Rockruff Raid Guide

Rockruff

Rockruff is one of the few Pokémon featured in the first Gen VII wave in Pokémon GO. It is currently available in raids as a Tier 1 raid boss, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 499 – 543 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 624 – 679 CP at Level 25 with Partly Cloudy weather boost

It is a Rock type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Grass, Ground, Steel, Water and Fighting type moves. And yes, it can be shiny.

Rockruff Raid Counters

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

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	42.48s	0.33
2.	Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	45.99s	0.00
3.	Venusaur (Mega)	Vine Whip Grass	Frenzy Plant Grass	47.83s	0.33
4.	Lopunny (Mega)	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	50.95s	0.17
5.	Steelix (Mega)	Iron Tail Steel	Earthquake Ground	60.48s	0.00
6.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	57.53s	0.33
7.	Metagross	Bullet Punch Steel	Meteor Mash Steel	59.28s	0.33
8.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	55.38s	1.00
9.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	65.37s	0.00
10.	Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	62.35s	0.33
11.	Abomasnow (Mega)	Razor Leaf Grass	Energy Ball Grass	58.60s	1.00
12.	Zarude	Vine Whip Grass	Power Whip Grass	62.02s	0.50
13.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	64.10s	0.33
14.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	63.00s	0.50
15.	Houndoom (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	68.05s	0.00
16.	Dialga	Metal Claw Steel	Iron Head Steel	64.99s	0.33
17.	Machamp	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	65.86s	0.40
18.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	62.79s	1.00
19.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	69.78s	0.00
20.	Heracross	Counter Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	70.51s	0.00
21.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	62.18s	1.00
22.	Empoleon	Metal Claw Steel	Hydro Cannon Water	65.16s	0.67
23.	Terrakion	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Sacred Sword Fighting	70.93s	0.00
24.	Zacian	Metal Claw Steel	Iron Head Steel	70.88s	0.00
25.	Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	71.08s	0.00
26.	Beedrill (Mega)	Bug Bite Bug	Drill Run Ground	63.39s	1.00
27.	Meloetta (Pirouette)	Low Kick Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	69.21s	0.20
28.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	71.33s	0.00
29.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	63.74s	1.00
30.	Breloom	Counter Fighting	Grass Knot Grass	64.00s	1.00
31.	Sirfetch'd	Counter Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	66.85s	0.60
32.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Hydro Cannon Water	67.48s	0.50
33.	Primarina	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	72.26s	0.00
34.	Hariyama	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	70.96s	0.25
35.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	65.46s	1.00

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.

Rockruff has so many weaknesses that the list could go on forever. If you don’t have ANY of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

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

But please, try to use the Pokémon listed above if possible, your raid mates will thank you for that.

Stats and Max CP

Rockruff Rock
Max CP at Level 40 950 | Max CP at Level 50 1074
ATK 117		DEF 78		STA 128
Weak to			Strong Against
Grass Ground Steel Water Fighting			Fire Flying Bug Ice

Moveset

Fast Moves	Charge Moves
Rock Throw Rock Tackle Normal	Stone Edge Rock Crunch Dark Rock Tomb Rock

Rockruff is only a dex filler but one of its evolutions, Midnight Lycanroc, is actually a Pokémon worth considering for PvP if you love running spice.

It has access to the best fast move in the game (Counter), along with Psychic Fangs, Crunch and Stone Edge. Keep in mind though that rock type Pokémon have plenty of weaknesses in the current meta and Lycanroc is not really a bulky Pokémon either.

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