Gym territory, basics, home territory

This will be the first in a sporadic, and most likely long, series of articles about gym territory given the new gym system and the assumtion that remote feeding will work like it does now.

The series is for those of us who have found out that three or four lost gyms a daily is more than enough to collect those fifty coins, and now we want to have some fun with the other fifteen defenders.

It's also for those of us who have the luxury of an available community with like minded raider of the same team.


Home territory is where you spend a lot of time and have the opportunity to play. So home, or to a certain degree, school / work.

Home territory is where you have a good opportunity to physically walk up to a gym and interact with it the old school way.

Home territory is the best place to establish a long term presence in gyms.


Is it possible?

Yes, by means of remote feeding gyms and walking out to them.


As a raider you need to be aware that there's a cost involved with territory. More so now than earlier.

You'll spend resources making home territory your turf, and you'll make certain the other two teams spend a lot of resources trying to change that.


Rival gyms have to go down. It's going to cost, but they just have to go down.

Friendly gyms have to be fed. It's going to cost, but they just have to be fed.


Now for the theory crafting:

• Use standard berries in your home territory, but not more than two for any one defending pokemon per half hour
• Don't defend crap. That Pidgey some idiot popped inside a gym can burn in hell
• Use Golden Razz Berries to support team members in their home territories
• Use a tit for tat system. Invite team members from other home territories to slot in pokemon in yours, and be prepared to visit theirs in order to slot in your defenders

This means you don't throw standard berries into just any friendly gym you happen to pass. Use them for a cheap boost to CP at gyms in your home territory. Walk to the gyms and deploy the berries.

Be careful to feed more than half a dozen defenders this way.

Be prepared to answer calls for help. From long distance you're supposed to use your Golden Razz Berries to keep vital defenders in the game, which means Blissey and Snorlax.

If your call for help is answered, you'll defend secondary defenders every second time they're beat down. The one helping you will handle the vital ones.

If you're on your own, feed vital defenders and your own deployed pokemon if it's not one of them.


Well, that's it, the basics:

• Burn down rival gyms
• Defend your own
• Have people from elsewhere deploy defenders
• Ask for help when attacked