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Mega Gyarados Raid Guide
Download full size infograph here Mega Gyarados! A fan favorite fish! Mega Gyarados is useful for raids, and dominates if allowed in Master league, it can be shiny, so no reason not to try for a big shiny worm fish. Mega Gyarados loses flying and gains dark, flips...
![[Analysis] Shadow Force Giratina, Mega Banette and Zoroark as raid attackers](https://articles.pokebattler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ASE-Now-400x250.png)
[Analysis] Shadow Force Giratina, Mega Banette and Zoroark as raid attackers
TL;DR Giratina Origin with Shadow Force: Great, but not worth going crazy for. It's a top-tier ghost/dark attacker, but it's similarly as good as 4 others, including - and usually below - Community Day Hydreigon. L40 Hydreigon ≈ L45 Giratina-O.There are only 15-20% of...
Giratina Origin
Download full size infograph here Giratina Origin is here! With it's fancy move available, it's going to be one of the top ghost attackers for a while in raids! It's also a staple in both ultra, and master leagues, so you want to get a few no matter how you play! Same...
Mega Banette Raid Guide
Download full size infograph here Mega Banette has come! Come on, it's a cool pokemon! It's already showing up on it's own raid guide as a counter, so get some mega energy, and a shiny! Dark counters have the best time here, but Gengar makes an appearance once again!...
Giratina Raid Guide
Download full size infograph here Giratina, the legged version is here again! The walking Giratina has a solid place in PvP, in Ultra league especially. It's not really one you want out in the PvE world, lacks the power of its floaty worm version. You might thing...
![[Analysis] Chandelure as a Ghost-type and Fire-type raid attacker (without its CD move, really)](https://articles.pokebattler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dark-Ghost-ASE-Now-400x250.png)
[Analysis] Chandelure as a Ghost-type and Fire-type raid attacker (without its CD move, really)
TL;DR Chandelure's CD move, Poltergeist, is bad for everything and worse than Shadow Ball, which it already learns through regular TMs. Non-legacy Shadow Ball Chandelure is one of the best non-mega Ghost attackers, but overshadowed by premium Dark...
Xerneas Raid Guide
Download full size infograph here Xerneas is here! Well, yeah, it's shiny... Other than that, it really doesn't see much use, not even a fairy fast move to go along with this pretty pokedeer. It's metagross time, again.. The easy to get mega bedrill candy might help...
Yveltal Raid Guide
Download full size infograph here Yveltal! Everyones second favorite dark bird. It's going to be a raid counter staple in PvE, and pretty high ranked in Master GBL, and it's shiny! Yveltal came at a bad time to fly, Xurkitree just had it's day in raids and is the top...
![[Analysis] Mega Aggron as a raid attacker: A meme or actually useful?](https://articles.pokebattler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ASE-Now-400x250.png)
[Analysis] Mega Aggron as a raid attacker: A meme or actually useful?
TL;DR Mega Aggron is actually decent! Still worse than Metagross, but it's likely the best steel-type mega for group raids that we have now! Mega Aggron's individual power is still WAY below even non-shadow Metagross, but in line with Mega Scizor (a hair below), and...
![[Analysis] Meteor Beam Gigalith as a raid attacker (& Why are rock types so elusive?)](https://articles.pokebattler.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Rock-ASE-Now-400x250.png)
[Analysis] Meteor Beam Gigalith as a raid attacker (& Why are rock types so elusive?)
You can now follow me (@teban54) on Twitter! TL;DR Good for new players who missed Rampardos, Rock Wrecker Rhyperior and Terrakion, or don't have 6 of them, or want variety. If you have a rock team built, this Community Day won't do much. Meteor Beam Gigalith is...