Finish the job, why you shouldn't stop halfway

Obviously we sometimes run out of time when we're attacking a gym and have to leave it. Well, it's bad but that can't be helped.

I've also heard the argument that someone else can clean out the last five or six levels in a gym because the hard job is already done.


Sooo, what to make out of the last argument.

It's true that burning a gym down from 52K to 19K represents the bulk of the job, but what's left inside the gym is usually the real defenders standing below the utter crap at the top, mostly consisting of the shitty four.

So people tire of not getting two or three cheap kills and leave the gym. And that's pretty bad.


Let's have a look at it from the other side.

Let's say I'm walking around town with a playing friend. Between us we have access to one prestige account for bubbling (content in link partially obsolete). It's pushing the rules, and it'll vanish when bubbling simply isn't worth it in terms of prestige, but it's the standard setup in raiding teams.

If we tear down a rival gym we pass by we'll either drop and walk or drop a prestiger inside and push it to 20, assign two defenders and walk away. In either case it's easy prey for rival players.

Now let's se what happens when we walk into a level five friendly gym. It sports a blissey, a vaporeon, another blissey, a dragonite and one tyranitar. I assume you can guess the order, and it explains why someone left it standing.

Another rival player (rival to us at least) probably found it at 15K prestige and applied my theory about when to stop attacking if short on time, so the gym is now at 13K prestige.

Blissey is admittedly a major pain to prestige against, but this friendly gym is golden for two raiding players. Pushing seven thousand prestige against this kind of opposition isn't happening though, so we'll settle for three.

At 16K prestige a prestige defender goes inside and the gym pops to 18K. Two quick fights and the gym stands at 20K, at which time another defender goes inside, most likely a vaporeon or snorlax if it's our local raiders we're talking about. Let's say another vaporeon that drops between the two blisseys already inside the gym.

22K.

Eight quick prestige battles later the other player will drop a snorlax inside and we walk away.

The gym now has the following composition: 32K, prestige pokemon, blissey, vaporeon, vaporeon, blissey, snorlax, dragonite and tyranitar.

It's likely to be pushed down to 29K quickly to remove the prestige pokemon, or if another two friendly players arrive it'll hit the full 52K prestige.


So, if you have the time, better finish the job.