Crowned Shield Zamazenta Raid Guide

Crowned Shield Zamazenta

Crowned Shield Zamazenta is a Tier 5 legendary raid boss in Pokémon GO and it can be shiny! You will not be able to catch the Crowned Shield form of Zamazenta, and will instead encounter the Hero of Many Battles form of Zamazenta. This can be form changed into the Crowned Shield form of Zamazenta.

As such, it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 2100 – 2188 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 2625 – 2735 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

With pure Fighting typing, Zamazenta is boosted by Cloudy weather and its counters include strong Psychic, Flying, and Fairy type Pokémon. With strong counters, Zamazenta can possibly be defeated by 3 trainers. To be safe, 4-6 high-level trainers can get the job done, but less prepared trainers may need to bring a larger squad.

Zamazenta Raid Counters

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	DPS	Faints	TTW
1.	Mega Lucario	Force Palm	Aura Sphere	25.72	38	621s
2.	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades	22.69	22	684s
3.	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn	23.09	28	678s
4.	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn	23.17	41	690s
5.	Shadow Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm	20.88	25	742s
6.	Shadow Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	20.92	36	753s
7.	Mega Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power	21.03	41	759s
8.	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn	19.85	41	799s
9.	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare	19.44	38	812s
10.	Blacephalon	Incinerate	Mystical Fire	19.69	42	807s
11.	Mega Heracross	Counter	Upper Hand	19.61	42	810s
12.	Shadow Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades	19.83	49	808s
13.	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	19.43	41	805s
14.	Apex Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire+	18.57	32	837s
15.	Shadow Entei	Fire Spin	Overheat	18.78	40	835s
16.	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn	19.08	48	826s
17.	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm	17.57	25	881s
18.	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	17.79	35	880s
19.	Lucario	Force Palm	Aura Sphere	19.21	61	837s
20.	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire	17.68	33	880s
21.	Ordinary Keldeo	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	18.26	46	869s
22.	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	18.24	46	870s
23.	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power	18.99	62	856s
24.	Shadow Emboar	Low Kick	Blast Burn	18.95	61	849s
25.	Shadow Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	18.74	55	844s
26.	Therian Landorus	Mud Shot	Sandsear Storm	18.49	53	860s
27.	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword	18.81	57	853s
28.	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	17.39	37	894s
29.	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn	18.95	70	858s
30.	Standard Shadow Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	18.54	62	852s

Zamazenta Stats, Moves and Shiny form

Zamazenta is a strong Fighting type Legendary, with quite a wide move pool, but fortunately nothing in there is scary enough to make picking counters difficult. Let’s go over the stats and then we can focus on the moves.

	Crowned Shield Zamazenta Fighting
Max CP	4717
ATK	250
DEF	292
HP	192
Weak to
Resists
Fast moves	Metal Claw Snarl Ice Fang Quick Attack
Charge moves	Iron Head (becomes Behemoth Bash in Crowned Shield form) Moonblast Close Combat Crunch

Zamazenta Moveset Analysis

• Quick Attack is the easiest of the bunch. It won’t bother any of your counters.
• Metal Claw is a good move and troubles your Fairy type counters. With neat damage and energy generation, and being largely unresisted by your counters, it is worth your attention.
• Ice Fang does quite a number on your Flying types and is damaging enough. However, it has a 3-turn cooldown and can be used to sneak in your own charged attacks.
• Snarl has high energy generation and is threatening in that regard. Plus, it deals super-effective damage to your Psychic types.
• Moonblast hits hard but can be dodged to prolong your counters’ presence.
• Iron Head does neat neutral damage to most of your counters.
• Close Combat is a dangerous STAB move on Zamazenta and with that ATK stat of 254, it should be damaging. However, both Psychic and Flying types resist it. Yay!
• Crunch hits very often and when paired with Snarl, is worrisome for your Psychic types.

Shiny Zamazenta

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite

How to get the Crowned Shield form of Zamazenta

With enough Crowned Shield Energy, a Zamazenta that knows the Charged Attack Iron Head can be transformed to become a Crowned Shield Zamazenta. Trainers can transform Hero of Many Battles Zamazenta using 1,000 Crowned Shield Energy as long as it knows the Charged Attack Iron Head.

Pokémon	Requirement	Evolution
Zamazenta knows Iron Head	1000× Crowned Shield Energy	Crowned Shield Zamazenta

When Zamazenta becomes Crowned Shield Zamazenta, its Charged Attack Iron Head will change to the Charged Attack Behemoth Bash. Behemoth Bash is a Steel typed Charge Attack that is the Signature attack of Zamazenta.

All the best, Trainers!

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