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I have been to some gyms that have 2, 3, or even 7 or 8 Pokemons defending the gym.

Say, even if there are 2 Pokemons, and one is CP 1700, and the other is CP 2000. My Pokemon is only CP 2200, so it is very difficult to beat them both, because they combine to have a CP of 3700.

If I lose to the second Pokemon and restart the fight, I have to start with Pokemon #1 again... so even if I defeated Pokemon #1, I have to fight both Pokemons again.

And in some situation, I see 3 or even 7 or 8 Pokemons. In this case how can I defeat them all and occupy the gym?

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I don't know what you're doing, but I frequently take down Lv3-4 Gyms populated with 1.5k-2k CP Pokémon with my 1.1k Eeveelution army... – Niet the Dark Absol 1 hour ago
    
I even have more of the opposite concerns. I'm reguölary asking my self, how is it even expected to defend gyms at all. You really have not a real choice for doing so. – Zaibis 43 mins ago
    
Well, if you don't consider the team aspect, and never fought in gyms, then it will seem impossible to beat so many higher CP Pokemon with your own. However, the fact that you can repeatedly slam into a gym and all it costs are revives and potions means defenses are actually really fragile. – Nelson 11 mins ago
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Your goal in a gym battle is not to beat everything in one go.

Your goal is to KO at least one. I'm pretty sure 6 of your Pokemons can defeat one of theirs.

Once you have beaten at least one, it will deduct prestige. Reduce prestige to 0 and they lose their gym.

You can use this setup heavily to your advantage by setting up your team to be able to handle any defending Pokemon, KO one, run away, heal up, and repeat. They will still lose prestige, you won't need so many revives, and you can actually beat a heavily defended gym by yourself.

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as Ashvin also answered, is important to go in groups, not to defeat them, but to fill with more than one pokemon – lois6b 2 hours ago
    
IMO, the best way to beat a gym by yourself is actually to cheese it. Prepare a good matchup between your group and the gym's defenders, get into a fight, switch to a good pokemon on your first guy, kill it, then run away. You take a lot less damage, they lose the prestige for the loss, and you can heal up using potions without needing revives. There's nothing that requires you to kill everything in one go. If you can't kill it before they use their Hyperbeam/Hydro Pump/Big Charge attack, you're not in a good matchup and probably shouldn't keep going. – Nelson 1 hour ago
    
If you go in groups, but have a poor matchup, say you guys all use Electric vs a Snorlax with Earthquake, that Snorlax is going to kill every pokemon at the same time. It can probably wipe out all your team's pokemon and not go down. – Nelson 1 hour ago
    
that is a nice explanation, you should edit you answer to add that. i was saying after the match is better to go in groups so you can add more pokemon to defend and not wait to other pass by and say: hey, there is a slot! – lois6b 1 hour ago
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I usually go gym hunting with a couple of friends from the same team. We all use our 6 pokemon each to try and beat the gym and bring its prestige down to zero as Nelson mentioned above. Once we beat the gym we each put one of our pokemon inside.

It's generally hard to beat a gym on your own unless your Pokemon are way stronger and the gyms prestige isnt too high. Good luck catching them all :D

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