"[Guide] How to hold 10 gyms in a medium-turnover area (if you live in a city and you're not Instinct) without having a Dragonite"

#PokemonGO: TL;DR: Look for low-turnover gyms above level 3 and place your defender above at least 2 other defenders.Today, for the first time after 6 and half months, I opened the app and collected 5000 stardust and 100 coins without any gym interaction.This was one of my long-term goals in the game (the others being reaching level 30, achieved in December, the gold Jogger medal, achieved 2 days ago, a complete Gen1 Pokédex, not achieved yet, and 27 gold medals, planned for the end of 2017).For all those low-, mid- and high-level players who haven't been collecting from 10 gyms daily, here's how I did it.Disclaimer: I am Mystic (dominant team in my region) and I live in a large urban area with a lot of Pokéstops, spawns and gyms, although nothing compared to Santa Monica, San Francisco or Kijkduin.1) Build a roster of good defenders gym holders: Dragonite, Snorlax, Rhydon, Gyarados, Vaporeon. Period. If you live in Berlin or in a Rhyhorn area, just Dragonite-Snorlax-Rhydon. If both Rhyhorn and Eevee are rare, you can go down the CP ranking a bit. Choose high-IV ones (usually the hatched level-20 exemplars are ideal but if you catch high-level high-IV ones good for you) and power them up to level 30 independently of their movesets. Only a high CP matters. You need 10 of them, more if some of them have good attacking movesets and you want to keep them for attacking.2) Find low-turnover gyms (categories 5, 6 and 7) in your area. If you can monitor them daily during your daily commute it's ideal. Make a list of those gyms that stay the same color over multiple days.3) Focus on training gyms above level 3. From preliminary results (I'll publish them soon™), gyms that are already level 4 or above last much longer than gyms level 3 and below. (Some would say: obviously.)4) Only train gyms where you can put a gym holder 3rd from bottom or above. The higher the better, but you really need to avoid those last and second-last positions, which are only marginally better (or maybe even worse) than a level-3 gym.5) To train efficiently, keep a wide roster of prestigers: as detailed here I keep prestigers between 900 and 1350 CP. My goal is to have several CP-efficient prestigers against the most common low defenders (mostly Vaporeon, Gyarados, Exeggutor, Rhydon/Golem and Snorlax) in 5 CP ranges (9xx, 10xx, 11xx, 12xx and 13xx). Actually three ranges would already be great (9xx, 11xx and 13xx).6) Be opportunistic: if you see a high-level gym with 2k-4k prestige missing for the next level, train it! But if you need to train 9.5k, only do that if the gym is low turnover. Ignore high-turnover gyms, unless you need the 10th gym of the day before collecting.7) Only attack very low level gyms (4 or less) or gyms that are deeply in your team's territory: it's pointless to target a level-10 rival gym if everyone in that area belongs to that rival team. They would retake it and rebuild it in a few hours.8) In general, the more friendly gyms are around, the likelier is your gym to hold. But it's also likelier to be "shaved" and rebuilt with higher-CP gym holders. Save your highest-CP gym holders for gyms deep in your team's territory because that's also where power creep is stronger. I can sometimes put an Exeggutor on the top of a gym in a mixed Mystic/Instinct area, but nothing less than my best1 Snorlax can hold a gym in a 100% Mystic neighborhood where the minimum CP on long-standing gyms is 2700+.9) If you have several gyms in the area, leave minority-team gyms in peace: they are less likely to attack your gyms if they can build up theirs. In Mystic/Valor areas, I don't touch Instinct gyms (especially those below level 10), and in Mystic/Instinct areas, I don't touch Valor gyms (especially those below level 10).10) If you have a few spare minutes and revives/potions, train up another slot after placing your Pokémon, in particular if the gym is low-level, in the hope that some lazy guy puts a decent Pokémon in. Best case, something gets added slightly below yours and you get bumped up a level. Middle case, something gets added above yours and the gym gets stronger. Worst case, some trash mon gets added and it's the same as before. Those cases compensate for the small chance that an a$$hole puts a Chansey in.1 with Lick and Earthquake, but almost-perfect IVs, therefore it's my best gym holder despite being a bad defender.EDIT: added points 9) and 10).I will update this post as more data and ideas come. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2kNqF6a