Gengar Raid Counters Guide

Gengar is a Tier 3 raid boss in Pokémon GO with a raid boss CP of 21207. Gengar counters are mostly strong Ghost, Psychic, Dark and Ground Pokémon like Shadow Ball Mewtwo, Groudon, Zen Headbutt / Psychic Metagross, Bite / Crunch Tyranitar and Psychic Latios.

As Mega Gengar is available in Pokémon GO, Gengar can be shiny from raids.

A Gengar raid boss can have these Combat Power values when caught through raid encounters:

• 1420 – 1644 CP at Level 20, without weather boost
• 1776 – 2055 CP at Level 25, under Fog or Cloudy weather boost

A Tier 3 Gengar raid can be solo’d by the prepared, high level trainer. Lower level trainers, or those without ideal counters, may want to bring a friend or two.

Best attackers against Gengar

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	61.50s	2.11
2.	Latios (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	68.08s	2.67
3.	Houndoom (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	77.58s	2.89
4.	Latias (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	80.20s	2.78
5.	Gyarados (Mega)	Bite Dark	Crunch Dark	84.87s	2.56
6.	Absol (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Payback Dark	79.94s	4.89
7.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	84.02s	3.44
8.	Slowbro (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	95.26s	3.33
9.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	92.64s	4.22
10.	Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	103.81s	3.17
11.	Hydreigon	Bite Dark	Brutal Swing Dark	101.49s	3.89
12.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	102.26s	3.56
13.	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion Psychic	Shadow Ball Ghost	104.72s	3.33
14.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Drill Run Ground	112.80s	1.67
15.	Chandelure	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	105.28s	3.67
16.	Darkrai	Snarl Dark	Dark Pulse Dark	106.89s	3.71
17.	Giratina (Origin)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	115.19s	2.57
18.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	108.18s	4.56
19.	Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	104.98s	5.67
20.	Deoxys (Attack)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Dark Pulse Dark	95.28s	9.67
21.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	111.98s	4.00
22.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	117.49s	2.75
23.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	112.26s	3.78
24.	Gardevoir	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	117.63s	2.67
25.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	113.75s	3.89
26.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	113.83s	4.00
27.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	109.58s	5.20
28.	Articuno (Galarian)	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	116.96s	3.00
29.	Yveltal	Snarl Dark	Psychic Psychic	117.21s	3.33
30.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	117.92s	3.13
31.	Azelf	Extrasensory Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	113.36s	5.00
32.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	116.84s	3.67
33.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	116.91s	3.71
34.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	116.55s	3.57
35.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	119.10s	3.17

No matter if you try to solo Gengar or raid with friends, keep in mind that Gengar is dual typed: ghost and poison.

Gengar Raid Move Analysis

Gengar is notorious for its varied move pool, with moves like Shadow Ball and Focus Blast eliminating certain counters in their respective match ups. Let’s see how they stack up.

If you take a deeper look at Gengar’s fast moves, you’ll soon realize that they’re not that different in a raid environment. All of them are dangerous against your Mewtwo and Gengar teams, where they deal Super Effective damage, but you will likely keep Gengar energy capped for the better part of the encounter, so it doesn’t really matter that much.

Charge move analysis

• Shadow Ball is Gengar’s most dangerous charged move, as it eliminates Mewtwo as a viable counter and deals a ton of damage to other Gengar counters. Best counters against this move are Tyranitar and Gengar, with Tyranitar being a potion friendly option.
• Focus Blast is another interesting move, as it eliminates Tyranitar from the list of viable counters. Although Gengar doesn’t benefit from STAB when using Focus Blast, the sheer damage output is too high for Tyranitar. Best Gengar counters versus Focus Blast are Mewtwo and Gengar.
• Sludge Bomb is a two bar Poison type move which we consider to be a easy Gengar raid move: it’s not super effective against any of the top counters and the damage output is not that high. Best counters against a Sludge Bomb Gengar are Mewtwo, Gengar and Tyranitar, but Groudon, Espeon and Meteor Mash Metagross are also viable.

Quick Gengar Solo Raid Tips

Gengar Solo raids are possible and have been already achieved using the Pokémon highlighted above.

1. Stock up with a healthy amount of Mewtwos and any combination of the above mentioned Pokémon
2. Do not attempt if you’re under Level 30 and your Pokémon are not decently powered up, you will just waste resources
3. Do not enter the raid unless you have proper movesets. Movesets are everything against Gengar. A focus blast Gengar can ruin a Tyranitar for example, but at the same time it just makes the already godly Mewtwo and frail Gengar that much better.