Adding a pokemon mid-prestige

So you and your friends are adding prestige to a gym. It's going up pretty fast and then suddenly the gym is counter attacked.

You basically have four options, and some of them can be combined:

• Burn through the opposition
• Start populating the gym mid-prestige
• Hover around a level break (30 or 40 K prestige)
• Give up

The first option is best used when you notice that the prestige lost can't be compared to the prestige gained.

The second is there for two reasons. One is that you gain 2K prestige when you assign a pokemon to the gym, and the second is to force an error on the attacker.

The third option is mainly a combined burst just as the gym falls below a break point to push i a level and quickly assign a pokemon to the gym.

The fourth, well, you can't win all battles.

The most interesting one is how to assign a pokemon in order to force an error on the attacker. Basically the game gives you the gym line-up when you enter combat. If the next opponent changes during mid-fight, then you're likely to get an error. That error usually prevents you from fighting in the gym for a few minutes. That time should be more than enough to push the gym and populate it.

Hence you should slot in pokemon where they're likely to create this error. Just remember to communicate between raid members. You're just as likely to enforce this error on one of your own, so make certain team members have finished fighting, or are fighting a pokemon where they won't be subjected to the error.