Landorus (Incarnate Form) Raid Guide

Landorus (Incarnate)

Landorus is a T5 Raid boss in Pokémon GO and is the trio master of the Forces of Nature legendary Pokémon from the Unova Region. The best counters for this Abundance Pokémon include only two types in Ice and Water. Landorus is a Ground and Flying type and has two forms: the (Normal) Incarnate Form and the Therian form.

Landorus can be caught with the following Combat Power values:

• 1965 – 2050 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 2456 – 2563 CP at Level 25 with Windy and Sunny weather boost

Landorus can be beaten by 2 trainers under extremely ideal conditions. In all other cases, it is recommended to form a group of 3-5 high-level trainers or 6-8 lower level trainers to take out this beast without breaking much sweat.

The aim of this guide is to give you detailed coverage regarding the best Landorus counters, the best strategy for successfully taking it down, and the CPs at which you can catch it.

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Best Landorus counters in Pokémon GO

A comprehensive list of best Pokémon to use in a fight with Landorus (Incarnate form). As you can see, most of the list is comprised of Ice-type Pokémon, followed by Water-types. Make sure not to sleep on Primal Kyogre, Mamoswine, Glaceon and Weavile.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Kyogre (Primal)	Waterfall Water	Blizzard Ice	408.32s	11.75
2.	Darmanitan (Galarian Standard)	Ice Fang Ice	Avalanche Ice	368.87s	24.50
3.	Mamoswine	Powder Snow Ice	Avalanche Ice	405.76s	21.63
4.	Glaceon	Frost Breath Ice	Avalanche Ice	426.55s	24.86
5.	Jynx	Frost Breath Ice	Avalanche Ice	421.36s	25.38
6.	Weavile	Ice Shard Ice	Avalanche Ice	408.58s	28.00
7.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Ice Beam Ice	457.39s	17.63
8.	Avalugg	Ice Fang Ice	Avalanche Ice	480.98s	18.50
9.	Aurorus	Frost Breath Ice	Weather Ball Ice	481.69s	25.43
10.	Articuno	Frost Breath Ice	Blizzard Ice	516.99s	20.38
11.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Blizzard Ice	528.17s	18.38
12.	Vanilluxe	Frost Breath Ice	Blizzard Ice	494.43s	28.71
13.	Avalugg (Hisuian)	Powder Snow Ice	Blizzard Ice	519.82s	22.50
14.	Porygon-Z	Lock-On Normal	Blizzard Ice	512.99s	25.67
15.	Meloetta (Pirouette)	Quick Attack Normal	Ice Punch Ice	539.54s	19.38
16.	Walrein	Frost Breath Ice	Blizzard Ice	525.44s	23.63
17.	Beartic	Powder Snow Ice	Ice Punch Ice	507.30s	29.43
18.	Sneasel	Ice Shard Ice	Avalanche Ice	501.24s	34.14
19.	Piloswine	Powder Snow Ice	Avalanche Ice	532.35s	27.43
20.	Mr. Rime	Ice Shard Ice	Ice Punch Ice	527.10s	27.38
21.	Regice	Frost Breath Ice	Blizzard Ice	564.88s	19.75
22.	Ninetales (Alola)	Powder Snow Ice	Weather Ball Ice	573.06s	21.60
23.	Lapras	Frost Breath Ice	Blizzard Ice	567.39s	22.88
24.	Abomasnow	Powder Snow Ice	Weather Ball Ice	549.78s	27.83
25.	Cloyster	Ice Shard Ice	Avalanche Ice	547.15s	30.86
26.	Meloetta	Quick Attack Normal	Ice Punch Ice	593.24s	20.13
27.	Kyurem	Dragon Breath Dragon	Blizzard Ice	558.68s	26.33
28.	Feraligatr	Ice Fang Ice	Hydro Cannon Water	586.02s	23.17
29.	Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	610.51s	20.83
30.	Glalie	Ice Shard Ice	Avalanche Ice	575.49s	33.33
31.	Sandslash (Alola)	Powder Snow Ice	Blizzard Ice	612.18s	20.33
32.	Froslass	Powder Snow Ice	Avalanche Ice	562.74s	31.50
33.	Clawitzer	Water Gun Water	Ice Beam Ice	593.68s	25.25
34.	Samurott	Fury Cutter Bug	Hydro Cannon Water	602.05s	24.50
35.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	589.95s	29.50

Landorus stats and typing

Landorus

Landorus is a Ground and Flying type and it’s weak to 2x Ice, 1x Water. Landorus stats are as follows:

• Max CP 3588
• ATK 261
• DEF 182
• HP 205

Landorus only has two weaknesses, and one of them is a 4x weakness. Accordingly, the Ice type moves totally dominates the choice of moveset and Pokémon alike. Even if you are not an Ice type Pokémon, the very fact that you possess a powerful Ice type move and excellent stats to power it up, makes you a worthy counter to take down this legendary raid boss. Both the forms have just decent DEF stats. So, the usage of the cold icy moves would be sufficient.

Landorus Moveset Analysis

Both the Incarnate and the Therian forms of Landorus have the same moves in Pokémon Go:

The combination of Mud Shot and Earth Power makes Landorus Therian form the best Ground type Pokémon in the meta at the time of this writing. Regardless of the form, however, this is a deadly moveset and will surely hit you like a truck.

• Mud Shot is the best fast move in the game in terms of energy gain. Three of Landorus’ charge moves are 2-bar. So you need to use some immaculate dodging techniques to make your counters last longer.
• Outrage is another move to fear due to its widespread neutral coverage and immense power.
• Rock Throw is a hard-hitting fast move and sports good DPS in combination with any charge move.
• Rock Slide does decent damage but is super-effective against pure ice-types.
• Focus Blast can be deadly as it hits many of the counters for super-effective damage.
• In short, dodging should definitely be included when you do this raid.

Without any weather or friendship boosts, our simulator has a TTW with Mamoswine and Weavile with just 443s and 435s respectively. Accordingly, a trio is more than possible and under ideal conditions, either form of Landorus can be duod.

Conclusion

Landorus comes with an incredible moveset, great stats, and a legendary status to occupy the throne of the Ground type meta. Countering it is not that much of a challenge since both of its weaknesses (one of them being 2x) boast of Pokémon with exceptional stats. However, Landorus has a good set of moves that even offer coverage against some of its best counters. As such, dodging is a must for a potion-efficient performance.

The Ground type meta has long been devoid of exceptional Pokémon with an exceptional moveset. Gen V has brought in a legendary magic lamp, out of which comes a Genie with the crown for the king of the Ground types.