Moltres Soars Into Pokémon GO!

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Moltres is finally available in Pokémon GO!

From now until August 7th you’ll be able to encounter and catch Moltres via Legendary Raid battles. It’s only available for a short time, so be sure to get out there, find a group of trainers, and catch it while you can!

To help you defeat this legendary Fire/Flying-Type here are the top 5 best counters to help you conquer it in battle:


Rock Throw / Stone Edge


Bite / Stone Edge


Water Gun / Hydro Pump


Dragon Tail / Hydro Pump


Rock Throw / Rock Slide

And if you’re lucky enough to catch Moltres, here’s a quick list of the top three movesets for Moltres so you can use your Fast and Charged TMs to the fullest:

  • Fire Spin / Overheat
  • Fire Spin / Fire Blast
  • Fire Spin / Heat Wave

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1,105 thoughts on “Moltres Soars Into Pokémon GO!”

  5. So Passimian is absolutely worthless right?
    Adamant or Jolly
    Receiver (defiant isn’t available)
    Close Combat
    Iron Head
    Earthquake
    Rock Slide

    I’m trying to figure out what possible abilities could benefit this pitiful ape
    Huge Power, Speed Boost, Contrary, Parental Bond

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  6. Wow I’m super relieved

    Before I left for two weeks of vacation I wanted to invite my friend over to my pool to swim and well I did it!

    She said she can’t, but I’m relieved I at least tried

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  7. Soooo… Conveniently none of the Island Scan Pokémon have Megas ? ?

    If we get a regional Tepig and it isn’t Ground I’m calling the cops

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  8. Shitpost but is anyone else considering writing a story for their USUM? Wanted to for SuMo as some of you might remember but honestly that team let me down so much I now reside in hell ☺

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  11. Here are all my playthrough teams that I consider the best of that game

    Red: Ninetales, Blastoise, Vileplume, Articuno, Marowak, Jolteon
    Soul Silver: Feraligatr, Staraptor, Ampharos, Furret, Houndoom, Slowking
    Heart Gold (nuzlocke remaining members): Typhlosion, Dodrio, Tyranitar
    Alpha Sapphire: Blaziken, Roserade, Meowstic, Altaria, Milotic, Banette
    Platinum: Empoleon, Togekiss, Gardevoir, Luxray, Froslass, Gliscore
    Black: Reniculous, Lilligant, Carracosta, Mienshao, Elektross, Reshiram
    Also Black: Serperior, Zebstrika,Klinklang, Swanna, Chandelure, ???
    Black 2: Samurott, Leavanny, Gothitelle, Zoroark, Altaria, Lopunny
    X: Delphox, Blastoise, Lucario, Sylveon, Froslass, Noivern
    Y: Delphox, Furfou, Clawitzer, Slurpuff, Yveltal, Gogoat
    Moon: Primarina, Alolan Raichu, Salazzle, Mimikyu, Tsareena, Lycanrock Day (Lunala <3)

    Bonus: Team Blitz(Explorers of Sky)
    Riolu
    Shinx
    Shaymin

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    • Best Kanto Team (Red): Charizard, Gyarados, Vileplume, Raichu, Wigglytuff, Snorlax

      Best Johto Team (SS): Noctowl, Furret, Magcargo, Venomoth, Heracross

      Best Hoenn Team (AS): Blaziken, Roserade, Gyarados, Glalie, Aggron, Salamence

      Best Sinnoh Team (Plat): Infernape, Gastrodon, Leafeon, Staraptor, Porygon-Z

      Best Unova Team (W2 Challenge): Samurott, Leavanny, Flareon, Aggron, Eelektross, Altaria (probably one of my favourite playthroughs ever because the team was so unplanned yet so good)

      Best Kalos Team (X): Chesnaught, Charizard, Talonflame, Aurorus, Florges, Noivern

      Best Alola Team (Sun): Incineroar, Araquanid, Shiinotic, AloMuk, Mimikyu, Dhelmise (so much type overlap but so much fun)

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    • hmmmmmm favorite runs
      FireRed: Charizard-Nidoking-Primape-Snorlax-Rhydon-Aerodactyl (Elite Four not fun)
      Crystal: Feraligatr-Donphan-Urasring-Crobat-Heracross-Piloswine
      OR: Swampert-Hariyama-Aggron-Flygon-Armaldo-Walreign
      Plat: Infernape-Floatzel-Rampardos-Garchomp-Drapion-Abomasnow
      Black: Emboar-Excadrill-Sawk-Leavanny-Elektross-Golurk
      X: Chesnaught-Diggersby-Pangoro-Tyrantrum-Barbaracle-Avalugg
      Sun: Incineroar-Lycanroc Day-Crabomniable-Mudsdale-Golisopod-Kommo-o

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    • Red: Charizard, Jolteon, Starmie, Pidgeot, Vileplume, Nidoking
      HeartGold: Typhlosion, Crobat, Tyranitar, Ampharos, Tentacruel, Heracross
      Emerald: Sceptile, Slaking, Hariyama, Crawdaunt, Manectric, Flygon
      Platinum: Infernape, Gastrodon, Staraptor, Garchomp, Magnezone, Tangrowth
      Black: Emboar, Milotic, Galvantula, Sawsbuck, Archeops, Metagross
      X: Greninja, Charizard, Heliolisk, Tyrantrum, Gogoat, Talonflame
      Sun: Decidueye, Vikavolt, Alolan Sandslash (got it through trade), Salazzle, Lycanroc Day, Kommo-O (Solgaleo Post-game)

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    • Idk if I can remember all of those…but I’ll list my favorites
      White 2: Volcarona, Swanna, Lilligant, Mincinno, Claydol, Zoroark (This one was super fun w/Volcarona and seeing what it could sweep)

      Y: Lapras, Luxray, Garchomp, Charizard, Pangoro, Aegislash (Probably favorite lineup)

      OS: Blaziken, Milotic, Flygon, Magnezone, Shiftry, Crobat (I like the type coverage here)

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  13. Least favourite team you can remember?

    Deci/Turt/Toxa/AloPers/Comf/AloTales

    Whenever a starter is so badly outshined by the rest of the team it’s gonna have a bad impression on me. Comfey and Toxapex were tanky but I just didn’t have the patience for their weaker attacking stats because Deci and Turtonator just made me want that game done ASAP.

    Deci just felt worse than my Dhelmise from my other run because it was so physically frail and slow in comparison to half of the tram. Turt dragged until it got Shell Smash and even then it has a terrible movepool. Was great in the E4, but boring.

    AloTales was good but not particularly noteworthy.

    But Sasha.

    Sasha the Alolan Persian. This bitch.

    She was the slayer. Murdered everything, U-Turned back to the team. Helped cover Deci’s physical weaknesses with Fur Coat. And if she was against a physical attacker, it was set up Nasty Plot and win, win, win! An absolute legend ?

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    • probably my early Red and Firered stuff
      i was always trying to cram stuff in there like Dugtrio, Nidoking, Rhydon Aerodactyl Snorlax Kabutops

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        • no shit
          although i did have some fun times with a Parasect and a Victreebel once
          i’ve proabaly played Fire/Lear roms a bazillion times

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          • Victreebel is one of my faves <3

            I miss Grass/Poisons. You feel that way about Rock/Grounds?

          • a little bit….but then i remember all the times i had to flee in terror if i was up against a water user

          • I just realised that my favourite type combo (Fairy/Poison) and yours (Ground/Fighting) are strong and weak against eachother :0

            May the best type combo appear first ?

          • Malistocrat vs Warhog!
            unfortunately Malistocrat is a physical attacker and Warhog has high HP and way better attack

          • Puggylist VS… Umm…

            Don’t have a Poison/Fairy since I scrapped all my Crypto Pokemon and my Regional Aromatisse and Slurpuff

          • it is just such a hard concept to nail down that isn’t some noxious sprite

            I should work on Abbigale the 6th Gym Leader
            the bratty daughter of the Super Department Store chain Founder, she basically had her father buy her expensive pokemon and position of gym leader nothing but sickening cutesy fairy types

          • I don’t think it’s too hard, for example Swirlix was gonna become rotting (idea replaced with new Pokemon, Rankid and Festelder) Spritzee was going to be a poisonous perfume, and the Crypto Pokemon was a potion

    • Sucks you had such a bad time with Decidueye in game. Mine was great.

      My bad experiences with a team usually lie with one member: Emolga sticks out as being a huge weak link on a team I had. I’ve also had bad experiences with Pidgeot in SoulSilver. However, my worst experience with a pokemon was with Heliolisk in my first X playthrough. Its typing is trash and could never one shot anything and instead got OHKO practically every time.

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  17. Theory: as Mimikyu is seen in the trailer popping out from some woods, as well as the fact that there’s an upcoming anime episode called ‘Mimikyu’s disguise!’ where Jessie’s Mimikyu’s disguise gets ripped, we’re gonna see a Mimikyu form/evo.

    If it’s an evo it’ll either be a Silvally (minimal stat increase) or a Scizor (no stat increase, just rearrangement)

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      • I’m expecting it to be a total cutie under the rag tbh, like it’s actually just a shadowy Raichu or something XD

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    • Well if you look at the image I posted below-it was the result of me trying to capture an image to see where the Mimikyu is jumping from. All we really know is that it’s jumping from something that has leaves. It could be a bush, it could be a tree, and it could be an Alola Exeggutor. The speculation one can derive from this one second is endless.

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    • Evolution is very strong, there is definitely a chance they might make an ultra form but at the same time they’re never going to show what mimikyu looks like under there

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      • What the fuck is an Ultra Form? Like what happened to the legends? Because I’m more betting that’s just Necrozma manipulating light to appear as Solgaleo and Lunala.

        An Ultra Mimikyu wouldn’t fit because that goes off the theory it’s a fusion with Necrozma, and the pieces of Necrozma are the same size on ‘Solgaleo/Lunala’ as they are on Necrozma

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  18. Well of the 163 day wait it has been 57 days. We are 34.97% of the way through pre-release and have finally gotten an extra second to the 16 second of game footage that was in reveal trailer. How is everyone feeling!

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  19. Anyone been seeing this completionist bullshit? 2 years after greg, his buisness partner left the show, he told Jirard to remove all episodes with him in it just as a way to fuck him over. Jirard has to delete most of his videos now and he is now redoing every single one of those games.

    During the adpocalypse too. What the hell.

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  22. It seems like the new trailer shows the mimikyu scene and what looks like the water totem battle of USUM but a level lower…… (Note the background)
    Are they making these games easier…..

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