Following last month’s massive new update to Pokémon GO, various in-game Gyms are starting to resemble a void where there’s a possibility that Pokémon will never return. After assigning Pokémon to defend a Gym, some users are reporting that they are glitched into limbo and cannot actually be found at said Gym, nor used for anything else because as the game says, the Pokémon is guarding a Gym – even when that’s not the case.
Reddit user LimboMon chronicled their issues with the bug in a post today writing, “A small number of players have encountered a bug that has our Pokémon marked as defenders, even though they’re not in a gym. Pokémon with the defender status can’t be used for anything and we have been stuck with that. It has been over a week since I had the problem and reported it to Niantic. I’ve sent bug reports, PMed and mentioned NianticGeorge, but have heard no response at all.”
The Silph Road is warning players that “There is a serious bug that can happen when adding Pokemon to gyms. The Pokemon is marked as a defender, but isn’t assigned to the gym, making it completely unusable for the indefinite future. There is currently no solution to this.” However, NianticGeorge, a member of Niantic Support who hangs out on the largest Pokémon GO subreddits, did actually respond to this post by saying that the post makes it clear that the problem is a persistent issue and that they’ve shared this information with the team. Developer Niantic has yet to provide clarification on this issue, but stay tuned for any updates.
Source: USgamer
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