Pineco Raid Guide

Pineco

Pineco 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:

• 586 – 633 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 733 – 791 CP at Level 25 with Rainy weather boost

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

Pineco Raid Counters

Pineco 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	Overheat Fire	11.60s	0.00
2.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	12.33s	0.00
3.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Stone Edge Rock	12.33s	0.00
4.	Flareon	Ember Fire	Overheat Fire	12.59s	0.00
5.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Brave Bird Flying	12.70s	0.00
6.	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	12.81s	0.00
7.	Tornadus	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	13.00s	0.00
8.	Incarnate Tornadus	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	12.95s	0.00
9.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	13.08s	0.00
10.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	13.10s	0.00
11.	Honchkrow	Peck Flying	Sky Attack Flying	13.21s	0.00
12.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	13.20s	0.00
13.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	13.26s	0.00
14.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	13.25s	0.00
15.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	13.38s	0.00
16.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	13.43s	0.00
17.	Braviary	Air Slash Flying	Brave Bird Flying	13.57s	0.00
18.	Magmortar	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	13.70s	0.00
19.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	13.75s	0.00
20.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	13.76s	0.00
21.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	13.87s	0.00
22.	Therian Tornadus	Gust Flying	Hurricane Flying	13.92s	0.00
23.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Hurricane Flying	13.92s	0.00
24.	Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	13.92s	0.00
25.	Tyranitar	Smack Down Rock	Stone Edge Rock	13.92s	0.00
26.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	13.91s	0.00
27.	Unfezant	Air Slash Flying	Sky Attack Flying	13.97s	0.00
28.	Midday Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	14.09s	0.00
29.	Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	14.13s	0.00
30.	Rhyperior	Smack Down Rock	Stone Edge Rock	14.23s	0.00
31.	Incineroar	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	14.17s	0.00
32.	Dusk Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	14.30s	0.00
33.	Typhlosion	Incinerate Fire	Overheat Fire	14.30s	0.00
34.	Archeops	Wing Attack Flying	Ancient Power Rock	14.34s	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.

Pineco 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 Pineco’s double weakness to fire and flying type moves.

Stats and Max CP

Pineco Bug
Max CP at Level 40 1108 | Max CP at Level 50 1253
ATK 108		DEF 122		STA 137
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire Flying Rock			Grass Dark Psychic

Moveset

Pineco is not amongst the best picks for Little Cup, but it could work in some restricted formats.

Forretress on the other hand has seen some play in Great League. It’s by no means a meta pick, but some players like 2OButters, PogoKieng and PurpleKyogre have had some success with it.

Shadow Forretress might be worth considering over its regular variant if you need the extra damage boost. But be careful, Forretress is extremely weak to fire. If you’re planning to use it, you should probably pair it with fire type counters such as water types. Its best moveset is Bug Bite, Earthquake and Mirror Shot.

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