When burning through berries is good

Normally you'd avoid burning through a gym defended by berries, but sometimes you want to keep at it for reasons having very little to do with actually taking the gym down.

We're talking the idiot defence.

While most hardcore players will laugh off ten berries spent, ten berries per gym and day will deplete even the most imbalanced of bags. Say someone with 400 golden razz berries or something like that.

Sure, you have those who spend a significant amount of money and time on the game, but unless you can sustain five bossraids per day, every day, a cost of 40 golden razz berries per day is simply not sustainable.


So, the idiot defence. The definition doesn't apply to defending a gym just prior to a boss raid. At that time just defend everything inside until the boss spawns if you deem those two extra balls important.


With the main exception of chansey basically nothing below 2000 CP should be defended.

As for maxed out, or nearly maxed out pokemon, here's the list:

• Gyarados -- anything electric, but specifically raikou destroys this defender
• Tyranitar and aggron -- machamp does extremely short work of these
• Rhydon and golem -- exeggutor is likely to down just about anything when Solar Beam goes off

And the list of dubious defenders:

• Dragonite -- mauled by articuno
• Scizor -- anything fire, primarily moltres chops this one down

The dubious defenders at least have a chance at inflicting some damage before going down.

The shortlist will cost the defender two golden razz berries for every revive or main potion used. The cost in time for forcing a berry is neglible.

Your main problem as an attacker is that you're likely to run the defender out of feeding slots in less than fifteen minutes at a marginal cost since you get to spin the gym three or four times.

Why persist with attacking, and even prolonging battle if possible? As I said, the cost in potions and revives is neglible, but if you're doing this against a gym defended by multiple players while, for example, having a coffee at a coffee house, you could easily squeeze out thirty berries in a little over half an hour. Those are berries you don't have to care about when it counts later on.

While this won't push the really hard core oppnents out of the game, the semi casuals will have their golden razz berry storage effectively depleted in a few days.