Crowned Sword Zacian

Crowned Sword Zacian is a Tier 5 Legendary Raid Boss in Pokémon GO — and yes, its shiny form is available. As a Fairy and Steel type, Zacian is vulnerable to Fire and Ground-type moves, making it much easier to counter if you’re properly prepared.

After defeating Crowned Sword Zacian (*), 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

A 100% IV Zacian will have 2188 CP with no weather boost or 2735 CP with weather boost.

Theoretically, a Crowned Sword Zacian Trio raid is possible in ideal weather conditions and with max-level counters. But to be safe, 4-6 high-level Trainers are recommended for a reliable clear. Lower level trainers or those without ideal counters may want to use a larger squad.

(*) After defeating Zacian in a raid, you will encounter it in its Hero of Many Battles form. However, it can be <strong “>form-changed into Crowned Sword Zacian using Crowned Sword Energy.

Crowned Sword Zacian Raid Counters

The best counters for Crowned Sword Zacian are strong Fire and Ground-type Pokémon, like Primal Groudon, Mega Y Charizard, Heatran, Blaziken, and Mega Garchomp. Crowned Zacian

Zacian Stats, Moves and Shiny form

Zacian is a strong Fairy type Legendary with a glaring weakness to Steel, which makes picking counters rather straightforward – almost all of them use this weakness, with the exception of a few top-tier Poison Attackers. Let’s go over the stats and then we can focus on the moves.

Zacian Moveset Analysis

Fast Moves:

• Metal Claw and Air Slash won’t be any issue whatsoever for your Fire and Ground counters. 

Charged Moves:

• Play Rough gains STAB, and it is pretty damaging, but it deals reduced damage to Fire-types!
• Close Combat is a powerful move that charges quickly, and despite lacking STAB, can KO some of your Ground types, but it is less worrying than Giga Impact or Behemoth Blade
• Giga Impact does a ton of neutral damage to almost all your counters, but luckily it won’t hit frequently, as it is a 100 Energy move. Still, it deals 200 damage, like Behemoth Blade, and it always deals full damage due to being Normal
• Behemoth Blade is Crowned Sword Zacian’s signature move, and it deals 200 base damage. Luckily it deals reduced damage to Fire-types, but it still hits twice as hard as Close Combat

Shiny Crowned Sword Zacian Comparison table

How to get Crowned Sword Zacian

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

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

Conclusion

For a full PvP and PvE analysis on Zacian, check out the below:

• Zacian in the raid and Dynamax meta
• Zacian in PvP

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