Registeel Raid Guide

Registeel

Best Registeel counters are Chandelure, Moltres, Entei, Heatran, Blaziken and Charizard. Registeel counters are heavily based its Fire-type weakness, but you can use Fighting and Ground type counters as well. You can capture Registeel in the following CP ranges:

• 1326 – 1398 CP at Lvl 20, 100% IV Registeel
• 1658 – 1748 CP during Snow weather, at Lvl 25, 100% IV Registeel

Registeel is a Steel type Pokemon and it’s recommended to have at least 5-6 Trainers in order to take it down, although the challenge seekers can attempt a trio win. You can read more about Registeel in our Registeel family guide.

Registeel Counters

Best Registeel counters in Pokémon GO are strong Fire and Fighting Pokemon, with preference for those who take reduced damage from Registeel’s moves. Mega Y and X Charizard, Reshiram, Chandelure, but also Lucario with Aura Sphere works well.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	530.57s	10.33
2.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	614.05s	12.78
3.	Houndoom (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	630.62s	17.11
4.	Lopunny (Mega)	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	688.68s	20.00
5.	Gengar (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Focus Blast Fighting	777.05s	12.00
6.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	788.22s	14.33
7.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	847.87s	12.89
8.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	815.76s	24.44
9.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	841.34s	21.44
10.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	838.97s	21.78
11.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	904.19s	14.78
12.	Entei	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	921.22s	15.78
13.	Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	895.37s	19.56
14.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	915.46s	17.78
15.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Overheat Fire	902.77s	20.67
16.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	948.02s	15.78
17.	Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	893.86s	22.44
18.	Emboar	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	916.68s	20.78
19.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	965.54s	16.00
20.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	934.65s	21.75
21.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	949.34s	17.56
22.	Machamp	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	920.39s	22.88
23.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	952.20s	17.89
24.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	956.87s	18.00
25.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	962.03s	17.44
26.	Breloom	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	919.54s	30.20
27.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	930.07s	21.67
28.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	958.28s	18.00
29.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	983.97s	16.50
30.	Ampharos (Mega)	Volt Switch Electric	Focus Blast Fighting	982.31s	17.33
31.	Steelix (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Earthquake Ground	1049.94s	10.40
32.	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	950.77s	16.33
33.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	960.67s	20.40
34.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Bite Dark	Earth Power Ground	1032.76s	17.50
35.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	1015.52s	16.50

Chandelure

Chandelure is the best Fire type you can have in this fight, with insanely good DPS and resistances to most Registeel moves. If you have a Chandelure, don’t be shy – put it to good use here.

Moltres

One of the best Registeel counters, takes reduced or neutral damage from all Registeel attacks, deals a metric ton of damage, and boasts the fastest neutral weather time to win. Remember that Moltres is Flying / Fire, which means it takes reduced damage from Fighting attacks as well.

Entei

Entei performs excellent against Registeel, trading #1 place with Moltres in various match ups, but honestly, it really doesn’t matter. Both Moltres and Entei perform incredibly well against the Regi!

Heatran

Heatran is a new great counter for Registeel, being a close 3rd to Moltres and Entei. It hits fairly hard and pretty quickly, and has the Steel typing to resist some of Registeel’s attacks.

Charizard

Charizard is essentially a budget version of Moltres. We know that you read that a thousand times before, but it’s true – Charizard can do everything that Moltres can, just a wee bit worse. Great pick non the less.

Blaziken

Blaziken is a great union of Fighting- and Fire-type moves and it shines versus Registeel. Combining Counter with Blast Burn is great, as it generates energy quickly and unlocks the option to spam BBs all raid long. Nice!

Registeel moves

Picking Registeel counters is simple due to its mono-Steel typing (which enables exploiting three common weaknesses) and a lack of surprises in its movepool. Registeel can have the following moves:

Overall, Registeel is an easy Raid Boss to beat and rather disappointing for a legendary raid. It’s low CP and low stats (bar defense) make it an easy target for all of its counters, especially once you realize that it is unable to do much damage to its direct counters.

Arguably the “safest” counter to Registeel is Entei, who resists all Registeel’s Steel moves  and can do heavy damage to Registeel with Overheat. However, we prefer using high DPS Fire types that don’t usually get a lot of usage. Groudon is a beast against Registeel, utilizing double Ground moveset to inflict ridiculous damage.

Weather Effects

The best overall weather to smack a Registeel in is Sunny, as it boosts none of its moves and makes the Super Effective Fire and Ground moves do their job. One can attempt to put out the Machamp Army in Cloudy however it will boost its Rock Smash and Focus Blast, and so help you if you try and take it down in Snow with its double Steel moveset. Here is a visual chart to illustrate this:

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