Do you think its possible they made empty spots in Gyms Degrade?
So today, the kids and I went out. We took over a gym. Put in 2 fire types, and then prestiged it up to 36k. Then we put in 2 Snorlax (one between the 2 fire types, 1 on top) putting it just over 40k with 5 empty spots.
We left and went to park for walk.
2 Hours later the Gym is Level 5 with 1 empty spot
Now, it's possible someone came along and beat down from 40k with 5 empty spots to 14k with 1 empty spot.
But I find that iffy. If your going to beat 2 Flareons + 2 Snorlax enough to knock it 26k why not finish the gym off?
Plus killing 4 would be 5500 a run. 26k doesn't fit nicely in number of runs. 4 runs would only be 22k 5 runs would be 27500k.
I'll test it later perhaps, but maybe someone tried bubbling or did something similiar???
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i think there are just simple explanations..
they didnt have enough potions/revives to finish your gym off.
or
they got bored attacking the 4 pokemon over and over. Think about it this way, they simply wanted to take down a gym with 4 pokemon in it. but they got more than they bargained for since you guys upped the prestige and made it like a level 9 gym
its most likely they were casuals, and beating a gym without a pokemon getting knocked out may have discouraged them. people consider dropping a pokemon more rewarding than visually seeing the prestige points drop. Maybe at the time they also did not know how much prestige points it would take to finally drop a pokemon, this unknown would also discourage those people from attacking again. even though you are right that they went through some trouble.
I have seen this before, even several months ago, against gyms I had built up several levels. I recon it is a person that saw the small number of pokemon in the gym, but didn't see how much extra prestige was built up, then after a few fights without any visible change they saw the extra prestige and gave up.
Heh, speaking from experience, I'm one of those people who get bored attacking the same gym over and over. Unless I'm trying to get my daily gold (in which case I'll take a gym down fully), usually I'll just do drive by attacks on gyms whenever I'm out. Also speaking from experience, it is discouraging when you take out several thousand prestige from a gym and no pokemon get kicked out!
Prob someone just attacked it and gave up...Doubt this is anything strange...Sorta like if you had 1 bubble mon and prestiged it to 50k...someone would HAVE to attack that bubble mon 25 times to take the whole gym out.
Even though the bubble mon is weak, it's boring to fight 25 battles and people walking by just battle to past the time with no real strategy/goal.
I do this all the time at the post office (or anyplace I am in line).
Whenever I see a high-level gym from one of the wrong teams, I go and wreck it up, even if I don't bring it all the way down, just to prevent stagnant gyms around where I live. There's a group of around 5 people from team blue that go around taking gyms one by one like a hive and prestige them to 9 or 10 within minutes. Whenever I see their names pop up, I stop whatever I was doing and just kick them out of town anywhere to level 2 or 1, since, eventually, someone from the right team that is just passing by will fight it just once and take it with ease. I only take gyms down when I'm coin rushing, which happens only once a day in the morning. The rest of the time I just screw with bluellow's efforts. Also, just to add a little mockery, I only add dittos to the gym I take since they'll be taken down pretty quick anyways (I still don't get why people put such high-level mons when they know it's pointless). You'll see a whole avenue worth of gyms filled with Dittos at around 9 am in the morning.
