Oct. 18th, 2016 04:35 pm
Tuesday Tips: Gym Training
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pokestopAll right, it's been about a week since Niantic changed the way we train at gyms. How do we feel about it? Have any advice for your fellow trainers?
For me, it's a mixed bag. I don't like that it takes longer to get started since we have to select 6 trainers versus one. It's not a huge thing, but it slows down my rhythm. On the other hand, having 6 trainers makes the process more forgiving since you won't necessarily be sunk if you mess up dodging that charge attack.
Because we can bring 6 trainers, I do advise trying to maximize your prestige gains as much as possible. By which I mean, use mon with half the CP of the defenders. I've been doing this and gaining roughly 1000 prestige points per defender. Keep in mind that prestige gains are calculated using the mon with the highest CP in your training team.
Mind you, this only works if there are defenders that are close to each other in CP. It doesn't work as well if the CPs are spread out. It also doesn't work as well if there's something like a lapras or snorlax near the bottom. But if the defenders are mon like vaporeon, exeggcutor, arcanine, flareon, or gyarados, try using mon with half the CP (taking into account type advantages).
Overall, my advice is to maximize prestige gains and when you see something like a sudden leap in CP or a wall in the form of snorlax or lapras, run away.
For me, it's a mixed bag. I don't like that it takes longer to get started since we have to select 6 trainers versus one. It's not a huge thing, but it slows down my rhythm. On the other hand, having 6 trainers makes the process more forgiving since you won't necessarily be sunk if you mess up dodging that charge attack.
Because we can bring 6 trainers, I do advise trying to maximize your prestige gains as much as possible. By which I mean, use mon with half the CP of the defenders. I've been doing this and gaining roughly 1000 prestige points per defender. Keep in mind that prestige gains are calculated using the mon with the highest CP in your training team.
Mind you, this only works if there are defenders that are close to each other in CP. It doesn't work as well if the CPs are spread out. It also doesn't work as well if there's something like a lapras or snorlax near the bottom. But if the defenders are mon like vaporeon, exeggcutor, arcanine, flareon, or gyarados, try using mon with half the CP (taking into account type advantages).
Overall, my advice is to maximize prestige gains and when you see something like a sudden leap in CP or a wall in the form of snorlax or lapras, run away.
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The newly filled gyms are all still total (hilarious, but...) train wrecks though. I ended up training a gym from level 9 to 10 by throwing a garbage wigglytuff and a small army of pidgeys at a 736 jolteon rather than match up types, or bother with the blastoise and whatever was past him.
I assume most of the gyms will still turn over on the weekends, but I'll be curious to see, when that happens, if they also rocket to high level on those teams, or if the actual team balance has shifted.