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Suicune Trio Raid Guide

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Tier 5 Raid Boss Guides
suicune-trio
Difficulty:

Doable at trainer level 30 with optimized counters or weather boost

HP15,000 ATK142.25 DEF185.72
CP Range
Lvl 20 1627 - 1704 Lvl 25 2033 - 2130

Notable Weather

Boosts Boss's Moves Boosts Counters' Moves
Snow, Fog, Rain, Windy Sunny / Clear, Rain

Fast Move Difficulty

Move Difficulty
Ice Fang Challenging
Extrasensory Intermediate
Snarl Intermediate

Charge Move Difficulty

Move Difficulty
Hydro Pump Intermediate
Ice Beam Challenging
Water Pulse Easy
Bubble Beam Intermediate

Overview

Suicune is the member of its trio with the most bulk, which can definitely make it a challenge to raid for an unprepared team. Its mono-Water typing leaves it weak only to Grass and Electric, but fortunately these are both titanic types offensively speaking. While the potential challenge is undeniable, Suicune shouldn't pose much of a challenge for any prepared trainers.

Approach

Team composition

  • Grass and Electric are Suicune's only weaknesses.
    • Grass tends to pull ahead thanks to the sheer power of Mega Sceptile and Kartana as well as their Water resistance, but it falls off really quickly after the two big-names, and many of them fear Suicune's Ice Type moves.
    • Electric Types tend to work regardless of the moveset, and tends to have a bit more wiggle room for powerful options beyond the absolute top counters.

Dodging

  • Most of Suicune's Charged Moves are on the more difficult side when it comes to dodging. The biggest stand-out for dodging is Ice Beam, which is pretty threatening to most of the top Grass Types.

Best Raid Boss Counters

Supreme Mega Evolution Counters

Mega Sceptile Mega Sceptile
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Nothing quite compares to Mega Sceptile. With its double-resistance to Water and tremendous damage output, this is the Mega Evolution for taking down Suicune. The one issue is the fact that it has a double-weakness to Ice Beam and Ice Fang, meaning it's going to drop very quickly at times.

Mega Manectric Mega Manectric
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While not on a par with Mega Sceptile most of the time, Mega Manectric has the advantage of being able come in regardless of the moveset while also holding the gold-medal for boosting Electric Types on the field. It won't always be the best choice, but it can definitely get the job done if played to its strengths.

Good Mega Evolution Counters

Mega Venu Mega Venusaur
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The runner-up Grass Type Mega Evolution, Mega Venusaur has the advantage of not being as weak to Suicune's Ice Type movesets while still boosting Kartana while on the field. However, it also doesn't tank Water Type moves quite as well, so in general it will tend to have substantially lower performance. It's also weak to Extrasensory, meaning there's at least a 2/3 chance that Mega Venusaur will end up facing down a move that it's weak to.

Despite all of these issues, it is a good option, but definitely not the best.

Mega Ampharos Mega Ampharos
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Mega Ampharos is the silver-medal of Electric Type Mega Evolutions, but it actually has more in common with the Grass counters than it does with Mega Manectric. It's weak to Ice and resists Water, so it's going to be far more matchup-reliant than its contemporary. 

Mega Rayquaza Mega Rayquaza
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It doesn't boost Electric or Grass Types while on the field, but it has great neutral performance that can definitely cause pain to Suicune. Just keep it the heck away from Ice Type movesets.

Supreme Counters

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Outside of Mega Sceptile, nothing can quite compare to Kartana. This monster decimates Suicune, and doesn't fear anything that Suicune can use thanks to a Steel sub-typing. Honestly, there really isn't a situation where Kartana isn't the optimal counter.

ShadowElectivire Shadow Electivire
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One of the best Electric Types for this raid, Shadow Electivire will fry Suicune if given the chance, but it's a bit frail.

ShadowRaikou Shadow Raikou
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A bit bulkier than Shadow Electivire but with higher DPS, Shadow Raikou definitely is one of the top Electric counters for this raid to be certain.

Xurkitree Xurkitree
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Xurkitree sits sort of between Shadow Raikou and Shadow Electivire, which is very impressive for a non-Shadow Pokemon!

Good Counters

ShadowMagnezone Shadow Magnezone
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While not quite as strong as the big-three listed above, Shadow Magnezone has the advantage of resisting Extrasensory and Suicune's Ice Type moves. This alone gives it a strong niche against what is arguably Suicune's strongest Charged Move, and makes it very much worthwhile.

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Zekrom shares a lot in common with most Ice Types thanks to its resistance to Water Type moves and its weakness to Ice Type moves. It's an overall great Pokemon that can put in strong performance.

ShadowZapdos Shadow Zapdos
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A great Electric Type attacker, but it doesn't care for Ice Type movesets.

Pokemon GO Shaymin Sky Forme Shaymin (Sky Forme)
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You have no idea how great if feels to actually include Shaymin - Sky Forme on one of these without having to list Hidden Power. Giving it Magical Leaf changed this Pokemon entirely, and opened it up to actually become a powerful Grass Type attacker. However, it really, really doesn't want to fight Ice Type movesets.

shadow_sceptile Shadow Sceptile
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A strong attacker with great presence, but pretty frail.

Shadow Luxray Shadow Luxray
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shadow-tangrowth Shadow Tangrowth
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Mega Manectric Mega Manectric
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Thundurus (Therian Forme) Thundurus (Therian Forme)
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ShadowVenusaur Shadow Venusaur
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ShadowTorterra Shadow Torterra
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Shadow Mewtwo Shadow Mewtwo
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Shadow Zebstrika Shadow Zebstrika
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Shadow_Alolan_Golem Shadow Alolan Golem
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Shadow Exeggutor Shadow Exeggutor
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ShadowVictreebel Shadow Victreebel
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Electivire Electivire
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Roserade Roserade
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Shadow Alolan Exeggutor Shadow Alolan Exeggutor
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