The evolved form of Drilbur is one of the best ground-type Pokemon available inPokemon GO, thanks to its speed, and the secondary steel typing. With Drilbur entering Max Battles, you have a chance to get a Dynamax Excadrill with the best moves and top stats to use in future tricky Max Raids.
With the Wild Area event looming on the horizon, and the main featured Pokemon Toxtricity sporting both Electric and Poison types, having a full team of three pumped-up Pokemon that can fully negate their attacks will be key to defeating those Gigantamax (G-Max) Pokemon. So here’s everything you need to know about defeating Drilbur inPokemon GOMax Battles, including the list of its resistances and weaknesses and the best matchups to face off againstthis ground-type Pokemonin battle.
Pokemon GO Max Battle: Drilbur Weaknesses And Resistances
As a pure ground-type, Drilbur is offensively strong against many types of attacks inPokemon GO Max Raid battles. On the other side of the coin, it also heavily resists one type but is thankfully weak against two others that are commonly available among the current roster of available Dynamax Pokemon.
During this event, Drilbur will appear in one-star Max Battles, so you shouldn’t have much of an issue beating them with any super-effective teams. Each battle costs 250 Max Particles to initiate, but they’re only spent once you win.
Drilbur Strengths in Pokemon GO
Pokemon GO Max Battle: Excadrill Weaknesses And Resistances
Upon catching Drilbur, evolving it into an Excadrill will give you a ton of advantages, such as a drastically increased stat spread as well as a heavily modified set of resistances and weaknesses to give one of the best Pokemon defensively in the game. The new stats and type resistance are as shown below:
Excadrill’s Strengths in Pokemon GO
Best Drilbur Max Battle Counters in Pokemon GO
You shouldn’t have much of an issuebeating this Dynamax Pokemon in Max Raidson your own, but if you want to get through these battles against Drilbur as quickly as possible, you should go for Grass or Water moves. When you win, you will get a handful of item rewards, the opportunity to catch the Drilbur for yourself, and a small chance to encounter a shiny variant of the Ground-type Pokemon.
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How to get Shiny Dynamax Drilbur in Pokemon GO?
Every victory against Drilbur in Max battles will allow you to catch this Dynamax Pokemon, and very occasionally you may belucky enough to face its shiny variant. This shiny retains the mud brown skin color but changes the nose to a baby blue and its stripes to pink. Unfortunately, there is little data on what the odds are to encounter a shiny Dynamax Pokemon compared to other shiny Pokemon encounter rates.
