Hoopa Unbound Raid Guide

Hoopa Unbound is an Elite Raid Boss available only during Elite Raid weekends. Unbound Hoopa is a Psychic and Dark-type Pokémon, which leaves him vulnerable only to Bug  (double) and Fairy-type moves.

Best Pokémon to defeat Hoopa Unbound are strong Bug-type Pokémon, select Mega Pokémon (Mega Scizor and Mega Beedrill) and top tier Fairy-type Pokémon, who don’t take super-effective damage from Hoopa’s moves.

Hoopa Unbound can be caught in the following Combat Power ranges:

• 2197 CP – 2289 CP (no Weather Boost, LVL 20)
• 2746 CP – 2862 CP (Windy or Fog weather, LVL 25)

We recommend fighting Hoopa Unbound with a minimum of 5 Trainers with perfect counters, or 8+ Trainers with suboptimal counters. Given its limited availability, we recommend larger group sizes for this encounter.

Best Hoopa Unbound Counters

We already mentioned that Hoopa Unbound is only weak to Bug and Fairy moves. Do not take this fight lightly, it is quite challenging.

With that being said, here are the best counters for Unbound Hoopa in Pokémon GO:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Scizor (Mega)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	322.80s	12.17
2.	Beedrill (Mega)	Bug Bite Bug	X-Scissor Bug	294.03s	24.17
3.	Pheromosa	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	365.15s	37.83
4.	Vikavolt	Bug Bite Bug	X-Scissor Bug	433.56s	25.67
5.	Yanmega	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	437.54s	25.17
6.	Genesect (Normal)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	472.07s	22.67
7.	Genesect (Douse)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	472.75s	23.00
8.	Genesect (Burn)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	473.51s	23.00
9.	Pinsir	Bug Bite Bug	X-Scissor Bug	473.90s	27.83
10.	Scyther	Fury Cutter Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	472.28s	28.17
11.	Accelgor	Infestation Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	468.17s	30.33
12.	Absol (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Megahorn Bug	489.25s	23.50
13.	Scizor	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	492.20s	25.00
14.	Escavalier	Bug Bite Bug	Megahorn Bug	499.15s	25.17
15.	Golisopod	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	508.97s	23.17
16.	Galvantula	Fury Cutter Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	501.92s	34.83
17.	Durant	Bug Bite Bug	X-Scissor Bug	521.69s	27.00
18.	Heracross	Struggle Bug Bug	Megahorn Bug	527.16s	31.50
19.	Leavanny	Bug Bite Bug	X-Scissor Bug	533.93s	31.50
20.	Kartana	Razor Leaf Grass	X-Scissor Bug	561.61s	30.83
21.	Scolipede	Bug Bite Bug	Megahorn Bug	547.12s	40.20
22.	Alakazam (Mega)	Counter Fighting	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	563.51s	36.00
23.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	578.01s	28.50
24.	Venomoth	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	562.44s	42.20
25.	Gengar (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Sludge Bomb Poison	542.13s	45.17
26.	Ninjask	Fury Cutter Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	549.13s	48.60
27.	Buzzwole	Counter Fighting	Fell Stinger Bug	605.84s	29.67
28.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	627.74s	26.83
29.	Crustle	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	603.30s	34.17
30.	Samurott	Fury Cutter Bug	Megahorn Bug	608.46s	33.67
31.	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock Electric	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	610.94s	36.17
32.	Butterfree	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	601.77s	42.33
33.	Altaria (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	640.73s	28.83
34.	Latios (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	637.60s	30.33
35.	Mothim	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	586.67s	53.20

Hoopa Unbound’s moves

Hoopa Unbound has a few tricks up its sleeve, including Astonish and Shadow Ball, both strong Ghost-type moves, and most of its moves deal neutral damage to Bug types. The exception is Dark Pulse, which deals reduced damage to Fairy types, so Fairy-typed attackers may fare better against Dark Pulse.

Other than that, there is not much we can say for Hoopa’s moves – all of them are good, and its a strong opponent, so bring your best Pokémon and try to dodge as much as you can.