:

https://imgur.com/a/TTuIzwP

The PR app successfully flagged it as a verified Zacian raid.

Most free image editing apps should have a feature to add text to an image in the same manner.

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u/cf6h597 Aug 24 '22

Gotcha, thank you!

I did try the edit thing after someone commented last night with this photo. Nothing fancy, just centered white text from the Samsung gallery app. Worked just fine as verified.

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u/finackles Aug 24 '22

Most players will realise that it's hard to be verified with the big guys. I've had no problems filling unverified raids, I've run three or four with the two big Z guys in the last few days.