When to stop tearing down

Last post was about taking pot shots.

Conversely there's a situation when that's the last you want to do. Depending on the pokemon standing in a rival gym that you encounter you'll need to take into consideration how likely it is that it will get prestiged back up again.

When you're starved for time anything above level six takes too long time to clean out, so this post is about those times.

There are three prestige points worth looking at; 20K, 30K and 40K. If the bottom-most pokemon is awkard to prestige against I recommend that you stop tearing down the gym at 2K above those points. That means it takes three won battles to kick out that pokemon in order to create an easy prestige situation.

Yes, there are people who use extra accounts to kick down high level friendly gyms to be able to drop a high cp pokemon inside. We call them parasites.

What you're aiming at is the 8K prestige needed against, for example a snorlax, to level up.

If the bottom-most pokemon is very easy to prestige against just kick it out by fighting against it, give up the match and repeat. You'll save both time and resources that way. And you want it out to increase the amount of time and resources needed to prestige the gym back up again.

While you may not have the time to drop the gym all the way to 2K above the 20 or 30K mark in this situation, at least aim at 3K below it. So 17, 27 or 37K. That should normally force anyone to spend five battles to level the gym up.

With two or more prestige friendly pokemon at the bottom I'd argue that the gym is in reality at 20 or 30K prestige no matter what it says. It should be quick work lowering prestige by upwards to 20K.