Zamazenta (Hero)

The Hero of Many Battles Zamazenta is a Tier 5 legendary raid boss in Pokémon GO and it can be shiny!

Zamazenta, along with Zacian, is among the two cover legendaries of the Pokémon Sword and Shield games.

With pure Fighting typing, Zamazenta is boosted by Cloudy weather and its counters include strong Psychic, Flying, and Fairy type Pokémon such as Mewtwo, Metagross, Moltres, Rayquaza, and mega evolutions like Mega Pidegot and Mega Gengar with Psychic. With such strong counters, Zamazenta can possibly be duo’d in ideal weather conditions and high-level counters. But to be safe, 4-5 high-level trainers can get the job done easily.

It can be caught with the following CP values:

• 2100 – 2188 CP at Level 20, no weather boost

• 2625 – 2735 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

Let’s check out the best raid counters to make quick work of Zamazenta!

Zamazenta Raid Counters

#

Attacker

Fast Move

Charge Move

Faints

TTW

1.

Rayquaza (Mega)

Air Slash Flying

Dragon Ascent Flying

14

372s

2.

Mewtwo (Shadow)

Psycho Cut Psychic

Psystrike Psychic

23

442s

3.

Rayquaza

Air Slash Flying

Dragon Ascent Flying

24

482s

4.

Alakazam (Mega)

Psycho Cut Psychic

Psychic Psychic

28

500s

5.

Mewtwo

Psycho Cut Psychic

Psystrike Psychic

24

530s

6.

Latios (Mega)

Zen Headbutt Psychic

Psychic Psychic

25

562s

7.

Gardevoir (Mega)

Confusion Psychic

Dazzling Gleam Fairy

24

570s

8.

Necrozma (Dusk Mane)

Psycho Cut Psychic

Sunsteel Strike Steel

22

592s

9.

Ho-Oh (Shadow)

Extrasensory Psychic

Brave Bird Flying

18

615s

10.

Ho-Oh (Apex Shadow)

Extrasensory Psychic

Brave Bird Flying

18

615s

11.

Salamence (Shadow)

Dragon Tail Dragon

Fly Flying

32

551s

12.

Necrozma (Dawn Wings)

Psycho Cut Psychic

Moongeist Beam Ghost

26

596s

13.

Salamence (Mega)

Dragon Tail Dragon

Fly Flying

22

620s

14.

Pidgeot (Mega)

Air Slash Flying

Brave Bird Flying

29

587s

15.

Latios (Shadow)

Zen Headbutt Psychic

Psychic Psychic

33

573s

16.

Metagross (Shadow)

Zen Headbutt Psychic

Psychic Psychic

26

602s

17.

Articuno (Galarian)

Psycho Cut Psychic

Brave Bird Flying

25

610s

18.

Alakazam (Shadow)

Psycho Cut Psychic

Psychic Psychic

44

554s

19.

Gengar (Mega)

Shadow Claw Ghost

Psychic Psychic

27

602s

20.

Tapu Lele

Confusion Psychic

Nature’s Madness Fairy

28

606s

21.

Hoopa (Unbound)

Confusion Psychic

Psychic Psychic

33

592s

22.

Moltres (Shadow)

Fire Spin Fire

Sky Attack Flying

25

624s

23.

Lugia (Shadow)

Extrasensory Psychic

Aeroblast Flying

20

662s

24.

Groudon (Primal)

Mud Shot Ground

Precipice Blades Ground

17

687s

25.

Honchkrow (Shadow)

Peck Flying

Sky Attack Flying

47

570s

26.

Unfezant (Shadow)

Air Slash Flying

Sky Attack Flying

40

584s

27.

Latias (Mega)

Zen Headbutt Psychic

Psychic Psychic

24

648s

28.

Yveltal

Gust Flying

Oblivion Wing Flying

25

643s

29.

Staraptor (Shadow)

Gust Flying

Fly Flying

41

596s

30.

Zapdos (Shadow)

Thunder Shock Electric

Drill Peck Flying

28

640s

Zamazenta: Stats and Max CP

Zamazenta (Hero)

Fighting

Max CP at Level 40 3829 | Max CP at Level 50 4329

ATK 254

DEF 236

HP 192

Weaknesses

Resistances

Psychic Flying Fairy

 Bug Dark Rock

Zamazenta Moveset Analysis

Fast Moves

Charge Moves

• Metal Claw Steel

• Snarl Dark

• Ice Fang Ice

• Quick Attack Normal

• Iron Head Steel

• Moonblast Fairy

• Close Combat Fighting

• Crunch Dark

Quick Attack is the easiest of the bunch. It won’t bother any of your counters.

Metal Claw is a good move and troubles your Fairy type counters. With neat damage and energy generation, and being largely unresisted by your counters, it is worth your attention.

Ice Fang does quite a number on your Flying types and is damaging enough. However, it has a 3-turn cooldown and can be used to sneak in your own charged attacks.

Snarl has high energy generation and is threatening in that regard. Plus, it deals super-effective damage to your Psychic types.

Moonblast hits hard but can be dodged to prolong your counters’ presence.

Iron Head does neat neutral damage to most of your counters.

Close Combat is a dangerous STAB move on Zamazenta and with that ATK stat of 254, it should be damaging. However, both Psychic and Flying types resist it. Yay!

Crunch hits very often and when paired with Snarl, is worrisome for your Psychic types.

Shiny Zamazenta

Regular Sprite

Shiny Sprite

All the best, trainers!

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