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Rank the Annoyance Factor of Gym Shavers

It happens, but how would you rate what is your general ranking of feeling on various types.

1) Low Level Low Pokemon
Low Level Player, shaves the bottom puts something on bottom because doesn't have anything better to put in. Makes the Gym Weaker.

2) High CP but not great defender placer
This is the player who puts Gyrados, Rhydons, and even Dragonites, into Gym to put them in top 3-4 spots. Can sometimes makes Gym Weaker, but at least appears stronger. Other times, this makes Gym stronger.

3) Prestige Aligner.
This is the person who knocks someone out of a 7-8-9 Gym where the bottom Pokemon is significantly weaker than the next bottom. IE Knocks out the 1200 on bottom, when everything else is 2500+

4) Make Gym Stronger types
These players knock off something on bottom but put something annoying/strong in its place. The Snorlax/Blissey type dropper.

5) The collectors
Drops something on bottom for cash out. Tauros, Ratticates, etc.

So what bothers you most.... between Types 1-5
or are you type "6" ... ie none of them bothers you or even type "7"... you don't notice which, they are all same

Asked by Arak28 years 2 months ago
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If my mon is shaved out of a gym, I really don't care much what the heck they replace it with.

My extra annoyance is those who shave from sub-L10 gyms because it's easier to log into a second account, knock a gym down a level, and prestige it by 1000 or less than it is to prestige it the several thousand that may be needed to add a slot.

Very annoying to knock down a gym, find you got your pokemon back, walk over to knock it down again, and find it still belongs to your team and never made it past L5......

In L10 gyms, I almost understand this tactic, since there is no other way in.

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6 There's enough gyms to go around here. There are always inconsiderate players in any rpg. I'm just annoyed when lower level players don't get a chance to collect any coins. I try to help low level players (any -26 player) anyway I can.

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(2) is unavoidable in Boston where I play. There are whole neighborhoods that are solid level 10 mystic gyms. To get in, people continually shave off pokemon until the entire gym is 3000+ CP gyarados, rhydon, dragonite, and tyranitar. It's really annoying, but the only way many people can get into gyms.

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I shaved a couple gyms today. I don't have an alt account, but the gyms are owned by other teams, and I figured leaving the bottom mon as a blissey would make it harder to prestige, so taking over the gym might be easier tomorrow morning when I can get coins from it.

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I'm completely okay with that type of shaving. At least it is strategic and not cheating.

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by aSp 8 years 2 months ago

There is nothing about gym shaving that is less annoying than another way of gym shaving.

All gym shaving is a selfish backstabbing act and is annoying no matter how it is done.

There is no way to do gym shaving that makes it acceptable.

It is like asking if you would prefer to be robbed by a rich person or a poor person - the result is the same, you get robbed.

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I agree (except for the case above). Multi-play is an even bigger threat to the future of the game than spoofing. (For the record, I don't neither.)

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