Gloom Raid Guide

Gloom

Gloom is now available in Tier 3 raids in Pokémon GO and you should have no problem taking it down as long as you have good counters prepared. Lower-leveled trainers or those without optimal counters may want to bring a pal since Gloom has access to hard-hitting neutral moves such as Petal Blizzard and Moonblast. 

After the raid, Gloom can be caught with the following CP values 

• 902 – 960 CP, at Level 20 with no weather boost 
• 1128 – 1200 CP, at Level 25 with weather boost, during Sunny and Cloudy weather conditions

Gloom is a dual Grass and Poison type Pokémon. Even though it has a shiny variant in the game, Gloom encountered from raid battles won’t be able to be shiny. 

Gloom 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 figures in our database for DPS and TDO are calculated using Level 40 Pokémon with perfect IVs.

The best counters for Gloom are the following:

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Wing Attack Flying	Blast Burn Fire	60.15s	0.67
2.	Alakazam (Mega)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psychic Psychic	55.97s	1.83
3.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	58.05s	1.67
4.	Latios (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	63.09s	1.33
5.	Gardevoir (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	63.44s	2.00
6.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	69.89s	1.17
7.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	69.66s	1.67
8.	Houndoom (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	71.88s	1.67
9.	Latias (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	74.83s	1.33
10.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	79.45s	2.00
11.	Glalie (Mega)	Frost Breath Ice	Avalanche Ice	80.94s	2.00
12.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Psychic Psychic	85.75s	1.33
13.	Slowbro (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	87.72s	2.00
14.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare Fire	89.42s	1.67
15.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	84.20s	2.83
16.	Abomasnow (Mega)	Powder Snow Ice	Weather Ball Ice	87.38s	2.33
17.	Salamence (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Outrage Dragon	95.93s	1.50
18.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	96.51s	2.00
19.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Not_found Fire	99.31s	1.00
20.	Volcarona	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	98.61s	1.25
21.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	98.10s	1.33
22.	Lunala	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	98.98s	1.60
23.	Groudon (Primal)	Mud Shot Ground	Fire Blast Fire	100.81s	1.00
24.	Articuno (Galarian)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	97.48s	1.83
25.	Victini	Confusion Psychic	V-create Fire	103.13s	1.00
26.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	103.97s	1.00
27.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	94.76s	2.40
28.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	102.66s	1.00
29.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	96.87s	2.00
30.	Banette (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	97.76s	2.00
31.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	98.67s	2.00

Gloom as a Tier 3 raid boss, has a CP of 12386, so it will require teamwork to take it down. l recommended bringing a friend if you don’t have good counters or are low levelled. 

Stats and Max CP

Gloom GrassPoison
Max CP at Level 40 1681 | Max CP at Level 50 1900
ATK 153		DEF 136		HP 135
Weak To: Strong Against: Fire, Flying, Ice, Psychic Grass, Electric, Fairy, Fighting, Water, Ground, Rock

Moveset

Gloom’s evolution Vileplume is a decent poison-type raid attacker, so it might be useful to get candies and XL from doing these raids.

And that’s all, Good luck with your Gloom raids, and until next time, trainers!