Numel Raid Guide

Numel

Numel is currently featured as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 557 – 604 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 697 – 755 CP at Level 25 with Sunny weather boost

It is an Fire & Ground type, which makes it weak to Water (x2) and Ground type moves. And yes, it can be shiny, but it is a full odd shiny.

Numel 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.

Numel best raid counters are listed below, according to our Pokémon GO DB battle simulator:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Feraligatr	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	5.70s	0.00
2.	Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	5.70s	0.00
3.	Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Aqua Tail Water	6.20s	0.00
4.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	6.50s	0.00
5.	Vaporeon	Water Gun Water	Scald Water	6.50s	0.00
6.	Clawitzer	Water Gun Water	Crabhammer Water	6.70s	0.00
7.	Samurott	Waterfall Water	Razor Shell Water	7.29s	0.00
8.	Greninja	Bubble Water	Surf Water	7.49s	0.00
9.	Crawdaunt	Waterfall Water	Bubble Beam Water	7.89s	0.00
10.	Empoleon	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	7.90s	0.00
11.	Blastoise	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	8.00s	0.00
12.	Sharpedo	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	8.30s	0.00
13.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Blizzard Ice	8.30s	0.00
14.	Simipour	Water Gun Water	Surf Water	8.29s	0.00
15.	Primarina	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	8.30s	0.00
16.	Floatzel	Waterfall Water	Aqua Jet Water	8.57s	0.00
17.	Suicune	Ice Fang Ice	Hydro Pump Water	8.60s	0.00
18.	Golisopod	Waterfall Water	Aqua Jet Water	8.59s	0.00
19.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Surf Water	8.69s	0.00
20.	Kingdra	Waterfall Water	Octazooka Water	8.70s	0.00
21.	Carracosta	Water Gun Water	Surf Water	8.78s	0.00
22.	Tapu Fini	Water Gun Water	Surf Water	8.79s	0.00
23.	Milotic	Waterfall Water	Surf Water	8.80s	0.00
24.	Gorebyss	Water Gun Water	Water Pulse Water	8.80s	0.00
25.	Rotom (Wash)	Thunder Shock Electric	Hydro Pump Water	8.78s	0.00
26.	Politoed	Bubble Water	Weather Ball Water	9.01s	0.00
27.	Pelipper	Water Gun Water	Weather Ball Water	9.38s	0.00
28.	Basculin	Water Gun Water	Aqua Tail Water	9.37s	0.00
29.	Basculin (Blue Striped)	Water Gun Water	Muddy Water Water	9.44s	0.00
30.	Basculin (Red Striped)	Water Gun Water	Aqua Tail Water	9.43s	0.00
31.	Haxorus	Dragon Tail Dragon	Surf Water	9.40s	0.00
32.	Poliwrath	Bubble Water	Scald Water	9.47s	0.00
33.	Omastar	Mud Shot Ground	Hydro Pump Water	9.50s	0.00
34.	Kabutops	Waterfall Water	Stone Edge Rock	9.50s	0.00
35.	Ludicolo	Bubble Water	Hydro Pump Water	9.50s	0.00

* marks a legacy move

Numel has a glaring 4x weakness to Water type moves, so it’s strongly recommended to use Pokémon that take advantage of that fact. If you don’t have any of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

• “Generalist” Pokémon such as Psycho Cut + Psystrike* Mewtwo
• Eevolutions capable of dealing super effective damage such as Vaporeon
• Other heavy-hitting megas

But please, try to use the Pokémon listed above if possible.

Stats and Max CP

Numel FireGround
Max CP at Level 40 1057 | Max CP at Level 50 1196
ATK 119		DEF 79		STA 155
Weak to			Strong Against
Water (x2) Ground			Bug Grass Steel Ice

Moveset

Numel and Camerupt are unfortunately pretty bad Pokémon in Pokémon GO. PvE-wise, even Mega Camerupt is expected to be a Flareon-tier fire type attacker at best, and it doesn’t even have access to a ground type fast move so just forget about using it as a ground type attacker in raids.

Their movesets are also quite bad for PvP purposes. And their double weakness to water type moves just makes it even harder for them to succeed.

All in all, Numel and Camerupt don’t seem to be the kind of Pokémon you should power up, at least in this game.

We hope you found this raid guide useful!