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The team that you use for taking down gyms.

Naming system:
Ignore the first letter. Idk why it’s still there lol

Moveset (2 letters): Machamps are C/DP, Dragonite DB/DC, Raikou TS/WC, Zapdos CB/Tb.

IV (3 letters, in hexadecimal): e.g. FFF = 151515, FCF = 151215, BB8 = 111108

Level (2 numbers): Self-explanatory. Rounded down for half level.

The last slot in my gym clearing team is dynamic.

Asked by DragoniteSlayer5 years 11 months ago

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Unfortunatly a lot of players dont put in serious Pokémon anymore. Which means the 2-3 serious defenders are mostly Blissey and Snorlax. Therefore I might replace one spot with another Machamp.

To be honest I only use Omastar, Venusaur and Tyranitar from support party.
I used to have a party dedicated to fighting but not anymore. Most of the time one champ is doing good, if anything I leave fight to clear blissey asap

4 Machamp, 1 Rayquaza, 1 dynamic slot. The dynamic slot goes to Metagross by default but I change to Raikou if there are more than 1 water-types in the gym. In clear weather Moltres gets the dynamic slot over Metagross and if there happened to be multiple of any double weak pokemon like Dragonite+Salamence, Rhydon+Golem etc. I would pick a counter to those.

Next defender: Gardevoir CP 2964.
(Saw this on a comment on Reddit)

Dragonite, Muk, Crobat, Clefable, Wobbuffet, Slowdudes. The list of mons that can make an all-Machamp team's life miserable is long.

Nah, you can still punch through those easily

Dragonite 35s
Muk 33s
Crobat 40s
Clefable 30s
Wobbuffet 39s
Slowdudes 32s (KOs Machamp with dodge specials pro)

You can kill them, the question is is that a good use of your time and potions when adding a Raikou would kill any of these twice as fast as Machamp does. Being lazy so you can make fighting gyms more effort to yourself doesn't seem logical.

Gym clearing is something I don't overthink. I just go with the games recommended and get it over with, usually only using the first one or two mons anyway.

You get it over with about 10 minutes slower than anyone who's picking actual fast counters instead of Aggrons and Tyranitars like the game suggests.

Maybe 2 minutes at most

Well, Tyranitar has a clear time of 80s against a maxed Blissey and 60s against a maxed Chansey, which is 30s and 20s more than Machamp. Aggron is 10s worse. Against a well-stacked gym, it's going to easily be more than 2 minutes if those are your autopicks.

My “team” consists of whatever I am powering up at the time. If I am working on powering up mewtwo, I use it exclusively in the first slot regardless of defender. My objective is to get my attacker to faint so I can power it up to get the HP (mini revive). Get something for the dust investment.

Sometimes my project goes two gyms before fainting if my project is a good counter. Sometimes it is two defenders if my project is a bad counter.

Taking a typical Pokémon from L20-L30 saves 20 revives this way and another 10 from L30-L40. (Optionally, I let them faint from defending).