I've been eager to try and attack and defend gyms on my campus but have been hesitant. On average the cutoff in CP seems to be around 2000. I only have one Pokémon with +2000 CP, and it's a Vaporeon. I'm unsure whether I have the Pokémon or even the CP to compete and lack the experience to be able to tell. I was wondering if more experienced players could tell me what CP is generally viable to use in a gym? Obviously it would depend on how it is around me, but for my case, do I really need a bunch of Pokémon above 2000 to even stand a chance? Right now, my top 3 Pokémon are a 2016 Vaporeon with water gun and aqua tail, a 1700 Nidoqueen with poison jab and earthquake, and a 1671 Arcanine with bite and flamethrower. The rest of my Pokémon are meh.
if you dodge only chargedmove, you can kill easy 2pokemon with "+500CP"
exemple: vaporeon 2K = 2 snorlax2K5
" cool mode", naturly if you try hard you can better.
i list me team for attak
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/Q-A/which-6-pokemons
i think for close a 10gyms 2K+ defenders you need more than 45minute with your team (35healpot), but 30 minute with me team and (20heal pot) (alone)
So long as you're not attacking level 10 enemy gyms, that's not really a bad setup for taking down low level gyms at all! Besides, there's really no risk/chance of losing anything by attacking gyms (other than potions and revives, but you can easily get more of those). Relax, go out, and try out the combat system!
P.S. Until I hit level 24 or so, my attacking setup consisted of 4 Vaporeons, a Hypno, and a Flareon. If I could do it, your team can do it.
I used to transfer all low CP pokemons after I had evolved some new higher CP pokemons and now I feel lack of appropriate pokemons to train gyms.
For both attacking or training gyms I always prefer type advantages then movesets (best attack moves) then CP. When attacking gyms the higher CP the better, but when training gyms the lower CP the better.
You can battle, but it sounds like your question is more along the lines of "Can I hold on to a gym?"
Odds are you can't. People are jerks, and will knock your low CP pokemon off of the bottom to replace it with their own. You can definitely still take gyms and get pokecoins from them (attacking is relatively easy, albeit time and resource consuming if the gyms are highly trained) but holding those gyms for more than a couple days sounds unlikely if everyone in the area is much higher.
You are overdued for battling gym. If anything just pick on gym that's around level 6. You can pack 6 Pokemons so what's the worse that can really happen? Perhaps you can only beat 2 Pokemons at a time but that doesn't matter. As long as you are beating something, the gym level will drop. Even a level 10 gym can be pick apart with pile of potions and revive.
Practice dodge while you are at it to increase your chance of winning. The game system is designed such that defender's quick attack will happen on every 1.5 sec. No faster nor slower. Even vap vs vap with defender having 1,200 higher cp, you will still have upper hand just with tapping without dodging.
Like someone had said. Defending the gym will be unlikely. But who cares, if you can get 1, 20 coins everyday, that's still better than throwing revive and potion away and not battling.
For battling, CP is not nearly as important as type advantages and good movesets. If you time your dodges correctly and use type advantage, you can easily take down gyms with minimal resources with 1500CP Pokemon on 2000CP defenders. When training gyms, attempting to use this strategy to an even higher regard to maximize prestige (max prestige is gained when your attacking Pokemon's CP is half of the defending, albeit its slightly changed with the new update, but thats another post) you get pretty good at efficient attacking.
Defending is a different story, since attackers have the upper hand in gym battles, CP plays a much bigger role in both ensuring you're higher up in the gym, and taking longer to defeat. More important that CP is using good gym defenders with ideal moves (I hate seeing Arcanine in gyms because they're so easily destroyed by Vaporeon.) Look at the Gym Defenders Tier List to get an idea on the best gym defenders and their respective movesets and try to build your defending army based on that. Good luck and happy battling!
Ugh, college campus and gyms. My son tells me gyms change hands pretty much every hour, no matter what level or the defenders. Huge access to pokestops, concentrated population of potential players, likely campuswide wifi.... You can certainly take them down, that's just a matter of your consumables, Pokémon and skill, but you will never hold them very long. Perhaps you can find a group of 10-15 players from your team on your campus and coordinate make the sh*t get real, or you will just be taking down gyms and losing them in the next hour or so.
To keep it short and sweet, the sooner you learn how to attack and defend gyms the better. A few tips for campus battling and defending.
4-1. My own personal trick is to weaken every gym around campus enough so that if it was lvl 6-10 people will see it drop, and as it gets lower less people are less intimidated in trying to take it down. This obviously includes your team, and the other team whose gym it isn't.
4-2. When you get them all low enough to do in one or two runs each, take them down one by one quickly following the above to hold them long enough to collect 20-30 coins depending on the walking distance and give your team a chance at holding at least one of them. I guarantee at least one gym will get boosted and be your color at lvl 4-5.
Just a heads up though. Mystic tends to more laid back and causal and will occasionally build gyms all the way up. Valor usually just takes everything down and is happy leaving each gym at level 3. Instinct either doesn't have enough people playing OR stars align and they'll build and keep one lvl 10 gym all day, repairing prestige and replacing Pokémon as they get knocked out. Just my campus observations.
Edit: Seems with my effort starting the beginning of last week Monday, my team has HELD 2 level 10 gyms since Oct 20th (Thursday last week). So my mons have been in the gym since that day. Gyms go up and down pretty often and a full gym usually only last anywhere from 1 to 2 1/2 days at most. When my Pokémon finally get knocked out, I'm going to boost the gym and put them back in.
