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==Background==
I'm a level 35 player who concentrates on maintaining a gym 'empire', my [[Ace Trainer]]/[[Battle Girl]] ratio is above 3 but in recent times I barely ever attack enemy gyms while I train regularly and aggressively more than 1k per minute. I have reverse soloed a gym in under an hour and will typically train a level 2 gym to level 8 in 20-30 minutes. I've also actively trained level 3-5 gyms against attackers and won (added more prestige per second than removed). My aim here is to share my method for aggressive training in the hope people will benefit from that.
==Dodging Strategy==
[[Dodge]] everything. This may sound counterproductive if the aim is for a quick train, but it allows you to use more fragile attackers (see next section) that do superior DPS to the likes of [[Raticate]] or [[Wigglytuff]]. I do not, however, wait for a charged attack (with some exceptions such as twister [[Gyarados]]) before I use my own as this wastes a lot of potential to use more charged attacks (and thus is more time consuming). This does result in taking the full blast of charged attacks occasionally however it is rare enough that this is still a very viable way of playing particularly since you get a long warning time for the heaviest of the charged attacks (such as hyper beam). But yes, occasionally you will get hit by water pulse.
==Switching Strategy==
Keep your current [[Pokemon]] until the next battle (where you intend to switch). Add in 2 or 3 attacks then dodge the first two attacks and quickly switch out. Dodge again just before your new mon arrives and you will take the reduced damage. The exception to this is if you have a full charge bar (I recommend not using full charge on a nearly dead mon) and the original mon is not weak against the new defender. In this case use your charged attack after the two initial defender attacks before you switch out.
==Team==
The purpose of the team is for it to be tanky enough that it doesn't completely crumble under attack, but have high damage output while taking account of type. The team should also not be unrealistically difficult to obtain. As a further benefit if the team is versatile and multipurpose such that mons work well against different defenders that is a bonus. Further, these mons are efficient in terms of potion use and are quite low maintance compared to [[Wigglytuff]] for example.
With this in mind my main team consists of: [[Parasect]] (BB/SB), [[Golduck]] (WG/HP), [[Raichu]] (S/T) and [[Dewgong]] (FB/B). I also keep VW/SB [[Tangela]] around when I find them and X [[Parasect]] for [[Exeggutor]].
I've talked about [[Parasect]] before here (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5ezlmw/parasect_is_the_best_prestiger_in_the_game/), the upshot is it is a very versatile prestiger that exploits type advantages of common gym defenders excellently. BB as a move (much like WG) allows you to maximize damage output between dodging. Raw DPS doesn't take into account how easy it is to become proficient at hitting in between dodges; BB is particularly good at this. For example I can consistently hit BB 4 times against a [[Vaporeon]] and up to 6 times against a [[Rhydon]] before dodging. FB and S are also moves that make it easy to incorporate dodging.
People sometimes recommend Wigglytuff or Raticate. I have tried using them; it takes much longer to knock down common gym opponents (such as Vaporeon) even without dodging. I have had little or no luck with these mons; in fact at the end of an evo grind when I was running low on potions I tried using Raticate of a similar [[CP]] to my Parasect; the result was a timeout! While a 1200CP Parasect could compete with a 2900 Vaporeon, a 1200CP Raticate could not.
Below is a summary of what to use the team against and some secondary uses (which are useful if you miscalculate the number of mons to add to the team).
Golduck (WG/HP)
*Primary: Snorlax, Any fire type, Golem, Machamp, Rhydon
*Secondary:
Raichu(S/T)
*Primary: Gyarados
*Secondary: Vaporeon, Lapras, Dragonite
Parasect (BB/SB)
*Primary: Vaporeon, Lapras, Exeggutor (use X)
*Secondary: Rhydon, Snorlax, Gyarados, most uncommons
Dewgong(FB/B)
*Primary: Dragonite
*Secondary: Exeggutor, Rhydon
One way you can use this primary/secondary list is to prioritize prestigers. For example lets say there is a level 9 gym with 8 Vaporeon and 1 Rhydon. The best choice would be 6 Parasect which are primary prestigers against Vaporeon and secondary prestigers against the single Rhydon.
==Quitting Strategy==