When is the Love Cup, when does it end
The Love Cup kicks off on Monday, February 8 at 13 p.m. PT, so adjust accordingly based on your time zone. It will last exactly one week and end on Monday, February 15 at 13 p.m. PT. In addition to the Love Cup, there will be the Master League and the Premier Cup, for which we will also have separate guides, so keep an eye out for them.
Which Pokémon are allowed in the Love Cup
Below is a list of all Pokémon allowed in the Love Cup during the Lunar New Year 2021 event. The basic settings are that they must be 1500 CP or less and be officially considered a Red Pokémon or pink by the official Pokédex. And no Legendary or Mythic Pokémon are allowed, unfortunately. So Mew got out right away. It's a long list, so if you just want to know what's best for your team, go ahead and scroll down below.
- Charmander
- Charmeleon
- Charizard
- Vileplume
- Stop
- Parasect
- Krabby
- Kingler
- Voltorb
- Electrode
- Goldeen
- Seaking
- Jynx
- Magmar
- Magikarpe
- Flareon
- Ledyba
- Ledian
- Ariados
- Yanma
- Scizor
- Slugma
- Magcargo
- Octillerie
- Delibird
- Porygon2
- Magby
- Torchic
- Combusken
- Blaziken
- Wurmple
- Medicham
- Carvanha
- Camerupt
- Solrock
- Corphish
- Crawdaunt
- Cricket death
- Cricket tune
- Burmy Trash Cape
- Trash Cloak Wormadam
- Magmortar
- Poryzon-Z
- Lavage Rotom
- Tepig
- Pignite
- Emboar
- Pansear
- Simise
- Throh
- Venipede
- Scolipede
- To the crocodile
- Darumaka
- Darmanitan
- Dwebble
- Crust
- Fall shape deer
- Spring deer
- Shelmet
- Accelgor
- Pawniard
- Bisharp
- Braviary
- Heatmor
- Fennekin
- Braixen
- Delphox
- Fletchling
- Fletchinder
- Greenhouse Flame
- Clefairy
- Clefable
- Jigglypuff
- Wigglytuff
- Lambin
- Slowbro
- Exeggcute
- Lickitung
- Happy
- Chansey
- M. Mime
- Mime Jr.
- Porygon
- Cleffa
- Igglybuff
- Flaaffy
- Hoppip
- Slow down
- Snubbull
- Corsola
- Smoochum
- Miltank
- Blissey
- Whismur
- Skitty
- Milotic
- Gorebyss
- Luvdisc
- Cherubis
- Sunny Form Cherrim
- Lickilicky
- Audino
- Alomomola
- Scrafty
But which of these are the best? Which one should you choose for your Love Cup team? We have some ideas below.
The Best Pokémon for Love Cup - Lunar New Year 2021
So while there are many rules that Pokémon are allowed to participate in in the Love Cup for Lunar New Year 2021, there are a few notable favorites. Of course, the meta will change as the GO Battle League progresses, so be prepared to mix things up depending on what you see and how your team is doing. For example, almost every team will have a strong Fairy-type attacker because there are so many of them. So you want to have a good Fairy counter on your team, which you can find in the table below.
So here are some of the best Love Cup Pokémon in the Lunar New Year 2021 event. Your team should start here, pick one or two, and then fill in the gaps in strengths and weaknesses as you can. . The pool of Pokémon available is small, so you can focus on what you see and how your fights go as you learn more and meta evolves over the course of the week.
