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Is Hariyama a good gym defender?

With C/DP or BP/DP?
I'm thinking of evolving as many high CP Makuhitas as possible. Those that get C/DP or C/CC will be used as attackers, those with steel moves will be one-time use defenders. BP/CC goes to the Professor straight away.

Asked by DragoniteSlayer7 years 3 months ago

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I put my 774 BP/CC in the gym today---obviously a wild catch...might still only have 12 candies so far. Roselia might be the new Murkrow, while paras and seedot are around like pidgeys...But Roselia in gyms might be worth the revive/potion savings since there are enough gyms in the city no team cares to try to dominate

I put a 2.3k C/DP one in a very high turnover gym just now.

Never fought a high CP one myself, so I'm not sure how it does as a defender.

Roselia is definitely the new Murkrow; I was telling that to my group a few days ago. Future evolution or not, I'm not wasting anymore resources on her.

Dang. You have enough Makuhita candy already to just burn it on evolving throwaway defenders?

It's cloudy here most of the time. Makuhitas are common, but not that common here, I can evolve one every ~3 days.

That Option Select.

Saw two Makuhitas in red gyms in my neighbourhood and was about to ask the same question.

Fought against one in an enemy gym. It's better at defending than Machamp, that's for sure, but Dragonite took it down very fast regardless while taking little damage in return. Steel moves Hariyama is probably better for defending since it doesn't get resisted by the most common generalist.