Gym battles, autumn weather

As the temperatures drop the sudden influx of casual players become less visible. Most either outright leave the game or at least stay away from anything but legendary boss raids when the weather is bad.

For the high level, gym battling player it means we're back to maintaining some kind of territories again.

Apart from spoofers this game forces hard core players to accept whatever temperatures and cold rain is thrown at you. Those who are unwilling to do so will notice how their presence in gyms is diminished.

For the rest of us we'll see how attacks on gyms decline for two reasons:

• Piss poor weather keeps the casuals indoors to begin with
• If they brave the weather they're less inclined to do so when faced with a well built gym

Obviously high tarffic gyms will go down in the morning as defender motivation has gone down to nothing during the night, but you're more likely to stay in a gym you tore down during daytime provided that you slotted something nasty inside. Nasty currently defined as a big blissey. Big, in turn, starts at 2800 CP or so.

Note that berry feeding a gym works towards this goal Both when you walk past a friendly gym and use it as a trash can for standard berries, and when you defend a prime defender with golden razz berries.

The down side, if you want to see it as such, is that you're less likely to see friendly casuals drop defenders inside a gym you too mere minutes after the fact.

The up side is that you're less likely to see some crap in a friendly gym that you'll find somewhere in that players top five recent catches.