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Hey guys , I kind of new at this game and I’m level 25 and I got some things from my research and I would like to know what good Pokémon’s should I use it on . I need a strong guy to beat the raid battles . Thanks in advance.

Asked by hondababe6 years 8 months ago
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The best pokemon for a raid depends on what raids you're going for and what you should use depends on what you currently have.

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Any specific pokemon you're going out raiding for?
MAchamp and alolan Exeggutor both seem like the best choices to focus your tm's on (get their best double fighting or double grass sets respectively) as they cover a number of the current raid bosses

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Machamp and alolan egg will be very (and I cannot stress this enough) ineffective against both of those.
However, they are useful for getting mewtwo and Alolan raichu's counters, aka, Tyrantiar. You should get the machamp's moveset to Counter/dymanic punch (fast move/charge move) if your macham has bullet punch, use the fast tm on it (because it only has 2 fast moves, you'll only need 1 fast tm), if it has Close combat or Heavy slam, use the charge tm's you have to try to get Dynamic punch

Alolan egg you should use the leftover TMs to get bullet seed/solar beam, it will be useful against Rhydon (who is also useful against Alolan Raichu)

Both will be good against Piloswine, a very easy tier 3 raid boss, so you can use that to get more charge/fast tm's and rarecandy, as well as piloswine will be useful when its evolution comes out

If you're in need of some more power, Magikarp's a good pick for a raid boss, getting 400 candy to evolve it might be a pain, but it is worth it.

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Alolan Raichu is best attacked by Tyranitar, particularly its Psychic charged move. You should work on your Ttars, very important, and very important for the Gen4 raids coming up.

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by TTT 6 years 8 months ago

100% your top priority should be getting that Machamp to have Counter and Dynamic Punch (fast and charge moves respectively).
(you will eventually want a team of 6 such Machamps at minimum).

None of your other pokemon are worth TMs at the moment. Fast TMs will come around easily, so if your Exeggutor has a Grass charged move and Dragon fast move, you can use a fast TM on it to get it to double grass.

If your Machamp already has Dynamic Punch, save that charged TM for when you eventually get a Mewtwo (or if Kyogre/Groudon/Rayquaza return, or new legendaries are released, or you get Tyranitar).

Basically you want Machamp with Counter/Dynamic Punch as he's the strongest fighting type, and fighting is strong against loads of raid bosses (including Tyranitar).
You want Tyranitar with Bite/Crunch as it's currently the strongest Dark moveset in the game, which is really useful against Psychic types (including Mewtwo).
You want Mewtwo as it's Mewtwo, need I say more?

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Thanks for all the advice, very helpful , also I have a big machamp and the little one , which one is better since they both have different abilities , I’m gonna be evolving the little one into the big one too

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Dont spend any TM's on the machop, only use the TM's when it is fully evolved to machamp

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The little one is useful when you get a "Use a super effective charged attack in a gym battle" quest, because there's always a Blissey, Chansey, Snorlax, or something Normal in most gyms, and if they are low on motivation, Machamp will KO them before he gets to use the charged attack, and you won't complete the quest.

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I always found it annoying how that research only counts one super effective charge move per fight

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What you need to do is to assemble a team to start raiding Machamps so you can get more of them so that you can assemble a team of Machamps to raid Tyranitars. so that you can assemble a team of Tyranitars to raid Mewtwo, so that you can add a psychic Mewtwo to your Machamp team, ....

Seriously, for a Machamp team, a couple of level 27-30 Espeons with Confusion and Future Sight will get you ahead of the clock, and then use either Ho-Oh with Extrasensory and Brave Bird or Lugia with Extrasensory and Sky Attack or Futuresight. Machamp is also weak to Fairies and Flying, so use what you have, and if you need to partner up with someone for a while before you can solo Machamp, then do so. That's what I'd work on if I were in your position - it was what I worked on when I was around your level.

Good luck.

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by hkn 6 years 8 months ago

Do not spend that Charged TM. By the time you know what to spend Charged TMs on, you will desperately want more. Likewise for Rare Candy and stardust.

Continue catching and hatching. Eventually you will find more good Machops, Eevees and Abras (both are crucial to Machamp solo teams), Gastlys, Magikarps, perhaps even Dratinis, Larvitars, Ralts or a Chansey.

If you get the following research with a question mark, get them done as the mystery Pokemon are good:
Battle in a Gym 5 times (Machop)
Catch 10 Pokemon (Magikarp)
Evolve a Pokemon (Eevee)
Hatch 5 eggs (Chansey)
Make 3 excellent throws in a row (Larvitar)
Make 3 great throws (Gastly)
Win a level 3 or higher raid (Dratini)
Catch a Dragon-type Pokemon (Dratini)

Also get done any research that rewards TMs or Rare Candy.

If you cannot solo tier 3 raids yet, try soloing tier 1-2 raids. Magikarp, Makuhita, Exeggutor and Kirlia are very useful, while Mawile is only available from raids.

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