Sunkern Raid Guide

Sunkern

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

• 197 – 226 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 247 – 282 CP at Level 25 with Sunny weather boost

It is a Grass type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Fire, Flying and Bug, Ice and Poison type moves. Tier 1 raid bosses are easily soloable so taking it down shouldn’t be too difficult, even without using the best counters.

Sunkern Raid Counters

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

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Nihilego	Acid Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	6.10s	0.00
2.	Pheromosa	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	6.20s	0.00
3.	Yanmega	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	6.26s	0.00
4.	Glaceon	Ice Shard Ice	Ice Beam Ice	6.30s	0.00
5.	Darmanitan (Galarian Standard)	Ice Fang Ice	Avalanche Ice	6.40s	0.00
6.	Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	6.50s	0.00
7.	Porygon-Z	Lock-On Normal	Blizzard Ice	6.65s	0.00
8.	Deoxys (Attack)	Poison Jab Poison	Dark Pulse Dark	6.67s	0.00
9.	Honchkrow	Peck Flying	Sky Attack Flying	6.70s	0.00
10.	Weavile	Ice Shard Ice	Avalanche Ice	6.70s	0.00
11.	Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Sludge Bomb Poison	6.90s	0.00
12.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Aerial Ace Flying	6.90s	0.00
13.	Roserade	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	6.90s	0.00
14.	Toxicroak	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	6.90s	0.00
15.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Psychic Psychic	6.90s	0.00
16.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Psychic Psychic	6.90s	0.00
17.	Overqwil	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	6.90s	0.00
18.	Accelgor	Acid Poison	Bug Buzz Bug	7.00s	0.00
19.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
20.	Arcanine (Hisuian)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
21.	Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
22.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.10s	0.00
23.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
24.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
25.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
26.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
27.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	7.20s	0.00
28.	Jynx	Frost Breath Ice	Avalanche Ice	7.30s	0.00
29.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Flame Charge Fire	7.50s	0.00
30.	Genesect (Normal)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	7.49s	0.00
31.	Genesect (Burn)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	7.52s	0.00
32.	Genesect (Douse)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	7.53s	0.00
33.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Dark Pulse Dark	7.60s	0.00
34.	Sirfetch'd	Fury Cutter Bug	Brave Bird Flying	7.65s	0.00
35.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	7.63s	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.

Sunkern has plenty of counters, 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 Sunkern’s weaknesses.

Stats and Max CP

Sunkern Grass
Max CP at Level 40 395 | Max CP at Level 50 447
ATK 55		DEF 55		STA 102
Weak to			Resists
Fire Flying Bug Ice Poison			Grass Dark Psychic

Moveset

Unfortunately, neither Sunkern nor Sunflora are useful in Pokémon GO due to its stats and moves. I guess you could raid it if you’re missing the shiny but it’s far from a rare spawn so you’ll probably end up getting it at some point.

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