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Originally Posted by Southside
What level do you train those gyms up to? We find that if you take it up to Level 8 or so, it's generally safe for a while. I don't know about days, but often a day. If you only take it up to Level 3 or 4 it simply will not last long enough to collect a defender bonus. It's in everyone's nature to hit the softer targets.
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Usually take the gym to 38000. We are putting in 3. This insures the gym could fill to 10 (with the 2k prestige bonus for placing a Pokémon) if no one attacks it first. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that we always use my 8 year old daughter's account to place the dummy (a Pikachu with bad electric movesets) to train against with Sandshrews with optimal ground attacks. Anyway, the gyms often fill at least partially with lower CP mons, but as these get knocked out, the big boys come. I agree 100%, only going to 3,4,5 will see it fall right away.
We started picking remote gyms, but have since found areas with a high concentration of gyms and not so many players works just as well. Exactly as you suggest, players just move on to easier targets.
Success rate of holding more than 1 day is probably about 2/5, and any that have gone a second day have yet to fall, but I fully expect will at some point in time.
One time made a temporary truce with an enemy, and had him knock out one Pokémon in a very strong gym, that I raised the prestige of and entered - and did the same thing for him in his gym.
But I felt traitorous afterwards
For me the game was getting slow to play (level 27 pokedex 129). This made it interesting again, for a while. But assuming 10 are locked down, I dunno then. Thought about running around bringing down really strong enemy gyms, but I dunno - leaving 10 big beasts behind takes some toll on your ability to attack.