Pokemon Go Cresselia counters, weaknesses, moveset, and how to beat them

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You'll need these Pokemon Go Cresselia counters, weaknesses, and movesets if you want another blastoff at infectious the Fabled Pokemon Cresselia. It's arriving As Gen 4 remakes are ordered to release in Pokemon Go. Cresselia has forever been a staple of the Sinnoh region because of its bulky stats making IT the perfect support Beaver State palisade to wear inoperative opponents whether it's in the mainline video games or in Pokemon Go down. Thereupon in thinker, trainers will want to take vantage of Cresselia returning to Raids from Tuesday, November 16 at 10 a.m. local time to Midweek, Dec 1 at the same time.

That gives trainers two weeks to catch as umteen of the Mental-type Legendary as possible and to help with that we've created this handy guide that teaches players everything they need to know about Cresselia including what moves to look out for and which Pokemon to bring on into battle against it.

Pokemon Go Cresselia counters

Cresselia is a pure Psychic-type qualification it weak to Dark, Ghost and Bug-type attacks. Luckily for Pokemon Go trainers, there are plenty of Mega Pokemon of these types that toilet help take pile Cresselia.

Mega Gengar and Mega Beedrill straight off get along to judgment. Some are powerful Ghost and Bug types, severally, and can facilitate world power up other Pokemon of the same type in your company and other trainers' party. However, both Megas are weak to Psychic-character attacks, but we'll get into what to look dead for in the next section.

Trainers are better off using one of the many Mega Pokemon that are Dark-typewrite like Gyarados, Houndoom and the newly added Absol. Not only will they own attacks that are super in force against Cresselia, but they'll defy the Legendary's Mental moves.

Here are much of the best counters and the uncomparable moves to use against Cresselia.

Cresselia counters
Pokemon	Moveset (Fast/Charged)
Mega Gyarados	Bite and Crush
Mega Absol	Maze and Dark Pulse
Mega Houndoom	Shadow Claw and Shadow Punch
Mega Beedrill	Infestation and X-Scissor
Tyranitar	Entangle and Stygian Pulsation
Darkrai	Bug Chomp/Microbe Bombination
Hydreigon	Bite and Dingy Heartbeat
Giratina	Shadow Hook and Shadow Sneak/Ominous Wind
Genesect	Genesect

Pokemon Go Cresselia moveset

Cresselia's moveset in Pokemon Get on isn't as variform as trainers may believe. It's a pure Psychic-type so it has raft of Psychic-type attacks to use especially in its Degenerate Attack move pool.

Psychotic person Cut and Discombobulation are Cresselia's options for Fast Attacks. Some moves are Psychic-type and will do plenty of damage to Fighting and Poison types. That's why Mega Gengar and Mega Beedrill may not be the best options, but if you Don River't have any other Mega option they bequeath do enough of damage before being taken out.

As for Cresselia's Charged Attacks, the Legendary has a bit Thomas More variety. Later Plenty is the only Psychical-type Charged Fire it has, but the other two options could give Non-white types problems. Dawn Beam is a relatively weak Deoxyephedrine-type affect, but its Moonblast that could collapse trainers perturb.

The Fairy-type move will be super efficient against Dark types and cardinal times effective against Hyrdreigon. Check up on the recommended team screen door before selecting your Pokemon, if IT recommends non-Unilluminated types then Cresselia likely has Moonblast as an lash out. Luckily, Mega Houndoom's Provok typing will make Moonblast neutral so consider it as a uppermost choice.

Here's the self-contained list of Fast and Charged Attacks that Cresselia terminate know in Pokemon Tour Raids.

Cresselia moveset
Fast Moves	Aerated Moves
Psychotic person Cut	Aurora Beam
Mental confusion	Moonblast
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How to get shiny Cresselia in Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go shiny Cresselia — (Image credit: Niantic)

As is the encase with every legendary Pokemon in raids (provided the icy rendering is in the game), each catch chance has a 1/20 chance of being a shiny Cresselia. These odds are massively increased from the usual 1/450 chance of a regular groundless Pokemon being shiny. If you do brush a shiny Cresselia, make a point you apply a Pinap Berry! A shiny unreal has a 100% catch rate (as long as you wear't miss with every ball), so you don't demand to use a Razz Chuck Berry. Instead you rear maximise those candy gains.

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