Current raid schedule in Pokemon GO and how to dominate each one

Most of the Pokemon that would show up in Pokemon GO raid battles change fairly regularly. You’ll need to make sure you complete the raids as soon as possible after they release so that you don’t miss out. Here’s the best way to keep up with the latest Pokemon Go raids!

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With a new month, there are all new Pokemon for trainers to gather their friends and fight. The stronger the Pokemon, the more challengers it will require to take down.

This month, that includes:

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One-star raids:

• Foongus
• Klink
• Espurr
• Tadbulb

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Three-star raids:

• Exeggutor (Alolan)
• Weezing (Galarian)
• Gyrados
• Snorlax

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Five-star raids:

• Celesteela
• Kartana
• Mega Charizard X

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Remember: Shadow Raids must be done in person. Remote Raid cards are invalid for Shadow Raids unlike the other raids.

How to dominate each Pokemon currently in raids

Ultimately, the one-star raids don’t require a whole lot of effort to defeat, but in order to save revives and potions, super effective counters are helpful:

• Foongus, we recommend bringing a fire type or a non ground type that knows a Ground-type quick move. This Pokemon has weaknesses to Fire, Flying and Ground type attacks.
• Thankfully Klink doesn’t have Levitate like in the main games, making it weak to ground type moves as well. If you try a Fight and/or Fire type Pokemon like Infernape or Flareon.
• Espurr is a mono-psychic type. This makes it weak to Dark, Bug and Ghost types. If you’re looking for a good excuse to use some of your fave bug types, here’s your chance.
• Tadbulb being an electric type is only vulnerable to ground type attacks.

Three-star raids are not as challenging

For three-star raids, it’s even more important to have good counters. Alolan and Galarian variants of Exeggutor and Weezing have different weaknesses to their Kantonian forms. Exeggutor is 4x weak to Grass, and retains most of Grass’s weaknesses.

Use Ground, Psychic or Steel to deal with Wheezing. Electric type moves will make short work of Gyrados, and Snorlax only struggles against Fighting types.

Mamoswine, Weavile and Mega Glailie are great Ice type attackers to deal with Exeggutor, but for Wheezing, Megagross, Excadrill or Espeon will be solid picks.

Any Electric type should be fine into Gyrados, from Pikachu to Raikou. Hitmonlee, Sawk, Infernape and any other fighting type will chunk down Snorlax before long.

Five-star and Mega Raids – Call your friends

Celesteela as a Steel and Flying type has some solid resistances that make it difficult to deal with. Fellow Steel type Ultra Beast, Kartana, is also in the 5-star raids. Both are weak to fire types, Kartana doubly so as a Grass and Steel. To dominate these raids, you’ll likely be looking to turn up the heat with Fire types that don’t have weaknesses to the Ultra Beasts’ types.

Pokemon GO Mega and Shadow Raids- How to take them out

For Mega Raids, If you’re looking for a Mega ready Shiny Charizard X, you’re in luck as the Fire & Dragon Charizard X is the Mega Raid. Bring Water, Rock, Ground and opposing Dragon types.

Shadow Entei will be taking over the Shadow Raid slot. To catch it in its regular or shiny form, you’ll want a strong spread of Water, Ground or Rock type attacks. It’ll be firing off Fire type moves on the whole but watch out for its Iron Head and Scorching Sands coverage Charge moves. Sunny weather will take this raid to a new level.

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We recommend the Kyogres if you have them, or the Water starters such as Greninja. Other strong rock and/or ground type users include Ryperior, Landorus, Groudon, Golem and Mega Diancie.

It’s important to have the right number of players in a raid to be able to take it down. Three-star raids probably need two trainers. Five-stars need a minimum of five, but the more the merrier. Mega Raids are easier to defeat with more than five, too. The more players, the better in almost every raid.

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