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What do you prefer: grind 40 minutes or take down a normal lvl 10 gym (2-3 BLissey max)

I was just thinking that I will look even more for lvl 10 gyms during this double XP event. I prefer "repetitive" gym battles instead of repetitive mon caching :).
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Asked by razvan8 years 2 months ago

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repeat {

(1) Grind pokestops and use pokeballs to catch whatever comes into my eyes until i have at least 50 yellow or better potions

(2) take down a gym.}

until false

I cheat somehow :), I do my main refill while driving slowly (around 30km/h) on a pokestop dense area; small detour on my way to work that brings me 100+ items.

I do the same, but by bike. I still catch pokemon doing so - either one-handed (aiming by thump) or hands-free for curve-balls. :-)
100 Items in 30 minutes is not a problem.

with bike is in the spirit of the game (y). Sometimes I'm doing by foot, if I find a parking spot.

Ummm neither. I don't care enough to do either :)

so how do you play then? :)

take a gym if its easy, get dailies, catch a few most days and every few days a lot of catching.

"every few days a lot of catching." - so you prefer to catch vs gym battling :)

True lol

Both! Taking down lev 10 gyms takes a lot of potions, so you need to restock. Also, catching monsters is more fun now, try to do it with the first throw to get the extra bonus. Some monsters (like pidgeys) I catch, evolve, then transfer.

I was in the waiting bandwagon :), no relevant evolutions, no significant power ups. Maybe that is why I got bored, catching just for stock :).

cracking an eggs... haha

The battles are more fun, but the grinding yields much greater rewards per time spent.

I kept reading that and I'm not sure how that happens if I take out stardust from the picture.
lvl 10 gym means aprox 5000 XP in 40 minutes.
That meas aprox 40 mons (some first catch, some great throws, each one curve ball). I'm not sure I catch 1 mon per minute.
Do I miss something, or the stardust part makes the catching more rewarding?

Grinding for me. Get the additional double xp when evolving what I catch

Grinding is much more profitable. It's not just the immediate XP from catching them. It is also:

A lot of XP when you eventually evolve what you catch. A Pidgey is worth a lot more than 100 XP. Especially if you feed it a pinap berry. Even more if you only evolve during lucky egg mass evolves.
I assume you walk around while catching, which works towards hatching eggs and giving you buddy candy.
And of course there is the stardust. 40 mon gives you at least 4000 stardust - more if some are evolvements. You will also get stardust from any egg hatching you might do.

True; but seams quite iften as work.
So like life, gym is fun, but for that you need to grind. In general more time gindingbthan liesure. So I better like to grind :).

My favorite is level 10 gyms of my own team. I've got a friend in Team Valor and I use his account to "loosen" gyms. Turn a level 10 gym into a level 9 gym with 49000/50000 prestige, allowing me to very easily slip in. Very useful.

Also very unkind.
You know, that kind of people are the reason no one puts good defenders with Low CP in gyms.
Folks don't like you shavers.. Play as it is supposed to be, or let it be ;)

And you do this for 40 minutes?

I play for the exercise, so I've been choosing walking and catching/spinning over standing and tapping/swiping.
I'll prestige a friendly gym every chance I get but that is usually in the 10 min or less time frame.

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