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Best Counters for Fighting Giovanni

Here are all the Pokemon Giovanni is known to use according to reports. We also included the best counters to
use against them:

Pokemon 1
Persian – Machamp, Breloom, Hariyama, Lucario

Pokemon 2
Ninoking – Excadrill, Mamoswine, Groudon, Garchomp, Articuno, Mewtwo (w/ Ice Beam or
Psychic/Psystrike)
Dugtrio – Mewtwo (w/ Ice Beam), Mamoswine, Kyogre, Kingler (w/ Crabhammer), Gyarados, Roserade,
Sceptile
Rhydon – Kyogre, Kingler (w/ Crabhammer), Gyarados, Roserade, Sceptile, Venusaur, Machamp, Groudon,
Metagross, Dialga, Lucario, Excadrill, Mamoswine, Mewtwo (w/ Ice Beam)

Pokemon 3
Articuno – Rampardos, Tyranitar, Metagross, Dialga, Lucario, Chandelure, Moltres, Heatran, Entei, Excadrill,
Raikou, Electivire, Magnezone, Zapdos

In keeping with the tradition of the Pokemon games, Giovanni uses mostly ground-type Pokemon. That makes
most of his team vulnerable to ground-type weaknesses like water, grass and ice. But make no mistake, we
don’t anticipate Giovanni going down without a fight. He also has a few Pokemon weak to steel, but keep in
mind that steel-types are weak to ground.

Here’s the team composition we recommend:


Lucario with Counter and Power-Up Punch + Flash Cannon or Machamp with Counter and Dynamic Punch
Mewtwo with Psycho Cut and Ice Beam
Heatran with Fire Spin and Stone Edge/Iron Head/Fire Blast

Both Lucario and Machamp will make quick work of Persian as well as Rhydon if you’re lucky. Mewtwo with
Ice Beam will decimate all three of Giovanni’s ground-type Pokemon. As for Articuno, Heatran has the highest
TDO out of all of Articuno’s possible counters, according to calculations on GamePress. However, any
Pokemon that can resist Articuno’s attacks while dealing super effective damage, preferably with rock-type
moves since Articuno has a double weakness against them, would be a good choice. You’re welcome to make
your own team, of course.

According to a set of tips from user Paraprosdokian7 and LanAkou, the Pokemon used by Team GO Rocket
Leaders have souped up attack stats. We anticipate that Giovanni will be similar.

That means that it’s not only important to use Pokemon that can deal super effective damage but ones that can
resist their attacks. You can bait the leaders into using up all their shields quickly if you use fast charging
Charge Moves constantly in the beginning. That way your more powerful Charge Moves can hit the opponent
without a hitch. If you can kill a Pokemon easily with Fast Moves, save up your Charge Moves for the next
Pokemon they send out especially if that Pokemon isn’t weak to your Fast Moves. Click on the links on each
user for more info.

Defeating Giovanni will give you the chance to catch a Shadow Articuno, which you can then purify to have a
very strong ice-type Pokemon on your team.

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