The peculiar mechanism where defending pokemon drop motivation at ten times the speed if they start at 3000 CP or more has led a lot of players to decide that defenders below that cutoff are better.
Is that true?
If you're building territory based on remote gyms, yes. You also risk locking your defenders in, but given that you collect a coin per ten minutes for the pokemon that do return you could happily risk getting ten or so locked in.
If you're building territory based on high traffic gyms. No. You're basically assuming that passing players of the same team will feed the defenders. Apart from night time they'll either stay fully motivated or the gym's going down anyway.
Given that there's a brutal loss in motivation, and CP, when a defending pokemon is defeated, there's very little you can do about hard core raiders who attack your gyms during night. Below 3000 CP class defenders were a joke before, and nothing has changed in that departement.
The best you can do is to feed your gym before you go to sleep. Or have a team mate do it.
For extremely trafficked gyms, just dump your highest CP class defenders inside. It's not going to stay up anyway, and you could just a well be as much a major pain in the arse as possible.
All in all, if you have a few defenders left behind, proably due to poor IV, it could be worth it to push them to level 30 and use them for remote gyms. Better yet, use your low CP maxed out 'for fun' pokemon there instead. They'll get the full level benefit during combat.
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