There are occasions when it's profitable to tank your way through a gym. They don't occur all that often, but when they do it's just sensible to do so.
A large raid would be the most obvious setting.
When you're enough players to smash right through the gym without any considerations there's an advantage if your line-up consists of a single pokemon.
Basically you burn through the defenders at a speed preventing them from launching any charge attacks.
Don't dodge, just burn.
A few defenders are likely to manage to fire off one three bar attack, which is where tanking through the gym becomes an interesting alternative. While I'd still go with a vaporeon, or possibly snorlax, in theory you could run into a gym where blissey is an option despite its atrocious attack stat.
You want that first defender to last through all ten defenders, and as the gym loses levels you should replace your single attacker with something less tanky and with higher EDPS, at least as long as you feel confident it'll last all through the defenders.
Your resource cost should be limited to one max potion or sometimes even any one potion of your choise, for a full attack cycle. When the gym drops below 20K prestige you're likley to be able to reuse your attacker without even healing it before the next attack cycle, reducing the cost even further.
While this might seem like a corner case situation with very few appliactions, it also coinsides with when you're likely to attack a large number of gyms in short time. After all you gathered half a dozen players or more in the first place. This in turn turns a modest resource cost into a rather high one due to the sheer number of gyms you attack in short succesion.
Have fun with your raid.
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