Is there a limit to Pokémon gyms?

Q: How many Pokémon can you put in gyms per day?

You can only place one Pokémon per gym. If the gym isnt your color, its time to battle.

Players are already testing the limits to Pokemon Go's new gym system. Less than an hour after the game's new gyms opened up, players on Reddit have discovered there's a limit to how many Pokemon a player can send out to defend at different gyms.

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TL;DR: The current Gym system in bullet points
How many Pokémon can you put in gyms per day?
What happens if your Pokémon stays in a gym for 24 hours?

According to multiple reports, players can only have 20 Pokemon out defending gyms at one time. This limit was likely set up to prevent a small group of players from taking over every gym in an area. It also limits the effectiveness of players who remotely take gyms with the help of GPS spoofing programs.

Once a player hits that upper limit, an error message will pop up to block players from adding any more Pokemon.

Of course, most players will never have to worry about reaching this upper limit. Pokemon defending gyms will quickly grow weaker thanks to a decreasing "motivation" meter, which means that opposing teams can boot them without much of a problem.

Pokemon Go also limits the amount of coins a player gets from defending gyms to 100 Coins per day, which means there's less of an incentive to have so many Pokemon out at one time. Since coins are now given out when a Pokemon returns to its trainer, having more Pokemon out at once increases the chance that a player won't get the all the coins their Pokemon has earned because of the limit.

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It's still very early, so there's probably a lot more nuances to Pokemon Go's new gyms that we haven't discovered yet. Keep checking back to see what other surprises are in store for Pokemon Go fans around the globe.

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I had a Blissey in the gym and it was being contested. I used my 10 golden razzes and in all it took about 15 minutes. I exited the App, and logged back into Pokemon Go about 40 minutes later and the gym was still white so I kept watching it and nobody put a Pokémon in there..

So I was wondering if there was a limit Niantic has to where he couldn’t put a Pokémon in that gym? Otherwise I don’t know why he would waste his time battling my Pokémon for a while just to not leave a Pokémon to defend the gym.

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um no.
the limit should be 15.

The spoofers (with their multiple accounts) in my area used to have every gym around. I'm very thankful for the 20 mon limit.

Since you have to deal with spoofers i understand your stance. I would be happy too

If you are not surrounded by spoofers that is great. Enjoy this fun game they way it was intended.
Sadly I'm not alone, many the posters on this board are surrounded by spoofers. I never really understood just how awful it is until it happened to my local area.

Can't a spoofer get around the limit by simply creating more spoofed accounts?

Nah, it's perfect (with the increased number of gyms but in order to earn something you have to be everywhere)

You basicly need a car to play if u arent in a middle of big city

Before this gym system the gym limit should have been 10. After the update, with the new system I'm Ok with being able to contrel a few more than 10. 20 is a very generous cap. Only spoofers would take advantage of a higher number

I agree, 20 is too low. One way to increase your chance of earning 50c/day is to capture and defend as many gyms as possible with the hope that some small % of them will be defeated each day to bring in your bonus. But the 20 gym cap prevents that strategy.

Another issue: what are we supposed to do with all of these pokemon? The more you play, the more high-level monsters you collect (raids make it even easier to collect high-CP pokemon), but now you can't use more than 20 to defend gyms...

If the issue is spoofing, then block the spoofing, don't limit legitimate play.

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While many aspects of Pokémon Go are fairly straight forward, such as finding and catching Pokémon and spinning Pokéstops for items, the Gym system is a little complicated and has changed quite a bit since Pokémon Go first launched. Every aspect from how you join Gyms to how you defend Gyms, how you attack Gyms, to how you get Stardust, Poké Coins, items, and — yes! — Candy can be confusing to keep track of. Fortunately, we've done the research and tested out every aspect of Pokémon Go Gyms. Here's what you need to know!

Joining and defending Gyms
Motivation, feeding, and Gym bonuses
Attacking Gyms
Earning Gym badges
Other Gym activities

Pokémon Go Raid Battle Guide: Everything you need to know!

TL;DR: The current Gym system in bullet points

You can join any empty Gym at any time.
You can only join a maximum of 20 Gyms at any one time.
Gyms have 6 slots.
Gyms can only have one of each species of Pokémon on them at any given time. So, if you add a Blissey, no one else can add a Blissey to the same Gym.
Gym order is based on order joined. First in, first to battle, potentially first out.
There's no more prestiging (training). If a Gym is empty or belongs to your team, and one of the 6 slots is open, you can join it. If there's no slot, you can't.
Pokémon in Gyms have a Motivation meter that looks like a heart.
Pokémon lose Motivation the moment they're put in Gyms but the rate at which Motivation decays scales along with the Pokémon's max CP ranging from 1-10% with higher CP Pokémon decaying faster than lower.
Pokémon also lose roughly 28% Motivation for their first two losses.
The third loss in a row kicks a Pokémon out of the Gym.
You can increase a Pokémon from the same team's Motivation, including your own, by feeding it a Pinap, Nanab, or Razz Berry, or fill it up completely by feeding it a new Golden Razz Berry.
You can keep feeding normal Berries, even after it's full, until its been fed 10 Berries. You can feed up to 10 Pokémon up to 10 Berries each within 30 minutes.
There is no limit to the number of Golden Razz Berries you can feed a Pokémon in a Gym.
When you feed a Pokémon a berry, including your own, you get 20 Stardust, 20 XP, and, occasionally, a Candy of that Pokémon's type.
You can feed berries remotely to any Gym with one of your Pokémon on it.
You can attack any rival Gym within range at any time.
You still get a Battle Team of 6 Pokémon to attack with.
You can save your favorite Battle Teams for easy access at any time.
When you defeat a rival Pokémon, it loses Motivation and CP.
When its Motivation and CP get reduced to zero, and you defeat it, it gets kicked out of the Gym.
If you kick all the Pokémon out of a Gym, you can take over the Gym for your team.
Pokémon accumulate one Poké Coin per 10 minutes when they're in a Gym.
You can only collect Poké Coins when your Pokémon gets kicked out of a Gym.
You can only collect a maximum of 50 Poké Coins a day no matter how many Poké Coins your Pokémon have accumulated or how many are kicked out of a Gym on any given day.
A day starts at midnight, so you can get 50 coins at 11:59 pm, and another 50 at midnight.
You can spin the Photo Disc on a Gym once every 5 minutes to receive items, just like a PokéStop.
You get 2-4 items per spin, with a bonus item when you spin a Gym controlled by your team.
Spinning Gyms counts towards your daily streak bonuses.
The first time you spin a Gym on any given day, you also get your free Raid Pass for the day.
Pokémon Go Plus can spin Gyms just like it can PokéStops.
You get a Gym badge for every Gym you interact with.
It takes 500 points to get a bronze badge, 4,000 to get a silver badge, and 30,000 to get gold.
The most efficient way to get Gym points is to be in a Gym for long periods (1440 a day) and/or fight in a lot of Raids at the Gym (1000 per Raid).
You can see all your Gyms on the Map view.

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