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Gym full of trash

This is for those who claim that "a Blissey will last just as long as a Pidgey".

Today I came across this blue gym. The gym composition was:
1: Pidgey
2: Flareon
3: Machamp
4: Espeon
5: Slaking
6: Blissey

None of the defenders were above L30 (except the Slaking). Even then, the Slaking had Hyper Beam, and my Hariyama annihilated him.
Blissey was 2.2k at full motivation, though she did have ZH/DG.

Believe me, this trash gym composition is extremely rare in Singapore. This is only my second time seeing such a gym.

The gym barely lasted 2 hours, but only because of a raid. I took the gym down as soon as the raid ended. It took just 5 mins with no GRB feeding.

Asked by DragoniteSlayer7 years 5 months ago
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by Oscarv 7 years 5 months ago

Nothing shocking here, except the pidgey. But sometimes players just want to take a gym down and place a weak one as a prank.

Actually the best gyms after 4-8 hours are those with initial member CP of 600-1400 because that gym will still have over 2/3 motivation of all inhabitants, usually full motivation since only one berry is needed. That will require 18 fights of 20-40 seconds to bring down instead of 6 fights of 15 seconds.

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Maybe this could be "useful":
Pidgey
Oddish
Dratini
Ponyta
Exeggucute
Wailmer

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In my city, if you place entertaining stuff, people might let you have the gym until most of the mons are at the 8h mark. If you place a Blissey and the rest of the gym has the common Snorlax and Espeon, people kick you out earlier.

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Anecdotally, if I am walking past a gym with a Blissey in the front slot, I'll take a pass through it then continue on just soften it up for anyone else that wants to take it down.

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This is exactly how my shiny Absolute lasted 4 days in a gym. Thank you for the insight!

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The pidgey was probably something caught right by the gym as the trainer was walking past.

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by Peach 7 years 5 months ago

Terrific

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I've legitimately come across more than one full gym that has nothing but trash (pidgeys, rats, karps, ledyba, etc) all under 100 CP when fully motivated. They were probably placed by players who think everything is equally effective as a blissey for defending (or just don't care) but the fact that each mon lasted barely one fast move from my autoselected attacker begs to differ.

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