"I currently have 19 Pokemon holding gyms and redeem approximately 800 coins a week. I follow a few rules to allow this to happen, and they are within (if anyone is curious)."

#PokemonGO: I have 19 Pokemon assigned right now, and here are the rules I tend to follow to achieve that (and even get more later, probably).My rules are these:Don't bother beating enemy gyms. You're breaking a gym down and leaving one pokemon in it, two if you have a friend. Then, you have to hope others from your team come and train it up before other teams come and break them down. Generally, I leave anything less than level 5 or 6 alone in low traffic areas, and anything less than 9 or 10 alone in high traffic areas.If possible, always train up a level 9 gym. Gym battlers tend to go for the low-hanging fruit, so if you have as many of your pokemon as possible in high level gyms, they tend never to get messed with. In fact, of the pokemon I have placed in level 10 gyms, I believe only 2 have been returned to my "revive" box in the last 3 weeks.Try to leave a pokemon in a gym that is above the 4 lowest spots in that gym, especially in a 10 gym. If people DO decide to battle a 10 gym, they will generally realize they need a lot of revives to have any chance, and will run out after bringing the prestige down from beating around 3 or 4 of the pokemon. So, as long as you are in the top, you're relatively safe, even if you're like me and have not one Lapras or Dragonite to your name.Never leave your 6 highest cp pokemon in gyms unless the situation is dire as per the other rules. You need these pokemon to beat gyms if building up prestige is not working in the ways I explain below. Sometimes, your highest level pokemon are your only recourse.If you haven't already, start keeping as many evolved pokemon at various levels of cp, even below 1000cp, in your pokemon storage. This will involve evolving sometimes low level pokemon once you already have some high level ones. People will put all kinds of pokemon in the lowest slot of a friendly gym. However, in order to train a friendly gym up the fastest, you'll need to beat the lowest level pokemon with a pokemon that is a lower level than that. I have actually beaten a 900 Machoke with a 790 Nidorina, a 1000 Exeggcutor with a 700 Scyther with Bug Buzz, and believe it or not, a 393 Kabuto some idgit put into a gym with a 392 Pidgey. That's right, a pidgey. No pokemon is useless as long as it could be a lowest-tier-of-a-gym pokemon's weakness. Keep all vaporeons for all flareon, and have Vaporeons at all kinds of levels is incredibly important. The pokemon I have used the most for gym training are a 946 Vaporeon and a 622 and 922 Tangela. They have been extremely useful.Always train a gym with a pokemon that is a lower-level weakness for the lowest pokemon in that gym. Froth at the mouth when you see two low-level Flareon in a gym, because you can get some pretty low-level Vaporeon and melt through them. Every time you beat a pokemon with a higher-level pokemon, you get like a 100 points base. Every time you beat a pokemon with a lower-level pokemon, you get 500 points base. The lower you go, the more points you get. So, you need a wide range of pokemon to fight a wide range of level-one pokemon in gyms. Otherwise, you're fighting forever. The pokemon battles I mentioned above always netted me 500 or more prestige per battle. The greatest prestige grabber I have has been my 946 Vaporeon. He's such a little hoss and can beat so many pokemon above it at different levels.Don't fight until your pokemon is defeated in training; run as soon as you have beaten the lowest level/s you can beat without dying. Revives have become a precious resource, so you need to pick your pokemon wisely, beat only what you can beat, then run away from the fight when you don't have enough health to go through the next pokemon. You still get the prestige for whatever pokemon you have already beaten when you run. Then, potion up and go back in.Don't stop at ten pokemon in gyms. Try to add pokemon in every single day. I had 21 assigned this morning, but am now at 19 pokemon assigned. I've lost two today and likely will lose two or more tomorrow, so it's always good to have insurance. Never stop at 10 since it will only further guarantee you can claim 100 coins a day if you continually add more.Likely, you will need to spend coins on lots more pokemon and bag storage. I've probably claimed 4000 coins lifetime at this point (and bought 20 dollars worth in the beginning to buy more bag storage and pokemon storage and, most importantly, a megapack of 25 lucky eggs for my "evolving sessions" where I can do 60 evolutions or more and get maximum xp output) and spent most of it on bag and storage upgrades. I can currently hold 750 items and 500 pokemon. I also have 910 coins. I probably should buy another 100 pokemon slots since I'm already at 395 of 500 after a lucky egg evolution session and I can't narrow it down any more.), and it's best to spend (as I've seen it) on pokemon storage and bag upgrades. You get more slots for potions on pokestop runs (and will likely never run short of balls even in high traffic areas), and that's essential to healing up as you're fighting and as your pokemon are beaten in gyms. Protip: set an alarm every day for when you should claim your coins. If you claim at the exact moment you can (and two of those days will be tough, since you'll need to roll over in bed and shut off your alarm at 1-2am and 4-5am twice a week, go to the shop, claim your coins, and fall back to sleep), you'll increase the number of coins you can claim by 100 coins a week, claiming 800 instead of 700.This is one of the tougher parts, but beast through levels if you can. I'd like to say that you can do what I'm doing if you're around a level 22 or 23, but it's unlikely that you can unless you're spending all of your stardust (I haven't spent any stardust whatsoever, and likely won't until I hit level 30 or higher) to up the levels of your pokemon. I'm a couple points off of level 29 as of right now, and have been playing as a suburb-to-the-suburbs player. I get about an hour with the game a day, max, except when I'm at work for office hours and can just leave my phone plugged up and charging and catch a mon with the phone buzzes and spin the pokestop at my work every five minutes. I play incredibly efficiently and don't travel into urban areas on the weekends to catch all the amazing pokemon, so I have no dragonites or lapras or gyarados or any of those mons that I covet, but I do have a lot of pretty high pokemon of other types that can hold their own in most gyms (up to this point).For the point above about beasting through levels, you HAVE to learn to throw curveballs and hit the circle when it says "Great". You'll get through levels much faster, and I can't believe I didn't start using curveballs until level 27. Every successful catch gives you 100xp. Every curveball that is involved gives you 10xp more, which is an extra 10 percent you can get per mon (I could also swear it improves your catch rate since I stopped running out of balls after switching to curveballs, and less pokemon ran away). However, consistently waiting for that moment to get a Great throw will net you an additional 50xp, and is much more manageable than trying to become so accurate as to get an excellent throw each time (the great area is around 10 times the area, maybe more, than the excellent area, so you're 1000 percent more likely to hit it than the excellent area, and for half the xp. So, the overall likelihood of nailing great throws over excellents improves the likelihood that you'll get more xp. It's a bell curve with Great throws at the top of the xp gathering and excellents at the lower end on the right of the bell). Getting 160xp per catch as opposed to 100xp per catch is well worth learning how to throw a curveball (I could also swear it has made making great throws easier to nail because the motion is easier to repeat and differentiate from pokemon to pokemon).Well, that's all I can think of right now. Let me know if you need any clarification since I somewhat rushed through this over the course of an hour or so. I hope some find this helpful and informative. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2cV0DaH