Pokemon Go #10. See ya later Feralligator, in a while Totodile

One of my gyarados has been in a gym in a town that I passed through on the bus, for 3 days, 5 and a half hours.

I'm starting to worry that I may never see him again.

I only fed him once and since then, I presume others have been feeding him. He's right down to almost empty now though, so he might be home today.

My Snorlax has been in the gym next to a hotel for six and a half hours in the middle of the day and doesn't need any berries yet - this is unprecedented! He's by himself too so an easy take-down. Love battling with him because he bounces up and down like an excited child!

Ahh, PsammeadPaintedTheLion and tumpymummy, I'm wrong! It appears they go down very, very low but don't empty until they get battled.

I also found out this which PokemonGo might be interested in:

Motivation lowers much faster for Pokémon that have a CP of 3000 or higher - those with 2999 CP or lower decrease in Motivation at a rate of 1 per cent of the max per hour; those at 3000 CP or above decrease Motivation ten times faster, at a rate of 10 per cent per hour.

I believe they only come out once they lose their next battle, even with an empty heart (violins) isn't that the case?

As far as I'm aware, an empty heart means you come out of the gym as soon as it happens. I don't think you need to wait for them to battle.

Not round here. I take down 6 pokes in 6 gyms in an evening. They stroll round 10 minutes later and take down 1 poke in 6 gyms.

Weird. We go round and do them all at once.

While that would be cool, it would still mean the same team would remain dominant as they'd have even more resources than before.

Not round here. I take down 6 pokes in 6 gyms in an evening. They stroll round 10 minutes later and take down 1 poke in 6 gyms.

I would happily invest the time taking the gyms down but I can't play now as I am out of potions. They won't deplete their supplies because they don't have to fight anything.

They are many, we are few!

I believe they only come out once they lose their next battle, even with an empty heart (violins) isn't that the case?

Does anyone know when the mons in a gym run out of motivation do they come back to you automatically or do you have to wait for someone from another team to battle them?

If they lose all motivation, they come out of the gym, whether it's from battling or just not being fed.

I'm still getting my head round these new gyms. Does anyone know when the mons in a gym run out of motivation do they come back to you automatically or do you have to wait for someone from another team to battle them?

Ha ha I may be a little obsessed!

But before Pokemon Go, I hadn't done any exercise whatsoever since I was at school over a decade ago. Before I'd never have walked up a hill or gone miles in a day for anything, but now, I'll happily do it to walk my buddy and catch my eggs, so that can only be a good thing

Wow - that's impressive - my sons would love you

TheweewitchRoz I only work part time and we have no kids, so I have four days a week to focus on Pokemon and then I play to and from work, before and after work and in my break at work.

I live near a pokestop I can usually now reach from my house, so can stock up lots of potions and revives (have over 200 revives alone) to use when gymming.

Pretty much every available minute I have the app open. Even just a nip to the shops (live in a small town but it's heavily populated with masses of gyms and pokestops) I have the app open to walk and spin stops.

And I have vast amounts of knowledge on the game itself because I played all the games growing up, so I know what I'm doing when gymming so I'm able to do it quickly and effectively.

How do you have time to be so prolific What?

Any hints / tips?

I think attackers should be rewarded with potions and revives so in areas where there is one team ruling the roost others can still play.

While that would be cool, it would still mean the same team would remain dominant as they'd have even more resources than before.

DH and I are prolific gymmers, take several each day and are part of the dominant team in our town, so if we got potions and revives, we'd take even more.

Strolls nonchalantly through the thread.

We had a new stop appear 2 days ago, so cool.

I won a raid which was great but I am cleaned out of potions despite hitting 20 stops today on the way to and from work.

I am gutted as I want to play in the gyms but as they are so imbalanced round here I just lose out and can't play.

I think attackers should be rewarded with potions and revives so in areas where there is one team ruling the roost others can still play.

Lucky! Wish new ones would open up here.

Wow. A new pokestop just popped up! Cool.

I got stopped by a man in the graveyard talking about pokemon but because he was talking quickly and the language barrier, I wasn't quite sure if he was asking me if there's a better place to play pokemon than in the graveyard or telling me off for playing pokemon in the graveyard. Oh well.

Did two raids today (first one using yesterday's raid pass, then got a new raid pass so did another raid on my way home) and got a Quilava and a Bayleef and defeated two gyms and found a friendly gym to put one 'mon in, though two of them are home already with just a couple of coins between them.

😂😂😂

Oh, that was funny

Er to stick a pokemon in there, not a person!

I live too far away from the gyms to see when any raids are starting up :( Going to go for a bike ride to the shop now (to buy stuff for making cornflake cakes thanks to another thread!) and will have a looksee if there are any raids going on. Will go via the graveyard to stick someone in there.

Just done a big mass evolve and declutter. 53k xp, so now only 50k from L32...
Now evolved Sunflora and Kingdra.

The rate of raids has calmed down. I didn't do any yesterday as DS2 was around. There's a L2 starting up in a while so I'll have a go at that. I'm definitely doing better on the coins with this system. I've noticed more players have got a foothold in too.

I've tons of the others, but this is only my second ever King's rock. Poor old Poliwhirl has been waiting around for this day since gen 2 came out!

In evolution items I have:

• 5 King's Rocks
• 5 Sun Stones
• 8 Metal Coats
• 1 Dragon Scale
• 5 Upgrades

Mostly only get them at the end of my 7 day streaks.