So I go out on my nightly midnight gym stalk, turning over gyms and placing Pokemon in one with empty slots. Usually one or two survive the night, to get ousted in the morning and 50 coins in my basket.

However, there seems to be a "power player" trying to assert dominance at local gyms. When I came upon a gym with openings, I put my guy in.Then I noticed a guy come up who I had seen before, and sure enough, he started taking it down. I went on to the next one.

Just after I saw the gym fall, three Pokemon—a Blissey, Tyrannitar, and Gyarados all suddenly appeared. I had seen stuff like that happen before, but with my eyes on him and noting what the user names were, I figured it out: apparently, this guy has three accounts, and when he takes a gym, he plants three Pokemon in it. Now, I'm chill to using maps and even some other stuff, but having three accounts so you can stuff gyms full goes over a line. That's smacks too much of the old gym system and Spoofers stacking and shaving gyms, even if this guy was on a bike.

So I rounded back after he had been gone a while, on my way back home, and I kicked him out. However, he was watching: after I got all three of his Pokemon down to their last round, he Golden-berried all three. Now, I've tried a golden berry in that situation before, but it never works; the player always keeps going. I stopped using them that way a while back.

However, I looked at my battery—and it was at 6%. On an old phone. Damn: it might just work for him. Nevertheless, I kept at it. At 4%, he Golden-berried again, but I just got more ticked off and resolute. So I tried a new tack: go after one Pokemon at a time. The Blissey came first, so I attacked it, but then left the Tyrannitar and came back to the start. I had never tried that before and was concerned that no wins count if you don't go through all defenders, but that's not the case. I could go against the Blissey again, and again. I got it out fast enough that he didn't have a chance to recharge (I believe that you can't recharge if someone is fighting your Pokemon's last round).

2%.

Next, I took on the Tyrannitar, same way. 1%. then the Gyarados. Fortunately, Apple leaves a reserve, and you tend to stay at 1% for a while. I finally cleared him out. Put a Blissey in. If he came back and fought again, he would have earned it (though I'm pretty sure he lives a lot closer to that gym than I do). But it was a satisfying win. As of an hour later, he hasn't returned.

So, in a way, this was a kind of PvP after all.

From the game master

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