Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battle guide: Weaknesses and best counters

This Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battle guide will give you an edge over the Power Spot Boss when you challenge it. It will debut at 10 am local time on October 26, 2024, and will remain available until 8 pm local time on October 27, 2024.

This is the first wave of Gigantamax Battles in the game, so you would require a level of preparation to succeed. This Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battle guide covers the Power Spot boss' weaknesses and best counters.

Also, check out our other Max Battle guides for October 2024:

• Grookey
• Scorbunny
• Sobble
• Falinks

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Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battle weaknesses

Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard (Image via TPC)

What is super-effective against Gigantamax Charizard?

Gigantamax Charizard is a Fire and Flying-type Pocket Monster that takes super-effective damage from Water-, Electric-, and Rock-type attacks. Therefore, you should utilize creatures that know both STAB Fast and Charged Attacks of these types. Additionally, Pocket Monsters with Fast Attacks of these types are the best as those will turn into Max Moves, which will do the maximum amount of damage in these battles.

Here are the Max Moves that are super-effective against Gigantamax Charizard in Pokemon GO:

• Max Geyser
• Max Lightning
• Max Rockfall

Unfortunately, none of the Dynamax Pokemon available in the game as of October 2024 can use Max Lightning or Max Rockfall.

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Charizard's stat distribution and moveset in Pokemon GO

As a 6-star Max Battle boss in Pokemon GO, Charizard has the following stats:

• Attack: 223
• Defense: 173
• Fast Attack: Fire Spin and Air Slash
• Charged Attack: Fire Blast, Dragon Claw, and Overheat

The entry cost for Gigantamax Charizard Max Battles is 800 MP—but you will only be charged if you win the battle. Niantic's official recommendation suggests using 10-40 trainers, depending on the power level of your counters. Note that all trainers must be within 80 meters of the Power Spot.

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Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battle best counters

Here are the best counters to Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battles, along with their recommended movesets:

• Gigantamax Blastoise with Water Gun (G-Max Cannonade) and Hydro Cannon
• Dynamax Blastoise with Water Gun (Max Geyser) and Hydro Cannon
• Dynamax Inteleon with Water Gun (Max Geyser) and Surf

There is no way of defeating Gigantamax Charizard on your own.

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Best strategy to defeat 6-star Gigantamax Charizard Max Battles

The best way to defeat 6-star Gigantamax Charizard Max Battles is as follows:

• Lead with Dynamax or Gigantamax Blastoise. It takes resisted damage from Charizard's Fire-type attacks and is generally tanky. Use this to charge your Dynamax Energy meter.
• Dodge incoming Charged Attacks and collect Energy globules as they pop up to charge the meter fast.
• When you are ready to Dynamax, bring out Inteleon and fire off three Max Geysers and one Max Spirit to heal Blastoise.
• Bring Blastoise back out and repeat the process until you win.

Given the power level of the boss, you should try to use the most powerful counters available to you. If you are met with failure, power up your counters if possible. If they are maxed out, your only option is to bring more people the next time.

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Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battle catch CP and shiny availability

Shiny Gigantamax Charizard (Image via TPC)

The Gigantamax Charizard that appears after you defeat the Power Spot boss will feature the following CP ranges based on the weather:

• No weather boost: 1,574 - 1,651 CP at level 20 (10/10/10 - 15/15/15 IVs)
• Weather boosted (Sunny/Clear or Windy): 1,968 - 2,064 CP CP at level 25 (10/10/10 - 15/15/15 IVs)

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What are the 100% IVs from Pokemon GO Gigantamax Charizard Max Battles?

Here are the 100% IVs from 6-star Gigantamax Charizard Max Battles:

• No weather boost: 1,651 CP
• Weather boosted (Sunny/Clear or Windy): 2,064 CP

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Can Dynamax Gigantamax Charizard be shiny in Pokemon GO?

Gigantamax Charizard encounters via Max Battles can be shiny. It will have approximately 1-in-128 or 0.78% chance of being shiny.

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Check out our other Pokemon GO guides:

• Ditto disguises
• Buddy Evolution Adventure Together guide
• Best Fast Attacks in Pokemon GO
• Sierra counters
• Cliff counters
• Arlo counters
• Giovanni counters
• Team GO Rocket Grunts

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