Never mind le, you caught so many Snorlax already

Which to power up really depends on your playstyle & what's your objective? Whether you wanna destroy gyms for fun or defend gyms as long as possible to collect coins. Whether you play solo or in group.

Separate your Pokemons into 2 team. Team Attacker & Team Defender, Attackers are used to destroy gyms while Defenders are used to park in gyms.

In the Attacker team, the key is to have a variety of move types so that you can take advantage of the enemy Defender's weaknesses. Also, as mentioned before, get those "ultimate" charged move e.g. Solar Beam, Hydro Pump, Fire Blast, Thunder, Moon Blast, Hyper Beam etc. But that is also personal preference, some people may argue those "ultimate" charged moves isn't the highest DPS. I hate the charge move animation, it spoils my dodge tempo. So I prefer to have 1 powerful charge move instead of multiple weaker charged move.

In the Defender team, the key is to have the highest CP possible to sit as high as possible in the gym. So that when enemy team attack, your Defender won't be the early ones to drop out. I'm referring to those level 7 to 10 gyms that can actually hold against solo players (unless the solo player is really rich in resources). Check the ranking HERE to see which are the top Pokemons in terms of CP. Not many actually; Dragonite, Snorlax, Lapras, Arcanine, Exeggutor, Vaporeon & maybe Gyarados only. So technically, your Defender Team should consist of those only if you wanna sit comfortably on top of the gym.

For me, I like taking down gyms in groups & defend my level 10 gym as long as possible for ez 10 coins. Based on that kinda style, I power up my Attacker Team first. For my Attacker Team, I power up just enough to reach CP2k & that's about it. When attacking in groups, I have other players to back up my weaker attackers anyway. So I don't see the need to go up to CP3k at the moment. Now that I have a somewhat solid Attacker Team, I'm focusing to build my Defender Team. I'm only powering up those top CP Pokemons with high IV (high IV = more CP) just so that they can sit at a higher position in the gym.

So, what kinda Pokemon Trainer are you?

I guess I'm more into the technical part of the game
But these info are more for those who aggressive gym destroyers. Everytime I explain to Pokedex Collectors, they just fell asleep

As much as I like to keep a large Pokemon pool, I have 250 capacity only & got no intention of increasing it in the near future
Freemium players like me rather spend my hard earned coins from gyms on bag space & incubators

But yea, I do see where you're coming from. I keep some CP1k+ amazing IV Eeveelution & few more random amazing IV Pokemons around CP1k just for that purpose. Since mine are amazing IV with ideal move sets, i can even use my 1.2k to take down a 1.8k Defender. It gives way more than 500 prestige.

I'm using iPhone 6, lately the game became kinda laggy & crashes a lot especially when loading up high level gym details for battling.

For level 9 gym, I can only battle it twice before it crashes the moment I tapped on the gym. Sometimes when I played too long & accidentally tapped on a high level gym to check out the defenders, it'll also crash.

Anyone experience this consistent crash? It's as if my phone don't have enough RAM to play the game.

Yea, looks like it's real......The recent update makes the RAM usage really soared when interacting with gyms until it crashes the whole game. Also happens during mass evolve too it seems.

Exactly my situation now;



Makes gym leveling really difficult especially at higher level i.e. lvl 7 to 9.

For me, after training twice in a level 9 gym; confirm crash on the 3rd attempt. Have to restart the game before leveling up the gym to prevent kena sniped during crash.

Looks like gym leveling is gonna be hell until Niantic fix this excessive RAM usage issue.

No, i'm not level 30 yet. I just like beating up gyms

Is there another update after last week's update? The last update I have is the one that introduced capture location.

Last night ka? I'm on iOS, just checked earlier.....still no update. Maybe by tomorrow I hope.

Bubble Strategy is quite hard to even do, because you need 2 Pokemons with specific CP & move sets. Most people are just happy being able to pump 500 Prestige at least per training. So just continue putting your best CP defender. I just hate people sniping gyms with less than CP1k defenders.

Exeggutor is weak to Ice & Lapras is an Ice Pokemon. Don't buta buta rely on the auto recommended pokemons.

You're staying in USJ 1 right? If you're willing to move, from Summit all the way to Main Place, can get more than 10 gyms ma. I parked 1 of my defender in USJ1 earlier during lunch time, still standing till now. I've surveyed the area & I'm gonna plan a route to conquer 10 gyms in USJ area soon.

I saw earlier today, just along LDP. There were 2 level 10 & 1 level 9 Valorian Gym. For the level 9, weakest defender was a CP2.7k Exeggutor. I can't imagine the other defenders above that

People are building level 10 gyms now with super high level defenders. Those sitting on top can sit there for weeks at good locations.

I'm often at USJ 2 as well, i like USJ 2's long straight roads, good for hatching eggs. Got 1 gym at each fields, but high traffic, can't hold for long.

If I'm raiding gyms from Summit to Main Place, come join la. The more the faster we take down, the challenge is to level up for all of us to park our defender.

I made a thread on battle info, but not many seems to interested in gym battles so no business there; https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4038431&hl=

Previous nesting got no diglet nest, doubt this time around there'll be one.

Problem with bubble strat is firstly; it's hard to fulfill the requirements. Secondly, due to its difficult requirements, it's a solo thing unless there's a bunch of people with a set of bubble strat pokemons with you. So only you can level up the gym, other just simply hentam park whatever pokemon they can grab only (usually less than CP1k btw). Then all your hardwork = level 10 gym of crap CP defenders. Still will kena rekt within minutes lol.

Yea, before starting....ideally compare line up & plan on the gym leveling part lol. Actually more like planning which will be the weakest defender for all 10 gyms & everyone pandai pandai manage their attackers le. I guess the problem you all encountered was leveling up the gym & finding a non Valorian gym?

4 of us only last time, need to pump only 1 level per gym also took us like 2 hours to achieve 10 gyms.

After beating the #10 & #9 defender, can jump straight to the #1 defender?

Yea my friend explained this logic to me already. He's been doing it i.e. just keep hitting the 1st defender & then exit gym. Didn't bother with the remaining defenders until their time comes. Rinse & repeat to slowly hack away the gym's prestige by 500 on each attempt. Seems pretty good (saves potions & time; more efficient), because sometimes at the end of the battle, your attacker still has like 70% HP. But it's only for solo destroyers. Not an ideal strategy if we're ganging on a gym.

Seri Laman is Charmander's new nest??

Thanks, will check it out. Any further details like which PokeStop or some landmark to narrow down the search radius? What about the spawn rate?

What do you wanna hunt?

Nearby Dataran still can get Dratini. Omanyte nest gone already, not sure where's the new one. The others you mentioned never really have a nest...more like random spawns here & there.

Voltorb seems to be somewhat regularly spawning somewhere in front of IOI Puchong.

Can't farm charmander in Glenmarie, it's a private property & the guards chased players off.