Pokémon Go Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Pokémon

Find the strongest Pokémon for Jungle Cup’s Little Edition

Contents

1. Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Leads
2. Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Safe Switches
3. Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Closers
4. Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Attackers

Welcome to the jungle, GO Battle League’s got fun and games! Pokémon Go Jungle Cup – Little Edition will run from August 3 to 10, 2023, so you have one week to score as many wins as you can to maximize your rank as we enter the final month of the ongoing season.

This Go Battle League competition runs on a special ruleset limiting participating Pokémon to a maximum amount of 500 competition points (CP). It further limits the amount of Pokémon you can use by restricting you to monsters of the types Normal, Grass, Electric, Poison, Ground, Flying, Bug, and Dark. Shuckle and Smeargle are banned outright.

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

Only the fittest teams can survive Jungle Cup, so check out the best Pokémon below.

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Jungle Cup – Little Edition: 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. Ducklett (Wing Attack, Bubble Beam, Brave Bird)
2. Shadow Ducklett (Wing Attack, Bubble Beam, Brave Bird)
3. Mantine (Wing Attack, Bubble Beam, Ice Beam)
4. Pelipper (Wing Attack, Weather Ball (Water), Hurricane)
5. Galarian Stunfisk (Mud Shot, Rock Slide, Earthquake)
6. Shadow Steelix (Dragon Tail, Psychic Fangs, Crunch)
7. Golbat^(S) (Wing Attack, Poison Fang, Shadow Ball)
8. Shadow Swinub (Powder Snow, Icy Wind, Body Slam)
9. Shelmet (Infestation, Body Slam, Bug Buzz)
10. Abomasnow (Powder Snow, Weather Ball (Ice), Energy Ball)

(S) = Regular form and Shadow form perform comparably.

Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Safe Switches

If the opening pairing is to your disadvantage, you should consider switching out your lead for another Pokémon. This is where this category comes into play. They are either strong leads themselves or are specialized in countering some of the most popular leads. In any case, a switch will preserve your original lead to fight later on in the battle and perhaps force your opponent to also adapt their strategy on the fly.

1. Skorupi^(S) (Poison Sting, Aqua Tail, Sludge Bomb)
2. Ducklett (Wing Attack, Bubble Beam, Brave Bird)
3. Steelix^(S) (Dragon Tail, Psychic Fangs, Crunch)
4. Eevee (Quick Attack, Body Slam, Dig)
5. Swinub^(S) (Powder Snow, Icy Wind, Body Slam)
6. Galarian Stunfisk (Mud Shot, Rock Slide, Earthquake)
7. Shadow Ducklett (Wing Attack, Bubble Beam, Brave Bird)
8. Dubwool (Double Kick, Body Slam, Payback)
9. Vigoroth (Counter, Body Slam, Brick Break)
10. Farfetch’d (Fury Cutter, Leaf Blade, Aerial Ace)

Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Closers

These Pokémon are particularly useful when there are no shields left in play on either side – they are incredibly tough themselves or end battles quickly thanks to powerful charge attacks.

1. Excadrill (Mud Shot, Drill Run, Rock Slide)
2. Galarian Stunfisk (Mud Shot, Rock Slide, Earthquake)
3. Haunter (Shadow Claw, Ice Punch, Sludge Bomb)
4. Bewear (Shadow Claw, Superpower, Stomp)
5. Lurantis (Fury Cutter, Leaf Blade, Superpower)
6. Dubwool (Double Kick, Body Slam, Payback)
7. Ducklett (Wing Attack, Bubble Beam, Brave Bird)
8. Shadow Wooper (Mud Shot, Body Slam, Mud Bomb)
9. Chansey (Zen Headbutt, Psychic, Hyper Beam)
10. Shelmet (Infestation, Body Slam, Bug Buzz)

Jungle Cup – Little Edition: Best Attackers

These Pokémon perform best when fighting a trainer who still has shields, while you no longer have shields yourself. They combine important resistances and strong fast attacks to compensate for this disadvantage. For this reason, you rarely see Shadow forms in this role – they take more damage than their regular counterparts, making them a risky card to put on the table. Jungle Cup has a relatively high amount of Shadow forms in this category, though.

1. Cottonee (Charm, Grass Knot, Seed Bomb)
2. Togekiss (Charm, Ancient Power, Aura Sphere)
3. Wigglytuff (Charm, Disarming Voice, Ice Beam)
4. Shadow Stunky (Bite, Crunch, Sludge Bomb)
5. Shadow Dragonite (Dragon Breath, Dragon Claw, Superpower)
6. Steelix (Dragon Tail, Psychic Fangs, Crunch)
7. Whimsicott (Charm, Moonblast, Seed Bomb)
8. Onix^(S) (Rock Throw, Rock Slide, Stone Edge)
9. Altaria (Dragon Breath, Sky Attack, Moonblast)
10. Pyroar (Fire Fang, Flame Charge, Dark Pulse)

Jungle Cup – Little Edition’s meta is refreshingly different from many other Little Cup spin-offs, which are often completely dominated by Ducklett. While this monster is a strong competitor in this format, it has lots of rivals this time around thanks to the slightly differently worded conditions for participation, which allow for a broader field than usual.