Pokemon Go will have you facing off against difficult raid Pokemon throughout your journey outdoors. If one of these is Dewgong, you are going to need to have a strong team by your side, because they can be a difficult fight if you don’t have the right setup available. If you are getting ready for a battle with Dewgong, we’ll walk you through the best counters and all of its weaknesses in this guide!
Dewgong Weaknesses
Dewgong is a Ice and Water-type Pokemon, which makes it have a weakness to Electric, Fighting, Grass, and Rock-type moves. You will want to bring a team full of Pokemon who can utilize those move types if you’re looking to beat them.
If you are running out of Pokemon to throw at Dewgong, you will just want to make sure to avoid bringing any Pokemon that have Ice and Water-type moves. Dewgong is highly resistant to Ice in particular, so be sure to keep those Pokemon in the box. You will also want to try and avoid bringing Dragon, Flying, Grass, and Ground-type Pokemon. These are all weak to Ice-type moves, which is most of what Dewgong is going to use against you.
Best Dewgong Counters
The best counters for Dewgong are Pokemon that are Electric, Fighting, Grass, and Rock-type that have strong moves of those types at their disposal. You can use things like Lucario, Terrakion, Zekrom, Conkeldurr, Zarude, Raikou, Electivire, Breloom and many more! If you have the Mega or Shadow versions of these then those are generally going to get the job done faster.
Here’s an extended list of the Pokemon you can use with the best moves that they have available to them for the fight. You don’t have to have the exact moveset, but make sure you have the right type of moves to take advantage of Dewgong’s weaknesses.
Dewgong Counters List
- Lucario – Counter/Aura Sphere
- Terrakion – Smack Down/Sacred Sword
- Zekrom – Charge Beam/Wild Charge
- Conkeldurr – Counter/Dynamic Punch
- Zarude – Vine Whip/Power Whip
- Raikou – Volt Switch/Wild Charge
- Electivire – Thunder Shock/Wild Charge
- Breloom – Counter/Dynamic Punch
- Magnezone – Spark/Wild Charge
- Machamp – Counter/Dynamic Punch
- Rampardos – Smack Down/Rock Slide
- Roserade – Razor Leaf/Grass Knot
- Rhyperior – Smack Down/Rock Wrecker
- Sceptile – Bullet Seed/Frenzy Plant
- Zapdos – Thunder Shock/Thunderbolt
- Blaziken – Counter/Focus Blast
- Luxray – Spark/Wild Charge
- Venusaur – Vine Whip/Frenzy Plant
- Sirfetch’d – Counter/Close Combat
- Emboar – Low Kick/Focus Blast
If you run out of the best counters on the list then running pretty much any high level Electric, Fighting, Grass, and Rock-type Pokemon should get the job done. You don’t always have to have the ideal Pokemon to win the battle!
Those are all of the weaknesses and best counters for Dewgong in Pokemon Go. We have more detailed guides for you to checkout in the Pokemon Go section of our website.
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