Pokemon Go Raid Bosses: all current raids, including new Sinnoh gen 4 raid additions

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. (Last updated Oct 2018)

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

Pokemon	Raid Tier	Type	Weaknesses	Boss CP
Bidoof	Tier 1	Normal	Fighting	2182
Kricketot	Tier 1	Bug	Flying, Fire, Rock	1386
Shinx	Tier 1	Electric	Ground	2873
Buneary	Tier 1	Normal	Fighting	3890
Alolan Exeggutor	Tier 2	Grass / Dragon	Ice, Dragon, Poison, Flying, Fairy, Bug	13671
Lickitung	Tier 2	Normal	Fighting	6433
Sneasel	Tier 2	Dark / Ice	Fighting, Bug, Fairy, Fire, Rock, Steel	11350
Kirlia	Tier 2	Psychic / Fairy	Ghost, Poison, Steel	6005
Mawile (shiny chance)	Tier 2	Steel / Fairy	Fire, Ground	9403
Alolan Raichu	Tier 3	Electric / Psychic	Bug, Dark, Ground, Ghost	16178
Machamp	Tier 3	Fighting	Psychic, Fairy, Flying	18144
Tangela	Tier 3	Grass	Fire, Bug, Flying, Poison, Ice	16085
Porygon	Tier 3	Normal	Fighting	11419
Piloswine	Tier 3	Ground / Ice	Fire, Grass, Water, Steel, Fighting	13663
Alolan Marowak	Tier 4	Fire / Ghost	Water, Ghost, Rock, Ground, Dark	20190
Aggron	Tier 4	Rock / Steel	Ground, Fighting, Water	33458
Tyranitar	Tier 4	Dark / Rock	Fighting, Bug, Grass, Fairy, Ground, Steel, Water	34707
Absol	Tier 4	Dark	Fighting, Fairy, Bug	26262
Mewtwo	Tier 5	Psychic	Ghost, Dark, Bug	49430
Deoxys	EX Raid	Psychic	Ghost, Dark, Bug	45891