Team Rocket Leader Giovanni has arrived with a brand-new party in Pokemon Go. This guide will help players defeat him in December 2020. Giovanni has been the kingpin of Team Rocket since the original release of Pokemon Red and Blue. Recently, a new Special Research has been introduced into the game called "An Inter-Egg-sting Development" where players need to focus on taking down Team Rocket. This includes completing tasks like catching a certain number of Shadow Pokemon or defeating a specific number of Team Rocket Grunts. Now, Giovannis is absolutely no pushover, carrying possibly his most powerful team yet. This guide will help players locate and defeat him in battle.
First, the player will need to encounter Giovanni. To do this, they will need the Super Rocket Radar. Once this is available, the player will then need to cycle through all of the potential decoys out there in the world, leading the player to Grunts instead of their leader. Thankfully, running into the Boss shouldn't take too long. This is another 3v3 Pokemon battle but this time, Giovanni will use his shields often, making it harder to bring him down. Here is Giovanni's potential party and how players can take him down.
How To Beat Team Rocket Leader Giovanni in Pokemon Go (December 2020)
Giovanni's team is broken down into three different categories.
- First Pokemon: Persian: His Persian will go down fairly easily if the player is using a Fighting-type fast and charged move. This isn't really one of the threats on his team.
- Second Pokemon #1: Garchomp: The best option would be to go with Ice-type moves since it's quad weak to it.
- Second Pokemon #2: Nidoking: Ground, Water, Psychic, or Ice-moves would take down this Pokemon no problem.
- Second Pokemon #3: Kangaskhan: Same weakness as Persian by being a Normal-type. Make sure to use Fighting-moves.
- Third Pokemon: Mewtwo: This is his most challenging Pokemon to bring down. Using Bug, Ghost, and Dark-type moves are the best way to bring it down.
As a suggestion, the best thing to do would be to challenge him and purposely lose after finding out what his second Pokemon is. This will allow you to go back and change your team to a proper counter, making it much easier to bring him down. The player will be given a chance to capture the Mewtwo on his team after defeating him. Since Mewtwo has been absent from raid battles recently, this is the best way to get it for now.
Pokemon Go is available now on iOS and Android.