Mega Steelix Raid Guide

Steelix (Mega)

Mega Steelix is a Steel and Ground type Mega Raid boss. Best Mega Steelix raid counters include powerful Fire, Fighting, Water and Ground types, with a mixed range of different counters available to help you defeat it.

Depending on your levels and counters, we would recommend 4-5 trainers who are high level, and more if you don’t have optimal teams. This guide will tell you how to beat this steely Mega, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range.

Mega Steelix 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.

Let’s check out the top raid counters for Mega Steelix:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	930.55s	41.56
2.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	993.59s	33.22
3.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	983.43s	37.00
4.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Surf Water	1017.17s	28.67
5.	Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	1013.28s	31.22
6.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	971.80s	44.78
7.	Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	1000.53s	37.00
8.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	973.77s	44.78
9.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	1025.63s	32.22
10.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	1034.78s	32.78
11.	Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	1004.83s	42.44
12.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	1045.03s	28.00
13.	Emboar	Low Kick Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	1027.77s	41.11
14.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	1075.67s	23.17
15.	Feraligatr	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	1043.90s	37.78
16.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	1011.81s	50.89
17.	Breloom	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	1049.31s	43.00
18.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	1078.74s	35.33
19.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	1057.17s	38.80
20.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Drill Run Ground	1069.20s	34.33
21.	Machamp	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	1049.02s	43.00
22.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	1037.49s	49.00
23.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	1070.19s	36.00
24.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	1073.25s	38.11
25.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	1101.55s	31.80
26.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	1098.93s	33.00
27.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Hydro Pump Water	1113.30s	33.33
28.	Empoleon	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	1099.47s	27.80
29.	Samurott	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	1074.77s	42.44
30.	Clawitzer	Water Gun Water	Crabhammer Water	1064.16s	43.71
31.	Typhlosion	Incinerate Fire	Blast Burn Fire	1105.08s	37.00
32.	Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	1148.53s	31.67
33.	Meloetta (Pirouette)	Low Kick Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	1131.33s	40.50
34.	Primarina	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	1155.65s	35.00
35.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire Fire	1162.38s	29.00

With a wide range of counters and a fair few different type weaknesses thanks to that Steel and Ground dual typing, most trainers should find themselves able to whip up a strong team of counters.

For more budget counters you can check out the whole counters list here, but Darmanitan, Garchomp, Machamp and Excadrill are all worth a mention.

Mega Steelix Moveset Analysis

For optimal DPS Iron Tail and Heavy Slam are your best choices, as they also get STAB. Mega Steelix has some pretty odd choices for movesets, with no Ground type fast move, and a random Electric fast move. To make best use of Mega Steelix keep it as a Steel type attacker.

Learn more about Mega Steelix in PvP here: Budget Busters: A PvP Analysis of Mega Master League. 

How to Get Mega Steelix

You cannot catch Steelix in its mega evolved form from the raid. The mega raid boss is always catchable in its base form and as such, the CP ranges are for a regular Steelix.

Steelix can be caught with the following CP values:

• 2010 – 2097 CP no weather boost
• 2512 – 2622 CP boosted by Sunny or Snow weather boost

In order to get Mega Steelix you will need 200 Mega Energy for the initial evolution, then 40 Mega Energy to evolve the same Steelix again in the future. Mega Energy can be obtained via Mega Steelix Raids, and once you have evolved Mega Steelix, you can earn 5 Mega Energy per candy while walking it as your buddy. You can walk any Onix or Steelix to earn Mega Energy, as long as you have previously evolved one to register it to your Mega Pokédex.

Shiny Steelix

Like all Mega Raid Bosses, you can catch the shiny version of Steelix from a raid.

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite

Mega Steelix Stats

Steelix (Mega) SteelGround
Max CP at lvl 40 3630
ATK 212		DEF 327		HP 181
Weak to			Strong Against
Fighting Fire Water Ground			Rock Fairy Electric Poison

Conclusion

Mega Steelix brings to mind one word, BULK. That Defense stat is unreal, so make sure you are well prepared going into these raids because it is going to take some hard hitters to beat it, especially if you are short manning.