Drilbur is one of the best ground-type Pokemon available in evolved form Pokemon GoThanks to its speed, and secondary steel typing. With Drilbur entering Max Battles, you have a chance to get a Dynamax Excadrill with great moves and top stats to use in future tough Max Raids.
The Wild Area event is looming on the horizon, and the main featured Pokémon Tuxtricity is a full team of three pumped-up Pokémon that can completely negate their attacks, playing both Electric and Poison, the Gigantamax (G-Max ) Pokémon. So here's everything you need to know about defeating Dribbler Pokemon Go Including maximum battles, a list of its resistances and weaknesses and the best matchups to face against this ground-type Pokemon in battle.

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Pokemon GO Max Battle: Drillbar Weaknesses and Resistances
As a pure ground-type, Drilbur is offensively strong against most types of attacks in Pokemon GO Max Raid battles. On the other side of the coin, it does offer some heavy resistance but is thankfully weak against the two others commonly available in the current roster of Dynamax Pokemon available.
During this event, Drillbar will appear in one-star Max Battles, so you shouldn't have much trouble defeating them with any super-dominant teams. Each battle costs 250 maximum particles to start, but only once you have won.
Drillbar's Pokemon Go Stat Spread
- Attack Status: 154 ATK
- Defense Status: 85 DEF
- Stamina Stat: 155 STA
Drilbur Weaknesses in Pokemon GO
- Grass-type move
- Water-type moves
- Ice-type moves
Drilbur powers in Pokemon GO
- Electric-type Pokemon (minimum damage they take)
- Poison-type Pokemon
- Rock-type Pokemon
Pokemon GO Max Battle: Excadrill Weaknesses and Resistances
By holding a Drillbar, evolving it into an Ekkadrill will give you many benefits, such as a drastically increased stat spread as well as a heavily modified set of resistances and weaknesses to give you the best Pokemon in the game defensively. The new statistics and resistance types are shown below:
Ekkadrill's Pokemon Go Stat Spread
- Attack Status: 255 ATK
- Defense Status: 129 DEF
- Stamina Stat: 242 STA
Weaknesses of Excadrill in Pokemon GO
- Combat-type attacks
- Ground-type attacks
- Fire-type attacks
- Water-type attacks
Power of Excadrill in Pokemon GO
- Electric-type Pokemon (minimum damage they take)
- Poison-type Pokemon (minimum damage they take)
- Rock-type Pokemon (heavily resistant when they take damage)
- Normal type Pokemon
- Flying-type Pokemon
- Bug-type Pokemon
- Steel-type Pokemon
- Psychic-type Pokemon
- Dragon-type Pokemon
- Fairy-type Pokemon
Best Drilbur Max Battle Counters in Pokemon GO
You shouldn't have too much trouble beating this Dynamax Pokemon at Max Reds, but if you want to get through these battles against Dribbler as quickly as possible, you should go for grass or water moves. If you win, you'll get a handful of item rewards, a chance to catch a Drillbar yourself, and a small chance to meet a shiny variant of a Ground-type Pokémon.
Dynamax Drillbur counter |
quick move |
A charged move |
Dynamax/G-Max Move |
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Dynamax/G-Max Venusaur |
Bell whip |
Mania plant |
Maximum Growth/G-Max Vine Lash |
Dynamax Rillaboom |
Razor blade |
Bale of grass |
Maximum overgrowth |
Dynamax/G-Max Blastoise |
water gun |
Hydro cannon |
Max Geyser/G-Max Cannonade |
Dynamax Inteleon |
water gun |
Surf |
Max Geiger |
How to get Shiny Dynamax Drilbur in Pokemon GO?
Each victory against Drillbar in Max battles will allow you to catch this Dynamax Pokemon, and sometimes you may be lucky enough to encounter its shiny version. This gloss maintains the earthy brown skin color but turns the nose baby blue and its stripes pink. Unfortunately, there is little data on what the odds of encountering Shiny Dynamax Pokemon are compared to other Shiny Pokemon encounter rates.