For a special weekend in March, Lugia will be available to battle Pokémon Go. You can find it in Five Star Raids that run from March 27 at 8 AM to March 30 at 22 PM in your region alongside the main March five-star raid Thundurus debuting. Not only do you have a chance for Lugia to be shiny, but he will know the exclusive ability aeroblast, which is a flying-type attack that has an increased chance to be a critical hit.
Lugia Weaknesses
Lugia is a Psychic and Flying-type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Dark, Electric, Ghost, Ice, and Rock-type attacks. You have a variety of options available to you to remove it, but it's still not a pushover. You may find yourself in trouble when battling it if you don't have a reliable defensive Pokemon available.
Pokémon to counter Lugia
When fighting Lugia, you have several options to choose from, but some good ones include Tyranitar, Magnezone, and Weavile.
Tyranitar is a heavy hitter. It's a Dark and Rock-type Pokémon, capable of inflicting heavy damage against Lugia while having strong defense to keep it alive during battle. You want him to know how to bite and crunch, snap and crunch, or snap and stone edge. Any of them should do pretty well against Lugia, considering they all deal heavy damage and are STAB attacks for Tyranitar.
Magnezone is a solid choice to have in this raid battle, plus it resists most of Lugia's attacks. If you wanted a decent attacker who wouldn't feel Lugia's damage too much, Magnezone would be your first choice. You want yours to know spark and wild charge or charge beam and wild charge. These are all excellent attacks to overcome Lugia's weakness to Electric-type attacks.
The last option, Weavile, is another great choice for your battle. While Weavile's variety of weaknesses generally make him a risky pick in several other battles, he's a superior attacker to use against Lugia. Additionally, Weavile has a wide variety of moves at his disposal. You can choose for it grunt and avalanche, grunt and foul play, ice shard and foul play, or ice shard and avalanche. There are a handful of other options a Weavile may know of, but these are some of the best, and they will all do well when fighting this legendary foe.
While all of them are great picks, Lugia has several weaknesses you can exploit, which means you can have a diverse team to use against her. You may want to use other Pokémon, such as Hydreigon, Zapdos, Mewtwo, Electivire, Mamoswine, Rampardos, Golem, Gengar, Glaceon, Rhyperior, Gigalith, and many more.
Special Lugia Raids take place March 27 at 8 a.m. and continue through March 30 at 22 p.m. local Pokémon Go time. to use the aeroblast.
