Alolan Geodude Raid Guide

Geodude (Alola)

Alolan Geodude is currently featured as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 688 – 739 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 860 – 923 CP at Level 25 with Partly Cloudy or Rainy weather boost

It is a Rock and Electric type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Ground (2x), Fighting, Grass and Water type moves. Alolan Geodude should be an easy solo, even without the most optimal counters.

Alolan Geodude Raid Counters

The best raid counters for Alolan Geodude are listed below, according to our Pokémon GO DB battle simulator:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	63.64s	0.00
2.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	61.04s	1.00
3.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	65.95s	0.00
4.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	66.81s	0.00
5.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	67.98s	0.17
6.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	66.73s	1.00
7.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	66.64s	1.00
8.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	67.93s	1.33
9.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	73.12s	0.50
10.	Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	72.97s	0.83
11.	Venusaur (Mega)	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	72.59s	1.00
12.	Donphan	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	75.18s	0.50
13.	Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	72.04s	1.33
14.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	Bulldoze Ground	74.03s	1.17
15.	Golem	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	76.59s	0.67
16.	Steelix (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Earthquake Ground	82.89s	0.00
17.	Lopunny (Mega)	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	79.03s	1.17
18.	Beedrill (Mega)	Bug Bite Bug	Drill Run Ground	71.14s	2.67
19.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	75.24s	2.17
20.	Flygon	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	82.85s	0.67
21.	Dugtrio (Alola)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	82.39s	1.33
22.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	85.31s	1.00
23.	Seismitoad	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	89.36s	1.00
24.	Haxorus	Counter Fighting	Earthquake Ground	87.31s	1.67
25.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	87.83s	2.00
26.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	90.41s	1.67
27.	Nidoking	Fury Cutter Bug	Earth Power Ground	93.90s	1.00
28.	Gastrodon (West Sea)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	93.78s	1.00
29.	Gastrodon (East Sea)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	94.02s	1.00
30.	Sandslash	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	95.75s	1.00
31.	Hippowdon	Thunder Fang Electric	Earth Power Ground	98.21s	0.67
32.	Heracross	Counter Fighting	Earthquake Ground	92.95s	2.00
33.	Breloom	Counter Fighting	Grass Knot Grass	97.72s	1.00
34.	Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	97.99s	1.20
35.	Abomasnow (Mega)	Razor Leaf Grass	Energy Ball Grass	93.45s	1.83

Whenever the shadow variant of a Pokémon listed below is available in the game, it is strongly recommended to use it over its regular/purified counterpart. However, since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to TM away Frustration, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article.

Alolan Geodude has plenty of weaknesses, but if you don’t have ANY of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

• “Generalist” Pokémon capable of dealing neutral damage such as Psycho Cut + Psystrike* Mewtwo
• Eevolutions capable of dealing super effective damage such as Vaporeon or Leafeon
• Other heavy-hitting megas

But please, try to use the Pokémon listed above if possible and take advantage of Alolan Geodude’s double weakness to ground type moves.

Stats and Max CP

Geodude (Alola) RockElectric
Max CP at Level 40 1293 | Max CP at Level 50 1462
ATK 132		DEF 132		STA 120
Weak to			Strong Against
Ground (2x) Fighting Grass Water			Flying Fire Ice Bug Water

Moveset

Believe it or not, Alolan Geodude is a very interesting Pokémon in Pokémon GO.

Although Alolan Geodude is probably not the safest investment for PvP purposes, Alolan Graveler and Alolan Golem have proven to be quite good in restricted formats such as the Kanto Cup or the Holiday Cup. If you want to see them in action, you can checkout the following videos by Wallower, Purple Kyogre, and Zyonik.

Both Alolan Graveler and Alolan Geodude are quite versatile, and can be run with either Volt Switch (for better energy generation) or Rock Throw (to apply more fast move pressure). Charge move-wise, Wild Charge, Thunderbolt, Stone Edge and Rock Blast are all viable moves in PvP (some are better than the others). There is no bad move to avoid 100% of the time, as all of them have their pros and cons. Don’t trust objective rankings and give them a try should a restricted cup format arise, their performance is very underrated.

In raid battles, Alolan Golem can be used both as a budget rock or electric type attacker. You can run either the Volt Switch + Wild Charge moveset or the Rock Throw + Stone Edge moveset. Keep in mind though that even in the most favourable scenario (flying type raid boss with flying type moves, since A-Golem double resists flying type moves), there are plenty of better rock and electric type attackers, but it can work as a budget attacker if you don’t have better legendaries/shadows powered up!

We hope you found this raid guide useful, happy hunting!