These are the best Pokemon for beating Rocket Grunts the Fastest to get Purifier Medal/ Hero Medal
If you're tired of grunts taking too long, I calculated the strongest Pokemon to beat grunts the fastest. This is by using the strongest Fast Attacks so you don't have to waste time doing charged attacks (with their stupid slow animation that takes like 10 seconds each time)
I THEN REALIZED someone already did it but better! :,) so I will combine the guides.
u/Ginden seems to have made a program that does it automatically. Here's his post if you want to look, the main thing is this list of the Pokemon with the highest damage quick attacks in the game for each Type: https://github.com/Ginden/pogo/blob/main/grunt-rockets/artifacts/no-mega.md
You can scroll down and see the current strongest fast-attackers for each type.
I made a list of the optimal Pokemon types to bring in order to beat each grunt (For example, against a 🍃 Grass grunt, lead with a Fire type fast move > then have Bug fast move > and Ice in the back, to cover ALL TYPE MATCH-UP POSSIBILITIES and streamline the process!)
Thankfully the game saves your last used team for each grunt type, so you only have to set them up once.
So just apply his list to this and you should be good to go!
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🍃 Grass – Fire > Bug > Ice
🔥 Fire – Water > Rock > Ground
💧 Water – Grass > Electric > Fairy/Dragon
⚡ Electric – Ground > Rock > Fire/Ice/Bug
🤍 Normal – Fighting > Rock > Steel/Poison
🥊 Fighting – Psychic > Ghost > Ground/Fire/Fighting
🗻 Rock – Grass > Rock > Ground/Fighting
🌍 Ground – Grass > Water > Ice
🦅 Flying – Ice > Electric > Rock
🐛 Bug – Rock > Fire > Flying
☠ Poison – Psychic > Ground > Psychic/Ground
👻 Ghost – Dark/Ghost > Fairy > Ghost/Dark
🔮 Psychic – Bug > Dark/Ghost > Fairy/Flying
❄ Ice – Steel > Fire > Rock
🐉 Dragon – Ice > Fairy > Ground
🛡 Steel – Ground > Fire > Fighting
🕶 Dark – Fairy > Ground > Bug
🧚♀️ Fairy – Steel > Ground > Grass/Electric
Winning is for Winners (Female (Snorlax)) – Fighting > Electric > Ice
Winning is for Winners (Male (Starters)) – Rock > Electric > Poison/Bug
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Lastly, here is a list of EASY to obtain Pokemon for each type!
These are Pokemon that appear frequently in Events, or have community days!
And remember, a 0Attack IV Shadow is still better than a 15Attack IV Non-Shadow, so if you have the shadow version, use it! These Pokemon are also good for Raids so are worth powering up anyway!
If you DON'T have a Shadow Pokemon, remember: Shadow adds 20% damage. So if the Shadow Pokemon is ranked at 95%, its non-shadow counterpart will be at ~79%. Just divide by 1.2, 95%/1.2 = 79%. So shadow also isn't too important!
🍃 Grass – Victreebel, Torterra, Roserade < Strongest if it gets a SHADOW
🔥 Fire – Darmanitan (FireFang), Chandelure
💧 Water – Gyarados, Sharpedo, Crawdaunt, Samurott, Empoleon (Look out for Barraskewda too!)
⚡ Electric – Vikavolt, Manectric, Magnezone
🤍 Normal – Fighting > Rock > Steel/Poison
🥊 Fighting – Conkeldurr, Blaziken, Machamp, Meinshao < Strongest if it gets a SHADOW
🗻 Rock – RAMPARDOS, Tyranitar, Rhyperior, Tyrantrum
🌍 Ground – Excadrill, Mamoswine, Rhyperior
🦅 Flying – Staraptor
🐛 Bug – S°Vikavolt, S°Escavalier
☠ Poison – Sneasler (Still the most useless type, not worth investing)
👻 Ghost – Golurk, HAUNTER, Dragapult < Strongest if it gets a SHADOW
🔮 Psychic – Alakazam, Gallade/Gardevoir, Exeggutor
❄ Ice – Baxcalibur < Stronger if it gets SHADOW, Darmanitan(Galar) < Strongest if it gets a SHADOW
🐉 Dragon – Salamence, Dragonite, Garchomp, Hydreigon
🛡 Steel – Metagross, Scizor
🕶 Dark – Hydreigon, Tyranitar, Sharpedo, Salamence
🧚♀️ Fairy – Gardevoir, Granbull, Hatterene, Primarina < Second strongest if it gets a SHADOW
And on top of that, the powerful Legendaries are:
🐛Pheromosa, 🐉S°Palkia, ⚡Thundurus(Therian), 🦅Yveltal, 👻Blacephalon, 🍃KARTANA(The best), ❄Kyurem(White), 🔮S°MEWTWO(Second Best), 💧S°Kyogre
Hope it helps. Maybe it can raise some more awareness for his post because I couldn't find it :,) I'll delete this if it now feels like plagarizm lol.
by RestorerForer