BEST Pokémon to POWER-UP in Pokémon GO! (2024)

*COUPLE CORRECTIONS* sorry it was such a big video some mistakes were bound to be made Iron Boulder is a rock/psychic Defense Deoxys Moveset is Thunderbolt/Psycho Boost TalonFlame moveset is Fly/Flame Charge Yveltal is a Decent Dark type Attacker Shadow Toxicroak is #1 Poison Type Attacker Crowned Form of Zamzenta Signature move is called - behemoth bash Landorus moveset is Stone Edge/Sandsear Storm Giglith needs Smack Down & Meteor Beam Shadow Kyogre is now in Pokemon GO Some of these inacurracies are because this video was recorded a while back before some of these Pokemon came to the game

[@xeno9505]

Toxicroak is really number 1? With such a low max cp?

[@brandonnewby178]

Did you get your shiny Lucario?

[@TommyT_]

Lot of mistakes that

[@the_uncreatives1451]

Also there are more psychic legendaries

[@sebastiancriollo4534]

Staraptor’s charged move as flying type attack should be Fly

[@DanielDenoted]

Anyone who questions who's the best, show them this video. Everything u need all in 1 video, organized with chapters, organized by importance, megas, shadows. Quick but detailed. This is absolute quality. Thank you Daxi

Much love! Tried to make it as good as possible

[@aaradhyajain5463]

are the strongest in order?

[@oneonone8855]

@@aaradhyajain5463yes

[@DanielDenoted]

@ you always do

[@DanielDenoted]

@aaradhyajain5463 yea, he ranks them within each type

[@MrM3-eo4bb]

It might be obvious, but a great tip if you wish o gain ALOT of stardust is to NOT throw away any type of berries. Use them fo feed Pokemon in Gyms, if possible a full gym and use a star piece if you can. It is a much better use of berries instead of just discarding them. You can never get to much stardust :)

[@Run3sc4p3g0D]

star piece for gym feeding is not good, use for bonus stardust spotlight hours. you only get 30-60(if using piece) per berry

[@bb04jofr]

*45 not 60 @@Run3sc4p3g0D

[@MrM3-eo4bb]

@@Run3sc4p3g0D True, but if you feed a full gym that is still ALOT of extra star dust. Obviously this depends on how many star pieces you have and are willing to spend them.

Yes always dump into gyms thats free stardust

[@cedricaguilar4501]

I've been farming buddy hearts and berries are a must to get 6 hearts for each pokemon per day.

[@LeonMars512]

Legacy moves has to be the worst thing in the game. “Oh you missed community day or a raid because you didn’t play 2 years ago? Well no legacy move for you unless you have a super rare item.”

[@BSUxFAN29]

Fomo is a real thing lol

[@starseedpitstop685]

Why not just grind 2 rank 19?

[@erzascarlet2577]

​​@@starseedpitstop685u gotta tell them to people, most people doesn't know that

[@golfprofessor]

Hope everyone got an idea of what the top Pokémon are in the GL! Make sure to join the Poke Daxi Discord Server for more general or PvP pogo help! ❤

[@Rex_786]

There are also raid counters for current raid bosses and top counters of each type graphics made by our amazing moderator!

[@RooyPiter]

Considering that this is aimed for those who don't have many powered up pokemon, I'd actually put Ground, Ice and Fighting up up to 5/5 stars with Rock, since beginners only have a handful of Stardust to use, they should use their first bits of dust on getting at least 6 pokemon from each of those types to lvl 40, or CP around 3000, then they will be covered for most of the Legendary raids out there.

[@oneonone8855]

Mamoswine is s big pick. Ice attacker and Electric/Fire attacker. Ground resists Electric and Mamoswine is s very good attacker there aswell. But have to watch out for Fire moves from Fire Pokemon.

[@ThidaCornes]

I don't see this video that way. A lot of the Pokemon are from five-star, Mega, or Shadow Raids. There are plenty of nonmeta-relevant Pokemon that you can raid. He also has some"budget Pokemon." I find this video helpful because it's well-organized and specific and it gets updated each year. This allows me to spend rare candy and buddy Pokemon more wisely.

[@cortiz8726]

where should i start first im lost

[@readw4552]

This was such a clutch video for tm use ideas, I never wanna throw them out and looking up individual movesets is sometimes a pain

[@Hubert-rh4hz]

Nice list. A important information is, that you normally only need 3 good options/type (only ground/rock is so superior that it make sense to have 6 of them) As a rookie I focused on the dual Typ Pokémon like Rhyperior, Excadrill, Mamoswine etc…and finally Mewtwo (which depends on 2nd charge move is the most versatile attacker in the game… not top but always good) Ah and lvl40 is mostly enough if you have not enough dust… better to have a great large lvl40 Roster as a small lvl50 Roster. If someone starts with PoGo I wohl recommend 4 legendarys with Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Groudon, Kyogre …. followed by a good roster of Rock, Ground and Ice Attackers(which are mostly not legendary)

[@onyx-101]

These type of videos bring back so much nostalgia 🥲❤️

[@LotusTheWise]

Fun fact: you can look up Kingambit in your Pokémon and if you tick the "show evolutionary line" it shows you bisharp and pawniard

Ouuu cool easter egg

[@rubenhoksbergen4565]

26:25 Daxi predictions for new move on talonflame? All jokes aside great video man! With this long of a video it's hard not to make a small mistake.

haha oops flame charge

[@nixequestrian3721]

Thanks for the overall meta list- a number of the Pokémon I use a lot when I do play GBL are on it (from the great & master leagues) but I almost never play ultra league, so I'll make sure to prioritise the UL picks you mention & focus on powering those ones up. I'll be sharing this video around my little local PoGo community, as I know a lot of us horde Pokémon due to the difficulty in knowing what is most useful to keep PvP wise when you only play GBL casually lol... Love clear, concise informative guides like this one, as it makes a hard task so much simpler!

[@MohamedAhmed-sz3ck]

You forgot yveltal on the dark the category

[@Dizz2019]

As sion as i didn't see it on the list i came looking fir this comment.

[@NitroPheasant]

Yveltal is trash

[@whaletastic9200]

​@@NitroPheasantHOW

[@donii7092]

@@NitroPheasantoblivion wing is underrated

[@Thotacus]

@@whaletastic9200yveltal is literally the bottom of dark raid attackers.

[@M0rd3n-y5w]

I wanna start by saying you always put out well made and helpful content, so thank you for that. However, the pvp section (great league) of this video was lackluster to say the least : DD is played with thunderbolt rather than rock slide, vigoroth is now made irrelevant by annihilape, talonflame is played with flame charge and not sky attack, medicham has disappeared after all the nerfs and his role is now played by annihilape (no annihilape mention in the list, also). Otherwise, great video as usual, keep going with the good work!

Thanks issue was this video was made before annilaple was released - so things change - none the less that why we reccomend checking pvpoke

[@ThidaCornes]

Thanks! This is your best tips video of the year. The screenshots of all the Pokemon with movesets lined up in rows are an improvement from last year. I appreciate your corrections.

[@brianpena16]

great video!! one mistake I noticed is at 1:40 Zamazenta's signature move is Behemoth Bash not Behemoth Blade

[@sambeaumont395]

It is always worth noting that he is mostly basing it on the Pokémon type. The value can change depending on sub typing and what you are facing (their types and/or moves).

yes this is why at the end I mention counters can change - all depends on moveset of raid boss - but generally higher dps will always perform best

[@ExoticCatLitter]

Fun fact about rocks being the only 5/5. If a pokemon had every type it would only have one weakness to rock

[@scrublord9505]

Makes sense why they made rock so inaccurate in regular Pokemon games

[@Alexiaden93]

Shadow Toxicroak should be mentioned as a top poison attacker

[@Hubert-rh4hz]

But honestly… how many times you really use poison, flying or bug type attackers? Even fire, water, Grass is not many times per year useful if you have still a good Roster.

this was recorded before it dropped that's why

[@dblum]

@I have a hundo manectric and hundo ampharos. Which should I invest in first?

[@leonaipEu]

​@dblum for what I know, mega manectric is better, so I would go for it first

[@Trailer__Swift]

@@dblummanetric has higher damage per second but it’s going to die faster. Ampharos will live longer and because the mega is part dragon, it will have a lot of resistances.

[@skullemoji728]

Great video! These videos are so helpful every year. Thank you!

[@user-Camjja]

If someone counts how many times he said shadow in the video… Hats off to you.

Probably triple digits LOL

[@Dizzyissilly]

​@ I got a 100 iv honchkrow but I don't know what to use it for got it from research

[@ThatOddWaffle]

I love how both times mega garchomp was said, he preficed by saying "(insert pokemon) is better by a landslide". Rip for my boi chomp

[@Chickenman_gaming]

He da top but nothing can beat Ray and groudon

[@omegasfn]

Not that it's a super big deal, but I feel like almost everywhere I look everyone's just forgotten that Shaymin can learn Magical Leaf, which makes it significantly more stronger and without praying you got lucky with hidden power

[@prathmeshtripathi1501]

My Shaymin can't learn Magical leaf. What's up with Shaymin's moves? Does it only learn Magical leaf if it was obtained through the ticketed research?

true but its still very unavailable mon and for the power its not worth it

[@omegasfn]

@@prathmeshtripathi1501 Magical Leaf is a fast attack. And I just looked into it and apparently it's a glitch that some Sky Forme Shaymin can't learn it that Niantic hasn't fixed for over half a year by now(YIPPEE). But it doesn't seem like it's affecting Land Forme Shaymin, not that I'd recommend switching forms to test it anyway

[@ThedHomie]

1:29, Zamazenta Crowned can’t even learn Behemoth Blade in the main series. Behemoth Blade is the signature move for Zacian Crowned and Zamazenta’s signature move is called Behemoth Bash

[@Lucky69K]

Yepp😂

[@Yellow-IV]

Shut up nerd

oh my bad - just meant the signature move

[@fennsk]

@ I'm wondering why not mention Golem as a budget option in Rock and Ground? Free evolutions after trading and its line is relatively common in the wild. Alolan form could be a useful budget pick for Electric, too. Plus, neither of them need their legacy moves in order to be useful.

[@BMpatrol]

Love the new format separating Megas from the rest, since we can only use 1 Mega at a time anyway

Thought it would make more sense

[@5204-e9c]

One extra thing that you (and I think a lot of people have missed) is that Staraptor just got access to the charged move Fly during this season. This really propels both Staraptor and Shadow Staraptor as flying attackers. On top of that, it's Comm Day move Gust also makes it slightly stronger, and because it's a Fast Move, Elite Fast Tm's are needed less. I have 12 Elite Fast Tms, and NOTHING to use them on. I've already checked multiple times. Something to consider for your flying type teams.

[@remixchamp]

talonflame already takes its spot against registeel and 3 flys on azumarill takes care of it

[@5204-e9c]

@@remixchamp This.... doesn't have anything to do with my comment or PVE in general, but cool. Glad Talonflame is getting the recognition it deserves in PVP. Thanks for your pointless insight.

[@oneonone8855]

@@remixchampTalonflame is significantly worse than Shadow Starraptor

[@diegohenrique1979]

Its literally insane how I was looking for some power up guide for 2024 yesterday and I got this video today

haha I read your mind

[@DracoTCG]

Iron Boulder isn’t a fighting type, it’s Rock/Psychic, so it could be useful for those types

Thanks for the correction

[@prova5278]

very useful video, even if you are starting out since this way you already know which pokemon to focus on. Thank you so much. You are the best 💪👍

[@Houndlock643]

5:01 see this is what I’ve been trying to say about the Origin Forms If they’re not going to as hard hitting as most people would suppose that they would be, then it would probably be best to just raid them for the Adventure Effects, and once you get them, then you’re done with raiding for the Origin Forms.

[@Thotacus]

The origins forms hit harder because of their unique move. Im not sure why you give a time stamp that has nothing to do with what you said beyond just him saying their names.

[@Houndlock643]

@@Thotacus because it’s when they were brought up in the video. Plus, Daxi said that the order was based on how good they were.

[@Thotacus]

@@Houndlock643 Daxi is just an idiot and doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to listing what's better in what order.

[@kennguyen6236]

Thank you so much for the perfect upload timing! I just TM'd frustration off of Pokemon I had no clue were useful.

[@DouaPuncte]

Usefullness Raiting Rock 5/5 Ice 5/5 Ground 4/5 Steel 4/5 Dragon 4/5 Dark 4/5 Electric 4/5 Fight 4/5 Ghost 3/5 Fairy 3/5 Fire 3/5 Water 3/5 Psychic 3/5 Bug 2/5 Fly 2/5 Grass 2/5 Poison 2/5

[@coreymenace6725]

Thank you for this video! Just got my first hundo shadow! AND IT WAS KYOGRE!!

[@donfrankie]

If I just has 100 elite TM because 80% require an elite TM for get the right move. An idea could be to tell if there was a move that was a little less effiecent, but did require an Elite TM.

To get these moves I reccomend waiting until events were you can evolve to get the move - much easier then elite TMS - also generally the elite tm move is essential

[@Bruceceee]

bro i just took notes on everything you have said in this video, but due to a busy schedule i came back to this video every day for the past week lol

[@coryneff7048]

Thanks for the tips. I marked 63 pokemon to prioritize leveling them up. Most of them to level 40, some to level 50 (they're lucky), and some to the 1500 or 2500 cp cap

[@ozoioi11]

Oh gosh electro drift miraidon is gonna be insane it’s insane in violet atleast

[@coryneff7048]

I don't usually press the like button on videos, but this one is an exception. Very well done and helpful.

[@wongjh3590]

Imagine being 1 of the worst defensive/offensive types in main series games but being the strongest in a mobile game. Fairy types took that personally

[@TreFKennedy]

Dope vid Daxi, Zekrom getting hella love, we love to see it

[@IceMan-sj7ri]

Correction to Cresselia for Ultra League would be with Psycho Cut, Grass Knot and Future Sight. Better results using those move sets. Also G-Weezing with Overheat instead of play rough has better play. All in all, awesome job brother. Thanks a lot for all the info. Gonna be helpful for many trainers globally. Im good as it relates to PvP but the raid attackers definitely helpful for me. Keep rocking it mate.

[@erickauppinen2157]

I appreciate the effort that this kind of video takes to make, and just wanted to add that on the Pvp side of things, while Medicham is still good, it does not want to run psychic anymore. Psychic got a big nerf this season, so most people will want to run it with either dynamic punch/power-up punch and ice punch.

[@GabrielBurns-yg7qd]

You also forgot that Meowscarada's signature move is Flower Trick

[@leonlucas678]

For Master League it's Landorus with Sandsear Storm

[@ssj2trunks103]

I have to say that the video is very informative as it should… For Beginners or/and Players Who Stop Playing 2Years Ago Am Came Back… Niantic had have been very STRONG in the idea of starting the life of this game as much as possible am for that end they HAD RECYCLED RAID BOSSES none stop… not to mention that we are missing a lot of Pokédex Mon por Region! Finally As PvP goes a Mon can be good for 2-3 seasons am a simple move change am that Mon is over… very difficult Am dangerous to power up a Mon at the end of a season…

[@Man_City_We_Fight_Till_The_end]

This is a great video, which gives so much information, and yet to be the best video it's missing one thing? CONCLUSION! I find out you do this a lot, say so much but don't have the expert guts to make a decision, to put your personal opinion on the line there. Maybe I should ask Chat-GPT for a conclusion? something like...having said all of these who are the 3-5 best Pokemon to invest in power up to level 50! another thing you forgot is what is the different cost of powering up to level 50! Shadow Pokemon will demand 360 XL candy and 600K dust, whereas Lucky Pokemon will demand 296 XL and 300K dust to power up. My conclusion to this video: only power up: 1. Lucky Hundo Pokemon - if you have the XL 2. Rare Pokemon that are unique in their effectiveness. 3. A Pokemon you really love, for example, I did a regular special trade and got the Zacrom 100% with the perfect move-set, I will want to power this from level 40 to 50 someday.

[@BotFansUnited]

This is one of my favorite yearly videos! Helps me choose what to keep and what not. Thanks!

[@ChrisM-qo1jc]

Can you please make a guide on which pokemons are worth evolving for the x2 XL candies during the fairy/valentines event?

anything on this list is worth evolving for the XLS

[@ChrisM-qo1jc]

​@true lol but some cost more candies to evolve and not worth as much Btw your discord link invite is broken!!

[@markdingle9109]

Badly needed this since i'm getting back to raiding, thanks Daxi!

[@cocolanfofolan2508]

I've been waiting for this years edition of this ^^

[@MasterJediPhil]

9:19 Iron Boulder isn’t a fighting type. It’s a rock/psychic type.

[@tylerroseclemons9049]

TY! I’m a pretty new player and my goal for 2024 is to get more into raiding. This video helps a ton in helping me decide where to devote my somewhat limited resources. Caught Latios and Latias day in Mega Rajds in Central Park this afternoon tho!

[@ericcollins6181]

If you are newish to the game, the "Budget" Pokemon he mentioned are a great place to start. Even if they are outclassed by the top picks, your raid partners will love seeing 6 level 30-40 Machamps from you vs 1 Trerrakion and 5 Snorlaxes.

[@oneonone8855]

Psychic is neutral to Ghost. But due to Gengar being part Poison making it weak to Psychic. 13:00

[@docmoorej]

very informative, Ive never even seen many of those you mention in shadow form.

[@TheTurdEye]

Glad to see skeledirge here I am a new player and it's one of my favorite in the GL with these exact moves.😊

[@TiznakiShowsYou]

Was gonna comment on your last video about one of these. Nice timing!

[@DanielV80NX]

Will you remake this vid with the new update changing the meta?

[@RDTtwo]

Mamoswine is great because it just has two fast moves. Spending the dust to give your shadow mamoswine two moves is so useful. So easy to just use a fast TM to swap it between ground and ice attack.

[@Ditronus.]

Shadow crawdaunt (in grunts now) with crabhammer is close in dps with kyogre, and has a pretty good ER value. Hard to believe but it's true according to gamepress' spreadsheet. Actually, he is *ahead* of shadow kyogre with hydro pump in dps. Course, he has a lot less tdo. Shadow kyogre with surf/origin pulse, no matter the IV, will be the 2nd best water attack to Primal Kyogre. Suggest everyone get at least one.

[@Trob-1loz]

Still chipping away my goal of every lvl 50 perfect Mega pokemon, max mega level, double moved. At 9, which for starting 4 months ago, it's not bad. Especially for a urban area

Yo keep it up!

[@mrk5tonio654]

Another correction : Shadow Kyogre is out now as well.

[@ThatTrainerCharlie8752]

Dude your a hard worker man,I appreciate all your hard work for the Community. See you at Sinnoh Tour!!! Sincerely -CougarHunt3r

See you at sinnoh!

[@bubbeN999]

Is shadow gardevoir worth investing in over regular gardevoir? and what IV should I aim for? for gyms and raids?

[@JayStep89]

Great work as always Dax, very helpful for the rooks 👏🏼

[@axel8912]

Kingabit seems possible soon since we recently got Annihilape

[@furiatrifasica]

I will add someones who were fortgotten in each type: Electric typing: shadow manetric and shadow luxray are also top dps Fire typing: shadow blaziken,shadow infernape Ghost typing: shadow banette and shadow mismagius Grass typing: shadow vectribeel is good and shaimin it's optimal with magical leaf as fast atackk not the hide power

[@alecjoncas7764]

Tbh Golem comes in clutch so often, he fr beats almost everyone to a pulp and has good defense. I use him just as much as any of the “best” Pokemon

[@aaronsapp3407]

How many raid attackers do you keep in each category?

[@gordonsgrl1]

Yes advice please!!

[@flob.9479]

Really good list! But isnt Meteor Beam way stronger on Gigalith than Rock Slide? And i kinda miss my Shadow Luxray. I thought its a pretty strong Raid attacker too?

yes you are right that is a mistake

[@dr7coo_]

thanks for all the tips daxi! Just out of curiosity what is the background song because it is amazingggg

[@hahahugo7806]

Thank you for this video daxi. Needed this

[@DiegoDays7]

When it comes to stardust no Pokémon is “budget”, they all cost 475K stardust to max out.

Use luckies they are half the dust - probably sometime I could of mentioned

[@DiegoDays7]

@ not all luckies have good ivs to max out

[@sigmaman2323]

@@DiegoDays7im pretty sure theyre called budget because they are easier to catch then the other pokemon

[@Superrandomness7255]

Thank you for all the info you provide!

[@chuunwtf]

Shadow toxicroak is heavily underrated, at the same level as shadow machamp and the best poison rn

[@Lucky69K]

Also solgaleo can be a good raid attacker if it gets steel move like metal sound for now we can use it with iron head

[@oneonone8855]

Lacks fast steel move

[@trainerskulb00d]

Very honorable mention, all types: Bidoof

[@angeljreyes-roman4488]

I have been waiting for this ! Thanks!

[@flygonkingluffy2257]

Great video! Again, shave that creep Stache’ 🤣

[@i.shuuya3231]

About the PVP section, how do you get 3 attacks per pokemon? (Sorry for the question I quitted somewhere around 2017)

[@skizzrz]

was waiting on this to come out for 2024🙏🙏🙏

[@AbsurdExistentialist]

Yesss! Been waiting for this video!

[@MichaelQ-iv7pt]

Amazing vid. Amazing channel, thanks glad I found it.

[@arnabhalder0]

You forgot Palifin in the Hero form as an Water/Fighting type attacker, this thing has higher Attack stat than a freaking Mewtwo 😵‍💫😵‍💫

true but depends how this mechanic will work

[@mainbreaker1246]

How are there comments from days ago? The video was posted 2 minutes ago xD

[@ASTR0P3NGU1N]

Maybe they got early access from membership?

[@nickellis2110]

Bots

[@DavichoMaldicho]

Which ones?

[@oneonone8855]

@@nickellis2110nope

[@oneonone8855]

Membership

[@Giggity1080]

This is awesome. Thank you for making this

[@victorOMG]

Oh hey I’m early, first time, Love your content Keep up the great work!

[@TwistSoulG]

Quick question! Stone Wrecker Rhyperior can only be obtain during special events?

[@samuelchicharo9629]

INSANE vid, Congrats!

[@mumujamm]

Thank you for this guide! It helps. I just started playing again in August 2023 and I can't get most of the UL and ML pokemon.

[@mumujamm]

Really appreciated the usefulness guide too. Have a 100% metagross that is going all steel now instead of psychic. Thank you for explaining that there are better raid attacker types for some categories.

[@vamsisekhar2001]

26:25 Talonflame incinerate , flamecharge and fly

[@greatemu6837]

Unfortunately we probably won’t get Archaludon because that would require Niantic to actually add a Pokémon from generation 8, which they seem to be quite reluctant to do.

[@liio415]

Hey my guy I think you forgot to post the “How to get Gholdengo” Video below, just fyi, thanks for all the content!!

[@sxanity]

Shadow Mamoswine is my most used pokemon by far

Facts so much use!

[@andretenente1073]

The Necrozmas have a higher attack/special attack stat, therefore they can very easily beat mewtwo, but we'll wait and see!

I think psytrike is such a broken move necrozma is gonna need a really good move to beat it

[@Guyonnn]

Good pvp list. Most of the ones mentioned, I see constantly in the higher levels. And yeah, they are good.

[@miguel_7515]

Pvp ? I think this is a PVE list

[@Guyonnn]

@miguel_7515 the first part was but the last section focused on pvp. And he is absolutely right about them. I do pretty well but those Pokémon do give me trouble.

[@miguel_7515]

@@Guyonnn I just finished the rest of the video😂 I saw it

[@6dices]

Shadow Kyogre is out, good call Daxi 😅🔥❤

[@joelgrebinsilvestri]

do you power up pokemon with 3/4 stars or with low atack for pvp ? like low atack iv?

[@2TheMaxKing2]

Thanks for including Shadow Staraptor as 3rd Best flying type raid attacker :D!

[@lelouchchanbc]

I want next season in Pokemon Go will be like Season of Missing Pokemon Mean the whole season focusing about Pokemon in especially Generation 6 and Generation 7 who is still not make debut in Pokemon Go including Mega Pokemon plus some no debut Generation 9 Pokemon.

[@Royvankalken023]

A awesome video daxi thanks a lot for this tip 💪