My improvement for the game
Give every gym 5 "assist" slots.
Only pokemons with passive abilities could fill these slots.
Now give passive abilities for lower cp pokemons that dont have that much purpose.
Just few examples:
Butterfree: +5 defense for all defenders in the gym
Beedrill: +5 attack for all defenders in the gym
Lickitung: +5 Stamina for all defenders.
Then make timers for each assist pokemon.
So in certain time they will drop out eventually.
So these slots wont get too stagnant.
And ofc you cant put assist pokemon if you alrdy have defender in gym.
Anyone like it?
If like, any ways to improve this idea?
Answers
The reward for using those "low" cp mons with special passive abilities could be get 20 coins instead of 10, that would for sure bring more variety into the actual gym meta, but I also don't think that Niantic is going to change the actual gym system in a very long time...probably just keep adjusting prestige gained and lost per battle but it won't change anything.
Another thing that can be made is when putting a mon with high speed stat (yes, it should be added to the actual attack/defense/hp formula) on the gym make all the defenders attack faster, now it's pretty easy to predict the moves and the attacker always has a lot of advantage, if the defender attacks in a way less predictable battles would be a lot harder.
I like the general idea btw
