Gym (GO): Difference between revisions

If the player is not on a team and below level 5, they will be advised to return at level 5. Once they are at least level 5, they will be given the option to select a team.  

If the Gym is of the player's team, they may feed Berries to defending Pokémon to increase their Motivation and CP, and if there are less than six Pokémon already defending it, they may deploy a Pokémon at full health to defend the Gym.  

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Gyms are colored based on which {{OBP|team|GO}} has Pokémon deployed to defend it. Controlled Gyms may be blue for [[Blanche|Team Mystic]], yellow for [[Spark (GO)|Team Instinct]], or red for [[Candela|Team Valor]]. A controlled Gym will have the most recently-deployed defending Pokémon on top of the tower marking the Gym. If a Gym tower is white, that Gym is currently not controlled by any team, meaning that a player from any team can claim it.

Pokémon also cannot be deployed into a Gym that is currently "under attack". When a Pokémon gets knocked out from a Gym, a 10-minute timer will initiate, during which no new defenders can be deployed to that Gym. If a subsequent Pokémon gets knocked out during this 10-minute period, the timer does not reset.  

:<code>%CP = 20% + 0.8 * %Motivation</code>  

The following table calculates motivation and CP decay for every hundred CP values. Decay for CP values between listed entries can be approximated by taking a weighted average of the upper and lower bounds.  

Battles can be conducted at Gyms between Trainers on opposing teams. Battles are not turn-based, and they are conducted between a player and a computer-controlled opponent and have a time limit of 99 seconds per defender. Defending Pokémon are battled in sequence, from the oldest defender to the newest.  

When battling a Gym, the player selects a team of six Pokémon of their own to battle against the defending Pokémon. Each defending Pokémon defeated will award [[Trainer level|XP]] to both the player and their associated Gym's badge. Defeating only one defending Pokémon counts as a victory towards earning [[List of medals (GO)|medals]] and completing certain [[Field Research]] tasks, regardless of how many of the player's Pokémon fainted. Conversely, each time a player's Pokémon is knocked out, it counts as a victory towards the Gym defender.  

After defeating a Pokémon, the player has ten seconds to decide whether to battle the next defender or leave. If the player leaves, it won't be considered as a player's defeat. If the player chooses to re-battle again, they will again start by battling the first defender in the lineup.  

Up to 20 players can work together to challenge a Gym, with the defending Pokémon's HP being shared between players and attacks affecting all challengers. An icon with a number will appear underneath the countdown timer of the screen indicating the number of players currently fighting that Gym. Challengers who have high [[Friends (GO)|Friendship]] levels with each other will deal extra damage per attack.  

Battles are shown with the Gym's defender Pokémon at the middle of a circular arena and the attacking Pokémon at the circle's edge. Each time a new defender Pokémon is sent out, the battle timer will reset to 99 seconds.  

During a battle, the player can forfeit by tapping the button at the top-left of the screen. If the player forfeits, runs out of time, or has no more usable Pokémon left, it counts as a victory for the defending Pokémon. The challenger can immediately rebattle the Gym, in the same order of defending Pokémon.  

Challengers may swap out a Pokémon for another in their battling [[party]] at any time by tapping the button on the bottom-right of the screen. This action has a one-second duration.  

When a Pokémon defending a Gym casts an attack during battle, it will damage all challenging Pokémon simultaneously. A Pokémon defending a Gym is controlled by the game's AI, and thus behaves in a more predictable manner as such:  

During a raid, a Gym's defenders cannot be challenged nor fed Berry treats. Additionally Gym defenders also cannot be deployed.  

This caused a lot of stagnation and power imbalances early on in Gyms during the release of the game as weaker players had issues taking down Gyms with especially powerful Pokémon defending them. It was significantly more time consuming and difficult to defeat Gyms as Pokémon never lost CP and only lost Prestige as they were defeated. Players that had positions in ten Gyms had no reason to take down other Gyms rather than maintain their positions in the current Gyms as Gym Badges weren't yet implemented. Additionally, if your Pokémon was at the top of a level ten Gym, a players position was fairly secure as attackers would have to battle their way through the previous nine Pokémon before being able to fight the top position. It created a situation of the strong getting stronger, with the weak being unable to catch up, due to the "free" in-game currency and the bonuses one could buy with it (such as incubators and bag space) and extra Stardust which allowed them to strengthen their Pokémon.