Gym raiding, berries revisited

With the amount of golden berries radically lowered we need to rethink how we use them for gym defence, if at all.

High traffic areas indoors are out of the question. Just give the gym up.

High traffic areas outdoors where people wait for short times, eg central bus stops, sub way stations and the likes are different. You just want the attacker to focus more on catching the next ride, so one berry will suffice more often than not.

Low traffic areas where you need to walk that extra distance to reach the gym are likely not worth defending for more than a single berry. Someone made the effort to reach the gym, and unless the weather is completely awful they're likely to finish the job.

Easily accessible low traffic areas should be defended. Chances are the attacker is just passing by.

Home territory is best defended physically. Ie get outdoors and feed key defenders with two or three standard berries. Once every thirty minutes that's enough to restore a pokemon from having lost one battle.

When you're passing a friendly gym on your way to something that's not PoGo related, please do feed at least key defenders with standard berries. Since you're not going to defend that gym at all you could use the target pokemon as a kitchen sink and pour ten berries inside if you have an excessive number of them.


Unless you're boss raiding a lot you could propably only afford feeding one to three golden razz berries to gyms per day, and that only if you don't use them for catching the raid boss after a completed boss raid.