Mythical Wishes: Best Love Cup: Great League Edition Team in Pokemon GO Season 9

Lickitung, Medicham, and Alomomola are the best battle teams to use in the Pokemon GO Love Cup: Great League Edition.

This trio of Pokemon keeps both attack and defense balanced, and allows you to defeat almost all of the meta selections for the Love Cup!

Allerdings, these aren't the only powerful Pokemon that can lead you to victory in the Love Cup.

Check out the table below to see which Pokemon you should use in the Love Cup: Great League Edition as well as their strongest attacks.

Pokemon	Image	Type	Fast Attack
Medicham (XL)	Fighting/Psychic	Counter	Power-Up PunchPsychic
Charizard	Fire/Flying	Wing Attack	Dragon ClawBlast Burn
Lickitung (XL)	Normal	Lick	Body SlamPower Whip
Ariados	Bug/Poison	Poison Sting	Cross PoisonLunge
Scrafty	Dark/Fighting	Counter	Foul PlayPower-Up Punch
Alomomola	Water	Waterfall	PsychicHydro Pump
Lurantis	Grass	Fury Cutter	Leaf BladeSuperpower
Magcargo	Fire/Rock	Incinerate	OverheatRock Tomb
Seaking	Water	Poison Jab	Icy Wind Drill Run
Galarian Slowbro	Poison/Psychic	Poison Jab	PsychicSludge Bomb

The Pokemon with a (XL) next to their name need XL candy to power up to the CP limit. Here's how to get XL candy quickly in Pokemon GO!

Even if you don't need XL Candy, you'll still want to power up your Pokemon before putting them in a fight. Find out how to boost the Candy you earn in Pokemon GO so you can power them up quicker!

Love Cup in Pokemon GO: Great League Edition Rules

Trainers who compete in the Love Cup: Great League Edition must choose their Pokemon battle team, according to the following two rules:

Pokemon must be 1500 CP or below can be selected
Only red or pink Pokemon can be selected

Choosing red and pink Pokemon might seem simple, but it's not always clear, especially with Pokemon that are different colors! Below you'll find a list of all of the eligible red and pink Pokemon.

In Season 9, changing up your team will allow you to find your favorite Pokemon for the Love Cup and help you earn all of the GO Battle League rewards!

The Love Cup's List of Red Pokemon

In the Love Cup, Pokemon trainers may use the following 74 red Pokemon:

Accelgor
Ariados
Bisharp
Blaziken
Braixen
Braviary
Burmy (Trash Cloak)
Camerupt
Carvanha
Castform (Sunny Form)
Charizard
Charmander
Charmeleon
Combusken
Corphish
Crawdaunt
Crustle
Darmanitan
Darumaka
Deerling (Autumn Form)
Delibird
Delphox
Druddigon
Dwebble
Electrode
Emboar
Fennekin
Flareon
Fletchinder
Fletchling
Goldeen
Heatmor
Jynx
Kingler
Krabby
Kricketot
Kricketune
Krookodile
Ledian
Ledyba
Magby
Magcargo
Magikarp
Magmar
Magmortar
Medicham
Octillery
Pansear
Paras
Parasect
Pawniard
Pignite
Porygon2
Porygon-Z
Rotom
Scizor
Scolipede
Scrafty
Seaking
Shelmet
Simisear
Slugma
Solrock
Talonflame
Tepig
Throh
Torchic
Venipede
Vileplume
Voltorb
Voltorb (Hisuian)
Wormadam (Trash Cloak)
Wurmple
Yanma

Pink Pokemon for the Love Cup List

In the Love Cup, Pokemon trainers may choose from the following 42 pink Pokemon:

Alomomola
Aromatisse
Audino
Blissey
Chansey
Cherrim (Sunshine Form)
Cherubi
Clefable
Clefairy
Cleffa
Corsola
Deerling (Spring Form)
Exeggcute
Flaaffy
Gorebyss
Happiny
Hoppip
Igglybuff
Jigglypuff
Lickilicky
Lickitung
Luvdisc
Milotic
Miltank
Mime Jr.
Mr. Mime
Munna
Musharna
Porygon
Skitty
Slowbro
Slowbro (Galarian)
Slowking
Slowking (Galarian)
Slowpoke
Slowpoke (Galarian)
Smoochum
Snubbull
Spritzee
Sylveon

During the 2023 Pokemon GO Valentine's Day event, you can catch a lot of these pink and red Pokemon as part of the wild Pokemon spawns!

When does the Pokemon GO Love Cup: Great League Edition begin and end?

The Love Cup: Great League Edition will run from February 9 to February 16, 2023. This is part of the Pokemon GO 2023 Valentine's Day event.

The other competition active at this time is the Ultra League, according to the Season 9: Mythical Wishes GO Battle League schedule.

If you want to get a chance at it as well, make sure you know the best Ultra League battle team to use in Pokemon GO!