Paras Raid Guide

Paras

Paras will be featured as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO as part of the Bug Out Event, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 536 – 581 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 671 – 727 CP at Level 25 with Sunny or Rainy weather boost

It is a Bug and Grass type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Fire (2x), Flying (2x), Ice, Rock and Poison type moves. Tier 1 raid bosses are easily soloable so taking it down shouldn’t be too difficult, even without using the best counters.

Paras Raid Counters

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

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	6.50s	0.00
2.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
3.	Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
4.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
5.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
6.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
7.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
8.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Flame Charge Fire	7.50s	0.00
9.	Charizard	Wing Attack Flying	Blast Burn Fire	7.70s	0.00
10.	Unfezant	Air Slash Flying	Sky Attack Flying	7.70s	0.00
11.	Honchkrow	Peck Flying	Sky Attack Flying	7.68s	0.00
12.	Sirfetch'd	Fury Cutter Bug	Brave Bird Flying	7.87s	0.00
13.	Typhlosion	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	7.90s	0.00
14.	Emboar	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	7.90s	0.00
15.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	8.40s	0.00
16.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	8.40s	0.00
17.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Aerial Ace Flying	8.52s	0.00
18.	Darmanitan	Incinerate Fire	Rock Slide Rock	8.58s	0.00
19.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Flamethrower Fire	8.60s	0.00
20.	Standard Darmanitan	Incinerate Fire	Rock Slide Rock	8.58s	0.00
21.	Simisear	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	8.79s	0.00
22.	Heatmor	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	8.82s	0.00
23.	Magmortar	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Punch Fire	8.78s	0.00
24.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Draco Meteor Dragon	8.90s	0.00
25.	Staraptor	Quick Attack Normal	Brave Bird Flying	9.10s	0.00
26.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock Electric	Drill Peck Flying	9.07s	0.00
27.	Yveltal	Snarl Dark	Hurricane Flying	9.10s	0.00
28.	Tapu Koko	Quick Attack Normal	Brave Bird Flying	9.13s	0.00
29.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Flame Charge Fire	9.19s	0.00
30.	Rapidash	Incinerate Fire	Flame Charge Fire	9.21s	0.00
31.	Togekiss	Air Slash Flying	Flamethrower Fire	9.50s	0.00
32.	Rufflet	Wing Attack Flying	Brave Bird Flying	9.50s	0.00
33.	Swellow	Wing Attack Flying	Brave Bird Flying	9.56s	0.00
34.	Murkrow	Peck Flying	Drill Peck Flying	9.55s	0.00

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.

Paras has plenty of counters, but if you don’t have ANY of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

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

But please, try to use the Pokémon listed above if possible and take advantage of Paras’ double weakness to fire and flying type moves.

Stats and Max CP

Paras BugGrass
Max CP at Level 40 1018 | Max CP at Level 50 1150
ATK 121		DEF 99		STA 111
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire (2x) Flying (2x) Ice Rock Poison			Grass Dark Psychic

Moveset

Paras doesn’t have much use in Pokémon GO as of now. It could maybe work as a Deino counter in a restricted cup but it’s definitely not a top pick even in Little Cup due to the amount of weaknesses it has.

And unfortunately, Parasect is just a Dex filler. Its weaknesses hold it back in GBL and as you can imagine by looking at its stats, Parasect is not a great attacker to use in raids either. Will it ever shine in a restricted PVP cup? The fact that it has mostly been used as a meme pick in some restricted formats such as the Love Cup speaks for itself.

We hope you found this raid guide useful, happy hunting!