Combusken Raid Guide

Combusken

Combusken is a Tier 3 raid boss in Pokémon GO. It evolves into the powerful Blaziken that has its uses in both PvE and PvP. In addition, it mega evolves into Mega Blaziken, among the best Fire and Fighting types in the PvE meta.

Being a Fire and Fighting type, it is weak to the Flying, Ground, Psychic and Water types.

Combusken can be caught with the following CP values:

• 886 – 944 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1108 – 1180 CP at Level 25 with Sunny weather boost

Combusken is an easy solo for high-level trainers, lower level trainers may need to bring a friend.

Combusken Counters

Since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to remove Frustration with a Charge TM, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article. That being said, if you have the shadow form of a listed raid counter Pokémon powered up and TMed, use it.

The best counters for Combusken are the following:

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psychic Psychic	48.47s	1.00
2.	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	53.21s	0.33
3.	Mega Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	54.93s	0.00
4.	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	54.08s	1.00
5.	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	61.64s	0.33
6.	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut Psychic	Shadow Ball Ghost	571.15s	22.75
7.	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	60.40s	0.67
8.	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Sludge Bomb Water	606.79s	24.88
9.	Mega Pidgeot	Wing Attack Flying	Brave Bird Flying	60.07s	1.50
10.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	69.38s	1.00
11.	Mega Slowbro	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	74.18s	0.50
12.	Mega Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Brave Bird Flying	73.47s	1.17
13.	Mega Gengar	Hex Ghost	Psychic Psychic	73.33s	1.83
14.	Unbound Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	73.72s	2.00
15.	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash Flying	Overheat Fire	85.28s	1.00
16.	Lunala	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	85.45s	1.17
17.	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Hydro Pump Water	86.42s	1.17
18.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Surf Water	87.96s	1.00
19.	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	84.69s	1.67
20.	Gallade	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	91.00s	1.00
21.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	88.00s	1.17
22.	Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	88.56s	1.00
23.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	91.17s	1.00
24.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	91.08s	1.00
25.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	87.34s	1.80
26.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	91.00s	1.00
27.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	85.85s	2.00
28.	Confined Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	85.49s	2.00
29.	Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	83.19s	2.40
30.	Therian Landorus	Extrasensory Psychic	Earthquake Ground	87.16s	2.00
31.	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	91.58s	1.20
32.	Azelf	Extrasensory Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	89.67s	2.00
33.	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	85.66s	2.25
34.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Hydro Cannon Water	94.80s	1.00

 

Stats and Max CP

Combusken FireFighting
Max CP at Level 40 1673 | Max CP at Level 50 1891
ATK 163		DEF 115		HP 155
Weak to			Strong Against
Flying Ground Psychic Water			Bug Grass Ice Steel Dark Rock Normal

Movepool

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