Barboach Raid Guide

Barboach

Barboach is available in raids as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 427 – 468 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 534 – 585 CP at Level 25 with Rainy or Sunny weather boost

It is a Water & Ground type, which makes it only weak to Grass (x2) type moves. It is available as a full odds shiny.

Barboach Raid Counters

Barboach best raid counters are listed below:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Xurkitree	Spark Electric	Power Whip Grass	5.60s	0.00
2.	Tangela	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	6.20s	0.00
3.	Carnivine	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	6.20s	0.00
4.	Tangrowth	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	6.20s	0.00
5.	Zarude	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	6.20s	0.00
6.	Breloom	Bullet Seed Grass	Grass Knot Grass	6.30s	0.00
7.	Roserade	Bullet Seed Grass	Grass Knot Grass	6.30s	0.00
8.	Tapu Bulu	Bullet Seed Grass	Grass Knot Grass	6.30s	0.00
9.	Victreebel	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	6.40s	0.00
10.	Shiftry	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	6.40s	0.00
11.	Leafeon	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	6.40s	0.00
12.	Leavanny	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	6.40s	0.00
13.	Sceptile	Bullet Seed Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	6.70s	0.00
14.	Simisage	Vine Whip Grass	Grass Knot Grass	6.70s	0.00
15.	Venusaur	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	7.10s	0.00
16.	Meganium	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	7.10s	0.00
17.	Tornadus	Air Slash Flying	Grass Knot Grass	7.90s	0.00
18.	Incarnate Tornadus	Air Slash Flying	Grass Knot Grass	7.90s	0.00
19.	Serperior	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	7.95s	0.00
20.	Porygon2	Lock-On Normal	Solar Beam Grass	8.00s	0.00
21.	Porygon-Z	Lock-On Normal	Solar Beam Grass	8.00s	0.00
22.	Chesnaught	Vine Whip Grass	Energy Ball Grass	8.00s	0.00
23.	Lurantis	Fury Cutter Bug	Leaf Storm Grass	8.05s	0.00
24.	Weepinbell	Razor Leaf Grass	Power Whip Grass	8.19s	0.00
25.	Sirfetch'd	Fury Cutter Bug	Leaf Blade Grass	8.30s	0.00
26.	Ivysaur	Razor Leaf Grass	Power Whip Grass	8.50s	0.00
27.	Whimsicott	Razor Leaf Grass	Grass Knot Grass	8.90s	0.00
28.	Exeggutor	Bullet Seed Grass	Seed Bomb Grass	8.98s	0.00
29.	Super Gourgeist	Razor Leaf Grass	Seed Bomb Grass	9.00s	0.00
30.	Sunflora	Bullet Seed Grass	Leaf Storm Grass	9.00s	0.00
31.	Celebi	Charge Beam Electric	Leaf Storm Grass	9.00s	0.00
32.	Alola Exeggutor	Bullet Seed Grass	Seed Bomb Grass	9.00s	0.00
33.	Torterra	Razor Leaf Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	9.17s	0.00
34.	Bellossom	Bullet Seed Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	9.26s	0.00
35.	Grovyle	Bullet Seed Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	9.35s	0.00

Barboach only has one weakness but the list of Pokémon that can take advantage of its double weakness to grass type moves is almost endless. If you don’t have any of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

• “Generalist” Pokémon such as Psycho Cut + Psystrike* Mewtwo
• Other heavy-hitting megas

Barboach shouldn’t take more than a couple of seconds to beat if you’re using the right counters, but don’t worry too much if you don’t have strong grass type attackers powered up.

Stats and Max CP

Barboach WaterGround
Max CP at Level 40 819 | Max CP at Level 50 925
ATK 93		DEF 82		STA 137
Weak to			Strong Against
Grass (x2)			Fire Ground Electric Rock Poison Steel

Moveset

Barboach is a decent option to consider in Little Cup, as it functions more or less as its evolution (Whiscash). It’s basically a “baby Whiscash”, so basically a Mud Boy with access to an ice type move to cover its only weakness especially when shields are down. Barboach gets access to Ice Beam instead of Blizzard, so it’s not really a nuke, but a move their counters will probably want to shield. If you want to try it out, I’d recommend running it with Mud Shot, Mud Bomb/Aqua Tail and Ice Beam.

Whiscash on the other hand is one of the best Mud Boys to use in Great League, thanks to its great (and spammy) Mud Shot, Mud Bomb and Blizzard moveset. Whiscash doesn’t really want to see Pokémon with access to grass type moves, but even then it can defend itself thanks to Blizzard.

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