i don't even really like the battling system. it's still too easy, even with water pokemon running the thing form my experience. i've never had a problem taking down a gym easily on my own. they should at least let me put multiple of my own pokemon on a single gym or something. i usually get scrubs backing me up.man i have 3 high level arcanines and a low lvl water type will wash them
also there is really no point in taking over gyms for the coins except for late as fukk at night when you can take over a few and then grab the coins. during the day i usually just beat the gym for XP and don't even claim it.