Gigantamax Toxtricity is the fifth Gigantamax Pokémon introduced to Pokémon Go, and is available in Max Battles as part of the Go Wild Area event on Nov. 23 and 24, 2024.
Like all the other Gigantamax Battles, Toxtricity will be tough, so players who aren’t ready for the spike in difficulty are going to have a tough time.
Below, we list out some general Gigantamax Max Battle tips and counters for Gigantamax Toxtricity in Pokémon Go.
General Gigantamax Toxtricity tips
If you’ve been struggling in Max Battles, here’s some general tips to help you out and make sure you’re an asset to your team. Gigantamax battles involve way more strategy than the usual rampant tapping that you do in raids, so make sure to know what you’re doing before jumping in.
- Make sure you have enough players. High-efficiency groups with maxed out investments can take down the Toxtricity with a four-person group, but practically, if you don’t have hundreds of spare candy and even more Stardust laying around, this isn’t going to be an option for you — so make sure you have as many people as possible to ensure that you get your punk rock lizard.
- Don’t sleep on Max Spirit and Max Guard. Teams work best when there’s a variety of moves, not just maxed out attacks. Each player should bring Pokémon with the defensive and healing moves unlocked as well. Max Guard will focus single-target damage towards you and reduce that damage taken and Max Spirit will heal the whole party, so these moves are really important to make sure your damage-dealers can keep dishing.
- Remember to swap to super effective moves when it’s time to Dynamax. For Dynamax Pokémon, their max moves will be whatever type their fast move is. This means if you have a Excadrill with Mud Shot, it will know Max Quake and your Gengar with Shadow Claw will know Max Phantasm. Take advantage of this and make sure to swap to a Pokémon that will deal super effective damage to your target before Dynamaxing, if you can.
- Level up a few ‘mons, but you don’t have to go too hard. Depending on your group size, you absolutely do not need to max out all your Dynamax Pokémon to level 40-50. While this will make it easier on the rest of your group, if this isn’t an investment you can make, you don’t have to stress about it. Power things up as high as you can afford to, but don’t fret if you don’t have a maxed out Pokémon.
- That all being said, make sure to come as prepared as you can be. This is a team effort and there’s a reason why groups of 30-40 people can still fail. Do not just bring your unleveled Dynamax Wooloo expecting a free ride to a powerful Pokémon. (After all, if everyone does that, then you certainly won’t clear the battle.) Again, you don’t have to completely max out your Pokémon, but it will be better for everyone involved if you bring something helpful to the table.
- Keep your eye out for a shiny Toxtricity! If you clear the raid, there is a chance that the Toxtricity you catch will be shiny — which also means it’ll be a guaranteed catch. Use a Pinap Berry to score extra candy if you get lucky enough to find a sparkly Toxtricity.
Gigantamax Toxtricity weakness
We’ll want to utilize Gigantamax Toxtricity’s weaknesses: ground- and psychic-type moves. Notably, Toxtricity has major weakness against ground-type moves, since it’s both electric- and poison-type.
Gigantamax Toxtricity best counters
With the above in mind, bringing an Excadrill is ideal to target that double ground-type weakness. That being said, these are your best counters against Gigantamax Toxtricity if you want options:
- Excadrill with Mud Shot and Earthquake
- Rillaboom with Scratch and Earth Power
- Metagross with Zen Headbutt and Earthquake
- Greedent with Mud Shot and Trailblaze
Even if you don’t have these powered up, consider just bringing the strongest Dynamax Pokémon you have. If you have a maxed out Dynamax Charizard and your Dynamax Beldum isn’t leveled (and you don’t have the means to power it up), just bring your Charizard. We’re working with scraps here, people.
If you need help with other guides over the event weekend, we have explainers on Go Wild Area habitat spawns, mighty Pokémon, Go Safari Balls, how to get Toxel, and for ticket holders, the “An Accomplished Trainer” choose a path choice.
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