Gym raiding, staggered attack

And we're talking gym raiding here, not boss raiding.

Unless the gym is populated by utter crap a staggered attack is preferable when attacking in a group.


Basically a third to half of the attackers leave after the first defender is defeated and then reenter battle.

Either those burning through the gym will finish first and then clean out the gym, or those who reentered catch up, in which case one of them leaves and cleans out the gym.


We're taking out gyms fully populated by perfectly decent defenders in about two minutes, so this approach is well worth it when you're downing gym after gym in a raid.


A defended gym needs a slightly different approach depending on the position of the vital defenders, and by vital I'm referring to powered up snorlax, blissey and chansey.


One attacker should burn through the gym while the rest leave and restart combat.

You're shaving the gym, unless a vital defender is the first. In that case you'll just attack it over and over again until it goes down.

When vital defenders are further back in the line-up it's usually more efficient to split the attacking group into three waves and clean out the lower quality defenders first. Keep going until a vital defender is the first one, and wipe it out.

Observe that you still want one attacker to burn right through the gym. This is to force the feeding defender to care for any defenders standing behind the vital ones. However, skip this part if the vital defenders take up slot five and / or six. If they're that far into the gym it's better just cleaning out the road bumps first.


You'll have to try this approach out where you play locally. What feels best for you might vary from our experiences, but the main thing is to make sure that not everyone is beating up the same defender, well with the exception for that blissey standing first in a defended gym.