Pheromosa Raid Guide (Ultra Beast)

Pheromosa

Pheromosa is a Bug and Fighting type 5-Star Raid boss. Best Pheromosa raid counters include powerful Fairy, Fire, Flying, and Psychic types, with a mixed range of different counters available to help you defeat it. It is double weak to Flying because of its dual typing.

Pheromosa Raid Boss CP is 40539, and you can catch it in the following CP Ranges:

• 1538 CP to 1624 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1922 CP to 2030 CP at Level 25, with Rainy and Cloudy weather boost

Depending on your levels and counters, we would recommend 2-5 trainers who are high level, and more if you don’t have optimal teams. This guide will tell you how to beat this elegant Ultra Beast, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range.

Best Pokémon to use against Pheromosa

List of counters for the Pheromosa 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.

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Rayquaza (Mega)	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	3	103s
2.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	6	133s
3.	Moltres (Shadow)	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	6	147s
4.	Salamence (Shadow)	Fire Fang Fire	Fly Flying	8	149s
5.	Honchkrow (Shadow)	Peck Flying	Sky Attack Flying	16	182s
6.	Staraptor (Shadow)	Gust Flying	Fly Flying	12	143s
7.	Salamence (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Fly Flying	5	169s
8.	Enamorus (Incarnate)	Fairy Wind Fairy	Fly Flying	6	170s
9.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Oblivion Wing Flying	9	158s
10.	Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	6	178s
11.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	10	165s
12.	Zapdos (Shadow)	Thunder Shock Electric	Drill Peck Flying	8	170s
13.	Unfezant (Shadow)	Air Slash Flying	Sky Attack Flying	14	160s
14.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fly Flying	8	182s
15.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Air Slash Flying	Blast Burn Fire	7	193s
16.	Staraptor	Gust Flying	Fly Flying	13	174s
17.	Ho-Oh (Shadow)	Extrasensory Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	6	197s
18.	Ho-Oh (Apex Shadow)	Extrasensory Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	6	197s
19.	Honchkrow	Peck Flying	Sky Attack Flying	17	168s
20.	Braviary	Air Slash Flying	Fly Flying	11	181s
21.	Tornadus	Gust Flying	Bleakwind Storm Flying	9	190s
22.	Lugia	Extrasensory Psychic	Aeroblast Flying	6	207s
23.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	14	179s
24.	Tornadus	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	11	243s
25.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Brave Bird Flying	11	191s
26.	Braviary (Hisuian)	Air Slash Flying	Fly Flying	10	197s
27.	Articuno (Galarian)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	9	206s
28.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock Electric	Drill Peck Flying	9	208s
29.	Swanna (Shadow)	Air Slash [fly]	Fly Flying	14	195s
30.	Unfezant	Air Slash [fly]	Sky Attack [fly]	15	2195s

Pheromosa sprites

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Pheromosa Moveset Analysis

As a bug type attacker, its best moveset would be Bug Bite and Bug Buzz. With that moveset, Pheromosa becomes the #1 non-mega bug type attacker in the game. It has a massive attack stat, but very little bulk, so will be a glass cannon for raiding.

Pheromosa Stats

Pheromosa BugFighting
Max CP at lvl 40 2842 / lvl 50 3213
ATK 316		DEF 85		HP 174
Weak to			Strong Against
Flying x2 Fairy Fire Psychic			Bug Dark Fighting Grass Ground

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