If you want to add this magical stag to your collection, you’ll need to have a good understanding of Xerneas’ counters and weaknesses before you meet it in battle. You can now catch a shiny Xerneas in Pokémon Go! Like all legendary Pokémon, Xerneas appears in five-star raids and, to ensure its defeat, you’ll want to battle it alongside a group of trainers, which, thanks to the Remote Raid passes, you can now do at home. On this page:
Xerneas type - Fairy-type Xerneas is weak against - Poison and steel-types Xerneas counters - For poison-types, Beedrill, Toxicroak, Roserade and Victreebel. For steel-types, Scizor, Metagross, Dialga and Excadrill. Other Xerneas counters - Since Xerneas is a pure fairy-type Pokémon, planning your counters for this Pokémon is quite easy. We recommend on creating a team of your strongest poison and steel-type Pokémon - this will ensure you’re focusing on Xerneas’ weaknesses, which will hopefully lead to this stag’s defeat.
Raid Boss CP - 45,899 CP CP when being caught - 2073 to 2160 CP Weather boosted CP (Cloudy) when being caught - 2591 to 2701 CP
Thank you to Bryanrobledo6 from reddit for the help with this information. Xerneas can use a variety of Fast and Charged moves in Pokémon Go, including: Possible Fast Moves:
Tackle (Normal) Zen Headbutt (Psychic)
Possible Charged Moves:
Close Combat (Fighting) Giga Impact (Normal) Megahorn (Grass) Moonblast (Fairy) Thunder (Electric)
The Season of Mythical Wishes continues with the Winter Holiday event, which has brought Mega Glalie to Pokémon Go. Don’t forget to partake in the new Go Battle League season.
Elsewhere, be sure to use Daily Adventure Incense for the chance of encountering Galarian Articuno, Galarian Zapdos and Galarian Moltres.
Xerneas and Yveltal are counterparts to each other - Xerneas embodies life, while Yveltal is a force of death.
Using its horns, Xerneas is able to grant life to the world and, at the end of it’s lifespan, Xerneas is able to release this energy into the world surrounding it, before transforming into a giant tree where it will sleep for 1000 years.
The inspiration for Xerneas very clearly comes from a stag, with the design for its antlers possibly being drawn from the Eucaldoceros. This is an extinct breed of deer whose fossils have been found throughout Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. These fossils suggest that the Eucaldoceros had impressive branching antlers, which split in multiple places.
Good luck catching Xerneas in Pokémon Go!
