Build your own gym
If you could put all 10 mon in a single gym, how would you populate it?
Rules:
No more than 2 of the same mon in the gym.
No more than 2 mon duplicated.
(This means that you must put 8 DIFFERENT mon in the gym.)
These must be mon that are in your collection right now. No stat enhancing.
Post from the top down, ranking by CP.
No critcizing other people's gyms.
Assume
Current gym meta.
That your gym cannot be shaved.
If you want to post the MS, go for it..
My gym:
D'nite 3300 DT/Hu
T'tar 3131 IT/FB
D'nite 3032 DT/Hu
Snorlax 3026 L/HB
Gary 3003 B/HP
Rhydon 2979 MS/SE
Blissey 2719 P/DG
Alakazam 2660 PC/SB
Blissey 2579 P/DG
Espeon 2557 Con/Pb
(This was harder than it sounded. I had to skip a Blissey in order to not have both of them together, I wanted diversity so that any attacking team had to really be well thought out, and I really wanted my Espeon at the bottom because she hits HARD!)
Answers
One big advantage I had early on was I both live and work at two large cluster spawns. Before the tracker became garbage I could clear the available mons on my radar and "see" anything worth getting in my area without having to constantly hunt on foot. I usually picked up 2 or so a week even when not officially hunting back then. Also before the change my radar would pick up all available mons on the slow, stop light laden drive to work. It wasn't hard to see a Snorlax pop up and stop for a bit to figure out where he was. Now with the new tracker I cannot do such things in either place because both spots have a stop that ruins the tracker. The worst part is both stops are far enough away that I would be hard pressed to walk to them in time if they did have anything good spawn there.
I'll play your game just because I have to use MY pokemon.
Tyranitar 3551 cp it/c
Snorlax 3236 cp l/bs
Rhydon 3200 cp ms/se
Dragonite 3098 cp dt/o
Vaporeon 3005 cp wg/at
Blissey 2902 cp zh/p
Exeggutor 2846 cp c/p
Blissey 2816 cp zh/dg
Jolteon 2613 cp vs/d (or Arcanine 2750 cp ff/ft)
Muk 2602 cp pj/dp (or Lapras 2491 cp fb/hp)
Couldn't decide on the last 2 spots. I guess I'd probably go Lapras and Jolteon, but I love Muk...that dark pulse will wreck whatever psychic pokemon you use if you decide to go that route...
Edit: My Vaporeon, Blissey, and Lapras can all be powered up when they come back from the gyms...
You should put moves on those above.
Dragonite 3216 ST/Hurricane ((I keep my DT ones for Offense)
Tyrantir 3198 Bite/Stone Edge
Snorlax 3194 Zen/Body Slam
Gary 3164 DT/Hydro
Blissey 3028 Zen/Psyhic
Vaperon 2996 WG/Aqua Tail
Blissey 2883 Pound/Gleam
Snorlax 2837 Zen/Heavy slam
Eggy 2773 Conf/Seed
Lapras 2435 Ice Shard/Ice Beam
I had a slightly stronger Vaperon with WG/Hydro I debated with. I almost put in my 2738 Arcanine with Fang/Thrower thinking the person would start out with a water then run into my eggy, I might power up the 2 Blisseys to move them up each 1 slot as well.
I'd pack it with a lot of Pokemon that are solid defenders but CP limited, along with most of the usuals. No Dragonite or Tyranitar because mine have attacking movesets (DB/DC and B/SE). No Rhydon because I want people to be forced to bring other types besides Vaporeon (e.g. forcing them to bring a Psychic by putting in Machamp)
My Gym:
Snorlax L/BS 2807
Gyarados DT/C 2783
Blissey P/P 2723
Vaporeon WG/AT 2656
Donphan C/PR 2585
Exeggutor C/P 2434
Machamp C/DP 2428
Ampharos VS/T 2287
Lapras IS/B 2266
Steelix DT/E 2053
This is how I will take down your gym.
1. Flareon CP 2298 FS/O (Steelix+Lapras, Exeggutor) dodge all
2. Rhydon CP 2572 MS/EQ (Ampharos) dodge all
3: Exeggutor CP 2623 C/SoB (Machamp, Donphan+Vaporeon) dodge all for Machamp and Donphan, no dodging for Vaporeon)
4: Dragonite CP 2877 DB/DC (Blissey, Snorlax, dodging charge moves only)
5: Jolteon CP 2346 TS/TB (Lapras if Flareon faints or dodge glitch, Gyarados) dodge all
6: Snorlax CP 2298 L/HB (backup)
This is a great idea. I enjoy seeing/reading everyones line-up. Some pretty good ones in there. This is indeed harder than it looks. My Dragonite, Tyranitar and Snorlax I mention could be powered up further but I've been saving candies and dust waiting to see what happens. But this is where they are at now:
3264 Dragonite (SW/H)
3101 Tyranitar (B/SE)
3060 Blissey (ZH/P)
3050 Blissey (P/HB)
3008 Vaporeon (WG/AT)
3000 Snorlax (ZH/BS)
2999 Snorlax (ZH/BS)
2851 Espeon (C/P)
2763 Exeggutor (C/SoB)
2314 Slowbro (C/WP)
Honourable mentions left off:
3105 MS/EQ Rhydon (Maybe better than the Gyarados - hmm probably)
3069 Gyrados (B/DP) - just removed him to put Slowbro at the bottom
2310 PJ/DP Muk - just need more candies to power him up further. Like mentioned above DP crushes psychic types when they attack into Muk.
It is a good point. I could remove the Slowbro and put a 2989 Aquatail Vape before the Snorlax or a 2985 Rhydon.... Could help for diversity.
Confusion just hits so hard that they better be good at dodging or they are taking a TON of damage from the first three mons. I set my line-up with the intention of doing the most damage.
Snorlax 3079, ZH/BS
Rhydon 3040, MS/SE
Blissey 2948, ZH/DG
Dragonite 2879, SW/DC
Gyarados 2788, B/O
Flareon 2712, E/FB
Exeggutor 2646, C/Psy
Vaporeon 2567, WG/AT
Exeggutor 2447 ZH/SBomb
Wigglytuff 1783, P/DG
Making this list made me realize how much my playstyle has been affected by my local meta. Being a member of team Instinct, I can only rely on holding 2-3 stable gyms in my area, so most of my focus has been on maxing only a few pokemon to the exclusion of others (my Snorlax, Rhydon, Blissey). The top 8 in my list are actually my top 8 pokemon. The Flareon is powered up so high simply because it was my highest IV for a long time (98) so it's a personal favorite despite the subpar moveset. Other pokemon I just haven't powered up because of a combination of not having the moveset I want, not having the IV I want, or that I'm waiting until I have enough candy to max it out for my level (such as the high 80s IV Dratinis I've been sitting on with over 200 candy). As for Wigglytuff, well, she's actually my second perfect IV Wiggly. I had to put at least one of the pair in the gym. I don't care that it's not a meta efficient use of dust, I love the two of them and will always max them out when I level up :)
You have to play for your area. Before the rock event (the addition of all the Rhydons) I could reasonably place 2500 cp pokemon in the middle of gyms. A big part of that is being on the minority team. If I was Mystic, the bottom end of a lot of gyms is 2900. Because of that, I powered up a lot of diverse defenders, not just something I could get the highest cp out of.
I agree, although for my area, being on the minority team gives me few options: either focus on holding a small number of gyms as long as possible, or focus on gym blitzes with no intention of holding them. For the latter, what defender I use doesn't really matter. For the former, you could say the same thing, except that by focusing efforts on a small number of gyms which are frequented by a handful of high level members of my team I can work with them to at least shut out or discourage lower level or solo players, only having to worry about high level groups that wander outside of their pretty vast territory.
That's why I ended up focusing on 2 main defenders (Snorlax and Blissey) rather than branching out. The way Instinct gyms work around my area, there is going to be a small cluster of 3000+ CP pokemon at the tops of gyms, with CP 2400 and below hanging out at the bottom. My goal is to make sure I can sit somewhere in the middle or top of that 3 or 4 3000+ CP cluster, so that I don't have to worry about hit-and-run tactics from opposing teams that regularly shave out one or two bottom defenders without taking down the whole thing. Doing so allows me to keep a gym for around a week before having to retake it.
If Instinct had a slightly larger presence in my area, I'd probably have a few more decent 2800+ defenders rather than 2 main ones so that I could slot into more gyms at the middle or higher.
After you took down my gym, I've gotta take yours down now too as payback! :P
I'd bring:
Lapras CP 2125 FB/B (Both Dragonites)
Jolteon CP 2256 TS/TB (Both Gyarados)
Venusaur CP 2191 VW/SoB (Vaporeon, Rhydon)
Charizard CP 2249 WA/FB (Machamp, Exeggutor) [Just a great excuse to use my Charizard!]
Dragonite CP 3026 DB/DC (Blissey)
Tyranitar CP 3124 B/SE (Snorlax)
Dragonite 3407 DT/H
Rhydon 3004 MS/E
Blissey 2951 P/DG
Donphan 2850 C/E
Blissey 2820 ZH/DG
Gyarados 2795 DT/O
Exeggutor 2751 C/SoB
Golem 2757 RT/SE
Heracross 2708 C/M
Lapras 2217 IS/B
This is a fun activity. I haven't powered many defensive mons over my 29xx Blisseys, mostly due to my lack of a good Snorlax...
I'm hopeful that some new mons will become relevant in the new gyms. I'd like to see psychics, fire, and even grass defending gyms and the diversity it would bring.
OBTW, In this thread I've yet to see a grass other than eggy listed. (If there was one, I missed it.) RL/SoB Vileplume would be excellent if gyms weren't strictly CP based.
I used to put a sludge bomb Victreebel in gyms a long time ago...They actually hit really hard, which made it difficult to prestige against. It would be nice to have the grass types again for diversity, but the new Flareon is on steroids compared to the old ember/fire blast one...I don't think a single grass type could get a solar beam off...
