Registeel

Registeel – The Iron Pokemon.

Registeel is a member of the Legendary Titans/Golems from Hoenn. These Pokemon all have design elements inspired by Braille, which was incorporated in a puzzle you had to solve to obtain them in console games.

They are infamous for their incredible defensive stats.

Registeel is weak to : Fighting, Ground, and Fire Damage.

Generally speaking, the best counters for it are:
Chandelure, Moltres, and (Legacy) Blaziken.

Registeel can be beaten by 3 players in optimal weather, with max friendship and perfect level 40 counters or by 5 unfriended players using level 20 counters from this guide. When caught, Registeel will be between 1326 and 1398 cp without a weather boost. In Snow weather, Registeel will be between 1658 and 1748 when caught.

Personalized Registeel Counters

Printable High-Res Infographic

Release History:

7/19/2018 for 28 days

Event Announcement:

Regirock, Regice, and Registeel reunite in raids! Prepare for a colossal discovery!

Regirock, Regice, and Registeel reunite and return to raids!

Date + Time

From Friday, November 1, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. to Monday, November 4, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. PDT

Features

Regirock, Regice, and Registeel will be available to encounter in five-star raids.
The following Pokémon will be appearing more often in the wild: Geodude, Magnemite, Swinub, Aron, and Spheal.
The following Pokémon will be hatching more often from Eggs: Aerodactyl, Shuckle, Sneasel, Skarmory, Snorunt, and Beldum.
If you’re lucky, you might encounter Shiny Skarmory, Shiny Regirock, Shiny Regice, or Shiny Registeel!

Bonus

2× Incubator effectiveness

A Colossal Discovery—a Special Research story event

A Colossal Discovery introduces a Pokémon originally from the Sinnoh region that’s closely related to Regirock, Regice, and Registeel—Regigigas! You can purchase a ticket to gain access to a unique limited-time experience where you’ll be challenged with a variety of tasks to earn an encounter with the Colossal Pokémon before it debuts in EX Raids later in November. This event does not have a set location—if you have a ticket, you can take part wherever you can play Pokémon GO.

Date + Time

This Special Research story event will be available on Saturday, November 2, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in your local time zone with a ticket purchase.

Features

A ticket to this Special Research story event will grant you access to a unique experience for you to play through during the specified time period! Access to this event comes with the following.

A new Special Research story event, featuring an early-access encounter with Regigigas, appearing in Pokémon GO for the very first time!!
A Colossal Discovery medal
Up to 10 additional Raid Passes at no cost during the Special Research story event time period when you spin a Photo Disc at a Gym. These Raid Passes will not be available after the event period is over. You cannot hold more than one Raid Pass at once.
A Unova Stone, a Sinnoh Stone, and an exclusive avatar pose (see below!) from conducting the Special Research

—The Pokémon GO team [Source]

Registeel In the Meta

Raid Meta – Metal Claw + Flash Cannon

To be frank, Registeel is not a good attacker. While the other Regi’s have a niche they can call home- the way Pokemon stats are calculated in Pokemon Go betrays it here. In the original games all of the Regis had ludicrous numbers in the games two defensive Stats (Special Defense, Physical Defense) which are combined into one in Pokemon Go. Regice has Special Defense, Regirock has Physical Defense, and Registeel had a more balanced combination of both. The thing is, Pokemon Go has a 7/8 bias towards whichever stat was the highest, so Pokemon with balanced stats are punished.

Basically, this means Registeel isn’t even that amazing defensively despite being a Regi. It’s not useful sadly.

Steel-Type Raid Attackers

RANK	Pokemon	Moveset	DPS%	TDO%
100%	Metagross (Legacy)	Bullet Punch /Meteor Mash	100%	100%	0.56	3.49	0.58	1.98	3.54
90%	Dialga	Metal Claw /Iron Head	88%	88%	0.65	3.79	0.65	2.26	3.90
84%	Excadrill	Metal Claw /Iron Head	85%	63%	0.68	4.00	0.73	2.33	4.28
83%	Jirachi	Charge Beam /Doom Desire	81%	88%	0.68	4.20	0.76	2.31	4.22
75%	Scizor	Bullet Punch /Iron Head	74%	55%	0.76	4.62	0.79	2.67	4.60
72%	Durant	Metal Claw /Iron Head	71%	48%	0.83	4.81	0.82	2.86	4.80
71%	Heatran	Fire Spin /Iron Head	70%	72%	0.82	5.65	0.72	2.93	4.15
70%	Regigigas	Rock Smash /Heavy Slam	70%	74%	0.99	4.47	0.74	3.90	4.47
69%	Empoleon	Metal Claw /Flash Cannon	66%	56%	0.83	5.08	0.90	2.93	4.95
69%	Aggron	Iron Tail /Heavy Slam	67%	69%	0.82	5.07	0.90	2.82	5.17
67%	Dragonite (Legacy)	Steel Wing /Draco Meteor	62%	60%	1.04	4.76	0.92	3.51	4.82
67%	Tyranitar	Iron Tail /Stone Edge	65%	70%	0.96	5.50	0.95	2.79	4.88
65%	Cobalion	Metal Claw /Iron Head	63%	70%	0.86	5.22	0.93	3.15	5.38
64%	Magneton (Legacy)	Thunder Shock /Magnet Bomb	70%	39%	0.95	5.33	1.27	2.78	5.59
63%	Aerodactyl	Steel Wing /Rock Slide	62%	45%	1.07	6.19	1.09	2.88	4.92
63%	Ho-Oh	Steel Wing /Fire Blast	62%	73%	0.91	6.60	0.79	3.44	4.42
63%	Machamp	Bullet Punch /Dynamic Punch	70%	54%	1.31	4.14	0.72	5.86	4.15
62%	Arceus	Iron Tail /Hyper Beam	58%	74%	0.90	5.95	0.93	3.23	5.31
62%	Lucario	Counter /Flash Cannon	68%	41%	1.22	4.66	0.79	4.88	4.94
60%	Entei	Fire Spin /Iron Head	60%	60%	0.91	7.02	0.81	3.33	4.76
59%	Donphan	Counter /Heavy Slam	59%	53%	1.20	5.05	0.95	4.70	5.39
58%	Magnezone	Spark /Flash Cannon	59%	48%	0.97	6.00	1.29	2.77	6.42
58%	Melmetal	Thunder Shock /Flash Cannon	56%	64%	0.98	6.07	1.25	3.15	6.17
57%	Hariyama	Bullet Punch /Dynamic Punch	65%	54%	1.41	4.56	0.77	6.53	4.61
57%	Mew	Steel Wing /Overheat	55%	59%	1.09	7.03	0.87	3.68	5.23
56%	Clefable	Charge Beam /Meteor Mash	57%	46%	1.04	6.19	1.17	3.41	6.16
55%	Alolan Sandslash	Metal Claw /Gyro Ball	57%	47%	1.10	6.46	1.05	3.46	6.32
54%	Ursaring	Metal Claw /Close Combat	58%	41%	1.33	5.76	0.98	4.90	5.78
54%	Snorlax	Lick /Heavy Slam	51%	65%	1.08	6.35	1.13	3.87	6.37
54%	Steelix	Iron Tail /Heavy Slam	52%	59%	1.06	6.36	1.11	3.74	6.67
54%	Skarmory	Steel Wing /Flash Cannon	50%	43%	1.08	6.52	1.20	3.86	6.30
53%	Kingler	Metal Claw /Water Pulse	55%	35%	1.27	5.72	0.92	4.07	7.06
53%	Nidoking	Iron Tail /Earth Power	57%	40%	1.13	5.23	1.29	4.63	7.03
52%	Lairon	Metal Claw /Heavy Slam	56%	41%	1.12	6.71	1.06	3.53	6.91
52%	Dodrio	Steel Wing /Brave Bird	53%	28%	1.15	6.93	1.22	3.95	6.20
52%	Scyther (Legacy)	Steel Wing /X-Scissor	51%	35%	1.28	6.47	1.22	4.52	6.10
51%	Ferrothorn	Metal Claw /Flash Cannon	51%	47%	1.09	6.81	1.10	3.82	7.08
51%	Forretress	Bug Bite /Heavy Slam	50%	43%	1.21	6.72	1.17	4.36	6.57
50%	Bronzong	Confusion /Heavy Slam	48%	40%	1.21	6.83	1.25	4.07	6.90
49%	Registeel	Metal Claw /Flash Cannon	47%	58%	1.17	6.96	1.21	4.28	7.02
48%	Fearow	Steel Wing /Sky Attack	50%	26%	1.22	7.81	1.27	4.38	6.59
46%	Tauros	Tackle /Iron Head	46%	36%	1.27	7.80	1.30	4.09	7.78
44%	Metang	Metal Claw /Gyro Ball	46%	30%	1.41	7.77	1.34	4.51	7.83
43%	Magnemite	Thunder Shock /Magnet Bomb	54%	16%	1.40	7.99	1.75	4.09	8.17
43%	Probopass	Spark /Magnet Bomb	42%	42%	1.34	8.13	1.58	4.39	8.36
28%	Alolan Dugtrio	Metal Claw /Iron Head	66%	26%	2.34	11.61	2.24	7.09	12.95

Movesets

Hyper Beam:
- it’s best counter, Chandelure, has double resistance.

Flash Cannon:
- hardest moveset due to stab, but none of Registeels movesets are very rough offensively.
- Fire-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Focus Blast:
- Is a joke because it’s best counter, Chandelure, has double resistance. Moltres as well.

Top Raid Counters

Chandelure

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Overheat

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

Chandelure is a difficult find. It is a bit more available during the recent Halloween event and from 10k eggs but getting a maxed out Chandelure will still be difficult. Chandelure is also an excellent ghost type attacker. If you are swimming in candy, get 2 moves and use a TM to switch between fire attacks and Hex + Shadow Ball.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Flash Cannon

With Level 35 Chandelure you need 4 players.

Moltres

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Overheat

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

Top tier Fire and Flying Type attacker. Moltres was last a raid boss 9/13/2018. It was last in Raids 393 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Steel, Fighting
With Level 35 Moltres you need 4 players.

Blaziken

Best Moveset: Counter/Blast Burn

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

Blaziken was featured in Community Day May 2019! In terms of Raids, the most common member of the Family is Combuskin. Who was last a Tier 2 raid in March 2019. Legacy: BLAST_BURN. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Torchic currently can be found in nests. Combusken was last a raid boss 3/27/2019. It was last in Raids 204 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast
-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Blaziken you need 4 players.

Machamp

Best Moveset: Counter/Dynamic Punch

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

Family was last in raid bosses during Sept 2019 (Machamp Tier 3) Machamp stands as the Pokemon with the longest cumulative duration it has spent as a raid boss, being one of the very first AND most frequently returning. If you’ve been playing long enough to participate in Tier 3 raids it’s likely you have a Machamp or a dozen. They also have been an incredibly useful Fighting Type since the game’s inception. Machop does nest and are in 2k Eggs. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Machop currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Hyper Beam
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

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With Level 35 Machamp you need 4 players.

Entei

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/Overheat

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

Entei was last a raid boss 9/2/2019. It was last in Raids 39 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Entei you need 4 players.

Breloom

Best Moveset: Counter/Dynamic Punch

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

The family was last in raid July 2019 (Tier 2 Breloom) Breloom evolves from the very common Shroomish and has higher pure DPS than Machamp or Makuhita. Shroomish currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

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With Level 35 Breloom you need 4 players.

Weather Counters

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

Pokemon		Weather		Fast Move		Charge Move		Estimator @ L35
	Chandelure		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Overheat	2.60
	Moltres		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Overheat	2.77
	Entei		CLEAR		Fire Fang		Overheat	2.82
	(Legacy) Blaziken		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Blast Burn	2.84
	Machamp		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	2.85
	Breloom		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	2.91
	(Legacy) Charizard		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Blast Burn	2.97
	Flareon		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Overheat	3.04
	Chandelure		NO_WEATHER		Fire Spin		Overheat	3.06
	Heatran		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Fire Blast	3.12
	Blaziken		OVERCAST		Counter		Focus Blast	3.14
	Toxicroak		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	3.14
	Hariyama		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	3.14
	Heracross		OVERCAST		Counter		Close Combat	3.14

Alternate Raid Counters

Charizard

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Blast Burn

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

Very good Fire-Type attacker, with useful flying-typing Legacy: BLAST_BURN. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Charmander currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam
-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel, Fighting
With Level 35 Charizard you need 4 players.

Flareon

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Overheat

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

Eevee currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Flareon you need 4 players.

Hariyama

Best Moveset: Counter/Dynamic Punch

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

Hariyama is cheaper to evolve up than Machamp, requiring less candy and a more common Pokemon (with nearly identical practical performance). Makuhita was last in raids April 2019, and they do Nest and are in 2K eggs. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Makuhita currently can be found in nests. Makuhita was last a raid boss 3/27/2019. It was last in Raids 204 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Hyper Beam
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

With Level 35 Hariyama you need 4 players.

Heatran

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Fire Blast

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

Heatran was last a raid boss 1/3/2019. It was last in Raids 276 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-2xResists: Steel
-Resists: Normal
-Weak: Fighting
With Level 35 Heatran you need 4 players.

Heracross

Best Moveset: Counter/Close Combat

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

Heracross is a Regional Exclusive Pokemon limited to Central and South America. It’s arguably the most useful Regional, having been among the best Fighting Types (and soon to be obliterated down the rankings once the incredible GEN 5 Fighting-Type Pokemon get released). You can get them in 5K eggs acquired within its spawn region as well. This family hatches from 5K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Fighting
With Level 35 Heracross you need 4 players.

Salamence

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/Fire Blast

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

Salamence Community Day was April 2019, which is when it received Outrage. Draco Meteor, however, is not Legacy on Salamence. It’s not really the best at any of the things it can do, but it’s still a top tier Dragon with powerful off-type movesets as well. This family hatches from 10K eggs. Bagon was last a raid boss 8/31/2019. It was last in Raids 46 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Fighting
With Level 35 Salamence you need 4 players.

Typhlosion

Best Moveset: Ember/Blast Burn

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

Legacy: BLAST BURN. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Cyndaquil currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam
-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Typhlosion you need 4 players.

Magmortar

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Fire Punch

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

Magmortar evolves from Magmar, and requires a Sinnoh Stone to Evolve. You can acquire them at random from daily Trainer Battles and Research Breakthroughs. This family hatches from 5K 7K eggs. Magmar currently can be found in nests. Magmar was last a raid boss 2/26/2019. It was last in Raids 231 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Magmortar you need 4 players.

Toxicroak

Best Moveset: Counter/Dynamic Punch

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

Toxicroak is an unexpectedly great Fighting AND Poison Raid Attacker. Crogunk is moderately uncommon outside of cloudy weather. This family hatches from 5K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Resists: Fighting
With Level 35 Toxicroak you need 4 players.

Excadrill

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/Drill Run

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

Exadrill is a new pokemon, but Drilbur are not rare at all and it is boosted in sunny weather.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

With Level 35 Excadrill you need 4 players.

Arcanine

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/Flamethrower

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

Legacy: FLAMETHROWER. This family hatches from 5K eggs. Growlithe currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast
-Legacy Charge Move: Flamethrower

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Arcanine you need 4 players.

Groudon

Best Moveset: Mud Shot/Earthquake

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

Groudon is a Legendary Pokemon and thus can only be gotten in time limited ways, by being featured in Event Raids or Field Research Breakthroughs. Groudon was last a raid boss 7/8/2019. It was last in Raids 100 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

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With Level 35 Groudon you need 4 players.

Lucario

Best Moveset: Counter/Close Combat

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

Sadly, Riolu is an egg exclusive Pokemon, one of the absolute rarest and highly desired ones in fact. It was added October 2018. It isn’t easy to power up and has a walking distance of 10k. There are increased chances of finding one in a 7k Alolan egg instead of normal 10ks. You also have better chances if you get difficult Adventure Sync eggs. if you collect your weekly adventure sync reward and have earned the 50k distance, AND have an available egg slot, you will get an egg with a skewed hatch pool. This family hatches from 7K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Hyper Beam
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel, Normal
-Weak: Fighting
With Level 35 Lucario you need 4 players.

Infernape

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Flamethrower

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

Torchic is in Jump Start 4/6, and is a uncommon spawn that gets boosted in Sunny (and somewhat in cloudy as well, despite not having the fighting typing yet). This family hatches from 2K eggs. Chimchar currently can be found in nests.Monferno was last a raid boss 3/27/2019. It was last in Raids 204 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel
With Level 35 Infernape you need 4 players.

Garchomp

Best Moveset: Mud Shot/Earthquake

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

Garchomp while a great Dragon AND Ground-Type (and one with a resistance to Rock and triple resistance to Electric) is very difficult to acquire for now. No nests, no events, very rare, very new. Gible are exeedingly rare in the wild.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

With Level 35 Garchomp you need 5 players.

Houndoom

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/Flamethrower

⚔️ 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. This family hatches from 5K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Fighting
With Level 35 Houndoom you need 5 players.

Ho_Oh

Best Moveset: Hidden Power Fire/Fire Blast

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

Ho-Oh was last a raid boss 12/14/2018. It was last in Raids 304 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast
-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Steel, Fighting
With Level 35 Ho_Oh you need 5 players.

Golurk

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/Earth Power

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

Golurk is a brand new Pokemon and incredibly rare in the wild.

With Level 35 Golurk you need 5 players.

Emboar

Best Moveset: Low Kick/Focus Blast

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

Emboar is a brand new Pokemon from gen 5! They are the final stage of Tepig, the Fire Starter. It does pretty alright as a Fighting-Type but is very new and hard to acquire. They are not currently known to nest or hatch from eggs.

With Level 35 Emboar you need 5 players.

Heatmor

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Flamethrower

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

Heatmor is a new Pokemon, Region-Locked to the American half of the Globe.

With Level 35 Heatmor you need 5 players.

Simisear

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Flamethrower

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

Simisage is a new Pokemon, Region-Locked to the Europe-African region.

With Level 35 Simisear you need 5 players.

Gallade

Best Moveset: Low Kick/Close Combat

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

Raltz nest, and were featured in Aug-2019’s community day. They are a decently accessible spawn in cloudy weather and also hatch from 10k eggs. In addition, Kirlia is no stranger to 2-star raids. They do not however nest. This family hatches from 10K eggs. Kirlia was last a raid boss 8/31/2019. It was last in Raids 46 days ago.

-Best Matchup: /
-Worst Matchup: /

-Resists: Fighting
With Level 35 Gallade you need 5 players.

Mamoswine

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/Bulldoze

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

Mamoswine evolves from Swinub which is a nesting species that has been in raids in the past. Swinub can also be found in Nests. It does however require a Sinnoh Stone to evolve which can be acquired randomly from your first trainer battle every day. Swinub has gotten a community day (February 2019) and was also featured in Christmas events. Finally, Swinub can also spawn in the pool of Pokemon from Glacial Lure Modules, which you can get from the shop for 200 coins. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Swinub currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: /
-Worst Matchup: /

-Weak: Steel, Fighting
With Level 35 Mamoswine you need 5 players.

Rhyperior

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/Earthquake

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

Rhydon is very common and boosted in Sunny, but Rhyperior is a Sinnoh Stone evolution Pokemon. This family hatches from 5K eggs. Rhyhorn currently can be found in nests. Rhydon was last a raid boss 6/4/2019. It was last in Raids 128 days ago.

-Resists: Normal
-Weak: Steel, Fighting
With Level 35 Rhyperior you need 5 players.

Closing Thoughts

Registeel is going to only be around a couple days, so be sure to snag one of these rarely available pokemon while you can! It isn’t a good attacker or defender, but this big golem blob is unlikely to overstay its welcome.