Arenas in Pokémon Go are not only the spawn points for powerful raid bosses, but also earn you interesting bonuses when you defend them with your Pokémon. From Pokécoins to bonus balls for Raid bosses, there’s no reason for the trainers among you not to put pocket monsters in the arena. But which Pokémon are the most annoying defenders? We’ll tell you in the guide.

Almost two years have passed since the release of Pokémon Go in the summer of 2016, and the developers at Niantic have made some major adjustments to features that did not work to the satisfaction of the AR app’s creators. These include the tracker as well as the arena system; the latter has been significantly simplified, but has also become more rewarding for trainers. Originally, you could train your Pokémon in arenas occupied by your team, for example – the feature has been dropped from the game. Obtaining Pokécoins has also been simplified to allow more players to get the pay currency for free.

This may be interesting for some of you: When your Pokémon sits in an arena, it generates a Pokécoin every ten minutes. The longer the mon sits in the arena, the more coins it generates – up to a maximum of 50 coins per day! In Pokémon Go, you can currently get a maximum of 50 Pokécoins per day for free, and only if the Pokémon returns to you, i.e. was kicked out of the arena. Even if five Pokémon come back to you a day, you earn a maximum of 50 coins. This made it unattractive for trainers to let their monsters sit in an arena for as long as possible – this was common practice among PoGo fans until the arena system was changed. However, now you want to make sure your mon stays in an arena for just under eight and a half hours to collect the maximum possible Pokécoins per day. So which Pokémon are best for that?

Countering opponents

You have no control over which Pokémon the opposing team uses to attack your arena. But you can make it as difficult or unattractive as possible for ‘enemies’ to attack your arena at all with your choice of Pokémon. For example, by putting a Pokémon in the arena that has the weakness of the mons defending from your own in case of an attack as its strength. For example, if a Heiteira is defending in front of your mon, then put in a Simsala – the Simsala is very effective against attackers who have previously attacked with Battle Pokémon to beat down Heiteira. Despotar, on the other hand, would be a bad choice after a Heiteira because Despotar has the same weakness. By the way, you are only allowed to place one Mon per Arena per account. An Arena can hold up to six Pokémon.

Healing Arena Pokémon

The most effective way to defend an Arena (many thanks to ACDSee for pointing this out) is to feed your Mon when they are under attack. The prerequisite for even noticing an attack is to activate push notifications when a Pokémon’s motivation is low. To do this, open the menu via the Pokéball in the middle of the bottom of the screen and then call up the settings via the gear in the top right. Scroll down to the “Push notifications” section, where you can check the “Low motivation” box. Of course, you also need to have enabled push notifications for Pokémon Go in the operating system of your gaming device.

Then you will receive messages when one of your Pokémon sitting in an arena has low health. You can then switch to the Arena view by selecting the Pokémon in your collection and pressing “Go to Arena.” This is where golden Himmihberries in particular, which you can grab via Raids, come into play. While “remote maintenance” of your Pokémon – feeding them Nana Berries, Sanana Berries, or regular Himmih Berries without being in the arena’s sphere of influence – only restores a fraction of their Health, Golden Himmih Berries replenish all of their Health. A golden Himmihberry at the right time can make an arena attacker uncomfortable to continue fighting, because he would have to invest more time – not to mention possible resources such as healing potions and vivifiers.

The most popular defenders in PoGo Arena

The following Pokémon you will have seen very often as defenders of an arena. It’s no wonder, because they have enormously high stamina and defense values. And it’s not uncommon for trainers to simply skip a planned attack because they don’t feel like fighting another wall of Heiteiras, Relaxos, and Letarkings (even though they all have the same weakness…) Pokémon Go Hub’s writers have put together an overview of the best defenders by type and their weaknesses that we don’t want to deprive you of:

Advantages in raid combat

In case you were wondering if there is actually any benefit to having the arena where you fight a raid boss belong to your team: yes, there is. You will receive two extra premium balls after defeating the boss, so your chances of banning the boss into a ball and adding it to your collection will be increased.

Pokémon GO

Pokémon Go is the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s popular Pokémon game series for Android and iOS. It is a so-called “location-based game”, i.e. a game that uses the player’s immediate surroundings. It is based on the principle of augmented reality.

Pokémon Map: Between landmarks and sights

Pokémon Go uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine the player’s location and displays it on a map that also represents the playing field. The map is based on OpenStreetMap maps. The game is played mostly outdoors and uses landmarks, landmarks and other notable or eye-catching objects in the world to position either PokéStops or arenas there for you to battle for supremacy. Join either Team Intuition (Team Yellow, Zapdos), Team Wisdom (Team Blue, Arktos), or Team Daring (Team Red, Lavados). Under their flag you can then fight for the arenas, which are placed at hotspots like churches or similar. Pokémon can appear anywhere, though.

Pocket monsters visible on the Pokémon Go Map are randomly loaded into the game’s virtual map by the game server. If several players are playing in the same location, each player can see and catch the Pokémon independently of the others.

Pokémon Go Updates, News, Raids and More

The developers at Niantic regularly provide Pokémon Go with new updates or special raids that should only be tackled in a group of several people. The Pokémon Go Raids are therefore very popular, as they also offer the prospect of particularly rare Pokémon. For example, in the past, legendary Pokémon could always be caught on special occasions (Pokémon Go events). For particularly eager mobile or smartphone Pokémon trainers, there is also an external IV calculator, such as the online tool from Pokemon.gameinfo.io or on Pokefans.net, to check the values of your Pokémon.

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