Pokémon GO Retro Cup – Best Pokémon for your team (May 2021)

By Breakingamenews On May 10, 2021

The GO Battle League opens an interesting new chapter in Pokémon GO with the start of a new one Retro cup. In contrast to the “Anything Goes” rules in the Master League, this themed arena limits which characters you can choose and thus also the opponents you have to face. As usual, this has completely messed up the Pokémon GO PvP meta. You compete against teams that only consist of certain types. So you need to make sure that you have the best counterattacks against the top competitors. To help out, here is our Pokémon GO Retro Cup guide to the best Pokémon for your team in May 2021.

What types of Pokémon are allowed in the Retro Cup?

Scroll down if you just want the list of the best Pokémon for the Retro Cup in May 2021, but first let’s break down which Pokémon types are allowed so you can understand the meta even better. Only the first 15 Pokémon types introduced in the main series are allowed in the Retro Cup, which means Dark, Steel and Fairy are excluded. That leaves us with …

normal
Fire
water
grass
Electric
ice
struggle
Poison
ground
Flying
Clairvoyant
error
rock
ghost
Dragon

Along with that is a CP cap of 1500 which means you will be using some really unique species in these fights. The lack of Dark, Steel and especially Fairy attackers makes you rethink your entire strategy when it comes to building your team. Dragons get a lot more viable for some battles, but that also means their tokens are all over the meta. Ultimately, most of our best Pokémon come from the Normal, Psychic, Ice, and Grass types. You can find a large selection in the following list.

The best Retro Cup Pokémon team in May 2021

Below is our full list of the best Pokémon for your Retro Cup team. We always recommend picking one or two from this list as they are the top competitors in the field. However, others will pick from them too, so you should look for counters and make sure your team is reporting across different types. When you have picked one or two for your team, check which harms they are harmed against and which they are weak against, and try to cover their weaknesses and improve their strengths.

Note: Some Pokémon will not appear in the list if they are not switched on via Candy XL. These are marked with (XL) so that if you don’t have enough to get them anywhere near 1500 CP, you can avoid them.

Pokémon	Art	Fast attack	Charged attack	Resists against	Weak against
Lickitung (XL)	normal	Lick	Power whip	ghost	struggle
Cresselia	Clairvoyant	Psycho cut	Grass Knot, Moonblast or Future Sight	Clairvoyant, fighting	Bug, Dark, Ghost
Froslass	Ice and spirit	Powder snow	Avalanche and shadow ball	Normal, poison, ice, fighting, beetle	Dark, fire, spirit, stone, steel
Regirock	rock	Lock on	Stone Edge and Focus Blast	Poison, normal, flies, fire	Fight, grass, ground, steel, water
Abomasnow (XL)	Grass and ice	Powder snow	Weather ball (ice)	Water, soil, grass, electric	Fire, beetle, fighting, flying, poison, stone, steel
Altaria	Dragon and flies	Mud shot	Rock slide or earthquake	Soil, grass, water, fire, fight, beetle	Ice, dragon, fairy, stone
Chansey (XL)	normal	lb	Psychic and Hyper Beam	ghost	struggle
Deoxys (defense)	Clairvoyant	counter	Rock Slide and Psycho Boost	Clairvoyant, fighting	Bug, Dark, Ghost
Drifblim	Ghost and flies	Hex	Shadow ball and icy wind	Fighting, Normal, Ground, Beetle, Poison, Grass	Dark, electric, ghost, ice, rock
Dewgong	Water and ice	ice floe	Icy wind and water pulse	Ice water	Electric, fighting, grass, rock

And these are our tips for the best Pokémon for your team in May 2021 in the Pokémon GO Retro Cup.

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