If you're bringing Mega Gengar to this fight, you'll want it to know Lick or Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball. Mega Gengar will also boost other Ghost types if you can coordinate with the rest of your Raid party. As a Poison and Ghost type, Mega Gengar takes double damage from Psychic type damage, while it resists Grass and Fairy type damage. Mega Gengar is the top choice for either of these Raids, beating out even the best Shadow Pokémon. This basically means your Shadow Pokémon are far more viable against Latias than Latios. The biggest different between the two is that their attack and defense stats are swapped. Even with the slight move differences, the recommended counters are virtually identical. Latios is capable of dealing Psychic, Dragon, and Grass type damage, while Latias is capable of dealing Psychic, Dragon, Fairy, and Electric type damage.
Now that Mega Evolution has started popping up in Pokémon Go, we are a little closer to these two being the Legendaries they were always meant to be! What are the best counters for Latios and Latias in Pokémon Go?Īs Dragon and Psychic types, Latios and Latias are weak against six different types: Dragon, Bug, Ice, Fairy, Ghost and Dark.
However, that may all be changing in the not too distant future as both Latios and Latias have Mega Evolution in the core games.
Neither has particularly great stats or moves and both are outmatched by other Pokémon of their types, many of which are far more readily available. As far as how they fare in Pokémon Go? Sadly, not great.