Legendaries shouldn't be ever allowed in gyms

I believe they should allow at least one legendary in a gym. With quests, even rural players can get legendarys. And gyms should be hard to defeat. I think the golden raz should be more limited. It’s impossible to take down a gym if everyone is golden razzing it. Which should not be the case. Gyms should be harder without the golden raz, however be easier if everyone is golden raz vs the current. My Mewtwo raid this morning was a great example. Ten trainers were trying to take down a gym today but could not because everyone else was golden razzing the gym. For over a half hour. That is kind of ridiculous. However I don’t think it should be easy for two trainers to mow down a gym in around a minute or so with a team of maxed out Machamps. My two cents.

Most psychic types are generally glassy & most flying types normally have weak attack & defense. I think its time for Machamp to have some competition.

No legendaries are anywhere near as good as Blissey at defending, although Lugia is quite good. I think allowing a maximum of 1 legendary per gym would enhance the game by introducing a bit more variety into defensive lineups.

It's not like any legendary is so good at defending that putting them into gyms would create a massive advantage, which you seem worried about. There are a number of legendaries that resist fighting, however changing your attacker takes only a second and then you're in a favorable matchup again.

"Latias/Blissey/Ho-Oh/Snorlax/Lugia/Regirock"
Just kick them one by one. Or if not, a team of Dragonite/Tyranitar, 2-3 Machamps and Raikou can handle it. Even without having legendaries or pseudo-legendaries you can make a reasonable team of 6 that will easily handle that gym at full motivation.

IMO - no; I think Legendaries should only be allowed to battle other Legendaries.
They are in a league of their own and should not be rellagated to the ranks of battling mere common everyday Pokemons

I think "no legends" and "allow legends" is a false dichotomy. In the main series games, there are different tiers of legendary pokemon. Some are allowed in different levels of competitive fights. Do something similar in Go. A lot of legendary pokemon would be perfectly fine as gym defenders. Just make a list and exclude the ones that are "too good".

Gyms are too easy to defeat and too hard to defend (except by active feeding). Put all the legendaries you want. They won't be any more difficult than Ratatta once their motivation decays.
With a more reasonable gym system, allowing 1 Ledgendary slot seems like a good compromise.

In my opinion, the current gym system is one that makes any gym defense easy to tear down once motivation decays enough. Apart from Blissey, who's time consuming, nothing is remotely challenging. Sure, the active feeding of gold berries makes taking down a gym more difficult, but having legendaries in gyms won't change that headache all that much.

Personally, I'd vote yes to allowing legendaries in gyms, even if their was a limitation of maybe one per gym. It will finally let legendary Mons like Lugia, Ho-Oh, Latias, eventually Regirock/ice, and (to a much smaller extent) Suicune have a place in the game to really shine. Legendary gym defenders would also mean more attacking team variety other than six Machamps, and because motivation decay exists, none of them would break the gym meta.

I can sweep an entire full motivation gym with 1-2 pokemon consistently. That is just to easy, I would love an actual challenge. I don't even have that strong pokemon, I'm only level 32. It would be nice to fight Lugia who not only has great bulk, but also has lovely defensive typing. I mean, am I really the only one who thinks Gyms are too easy. Even when thought are put into there formation with alternating typing.

I always liked the idea of one legendary per gym with this caveat: only the trainer who defeats the gym can do so.

I've always felt each gym should have one "Legendary Slot" which would allow for a legendary gym defender. This would allow for defensively-oriented Pokemon, like Lugia, Ho-Oh, and Suicune, to shine.

For example, all of you gave checked out the latest news involving the plane flight with John Hanke. Perhaps gyms could be "trained" up to a level that unlocks their Legendary slot?

I wouldn't worry too much about rural players. The game has been actively biased against us since launch. We've learned to adapt and this would be no different. You don't need Legendaries to take down Legendaries

The gym system now is ''fair'' sure, but it's also mind-numbingly boring. I'd love to take on a team of lengendaries and have to carefully select my team instead of swiping over to Machamp Army and tapping away til the gym falls

I think Niantic should consider adding a new type of gym which only includes legendaries, like normal gym, trainers cannot place two same pokemons into the gym, it is designed for trainers with the best combination of pokemons to challenge the battles, rare candies can be offered by taking over the gym.

I think you should be allowed to put legendaries if you have a gold badge, with a limit of 1 legendary per gym.

I think they should stop the motivation bullshit. Sure the turnover is high but its no where near a challenge. Legendaries wont change anything. They should go back to the 10 slot system. Of course keep the only one Pokémon rule (diversity) and make it quick like u have to defeat it only one or two times. If u want to implement something like motivation u could say there is a cap for 2d/3d and than the pokémon goes back to his trainer. One Legendary slot for the trainer who defeated the gym.