Pokemax

Pokemax Gyms

Eleven regional Gyms, including Greywood’s optional Amberleaf Medal. The original ten medals unlock the League.

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The league of ten medals

The 11 regional Gyms offer permanent medals through 3-versus-3 Pokemax battles. Collect the original ten to complete the League Circuit. Greywood adds the optional Amberleaf Medal; it never replaces a required medal. The Medal Case tracks League progress out of 10 and all medals out of 11 separately.

When no player holds a Gym, a named NPC leader defends it with a team of region-native Pokemax at level 40 / 43 / 46 — this is endgame content, meant for a Pokemax stable you have already built up.

Two ways to challenge

Every challenge is fought with your registered Party of 3 — the same team you use everywhere else. What you are playing for is up to you:

🏅 Medal Challenge — !gym_medal (or !gym_challenge medal). Win, and the permanent medal is yours — without taking the Gym. The current leader keeps their seat; you just add the medal to your Case. This is the league path, and the one most players want: you only need to win a region once, you can do it even while you already lead a Gym of your own, and it is blocked only if you already own that medal. No commitment, no upkeep.

👑 Conquest — !gym_challenge conquest. Win, and you take the seat: you become the region's Gym Leader (and you get the medal too, if you did not have it). This is the optional territory layer — leadership, rent and reputation — covered just below.

Taking a Gym — leadership & Safari Rent

Conquest is for players who want more than a medal. One Gym per trainer: while you hold one you cannot conquer a second — you have to lose or give up the one you have first. A Gym is a commitment, not a collection.

The payoff — Safari Rent. While you hold a region's Gym you take a 25% cut of all the gross OIL other players earn from !safari in that region — one OIL for every four — tallied through the day and paid to you automatically each day. The busier your region's Safari, the more it pays; a held Gym is an income stream, not a trophy on a shelf.

How the defence runs. You set the three Pokemax that defend for you with !gym_team (changeable once every 24 hours, and those Pokemax are locked from release while they defend). When someone challenges you, you get a 10-minute invite to enter the lobby and control your team live; if you do not show up in time, the Gym AI plays your registered team for you — but you defend better, and earn more reputation, when you play it yourself.

A leader's reputation — Prestige

Holding a Gym earns you rent. Defending it earns you Prestige — a leader's reputation. You gain Prestige only by winning a defence; attacking never gives it, and neither does a win where the challenger simply went AFK. Every successful defence is worth a base amount:

Two bonuses stack on top. A win streak pays out when it hits exactly 3 / 5 / 10 / 20 defences in a row (+2 / +4 / +10 / +20), and a strong challenger is worth more: +1 if the attacker holds 5 or more medals, +2 at 8 or more. Losing a defence resets your streak to zero.

Your Prestige feeds a rank shown on the Gym panel and on the leaderboard (!gym_leaders · !gym_prestige). Ranks read off your current reign — the Prestige you have built on the Gym you hold now, which resets to zero if the Gym changes hands. A separate lifetime total remembers everything you have ever earned.

Ranks are titles — bragging rights and leaderboard placement, not a paycheck. The OIL comes from Safari Rent, which you get for holding the Gym at all; Prestige is the badge that says how long and how well you have held it.

The windows that keep it fair

A set of timers stops a Gym from being farmed back and forth in one sitting:

How to think about it

Chase medals first. Medal Challenges cost you nothing to win and never expire — clear the ten regions for the Regional Journey at your own pace. NPC teams sit at 40–46, so build the stable before you knock.

Take a Gym only where you will defend it. Rent follows Safari activity, so hold the region you actually hunt in — and be there to defend it, because a defence you play live is worth more Prestige than one the AI plays for you.

Defend with a wall, attack with coverage. Your gene keepers earn their genes here — a defending team that dodges the common attackers holds a Gym for days.