It’s a new month and that means there’s a new Wild Area update in Pokémon Sword and Shield. The month of December will feature Gigantamax Lapras and Gigantamax Centiscorch in Max Raid Battles along with other Ice and Fire-type Pokémon.
To find these Pokémon, you need to search for Max Raid Dens with a red beam of light. Here are all the different Pokémon you can catch during the event, and how to bring down Lapras and Centiscorch.
Pokémon appearing in Max Raid Battles
Ice-Types:
- Lapras
- Weavile
- Avalugg
Fire-Types:
- Centiscorch
- Rapidash
- Turtonator
Fire and ice come together in a Max Raid Battle event that’s anything but lukewarm! 🔥❄️
For the rest of the month, be on the lookout for Fire- and Ice-type Pokémon in Max Raid Battles—including Gigantamax Lapras and Gigantamax Centiskorch!
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Lapras Encounters
Lapras is an Ice/Water-type, which means it’s weak to Fighting, Rock, and Electric-type moves. To counter it, you want to take a Pokémon with a strong move from any of these types. You can also go with Zacian or Zamazenta since their anti-Dynamax attacks will inflict massive damage to Lapras. Both of these Legendary Pokémon are also Steel-type, so they will resist Lapras’ G-Max Resonance attack.
Since G-Max Resonance will give Lapras a barrier that reduces the damage it takes, we suggest you take the move Brick Break. This will get rid of the Aurora Veil and inflict super-effective damage. Counters other than Zacian and Zamazenta include:
- Keldeo
- Pangoro
- Scrafty
- Cobalion
- Machamp
- Zeraora
- Toxtricity
- Electivire
- Magnezone
Centiscorch Encounters
As a Bug/Fire-type, Centiscorch has a 4x weakness to Rock-type attacks. Rock also resists Fire-type moves, so this makes it the perfect option against Centiscorch. Stone Edge and Rock Slide are great Rock-type attacks to use. Here are some of the best Rock-type Pokémon you can choose from:
- Terrakion
- Nihilego
- Rhyperior
- Tyranitar
- Gigalith
- Coalossal
Lapras, Centiscorch, and the others will be in raids until December 31 at 3:59 PM PT. Be sure to hop on and catch one while you can, otherwise, you will have a very low chance of finding one.
