The new Pokmon Go gym update has shaken up the meta in pretty incredible ways, but the biggest change is raids massive collaborative battles where trainers work together to bring down powerful Pokmon. Raids give players the opportunity to catch strong Pokmon and acquire powerful items like the Golden Razz Berry and for the first time in Pokmon Go history TMs. If that's news to you, here's what it means.

Truly competitive players in Pokmon Go focus on two things when choosing their gym attackers and defenders: their IVs or Individual Values and their moveset. IVs require a lot of testing, but the Silph Road has a streamlined way to test them, and IVs don't change as you evolve your Pokmon. Good IVs stay that way.

The same isn't true of movesets, which change as you evolve. So there's a chance when you finally evolve that perfect-IV Dragonair into a Dragonite, you'll end up with a less-than-stellar moveset, making it harder to use in gym battling.

That's where TMs come in. TMs, short for technical machines, will, for the first time, allow you to change the moves your Pokmon know, according to Pokmon Go Hub. You'll obtain TMs from raids, and they'll come in two flavors, fast and charged. Fast TMs are available to any trainer level 15 or above, and charged TMs are available to any trainer level 25 or above.

TM comparison

As the names suggest, they'll either change the fast or charged move that your Pokmon currently knows when you use them. According to Pokmon Go Hub, you can use an unlimited number of TMs on your Pokmon until you get the moveset that you want. Hopefully this is the first step towards rebalancing battles so that more movesets are considered good. However we're content to settle for the guarantee that our Golden Magikarp won't be stuck with crunch forever once we evolve it.

Raids are here! See why they may be the key to legendary Pokmon. Find out how to determine how long it will take you to reach level 40, and see what we think of the Gen 2 Pokmon added to the game. Here are the kinds of Pokmon you get from 10-kilometer eggs, and here's where you can check out what you missed during the Water Festival and Solstice events. Find out more about the upcoming Chicago event and why you'll probably be able to catch Unown while you're there if you're not busy searching for rare evolutionary items, that is.

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'Pokmon Go' Charged TM vs. Fast TM: What you need to know about the items added in the raid update - Mic