Who is your go to Pokémon for clearing gyms?
If the gym wasn’t full of Snorlax, Blissey, Chansey, do you have a go to Pokémon for general clearing?
I used to use Dragonite, then Rayquaza, and then Mewtwo. But I find Latios with DB and DC to clear out gyms very easily. So he is my go to generalist for sweeping gyms. Very very fast moves and strong attack. His defense isn’t that bad either.
What about you?
Answers
I usually still use Machamp due to the order of my Battle Party, but if I fight something strong, that resists his attacks (Gyarados, Dragonite, Gardevoir, etc) I quickly switch to Mewtwo or Rayquaza (usually vs dragonite/salamence)
The 6th slot is only for collecting battles won on a specific mon - just in case (I pick only Pokemon that could/should get a normal, mega or primal evolution/form in future for this)
I could imagine that mega evolutions get tied to battles won (and/or maybe buddy distance) to nerf their accessibility - the reason for this theory/possibility is, that in the anime (I don't know about the main series games) mega evolutions are only really possible, if the boundary between Pokemon and Trainer is strong enough
I also think that it's unlikely, but I like the idea and can affort to use a single slot in my battle party for the small possibility of this to happen without having any disadvantage - another idea related to this is that battles won count as training for a Pokemon and could be part of a way to improve it's IV's
If no golden berry involved, and no high CP high motivation Blissey in gym, i just use wild catch pokemon at CP1000+, tier 3 or 4 raid boss from raid that dont have a good iv, or pokemon from mass evolve (at the time when i still do it, not a good iv legendaries when there is a double candy event ( i save them now for trading with my friend)
If i run out of those, i ussually just use the recomended party.
Autoselect is a damn fine Pokemon for me in that improbable scenario.
I have 6 maxed dragons, 24 tyranitar above lvl 35, a trio of maxed kyogre, a brigade of Rhydon, a smaller brigade of Golem, and a random assortment of maxed Mewtwo/Groudon/Ho-oh/Lugia/Moltres/Raikou/Espeon....
so whatever the game wants me to use, I'll use it