Heatran Raid Guide

Heatran

Best Heatran counters are strong Ground types like Garchomp, Groudon, Rhyperior and Excadrill. Shiny Heatran is available from raids. Heatran is a Generation 4 legendary Pokemon.

Heatran is weather boosted by Sunny and Snow weather, which means it can be captured with Combat Power in the following ranges:

• 2058 – 2145 CP for a regular Level 20 non-weather boosted encounter
• 2573 – 2681 CP for a Sunny or Snow weather boosted encounter (Level 25)

Heatran has a stat composition of 251 Attack, 213 Defense, and 209 Stamina leading to a Max CP of 3754. It can be duoed fairly easily, but otherwise we would suggest you take on Heatran in groups of 3-7, for high level players, or 8-20, for lower leveled players.

When a Pokémon is double weak to a practical typing, you can be sure that typing will be a common theme in a raid guide. Just like Tyranitar Guides have loads of Fighting typed counters, Heatran’s guide is filled with Ground types.

Heatran raid counters

Heatran is a Fire and Steel type, meaning it is weak to Fighting, Water and double weak (x2) to Ground type attacks, while resisting several types including:

• Double resists: Bug, Fairy, Grass, Ice, Poison, Steel
• Resists: Dragon, Flying, Normal, and Psychic.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	450.69s	11.75
2.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	451.89s	12.00
3.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	432.70s	17.63
4.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	470.82s	13.75
5.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	453.27s	18.63
6.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	454.47s	18.75
7.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	474.97s	15.38
8.	Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	496.40s	11.63
9.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	462.91s	22.88
10.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	499.28s	19.00
11.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	516.82s	16.25
12.	Krookodile	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	503.38s	20.00
13.	Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	512.87s	21.88
14.	Steelix (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Earthquake Ground	538.46s	16.00
15.	Golem	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	546.55s	17.88
16.	Lopunny (Mega)	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	539.91s	20.50
17.	Donphan	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	546.39s	19.75
18.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	580.68s	14.75
19.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	Bulldoze Ground	527.77s	30.29
20.	Flygon	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	579.12s	20.50
21.	Seismitoad	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	619.48s	17.75
22.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	581.81s	26.38
23.	Haxorus	Counter Fighting	Earthquake Ground	603.14s	22.38
24.	Beedrill (Mega)	Infestation Bug	Drill Run Ground	544.97s	38.00
25.	Gastrodon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	643.69s	18.50
26.	Gastrodon (East Sea)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	643.40s	18.63
27.	Gastrodon (West Sea)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	643.54s	18.50
28.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	639.70s	18.71
29.	Hippowdon	Thunder Fang Electric	Earth Power Ground	642.25s	19.38
30.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	614.41s	31.57
31.	Dugtrio (Alola)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	601.56s	35.80
32.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Surf Water	676.60s	16.00
33.	Kingler	Mud Shot Ground	Crabhammer Water	633.33s	24.25
34.	Nidoking	Fury Cutter Bug	Earth Power Ground	639.85s	27.63
35.	Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	656.90s	23.75

Best Heatran counters are strong Ground-type Pokemon that utilize Heatran’s double weakness to Ground typed moves. Pokemon like Groudon, Rhyperior and Rhydon are your top picks as they have access to Mud Shot / Mud Slap Ground and to Earthquake Ground.

Heatran is an excellent opportunity to use a Swampert, as it is one of the rare match-ups where Swampert’s typing and move pool are a viable choice. This list above will be updated in the future, as we are awaiting any new evolutions coming along that might tip the counters, such as Mamoswine and Garchomp.

Ground types are the best choice in any weather, but if you don’t have a good selection of Ground types, a team of strong Water and Fighting Pokemon will do the trick.

If that’s the case, we recommend using Water types over Fighting types, simply because they take reduced damage from slightly more moves than Fighting types, making your type coverage a bit easier.

Breaking down Heatran’s movesets

Heatran’s move pool is an interesting mix of moves that benefit from STAB and moves that are seemingly just there for flavor purposes.

Fire Spin is an excellent Fire typed move that deals a lot of damage (14 base power) and generates Energy quickly.

Bug Bite Bug generates energy quicker, which leads to Heatran using a charge move more frequently. In rare scenarios where Heatran has a Super Effective charged mve, this will result in a more difficult fight.

Heatran’s charge moves are a similar affair.

Fire Blast is a high damage output Fire move that benefits from STAB and deals neutral damage to Ground types.

Stone Edge is arguably the easiest charge move as it deals reduced damage to Ground types and deals far less damage than a Fire Blast.

Iron Head is Heatran’s mandatory Steel typed charge move and it’s rather easy to fight against. Nothing note worthy here, just remember that it deals neutral damage to your Ground types.

Weather Influence

We recommend fighting Heatran in sunny weather whenever it is possible to do so. Despite boosting Fire Spin and Fireblast, sunny weather will also boost all of your Ground type counters, making the fight easier while unlocking the Level 25 capture encounter.

Ground types are your best option in any weather, despite Machamp and Kyogre getting a hefty boost during cloudy and rainy weather fights.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere and it’s snowy, you will have a slightly more difficult fight if Heatran has Iron Head, but other than that, it’s a no brainer – go for it.

Minimal and optimal number of Trainers for Heatran

Heatran duo raids are possible, but we only recommend doing them with a strong Ground team that’s powered up above Level 30. Your best picks are Groudon and Rhyperior, as they are the fastest Heatran counters by a mile. However, there are videos of players duoing Heatran with a team of Machamps and with the Cloudy weather boost.

Heatran Use in the Meta

Related: Heatran in Trainer Battles: team ideas and Heatran’s role in the PvP meta

If you get a weather boosted Heatran, it’ll be between cp2573 – cp2681. Due there being several Pokémon that perform better in its current role, it’s not worth powering up. You might as well therefore, trade it with someone else before you leave the raid and see if you can make it eligible for use in the Ultra League (unless of course you already have some decent Fire types below cp2500).

By trading with the following friend levels, Heatran would land in the specified CP ranges

• Good friend: 2383 – 2681
• Great friend: 2404 – 2681
• Ultra friend: 2424 – 2681
• Best friend: 2466 – 2681