 Hi guys, it's MJ the student's act tree and I'm going to be making a video on Pokemon and the video is going to be on advanced strategies. So Pokemon Go It's this new app everybody's playing it and a lot of videos have come out on giving beginners tips and all that type of stuff I'm going to assume that you're level 5 or above and that you understand, you know The basics of this game so we can delve into the more strategic and you know game elements Because it's not that much of a child's game There actually is a lot of strategy and tactics that you can employ in this game. So before we get into them I just want to introduce Defense and attack of your Pokemon. So your Pokemon has a top so in this case We have a scythe who is a both a bug and a flying type and it has an attack Which is steel the steel wing is a is another type So your Pokemon could in a sense have four different types Now why are types important because certain types have different advantages and disadvantages against other types? For example, look at this game matrix. It is quite intense but what we have here is all the various types and the the green represents that has got an advantage and red means it's got a disadvantage against those other types Now I have looked at it from a game theory point of view Trying to see if there is a dominant strategy, you know, is there any criteria that you can try use to to simplify this? The math gets quite messy I mean even I was looking gross seems to be quite weak fire and ground seem to be quite strong But that is not incorporating the probability and the likelihood of coming across these various Pokemon So as far as trying to gamify or build a strategy around this game matrix that is quite difficult Instead by advanced strategy, I'm going to recommend that you focus on two things Okay, and the first thing is your XP. So XP allows you to level up The more XP you have the higher your level is and the higher your level is the more Pokemon in the different varieties that you're going to see and that's the point of the game You've got to catch them all so the higher your level the more likely hood You're going to see Pikachu and Eevee and the rare Pokemon So you want to build up your XP the second thing you want to build up is something known as star dust Which is quite new to me I was like, well, what is the star dust but star dust along with candy can build up your Pokemon and make them stronger and Having strong Pokemon is very essential when it comes to taking over the gyms Okay gyms are these things that pop up on the the map and they're very important Okay, when you see a gym gyms are important opportunities because not only by fighting them Do you gain XP and all that type of stuff? But also if you hold a gym for 20 hours You're going to get rewards and the rewards you get are star dust and Pokemon gold Pokemon gold you can use at the shop to buy various items and the star dust you can use to make a Pokemon stronger and take over even more gyms which will allow you to get even more star dust every day So how do we take over gyms and how do we defend gyms? Because that's that's the whole thing is attacking gyms and defending gyms And the best way to do that is to team up Okay, this Pokemon game just like in Greece, which is kind of based on it Very much is a social game and you're going to be way more effective when you're in a team Okay, you need a team up and then together you guys can go to gyms and take them down way quicker I mean, let's say you come across a gym First thing you want to do is see okay. This is a pincer. He is a bug Pokemon Memorize this this matrix or have a copy with you at all times Pins is a bug Pokemon. So you'll see that fire. What else hurts him fire flying and Rock yeah, those three are going to be very effective against Pinsir and I mean by using this game matrix on the gyms It's going to be very easy to defeat them, you know, you're gonna feel like a Roman we came we saw we conquered We took over all the gyms. Okay, but that's the easy part. The easy part is taking over the gym The hard part is defending a gym. How do you defend a gym? Well, first of all, I'm going to show you how not to defend Okay, this is this is the worst thing you can do in Pokemon is to go and put a magic Cop with the combat power of 10 in a gym Okay, this is terrible and it's terrible for two reasons one It's gonna it's gonna upset your team because anybody else who's gonna want to come and train at this gym and try boost This prestige is gonna take forever because every time they beat this magic up because the combat power is so low It's only going to give a fraction of prestige Which means it's gonna take hours and hours to level at this this gym Also, I mean you can see there. I was I was only level eight. I don't know what I was doing when I was like Yeah, I've got my got my first gym. I've got my magic cop But I mean if another Pokemon comes I mean one hits and the magic cop dies Which means it's gonna be very very easy for the other teams to take over a gym That is defended by a magic cop So don't don't defend it with a magic cop. Okay now that we know what not to do I'm gonna talk to you guys about what you should do I would recommend putting in Pokemon that only have one type. So Let's say that cipher. It was both bug and flying I would recommend against using cipher as a defending Pokemon rather put a Pokemon that just has one defense This is gonna make it less vulnerable to various attacks I'd also then recommend that it has a two-type attack so that it will be more effective From various other Pokemon, you know if it's got both water and psychic say like like slow, bro Then, you know, it's gonna have advantage against a fire Pokemon and other Pokemon such as a poison one Which is we've got its weakness to To the psychic power. Okay, so that's what you want one type defense two type attack and What you want to do is Get in your team and the order that you place the Pokemon So like I said, I'm assuming your level five and above you understand how the gyms work Once the gym prestige hits a another level you can then place another Pokemon and in order to upgrade the prestige You need to battle the Pokemon and you only get only for me I don't know if this is a bug on my side But I only get one Pokemon and I have to take on all the other Pokemon in that gym Which makes it a little bit difficult So what I would recommend is the first strategy if you're just starting off and you with your team is let the weakest player Put in their Pokemon first. Okay, this is gonna make it much easier for the other players to beat that Pokemon and Build the prestige they're gonna be building it slowly But they're gonna be able to be building it and then they're gonna put in the second strongest Pokemon and This will allow the strongest Pokemon the number one to come in and have a good chance of beating both of these Pokemon At the same time which will increase the prestige quite quickly. So then you put in the strongest Pokemon However, this is an advanced video and I'm going to show you how you can increase the prestige Even more efficiently and even quicker and that comes to strategy two and what you do here Is you put in the strongest Pokemon first? Okay But now we need to play that top matrix that we've been looking at So for this example Put in the strongest Pokemon and make him fire Then put in the weakest Pokemon And make him ground Okay Ground has an advantage over fire and because he's got a smaller combat power to the fire Pokemon It's going to improve this prestige very very quickly And then for the second poke for the final Pokemon You then put in a water one which has an advantage on both fire And ground and this is going to let you build up your gym's prestige very quickly and allow you to put in three strong Pokemon Without having to go through the whole revivals and potions and doing it, you know numerous amount of times Because remember Pokemon Like ingress which the game is based on it kind of all comes down to managing your resources You want to manage the amount of Pokemon you have you want to manage You know the amount of potions you use the amount of revivals you you consume All this type of stuff and for this reason I would highly recommend against Trying to set up and defend a gym In the waterfront or some hot tourist attraction place as you can see we've got a gym There's a whole bunch of pokey stops around people are putting lures out. It's a very festive area There's a lot of tourists coming over here, which means when you have this gym I don't think you're even going to last one hour before another team is going to come and take it down Because there's a lot of people in this area You're going to lose that gym very quickly I recommend getting your team and going to some weird distant location You should be safe because it's a group of you guys You know safety first and because you're in a group set up a gym Or build up a gym that's in quite a remote location where there's not a lot of traffic And it makes it quite hard for the other teams You know they really have to go out of their way to try to take down that gym And you've built it up quite nicely So it is going to be a bit of a hazard for them And that way you're going to keep the gym for the full day You're going to get the benefits which you can then use to build up more pokemon to take over even more gyms So well, I've spoken quite quickly but in a nutshell I've spoken about gaining xp and saving star dust Are the two things you want to focus on then I highly recommend teaming up In order to attack gyms in such a way you can manage your resources And then finally I spoke about the best ways on how to hold gyms so that you can get even more resources So that you can repeat the entire process again And there we have it. Thanks guys so much for watching and job I'm wishing you guys all the best with pokemon go. It's a lot of fun And I hope you guys have really great memories with it I'll see you guys next time for my other videos. Cheers