What is the advantage of having a high CP Pokemon (such as one with CP 3000)?
Let's say if we power up a Pokemon to a CP of 3000, what is the advantage of having it?
Because I thought having a high CP Pokemon is mainly to be more powerful if it stays at a gym, but isn't it true that another player can just repeat a fight again and again, to make the Prestige point lower and lower each time, and eventually bring it to 0, and kick the original Pokemon out?
So, if a player has a Pokemon with CP of 1200, he or she can kick out the Pokemon at a gym with a CP of 3000. Or, if the gym has 3 or even 6 Pokemons, each with a CP of 2000, if the player keeps on fighting, eventually he or she can occupy the gym?
Or, what if it is a team of 5 or 7 people, who all go to a gym, and then each person just need to fight and bring down the Prestige point by 2500 point (per person), and then bring down as many as 17500 Prestige point of a gym and kick all Pokemons out and occupy the gym?
(So if there is a Pokemon with CP 3000 at a gym, and a player who has a Pokemon of CP 1000, it won't be the case that it is very difficult or close to impossible that he or she can kick out the 3000 CP Pokemon? The player just need to repeat fighting to bring the Prestige to 0 and kick out that CP 3000 Pokemon?)
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A single Pokémon with high CP can be knocked out from a gym pretty easily even with a party of fairly weak Pokémon. But having multiple high CP in a gym makes HUGE difference. Imagine you have to fight a gym with 3-5 or more high CP Pokémon with the same bunch of weak Pokémon. If you can't take down more than one Pokémon per run, it will take a lot of time and potions (when you assault gyms on daily basis, potions will become a huge factor). Most players don't even attempt to capture a gym with multiple high CP Pokémon because it would take too much effort.
Long story short, high CP Pokémon will help you to hold gyms longer, but they have to be in larger amounts. Single Pokémon gyms won't last long no matter the CP.
3What's the advantage of having a 2000 CP Pokemon? A player with 700 CP Pokemon could eventually knock you out of the Gym? Or a team of people with 400 CP Pokemon?
Your logic could be applied to all CP levels, and we just adjust the people attacking.
The advantage is that there are less people with higher CP Pokemon to be able to take down your 3000 CP. There are less teams of people with higher CP Pokemon to attack that Gym.
Sure it's possible, relatively easy actually if you have the time (or a team) and the Gym is undefended. But it's the same for 2500 CP, 2000 CP, 1500 CP, 1000 CP Pokemon.
- The pokemon with the highest CP will bubble to the top and be the last to get kicked-out. For example, even if you are the 7th one to enter a gym, if your CP is highest, you get kicked-out last.
- To attack a gym, you can repeatedly go 6 against 1 and chop the gym down slowly. To enter a gym, it is 1 on 1. And, your 1 must be very powerful because your gym mates will use very high CP pokemon because of issue #1 above.
