Pokemon GO Drilbur Max Battle

The evolved form of Drilbur is one of the best ground-type Pokemon available in Pokemon 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 in Pokemon GO Max Battles, including the list of its resistances and weaknesses and the best matchups to face off against this ground-type Pokemon in battle.

Pokemon GO Max Battle: Drilbur Weaknesses And Resistances

As a pure ground-type, Drilbur is offensively strong against many types of attacks in Pokemon 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’s Pokemon GO Stat Spread

• Attack Stat: 154 ATK
• Defense Stat: 85 DEF
• Stamina Stat: 155 STA

Drilbur Weaknesses in Pokemon GO

• Grass-type moves
• Water-type moves
• Ice-type moves

Drilbur Strengths in Pokemon GO

• Electric-type Pokemon (minimal damage taken by them)
• Poison-type Pokemon
• Rock-type Pokemon

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 Pokemon GO Stat Spread

• Attack Stat: 255 ATK
• Defense Stat: 129 DEF
• Stamina Stat: 242 STA

Excadrill’s Weaknesses in Pokemon GO

• FIghting-type attacks
• Ground-type attacks
• Fire-type attacks
• Water-type attacks

Excadrill’s Strengths in Pokemon GO

• Electric-type Pokemon (minimal damage taken by them)
• Poison-type Pokemon (minimal damage taken by them)
• Rock-type Pokemon (heavily resisted when damaged by them)
• Normal-type Pokemon
• Flying-type Pokemon
• Bug-type Pokemon
• Steel-type Pokemon
• Psychic-type Pokemon
• Dragon-type Pokemon
• Fairy-type Pokemon

Best Drilbur Max Battle Counters in Pokemon GO

You shouldn’t have much of an issue beating this Dynamax Pokemon in Max Raids on 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.

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 be lucky 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.