I have a good Milotic but I TM'd it til it got double water, I just start it off instead of a Gyarados to show it off. I did get 1 candy from feeding it. If I clear a gym I'll put Blissey, maybe piloswine, Slowbro or king if I think it'll be there a while. Not a fast turnover area, but all gyms generally flip once a day. Here 500cp and below as the 4th or 5th defender is just as annoying as an actual good defender.***Just fed and got another Feebas candy. Walking candy for another Milotic, have a 15/12/15 I will set up as a defender and keep at midlevel
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How does the Gyms in your area look like and how do you beat Gyms?
Mine is a high turnover area so the Gyms are almost always consisted of the following content with seldom exceptions.
* A blissey
* 3 or 4 of the following: Snorlax, Chansey, Slaking, Tyranitar
* A Gyarados
* A Dragonite
* Rest is just random stuff being put in, Usually Arcanine, Rhydon, Vaporeon, Lapras or Exeggutor, i've even saw Magikarps and other trash.
What i usually do is to Bring 3 Machamps because if you don't the Blissey will kill/cripple the first Machamp and you will have a hard time dealing with the rest and if you don't use Machamps against Blissey you will time out without fail (In my case it's 2 machamps and a hariyama, once i get another fast tm i plan on replacing one of my blaziken's fast moves so it can become another fighting type pokemon), A Jolteon (It has Thundershock/Discharge and I don't have Raikou because i joined pretty recently) and a Gardevoir (It has confusion/dazzling gleam and You can use Walrein, Lapras, Cloyster, Articuno or whatever stuff that counters Dragonite). The other one is Usually Groudon, Dragonite or Tyranitar, very rarely Slaking if it were some filler trash pokemon.
This is the build that i used to take down most gyms without fail because tricky stuff like Gardevoir and Milotic are rarely seen.
How does the gyms in your area look like? And how do you take care of them?
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My gyms are typically filled completely with random or themed stuff. At best, gyms will turn over 2-3 times per day. I usually put in whatever I think looks cool at the moment, whatever I caught recently, out whatever I need candy for. For instance, I caught a 1775 Donphan, I threw it in a gym, and it's still there 16 hours later. I just hope it gets taken down before midnight tonight so I can get my coins.
High turnover in my area. Gym composition is quite interesting, it differs by team.
Mystic:
First mon: 70% of the time Blissey
Next 5: Mix of tanky mons like Snorlax, Slaking and Chansey, and high CP mons like Dragonite, Tyranitar, Gyarados, Rhydon, Eeveelutions, Golem, Hariyama.
Valor:
First mon: 90% of the time Blissey, usually 3k+, often ZH/DG
Next 5: Same as Mystic, except Valor mons are usually higher CP than Mystic ones, and have better defense movesets.
Instinct:
First mon: 90% of the time Blissey, lower average CP than Valor, but almost always ZH/DG
Next 5: Snorlax and/or Chansey most of the time, with Dragonite, Gyarados, Rhydon, Vaporeon, Hariyama. Interestingly, Slaking, Tyranitar and the less tanky Eeveelutions are less common in Instinct gyms.
Fairy-type defenders, namely Gardevoir, Wigglytuff, Clefable, Azumarill, are seen way more often in Instinct gyms than other team's gyms.
I've hardly had any chance to fight an Azumarill, simply because most Azumarills are placed by my team. And the one time I fought a ~L30 one in a Valor gym, it had Hydro Pump. I wanted to experience how tough Azumarill with Play Rough actually is as a defender.
From my experience scouting gyms on Gymhuntr, Valor and Instinct defenders usually have better defending movesets than Mystic ones.
Wailmer and Wailord are also becoming common in gyms now from all teams.
As for beating gyms, I use a Machamp and a Hariyama with C/DP, 2 Dragonites with DT/O, and 2 (of 4) Ttars with either B/SE or B/C. DB/DC Dragonite comes into play in the last motivation round.
Wailmer and Wailord are very poor gym defenders and are only there for trivia because it's gigantic, glitches out often and will cause the Gym size to increase after it. Wailord has fewer bulk than Crobat. Sure it maybe able to kill Dragonite or Grass types with blizzard but nothing more, other pokemon can do the job better.
We mostly show off around here.
People put new or rare stuff in gyms (helps others get a dex image, especially of regionals), and generally are left to get their fill up to 8 hours, but only as long as most of the mons in the gym have not passed those 8 hours. If over half of them have 8+ hours, we take them out.
If they have less than 8 hours but have mons in multiple gyms at once, I kick them out of some of the gyms at full motivation and leave them a gym or two.
The exchanges happen once a day it seems, even in places with lots of traffic.
My main attacker is a Machamp. Rarely, I find myself using Dragonite, Kabutops, Jolteon, or Cloyster.
Gyms in my area look like what you describe.
My attack squad is: ho-oh sw/sb, machamp c/dp, mewtwo c/fb, dragonite dw/o, tyranatar b/we, raikou ts/wc. All but the mewtwo are level 40. The mewtwo is level 30, I lead in with the ho-oh. For demotivated gyms, that's all I need. If the ho-oh gets into the red, or the gym is obviously strong, I will swap in a couple type effective counters: dragonite for dragonite, raikou for gyarados , machamp for snorlax. I seldom end up needing more than three potions for the first round, and one or two at the end.
the lvl 38 and above players around here usually put in some good defenders ... then other players may put in some random defenders.
The composition is just like yours.
To take down, I usually put 2x lvl38 Machamp in the first spot, then lvl40 Dragonite, lvl35 Raikou, lvl34 tyranitar B/C, + 1 random (I'd bring Groudon for fun, or another lvl36 Machamp for berry-fed blissey).
