Skuntank Raid Counters Guide

Skuntank is a Tier 3 poison- and dark-type raid boss introduced with the 2019 Halloween Event. This Pokémon boasts a weakness only to ground-type Pokémon, but only has a defense stat of 132, making it a relatively easy raid boss solo, given you have the right counters for it. The catch CPs of Skuntank are as follows:

• 1278 – 1347 CP for a regular encounter (Level 20)
• 1597 – 1684 CP for a weather boosted encounter (Level 25, Fog, Cloudy)

Players with great ground-type counters can easily take on Skuntank alone, with or without a sunny weather boost, but if you are low leveled or just do not have the counters to take it on, we suggest groups of 2+.

Skuntank Raid Counters

The best Skuntank counters are:

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades Ground	1	72s
2.	Mega Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	1	78s
3.	Shadow Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades Ground	2	77s
4.	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail Dragon	Dragon Ascent Flying	1	84s
5.	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	2	83s
6.	Therian Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Sandsear Storm Ground	2	82s
7.	Shadow Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Scorching Sands Ground	2	80s
8.	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	2	86s
9.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades Ground	2	92s
10.	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	High Horsepower Ground	3	84s
11.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	2	100s
12.	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	2	95s
13.	Mega Lucario	Force Palm Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	2	95s
14.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Scorching Sands Ground	2	96s
15.	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	3	94s
16.	Dusk Mane Necrozma	Metal Claw Steel	Sunsteel Strike Steel	2	101s
17.	Incarnate Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	2	100s
18.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	2	103s
19.	Shadow Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Earth Power Ground	2	107s
20.	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	4	92s
21.	Mega Heracross	Counter Fighting	Earthquake Ground	2	102s
22.	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Fly Flying	2	111s
23.	Shadow Hippowdon	Sand Attack Ground	Earth Power Ground	3	101s
24.	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	3	98s
25.	Shadow Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Fly Flying	3	101s
26.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	High Horsepower Ground	3	100s
27.	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle Normal	High Horsepower Ground	2	105s
28.	Shadow Flygon	Sand Attack Ground	Earth Power Ground	3	100s
29.	Shadow Golem	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	3	100s
30.	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse Water	2	112s

Stats and Max CP

Skuntank PoisonDark
Max CP at Level 40 2358 | Max CP at Level 50 2666
ATK 184		DEF 132		HP 230
Weak to			Resistances
Ground			Dark Ghost Grass Poison Psychic

Moveset

Skuntank has access to the following moves:

Most of Skuntanks moves don’t threaten ground-type Pokémon, but Trailblaze will do them some damage. The easiest move set to go up against would have to be Poison Jab and Sludge Bomb, although it is Skuntank’s highest DPS move set, because ground-types are resistant to poison-type moves.

Bite, paired with Crunch or Flamethrower are the more difficult move sets to go up against. Skuntank will use Crunch more frequently, because it is a 3-bar move, which can cause Pokémon to faint quicker. Flamethrower can hit harder in sunny weather, but your ground-types are fighting back just as hard!