Moltres is one of the original three Pokémon Legendary Birds, and it's available for trainers to fight in five-star raids in Pokémon Go. It's not an easy encounter and trainers need to work with other players to to win against her. You want to take at least five more with you and make sure you bring your best Water-type Pokémon to bring it down.
Moltres weaknesses
Moltres is a Fire and Flying type Pokémon. It is weak for both Electric and Aquatic type attacks, but is exceptionally weak for Rock type moves. Among the choices you can choose from, you want to have a strong defensive Pokémon to withstand Moltres' powerful Fire-type attacks. Moltres is resistant to Fairy-type, Combat, Fire, Ground, and Steel-type attacks, and Bug and Grass-type moves do virtually no damage to him.
Pokémon to counter Moltres
You have a handful of choices to defeat Moltres. Your best options include Rhyperior, Golem, and Terrakion.
Rhyperior is a fantastic Rock and Ground-type Pokémon to use against Moltres. Whenever a Pokémon has a Rock-type weakness, Rhyperior is one of the best Pokémon to use to exploit that weakness. He not only has phenomenal defensive skills, but he has excellent attacks. He has a max CP of 3, attack of 733, defense of 241, and stamina of 190. The best hits he can use against Moltres are slammed for his fast movement and his Demolitionist or Stone Edge for his. load movement.
The next choice is Golem, a lesser option that some coaches might not think of picking, but it's a solid choice. Golem is another Rock and Ground-type Pokémon and is probably one of the easiest Rock-type Pokémon to catch, allowing various trainers to have one in their collection. It has a max CP of 2949, attack of 211, defense of 198, and stamina of 190. The best moves you can use include the fast moving stone throw and smashed edge or stone explosion for his. load movement.
The last optimal choice you can use against Moltres is Terrakion, a Legendary Pokémon. It's much harder to capture as it's only available for limited periods of time, so not many trainers likely have one in their collection. Terrakion is a Rock and Fight type Pokémon, with a max CP of 3698, Attack of 260, Defense of 192, and Stamina of 209. The best moves you can get are the fast downward movement and the charge glide. .
There are a variety of other Pokemon choices that you can use against Moltres as well. The alternatives are Rampardos, Tyranitar, Omastar, Aerodactyl, Gigalith, Mega Blastoise, Regirock, Lunatone, Kyogre, Zekrom, Solrock, Kabutops and Darmantian.
Once you've beaten Moltres, you and your friends have a limited number of Premier Bullets to use to capture him after a raid ends.
