- this site recommends to put chansey at Lv. 10 gym. so it is better not to do train with chansey assinged to the gym. I will do bubblestrat first and when Gym is already Lv. 10 i will assign chansey inside.
For your case I suggest to train with vaporeon. I use my lower CP vaporeon (dont matter the IV but with hydropump and full dodge) to train with chansey which was already assigned to the gym. - it will be good to put all of the chansey (10 pokemon) in 1 gym then to put only 1, so i guess you should gather your friends then hunt chansey and make one chansey tower.
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Prestiging a gym with multiple Chanseys
While battling gyms last night, I came across a friendly level 3 gym that had two Chanseys (CP 750 & 850), and a Kabutops (CP 2000). I knew that I could defeat the Kabutops quickly and easily with a much lower CP mon, but to do so, I first would have had to get past the Chanseys. I thought about it for a few minutes, and could not figure out a way to battle the Chanseys that would be CP-efficient, potion-efficient, and time-efficient, so I skipped that gym and moved on to others.
With Chanseys having low CP and very high HP, it would have taken a very long time to defeat the two Chanseys with attackers of lower CP, and would have probably required a lot of potion use to restore my attackers afterwards. And then I would have had to take on the CP-2000 Kabutops with mons around 700 CP, which again would have required a lot of potion/revive use.
Another option would have been to pick higher CP attackers, say, 1000-1300 CP, so that I could at least gain significant prestige from beating the Kabutops, but that still would have required a lot of time investment in defeating the Chanseys first, and I wouldn't have gained much prestige from the Chanseys. Because it was a level 3 gym, I only needed to up the prestige from 6000 to 8000, but it still would have taken quite a while, and then I would be placing a pokemon in a rather weak gym, because Chanseys are easy (though tedious) for enemy teams to defeat with elite attackers.
So, I guess I have two questions:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good strategy I could have used to prestige the gym efficiently (in terms of CP, potion use, and time)? Am I correct in thinking that it is a bad strategy to put multiple Chanseys in a gym, because it makes the gym very difficult for friendly trainers to prestige it up, yet makes it rather easy for enemy trainers to defeat the gym?
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There is no good training strategy, especially against two Chansey. Best option is to select your CP for the next pokemon. So for a 2000CP Kabutops, select a grass pokemon at about 1000cp third, and select your two highest DPS pokemon at or under that first and second.
If there is one Chansey in a gym, I don't even bother unless there are already at least five other really good pokemon in it, because I know no one else is going to want to train it up after I leave anyway.
There have been a few times, after I have already cashed out for the day, that I have seen an enemy gym with a Chansey at the bottom and I have fought it enough just to knock out the Chansey and then stop so that more sensible players on that team would be able to train it up.
Players need good chansey etiquette. Train up for others before putting it in. Also I see unpowered chanseys often, kinda ruins the point of them.
Definitely NOT bad strategy mons. Depending on area. Around here the average lvl is around 25 and players seem to have a real hard time taking them down. I've better luck with chansey than any other time wise spent in gyms. Snorlax is 1 or 2 days, chansey is around a week average.
OK, I suppose it would make sense to place Chanseys in gyms only after prestiging the gym up and opening multiple spots for others to fill without having to train. What seems to me to be bad strategy is taking over a gym and putting two or three Chanseys in the first three spots, because, as pipjay said, nobody else is going to want to train the gym up.
Chanseys are way easier to take down than Snorlaxes. The other night, I came across a level 3 enemy gym with three Chanseys (700, 800, 1100), and I was able to defeat them all with a single 2800-CP Vaporeon. It was tedious, and took considerably longer than most level 3 gyms, but it was not difficult and didn't require a lot of potions to heal afterwards. However, the Chanseys are tough to train against for prestige gain, due to their low CP. So, the level of the gym is unlikely to go any higher after the Chanseys are put in.
Definitely. Just saying a lower level player has a possibility of running the clock out against a maxed chansey, and a higher level player might skip the gym all together depending on what's above it and the ease of gyms nearby. When I tested mine with a 2700 gyarados I think it took 70 seconds of nonstop attacking.
They sure aren't a threat, but they are the biggest annoyance of the game(for both teams if not used properly)Hopefully people will learn not to pop them in low level gyms, it hurts them too.
Personally, I would rather fight a 3000 snorlax than a 1200 chansey.
