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Battling Level10 Gyms

Kid=1412

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    Gyms at Central Business Districts won't even last 15 minutes while those gyms situated at not-so busy residential areas could hold the fort for days. In dangerous part of the metro, there would be little flexibility in terms of battling gyms or even playing pokemon go at all. As such, you may need to consider playing in broad day light or with companions.

    After battling a level10 gyms in our neighborhood with my brothers (I am at Level mid20s, and they are at early 20s and less than Lvl10 respectively), here are our learnings.

    1. Your Best 6 (in terms of CP) may not necessarily the best play to do. This is a noob play on our part during our 1st wave.
    2. Adding sacrificial lambs (will not require constant revive) in your line up. Battling 4-5 Dragonites in a row will eat up a lot of your revives and Hyper/Max potions. We noticed that the 2nd and 4th pokemons on a slot get damaged heavily by charge move of the opponent and tend not to contribute so much in battling
    3. Pokemon sequence could spell the difference between killing 3 or 4 or 5 pokemons in a row. Switching pokemons while battling would result to inefficient move. Anticipating sequence would be key especially if different types of pokemons are defending the gym.
    4. Knowig when to quit to reserve on revives and potions. Sometimes, we target the lowest defender using our weaker pokemons at first (over and over) with contingency towards the end then revive later
    during weekdays when items are abundant in our respective work places
    5. Earn extra revive (only recommended for your top pokemons) - power up feinted pokemon (for efficiency just power up selected few pokemons you really power up to gain at least 1 HP upon level up reviving it in the process

    What's your experience?
     
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    - Have really powerful pokemon
    - Totally abuse strengths and weaknesses
    - Be prepared to invest time
    - Several people attacking at once is really good
     
    Teamwork is the most important thing, I think. Taking on a level 10 by yourself, you have 6 pokemon vs. 10, which is very difficult for me given that around here most level 10 gyms have all pokemon over 1800 CP.

    Is it possible for two people on different teams to take on a (third color) level 10 gym at the same time? I've never seen this, but I suppose it is possible.
     
    ichiDad said:
    Teamwork is the most important thing, I think. Taking on a level 10 by yourself, you have 6 pokemon vs. 10, which is very difficult for me given that around here most level 10 gyms have all pokemon over 1800 CP.

    Is it possible for two people on different teams to take on a (third color) level 10 gym at the same time? I've never seen this, but I suppose it is possible.
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    Yes it is and you will feel the damage out of seemingly nowhere. It is prevalent in Central Business Districts when random people attack gyms while walking casually in my area.
     
    Kid=1412 said:
    Yes it is and you will feel the damage out of seemingly nowhere. It is prevalent in Central Business Districts when random people attack gyms while walking casually in my area.
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    your gym killing strategy will change over time as you level up to 30 and beyond. for now, what you are doing sounds fine.

    everything neltharion said is spot on.
     
    How much XP do you get from taking down a level 10 gym? If it's loss of prestige/10 then this would be 5000 XP, is that correct? If you take it down with a team of 2 do you get 2500 each?
     
    I took down a level 7 gym today at lunch. I earned exactly 2600 XP points for this. I think the gym started out around 26000 prestige (it was level 8 yesterday), so the XP points make sense to me. It took around 30 minutes!

    Taking down a level 10 would be difficult for me. All my highest CP pokemon are defending gyms! But as a team, no problem.
     
    We took down a level 10 gym and we earned over 7k XP in the process.
     
    I've managed to take down the same level 10 gym three times in two days. The first two times it was full. The last time, it only had 6 defenders, but it still took a while to knock the prestige down from 52K, to 12K before a defender dropped off. I basically had to defeat the same defenders about 8 times before one finally dropped off. I got almost 17K of XP out of the three times.
     
    I just battled my first level 10 gym and it was tough, as expected! To make a long story short, I brought it down to level 8, but then I got the dreaded "Network Error" and my last battle exited. I was running low on health potions, and I was worried about another Network Error, so I left it at level 8, 30000 prestige.

    As Level 10 gyms go, this one is probably "easy", which is why I chose it. Here is the monster lineup:
    1778 Flareon
    1825 Vaporeon
    1882 Arcanine
    1913 Snorlax
    1972 Arcanine
    1992 Lapras
    2001 Snorlax
    2044 Vaporeon
    2126 Exeggutor
    2191 Arcanine

    I ran through the monster sequence 5 times, and made it all the way through twice. Once I ran out of time on the Lapras. Other times I ran out of water pokemon to deal with the last Arcanine.

    The 1882 Arcanine is now on the bottom, which will make it easy to power the gym back up. Oh well!
     
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    At first, I was battling Level 10 gyms on my own but I get out-trained by the Defenders. Now, I am tag-teaming with my blood brother/s so that it would faster for us to take down gyms and we normally do it on a weekend within our neighborhood.

    It took us 1 hour to clear out the gym as there were 10 defenders that were a bit diverse. Would have been faster as we prepared for the Dragonites of Valor but got booted by Instint last Friday with diverse team of Nidoqueens, Gyarados, Exeggutor, Vaporeon, Arcanines and Snorlaxes.

    Fastest way is to go all the way but not very feasible at the beginning. Once we were able to bring down the Gym to Level7, it was relaxed and walk in the park already. The grind from Level 10 to 8 would be the hardest.
     
    I don't think trainers are placing any thought about what defenders they are putting into gyms. I don't know how many of the same defender types I've seen in a row. It makes attacking much easier since you don't have to switch out attackers to get a type advantage. The hardest gyms to defeat are the ones that have a different type between levels.
     
    Well, I just soloed down a level 9 Gym at my train station this morning. Must've been built up over the weekend because it sure wasn't there on Friday.

    I basically just used two CP3000 Dragonite to take the whole thing down since the highest level Pokémon in there was a CP2100 Snorlax. The rest were all between CP1500 and 2000.

    Whole thing took less than half an hour. Key is just dodging all the charge attacks. My main Dragonite can take out 4-5 Pokémon on its own before its HP reaches zero. Easiest Pokémon to take out by far were the squishy Flareon since none of them can even take out ~7-8% of my Dragonite's HP.
     
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    I don't understand how some level 10 gyms get to 52000 prestige, while others are at 50000. My Nidoking is currently at the bottom of a level 10 gym, with 50000 prestige. As I understand it, if someone knocks the prestige down even 1 point, my Nidoking will be kicked out. So I figured I would drive the prestige up to 52000 to make this more difficult. But when I beat him, the prestige wouldn't go above 50000.
     
    Earned over 8k XP defeating a level10 gym in 2 installments. Tagteaming with my brother again. However, because of poor connection we had to cut our battle because the game would not allow us to continue as the GPS was all over the place.

    The training update really did wonders for our opponent as one was still able to leave his pokemon for a poke coin maybe. Still got knocked out easily as he was already training a level5 gym with 2 Exegg and 3 dragonites remaining.
     
    Kid=1412 said:
    Earned over 8k XP defeating a level10 gym in 2 installments. Tagteaming with my brother again. However, because of poor connection we had to cut our battle because the game would not allow us to continue as the GPS was all over the place.

    The training update really did wonders for our opponent as one was still able to leave his pokemon for a poke coin maybe. Still got knocked out easily as he was already training a level5 gym with 2 Exegg and 3 dragonites remaining.
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    It sounds like your GPS antenna is broken, because GPS requires no internet connection to work.

    If your GPS is all over the place while you are outdoor, it means two of two things (yes two, as in both):
    - GPS antenna is broken
    - Poor reception and/or too few cell towers mean that cell tower triangulation does not work either
     
    My GPS is abnormally all over the place during or after it rains. Not sure if the rain has an impact on reception.
     
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