Gigantamax Gengar is the fourth Gigantamax Pokémon introduced to Pokémon Go, and is available in Max Battles between Oct. 31 until Nov. 3 2024 to coincide with the end of the Halloween 2024 Part 2 event.
Like all the other Gigantamax Battles, Gengar 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 Gengar in Pokémon Go.
General Gigantamax Gengar 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. While Gigantamax Gengar’s difficulty has been lowered comparatively to the Gigantamax Kanto starters, it can still be a tough battle, especially if you don’t have many players. High-efficiency groups with maxed out investments can take down the Gengar 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.
- Don’t sleep on Max Spirit and Max Guard. Teams work best when there’s two people focusing on dealing damage, one person focused on healing, and one person focused on defense. Each player should bring Pokémon with those respective max skills leveled up. Max Guard will focus 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 Greedent with Bite, it will know Max Darkness 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 Gengar! If you clear the raid, there is a chance that the Gengar 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 Gengar.
Gigantamax Gengar best counters
Unfortunately, as of writing this, there aren’t any explicit counters for Gigantamax Gengar the way there are with a regular Gengar. This is because there are only a handful of Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon eligible for Max Battles.
We’ll want to utilize Gigantamax Gengar’s weaknesses: ground-, ghost-, psychic-, and dark-type moves. There aren’t many Dynamax Pokémon that have these moves at the moment, so your best bet is to bring the following:
- Greedent with Bite (Max Darkness) and Crunch
- Metagross with Zen Headbutt (Max Mindstorm) and Psychic
- Gengar with Shadow Claw (Max Phantasm) and Shadow Ball
- Blastoise with Bite (Max Darkness) and Hydro Cannon
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.
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