Machop Raid Guide

Machop

Machop is available in raids as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 678 – 730 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 848 – 913 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

It is a Fighting type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Psychic, Flying, and Fairy type moves. It is featured in both normal, and shadow raids.

Machop is available as a shiny from both normal, and shadow raids!

Shadow Raid Information

As a shadow raid, it will hit harder than the normal raid boss, so make sure your counters are powered up, have the right moveset, and aren’t weak to the raid bosses moves. Lower levels trainers and those without top counters may need to bring a friend. Shadow Raid Bosses will grow enraged as you battle them, boosting their attack and defence. Continue to hold your ground and weaken the Shadow Raid Bosses to subdue them.

You can subdue Shadow Raid Bosses using Purified Gems, a new item that can be assembled from Shadow Shards.

Shadow Shards are mysterious gem pieces that may be dropped by Team GO Rocket. You will need to gather enough shards to use Professor Willow’s newly invented Shard Refiner, and in return you’ll be rewarded with a Purified Gem.

There are multiple ways Purified Gems can assist your battle against enraged Shadow Raid Bosses:

• When you use a Purified Gem during a Shadow Raid, the enraged Shadow Raid Boss’s attack and defence will be lowered temporarily. This can give you the opening you need to take them down.
• You and your fellow Trainers can use more than one Purified Gem during a Shadow Raid. If used at the same time, their effects will stack.
• If enough Purified Gems are used, the enraged Shadow Raid Boss will be subdued—returned to its non-enraged state—which might give you the edge you need to defeat it!

Machop Raid Counters

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.

Machop best raid counters are listed below:

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psychic Psychic	5.28s	0.00
2.	Mega Gardevoir	Charge Beam Electric	Psychic Psychic	5.90s	0.00
3.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	6.78s	0.00
4.	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	7.00s	0.00
5.	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	7.00s	0.00
6.	Unbound Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	6.97s	0.00
7.	Mega Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Psychic Psychic	7.10s	0.00
8.	Mega Slowbro	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	7.37s	0.00
9.	Mega Pidgeot	Gust Flying	Aerial Ace Flying	7.59s	0.00
10.	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash Flying	Flamethrower Fire	7.70s	0.00
11.	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw Ghost	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	7.90s	0.00
12.	Confined Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	7.90s	0.00
13.	Lunala	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	7.90s	0.00
14.	Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	8.08s	0.00
15.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	8.12s	0.00
16.	Mega Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	8.30s	0.00
17.	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	8.68s	0.00
18.	Attack Deoxys	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psycho Boost Psychic	8.74s	0.00
19.	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	8.98s	0.00
20.	Gardevoir	Charm Fairy	Psychic Psychic	9.08s	0.00
21.	Normal Deoxys	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psycho Boost Psychic	9.20s	0.00
22.	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Outrage Dragon	9.30s	0.00
23.	Staraptor	Wing Attack Flying	Brave Bird Flying	9.33s	0.00
24.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	9.40s	0.00
25.	Galarian Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Brave Bird Flying	9.70s	0.00
26.	Togekiss	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	9.80s	0.00
27.	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades Ground	9.88s	0.00
28.	Honchkrow	Peck Flying	Brave Bird Flying	9.95s	0.00
29.	Mega Beedrill	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	9.99s	0.00
30.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Psychic Psychic	9.99s	0.00
31.	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	10.05s	0.00
32.	Gallade	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	10.10s	0.00
33.	Mega Altaria	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	10.11s	0.00
34.	Exeggutor	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	10.11s	0.00
35.	Mega X Charizard	Dragon Breath Dragon	Blast Burn Fire	10.30s	0.00

Machop has plenty of weaknesses so the list could go on forever. If you don’t have any of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

• “Generalist” Pokémon such as powerful dragon type Pokémon
• Other heavy-hitting megas

Machop shouldn’t take more than a couple of seconds to beat if you’re using the right counters, but don’t worry too much if you don’t have strong attackers powered up.

Stats and Max CP

Machop Fighting
Max CP at Level 40 1278 | Max CP at Level 50 1445
ATK 137		DEF 82		STA 172
Weak to			Strong Against
Psychic Flying Fairy			Normal Rock Steel Dark Ice

Moveset

Machop doesn’t have any niche uses unless you want to power a purified one up to level 50 (and potentially even best buddy it). Extremely spicy, but some people like to run it in some restricted PvP metas. It needs to be purified as Machop’s movepool only has fighting type moves.

Machamp on the other hand is one of the best Pokémon in the entire game. Need a good gym sweeper? Use Machamp. A good fighting type attacker to use in raids? Use Machamp. A good fighter/counter user to use in PvP? Guess what? You can also run Machamp.

If you want to use it in raids, its best moveset is Counter and Dynamic Punch. Its shadow variant is significantly better, so if you have one with decent IVs just power that one up. And if you don’t, power it up anyway. Seriously, shadow Machamp is awesome and will reign supreme until shadow Conkeldurr, shadow Lucario or Mega Lucario/Blaziken/Heracross are released.

In PvP, you want to run it with Counter, Cross Chop and either Rock Slide or Payback. Rock Slide is usually the best option, but Payback can work in some metas such as the Kanto Cup where Hypno is everywhere. Shadow Machamp is probably even better in PvP as well, so if you have one with good IVs I’d recommend trying it out. Just make sure you cover its weaknesses, preferably with a steel type Pokémon as it resists fairy, flying and psychic type moves.

We hope you found this raid guide useful, happy hunting!