As above.

anything la as long as under cp2999
all my Snorlax and Blissey are just for show now lol

and depends my mood if i know the gym dont last just put those throw-away mons just to troll those attacker
since no matter how much cp u put, they still need to use 3 round to take it down.

Blissey 3000+, 2900+, 2600+, 2400+ and 2200+.

I usually go for 5 gyms only to get a gold badge.

How long would the average gym last nowadays in your area?

depend few hours - 2/3days

at the beginning of the raid boss event, the turn over was high....

nowadays, not so much .... 2 of my pokemons have stayed for more than 24 hours. The other depends......

now I see around me, there are 3 gyms where pokemons stayed more than 24 hours.

I read from TSR that folks are putting in throwaways as defenders so I had a quick browse on wecatch on the KL scene and it does seem like there's quite a few gyms with all sorts of defenders.

I can't say for the whole taiwan but at least in my area... its expected for the first entry to be Blissey or Snorlax. I've spoken with some of the usual trainers in my area. They will even use alt account to shave it off.... say waste space wor.

In a way its true also, Blissey, Snorlax and in a way Rhydon is like the gym's anchor.

Some area where it is team dominant, will stay much longer from few hours to days, it will be short life for any other team to put there. High traffic area will turn around very fast. The most intense gym battle is the moment a lev 4 raid boss egg landed. It will under attack and unconditional denfend for that hour plus.

This is my record

depends if i'm the 1st, i'd put blissey just to make other ppl malas to fight so that other teammates can slot in

if not, i'd put random high-ish CP mons that i have such as muk, snorlax, alakazam, espeon, golem etc

My record is only 11 hours

My observation in my area

- People damn lazy to attack gym so if its full house, full motivation... it will be ignored.
- Once there's attack animation and some pokemons have less than full motivation, then ppl start arriving and join to snipe.
- Big blissey is needed to drag time for reinforcement to arrive or to feed berries.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Jul 19 2017, 11:33 AM

Sometimes I'll add some other pokemon to spice things up ..... but only for gyms (a) closer to me where I can have constant access or (2) gyms that I don't care for a gold badge.

(a) for gyms closer to you where you have access, you can put anything because you can come back and take over, gain +100.

For example, this gym got Blissey, Snorlax, Chansey, Ursaring. All weak against Fighting. The next pokemon should be added should be psychics.

Sometimes I also like to put Lapras with mixed movesets like Water gun/Blizzard, Ice beam.... I'm considering to change one of mine to Ice Shard / Hydro Pump.

But whos gonna take down gyms with fighting type? a strong machamps not gonna have much left even if it made it through blissey and snorlax. The most annoying oddball defenders for me would be pinsir and ursuring as i normally just plough through with ttar. That 2 is annoying cos they create disproportionate amount of damage forcing me to waste potions by switching atrackers.

When their health is max, I always use Machamp. How come you no use Machamp??
After the first round, then I go for Dragonite to clear everything at one go.

and nowadays, I tend to kick out Blissey first. Many times someone around to feed it berries if you fight all 6 pokemons at once.

I find that using Ttar is more reliable and don't kick out Blissey first as any attack animation will draw attention in my area and folks will be waiting nearby to slot in whenever they can.

Yup, don't kick out the first small blissey and give chance for someone to slot a strong blissey at the last slot.
Idea case will be, beat all 6 mon in 1 round.
You must not experience this: left one standing, almost can kill it, someone come feed golden berry, and the next moment 5 reinforcements added in.

Yes. Thats is very important.

In hotly contested areas, once there's motivation level is unequal means not just what you mentioned but also could means that you might error out and kena snipe.

So yeah... best to plow through everything as quickly as possible hence no switching attackers, press the next battle button as soon as possible, click empty gym as soon as possible and put in Blissey.

Heck.. for this particularly contested gym (I've attacked with 3 other players for over an hour and it held) ... I even re-favorite my pokemons so Blissey is on top to reduce time to put in.

like i mention before no matter what u parked still need 3 round to take down cp10 cp1000 are the same
just whether is easy to kill or harder to kill only

but like some mention above if 1st to park maybe put something stronger but still if in high traffic still the same
now i usually do gym around my house around 9/10pm park a few usually by morning i will get 50 coins
i only maintain the 2 gym in front of my house coz i want a gold badge lol

Of course it doesn't matter if its low intensity area.

Weaker defender = quicker to take down before reinforcement.

If three people attack together, does it need one round only?