Foongus Raid Guide

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Foongus

Foongus is a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon Go and is a part of the Secrets of the Jungle event.

It can be caught with the following CP values:

  • 514- 559 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
  • 643- 699 CP at Level 25 with Sunny or Cloudy weather boost

With its dual Grass/Poison typing and Tier 1, it is weak to the Fire, Flying, Psychic and Ice types. 

Foongus Raid 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 Foongus are the following:

Foongus Counters
Supreme Counters
Charizard (Mega Y) Fire Spin Fire Blast Burn* Fire
Reshiram Fire Fang Fire Overheat Fire
Great Counters
Pidgeot (Mega) Wing Attack Flying Brave Bird Flying
Mewtwo Confusion Psychic Psystrike* Psychic
Charizard (Mega X) Fire Spin Fire Blast Burn* Fire
Houndoom (Mega) Fire Fang Fire Flamethrower Fire
Moltres Fire Spin Fire Sky Attack Flying
Entei Fire Fang Fire Overheat Fire
Latios Zen Headbutt Psychic Psychic Psychic
Victini Confusion Psychic V-create Fire
Rayquaza Air Slash Flying Hurricane* Flying
Ho-Oh Incinerate Fire Brave Bird Flying
Heatran Fire Spin Fire Fire Blast Fire

Stats and Max CP

Foongus GrassPoison
Max CP at Level 40 979 | Max CP at Level 50 1107
ATK 97 DEF 91 HP 170
Weak to Strong Against
Fire Flying Psychic Ice  Ground Rock Water Fairy Grass

Moveset

Fast Moves Charge Moves
  • Astonish Ghost
  • Feint Attack Dark
  • Energy Ball Grass
  • Grass Knot Grass
  • Body Slam Normal

A pillow would hit your counters harder than that moveset. Burn the impostor ‘shroom, trainers!

Author & tags

MeteorAsh15
MeteorAsh15
My name is Niladri Sarkar. A Team Valor Trainer, I'm a Pokémon Battle Mechanics Specialist & a Dragon Master on Smogon's Pokémon Showdown where I particularly excel with Dragon types and Weather teams in Ubers / OU. I love to apply my vast knowledge and experience to the ever changing meta of Pokémon Go, specialising in DPS/TDO math, movesets, the Master League and Dragon types. Garchomp is my best Pokémon pal through and through.

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