Medicham Raid Guide

Medicham

Medicham is a Psychic and Fighting type Tier Three Raid Boss. Optimal Medicham counters are powerful Fairy Flying and Ghost types. Medicham can be shiny when encountered, due to it being released as a Mega Pokémon in Pokémon GO! It has a boosted shiny rate, roughly 1/64 odds. However you cannot obtain Mega Energy from Medicham as a Tier Three Raid Boss.

Medicham can be caught with the following CP values:

• 764 –817 CP at level 20, no weather boost
• 955 – 1022 CP at level 25 with Cloudy or Windy weather boost

Depending on your levels and counters, Medicham can be soloed! Newer trainers without ideal counters may want to bring a friend.

Best Medicham Counters in Pokémon GO

List of best counters for the Medicham 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.

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Dawn Wings Necrozma	Shadow Claw Ghost	Moongeist Beam Ghost	0	59s
2.	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	1	57s
3.	Mega Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	1	65s
4.	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	1	72s
5.	Shadow Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	71s
6.	Origin Giratina	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Force Ghost	1	84s
7.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	2	75s
8.	Dusk Mane Necrozma	Shadow Claw Ghost	Sunsteel Strike Steel	1	83s
9.	Shadow Chandelure	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	78s
10.	Mega Gardevoir	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	1	90s
11.	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Shadow Ball Ghost	1	87s
12.	Shadow Cursola	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	83s
13.	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut Psychic	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	88s
14.	Altered Giratina	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Force Ghost	1	99s
15.	Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	85s
16.	Lunala	Air Slash Flying	Shadow Ball Ghost	1	104s
17.	Shadow Banette	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	3	83s
18.	Blacephalon	Astonish Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	88s
19.	Yveltal	Sucker Punch Dark	Oblivion Wing Flying	1	93s
20.	Chandelure	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	2	93s
21.	Mega Pidgeot	Air Slash Flying	Brave Bird Flying	2	88s
22.	Shadow Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Fly Flying	2	87s
23.	Gholdengo	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	1	99s
24.	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Fly Flying	1	96s
25.	Tapu Lele	Astonish Ghost	Nature’s Madness Fairy	1	100s
26.	Shadow Haunter	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	4	83s
27.	Confined Hoopa	Astonish Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	1	104s
28.	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Sky Attack Flying	2	96s
29.	Incarnate Enamorus	Fairy Wind Fairy	Fly Flying	2	96s
30.	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	1	102s

Medicham Moveset

Medicham Stats

Medicham PsychicFighting
Max CP at lvl 40 1431/lvl 50 1618
ATK 121		DEF 152		HP 155
Weak to			Resistances
Fairy Flying Ghost			Fighting Rock

Medicham Sprites

Medicham can be shiny from raids. Male and female Medicham do have a subtle difference, with male Medicham having a larger bulb on top of his head.

	Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite
Male
Female

Parting words

Medicham has long been a main stay of Great League PvP, but with recent updates it has dropped in the pvpoke rankings to #120!