Pokémon Go players are furious with someone who missed the chance to send a lone Dragonite home after a long stay in a Pokémon Gym.
Pokémon Go is a free game with microtransactions that allow you to upgrade equipment or participate in special events. Although there is a premium currency (in PokéCoins), you can earn them for free by defending Pokémon Gyms.
The more a Pokémon on your team defends a Gym, the more PokéCoins you get. The downside is that there is a cap of fifty PokéCoins, and you lose access to the Pokémon while it is defending the Gym, and you cannot recall it until it is defeated.
This means that there is no point in keeping a Pokémon in a Gym after a certain point, but the lure of free PokéCoins means that they are often hotly contested, so it is rare for defenders to hold their position for long., especially in busy places.
Pokémon Go fans want Dragonite sent home
A user on the Pokémon Go Reddit shared a thread asking if they should have defeated a weakened Dragonite, which had protected the Gym for over 253 days. Other users rushed to the thread to ask why he hadn’t been returned to his master.
Would it be mean to kick this person out? byu/papa_hotel_india inpokemongo
“Whatever you leave there will probably stay just as long or longer. I’m grateful when someone takes it out the next morning so I can get my stuff,” one user wrote, while another said, “It’s mean not to.” We just want our 50 coins.”
“My shiny Voltali got stuck in an arena for 35 days and I almost lost my mind. I’m sure they’re begging for someone to kick them out!” one user lamented, while another wrote: “They’d probably be begging you to finally release their Pokémon from prison.”
“I was stuck in a remote arena for three years once…” one user recalled, “I finally drove there (four hours) one day as a special trip, with a friend of a dark color. different team that agreed to kick me out. They didn’t install any Pokémon after they got mine.”
“You would be doing this person a favor, they are worth gold many times over.”
Fans have been asking Niantic for the ability to recall Pokémon defending Gyms, but this feature has not yet been added to the game. This means that a Pokémon can be lost for weeks, or even years, until one day where a brave trainer manages to defeat them and send them home. Hopefully the same thing will happen to this Dragonite one day.
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