Swalot Raid Guide

Swalot is a pure Poison type tier 3 raid boss, with a raid boss CP of 12267. Best Swalot counters are strong Ground and Psychic type Pokémon. Well prepared trainers with good counters will be able solo Swalot, but newer trainers, or those without ideal counters, may want to bring a friend.

The CP ranges of Swalot are as follows:

• 1066 – 1130 (at level 20)
• 1333 – 1413 (at level 25 with Cloudy weather boost)

Swalot Raid Counters

Since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to remove Frustration with a Charge TM, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article. That being said, if you have the shadow form of a listed raid counter Pokémon powered up and TMed, use it.

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

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Alakazam (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	64.32s	1.25
2.	Latios (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Luster Purge Psychic	73.20s	1.00
3.	Latias (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	83.65s	1.25
4.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	92.38s	1.75
5.	Gengar (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Psychic Psychic	98.96s	1.00
6.	Slowbro (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	99.38s	1.13
7.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	96.37s	2.25
8.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	109.99s	1.75
9.	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	114.44s	1.63
10.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	122.07s	0.75
11.	Landorus (Therian)	Extrasensory Psychic	Earthquake Ground	115.34s	1.71
12.	Alakazam	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psychic Psychic	111.56s	3.00
13.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	121.97s	1.38
14.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	113.77s	2.75
15.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	116.81s	2.25
16.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	121.81s	1.75
17.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	122.56s	1.63
18.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	124.07s	1.33
19.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	123.48s	1.75
20.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	127.20s	1.50
21.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	124.56s	1.86
22.	Azelf	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	118.21s	3.00
23.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	127.50s	1.75
24.	Absol (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Payback Dark	124.17s	1.00
25.	Articuno (Galarian)	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	123.83s	2.38
26.	Deoxys (Attack)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psycho Boost Psychic	109.38s	3.00
27.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	125.98s	2.13
28.	Steelix (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Earthquake Ground	136.76s	0.60
29.	Gallade	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	124.40s	2.50
30.	Tapu Lele	Confusion Psychic	Psyshock Psychic	124.11s	2.75
31.	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion Psychic	Psyshock Psychic	130.10s	1.75
32.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	123.78s	2.75
33.	Gardevoir	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	124.43s	2.71
34.	Victini	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	137.20s	1.00
35.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	125.35s	2.57

Swalot Stats

Swalot Poison
Max CP at lvl 40 1987 / lvl 50 2236
ATK 140		DEF 159		HP 225
Weak to			Resistances
Ground Psychic			Fighting Bug Fairy Grass Poison

Swalot Raid Move Set

Swalot has access to these moves as a raid boss:

Ice Beam will hit your Ground type counters hard, the other moves shouldn’t trouble any of your counters too much.

Sadly Swalot doesn’t have much use in Pokémon GO due to it’s stats, it could potentially get some usage as a spice pick in a specific PvP Cup, but that’s about it!