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Is there a benefit to holding a gym longer than 8 hours, 20 minutes?

After 8 hours and 20 minutes in a gym, a pokemon has accrued 50 coins and can never accrue more. But the trainer does not get the coins until the pokemon is ejected from the gym, and even then the coins may do no good if the trainer has already received 50 coins from other gyms that day. I have had a Blissey in a gym for over five days. It is running very low on CP and needs berries. Is there a benefit to feeding it berries? Does holding a gym for a long time result in any benefit to the trainer?

Asked by Barry Dale7 years 2 months ago
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None whatsoever. Neither holding more that one gym. The ONLY benefit is that you might be upgrading your badge and getting a few dozens of stardust.

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(This answer is best read in the voice of Doctor Evil, particularly when you see Quotation Marks " ".)

The "Benefits" to holding a gym for more than 8 hours include (and are entirely limited to) the following:

Number 1: After you "hold" the gym for several hundred hours - which, as you may have noticed, is slightly easier after the "improvements" - you will be "awarded" with a Gold Badge for that gym, and the Gold Badge allows you to get extra items when you spin that gym's Pokestop.

2) The "Benefit" to feeding Berries to friendly Pokémon is that you gain XP on that gym (refer back to Number 1 to see how that XP "benefits" you) and that you gain 20 Stardust. So if you feed 10 berries to Pokémon on Gyms, you will have enough Stardust to raise a Level 1 Pokémon to Level 2. "Yay". You may also receive a Berry that corresponds to the type of Pokémon you fed - so if you fed a Blissey a Berry, you might get a Chancey candy. Uh huh. Riiiight.

Number 3: This is the only real benefit for feeding a candy to a Friendly Pokémon, and that is to be Evil. MWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! Oh, we fed berries to the Pokémon on our Gyms, and then we laughed and we laughed and we laughed because every time we fed a berry to a Pokémon, that Trainer was farther away from collecting his coins! How delightfully Evil - it could only have been dreamed up by my son Scott.

Well, dreamed up might be a bit of an overstatement. He was probably being rebellious and trying to "stick it" to Daddy and be "Good", but you can't deny what you are - and he is Evil. It's right there in his name, Scott Evil. See? Scott. The most Evil name I could think of. Mwhahahahhaaa! I wonder if he's working for Niantic right now, or if he's just a Freelancer? Hmm...

(cough Sorry, got a bit carried away channeling Niantic there. I mean Dr. Evil, sorry.)

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Hilarious and informative! A double! I could not have asked for a better answer. By the way, we have something in common. One of my sons also has the name Scott, though it is his middle name.

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Correction: If you feed 10 berries ... you will have enough Stardust to raise a Level 1 Pokémon to Level 1.5!
Or, to put it Dr. Evil-ly: Level 1.5 million millionths!

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Niantic's brilliant scheme to get a higher user count - i.e. more alt-accounts to clear your rotting PKM from the gym.... I hope I'm wrong and they fix this perverse incentive.

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I think there is an obvious answer that people seem to miss.

If you hold gyms for extended periods like several days, then hopefully they will be returned to you in a spaced out manner, so you're collecting 50 coins/day.

So if you hold 10 gyms right now, and one of them is returned after 9 hours, then you hope to hold those other ones for days so one a day is returned to you.

So to me, my strategy is to be in a bunch of gyms (5-10...but not much point in more than 10), but NOT put a lot of time and effort into it.

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Actually, that is my strategy, but so far the results have not been as desired. I lost 3 or 4 gyms all in one day, rather than 1 every day for 4 days. So that means that a player might need to have about 6 to 8 gyms at any one time to deal with that possibility.

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by sesmsm 7 years 2 months ago

There could actually be a benefit. Have you already collected your 50 coins for the day and will feeding her meaningfully improve your odds of her lasting until tomorrow (or some future date)?

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I have not. I have collected 21 coins so far today. I took over a gym last night in a fairly high traffic area. I expect to lose it this evening and collect the remaining 29. I will just wait and see what happens.

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