Drop and walk prestige

And that rival gym just went down and you're walking by.

You're dropping something good inside, or, maybe not.

Sometimes it's a good idea to dump a glass cannon inside and hope for the best. Maybe you arrived at a friendly gym with two mons inside and a free slot.

The thing is, you're alone.

There are occasions when a poorly designed gym is better than a good one.

Let's say there's a 3200 dragonite and a 3100 snorlax inside. This would normally force you to dump an even bigger rhydon or dragonite inside, but what about dropping a 3000 gyarados instead?

Going above that snorlax effectively plugs the gym for anyone but a dedicated player. But if you're playing high level pokemon go you're likely to have the material needed to dispatch a big gyarados easily.

So how about taking a look at that 6000 prestige gym with your 3000 cp gyardos at the bottom. Now bring out your lineup with 2200:ish jolteon and go to work. By pushing that gym to 12000 prestige you'll open up two slots, and if it stays unattacked until both slots are taken, a third one will open up.

It's an invitation to push the gym to 18000 prestige, and two or three of the pokemon placed inside are likely to have lower cp than your gyarados. As icing on the cake, a level six gym with 2000 prestige left to open up slot number seven is likely to see someone do the work to get inside a decently built gym.

Here's the best part.

While I'm unlikely to make the effort to prestige against a 3000 cp snorlax in a 6000 prestige gym, I'll quite happily do it against a 2600 cp snorlax in an 18000 gym, because a level seven gym has that much better staying power than a level four one.