Pokemon Go: Mega Medicham Raid Guide

Published by Emma o n September 2, 2025, 9:51 pm

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Mega Medicham: Strengths And Weaknesses

Mega Medicham: Best Counter Picks

Pokemon Go's popularity typically experiences a spike whenever new Pokemon or content come to the game, giving even the most experienced players something new to chase. When it comes to new Pokemon releases, one of the main ways that this is done is through their Raiding feature, giving you the opportunity to battle and catch these new debuts.

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This is how you can obtain Pokemon Go's latest addition, Mega Medicham, a Mega Evolution that can be found in Mega Raids for a limited time. To earn Medicham Mega Energy and obtain this Mega Evolution, you'll have to first defeat Mega Medicham in its Raid, but don't worry, we've got you covered.

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This Raid possesses similar difficulty as other Mega Raids that were previously introduced to Pokemon Go, proving to not be extremely difficult, but still an encounter that you woulstatic.aayyy.com/topic/dn/'t want to take on without the help of others. For this specific Raid, do your best to go into it with a party of at least three to five players, ensuring that your group can deal enough damage to defeat Mega Medicham.

Although it is possible to take down this Mega Evolution with fewer players, it's not recommended, due to the added risk of not completing this Raid before time expires. Making sure that you have at least three players in your Raid party will most likely guarantee your success, securing yourself and your allies all possible rewards, including the extremely valuable Medicham Mega Energy.

If you wish to further guarantee your success and acquisition of rewards in this Raid, Mega Evolve or Primal Revert a Pokemon that you are battling with.

Temporarily transforming one of your Pokemon, this feature provides the bonus of an attack increase to certain types of attacks, changing based on which Pokemon has undergone this transformation.

Mega Medicham: Strengths And Weaknesses

There are only a few resistances and vulnerabilities when it comes to battling Mega Medicham, providing you with a bit of wiggle room when it comes to constructing your Pokemon battle party. With its Fighting and Psychic dual-typing, Mega Medicham is only resistant to two types of attacks: Fighting and Rock. This helps in making this Raid battle and Pokemon selection easier, leading you to only avoid using two specific types of Pokemon.

To ensure that you're dealing as much damage as possible in this Raid, you'll want to be using Pokemon that take advantage of Mega Medicham's three main weaknesses: Flying, Fairy, and Ghost-type attacks. Using a battle party consisting of Pokemon of these three types will maximize your overall effectiveness in this Raid, and, as a result, maximize your chances of success.

Although it may not be necessary, due to the low difficulty of this specific Raid, Same Type Attack Bonus is a feature that can further help you defeat Mega Medicham.

To take advantage of this attack bonus you can use any type of Pokemon, just make sure they're using attacks that match their specific typing.

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Mega Medicham: Best Counter Picks

As you'd probably imagine, the best Pokemon for this specific Raid battle are those that exploit Mega Medicham's three weaknesses, Flying, Fairy, and Ghost-type attacks. Pokemon that are, and possess attacks of, these three types will do best here, dealing super effective damage throughout this Mega Raid.

For this reason, we have put together a list of the most powerful Pokemon of each of these three types, containing Pokemon that will perform especially well against this specific opponent.

With this Raid not being very difficult, as compared to others, don't worry if you aren't using Pokemon found below.

You will easily be able to defeat Mega Medicham in this Raid when using other strong Flying, Fairy, and Ghost types.

Flying-Type Counter Picks

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Recommended Moves

Shadow Moltres

Fast Attack: Wing Attack

Charged Attack: Sky Attack

Shadow Honchkrow

Fast Attack: Peck

Charged Attack: Sky Attack

Shadow Ho-Oh

Fast Attack: Hidden Power

Charged Attack: Brave Bird

Mega Pidgeot

Fast Attack: Gust

Charged Attack: Brave Bird

Shadow Zapdos

Fast Attack: Thunder Shock

Charged Attack: Drill Peck

Shadow Staraptor

Fast Attack: Gust

Charged Attack: Brave Bird

Shadow Lugia

Fast Attack: Extrasensory

Charged Attack: Aeroblast+

Shadow Unfezant

Fast Attack: Air Slash

Charged Attack: Sky Attack

Ghost-Type Counter Picks

Pokemon

Recommended Moves

Mega Gengar

Fast Attack: Lick