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Pokemon Go Raid Bosses: current raids, counters and more, including Giratina and Deoxys

Once you’re becoming a more experienced trainer, Pokemon Go will want you to start tackling raids. Be prepared – here’s a list of all the current raid bosses.

Once you boost your Pokemon Go trainer level to level 5, you’ll unlock a new feature for the game: raid battles. These battles take place at Pokemon Gyms out in the world at random times of day, replacing the usual back and forth for control between the Pokemon Go Gym Teams with an all-hands-on-deck battle against a super-powerful boss Pokemon, where players of all kinds can work together to bring that Pokemon down.

This is, as in most massively multiplayer games, known as a raid boss. On this page we’re going to run down some basic information about raids – plus list the current raid bosses.

Pokemon Go Raids: raid battle rewards and other information

Taking on raid battles has a few benefits in Pokemon Go. For one, you’ll be given various rewards for tackling raids – player experience, but also rare items like Rare Candy, Golden Razz Berries, plus Charged and Fast TMs. But the best reward is that you’ll also have the chance to catch the Pokemon featured in the raid battle – and the Pokemon that show up in raid battles are often rare, desirable or even exclusive to raids. Some of the best Pokemon in the game are nabbed this way.

Your chance to capture the Pokemon is limited, however – in raid encounters you’ll be forced to throw Premier Balls once you’ve defeated the boss, and the number of Premier Balls the player is awarded depends on your performance in the raid battle, plus things like how the gym team allegiance breaks down between the raid party members. For the best results you want to try to inflict the most damage possible, have your team be in control of the gym, and be fighting alongside a majority of members of the same gym team.

If you run out of Premier Balls, the raid boss will run away. Raid battles range in size and difficulty – some will even be possible to solo, while others will require a full 20 players to reliably tackle.

Like most things in Pokemon Go, raid battles run on a rotation depending on what else is going on around the game. Below, we list the current raid battles, listing each raid boss tier, boss CP and some Pokemon type weakness suggestions for that battle. Thanks to Leekduck for the image – with more information in the table below that.

Pokemon Go: Current Raid Boss list, tiers, counters and weaknesses

On our raid list, you’ll find each Pokemon currently appearing in raids, their tiers (so how difficult they’ll be and how frequently they’ll appear), plus some other useful information like their Pokemon type and their type weaknesses – which in turn will help you to decide which the best counters are for that raid Pokemon. Find a Pokemon team that can blast down the enemy, abusing their type weaknesses.

Pokemon Raid Tier Type Weakness CP
Snorunt (shiny chance) Tier 1 Ice Fire, Rock, Fighting, Steel 465-507
Bagon (shiny chance) Tier 1 Dragon Dragon, Fairy, Ice 612-660
Shinx (shiny chance) Tier 1 Electric Ground 458-500
Drifloon (shiny chance) Tier 1 Ghost / Flying Dark, Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost 633-684
Alolan Exeggutor Tier 2 Grass / Dragon Ice, Poison, Flying, Bug, Dragon, Fairy 1643-1722
Misdreavus Tier 2 Ghost Dark, Ghost 1039-1100
Sneasel Tier 2 Dark / Ice Fighting, Bug Fire, Steel, Fairy, Rock 1107-1172
Sableye Tier 2 Dark / Ghost Fairy 789-843
Mawile (shiny chance) Tier 2 Steel / Fairy Ground, Fire 877-934
Alolan Raichu (shiny chance) Tier 3 Electric / Psychic Ground, Poison 1238-1306
Machamp Tier 3 Fighting Flying, Psychic, Fairy 1667-1746
Gengar Tier 3 Ghost / Poison Psychic, Dark, Ghost 1566-1644
Granbull Tier 3 Fairy Poison, Steel 1385-1458
Piloswine Tier 3 Ice / Rock Fire, Water, Grass, Fighting, Steel 1271-1340
Alolan Marowak (shiny chance) Tier 4 Fire / Ghost Water, Rock, Ground, Ghost, Dark 988-1048
Dragonite Tier 4 Flying / Dragon Dragon, Rock, Ice, Fairy 2079-2167
Togetic Tier 4 Fairy / Flying Ice, Electric, Rock, Poison, Steel 917-976
Houndoom Tier 4 Dark / Fire Water, Ground, Rock, Fighting 1432-1505
Absol (shiny chance) Tier 4 Dark Bug, Fighting, Fairy 1370-1443
Latios (shiny chance) Tier 5 Dragon / Psychic Dragon, Ice, Dark, Fairy, Ghost, Bug 2090-2178
Giratina (Origin) Tier 5 Ghost / Dragon Dark, Dragon, Ice, Fairy, Ghost 2018-2105
Deoxys D EX Raid Psychic Dark, Ghost, Bug 1228-1299

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