Gym strategy, the game of attrition

Those of you who battle a lot of gyms probably encountered the problem with a diminishing line-up.

If not, then you're doing something severely wrong.

Most players start getting problems after they've assigned ten or so pokemon to gyms. Basically you run out of decent defenders, and in the worst case you run out of attackers as well.


There's a flip side to that as well.


Leave remote gyms with high quality defenders standing. Unless it's a high prestige gyms, for reasons of your local meta game, just leave it. It would probably be left standing even if fully populated by the shitty four.

The thing is, when such a gym is populated by maxed out or almost maxed out defenders from the big five it means you're looking at overkill. Keep those quality mons locked inside.

Even a hardcore player has a very limited amount of 3.1K CP blissey and 3.2K CP snorlax. Basically you don't want to free them up for use in whatever gyms are considered high prestige warzone areas according to your local meta game.

It's a game of attrition, forcing rival players to use subpar pokemon in the highly visible gyms you're actively fighting over without any realistic chance of holding for more than a day or two.