Haha, that's awesome! Not surprising about the skill level, it equates to the many questions in this forum when somebody asks if their 98IV Dragonite with SW/O is worth powering up since it didn't get DT. (Yes, I understand there are some biomes Dratini are way more common than my own). But, come'on man!
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I just sniped a level-10 gym. What an a-hole, right?
I was walking by a park last night and saw that a friendly level-9 gym in that park was being prestiged. I then waited for a while and sniped the spot right when it became opened.
The catch? I sniped it from a spoofer.
The park was wide open, and I was standing right on top of the gym looking around in every direction. Nobody else was there. I even tried to call out just in case someone decided to play PoGo in a bush - still no response.
Suffice to say that was highly gratifying, totally made my day.
An aside: the spoofer was prestiging by 150 prestige a pop - an indication of poor PoGo knowledge. I wonder how many peole out there are like this, and whether their lack of knowledge about optimal gameplay contributes to their behaviors.
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They really do need some sort of in game tutorial or message recommending players use pokemon that are smaller against friendly gyms. And they need to fix it so that the prestige calculation is separate for each defeated pokemon based on just the CP of your team members that helped defeat that pokemon, not the highest CP in your entire unused team.
Aside from the long lists of type advantages, those are the two game mechanics that I need to remind others about.
Did the same thing last night, only it was a two-fer: it was a spoofer who had just knocked out my 10-slot 2600 Exeggutor with an second account and was prestiging immediately afterwards to put his own mon in. Luckily, I had just gotten back a 2800 Dragonite who had been in another gym for two months and had powered him up past 3000. As soon as he got it back up to 50,000, I shoved it into the top slot.
It felt soooo good. I can only hope he realized the guy he kicked out was the same guy who took it right back...
Funny how just yesterday I was coming up to a gym to help a friend prestige and put a mon in, and when we saw the gym was getting prestiged, I straight up said: "If there's nobody around, you'll just have to snipe the spot. :D". There was actually someone, so we didn't do it (we don't do d*** moves).
Anyway, all this to say: kuddos to you! I wouldn't have any remorse from taking advantage of a spoofer's work either.
