Pokémon Go Lugia guide: best counters for the raid

Take down this tanky Legendary with these attackers
Pokémon Go Lugia guide: best counters for the raid
Pokémon Go Lugia guide: best counters for the raid /

Lugia is available in Pokémon Go’s raid battles once again, though sadly the Gen 2 Legendary is not packing Aeroblast as a guaranteed move this time around. Still, you may encounter the aquatic-looking dragon in its rare Shiny variant after defeating it in battle. Since Lugia is a strong PvP Pokémon for Master League as well, there is no shortage of reasons for battling the boss.

This guide will show you all the best Pokémon to use against Lugia in Pokémon Go.

Best Lugia counters in Pokémon Go raids

With its hybrid Psychic- and Flying-typing, Lugia has a variety of weaknesses you should take advantage of: Rock, Ghost, Electric, Ice, and Dark all do additional damage to this Legendary, opening up a great amount of mega evolutions you could use as well. Coordinate well with your allies to always have an active mega evolution on the field buffing as many Pokémon as possible.

  1. Mega Gengar (Lick, Shadow Ball)
  2. Mega Banette (Shadow Claw, Shadow Ball)
  3. Xurkitree (Thunder Shock, Discharge)
  4. Mega Manectric (Thunder Fang, Wild Charge)
  5. Mega Houndoom (Snarl, Foul Play)
  6. Zekrom (Charge Beam, Fusion Bolt)
  7. Mega Aerodactyl (Rock Throw, Rock Slide)
  8. Hydreigon (Bire, Brutal Swing)
  9. Mega Ampharos (Volt Switch, Brutal Swing)
  10. Mega Absol (Snarl, Dark Pulse)
  11. Mega Gyarados (Bite, Crunch)
  12. Giratia (Origin Forme) (Shadow Claw, Shadow Force)
  13. Thundurus (Therian Forme) (Volt Switch, Thunderbolt)
  14. Mega Alakazam (Psycho Cut, Shadow Ball)
  15. Mega Gardevoir (Charge Beam, Shadow Ball)

Lugia is packing a fearsome 45,925 competition points (CP) as a 5-star raid boss and its high Defense stat makes it a very formidable opponent. Lugia is called a flying tank in the PvP arena for a reason, and PvE players are about to discover why it has earned that reputation.

It will take four trainers around level 40 with Pokémon of a similar strength to take down Lugia, so be sure not to take this opponent lightly.


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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