Gym territory, intelligent solo feeding

When you're feeding mons alone you need to rethink your feeding strategy.

The limitations:

• Max ten berries to a pokemon per 30 minutes
• Max ten defenders fed per 30 minutes
• You receive a limited surplus of Golden Razz Berries from boss raiding

I've had great success in attacking a string of gyms with the same well known player slotting in defenders in each of them.

Hammer one gym twice, leave, hammer the next twice and leave. Check the game to verify ten fully restored defenders.

Clear out the third and fourth gym.

As a defending player you want to avoid this.

The solution:

• Feed blissey and snorlax only
• If both aren't present, add lapras or vaporeon
• Always feed two defenders

Observe that this is when you're the only one responding to the defensive need of a gym.

If you're more than one player with mons present in the gym then you can pick two each and keep them up. Let the crap inside burn in hell, and trust me, there will be crap inside unless you built the gym from scratch during a gym raid.

Did you read that?

Pick two each! Don't strangle your ability to feed more gyms by feeding four a berry every second battle.

If you stick to the two defenders per gym then you're able to defend five gyms. Until you run out of berries.

The thing with territory isn't to keep a hundred percent strangle hold over every gym. Those days are gone, well unless you're six players physically sitting on a group of gyms your refuse to yield.

Territory is about creating conditions during which rival players simply refuse to attack your gyms. You keep them during night, or during office hours, for example. There has to be an easily identifiable pattern, or else your rivals won't learn.

When the conditions are fulfilled you just keep feeding berries to gyms under attack, and only for two defenders.

Sure, if your turf is exactly one gym then by all means feed everything, or feed five each in the two gyms that make up your territory. Otherwise stick to two.

Benefits:

• You can defend more gyms
• Most casual attackers simply give up when they see blissey and snorlax return to full capacity even once
• Even though weaker defenders will get knocked out you're almost certain to keep the gym up for the ten minutes after which friendly players can start adding defenders to the gym once again
• You're not depleting your Golden Razz berries at an insane rate

But don't forget to yield to a raid. With three or more players hammering into a gym the only thing you'll get for your effort is more bag space. There's no way a solo defender can handle that kind of attack.

Sure, test them by feeding the two strongest defenders once. Sometimes people just give up, but if they're persistent then drop it.