Trick to a quick golden gym badge?
tl;dr
Is the most efficient way to a golden badge simply assigning Pokemon to a gym?
Last night I was fighting a spoofer with multiple accounts in my neighborhood. The reason for this is that first of all I hate cheaters, but also that I am in desperate need of those gyms to provide me of more items as Pokestops are quite rare in the area I live. It was a tough fight which unfortanetely I lost in the end.
However, the reason I kept going was because I want gold badges and it did give me "+100 points" each time I assigned a Pokemon into a gym. Therefore I came up with the above tl;dr thought.
Do the 100 points really count toward the badge? If that's true, one could easily manipulate this and alternate rattatas to a gym with a friend from the opposite team.
Answers
Yes, it is independant, no matter what tier is you will get 1000xp for your badge for each raid succesfully defeated at that particular gym.
And yes, fighting is slower but everything counts, I normally do a particular "route" in my way to work, I can hit like 5-6 gyms on the way, if I fight them everyday and assign a mon to them a part from the ocassional raids I will get for sure the gold medal faster than those that just come behind me and assign the mon.
I have 10 gold medals at this point and fighting gyms helps a LOT more than you may think. It is easier and faster now with motivation being introduced and also potion efficient.
Good to know. I had a break from PoGo when the CP decay wasn't that bad. Therefore I missed some points from the days that it was easier to maintain Pokemon in gyms.
Fighting Blissey + Snorlax + chansey in that order can still take some significant time and all I want is the gold medal. I might speed up the process and ask someone from the opposite team to help me out.
