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. With Level 35 Lucario you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Steel, Dragon

With Level 35 Conkeldurr you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:

Excadrill is a new pokemon, but Drilbur are not rare, and it is boosted in sunny weather! It doesn’t look it, but Excadrill is a phenomental ground-Type attacker, and it’s Steel duel typing ussually help it more than it hurts. With Level 35 Excadrill you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Mud Shot
Alternative Charge Moves: Earthquake
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric
• 1×🛡️Resists: Steel, Dragon

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. They are the a pretty safe investment to power up, but might get Precipital Blade someday. Mud-shot and Earthquake got buffed December 2019. With Level 35 Groudon you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric

With Level 35 you need 3 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Super Power, Bulldoze
Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Thunder
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Electric

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 its likely you have a Machamp or a dozen. They also have been an incredibly useful Fighting Type since the game’s inception. It is likely soon going to be outclassed as a Fighting-Type by many Gen 5 Pokemon (assuming they get good moves). With Level 35 Machamp you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Karate Chop
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:

With Level 35 Landorus you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Electric

Rhyhorn is very common and boosted in the common Sunny, but Rhyperior is a Sinnoh Stone evolution Pokemon. Rhydon is a pretty good Ground-Type as well, so if you get a good moveset on it and don’t have the candy or stone to evolve, it’s not that bad. It’s also great as a Rock-Type attacker with different moves. With Level 35 Rhyperior you need 3 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Super Power
Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Iron Head
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric
• 1×💥Weak: Steel

Hariyama is cheaper to evolve up than Machamp, requiring less candy and a more common pokemon (with nearly identical practical performance) With Level 35 Hariyama you need 4 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Super Power
Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:

Breloom evolves from the very common Shroomish and has higher pure DPS than Machamp or Makuhita. It is quite frail though. With Level 35 Breloom you need 4 players.

Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Thunder
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Electric

Regigigas has only been available during the paid “A Colossas Discovery” event and has come to EX raids starting November 12th 2019. Hidden Power is a gamble moveset for typing and you can’t change it in your ownership. With Level 35 Regigigas you need 4 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Hidden Power Fighting
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:

With Level 35 Garchomp you need 4 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Dragon Tail
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Iron Head
Type Interactions:
• 3×🛡️Resists: Electric
• 1×💥Weak: Dragon

Rhyhorn is very common and boosted in the common Sunny. It’s evolution is better in this role, but we were already using Rhydons before Rhyperior came out. With Level 35 Rhydon you need 4 players.

Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric
• 1×💥Weak: Steel

With Level 35 Krookodile you need 4 players.

Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric

Heracross is a Regional Exclusive pokemon limited to Central and South America. its 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. With Level 35 Heracross you need 4 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Earthquake
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:

Donphan has not had much chance to shine in this game, but now that Earthquake has been buffed he is more useful! Phanphy are uncommon but not exceedingly rare however. With Level 35 Donphan you need 4 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Counter
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Iron Head
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric

Blaziken was featured in Community Day May 2019! In terms of Raids, the most common member of the Family is Combuskin. With Level 35 Blaziken you need 4 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Blaze Kick
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Iron Head
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Steel

With Level 35 Sirfetch’d you need 4 players.

Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Iron Head
Type Interactions:

Toxicroak is an unexpectedly great Fighting AND Poison Raid Attacker. Croagunk is moderately uncommon outside of cloudy weather. With Level 35 Toxicroak you need 4 players.

Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Iron Head
Type Interactions:

Golurk is a brand new pokemon and incredibly rare in the wild. Goletts family are duel typed with Ghost. With Level 35 Golurk you need 4 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Earth Power
Best Estimator VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric

With Level 35 Chesnaught you need 4 players.

Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Electric

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. With Level 35 Mamoswine you need 4 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Avalanche
Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Draco Meteor
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
Type Interactions:
• 2×🛡️Resists: Electric
• 1×💥Weak: Steel

Haxorus is very new right now and has not been featured in any events, but it’s a pretty good Dragon-Type attacker. With Level 35 Haxorus you need 4 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Dragon Claw
Best Estimator VS: Metal Claw / Iron Head
Best Ranking VS: Dragon Breath / Thunder
Type Interactions:
• 1×🛡️Resists: Electric
• 1×💥Weak: Dragon