Understanding defending gym prestige
Trying to clarify...
So if I train a gym with my highest attacker having a lower cp than the lowest defender, and for each battle my attacker has a lower cp than the defender, then since the defender will level down to the attacker's cp, I should gain 500cp for each battle won, correct?
Answers
Almost correct:
The highest CP among your attacking 6 is used as baseline, it doesn't matter if you actually used one of those.
This max attacker CP is compared against the CP of the defending Pokemon.
With the 0.45 patch the prestige gain was halved, so you now only get 250 * D/A prestige instead. where
D = CP of defender
A = CP of attacker
You can get up to 500 prestige per battle won if the attacker only has HALF the CP of the defender.
Around here, the Thanksgiving event had the effect of further destabilizing gyms. Gyms that used to stay with one team for a few days and get levelled up have been changing teams several times in the course of an hour. Trainers are just so hungry for that Stardust! It remains to be seen whether things will settle down post event.
Actually MORE players gain coins from gyms, and less players gain a lot of coins per day.
I think it's pretty fair, because before, all gyms were lvl 10 and never went down so it was hard for even to put pokemon in you own team gyms. Now you have to fight everyday to conquer gyms and gain coins.
Thats what pokemon is all about, capture and fight constantly, interact and stuff. If you want to stay in your home just collecting your 100 coins like a lazy ass this game is not for you.
The TL:DR answer:
Make sure to ALWAYS get 500 prestige. You do have 6 mons to use.
See a gym with 1600 CP Vap...
Attack with six (6) 800 CP or less mons, like Parasect w/ Solar Beam...repeat...better yet, get 1 800 CP Parasect, use 1 more clean up anything decently strong (Wiggly), and 4 more 10 cp mons as fillers...repeat.
See a gym with 2000 CP Rhydon...
Attack with six (6) 1000 CP or less mons, like starmie/vap, repeat...
It's slower, but can still get 2k Prestige in like 5-7 minutes honestly...selecting is the longest, but if you have enough decent low CP attackers (my goal now), it's not very hard. You do use potions though.
Sitting there having to sift through all your 'mons to get a bunch of low CP ones is so painful. Then nothing is worse than when you finally have 6 low CP mons picked your trainer wanders away and no longer is near the gym and you can't start the battle. Drives me nuts!
Selecting your 6 mons is easily the worst thing when training gyms up.
Yes! Last time I trained, I painstakingly selected 5 of my team that were half the CP. But when I went to tap the last bubble, which had a 2600 Vaporeon, I accidentally touched Go. So off to battle I went with very little prestige gained. Until they fix team selection and/or the entire prestige mechanics, I'm afraid I'm done with it.
