@Mystic said in Will a pokemon in an out of state gym come back?:
I live in Iowa and recently went out to Washington state for a wedding and left my Vaporeon in a gym there, it has been in the gym for 25 days which for me is an unusually long amount of time. Did I just screw myself out of a pokemon?
In Pokémon GO, leaving your Vaporeon in a gym for an extended period is not necessarily a bad thing. While your Vaporeon is in the gym, you will continue to earn PokéCoins (up to a daily limit) for the number of days it remains defending the gym. Once your Vaporeon returns to you, you will receive the accumulated PokéCoins. So, it's not necessarily a negative outcome; you are still earning rewards while it's in the gym.