Favorite Pokes to level friendly gyms with.
One my favorites is my Marowak with Mud Slap and Earthquake. He is only 1198 CP but will wreck pretty much any Flareon or Jolteon within 600 or so CP if they happen to be the first gym defender. Wreck them, run, +600 some prestige. Use 2 or 3 regular potions. Repeat.
I also really like my 100 IV Ninetails (my only 100 IV poke) She is only 1250 CP but if the first gym defender is grass type....
Third would be my 1149 CP Snorlax.
Know people love Wigglytuff for this but I keep getting jobbed on the attacks everytime I evolve one. Someday...
Anyone else have any pokes that are low cp and somewhat afterthoughts that work great for leveling friendly gyms?
Answers
Yeah, there is a guy on here that loves his Parasect if Exeggutor is the first defender or even in his opposing gym fights. I'm looking forward to the chance to use one I've evolved.
I've got a 353 CP Chansey with Pound and Hyper Beam, not the best IV, but I'm not worried about that, could see it, which defenders do you target with him? I've got 38 candys and could level him a bit.
Personally I do not rationally level any mon less than 2800 max cp (I did level up my parasect and pidgeot) because stardust is very scarce.
High CP mon gets safer position in a gym and stardust is essential material for getting high CP mon.
In another hand, no one have problem to train or defeat a gym. For example,with dodge, 1500CP Vaporeon is enough to defeat 2500CP Snorlax. 1500 CP goldduck is enough to defeat 3000CP dragnite.
To train a gym, BubbleStrat is the best way. 1.5lv bug vs 19~21 CP magikarb is the best choice if we do not have any combo listed here: https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/bubblestrat-possibilities
One more to add: Drowzee with pound!
- Very easy to obtain, they are everywhere
- Great typing: resists psychic moves, which are hugely popular in defending pokemons (exeggutor, hypno, clefable, snorlax, slowbro)
- Pound works very well, and it's not resisted by pretty much any defender, provides best DPS and is of a fast type which makes it easier to dodge.
Also, I personally think that it's more important to choose an attacking pokemon which resists defenders moves, than choosing an attacker with super effective moves against defender. Just my opinion, and of course sometimes you can get both of them which is the best.
Starmie vs Flareon.
I take gyms in a group with 2 others. We drop in 2 ~1900 Flareons, then train with our ~1200 Water Gun/Hydro Pump Starmies. With efficient dodging, Starmie can take out both Flareons, rewarding ~1500 prestige. Between the three of us, we can get the gym up to level 10 in about 9 minutes. Bubblestrat may be faster, but we end up with a gym where the weakest defender is 1900, not 20.
