Kartana Raid Guide (Ultra Beast)

Kartana

Kartana is an Grass and Steel type Ultra Beast Raid Boss. Optimal Kartana counters include powerful Fighting and Fire types, with an emphasis on the Fire-types, as it is 2x weak to Fire.

Kartana can be caught with the following CP values:

• 2010 –2101 CP at level 20, no weather boost
• 2512 – 2626 CP at level 25 with Sunny or Snow weather boost

Depending on your levels and counters, we would recommend 3-5 trainers who are high level, and more if you don’t have optimal teams. This guide will tell you how to beat this origami inspired beast, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range.

Kartana Counters

List of counters for the Kartana Raid Boss in Pokémon GO, including best Pokémon to defeat it, highest DPS attackers, and moves to use. Learn which Pokémon are the best choice to beat this raid boss.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	332.62s	8.25
2.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	345.12s	14.75
3.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	348.27s	14.63
4.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	373.30s	10.13
5.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	363.63s	16.13
6.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	392.59s	7.75
7.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	382.39s	10.50
8.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	371.44s	16.38
9.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	397.07s	12.13
10.	Emboar	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	383.94s	15.88
11.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	397.93s	15.75
12.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire Fire	419.20s	8.50
13.	Typhlosion	Incinerate Fire	Blast Burn Fire	403.83s	15.00
14.	Arcanine (Hisuian)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	412.36s	14.38
15.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	403.07s	17.38
16.	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	415.82s	16.63
17.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	416.57s	16.38
18.	Victini	Quick Attack Normal	V-create Fire	425.83s	13.25
19.	Magmortar	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	422.98s	15.75
20.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	426.00s	14.88
21.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	436.29s	12.88
22.	Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	434.66s	18.88
23.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	436.90s	18.13
24.	Solgaleo	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	462.88s	12.25
25.	Incineroar	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	455.79s	14.50
26.	Salazzle	Incinerate Fire	Fire Blast Fire	475.53s	18.33
27.	Heatmor	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	484.03s	21.17
28.	Simisear	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	479.87s	21.75
29.	Terrakion	Double Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	494.21s	18.00
30.	Rapidash	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	481.88s	16.00

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.

Best Mega Pokémon vs Kartana

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	218.15s	5.50
2.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	251.81s	6.75
3.	Houndoom (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	267.05s	8.75

Kartana Moveset Analysis

Kartana Stats

Kartana GrassSteel
Max CP at lvl 40 4677/lvl 50 4156
ATK 323		DEF 182		HP 139
Weak to			Resistances
Fighting Firex2			Dragon Water Electric Fairy Normal Poison Psychic Rock Steel

Parting words

With no Steel moves to speak of, Kartana won’t have any use as a Steel type unfortunately, but as a Grass type attacker for raids? That attack stat is going to do some major damage! Well worth adding to your team, beating out even the likes of Shadow Venusaur! Full analysis for PvP here.