I think Legendaries may be not allowed in gyms. But I am not sure so correct me if I am wrong. But to answer your Question yes having a Level 30+ Tyranitar with B/CR and B/SE will be very usefull also RT/SE Golem will help alot. Plus as a Secondary dark attacker... a double dark gengar would be fun.
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Larvitar family is the best walking buddy now?
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Larvitar, machop and the same old dratini. Geodude also have my attention, since rock moves golem will be the ultimate counter for at least 4 legendaries, moltres, ho-oh, zapdos and articuno, and also great against lugia, and he is a 1 km buddy. If you dont have at least 2 great golems and have trouble finding geodude candies it might be a good buddy.
Due to the inclusion of Rare Candy, it's less effective to buddy the "best" Pokemon, as they usually have high distances. Your walking buddy should be a strong Pokemon, with low distance.
I'd say your best choice is Golem.
He's the highest DPS available for Rock type moves, and grants a candy for every 1KM.
I am walking Mareep, I have ever found only two, and after some 60 km I still have only 22 candies :/
I still need 103 and then the amount to get it to level 30, so probably 200 candies total, times 5 km is 1000 km!! Of course hoping to catch/hatch something instead. Not hoping for an electric event though, which would render the hard work useless.
I think he will do fine and I hope he will still be a rare sight (currently still never shown off in gyms here) when I finally get one. But some multiple bar charge moves would have been nice. I have Zap Cannon on Porygon2 and when prestiging against him, it was so slow that you could dodge and wait seconds for the move to complete...
And I hatched a Mareep today from a 10 km egg! Resulting in +30 candies at once!
You buddy to simply get candy...there is no other purpose currently...
I'd say buddy whatever you need and Larvitar is what I buddy and the safest/most useful for now I think...
Golem is nice, but when you have 500+ and had 1000+ candies (and using them just for evolve Exp), it's faster to just catch them since they are super common in the desert...
