Gym attackers

Let's have a look at the other side of the coin. When you're alone or with one team mate.

When you're a full raid it's faster to accept whatever crap your phone suggests, but for one or two players picking a good attacking line-up makes a huge difference.

I'll go through good attackers one by one in separate posts, but in this one I'll just cover the basics.

You want pokemon with a high base attack stat.

You want pokemon with two attacks that are super effective against your target.

Sometimes you can't get both. That's the main reason vaporeon is used for attacking gyms. It's actually a rather lackluster attacker.

If you're bad at dodging you also want the HP bulk to survive going into the gym. That usually comes at the cost of a high attack stat.

In general it's not as important to spend all that stardust on an attacker compared to a defender. I still do it, but that's just because I think it's fun. In reality there's very little difference between a 2600 CP attacker versus a 2800 one given the same pokemon and attacks.

If you're set on throwing stardust after attackers you should prioritise those you have most use for.

Alakazam for generally superb dps, vaporeon that can be used as a defender as well, dragonite with the legacy attacks Dragon Breath and Dragon Claw and just about anything decent with ice attacks and electricity attacks. That should cover nine out of ten defenders.

But it's fun with the special corps, which is the reason I'll cover quite a few more attackers than those really needed.