Army of suckers, building a gym

Or rather the army of prestige attackers.

While the bubblestrat only requires one attacker and multiple defenders, there are similar tactics where your attacker takes damage.

Why would anyone use a method that comes at a higher cost than the bubblestrat? Well, ease of use.

Bubblestrat might be optimal, but it takes longer to catch the pokemon pairs needed, and, more importantly, it takes much longer for several players to catch identical pairs.

An alternative would be, for example, to agree upon defending fire type pokemon at around 500 CP and ask team members to save water type pokemon at around 250 CP. That setup takes almost no time at all to coordinate.

Local biomes dictate which type of attackers and defenders are the easiest to collect, but every local area should yield at least one type match that is very easy to coordinate among players.

Those are, however, not bubblestrat viable. So your attackers will take damage.


Healing up your attacker between each round of combat is both a time consuming pain in the arse as well expensive in terms of potions.

This is where the army of suckers come in. Don't settle for one attacker of the agreed upon type. A dozen, or even more, is preferable. That way you just pick the next in line for the next round of combat and leave the injured ones to be healed at a later time.

First of all you'll save time this way.

Secondly you can use whatever crap potions you collect between gyms to heal up your army of suckers.

So in a way this is also about bag management, or at least efficient use of potions.