Gigantamax Blastoise counters, weakness, and battle tips in Pokémon Go

Gigantamax Blastoise was one of the first Gigantamax Pokémon in Pokémon Go, alongside its fellow Kanto starters, Charizard and Venusaur. While pretty difficult to take on at first, its reappearance in Max Battles on March 8 and 9 should be accessible to more players — so long as you’ve been catching some Dynamax Pokémon here and there.

Gigantamax Blastoise will still be tough to take on, so you’ll want to be as prepared as possible to help out your fellow raiders.

Below we list Gigantamax Blastoise’s best counters and weaknesses in Pokémon Go, as well as general battle tips for the tanky turtle.

Gigantamax Blastoise weakness

Being pure water-type, Blastoise has a two weaknesses: grass– and electric-type moves. Now that Max Battles have been around for a bit, there’s actually a pretty decent spread of attackers you can use to help take this thing down.

Blastoise will resist steel-, fire-, water-, and ice-type moves, so don’t use those, unless you’re tanking the turtle and are trying to build the max gauge.

Gigantamax Blastoise best counters

That all being said, try to bring at least one of these attackers to deal the most damage:

  • Gigantamax Toxtricity with Spark
  • Gigantamax Venusaur with Vine Whip
  • Dynamax Zapdos with Thunder Shock
  • Dynamax Rillaboom with Razor Leaf
  • Dynamax Toxtricity with Spark

For your tanks, you’ll want to bring one or two of these with leveled up Max Guard to tank damage and build up your gauge:

  • Gigantamax Blastoise with Bite (Yes, lol.)
  • Dynamax Blastoise with Bite
  • Gigantamax Venusaur with Vine Whip
  • Dynamax Venusaur with Vine Whip
  • Dynamax Rillaboom with Scratch
  • Gigantamax Lapras with Water Gun

Yes, Rillaboom is listed in both sections with different moves. If you plan on using Rillaboom as a DPS, it will need Razor Leaf so it will be able to use Max Overgrowth. If you plan on using it as a tank, it will want Scratch, which builds up the max gauge faster.

Even if you don’t have these powered up, consider just bringing the strongest Dynamax Pokémon you have. If you have a maxed out Dynamax Gengar and your Dynamax Rillaboom isn’t leveled (and you don’t have the means to power it up), just bring your Gengar.

General Gigantamax Blastoise tips

If you’ve been struggling in Max Battles, here’s some general tips to survive — and make sure you’re an asset to your team. Gigantamax battles involve way more strategy than the usual rampant tapping that you do in raids, so make sure to know what you’re doing before jumping in.

  • Make sure you have enough players. High-efficiency groups with maxed out investments can take down the Blastoise with fewer people, but practically, if you don’t have hundreds of spare candy and even more Stardust laying around, this isn’t going to be an option for you. Make sure you have as many people as possible to ensure that you get your tank turtle.
  • Don’t sleep on Max Spirit and Max Guard. Teams work best when there’s a variety of moves, not just maxed-out attacks. Each player should bring Pokémon with the defensive and healing moves unlocked as well. Max Guard will focus single-target damage towards you and reduce the damage taken; Max Spirit will heal the whole party. These moves are really important to make sure your damage-dealers can keep dishing.
  • Remember to swap to super effective moves when it’s time to Dynamax. For Dynamax Pokémon, their max moves are determined by whatever type their fast move is. This means if you have a Darmanitan with Fire Fang, it will know Max Flare. A Gengar with Lick will know Max Phantasm. Take advantage of this and make sure to swap to a Pokémon that will deal super effective damage to your target before Dynamaxing, if you can.
  • Focus on your fast moves. You want to spam your fast moves to build up that Dynamax meter and often times, using your charge move is actually a DPS loss when compared to the damage you could be doing with your max move will be. Spam those attacks!
  • Level up a few ‘mons, but you don’t have to go too hard. Depending on your group size, you absolutely do not need to max out all your Dynamax Pokémon to level 40-50. While this will make it easier on the rest of your group, if this isn’t an investment you can make, you don’t have to stress about it. Power things up as high as you can afford to, but don’t fret if you don’t have a maxed out Pokémon.
  • That all being said, make sure to come as prepared as you can be. This is a team effort and there’s a chance that a full group of four can still fail. Do not just bring your unleveled Dynamax Wooloo expecting a free ride to a powerful Pokémon. (After all, if everyone does that, then you certainly won’t clear the battle.) Again, you don’t have to completely max out your Pokémon, but it will be better for everyone involved if you bring something helpful to the table.
  • Keep your eye out for a shiny Blastoise! If you clear the raid, there is a chance that the Blastoise you catch will be shiny — which also means it’ll be a guaranteed catch. Use a Pinap Berry to score extra candy if you get lucky enough to find a sparkly Blastoise.


source https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-go-guide/535489/gigantamax-blastoise-counters-weakness-tips

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