I do so! My prestigers are also attackers- i dont like to fight weak mon about 1200cp to beat so popular snorlaxes dragons, gyaradoses and vapes, i think getting 300-500 prestige is better than fighting weak mon and get even 1000 prestige, because you get very similar ammount of prestige in same time bcause fighting stronger mons is quickier
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Using the same team as prestigers and attackers
Before the Gen 2 release, I kept my core battlers in the 1900-2050 CP range and my secondary battlers in the 1600-1900 CP range, with 2050+ CP reserved for defenders.
In my fast-paced, highly-competitive local meta, this strategy had multiple benefits:
1. Sorting by CP to quickly select a defender (and thus avoid being sniped) with minimal scrolling.
2. Likewise, less scrolling to select six prestigers (my battlers are all starred).
3. Once I get a rare, useful attacker (like Cloyster with double-ice moves), I need not try for a second one with the same moveset just for prestiging.
4. My battlers could take on very strong gyms (even those filled with 3000+ CP Snorlaxes) from any team and still gain prestige at reasonable speed (my dodging skills are mediocre).
Does anyone else use a similar strategy? With Blissey now breaking gyms, is this strategy still viable? I have already raised my threshold to 2100 CP as my two lowest-CP defenders were a Poliwrath with Bubble/IB (no longer a viable defender) and a Slowbro with Confusion/IB (a useful attacker into SW Dragonite, so quickly selectable by sorting by star).
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I sort my pokemon by 3 groups of attackers. I have a 1300 cp and under, 1300-1900, 2200 and up. Provided there isn't more than one Blissey, my 1300-1900 team can roll through an entire gym, so it is possible, but extremely hard on the revives. I only do that for prestiging. It makes a lot more sense to use my big pokemon to take down gyms, so I dont blow through potions.
Recently prestiged a couple of gyms where the lowest PKM defender was a 1500 scyther, and another had a 1700 something or other - I just temporarily favorite a team of about 12-14 of evolution spam, do a single 50% battle with leftover Ledyba, Furrets, Ratata, Murkrow etc to claim 1000 prestige, then run. Rinse and repeat (using favorites lets me select the team very quickly). Send all the fainted PKM to the professor. Voila - gym prestiged to next level, unloved PKM cleared from inventory, and no potion/revive use! Good practice for dodging, and fun to see different attacks in action too. Furrets with HB are actually pretty tough little suckers!
