Prestiging vs Attacking
So i am alittle confused on this concept, When Attacking a gym do you damage the prestige more with lower CP Pokemon or Do you just use your strongest pokemon and it does the same toll on their prestige? I know when you battle your own gym that using lower level CP pokemon help Increase prestige( Found out i have a laundry list of these guys). Is this a Fair assessment? I would like to know just so i can build my roster based off this?
P.S.- Does anyone else think when making your team of 6 for the attacking of a gym you could search for pokemon by Type? I would find this VERY USEFUL.
Answers
Friendly gym = Prestige = You always want to use a lineup with less CP than the bottom gym mon, starting from 500 prestige gain per battle with mon of the same cp and going up for lower CP mon used, the max prestige you can gain per battle is 1000 if you used a lineup of mon with half or less the bottom defender cp. (If you use higher CP mon than the defender you will get less than 500 prestige)
Enemy gym = Attack = Use the mon you like, no matter which, you will just low the prestige by 1000 each battle and 1000 extra as a bonus for killing all the defenders, so if the gym has 4 pokémon and you kill the 4 of them, you will take down 4x1000 + 1000 = 5000 prestige.
Normally when attacking en enemy gym you choose a higher cp mon just because it will have better stats and more chances of killing more than one mon before fainting, but you can always have fun and diversify also on the attacking side using lower cp mon, for example Lanturn instead of Jolteon, it will kill Gyarados as well easily, just has lower CP and not that good stats.
The same applies to other mon, you have to think if you want to be time efficient, potion efficient, or just have more fun even if it takes you longer and a bit more resources. I normally choose to diversify unless I see a level 10 enemy gym and I don't want to stay more than needed to take it down.
"a lineup with less CP than the bottom gym mon"
This is not correct.
In case the bottom mon is much lower than the other mons in the gym, you can pick mons with less or half CP than the bottom 2 mon. You will gain very few prestige points against the bottom mon (probably 100), but between 500 and 1000 pts against the second mon, and so on.
