Origin Forme Palkia Raid Counters Guide

Origin Palkia

Origin Forme Palkia is a special form of the Legendary Pokémon Palkia, first discovered in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and they made their debut during the Sinnoh Tour 2024. It can be shiny! ✨

This is a Water and Dragon type Pokémon, being only weak to the Dragon and Fairy types. Origin Forme Palkia can be caught in the following CP values:

• 2274 CP – 2367 CP (no weather boost, LVL 20)
• 2843 CP – 2958 CP (Windy or Rainy weather, LVL 25)

Palkia Origin Raid Counters

We recommend fighting Origin Forme Palkia with a minimum of 4 Trainers with perfect counters, or 6+ Trainers with suboptimal counters. Its stamina stat is the weakest (189) of the three stats, so it’s an easy win with great counters. Use Party! Power to boost your attackers even more.

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	DPS	Faints	TTW
1.	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Breaking Swipe	32.26	25	475s
2.	Eternatus	Dragon Tail	Dynamax Cannon	29.64	24	487s
3.	Mega Garchomp	Dragon Tail	Breaking Swipe	29.80	29	524s
4.	Mega Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	26.04	25	602s
5.	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail	Outrage	25.57	28	603s
6.	Shadow Palkia	Dragon Tail	Draco Meteor	25.91	33	570s
7.	Origin Dialga	Dragon Breath	Roar of Time	24.38	30	636s
8.	Mega Dragonite	Dragon Tail	Outrage	24.62	30	626s
9.	Shadow Dialga	Dragon Breath	Draco Meteor	24.89	37	625s
10.	Shadow Garchomp	Dragon Tail	Breaking Swipe	25.56	44	597s
11.	Black Kyurem	Dragon Tail	Outrage	24.79	37	619s
12.	Mega Latios	Dragon Breath	Dragon Claw	24.35	34	634s
13.	Mega Y Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike	23.60	34	672s
14.	Origin Palkia	Dragon Tail	Spacial Rend	23.65	29	605s
15.	Shadow Salamence	Dragon Tail	Outrage	25.51	47	599s
16.	Shadow Dragonite	Dragon Tail	Outrage	24.30	44	624s
17.	Mega Latias	Dragon Breath	Outrage	22.81	30	676s
18.	Mega X Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike	22.79	37	696s
19.	Shadow Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	22.42	41	705s
20.	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Precipice Blades	22.34	37	692s
21.	Crowned Sword Zacian	Metal Claw	Play Rough	21.08	21	724s
22.	Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Breaking Swipe	23.04	44	650s
23.	Incarnate Enamorus	Fairy Wind	Dazzling Gleam	22.01	39	716s
24.	Garchomp	Dragon Tail	Breaking Swipe	22.71	43	682s
25.	Dialga	Dragon Breath	Draco Meteor	21.76	36	716s
26.	Mega Gyarados	Dragon Tail	Outrage	20.92	29	748s
27.	White Kyurem	Dragon Breath	Dragon Pulse	22.25	41	689s
28.	Palkia	Dragon Tail	Draco Meteor	21.70	33	672s
29.	Haxorus	Dragon Tail	Breaking Swipe	22.66	50	666s
30.	Shadow Latios	Dragon Breath	Dragon Claw	22.18	49	683s

Origin Forme Palkia Adventure Effect

Trainers who defeat and encounter Origin Forme Palkia in a raid battle will have a chance to catch one that knows the Charged Attack Spacial Rend ! Spacial Rend is not available via TMs.

Adventure Effect

• Spacial Rend allows you to encounter wild Pokémon at an increased distance for 10 minutes.
• Once Spacial Rend ends the timer will resume the encounter radius will return to normal.
• Spacial Rend cannot be used in conjunction with any other Adventure Effects.
• Activating Spacial Rend costs 5,000 Stardust and 5 Palkia Candy

Origin Forme Palkia in Raids and PvP

Palkia is a Water and Dragon-type Pokémon, which makes it resist Fire, Water, and Steel-type attacks. Palkia is a strong Raid Attacker, due to its massive max CP, good choice of attacks, and impressive bulk that can shatter even the most notorious raid bosses. Palkia is a popular choice against Mega Charizard, Dragonite, Groudon and more

As a Raid Attacker

Palkia and Origin Forme Palkia are true monsters in Raids, and they offer an insane amount of damage without requiring any Mega evolution gimmicks. Origin Forme Palkia is one of the top 5 Dragon-type attackers in Pokémon GO.

Although Origin Forme Palkia is overshadowed by Mega Rayquaza, Mega Garchomp, and Mega Salamence, it is the best non-Mega Dragon type in the game. It needs Spacial Rend, but it is a monster in its own right. Definitely worth using and powering up!

In the GO Battle League

While Palkia’s high CP disqualifies it from the Great and Ultra Leagues, it finds its true strength in the Master League. Palkia is unexpectedly bulky, and a wide pool of Charged Attacks makes it a formidable opponent.

Palkia is only vulnerable to two types of attacks – Dragon and Fairy – but unfortunately, both are quite common in the Master League. That doesn’t mean Palkia is bad in the Master League, but you do have to work around this.

Get a second move

Origin Forme Palkia’s strength lies with its moves, especially in the GO Battle League. With that being said, we strongly encourage you to pick up a second charge move. 

• Aqua Tail, a Charged Attack of Palkia, may not be the most damaging but serves well in depleting opponents’ Protect Shields efficiently due to its low energy requirement.
• Adding a second Charged Attack, like Draco Meteor, empowers Palkia with a devastating blow that leverages its same-type attack bonus
• Palkia has not been a strong contender in the Master League up to this point, but Origin Forme Palkia may be more powerful with Spacial Rend as one of its Charged Attacks, as opposed to Draco Meteor.

Origin Forme Palkia Overview

	Origin Palkia DragonWater
Max CP	4683
ATK	286
DEF	223
HP	189
Weak to
Resists
Fast moves	Dragon Breath Dragon Tail
Charge moves	Aqua Tail Fire Blast Hydro Pump Draco Meteor Spacial Rend*

*Only available during limited time events

Be aware, Origin Forme Palkia can have a full Dragon type moveset. In this case, we recommend a team full of Fairy, that resists heavily against that moveset in particular.

If dragons are recommended, then it probably has Aqua Tail, Fire Blast or Hydro Pump as charge attack. So, in this case, long live the dragon supremacy.

Origin Forme Dialga Sprites

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite
Origin Palkia	Origin Palkia

Parting Words

If you can, go for it. Origin Forme Palkia can be an interesting Pokémon. As well as being useful in raids, some Origin Forme Palkia may know Spacial Rend, a move that unlocks a special feature in the overworld, expanding the radius in which Pokémon can appear and be caught.

We talk more about the Adventure Effects here.