Jacinthe is one of the late game main story missions at Mission 30. You will need to beat her to progress your Pokemon Rank up to B, which is a main part of the Royale. However, she has some very high level Pokemon, with a strong mix of types that require proper team planning to beat. Here’s a look at the best Pokemon to use to beat Jacinthe in Pokemon Legends ZA.

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Here is how to beat Jacinthe in Pokemon Legends ZA. Image via Gamer Guides / Nintendo.

How to beat Jacinthe¶

Unlike a lot of other trainers, Jacinthe actually has 5 Pokemon she will use against you. So, you need to play your party right if you want to beat her. Below is the Pokemon list and order she uses:

Pokémon	Level	Counter Types	Recommendations
Carbink	57	Water and Ice	Blastoise is a great fit for the water and ice counter. It can also learn a few Steel moves via TM Moves like Iron Tail, Flash Cannon if you wanted those too.
Aurorus	58	Fighting, Steel	The easiest choice here is Lucario. That is both Fighting and Steel is a perfect option to counter it easily
Mawile	58	Fire and Ground	Camerupt is another perfect counter for this battle. It is both Ground and Fire, so there are enough moves to really hit the enemy hard and easily counter it.
Gardevoir	58	Ghost and Steel	We have another perfect counter with the use of Chandelure as that is both Ghost and Fire Type. So you have another full moveset to counter the enemy. Though there are plenty of Fire and Ghost types you likely have to use if you don’t want to grind this Pokemon up to be boss battle ready.
Mega Clefable	59	Steel, Poison	Sadly there is no combo to be a perfect counter. However, we recommend avoiding using Steel and Fighting or Poison and Bug type Pokemon. It means no early game starter bugs, or Lucario for this fight. Outside of that, use any of those specific types. If you’ve hard countered everything up to this point, regular battles will likely be fine using the rest of your party you’ve been passively farming XP from it.

Hopefully, these suggestions help you work out how to beat her in the main story and you can move on. Chances are you have something that can easily counter, even if you don’t want to target farm some of the Pokemon on the list. You can beat it with not perfect counters, but as long as you have a Pokemon that can do the 2x or 4x super effectiveness damage, then you’ll be fine.

If there’s any Pokemon you need from this list, check out our Pokemon Legends Z-A Interactive map for the Wild Zones, TM locations, or other Pokémon locations.