Pokemon Go Sets A Limit on How Many Gyms a Player Can Defend at Once

Players are already testing the limits to Pokemon Go's new gym system. Less than an hour after the [...]

By Christian Hoffer

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.

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.

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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