An example Gym Takeover - From my run around tonight

• So you rock up to an enemy Gym and find out its in range and its a level 3 Gym with 3 Pokemon stationed with a reputation of 6000. You swipe left to see the relevant Pokemon stationed and you believe you can take it out.

• You decide to fight and for this first fight, you will need to beat all 3 Pokemon to win. Because you are awesome, you do win the fight and the gym loses 3000 prestige. So the Gym's prestige goes down to 3000. Now 3000 prestige is only a level 2 gym, so the lowest level Pokemon gets kicked out as the Gym can know only support 2 Pokemon

• Because you are feeling good, you decide to fight the gym again. You still get to select 6 Pokemon but it will automatically select your best 6. This time, the you only have to beat 2 Pokemon (the enemy Pokemon are restored to full health between fights) before you are declared the winner. You breeze through this challenge and win the fight, the gym losses 2500 prestige. This leaves it with only 500 prestige which takes the gym down to level 1. This means the gym can only support 1 Pokemon so the worst Pokemon is booted out.

• Now this gym only has 1 Pokemon defending it and its the leader. So you once again challenge the gym and this time you easily crush it with your 6 Pokemon team. This loss takes the prestige of the gym to 0 and so the enemy team is booted out of the gym and it becomes white (neutral)

• When you click on the gym this time, down the bottom left you will see an icon which will allow you to put one of your Pokemon in the gym to claim it. Doing that and the Gym is now your teams color.

What happens to the Pokemon that i station at the Gym?

• The Pokemon that you add to a gym will become unavailable for you to use in any other gym fights and you will be unable to power up or evolve them until they have returned to your Pokemon list.

• When they do finally get defeated by another player, they will return to you with only 1 health so you will need to heal them up again before they will be useful.

• You are also only able to add full health Pokemon to gyms, the app wont let you assign non-full health Pokemon to the gym.

• For each Pokemon you have stationed in a gym (it doesnt matter if you are the leader of the gym or not), you are able to claim rewards from the shop. You get 10 gold coins and 500 stardust for each Pokemon stationed at gyms. It only counts up to 10 Pokemon, so there is no real benefit to having more then 10 Pokemon stationed at gyms at one time except for world domination.

• If you are just after the shop bonus, maybe its better to put in a Pokemon that you were about to turn into candy from the professor so you dont need to heal it when it returns.

What can you do at a friendly Gym?

• The goal when you goto a friendly gym is to reinforce the gym so that its harder for enemies to take it over. To do this, you need to add a Pokemon to the gym. However, the gym will only allow 1 Pokemon per gym level to be stationed at the gym.

• It requires 2000 prestige per gym level, so if the gym is already "full" for its current level, you wont have the option to add a Pokemon to the gym.

How can i raise the prestige of a friendly gym

• To raise the prestige of a friendly gym, you need to "train". You do this the same way you take over a gym with the following MAJOR exception, you can only choose ONE Pokemon to fight. So if you want to add a Pokemon to a gym that already has 2 Pokemon from your team in it, you need to train a Pokemon that can beat both of those 2 Pokemon.

• If you just beat one Pokemon, the gym's prestige will still rise but not as much.

• You need to repeat the training until you have added enough prestige to the gym to make it level up (It takes 2000 prestige for each level of the gym).

• Once the gym has received enough prestige, you will see the icon to add a Pokemon to the gym (bottom left) becomes available.

Do my Pokemon take damage from training?

• Yes - the exception is that your Pokemon wont faint/die even if you lose during training but they will need to be healed still with the purple potions. But you wont ever have to revive them as they stop training right before they reach that point (i guess :) )

• If you lose a fight againt an enemy gym, your Pokemon will faint/die and will need to be revived before healing.

What does training do for the Pokemon?

• The short answer is nothing - Pokemon dont level up or get stronger by fighting or training. However, their are some badges that are rewarded for you training X times. Beating 1 Pokemon is counted as training. So if you train at a gym with 2 Pokemon, and beat them both, that counts as training 2 times.

Can i put multiple Pokemon in a gym?

• No - Each player can only put 1 Pokemon in a gym regardless of the level of the Gym. So if a Gym is level 3, and has a space for another Pokemon, but you already have one in it, you want have the option to add another Pokemon. Someone else from your team needs to add a Pokemon to strengthen the Gym

Any sneaky tricks to training

• If you takeover a gym, put a 10cp Pokemon inside. Then do training on that gym with a strong Pokemon and watch how fast you get those training numbers up. You only get a tiny bit of xp doing this so its only worthwhile if you are wanting to increase you "number of times trained" stat.

What is the point of taking over gyms / putting Pokemon in gyms?

• Once every 20 hours, you can get some rewards from the shop menu. You get 10 gold coins and 500 Dust for every Pokemon that you currently have stationed in gyms (Up to a max of 10 Pokemon - so a total of 100 gold coins and 5000 dust per 20 hour cooldown). To claim this, goto the "Shop" and up the top right will have a Shield that shows the number of Pokemon you have stationed at gyms. Remember, other people can take back over the gym and boot your Pokemon out before you claim your reward - so work out the best time to claim if you are doing a run around a series of gyms.

Yes - Multiple people can attack a Gym at the same time!!

• On the map, you can tell if a gym is currently being attacked as you will see some "fighting actions" happening on the top of the gym. To join the fight, just get in range of the Gym and attack it as you normally would.

• The other players will also show up on your screen battling - the defending Pokemon will only attack 1 of the players at a time so anyone else can get free hits in. However, the last time we did this, we got stuck on the bug where the enemy had a tiny bit of health and tapping the screen did nothing.