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.
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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 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Blast Burn Fire | 530.57s | 10.33 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Blast Burn Fire | 614.05s | 12.78 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Fire Blast Fire | 630.62s | 17.11 |
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Low Kick Fighting | Focus Blast Fighting | 688.68s | 20.00 |
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Shadow Claw Ghost | Focus Blast Fighting | 777.05s | 12.00 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Overheat Fire | 788.22s | 14.33 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Overheat Fire | 847.87s | 12.89 |
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Counter Fighting | Aura Sphere Fighting | 815.76s | 24.44 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Overheat Fire | 841.34s | 21.44 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Overheat Fire | 838.97s | 21.78 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Overheat Fire | 904.19s | 14.78 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Overheat Fire | 921.22s | 15.78 |
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Counter Fighting | Dynamic Punch Fighting | 895.37s | 19.56 |
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Mud Shot Ground | Earthquake Ground | 915.46s | 17.78 |
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Thunder Fang Electric | Overheat Fire | 902.77s | 20.67 |
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Water Gun Water | Hydro Cannon Water | 948.02s | 15.78 |
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Counter Fighting | Blast Burn Fire | 893.86s | 22.44 |
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Ember Fire | Blast Burn Fire | 916.68s | 20.78 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Flamethrower Fire | 965.54s | 16.00 |
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Mud-Slap Ground | Earthquake Ground | 934.65s | 21.75 |
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Mud Shot Ground | Earth Power Ground | 949.34s | 17.56 |
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Counter Fighting | Dynamic Punch Fighting | 920.39s | 22.88 |
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Mud Shot Ground | Earth Power Ground | 952.20s | 17.89 |
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Mud Shot Ground | Earth Power Ground | 956.87s | 18.00 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Blast Burn Fire | 962.03s | 17.44 |
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Counter Fighting | Dynamic Punch Fighting | 919.54s | 30.20 |
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Fire Spin Fire | Overheat Fire | 930.07s | 21.67 |
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Mud Shot Ground | Earthquake Ground | 958.28s | 18.00 |
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Mud-Slap Ground | Earthquake Ground | 983.97s | 16.50 |
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Volt Switch Electric | Focus Blast Fighting | 982.31s | 17.33 |
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Thunder Fang Electric | Earthquake Ground | 1049.94s | 10.40 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Overheat Fire | 950.77s | 16.33 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Overheat Fire | 960.67s | 20.40 |
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Bite Dark | Earth Power Ground | 1032.76s | 17.50 |
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Fire Fang Fire | Fire Blast Fire | 1015.52s | 16.50 |
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.
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 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 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 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 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:
Fast moves | Charge moves |
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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:
Weather | Pro-Attacker | Pro-Registeel |
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Sunny | Boosts Super Effective Fire and [Ground] attacks. | No Benefit |
Cloudy | Boosts Super Effective Fighting attacks. | Boosts Rock Smash Fighting and Focus Blast Fighting |
Partly Cloudy | No Benefit | Boosts Hyper Beam Normal |
Snow | No Benefit | Boosts Metal Claw Steel and Flash Cannon Steel |
Fog | N/A | N/A |
Rainy | N/A | N/A |
Windy | N/A | N/A |