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Defeating Hyperrogue Ange Floette in Pokemon Legends Z-A is required to complete Main Mission 36: Operation Protect Lumiose. You need strong counters, a lot of healing items, and a proper strategy to defeat this boss. Winning the challenge is key to the story and ends with you getting access to Zygardite.This guide covers the steps to defeat Hyperrogue Ange Floette in Pokemon Legends Z-A.Steps to defeat Hyperrogue Ange Floette in Pokemon Legends Z-ATo take down Hyperrogue Ange Floette, your primary targets are the two flowers that spawn at the bottom of the tower. You must defeat them thrice in separate phases. Damaging them, however, doesn't affect Ange. Every time both flowers are defeated, a cut scene will play where Zygarde soars up and hits the Ange for a third of its HP.Also read: Pokemon Legends Z-A PokedexAfter you take 1/3 of Hyperrogue Ange Floette's HP, it will start raining damaging meteors onto you. You will get an alert when this happens. Make sure to hide under Zygarde, or you will die.Final blow to Hyperrogue Ange Floette in Pokemon Legends Z-A (Image via TPC)Once Ange's health bar is completely depleted, a cutscene will play where it comes back to life one last time to shoot a final ball of energy into the sky. At this point, you receive the Zygardite. Use it to Mega Evolve Zygarde, who will shoot one beam of Nihil Light to end Ange for good.Strategy to defeat the flowersThe flowers appear to be type-less, so as long as the creatures you use have high Attack or Sp. Attack, you are good to go. You must also have proper dodging skills because these things hit hard. You can even call your attackers into their Poke Ball to dodge attacks.Take down these flowers (Image via TPC)The Hyperrogue Ange Floette flowers use the following attacks:Ground Slam: AoE attacks; similar to Earthquake. Get out of range and retaliate with non-contact attacks.Pulse Fire: Both flowers shoot projectiles. Hide behind the metal sheets or retreat your Pokemon to dodge.Ange Beam: An extremely strong beam of energy. Retreat or dodge entirely to avoid getting knocked out.All in all, it is best to use speedy Special Attackers for the best results.Best counters against Hyperrogue Ange Floette in Pokemon Legends Z-APokemonAttackSpecial AttackMovesMega Charizard Y104159Flamethrower, Fire Blast, FlyMega Gardevoir85165Moonblast, Future Sight, Draining Kiss, Shadow BallMega Lucario145140Aura Sphere, Flash Cannon, Close CombatMega Dragonite124145Draco Meteor, Fly, Fire Blast, Hyper BeamMega Excadrill16565Metal Claw, Dig, EarthquakeOnce you complete this mission, you can go on to catch Xerneas and Yveltal in the post-game.You can also check out the list of available items and new Mega Evolution stats.
