Galarian Farfetch’d Raid Counters Guide

Farfetch'd (Galarian)

Galarian Farfetch’d is a Tier 3 pure Fighting type raid boss. Its counters include strong Psychic, Fairy and Flying type Pokémon, including mega evolutions such as Mega Pidgeot, Mega Gengar and Mega Charizard Y.

Galarian Farfetch’d is boosted by Cloudy weather and can be easily solo’d by high level trainers. Trainers of lower levels can duo it without much effort.

It can be shiny when caught, making it all the more of a pursuit!

It can be caught with the following CP values:

• 898- 956 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1123- 1196 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

Galarian Farfetch’d 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 Galarian Farfetch’d are the following:

List of Counters

Best Counters
Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike* Psychic
Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying
Great Counters
Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Psychic Psychic
Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Charizard (Mega Y)	Air Slash Flying	Blast Burn* Fire
Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying
Gardevoir	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane* Flying
Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Yveltal	Gust Flying	Huricane Flying
Togekiss	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy
Ho-Oh	Extrasensory Psychic	Brave Bird Flying

* marks a legacy move

Stats and Max CP

Farfetch'd (Galarian) Fighting
Max CP at Level 40 1674 | Max CP at Level 50 1893
ATK 174		DEF 114		HP 141
Weak to			Strong Against
Fairy Flying Psychic			Dark Rock Ice Normal Steel

Moveset

Rock Smash is good while Brick Break is a 3-bar charged move that will hit often. Decent Fighting type STAB attacks.

Fury Cutter generates energy quickly but doesn’t do appreciable damage.

Leaf Blade is the cheapest charged move of Galarian Farfetch’d and hits pretty hard

Brave Bird is a powerful charged move and hits really hard despite lacking STAB.