Pokemon Go: How to defeat Uxie, weakness & counters
Uxie, the Knowledge Pokemon, has been making appearances in 5* Pokemon Go raids, but do you know the counters and weakness of this Myth?
This shorthand guide is designed to help you defeat Uxie in raids to allow you to capture one for yourself, as is part of a set alongside guides for Azelf and Mesprit.
What counters Uxie in Pokemon Go?
When you’re familiar with the Pokemon series, you know that general rules tend to hold true regarding what Type of Pokemon does well against another – there might be a few exceptions but it’s quite reliable. Thus despite its overall simplicity, the Pokemon series has a very logic-based depth to it, in that every type has its own set of weaknesses and strengths.
This means that in a simpler game of the series, such as Pokemon Go, where you sometimes even know what Pokemon you’ll be fighting in advance and with Pokemon having fewer potential moves they can use, you can often make a determination as to what type will be the best counter option in battle before it starts.
In the case of battling a pure Psychic-Type like Uxie, being familiar with the series would likely mean you know to avoid some types such as Fighting, and prioritise using types such as Dark or Bug. But which of those is the best here?
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Uxie will have some level of resistance against Fighting and Psychic types, so we know to avoid those right away. But Bug, Dark and Ghost types all deal the same amount of super-effective damage due to weakness in Pokemon Go, so which is the best against Uxie?
Uxie weakness in Pokemon Go
So now that we know these types will all deal the same damage, or at least have the same damage modifier, which makes the best counter to Uxie? Well, let’s take a look through what Uxie can do and see if a winner emerges based on that.
Like the other Lake spirits, Uxie will use 3 different Psychic attacks alongside the normal-type Swift – making it extremely ill-equipped to deal with a Dark-type Pokemon, due to its Psychic-type immunity. Uxie does also use Thunder, but ultimately it makes no difference in swinging the best type to exploit its weakness, Dark-type is the clear winner due to the immunity against Psychic attacks in Pokemon Go.
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Is there anything else to be aware of?
Nope, that’s pretty much it. Dark-type Pokemon come out as the clear winner for the counter matchup against Uxie in Pokemon Go given that being immune to Psychic-type ultimately negates most of a Lake Guardians possible moves. Thunder doesn’t really make anywhere near enough difference to be notable here.
With our answer found, that’s everything for this piece. If you’d like more stories, articles and guides for Pokemon Go, you can find them right here on The Click, and if you’d instead like to see more by me specifically, a list of my articles is available here.
