Cloyster Raid Boss Counters

Cloyster is a Tier 2 Raid Boss in Pokemon GO, with Boss CP of 15678 and Max Capture CP of 1455 (Level 20, perfect IV score). This page details best Cloyster Raid counters and which moves to use against it.

• 1455 (perfect IV, no weather Boost)
• 1819 (perfect IV, Rainy or Snow)

Cloyster is soloable, but it’s hard. In general, the Cloyster fight is much harder than other Tier 2 bosses, it’s almost borderline Tier 3 material. Cloyster is a water and ice type with weakness to electric, grass, rock and fighting type moves.

Cloyster counters

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	177.4s	6
2.	Venusaur (Mega)	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant	185.3s	7
3.	Zekrom	Charge Beam	Wild Charge	184.7s	8
4.	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	194.6s	7
5.	Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	208.5s	5
6.	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	199.2s	7
7.	Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	204.6s	7
8.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick	Focus Blast	200.3s	7
9.	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	205.9s	7
10.	Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	198.4s	8
11.	Meloetta (Pirouette)	Low Kick	Close Combat	210.7s	7
12.	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	187.5s	10
13.	Keldeo (Resolute)	Low Kick	Close Combat	227.8s	5
14.	Tyranitar	Smack Down	Stone Edge	215.4s	7
15.	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Close Combat	229.2s	5
16.	Volcarona	Bug Bite	Solar Beam	226.9s	6
17.	Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	214.1s	8
18.	Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	208.4s	9
19.	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker	203.5s	9
20.	Kyurem (White)	Dragon Breath	Focus Blast	226.4s	6
21.	Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	218.1s	7
22.	Darmanitan (Galarian Zen)	Tackle	Super Power	235.6s	5
23.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Thunderbolt	224.6s	8
24.	Emboar	Low Kick	Focus Blast	229.9s	7
25.	Golem (Alola)	Rock Throw	Wild Charge	224.0s	8
26.	Thundurus (Therian)	Thunder Shock	Thunder	204.8s	11
27.	Heracross	Counter	Close Combat	226.1s	8
28.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock	Thunderbolt	212.9s	10
29.	Porygon-Z	Lock On	Solar Beam	223.0s	9
30.	Kyurem (Black)	Dragon Tail	Stone Edge	243.2s	7