How to get Mega Medicham in Pokemon Go: Can it be shiny & best counters for Mega Raid

Pokemon Go is keeping its Mega Raids interesting with a new debut and players are eager to defeat and catch Mega Medicham. Here’s how to get one for your Pokedex alongside its shiny chances and best counters for Raids.

Pokemon Go players can get their hands on debuting Mega Medicham with the next Mega Raid scheduled for March. This Pokemon is very popular among competitive players and can be very useful to tackle other Raids in the mobile game, so its Mega evolution is very promising.

Here’s how to get a Mega Medicham alongside its weaknesses and best counters to win its Raids.

• How to get Mega Medicham in Pokemon Go
• Mega Medicham weaknesses in Pokemon Go
• Best Mega Medicham counters in Pokemon Go

How to get Mega Medicham in Pokemon Go

Although you can’t catch Mega Medicham after defeating it in a Raid Battle in Pokemon Go, you can catch regular Medicham and Mega-Evolve it on your own. For that, you’ll need to defeat many more Mega Medicham in Raid Battles and collect Medicham Mega Energy. When you have enough, you can Mega-Evolve it for a limited time.

Lucky players might catch a shiny Medicham that can Mega-Evolve into a shiny Mega Medicham.

Once you Mega-Evolve Medicham or any other Pokemon once, you won’t need more Mega Energy to do it again. Instead, you’ll only have to wait for the cooldown to end.

Mega Medicham will appear in Raid Battles during the Rising Heroes season from March 8 to March 21, 2023, so you’ll have plenty of time to gather Mega Energy.

Mega Medicham weaknesses in Pokemon Go

Mega Medicham is a dual Fighting and Psychic-type Pokemon, so it’s weak against Flying, Ghost, and Fairy-type moves. Players looking to defeat and catch this Raid boss should focus on those categories and avoid any dual Dark-type Pokemon since it could have a hard time against Medicham’s Fighting-type moves.

Mega Medicham can resist Fighting and Rock-type attacks, so players should also avoid that approach completely.

Best Mega Medicham counters in Pokemon Go

Here are some of the best counters to defeat Mega Medicham in Pokemon Go Raids:

Counter	Best moveset
Gengar	Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball
Gardevoir	Charm and Dazzling Gleam
Banette	Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball
Alakazam	Psycho Cut and Shadow Ball
Pidgeot	Gust and Brave Bird
Chandelure	Hex and Shadow Ball
Giratina	Shadow Claw and Shadow Force
Moltres	Wing Attack and Sky Attack
Charizard	Air Slash and Blast Burn
Lunala	Air Slash and Shadow Ball
Hoopa	Astonish and Shadow Ball
Blaziken	Fire Spin and Brave Bird
Mewtwo	Psycho Cut and Shadow Ball
Ho-Oh	Hidden Power and Brave Bird
Mismagius	Hex and Shadow Ball

You can still defeat Mega Medicham if you don’t have any of these Pokemon, just make sure you exploit its weaknesses with Flying, Fairy, and Ghost-type attacks. If you can Mega-Evolve some of the Pokemon from the list you’ll be one step closer to victory.

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That’s all you need to know about Mega Medicham’s Raids in Pokemon Go. For more, check our other guides:

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