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Switching teams?

What’s the primary impetus for switching teams?

Asked by 555nguyen5 years ago
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1. To be on the same team as your significant other and/or close friends with whom you play most often; or

2. To join the organization perceptually winning the virtual gang wars within your community.

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This is basically it. My son and I started in different teams thinking it would be more fun, and with raids and rewards it simply wasn’t. It was also more difficult to get similar coin rewards as we couldn’t be in the same gym and feed each other berries. Definitely an improvement for us.

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I've heard a few, the big two being goin competition in gyms (such as in my area mystic's a big presence, most cant get coins, so they have considered switching to instinct/valor) or switching to the dominant team in the area for extra raid rewards

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Switching your game difficulty to hard, medium, or mystic.

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Perhaps it’s actually mystic, medium, or easy. But in SF, CA, it seems evenly mixed and busy 24/7.

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Ya it's evenly mixed here too. Pretty much whenever I go out I'll see full gyms in all colors so I would have to tear down a fully motivated gym solo to get coins regardless of what my team is

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Why switch teams?

There's a ton of reasons. I think the vast majority of them would be common sense.

If you started in 2016 and the people you used to play with don't play anymore. The people you now play with are on a different team.

You moved. New geography is likely a new meta.

The dominant team has changed in your area.

You're bored and want a change.

I mean, c'mon. I could keep listing answers. There won't be a "primary" answer because it's a different answer for different people.

If you can't possible think of a few good reasons to switch a team then you're likely in a good spot yourself. And you're comfortable with the team you're in now.

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2.5 years ago some players might have started their Alt to shave and/or easily place a Mon if they didn’t have time to knock an entire tower down.

I initially started my same color Alt 9/1/2016 bc I would knock an entire tower down and it wouldn’t last 20 min if I didn’t prestige+double place.

At this point some of the different color Alts might want to save coins and switch to their main color.

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So people who used to spoof can go valor

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