Nihilego Raid Guide (Ultra Beast)

Nihilego

Nihilego is a Rock and Poison type Ultra Beast Tier-5 Raid boss. Best Nihilego raid counters include powerful Ground, Psychic, Water and Steel types, with a mixed range of different counters available to help you defeat it. It is 2x weak to Ground.

Nihilego Raid Boss CP is 48499, and you can catch it in the following CP Ranges:

• 2167 CP to 2256 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 2709 CP to 2829 CP at Level 25, with Partly Cloudy and Cloudy weather boost

Depending on your levels and counters, we would recommend 3-5 high level Trainers, and more if you don’t have optimal teams.

Best Nihilego Counters in Pokémon GO

List of counters for the Nihilego 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.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Alakazam (Mega)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psychic Psychic	372.89s	19.67
2.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	436.99s	8.00
3.	Latios (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	421.71s	16.08
4.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	427.17s	15.33
5.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	448.43s	11.33
6.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	462.14s	8.75
7.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	460.57s	11.67
8.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	447.18s	16.42
9.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	447.91s	16.25
10.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	452.03s	18.25
11.	Latias (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	479.52s	15.17
12.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	502.25s	11.25
13.	Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	487.44s	16.17
14.	Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	498.36s	13.08
15.	Steelix (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Earthquake Ground	534.32s	5.67
16.	Krookodile	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	497.99s	15.75
17.	Kangaskhan (Mega)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	502.32s	17.67
18.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	Bulldoze Ground	504.91s	18.42
19.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Steel Wing Steel	Earth Power Ground	495.57s	21.83
20.	Donphan	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	527.55s	15.08
21.	Golem	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	542.86s	12.75
22.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	525.90s	21.67
23.	Aggron (Mega)	Iron Tail Steel	Heavy Slam Steel	582.03s	9.58
24.	Beedrill (Mega)	Infestation Bug	Drill Run Ground	502.79s	27.83
25.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Psychic Psychic	554.59s	18.00
26.	Scizor (Mega)	Bullet Punch Steel	Iron Head Steel	565.30s	15.83
27.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	573.53s	15.67
28.	Flygon	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	566.00s	18.83
29.	Slowbro (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	577.45s	18.33
30.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	553.01s	24.50
31.	Metagross	Bullet Punch Steel	Earthquake Ground	610.93s	12.92
32.	Dugtrio (Alola)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	589.80s	19.08
33.	Seismitoad	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	609.41s	19.33
34.	Terrakion	Double Kick Fighting	Earthquake Ground	634.59s	16.58
35.	Hippowdon	Thunder Fang Electric	Earth Power Ground	641.49s	15.75

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

Nihilego Moveset Analysis

Nihilego is the #1 non-mega poison type attacker in the game. Sadly it doesn’t have a Rock type fast move so loses out as a Rock type attacker, but as a Poison type it gains STAB and absolutely rocks!

Nihilego Stats

Nihilego RockPoison
Max CP at lvl 40 3940 / lvl 50 4465
ATK 249		DEF 210		HP 240
Weak to			Strong Against
Ground x2 Water Psychic Steel			Grass Flying Fairy Fire Bug Ice

Conclusion

Nihilego is the first ever Ultra Beast available in Pokémon GO! Ultra Beasts have some amazing stats, and Nihilego now becomes the number one non-mega Poison type attacker in Pokémon GO.