Pokebattler’s Comprehensive Deoxys-Attack Raid Guide!

Release History:

• Sep 9nd ➡️ Sep 16th 2019
• Dec 20 ➡️ Mar 25 [Ex][2018]

Deoxys (Attack) in the Meta

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Raid Attacker –Poison Jab/Dark Pulse

Deoxys (Attack) performance comes down to one thing, and one thing alone-how well can you dodge.  You are working with the largest Attack Stat in the game right now, you don’t need to worry about not having stab bonus. Poison Jab Dark Pulse is it’s best moveset for hitting neutral damage shockingly. Psycho Boost is so awful that Dark Pulse actually is usually a better choice if you aren’t hitting for weakness. Deoxys having a Psychic-Typing allows it to excel in situations where a raid boss can counter the pokemon that typically resist it. All of this relies on if you can dodge however. There are many situations where Deoxys goes from the number 1 highest DPS option to not even making the list-all based on if you did or didn’t dodge.

Deoxys more than any other pokemon needs to be a lead, it is almost certainly not going to be able to survive a Charge Attack. It needs to get out the most raw damage it can while it is alive.Note that our listed rankings assume no dodging, severely punishing Deoxys.

Poison-Type Raid Attackers

RANK	Pokemon	Moveset	DPS%	TDO%
100%	Roserade	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	100%	95%	0.72	0.65	2.33	0.78	0.70
87%	Toxicroak	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	91%	79%	0.80	0.74	2.73	0.88	0.79
84%	Victreebel	Acid /Sludge Bomb	88%	76%	0.86	0.76	2.75	0.95	0.85
83%	Vileplume	Acid /Sludge Bomb	84%	84%	0.87	0.75	2.76	0.96	0.85
80%	Muk	Poison Jab /Gunk Shot	77%	100%	0.90	0.79	2.90	0.99	0.88
80%	Skuntank	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	81%	81%	0.90	0.81	2.87	1.01	0.90
79%	Alolan Muk	Poison Jab /Gunk Shot	77%	100%	0.90	0.81	2.90	0.98	0.93
75%	Nidoking	Poison Jab /Sludge Wave	75%	74%	0.97	0.83	2.95	1.12	1.00
75%	Weezing (Legacy)	Acid /Sludge Bomb	73%	77%	0.96	0.87	3.02	1.07	0.96
72%	Crobat	Air Slash /Sludge Bomb	73%	84%	1.09	0.94	3.46	1.00	0.69
72%	Drapion	Poison Sting /Sludge Bomb	72%	82%	1.02	0.92	3.22	1.09	0.98
71%	Haunter (Legacy)	Lick /Sludge Bomb	85%	42%	0.98	0.94	3.27	1.11	0.93
71%	Roselia	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	79%	49%	0.95	0.92	3.36	1.09	0.99
69%	Nidoqueen	Poison Jab /Sludge Wave	67%	78%	1.07	0.92	3.28	1.21	1.03
68%	Beedrill	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	74%	53%	0.99	0.94	3.56	1.07	0.99
68%	Venusaur	Vine Whip /Sludge Bomb	70%	82%	0.86	0.86	3.59	1.20	1.09
67%	Deoxys (Attack Forme)	Poison Jab /Dark Pulse	86%	22%	1.00	1.02	3.36	1.18	1.15
65%	Weepinbell	Acid /Sludge Bomb	76%	41%	1.07	1.00	3.68	1.18	1.05
64%	Arbok	Acid /Gunk Shot	66%	53%	1.11	1.03	3.61	1.25	1.13
62%	Mew	Poison Jab /Overheat	66%	99%	1.37	1.14	3.85	1.06	0.95
62%	Gloom	Acid /Sludge Bomb	66%	48%	1.14	1.06	3.77	1.25	1.18
61%	Tangrowth	Infestation /Sludge Bomb	66%	88%	1.19	1.09	3.92	1.12	1.12
61%	Seviper	Poison Jab /Poison Fang	65%	47%	1.12	1.06	3.92	1.25	1.17
60%	Tentacruel	Poison Jab /Blizzard	57%	73%	1.53	1.17	3.54	1.28	1.09
60%	Breloom	Counter /Sludge Bomb	73%	55%	1.19	1.08	4.22	1.16	1.01
56%	Grimer	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	63%	38%	1.29	1.16	4.12	1.42	1.29
55%	Nidorino	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	62%	37%	1.24	1.18	4.16	1.42	1.31
55%	Alolan Grimer	Poison Jab /Sludge Bomb	63%	38%	1.34	1.16	4.17	1.44	1.31
53%	Armaldo	Fury Cutter /Cross Poison	62%	65%	1.32	1.26	4.65	1.30	1.30
52%	Swalot	Infestation /Sludge Bomb	54%	63%	1.43	1.26	4.71	1.34	1.26
51%	Seaking (Legacy)	Poison Jab /Ice Beam	52%	49%	1.72	1.53	3.89	1.55	1.37
51%	Gastly	Lick /Sludge Bomb	74%	20%	1.31	1.45	4.71	1.43	1.25
51%	Oddish	Acid /Sludge Bomb	58%	29%	1.40	1.27	4.59	1.54	1.39
50%	Sunflora	Bullet Seed /Sludge Bomb	57%	47%	1.19	1.24	4.73	1.62	1.48
50%	Ivysaur	Vine Whip /Sludge Bomb	56%	42%	1.17	1.25	4.73	1.61	1.53
50%	Tangela	Infestation /Sludge Bomb	58%	54%	1.40	1.33	4.95	1.36	1.36
49%	Octillery	Water Gun /Gunk Shot	53%	46%	1.49	1.31	4.04	1.90	1.77
49%	Qwilfish	Poison Sting /Ice Beam	53%	40%	2.12	1.57	4.09	1.49	1.26
47%	Nidorina	Poison Sting /Sludge Bomb	51%	36%	1.51	1.40	4.89	1.65	1.52
45%	Cradily	Acid /Stone Edge	43%	54%	1.64	1.53	4.36	1.89	2.12
44%	Ariados	Infestation /Cross Poison	53%	39%	1.56	1.51	5.75	1.39	1.45

Dark Type Raid Rankings

RANK	Pokemon	Moveset	DPS%	TDO%
100%	Darkrai	Feint Attack /Dark Pulse	87%	86%	2.53	2.81	0.77	2.48	0.70
92%	Hydreigon	Bite /Dark Pulse	80%	91%	2.76	3.02	0.79	2.66	0.82
91%	Weavile	Snarl /Foul Play	84%	73%	2.73	3.13	0.85	2.65	0.80
90%	Tyranitar	Bite /Crunch	76%	100%	2.79	3.21	0.85	2.66	0.79
87%	Houndoom	Snarl /Foul Play	79%	61%	2.85	3.16	0.91	2.87	0.85
84%	Honchkrow	Snarl /Dark Pulse	81%	57%	3.39	3.11	0.88	2.81	0.87
84%	Absol	Snarl /Dark Pulse	80%	48%	2.94	3.42	0.90	2.93	0.90
82%	Salamence (Legacy)	Bite /Outrage	66%	69%	3.76	2.96	1.04	2.57	1.06
80%	Gengar	Sucker Punch /Shadow Ball	91%	63%	3.05	3.63	0.91	3.24	0.80
77%	Alolan Muk	Snarl /Dark Pulse	63%	72%	3.28	3.71	0.94	3.26	0.96
75%	Sharpedo	Bite /Crunch	78%	36%	3.33	3.60	1.02	3.46	0.95
73%	Mismagius	Sucker Punch /Shadow Ball	74%	62%	3.19	3.74	1.07	3.75	0.95
73%	Shiftry	Feint Attack /Foul Play	70%	52%	3.64	3.66	1.07	3.34	1.02
72%	Crawdaunt	Snarl /Night Slash	67%	46%	3.60	3.87	1.09	3.40	1.01
70%	Cacturne	Sucker Punch /Dark Pulse	71%	43%	3.82	3.86	1.19	3.31	1.03
69%	Gyarados	Bite /Crunch	61%	70%	3.76	3.99	1.06	3.50	1.07
68%	Mew	Shadow Claw /Dark Pulse	57%	76%	3.56	4.08	1.10	3.80	1.02
67%	Arcanine	Snarl /Crunch	59%	59%	3.62	4.22	1.11	3.75	1.12
67%	Spiritomb	Sucker Punch /Shadow Ball	62%	50%	3.63	4.11	1.11	3.91	1.12
67%	Skuntank	Bite /Crunch	59%	52%	3.81	4.21	1.06	3.74	1.06
67%	Sneasel	Feint Attack /Foul Play	64%	41%	3.83	4.13	1.17	3.68	1.12
66%	Drapion	Bite /Crunch	56%	56%	3.81	4.31	1.09	3.76	1.14
66%	Luxray	Snarl /Crunch	60%	52%	3.78	4.34	1.13	3.77	1.11
64%	Liepard	Snarl /Dark Pulse	63%	33%	3.97	4.43	1.17	3.83	1.16
64%	Crobat	Bite /Shadow Ball	60%	61%	4.19	4.29	1.10	3.89	1.15
63%	Deoxys (Attack Forme)	Poison Jab /Dark Pulse	100%	23%	3.76	4.09	1.39	4.32	1.13
63%	Scizor	Fury Cutter /Night Slash	55%	50%	4.10	3.93	1.31	4.33	1.09
62%	Zangoose	Shadow Claw /Night Slash	58%	38%	4.17	4.62	1.23	3.77	1.24
62%	Granbull	Bite /Crunch	56%	45%	4.07	4.65	1.25	3.88	1.24
61%	Feraligatr	Bite /Crunch	53%	57%	3.97	4.78	1.24	3.97	1.21
60%	Muk (Legacy)	Lick /Dark Pulse	52%	59%	4.07	4.74	1.18	4.22	1.23
60%	Mightyena	Bite /Crunch	55%	37%	4.10	4.70	1.34	4.08	1.29
53%	Umbreon	Snarl /Dark Pulse	43%	62%	4.75	5.33	1.36	4.76	1.37

Raid Attacker –Zen Headbutt/Psych Boost [et. all]

 Deoxys (Attack) does however have a Psychic-Type set of moves as well. In situations where you dodge perfectly, you still usually don’t come out ahead of Mewtwo-but it’s close. Resistances however have much more proportional payoff for Deoxys, leading to top tier performance against  Psychic and Fighting-Type attacks. If your dodge game is on point, of course. Note that our listed rankings assume no dodging, severely punishing Deoxys.

RANK	Pokemon	Moveset	DPS%	TDO%
100%	Mewtwo (Legacy)	Confusion /Psystrike	100%	100%	1.72	0.56	0.55	1.90	0.67
72%	Azelf	Confusion /Future Sight	78%	56%	2.28	0.77	0.97	2.64	0.87
71%	Espeon	Confusion /Future Sight	75%	56%	2.36	0.78	0.91	2.67	0.88
69%	Gallade (Legacy)	Confusion /Synchronoise	71%	60%	2.44	0.79	0.82	2.78	0.94
69%	Gardevoir (Legacy)	Confusion /Synchronoise	71%	60%	2.43	0.81	0.82	2.83	0.94
69%	Alakazam	Confusion /Future Sight	77%	50%	2.45	0.82	0.98	2.75	0.89
67%	Latios	Zen Headbutt /Psychic	66%	68%	2.62	0.84	0.89	2.72	0.99
65%	Metagross	Zen Headbutt /Psychic	63%	70%	2.70	0.90	0.87	2.75	1.05
64%	Lugia	Extrasensory /Sky Attack	55%	99%	2.68	0.86	1.12	2.73	1.06
63%	Mesprit	Confusion /Future Sight	62%	64%	2.69	0.87	0.93	3.00	1.06
62%	Exeggutor (Legacy)	Confusion /Psychic	63%	53%	2.73	0.92	0.96	2.93	1.11
59%	Jirachi	Confusion /Psychic	57%	68%	3.01	0.99	0.96	2.98	1.15
59%	Latias	Zen Headbutt /Psychic	57%	67%	2.96	0.97	1.02	3.04	1.17
58%	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory /Brave Bird	52%	68%	3.00	1.00	1.18	2.98	1.16
56%	Armored Mewtwo	Confusion /Future Sight	54%	80%	3.07	1.01	1.00	3.28	1.20
56%	Deoxys (Normal Forme)	Zen Headbutt /Psycho Boost	74%	33%	2.97	0.99	1.20	3.28	1.13
55%	Jynx	Confusion /Psyshock	64%	42%	3.09	1.05	1.14	3.34	1.19
54%	Regigigas	Zen Headbutt /Avalanche	54%	63%	4.14	1.11	1.01	2.52	1.26
52%	Deoxys (Attack Forme)	Zen Headbutt /Psycho Boost	93%	19%	3.36	1.23	1.18	3.39	1.25
51%	Mew	Pound /Psyshock	52%	62%	3.39	1.08	1.25	3.46	1.33
51%	Gengar (Legacy)	Shadow Claw /Psychic	50%	31%	3.47	1.22	1.00	3.47	1.36
51%	Celebi	Confusion /Dazzling Gleam	44%	53%	2.95	0.96	1.38	4.25	1.14
49%	Cresselia	Confusion /Future Sight	46%	77%	3.58	1.17	1.16	3.68	1.42
49%	Uxie	Confusion /Future Sight	47%	58%	3.62	1.18	1.22	3.71	1.39
48%	Xatu	Air Slash /Future Sight	48%	31%	3.45	1.13	1.71	3.54	1.37
48%	Honchkrow	Peck /Psychic	50%	32%	3.73	1.20	1.46	3.48	1.36
48%	Slowbro	Confusion /Psychic	49%	48%	3.49	1.11	1.19	4.16	1.34
48%	Slowking	Confusion /Psychic	49%	48%	3.49	1.11	1.19	4.16	1.34
47%	Chimecho	Extrasensory /Psyshock	51%	41%	3.50	1.22	1.35	4.02	1.37
47%	Mr. Mime	Confusion /Psychic	51%	33%	3.41	1.18	1.50	4.07	1.36
47%	Bronzong	Confusion /Psyshock	47%	43%	3.80	1.24	1.26	3.80	1.47
46%	Kadabra	Confusion /Dazzling Gleam	48%	19%	3.40	1.08	1.54	4.57	1.27
45%	Grumpig	Extrasensory /Psychic	46%	42%	3.72	1.29	1.33	4.09	1.46
45%	Lunatone	Confusion /Psychic	49%	40%	3.96	1.29	1.29	4.10	1.37
45%	Solrock	Confusion /Psychic	49%	40%	3.96	1.29	1.29	4.10	1.37
45%	Magmortar	Fire Spin /Psychic	48%	39%	5.06	1.28	1.29	2.97	1.43
45%	Rampardos	Zen Headbutt /Outrage	55%	35%	4.05	1.40	1.21	3.94	1.48
45%	Hypno	Confusion /Future Sight	44%	43%	3.90	1.26	1.34	4.15	1.47
44%	Noctowl	Extrasensory /Sky Attack	41%	38%	3.88	1.31	1.60	3.86	1.49
44%	Deoxys (Speed Forme)	Zen Headbutt /Psycho Boost	50%	39%	3.65	1.28	1.58	4.28	1.41
44%	Girafarig	Confusion /Psychic	49%	30%	3.96	1.32	1.23	4.21	1.52
44%	Gorebyss	Confusion /Psychic	47%	32%	3.92	1.31	1.30	4.34	1.53
41%	Venomoth	Confusion /Psychic	41%	27%	4.23	1.45	1.44	4.29	1.68
40%	Golduck	Confusion /Psychic	43%	35%	4.19	1.40	1.39	4.84	1.55
39%	Snorlax	Zen Headbutt /Hyper Beam	40%	57%	4.41	1.48	1.86	4.37	1.69
38%	Alolan Raichu	Spark /Psychic	43%	27%	3.63	1.42	1.73	5.66	1.67
32%	Deoxys (Defense Forme)	Zen Headbutt /Psycho Boost	32%	38%	5.46	1.77	1.86	5.58	2.01
28%	Blissey	Zen Headbutt /Dazzling Gleam	27%	56%	4.77	1.51	2.62	8.45	1.91

 Raid Advice

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Top Raid Counters

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Giratina Origin

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

This is the scariest Deoxys for Giratina, Dark Pulse actually manages to dethrone it’s spot as the universal choice.

Giratina-Origin was released April 2019. While it is legendary, it is the best Ghost-Type around and an Okay Dragon-Type, so a worthwhile investment!

With Level 35 Giratina Origin, you need 1 players.

Resists: Poison, Electric
Weak: Dark

Tyranitar

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Accessibility will be a bit tough if you are only starting now as Larvitars do not nest and are rare.  Tier 4 Tyranitar Raids were a staple for quite a while, however. Larvitar can be found in ‘Make 3 Excellent Throws in a Row’ Quests, but you won’t be able to get the legacy move this way. The family was last in raid bosses during Water Festival in Sept 2019. Larvitar community day (the only time you could get Smack Down) was June 2018.

With Level 35 Tyranitar, you need 1 players. 

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Poison, Dark

Honchkrow

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Murkrow are very common (although less so than they used to be), but are only weather boosted in Windy and Foggy-which are generally rare. Honchkrow also requires a Sinnoh Stone to evolve, which can be acquired randomly from your first Trainer Battle each day. You can also get a Murkrow from the Special Research “A Troubling Situation”  part 1/4.

With Level 35 Honchkrow, you need 1 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark
Weak: Electric

Weavile

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Weavile evolves from Sneasel, which is an uncommon Pokemon (that does still nest) and is an occasional 2-star raid boss. It requires a Sinnoh Stone to evolve, which can be acquired at random from your first daily trainer battle. Sneasel has been featured in Winter Time events and Dark Events. Weavile has been a reward from “Catch 5 Poochyena or Houndour” quests. Sneasel can also spawn from Glacial Lure Modules. It’s fantastic as both a Dark and Ice-type, so don’t let its frail appearance fool you.With Level 35 Weavile, you need 1 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark

Mewtwo [Legacy]

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Mewtwo is pretty inaccessible, as the useful form hasn’t been released recently. Trading for one is probably the most likely way you’d be able to get one of these, and you can use the candy you got from catching Armored Mewtwo to power it up. That said, if you weren’t lucky enough to get an Ex Raid back during its era Shadow Ball period-you can’t get it now. When Mewtwo was released from its EX shackles for a global event-that move was removed from it’s TM pool. This used to be more unfortunate, but there are quite a lot of alternative Ghost-Type options at this point so don’t sweat it too much.

With Level 35 Mewtwo, you need 1 players.

Resists: Psychic
Weak: Dark

Absol

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Absol is a Raid (and very rarely, Field Research) exclusive Pokemon. That means you can only get its candy from Raiding usually or walking it as a 5k buddy. Rare candy is an option too but a bit inefficient. The family was last in raid bosses during Sept 2019 (Tier 4). With Level 35 Absol, you need 1 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark

Weather Counters

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The Easiest Weather to work in is Fog.

Here is a list of Pokemon that can perform similar or better than the typical #1 option (in this case, Giratina_Origin_Form) with weather bonuses:

 

Weather Table
Pokemon		Weather		Fast Move		Charge Move		Estimator @ L35
	Giratina Origin Form		FOG		Shadow_Claw		Shadow Ball	0.65
	Tyranitar		FOG		Bite		Crunch	0.67
	Honchkrow		FOG		Snarl		Dark Pulse	0.77
	Giratina Origin Form		NO_WEATHER		Shadow_Claw		Shadow Ball	0.78
	Absol		FOG		Snarl		Dark Pulse	0.78
	Weavile		FOG		Feint_Attack		Foul Play	0.78
	Houndoom		FOG		Snarl		Foul Play	0.82
	Pinsir		RAINY		Bug_Bite		X Scissor	0.83
	Raikou		FOG		Thunder_Shock		Shadow Ball	0.86
	Yanmega		RAINY		Bug_Bite		Bug Buzz	0.863769
	Cacturne		FOG		Sucker_Punch		Dark Pulse	0.87
	Shiftry		FOG		Feint_Attack		Foul Play	0.87
	Sharpedo		FOG		Bite		Crunch	0.87

Houndoom

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It’s got the benefits of being a Dark-type that doesn’t involve a ton of extra work to evolve and find as a high level, and Houndour can be found weather boosted in the common Sunny weather. It’s also a relatively common research reward as well. With Level 35 Houndoom, you need 1 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark

Sharpedo

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Carvana was available in the Quest “Water Festival: Defeat a Team GO Rocket Grunt” in Sept 2019. It also had boosted spawns during Water Festival 2019. The family was last in raid bosses during Water Festival in Sept 2019. With Level 35 Sharpedo, you need 1 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark
Weak: Electric

Pinsir

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
  🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
  📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
  🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Pinsir is one of the most accessible pokemon, that is nonetheless top tier in it’s typing. You don’t need to evolve them, they can be found at high levels in the wild, they nest- they got a lot going for them. The Legacy Moveset while often a smidge better isn’t something to stress over. With Level 35 Pinsir, you need 2 players.

Raikou Vs.

• ⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
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Raikou was recently available during it’s Raid Day, so it’s actually very likely you are holding onto one right now. That said, it is a legendary pokemon, which are expensive to get candy for. But it’s the best Electric-Type in the game right now, and even an okay Ghost-Type! With Level 35 Raikou, you need 2 players.

Resists: Electric

Shiftry

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Shiftry evolves from Seedot, which is common in a variety of areas. Shiftry itself has also existed as a Tier 4 Raid Boss. It also gets weather boosted from the very common Sunny weather. With Level 35 Shiftry, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark, Electric
Weak: Poison

Cacturne

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Cacnea can be found in the common Sunny weather-but is almost non-existent outside of it. If you somehow don’t see much sun, it will be hard to get. With Level 35 Cacturne, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark, Electric
Weak: Poison

Yanmega

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Yanmega is a Sinnoh Stone Evolution of an uncommon Pokemon, so not the easiest thing to get your hands on from scratch. With Level 35 Yanmega, you need 2 players.

Weak: Electric

Scizor

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Scyther and Scizor have also been featured a couple of times recently reducing the difficulty to acquire one. You need a Metal Coat to evolve Scyther into Scizor, which can be acquired either: VERY rarely from spinning a poke stop, in a pool of other evolution items on your 7-day streak spinning Pokestop (guaranteed to get at least one item), or from the Celebi Special Research 4/8 rewards. With Level 35 Scizor, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Poison
Resists: Psychic

Muk – Alola

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Alolan Grimer can only be acquired from 7k Alolan Eggs. You can get them if you open a Gift when you have an available Egg Slot, but it is not guaranteed. While at first rare hatch, now it is in the most common category of 7k hatches. Its candy is the same as normal Grimer. Alolan Grimer came to eggs in June 2018.

With Level 35 Muk – Alola, you need 2 players.

Resists: Poison, Dark, Psychic

Metagross [Legacy]

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Metagross is a rare pseudo-legendary and doesn’t nest. Beldum can be found in 10k eggs, however. It was made very common and given the legacy move Meteor Mash during its community day in October 2018. With Level 35 Metagross, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Poison, Psychic
Weak: Dark

Crawdaunt

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Crawdaunt received Crabhammer 9/2/19 making it a viable Water Type. Corphish is a nesting species. Added to 5k eggs (Sept 2019).Boosted spawns during Water Festival 2019.

Level 35 Crawdaunt, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Psychic
Resists: Dark
Weak: Electric

Garchomp

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Garchomp while a top tier Dragon-Type and Ground-Type,-is very difficult to acquire for now. No nests, no events, very rare, very new. Gible are a lot of people’s white whales for now. When it inevitably gets it’s community day, however, expect that to change. With Level 35 Garchomp, you need 2 players.

3xResists: Electric
Resists: Poison

Mew

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Available from completing the “A Mythical Discovery” Special Research. Which might not be that easy if you are just starting the game. Requiring earning 7 candies walking your buddy, hatching 3 eggs, battling in 12 raids, being level 25, having the Gold Kanto Medal, Catching a Ditto, Evolving a Magikarp, among other trials. On the other hand, its something very accessible to anyone regardless of where you live and it’s likely many have acquired their Mew. Even so, after you get it you need to get the right moveset on it, which is a massive ordeal in itself and could take significantly more than your entire stockpile of TMs to get. No 20 TMs of each type is not nearly enough to have a high chance of this moveset. With Level 35 Mew, you need 2 players.

Resists: Psychic
Weak: Dark

Scyther

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Scyther are a nesting species, and have been featured as a relatively easy Tier 3 Raid boss a couple times. They also got boosted Spawns during the Bug Out event. 

ith Level 35 Scyther, you need 2 players.

Weak: Electric

Luxray

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Luxray evolves from Shinx, which is a raid exclusive Pokemon; and always acquired at level 20 (or 25 if caught during rain). This makes it quite the pain to evolve. Even if you pinap every Shinx, it will still take 17 raids just to get enough base candy to Evolve it.  Shinx raids have become a staple however and are pretty reliably around, and are Tier 1 raids that anyone can do. Shinx as a Buddy finds a candy every 5km, which is better than legendary Pokemon but still not great.

With Level 35 Luxray, you need 2 players.

Resists: Electric

Dialga

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Dialga’s Steel typing gives it nice resistances usually so it comes up a lot as a hefty Steel or Dragon-Type. It’s legendary tough, so expensive to trade for and acquire candy for. It is an excellent attacker in recent Team Rocket invasions so powering one up is not the worst idea in the world. With Level 35 Dialga, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Poison
Resists: Electric, Psychic

Gyarados

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Magikarp can spawn from Glacial Lure Modules, and Catch 10 Pokemon quests. It is also currently a Tier 1 Raid Boss as of writing. Gyarados has been available for years now, but has a hefty 400 candy cost to evolve. Magikarp got boosted spawns during Water Festival 2019.

With Level 35 Gyarados, you need 2 players.

2xWeak: Electric

Skuntank

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Skuntank evolves from Stunky, which are a pretty common Pokemon. Being weather boosted in the common Cloudy weather makes this one of the easiest viable Poison Types to get. It does not nest right now however. ith Level 35 Skuntank, you need 2 players.

Resists: Poison, Dark, Psychic

Gengar [Legacy] Vs.

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Gengar is uniquly bad against Attack Deoxys due to being able to get slaughtered with Fast Attacks alone.

Gengar isn’t too difficult to acquire with Gastlys nesting and being a common night spawn, as well as being featured in the recent Go Fest global spawns. The main issue comes with Legacy Move Shadow Claw, but Lick at least was made available relatively recently in Gengar Raid Day. Gengar is still great without the legacy move, but much less likely to be optimal. 

With Level 35 Gengar, you need 2 players.

2xResists: Poison
Weak: Dark, Psychic

Closing Thoughts

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 Deoxys-Attack is a fascinatingly absurd pokemon, putting minmaxing to the absolute limits. It’s unique position leads it to have an extremely diverse web of key situations where it can be useful. But it’s always going to be a heavy amount of work, and it’s overall DPS probably has more to do with how long your phone takes to rejoin with a new team than anything else. 

Still, if you’re someone who wants to take a challege, the damage potential has never been higher.

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