Poliwrath Raid Boss

Poliwrath is a Tier 3 Raid Boss in Pokémon GO, with a raid boss CP of 16674. It is a Water and Fighting type, with weaknesses to Electric, Fairy, Flying, Grass and Psychic types.

Poliwrath can be caught with the following CP Ranges:

• 1405 CP to 1477 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1757 CP to 1847 CP at Level 25, with Rainy and Cloudy weather boost

Poliwrath Raid Counters

List of counters for the Poliwrath 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.

Since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to remove Frustration with a Charge TM, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article. That being said, if you have the shadow form of a listed raid counter Pokémon powered up and TMed, use it.

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Alakazam (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	73.33s	1.87
2.	Latios (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	82.96s	1.13
3.	Latias (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	96.21s	1.27
4.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Air Slash Flying	Brave Bird Flying	91.06s	2.53
5.	Venusaur (Mega)	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	97.93s	1.40
6.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	90.06s	2.87
7.	Ampharos (Mega)	Volt Switch Electric	Zap Cannon Electric	101.16s	1.93
8.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	104.32s	2.00
9.	Slowbro (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	114.69s	1.27
10.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Psychic Psychic	113.03s	2.27
11.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	111.05s	3.27
12.	Kartana	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	111.31s	4.27
13.	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock Electric	Power Whip Grass	115.13s	3.87
14.	Lunala	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	129.62s	1.67
15.	Abomasnow (Mega)	Razor Leaf Grass	Energy Ball Grass	125.11s	2.92
16.	Zekrom	Charge Beam Electric	Wild Charge Electric	126.10s	2.67
17.	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	130.41s	1.82
18.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Air Slash Flying	Overheat Fire	129.79s	2.22
19.	Articuno (Galarian)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	129.29s	2.29
20.	Banette (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	127.49s	2.92
21.	Thundurus (Therian)	Volt Switch Electric	Thunderbolt Electric	125.31s	3.38
22.	Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	129.48s	2.73
23.	Zarude	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	131.81s	2.33
24.	Deoxys (Attack)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Zap Cannon Electric	111.76s	7.80
25.	Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	127.06s	3.67
26.	Tapu Lele	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	137.16s	1.63
27.	Deoxys (Normal)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Thunderbolt Electric	123.26s	4.50
28.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	129.94s	3.27
29.	Azelf	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	134.00s	2.00
30.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	134.03s	2.54
31.	Raikou	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	135.52s	2.67
32.	Altaria (Mega)	Peck Flying	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	136.54s	2.38
33.	Gardevoir	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	139.08s	1.33
34.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	136.08s	2.50
35.	Roserade	Razor Leaf Grass	Grass Knot Grass	138.95s	3.00

Poliwrath counters generally fall in two categories / brackets, depending on the moveset that Poliwrath has:

• A fighting moveset Poliwrath is countered by Psychic and Flying Pokemon
• A water moveset Poliwrath is countered by Electric / Grass Pokemon

Mixed movesets are more or less easily countered by all of the Pokémon mentioned above, but this duality of possible movesets makes it super interesting to raid against Poliwrath. A good rule of thumb is to bring a mix of the above mentioned attackers and prioritize the appropriate ones. This is a great opportunity to give your Zapdos and Raikou some play time. Be wary of Ice Punch Poliwrath when using Grass counters.

Poliwrath Stats

Poliwrath WaterFighting
Max CP at lvl 40 2586 / lvl 50 2923
ATK 182		DEF 184		HP 207
Weak to			Resistances
Flying Fairy Electric Psychic Grass			Bug Dark Fire Grass Rock Ice Steel Water

Poliwrath Moveset

Poliwrath has access to following moves:

Weather effects

Poliwrath is best fought in Sunny or Windy weather as it only provides boosts to attackers and nothing to Poliwrath, although both Cloudy and Rainy will provide boosts to Fairy and Electric at the costs of buffs to Poliwrath’s own fighting and water moves. The only truly negative weather is if a Ice Punch Poliwrath has a snowy advantage.