Larvitar
As part of the Secrets of the Jungle event, Larvitar will be available in raids as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO. It can be shiny, but is a full odds shiny, so a trickier hunt.
Larvitar can be caught with the following CP values:
- 548 – 594 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
- 686 – 743 CP at Level 25 with Sunny or Partly Cloudy weather boost
It is a Rock & Ground type, which makes it weak to Fighting, Ground, Ice, Steel, Grass (2x) and Water (2x) type moves. The easiest way to take it down is by using grass or water type moves, due to its double weakness to them.
Larvitar Raid Counters
Whenever the shadow variant of a Pokémon listed below is available in the game, it is strongly recommended to use it over its regular/purified counterpart. However, since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to TM away Frustration, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article.
Larvitar’s best raid counters are listed below:
| Supreme Counters | ||
|---|---|---|
Mega Blastoise
|
Water Gun Water | Hydro Cannon* Water |
Mega Venusaur
|
Vine Whip Grass | Frenzy Plant* Grass |
Mega Gyarados
|
Waterfall Water | Hydro Pump Water |
Kyogre
|
Waterfall Water | Surf Water |
Zarude
|
Vine Whip Grass | Power Whip Grass |
Kingler
|
Bubble Water | Crabhammer Water |
| Great Counters | ||
Roserade
|
Razor Leaf Grass | Grass Knot Grass |
Empoleon
|
Waterfall Water | Hydro Cannon* Water |
Swampert
|
Water Gun Water | Hydro Cannon* Water |
Gyarados
|
Waterfall Water | Hydro Pump Water |
Venusaur
|
Vine Whip Grass | Frenzy Plant* Grass |
Torterra
|
Razor Leaf Grass | Frenzy Plant* Grass |
Feraligatr
|
Waterfall Water | Hydro Cannon* Water |
Tangrowth
|
Vine Whip Grass | Power Whip Grass |
Samurott
|
Waterfall Water | Hydro Cannon* Water |
Sceptile
|
Bullet Seed Grass | Frenzy Plant* Grass |
Breloom
|
Bullet Seed Grass | Grass Knot* Grass |
* marks a legacy move
Larvitar has so many weaknesses that the list could go on forever. If you don’t have any of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:
- Vaporeon, Clawitzer or Crawdaunt with water type movesets
- Exeggutor or Leafeon with grass type movesets
- Good fighting, ground, ice and steel type attackers, but keep in mind that they will perform significantly worse since they aren’t taking advantage of Larvitar’s double weakness to water & grass type attacks
In short, use one of the viable Water or Grass type attackers and it shouldn’t take you more than 10 seconds to finish the raid.
Stats and Max CP
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Larvitar
RockGround
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| Max CP at Level 40 1040 | Max CP at Level 50 1176 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATK 115 | DEF 93 | STA 137 | |||
| Weak to | Strong Against | ||||
| Grass (x2) Water (x2) Fighting Ground Ice Steel | Bug Fire Ice Psychic Ghost | ||||
Moveset
| Fast Moves | Charge Moves |
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Larvitar’s final evolution is Tyranitar, a very powerful Pokémon in Pokémon GO PvE-wise. Feel free to check our Tyranitar meta analysis if you want to know how powerful this thing is, you won’t regret powering one up!
We hope you found this raid guide useful! Best of luck on your candy/hundo hunt!
