Pokemon Go: Unown Weakness, counters

Unown has started appearing in Pokemon Go raids as part of Ultra Unlock part 1, so What is its weakness? What counters exist against Unown?

Fortunately for all those players who haven’t yet got their very own Unown in Pokemon Go, they’re pretty easy to beat. Still, I’ve got you covered with counters and weakness targeting advice to make it that much easier.

What is the weakness of Unown in Pokemon Go?

As is typical in any Pokemon title, including Go, precisely how strong a Pokemon is and what moves it uses may vary depending on the individual, but there are a few things that remain consistent across all of any given species of Pokemon.

The easiest of these to exploit is often the Pokemon’s Type.

Unown is quite a simple one, being a pure Psychic-Type Pokemon. It should be noted that all different versions of Unown are fortunately the same type, so we avoid a headache there

Unown in the Pokemon Anime, many of which appeared during Pokemon Go Fest 2021
A few different types of Unown, Credit: Bulbapedia

You might even be familiar with these strengths and weaknesses from similar Typed pokemon. Mewtwo is also a Pure-Psychic type for example.

Unown Resistances
  • Fighting
  • Psychic

These types will deal 62.5% of their usual damage, and are thus best avoided.

Unown Weaknesses
  • Bug
  • Dark
  • Ghost

Meanwhile, these types will all deal 160% of their usual damage, making these Types of attack significantly preferable to anything not listed here.

So, which of these weaknesses is the best counter Type against Unown? Let’s dive into the move pool and find out!

What moves can Unown use in battle?

…Or at least, that’s what I’d usually say.

As it turns out, Unown doesn’t know many moves. It has Hidden Power as a Fast Attack, and Struggle as a Charged Attack. That’s literally the entire movepool. Both of these moves are Normal-Type, which famously doesn’t really do Super Effect damage.

So Unown doesn’t have the option of dealing much damage back against any Type, never mind any specific set of Types.

Unown U in raid battles in Pokemon Go
Even Unown is disappointed with this Move Pool,
Credit: Niantic, Inc

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This means that Bug, Dark and Ghost-types are all equally effective Types to use against Unown because Unown won’t really hit back.

In other words, go wild with any of them. Although with Unowns move pool you might be able to beat it easily without the Super-Effective advantage.

Unown counters – In summary

The short answer is simply take a Bug-Type, Dark-Type, or Ghost-Type Pokemon against Unown for the best results.

The long answer is Unown has a terrible move list and this doesn’t really matter that much because of it, so you can really take anything. If you want to prioritise defeating as many Unown in raids as quickly as possible while they’re here though, you’ll want to be taking one of those Super-Effective types for the advantage of increased damage.

With the weakness of the mysterious Unown now revealed, we have more Pokemon Go pieces on The Click right here, and more by me personally here for any of you who might be interested.

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