Raikou counter

Double ground Rhydon, looking at the screen not necessary. It isn't fun and it isn't challenging, but at least it is worth catching

yes, any level 28-30 rhydon double ground will do, even stone edge ones too, don't even need high ivs.

Exeggutor is slower than Rhydon, Dragonite is marginally faster, and Mewtwo more so.

Rhydon is listed as a supreme counter because it's DPS is near the top but also really high survivability. A supreme counter has both, Mewtwo and Dragonite only have high DPS.

Rhydon feels super slow because it is super slow. It has super effective type advantage which got buffed to 1.4x and it *still* gets outdamaged by a neutral attacker, when the whole point of the multiplier change was to make type effectiveness more significant and STAB less so, which shows how crap Mud Slap is - in almost every other raid, the fastest Pokemon has type advantage.

There isn't really any option for maximising damage besides leading with 3 or 4 Dragonites / Mewtwos and then finishing with Rhydons, they're the only ones that do more DPS.

It's comparable to leading with Gengars against a Mewtwo and then having Tyranitars at the end since they have psychic immunity.

I had two strong double ground Rhydon and two RT/SE Golem and that was plenty good enough to help win many Raikau raids with at least 6 players raiding together.

I really like my Sandslash - currently ~2.2k CP - against Raikou
I also tried out a linup of some Arcanines with legacy Bulldoze, but those fainted way too fast.
Rhydons are still the best choice though, but they are so boring to fight with.