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Is it time for legendaries to defend gyms?

A full roster of legendaries would be extremely boring, but allowing current T5 raid bosses in would give us all a free chance to practice and learn movesets/best counters first-hand. Any opinions?

Asked by OnComingStorm6 years 3 months ago
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I used to like that they can't be put in gyms because I didn't have any legendaries. But now that I have two (so far; Suicune and Groudon), I would like to show them off in gyms... but then again... so would others, and then they wouldn't be special or unique - in fact, there would be nothing but legendaries in gyms, I'm afraid.

There must be a reason for the madness (right, Niantic?)

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I would much rather have nothing but legendaries in gyms, than fight Blisseys and GRBs in nearly every gym.

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Its ok as long as they put a limit on it. One legendary per gym maybe.

But imo its not needed.

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Legendaries should ABSOLUTELY be able to defend gyms. Even if you make a limit of how many legendaries can be placed in a gym or something, it's ridiculous to me that legendaries can't.

With the overabundance of raids, so many players have legendaries now. And with such powerful pokemon, it's never been easier to take down gyms. Any player can take down any gym now. Adding legendaries might add some difficulty to gyms again.

Furthermore, there are many legendary pokemon that are BUILT for defense, with tremendous defensive stats. Lugia and Suicune, for instance, would see a new lease on life. Both have good defensive movesets and could see some real usefulness in the defensive sphere.

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Unless they change the way gym defense operates, then it doesn’t really matter. We are in an offence centered meta.

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Raid offence centered meta, to be more exact. Gym offense doesn't require strong mons because defenders are weak.

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A fully motivated >2.5k CP Blissey isn't weak, and they're seen in almost every gym here. Some are even 3.2k!

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Exactly! Remember how hard Solarbeam Ho-Oh or Hydro Pump Lugia was as a Raid Boss?

What about a Suicune with a cool Hidden Power?

Put every smug player through that hell!

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by aSp 6 years 3 months ago

I can't even work out why they are not allowed to be placed in gyms.

If nothing else, it advertises Legendaries/Raids for Niantic

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The only thing I can think of is because not every player is able to do legendary raids (e.g., rural). That way they don't know what they're missing. I know, because I used to hate the fact that I couldn't get them and was very relieved not to be confronted with them in gyms (not because I didn't think I could take them on, I have great attackers). I was just jealous as hell!

But that's just me, no telling what Niantic's reasoning may be ;)

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That is a fair point...that I totally understand. It took me a while to find reliable people to raid with regularly.
I was thinking of it from the other side, at least then players could see them in their dex, if they were in gyms.

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Maybe so you can't get candies from feeding berries.

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I think so because they want us to buy raid passes to get rare candy from raids. They made walking them 20km and only other way to get candy to power them up is from catching them, rare candy, And tranfering them.

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They can change candy % to 0 for legendaries. Problem solved. Its not team rocket science...

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It's most likely for story reasons. The legendaries would be less "legendary" if there's one in every gym.

Feeding a mon in a gym gives candies very rarely anyways.

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by Pingo 6 years 3 months ago

I never understood this rule in the first place. The only one of each kind rule is somehow understandable (diversity) but Legendaries aren‘t that much stronger and 6 vs 6 - even if they are at max which they almost never are cuz motivation - is no challenge for anybody.

Would be cool to change that and go back to the 10 defender system without training which favors spoofers too much

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I think it's:

1. To prevent newcomers from being envious or gyms deterring newcomers under first impression in spite most legendaries don't make good defenders;

2. To prevent Cheating Legendary candy by feeding berries.

So it might not be able to happen unless when the game is infested with op pokemon which will someday happen, in which i'm ok with 1 legendary.

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by daltry 6 years 3 months ago

Just allow 1 legendary per gym and don’t let us berry feed a legendary.

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Honestly, they could release a 6000 CP pokemon and it would make no difference to the gym meta (bearing in mind its CP would decay rapidly.) Any noob can take down any gym in the current system. In that regard the gym meta is utterly irrelevant.

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I've always asked for it, and I look forward to the day it hopefully begins!
I kept Hydropump on my best Lugia just for it :)

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