Steelix Raid Guide

Steelix

Steelix is a Steel and Ground type tier 3 Pokémon GO Raid Boss. Best Steelix raid counters include powerful Fire, Fighting, Water and Ground types, with a mixed range of different counters available to help you defeat it.

Steelix can be caught with the following CP values:

• 1308 – 1379 CP no weather boost
• 1635 – 1724 CP boosted by Sunny or Snow weather boost

Steelix has a high defense, so we would recommend 1-3 trainers with optimal counters. This guide will tell you how to beat Steelix, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range. If you’re lucky, you can find shiny Steelix after defeat it!

Steelix Counters

Let’s check out the top raid counters for Steelix:

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades* Ground	2	133s
2.	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse* Water	2	134s
3.	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn* Fire	3	139s
4.	Mega Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn* Fire	4	132s
5.	Mega Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon* Water	2	148s
6.	Shadow Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades* Ground	3	143s
7.	Shadow Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse* Water	3	144s
8.	Mega Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power* Ground	3	150s
9.	Mega Heracross	Counter Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	3	150s
10.	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon* Water	3	159s
11.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare* Fire	4	155s
12.	Shadow Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	6	144s
13.	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	4	155s
14.	Shadow Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Scorching Sands Ground	5	152s
15.	Therian Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Sandsear Storm* Ground	4	162s
16.	Shadow Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn* Fire	6	146s
17.	Terrakion	Double Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword* Fighting	5	154s
18.	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire+ Fire	3	167s
19.	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	4	158ss
20.	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power* Ground	4	158s
21.	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	3	175s
22.	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon* Water	4	161s
23.	Ordinary Keldeo	Low Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	4	164s
24.	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn* Fire	4	160s
25.	Shadow Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	6	151s
26.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Precipice Blades* Ground	3	169s
27.	Shadow Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	6	150s
28.	Shadow Machamp	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	5	156s
29.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse* Water	3	172s
30.	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn* Fire	5	161s

With a wide range of counters and a fair few different type weaknesses thanks to that Steel and Ground dual typing, most trainers should find themselves able to whip up a strong team of counters.

Steelix Stats and Moveset

For optimal DPS Iron Tail and Heavy Slam are your best choices, as they also get STAB.

And remember, Steelix has a Mega evolution. To make best use of Mega Steelix keep it as a Steel type attacker. To mega evolve Steelix, you will need 200 Mega Energy for the initial evolution, then 40 Mega Energy to evolve the same Steelix again in the future. You can only obtain Mega Energy through Mega Steelix raids, not Steelix raids.

Learn more about Mega Steelix in PvP here: Budget Busters: A PvP Analysis of Mega Master League. 

Steelix SteelGround
Max CP at lvl 40: 2414x | lvl 50: 2729
ATK 148		DEF 272		HP 181
Weak to			Strong Against
Fighting Fire Water Ground			Rock Fairy Electric Poison

Shiny Steelix

Because it has a Mega evolution, you can catch the shiny version of Steelix from a raid.

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite