Gym Leader Battle XP

[Awe5some]

Do you get XP for your pokemon at gym battles? For example, at the Fuschia Gym; do you get XP for defeating one of the gym leader's pokemon? Thank you.

[Haneroze]

Normally, yes, you do get experience for defeating a Gym Leader battle. If you don't get any experience, there's two possible reasons:

 

1. The fight is scripted to not give you experience. Not sure if there's any like that for Gym battles, but it happens often during the Storyline that a specific NPC doesn't give any exp.

 

2. You previously lost against the Gym leader. If you lose and rechallenge a Gym leader, he will stop giving any experience and won't give any money. This is to prevent someone from farming against a Gym leader by losing against their last pokemon, since their pokemons are significantly higher level than other trainers.

[Astraea]

Hi Awe5some,

 

Yes, you normally get experience from the gym leader, however, you will only receive said experience on the first challenge. The reason why you won't gain experience from a gym leader is because you've previously lost against said gym leader, and thus will not gain any experience for rechallenges. This is to prevent exp boosting.

 

As your question has been answered, I'll now lock this topic. Have a great rest of your week!

 

Kind Regards, Astraea.

 

P.S. Great Answer [mention]Haneroze[/mention]!

 

 

 

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