Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup – Ultra League Edition: Best Pokémon

Find the best team to field in Fantasy Cup: Ultra League Edition

Contents

1. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Leads
2. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Safe Switches
3. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Closers
4. Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Attackers

Are you caught in a landslide with no escape from reality? Worry no longer! Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup – Ultra League Edition will run from August 17 to 24, 2023, providing you with ample time to flee from your daily life and live out your dream of becoming a strong Pokémon trainer. This time frame features triple Stardust rewards for wins in Go Battle League, making a good performance all the more valuable.

This Go Battle League competition runs on a special ruleset limiting participating Pokémon to a maximum amount of 2,500 competition points (CP). It further limits the amount of Pokémon you can use by restricting you to monsters of the types Dragon, Steel, and Fairy. Cobalion and Galarian Stunfisk are banned outright.

Show your opponents that size matters not with the best Pokémon for Fantasy Cup – Ultra League Edition in Pokémon Go based on statistics and simulations provided by PvPoke.com.

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Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Leads

These Pokémon aggressively apply pressure on your opponent right from the start of a duel and can survive even tough battles for a long time – they are perfect to open a match up, enabling you to score an early knockout or set up a strong counter play.

1. Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
2. Shadow Flygon (Mud Shot, Dragon Claw, Earth Power)
3. Tapu Fini (Water Gun, Surf, Moonblast)
4. Galarian Weezing^(XL) (Fairy Wind, Overheat, Play Rough)
5. Lucario (Counter, Power-Up Punch, Shadow Ball)
6. Solgaleo (Fire Spin, Psychic Fang, Iron Head)
7. Florges (Fairy Wind, Disarming Voice, Moonblast)
8. Giratina (Altered Forme) (Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw, Shadow Sneak)
9. Shadow Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
10. Dragonite (Dragon Breath, Dragon Claw, Superpower)

(XL) = Pokémon requires Candy XL to reach optimal performance level.

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Safe Switches

These Pokémon serve as switch options for your lead – should the opening pairing be to your disadvantage, switch in one of these monsters instead to preserve your lead Pokémon for later. According to this purpose, these are primarily Pokémon that counter some of the most popular leads or are strong leads themselves.

1. Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
2. Excadrill (Mud Shot, Drill Run, Rock Slide)
3. Shadow Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
4. Tapu Fini (Water Gun, Surf, Moonblast)
5. Slurpuff^(XL) (Fairy Wind, Flamethrower, Play Rough)
6. Giratina (Altered Forme) (Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw, Shadow Sneak)
7. Galarian Weezing^(XL) (Fairy Wind, Overheat, Play Rough)
8. Giratina (Origin Forme) (Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw, Shadow Sneak)
9. Genesect (Burn Module) (Fire Cutter, Techno Blast (Burn), Magnet Bomb)
10. Escavalier (Counter, Acid Spray, Drill Run)

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Closers

These Pokémon are especially strong when there are no shields left in play on either side – they are incredibly tough themselves or end battles with a single hit of their powerful charge attacks.

1. Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
2. Genesect (Burn Module) (Fire Cutter, Techno Blast (Burn), Magnet Bomb)
3. Shadow Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
4. Slurpuff^(XL) (Fairy Wind, Flamethrower, Play Rough)
5. Galarian Weezing^(XL) (Fairy Wind, Overheat, Play Rough)
6. Tapu Fini (Water Gun, Surf, Moonblast)
7. Turtonator^(XL) (Incinerate, Dragon Pulse, Overheat)
8. Flygon^(S) (Mud Shot, Dragon Claw, Earth Power)
9. Shadow Garchomp (Mud Shot, Earth Power, Outrage)
10. Escavalier (Counter, Acid Spray, Drill Run)

Pokémon Go Fantasy Cup: Best Attackers

These Pokémon perform best when fighting a trainer who still has shields, while you no longer have shields yourself – they have the ideal combination of resistances and strong fast attacks to compensate for this disadvantage. For this reason, you rarely see Shadow forms in this category – they take more damage than their regular counterparts, which is very risky at this stage of a match.

1. Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
2. Shadow Registeel^(XL) (Lock On, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon)
3. Tapu Fini (Water Gun, Surf, Moonblast)
4. Steelix^(XL) (Dragon Tail, Psychic Fangs, Earthquake)
5. Forretress^(XL) (Bug Bite, Earthquake, Mirror Shot)
6. Giratina (Altered Forme) (Shadow Claw, Dragon Claw, Shadow Sneak)
7. Alolan Sandslash^(XL) (Shadow Claw, Ice Punch, Drill Run)
8. Escavalier (Counter, Acid Spray, Drill Run)
9. Melmetal (Thunder Shock, Double Iron Bash, Superpower)
10. Shadow Alolan Sandslash^(XL) (Shadow Claw, Ice Punch, Drill Run)

Fantasy Cup – Ultra League Edition’s meta is quite different from what we’re used to in other competitions thanks to the big restrictions imposed on participants. Sturdy Steel-types are especially strong in this format, which in turn propels some of their counters into the top ranks. In typical domino fashion, they pull their own counters up, making up a relatively stable cadre of top picks.

Apart from GO Battle League, you should check out this month’s Raids, Field Research, and Spotlight Hours to not miss anything going on in the mobile game.