clipping gyms
what's the opinion on clipping a gym
just say you aren't ready to collect. but your local gym has a big blissey and either empty slots or 2 weenies below it.
Does anyone get tempted to reduce the gym to just the Blissey so that it is hard to prestige and knock it out some other time when you are closer to collection?
Is this the move of an arsehole or just viable tactics so I don't have to grind down a level 8 gym tonight to collect my coins again?
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the question is not clear , if you are talking about opposite team gym i say go for it taking a gym in one go or in settlement is up to but you risk it being rebuild
but if you talking about clipping your own color i think we all know that this is just the lowest of the low , playing against your own team is just plain d**k move
Looks like trimming a rival's gym. Yes, this is a perfectly vialble tactics imo. Sometimes, i just reduce it to something between 1 and 999 XP and take it down later.
At the moment, i can play a more quiet strategy, i hardly take down a rival gym, but often prestige a friendly gym. Live and let live, as long it is possible. I have now many potions left.
Constantly attacking opposing gyms is a war of attrition, no one really wins. Sometimes i am forced to do so, if there are simply to few friendly gyms left.
If they are rival gyms then feel free to attack them however you wish.
I have a strip with 3 rival gyms very close to each other, but when I take them down I drop them all down to 3 mons each, then go through and clear them out totally on the next pass.
I have done it differently and ended up not getting all 3 as a car rolled up and started taking the gyms back, at the other end before I finished the last.
I know the gyms won't last, but by being tactical I can get all 3 at once to collect if I need them.
...and it is nice to make the enemy work to keep their towers once in a while.
that's what i mean Bruno and aSP. mystic is a minority team in my area (valor very dominant). I can put a mon in and have no one jump into the free spots even if i keep it open for 12 hours.
Meanwhile left alone the gyms quickly climb to level 6-10 towers with the highest mons usually belonging to 2 people I know are spoofers and a third who I have never caught but strongly suspect (because i often see his mons paired with one of the known spoofers).
By paring the enemy gym down to the 2800cp blissey with no empty spots it makes it very difficult to prestige so the cost to me is minimal when it is time to collect. The flip side to that is it makes for a frustrating experience for level players both friendly (who can't take a blissey) and opposite (who would need to prestige against said blissey) (probably as frustrating as having the nearest stable friendly gym almost 20 minutes away)
But I just can't keep up with the revive/heal costs to hold gyms open for people to put my own teams low level players weenies in.
The flip side to that is it makes for a frustrating experience for level players both friendly (who can't take a blissey)
Such a player has no specific disadvantage - he would not be able to take the gym anyway.
and opposite (who would need to prestige against said blissey)
It is ok to setup a challenge for a rival team. :-)
[Edit] It would be possible to prestige this blissey - with a double-fight-poliwrath or machamp for example. They would be forced to do so up to four times, and then the greatest challenge occurs: Be selfish and put a dragon above this blissey, or be a team player and put a gyarados below this blissey....[/Edit]
I do this all the time actually...
In my area, mostly if I don't take down the towers, they will be rebuilt so disabling them at very bad CPs or with very bad mons on the bottom is a great strategy to make people not want to rebuild the gym...also, I notice nearly EVERYONE drives to the gym while I walk so if I can waste the rival teams gas and time, it's an automatic win for me outside of any coins/dust...they can collect.
These gyms are normally ones I walk to daily for my daily coins so I make it a point to NEVER let them be built. This was actually the main reason I started to play the game since my kids/wife were constantly locked out and couldn't take down the level 10 towers.
One time, a gym in my area got to 52k...I tore it all the way down to 20k...on purpose...
Let someone waste their time prestiging 10k for more spots and I make it a point to tear the rest of the 20k so they NEVER can collect coins in 21 hours.
I honestly don't even want my own team to built a tower since it may lock me out with gym shavers or having to prestige 10k myself, etc...
Edit: Wanted to add that all gyms are easy and it's just a matter of time/attrition. If you had to waste gas everytime to get 10 coins, you will always lose $$ financially so I sorta get a kick that everyone seems to be driving to the gyms in my area...
