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• 11/4/109-11/26/19

Cobalion In the Meta

Raid Meta – Metal Claw / Iron Head

Cobalion is a usable, though underwhelming, Steel-Type Attacker. Its performance is similar to Aggron, with slightly lower DPS and higher Bulk. Which in practice means it has even worse performance. While in the past this level of performance would still be acceptable-we also have Durant and Exadrill as new (superior) additions to the Steel-Type meta. It’s fighting duel-typing doesn’t even negate any of its Steel weaknesses (although Steel negates all of it’s Fighting ones). You really probably don’t need to use Cobalion, but they are still quite the jump up for Registeel at least.

Steel-Type Raid Attackers

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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

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Movesets

• Stone Edge:

  • Knocks Chandelure out of the best counter. If trying to duo, you’ll have better luck with Machamp in Cloudy.
  • Fighting-Types are hit for Resistance
  • Ground-Types are hit for Resistance
  • Fire-Types are hit for Weakness

• Iron Head:

  • Easiest moveset due to both Clandelure and Blaziken sporting Resistances.
  • Fire-Types are hit for Resistance

• Close Combat:

  • Double Resistance by Chandelule.

Top Raid Counters

Chandelure

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Overheat

• Raw Damage:
• Survival/Bulk:
• Consistency: ☆☆
• Accessibility: ☆☆☆☆

Chandelure is incredibly hard to get right now. It was released September 17th, and you can only get Litwik from 10k eggs! Maybe there will be an event during October. It is the new highest DPS Ghost AND Fire-Type, so here’s hoping.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge

-2xResists: Fighting
-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Rock
With Level 35 Chandelure you need 3 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 407 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge

-Resists: Steel, Fighting
-2xWeak: Rock
With Level 35 Moltres you need 3 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 218 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge
-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Psychic
-Cancelled: Rock
With Level 35 Blaziken you need 3 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: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Close Combat

-Resists: Rock
-Weak: Psychic
With Level 35 Machamp you need 3 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 53 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Stone Edge

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Rock
With Level 35 Entei you need 0 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: Metal Claw / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Close Combat

-Resists: Rock
-Weak: Psychic
With Level 35 Breloom you need 3 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	2.2587912
	(Legacy) Blaziken		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Blast Burn	2.3949778
	Machamp		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	2.3955798
	Moltres		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Overheat	2.4078104
	Entei		CLEAR		Fire Fang		Overheat	2.4725585
	Breloom		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	2.4846861
	Flareon		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Overheat	2.5268066
	Hariyama		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	2.530591
	Heatran		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Fire Blast	2.5794353
	Excadrill		CLEAR		Mud Slap		Drill Run	2.582686
	(Legacy) Arcanine		CLEAR		Fire Fang		Flamethrower	2.63169
	Toxicroak		OVERCAST		Counter		Dynamic Punch	2.6508985
	Heracross		OVERCAST		Counter		Close Combat	2.676149
	Blaziken		OVERCAST		Counter		Focus Blast	2.6841052
	Chandelure		NO_WEATHER		Fire Spin		Overheat	2.69382
	Magmortar		CLEAR		Fire Spin		Fire Punch	2.6986358
	Groudon		CLEAR		Mud Shot		Earthquake	2.7098508
	(Legacy) Typhlosion		CLEAR		Ember		Blast Burn	2.7159739
	Houndoom		CLEAR		Fire Fang		Flamethrower	2.7362258
	Salamence		CLEAR		Fire Fang		Fire Blast	2.739953
	Garchomp		CLEAR		Mud Shot		Earthquake	2.7402816

Alternate Raid Counters

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 218 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Close Combat

-Resists: Rock
-Weak: Psychic
With Level 35 Hariyama you need 0 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 290 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-2xResists: Steel
-Resists: Psychic
-Weak: Fighting
-Cancelled: Rock
With Level 35 Heatran you need 3 players.

Flareon

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Overheat

• Raw Damage: ☆
• Survival/Bulk: ☆☆
• Consistency: ☆☆
• Accessibility:

Eevee currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Rock
With Level 35 Flareon 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: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-2xResists: Rock
-Resists: Steel, Psychic
-Weak: Fighting
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: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Stone Edge
-Legacy Charge Move: Flamethrower

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Rock
With Level 35 Arcanine 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: Metal Claw / Close Combat
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge

-Resists: Rock, Fighting
-2xWeak: Psychic
With Level 35 Toxicroak 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: Metal Claw / Close Combat
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge

-Resists: Fighting
-Weak: Psychic
-Cancelled: Rock
With Level 35 Heracross you need 0 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: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Stone Edge
-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Rock
With Level 35 Typhlosion 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 114 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Close Combat

-Resists: Rock
With Level 35 Groudon 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 60 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Stone Edge

-Resists: Fighting
-Weak: Rock
With Level 35 Salamence 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 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 exceedingly rare in the wild. This family hatches from 10K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-Resists: Rock
With Level 35 Garchomp 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 aquire 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 245 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

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

Lucario

Best Moveset: Counter/Close Combat

• Raw Damage: ☆☆
• Survival/Bulk: ☆☆☆
• Consistency: ☆☆☆
• Accessibility: ☆☆☆

Riolu is an egg exclusive pokemon sadly, one of the absolute rarest and highly desired ones in fact. It was added October 2018th. 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 / Stone Edge
-Worst Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Close Combat

-2xResists: Rock
-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Fighting
-Cancelled: Psychic
With Level 35 Lucario you need 4 players.

Mewtwo

Best Moveset: Confusion/Flamethrower

• Raw Damage: ☆☆☆
• Survival/Bulk: ☆
• Consistency:
• Accessibility: ☆

Mewtwo is a pretty good Fire-Type attacker when it’s Psychic typing helps. Luckily the moveset, however, isn’t exclusive to its EX raid period! That said, if you weren’t lucky enough to get an Ex Raid during its Shadow Ball period, you can still get this move. When Mewtwo was released from its EX shackles for a global event-that move was removed from it’s TM pool. Mewtwo was last a raid boss 10/5/2019. It was last in Raids 37 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-Resists: Psychic, Fighting
With Level 35 Mewtwo you need 4 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 Houndours 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: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-2xResists: Psychic
-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Rock, Fighting
With Level 35 Houndoom you need 4 players.

Infernape

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/Flamethrower

• Raw Damage: ☆☆☆
• Survival/Bulk: ☆☆☆
• Consistency: ☆
• Accessibility: ☆

Chimchar is an uncommon spawn that gets boosted in Sunny, it has not had a community day 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 218 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Psychic
-Cancelled: Rock
With Level 35 Infernape you need 4 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.

-Best Matchup: Zen Headbutt / Iron Head
-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Close Combat

-Resists: Steel
-Weak: Psychic
-Cancelled: Rock
With Level 35 Emboar you need 4 players.

Closing Thoughts

This Gen 5 Legendary has a pretty slick look even if it isn’t the most powerful Steel-Type, and is a great way to kick of this merry trio of Legendaries this November!

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