Future Pokémon GO Update Will Make Gym Training Easier

That'll be nice. Especially since I only have two Pokemon that can sort of fight gyms.

I'm trying to think of a way that this update is so terrible my life is ruined and I'm going to quit the game... but I can't think of anything. I'm not very good at the internet. ☺️

Good, I'm level 11 and my strongest is 395CP EVERY gym in my area has Pokemon with level 1500+ Pokemon. I work full time so I don't have the opportunity to grind and walk about all day. I had gave up on gyms almost immedantly after starting playing.

The gyms in my area are all taken over by Gyaradoses. Who has that kind of free time? Not me.

Glad to hear it. I just moved from somewhere where there were no gyms to somewhere where they're everywhere and my Pokémon are really not in a position to take on any of the gyms.

That's nice. My pokemon are always a much lower level than the gyms

I'm interested to see how this plays out. It's good for when you are lower level but when you're higher there is a gym prestige bonus when you fight with a Pokémon with CP close and lower to the one you are training against. That way there was a use for the middle CP Pokemon. I thought that was a clever way to add relevance to some Pokémon that won't compete any where else.

Maybe there is something like it but with 6 Pokémon it sounds like its similar to taking over a gym. And does this mean gyms will just be level 10 all the time but with lower cp Pokémon in them? Hmm...

This makes sense, but I feel this is just going to make gyms harder to take because they'll get leveled up so much faster. And it'll be easier to have a level 15 gym than it was for a 10.

....still waiting for more generations....and better ways to get more candy. It's going to take forever to evolve/power up my Oddish/Bellsprout. >_>

@chansey It is not as much about free time as it is about location. I live in a remote area, if I go to a big city just one day per month, I make more progress in that day than I do in the rest of the month. Of course, this alone could use a fix, the fact you cannot play at all outside of cities is ridiculous.

But still, you should make use of every single travel you make, even going to/from work. Sure, if you're driving, your options are limited. Just make sure to always have eggs hatching and the right buddy (the one which evolution you don't own yet, for example).

If you use every Pokéstop you come across and capture a few Pokémon from time to time, you will catch up eventually. You don't need a +1000 CP to make a difference. Especially if from time to time, you find a gym that has recently been claimed and isn't well defended yet, or if you have other players of your team nearby.

This really should have been a thing months ago. One of my big complaints was how alienating that angle of the game could be to new players who haven't been at it since day one.

Good. I don't know if my Pokemon are too weak or I'm just bad at the game, but I've never come close to taking down a Gym.

This is great news for my girlfriend since she started playing 5 days ago and her Pokemon are way to weak to help train up any gyms; also take down opposing gyms but I can help with that.

I hope they come up with a solution for Gym Sniping. It only happened to me twice but it made me skeptical about who (same team) can be waiting to snatch all my hard work raising a gym +5000 point fighting a Snorlax. Especially leveling from 9 to 10.

This sounds like a good update. Right now, it's a bit annoying that I can't even do "training" in gyms without getting destroyed by high-level Pokémon.

Great, catering to casuals.

Sure, newbies and people with no time can't compete with no lifers who dedicate themselves to this game, but isn't that how life just works?

I don't even care for pokemon go, but I hate seeing this kind of thing. The same thing happened to smash bros. Brawl was designed to try to penalize skilled and dedicated player and allow anyone of any skill to win a round, but all the competitive countermeasures led to more messed up tactics (like fox+wall reflector lock), banned tourney characters, an extreme modding community and a lack of interest in vanilla brawl! Melee was totally playable casually and competitively, but casuals wanted to be able to beat pro players because of fun!

It's also what turned many fans off of the wii! Past a certain point, only casual minded games were made! Then the casual fans moved on and hardcore fans were spurned and left for sony or microsoft!

You can't appease everyone all of the time. Casual fans will lose interest and won't invest too much money into it, while hardcore fans will invest more generally and will be first in line for new installments, extra content, and affiliated merch.

Cassies are good for money now, but hardcore fans are an investment. Give the cassies shovelware, they love that garbage, but leave the polished gems for those who truly appreciate them! Even if that means lowered bugdets, foregoing the precious 4k graphics and fully rendered cutscenes!

At the moment, I'm torn. The way their statement sounds, lower level players will be able to compete on an even footing in friendly Gyms, which is 100% awesome. But does that mean Gyms will start getting more Pokemon of low CP in them? Because that means they'll be even easier/faster to take down. Which leaves all players - high or low level - less able to defend them. We'll all end up consuming even more Potions and getting less coin rewards for our trouble.

In short, I'm all for ways to open up the game for lower-level players, but I hope the result isn't a 'receding tide' that lowers all of our boats.

I guess we'll wait to see how it turns out.