Pokémon GO: Dynamax Moltres Max Battle Guide (Max Mondays)
Dynamax is making its debut as a powerful Max Battle boss starting with Max Monday, and you'll need to strike at its weaknesses with the best counters to stand a chance at winning and catching one. After Articuno and Zapdos' turns at providing incredibly tough challenges for even full raid parties of Trainers, the Flame Pokémon will not be any easier since it is also at the 5-Star level. It technically won't be as hard as the punishing 6-Star Gigantamax Lapras, but Moltres can quickly burn through entire teams that don't go into these grueling battles prepared enough.
Like its fellow elemental birds during the Legendary Flight event, Max Battles for Moltres will be available in two different ways. At the start, the fired bird will launch as the Max Battle boss at all Power Spots for one hour. After that, you will still be able to find Max Battles featuring Moltres, but you might need to look around a bit more since it will be sharing the spotlight with other bosses in the latest Max Monday schedule for the month.
Dynamax Moltres has a weakness to Rock-type attacks for 256% damage compared to normal in, followed by Ice- and Electric-type attacks each dealing 160% super-effective damage compared to normal. These are the same weaknesses for Moltres as in the mainline games with varying levels of damage, but targeting these in is more important than ever with its 5-Star boss level. With that, it's also vital you take into account utilizing the STAB mechanic: a 20% same-type attack bonus that's added on when one of your Pokémon is using the move of the same type.
To defeat Dynamax Zapdos in Pokemon GO, here are the two weaknesses you & your raid party need to utilize along with the best counters to target them.
As for what Pokémon not to use in this Max Battle, Dynamax has a lot of resistances in as well: Ground-, Steel-, Fighting-, Fire-, and Fairy-type attacks, all dealing 63% damage compared to normal. Moltres' strongest resistances are against Bug- and Grass-type
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