Pokémon Go Color Cup Great League Edition best team recommendations

The Color Cup: Great League Edition is a limited-time cup in Pokémon Go’s Go Battle League that only allows four types of Pokémon to compete. These types are inspired by the colors red, blue, green, and yellow – which just so happen to be the names of the original Pokémon games.

As with most themed cups, putting together the best Color Cup team possible is going to take quite a bit of consideration. Many of your go-to favorites won’t be eligible here.

If you’re looking for some inspiration, we’ve rounded up the top Pokémon for the Color Cup in Pokémon Go and their optimal movesets.

Only four types of Pokémon are allowed to enter the Color Cup: fire-, water-, grass-, and electric-type Pokémon. There’s also a 1,500 CP limit for each member of your team.

This is one of the more restrictive cups in the Go Battle League, although all four eligible types of Pokémon are fairly common, so chances are you’ll have a decent collection already to choose from. The ability to use dual types also increases the pool of eligible Pokémon.

Because the Color Cup has the same CP limit as the Great League, you’ll find that there’s some crossover between the two when it comes to the top-ranking Pokémon. If you want to compete in the Color Cup on a budget, try using Pokémon you’ve already optimized for the Great League rather than powering up new ones specifically for this cup.

Here’s one of the best teams you can use for the Color Cup: Great League Edition in Pokémon Go:

All three of these Pokémon have dual typings, which gives them unique resistances and access to some excellent moves. Between them, you’ll have access to fire-, ghost-, ground-, electric-, dark-, psychic-, poison-, ice-, and water-type attacks. There aren’t many Pokémon you won’t have an answer for there!

Alolan Marowak is a Great League favorite that looks like it will perform even better in the Color Cup, especially as many of the Pokémon that could exploit its weaknesses aren’t eligible to compete here. It’s got great stats and an excellent, varied moveset that can target plenty of fierce opponents.

Morpeko’s not-so-secret weapon is its signature charged move, Aura Wheel. It’s relatively cheap to use, alternates between electric- and dark-type damage for extra coverage, and increases the Pokémon’s Attack by one stage every time it’s used. Morpeko might be fragile on the battlefield, but it can dish out some serious damage while it lasts.

Finally, we have Qwilfish. With a total of eight resistances (which includes fire and water), it’s got an advantage against many opponents in the Color Cup. Its poison sub-typing also means Qwilfish doesn’t have a weakness to grass-type moves, which most water-type Pokémon do.

If you don’t have those Pokémon in your collection (or you don’t have enough resources to optimise them), there are plenty more great Pokémon to try on your team. These include Salazzle, Hisuian Electrode, Jumpluff, Gastrodon, Toxapex, Emolga, and Magmar. You can find more details about these Pokémon in the next section.

Here are some of the top Pokémon to use in the Color Cup, as well as their optimal movesets and IVs:

We’ve not included Shadow Pokémon in our recommendations, as they can be quite rare and not every trainer will have caught them during their limited appearances. If you do have a Shadow Magmar or a Shadow Jumpluff, though, it’s worth trying them out with the same movesets listed above.

When running the Color Cup format through PvPoke’s simulator, Toxapex comes out on top of the rankings. Things don’t always work out the same in reality as they do on paper, of course, but it would be wise to have at least one strong Toxapex counter to hand. Our team recommendation has two: Morpeko and Alolan Marowak.

The best thing about the Color Cup is that there are loads of promising Pokémon to try out, so hopefully, we won’t be in for a run that’s dominated by just one or two Pokémon. Whatever team you end up using, power them up, make sure you’ve got plenty of coverage options, and give it your best shot!