Any tips for a Blue player living in a Red town?
We have 4 gyms in town and if left unchecked for a day or two will be filled with 40 red team Mons. As one of only 5 or so blue team players I try to do my best to ensure I can collect on 2 or 3 each day in the easiest way possible.
So far the only trick I've come up with is beating the gyms back to one player at night (i collect in the morning) after they reach level 4 or 5. It forces them to train up the gym against the strongest of those Mons while not giving the second spot free. It seems to have kept it down to 5 or 6 by morning but it still kinda sucks.
Anyone got any advice to help a lone wolf out?
Answers
The most effective thing to do is try to find mates. Im sure there is at least 10 blue players in your town. Even low lvl, they will improve if you make a team. You can also try to put your strongest pokemon in other towns where there are more blues and hope gyms stays blue a week or so.
Here when we make a lvl 10 gym with 2000+ pokemons in a place where there is not too much people, it stays a long time, sometimes 1Month
I'm in the same boat...I see this Instinct gym close to me with just 1 Snorlax now when it was a lvl 10 bubblestrat raised gym earlier today...
I do wonder why people leave gyms with just 1 high level defender compared to taking it out completely to waste another revive from the rival player. Thoughts on that?
Still, it's not very hard for skilled dodgers to raise a 2300+ Snorlax defended gym up if needed. It does limit the lower level players though.
One thing which helps I think is taking down gyms to a lower level before they get to 7+. It just takes so many battles (time/revives/potions) to take a lvl 10 gym down that shutting it down early seems to help. You also are wasting revives of the rival team if they keep getting knocked out, especially when they have collected their coins for the day so they keep losing revives for no coin benefit.
I find it's a bit harder to play as a parent with kids as other parents aren't really that social about the game since they are more casual players in general and not very competitive to keep gyms (or at least make it harder for others to take).
That said, as others have mentioned, even if you can get a small group of 3 players together, that would help immensely since 3 2000+ mons will slowdown most solo casual players. It probably won't help if you have too many red players since anything can be taken down, but that's how the game is setup currently.
