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Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup – Great League Edition: Best Pokémon

Bring your opponents back to reality with these Pokémon

Marco Wutz

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Enter a tale of wonder and imagination in the latest Pokémon Go Battle League competition: In the Fantasy Cup – Great League Edition you must prove that the power of your mind is greater than anyone else’s. Destroy your opponents’ dreams and bring them back to the harsh reality in which you triumph above them all.

Fantasy Cup – Great League Edition will run from December 3 to 10, 2024, alongside the Great League.

Table of Contents

  1. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Leads
  2. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Safe Switches
  3. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Closers
  4. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Attackers

This Go Battle League competition runs on a special ruleset limiting participating Pokémon to a maximum amount of 1,500 competition points (CP). In addition, you may only field creatures of the Dragon-, Steel-, and Fairy-types.

Give your opponents nightmares with the best Pokémon for Fantasy Cup – Great League Edition in Pokémon Go based on statistics and simulations provided by PvPoke.com.

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Leads

These Pokémon aggressively pressure your opponent right from the beginning of a duel and can survive even tough battles for quite a while – they are perfect to open a match up, enabling you to score an early knockout or set up a strong counter play.

  1. Galarian Weezing [S] (Fairy Wind, Sludge, Overheat)
  2. Togedemaru (Thunder Shock, Fell Stinger, Wild Charge)
  3. Excadrill [S] (Mud Slap, Drill Run, Rock Slide)
  4. Dragapult (Astonish, Shadow Ball, Breaking Swipe)
  5. Alolan Dugtrio [S] (Mud Slap, Mud Bomb, Iron Head)
  6. Shadow Mawile (Fire Fang, Power-Up Punch, Play Rough)
  7. Azumarill [XL] (Bubble, Play Rough, Hydro Pump)
  8. Heatran (Fire Spin, Magma Storm, Earth Power)
  9. Whimsicott (Fairy Wind, Seed Bomb, Moonblast)
  10. Flygon (Mud Shot, Dragon Claw, Scorching Sands)

Pokémon marked with [S] perform comparably well in both their regular and Shadow forms. Pokémon marked with [XL] require Candy XL to reach their best performance levels.

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Safe Switches

If the opening pairing is to your disadvantage, you should consider switching out your lead for another Pokémon. This is where this class comes into play. They are either strong leads themselves or are specialized in countering some of the most popular leads. In any case, a switch will preserve your original opener to fight later on in the battle and perhaps force your opponent to also adapt their strategy on the fly.

  1. Galarian Weezing (Fairy Wind, Sludge, Overheat)
  2. Excadrill [S] (Mud Slap, Drill Run, Rock Slide)
  3. Galarian Stunfisk (Mud Shot, Rock Slide, Earthquake)
  4. Shadow Galarian Weezing (Fairy Wind, Sludge, Overheat)
  5. Alolan Dugtrio [S] (Mud Slap, Mud Bomb, Iron Head)
  6. Flygon (Mud Shot, Dragon Claw, Scorching Sands)
  7. Azumarill [XL] (Bubble, Play Rough, Hydro Pump)
  8. Dragapult (Astonish, Shadow Ball, Breaking Swipe)
  9. Clefable (Fairy Wind, Meteor Mash, Moonblast)
  10. Giratina (Origin Forme) (Shadow Claw, Shadow Ball, Ominous Wind)

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Closers

These Pokémon are particularly useful when there are no shields left in play on either side – they are incredibly tough themselves or end battles quickly thanks to powerful charge attacks, which can’t be deflected without a shield.

  1. Azumarill [XL] (Bubble, Play Rough, Hydro Pump)
  2. Alolan Dugtrio [S] (Mud Slap, Mud Bomb, Iron Head)
  3. Registeel (Lock On, Focus Blast, Zap Cannon)
  4. Giratina (Origin Forme) (Shadow Claw, Shadow Ball, Ominous Wind)
  5. Turtonator (Incinerate, Dragon Pulse, Overheat)
  6. Shadow Registeel (Lock On, Focus Blast, Zap Cannon)
  7. Excadrill [S] (Mud Slap, Drill Run, Rock Slide)
  8. Shadow Magnezone (Volt Switch, Wild Charge, Mirror Shot)
  9. Shadow Flygon (Mud Shot, Dragon Claw, Scorching Sands)
  10. Galarian Stunfisk (Mud Shot, Rock Slide, Earthquake)

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Attackers

These Pokémon perform best when fighting a trainer who still has shields, while you no longer have shields yourself. They combine important resistances and strong fast attacks to compensate for this disadvantage. For this reason, you rarely see Shadow forms in this role – they take more damage than their regular counterparts, making them a risky card to put on the table.

  1. Azumarill [XL] (Bubble, Play Rough, Hydro Pump)
  2. Turtonator (Incinerate, Dragon Pulse, Overheat)
  3. Shadow Excadrill (Mud Slap, Drill Run, Rock Slide)
  4. Shadow Ferrothorn (Metal Claw, Power Whip, Mirror Shot)
  5. Shadow Alolan Dugtrio (Mud Slap, Mud Bomb, Iron Head)
  6. Whimsicott (Fairy Wind, Seed Bomb, Moonblast)
  7. Galarian Stunfisk (Mud Shot, Rock Slide, Earthquake)
  8. Mawile (Fire Fang, Power-Up Punch, Play Rough)
  9. Galarian Weezing (Fairy Wind, Sludge, Overheat)
  10. Excadrill (Mud Slap, Drill Run, Rock Slide)

Aren’t these some familiar faces? Old Great League greats like Azumarill, Registeel, and Galarian Stunfisk rear their heads in this limited format – which is good news, since this will allow you to make use of Pokémon you may already have built up instead of forcing you to make brand-new investments.

For more Pokémon Go, check our overviews for the weekly Spotlight Hours and 5-Star Raids.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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