Snover Raid Guide

Snover

Snover is currently featured as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 614 – 662 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 768 – 828 CP at Level 25 with Sunny or Snow weather boost

It is a Grass and Ice type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Fire (2x), Bug, Fighting, flying], Poison, Steel and Rock type moves. Snover should be an easy solo, even without the most optimal counters.

Snover Raid Counters

The best raid counters for Snover are listed below, according to our Pokémon GO DB battle simulator:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	29.60s	0.00
2.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	34.35s	0.00
3.	Houndoom (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	34.99s	0.00
4.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	43.44s	0.00
5.	Chandelure	Incinerate Fire	Overheat Fire	45.41s	0.00
6.	Darmanitan	Incinerate Fire	Overheat Fire	46.63s	0.17
7.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	46.52s	0.33
8.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	54.47s	0.00
9.	Emboar	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	51.43s	0.33
10.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	54.89s	0.00
11.	Gengar (Mega)	Hex Ghost	Sludge Bomb Poison	51.60s	0.33
12.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	53.30s	0.17
13.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	52.39s	0.33
14.	Typhlosion	Incinerate Fire	Blast Burn Fire	55.84s	0.00
15.	Magmortar	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	55.82s	0.00
16.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	49.72s	0.67
17.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	56.81s	0.00
18.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	55.82s	0.17
19.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	55.14s	0.33
20.	Beedrill (Mega)	Infestation Bug	Sludge Bomb Poison	52.72s	0.67
21.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire Fire	56.23s	0.33
22.	Victini	Quick Attack Normal	V-create Fire	60.55s	0.00
23.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	55.86s	0.50
24.	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	55.60s	0.67
25.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	55.25s	0.67
26.	Incineroar	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	60.34s	0.17
27.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	56.69s	0.75
28.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Air Slash Flying	Brave Bird Flying	54.58s	0.83
29.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	57.22s	0.83
30.	Lopunny (Mega)	Low Kick Fighting	Fire Punch Fire	60.96s	0.67
31.	Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	58.33s	1.00
32.	Manectric (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Overheat Fire	59.41s	1.00
33.	Salazzle	Incinerate Fire	Fire Blast Fire	62.69s	0.60
34.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Flamethrower Fire	65.61s	0.33
35.	Zacian	Fire Fang Fire	Iron Head Steel	71.99s	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.

Snover has plenty of weaknesses, 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 Snover’s double weakness to fire type moves.

Stats and Max CP

Snover GrassIce
Max CP at Level 40 1159 | Max CP at Level 50 1311
ATK 115		DEF 105		STA 155
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire (2x) Bug Fighting Flying Poison Steel Rock			Flying Ground Dragon Grass

Moveset

Unfortunately, Snover is just a Dex filler. However, Abomasnow is actually a great Pokémon to use in PvP.

Both Abomasnow and shadow Abomasnow are great in PvP. The preferred moveset is Powder Snow, Weather Ball (Ice) and Energy Ball, but some trainers have also tried running its shadow variant with Razor Leaf instead of Powder Snow to apply more fast move pressure.

Abomasnow is ranked pretty high in PvPoke both in Great League and Ultra League (XL strongly recommended). It has a double weakness to fire type moves (+ plenty of other single weaknesses), so make sure to pair it with Pokémon capable of countering common fire type Pokémon such as Talonflame. Some options are Azumarill (GL) and Swampert (GL, UL), but there are many others that can also do the job quite well.

Apart from that, Mega Abomasnow is a Mamoswine-tier ice type attacker, which is quite good! Make sure to bring it in raids where the raid boss has a double weakness to ice type attacks (i.e. vs. Landorus or Rayquaza) and you’ll see how quickly you’re able to defeat the raid boss.

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