Swirlix Raid Guide

Swirlix

Swirlix is currently featured as a Tier 1 raid boss in Pokémon GO during the Spring into Spring 2022 Event, and it can be caught with the following CP values:

• 625 – 673 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 781 – 842 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

It is a Fairy type Pokémon, which makes it only weak to Steel and Poison type moves.

Swirlix Raid Counters

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

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Mega Gengar	Hex Ghost	Sludge Bomb Poison	59.92s	0.00
2.	Mega Beedrill	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	58.38s	0.50
3.	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	82.79s	0.00
4.	Metagross	Bullet Punch Steel	Meteor Mash Steel	83.31s	0.00
5.	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip Grass	Sludge Bomb Poison	84.19s	0.00
6.	Mega Steelix	Iron Tail Steel	Heavy Slam Steel	88.49s	0.50
7.	Mega Pidgeot	Steel Wing Steel	Brave Bird Flying	87.22s	1.00
8.	Dialga	Metal Claw Steel	Iron Head Steel	95.03s	0.50
9.	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	97.20s	0.50
10.	Mega Aerodactyl	Steel Wing Steel	Iron Head Steel	94.06s	1.00
11.	Douse Genesect	Metal Claw Steel	Magnet Bomb Steel	97.69s	0.50
12.	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	95.19s	1.00
13.	Burn Genesect	Metal Claw Steel	Magnet Bomb Steel	98.71s	0.50
14.	Normal Genesect	Metal Claw Steel	Magnet Bomb Steel	98.91s	0.50
15.	Roserade	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	96.45s	1.00
16.	Zacian	Metal Claw Steel	Iron Head Steel	101.29s	0.50
17.	Gengar	Lick Ghost	Sludge Bomb Poison	101.65s	1.00
18.	Jirachi	Confusion Psychic	Doom Desire Steel	107.56s	0.50
19.	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	99.13s	1.50
20.	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	103.26s	1.00
21.	Excadrill	Metal Claw Steel	Iron Head Steel	100.72s	1.50
22.	Toxicroak	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	108.10s	1.00
23.	Mega Lopunny	Pound Normal	Hyper Beam Normal	99.67s	1.50
24.	Bisharp	Metal Claw Steel	Iron Head Steel	109.75s	1.00
25.	Ho-Oh	Steel Wing Steel	Brave Bird Flying	118.22s	0.00
26.	Scizor	Bullet Punch Steel	Iron Head Steel	111.71s	0.50
27.	Dragonite	Steel Wing Steel	Hurricane Flying	120.05s	0.00
28.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	111.61s	1.00
29.	Vileplume	Acid Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	111.80s	1.00
30.	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	103.90s	2.00
31.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Iron Head Steel	120.65s	0.00
32.	Victreebel	Acid Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	111.08s	1.00
33.	Scolipede	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	113.55s	1.00
34.	Salazzle	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Wave Poison	113.95s	1.00
35.	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch Electric	Zap Cannon Electric	104.60s	2.00

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.

Swirlix doesn’t have many weaknesses, but if you don’t have ANY of the Pokémon listed above powered up, you can always use:

• “Generalist” Pokémon such as Psycho Cut + Psystrike* Mewtwo
• Eevolutions
• Other heavy-hitting megas

But please, try to use the Pokémon listed above if possible.

Stats and Max CP

Swirlix Fairy
Max CP at Level 40 1179 | Max CP at Level 50 1333
ATK 109		DEF 119		STA 158
Weak to			Strong Against
Steel Poison			Fighting Dark Dragon

Moveset

Slurpuff (Swirlix’s evolution) is a decent Charm user to consider in Great and Ultra League. It’s nowhere near as common as other charmers such as Wigglytuff, Clefable, Sylveon and even (shadow) Granbull for a reason, but could be used in certain cups, restricted formats or triple charm teams if needed.

It only has access to high-energy charge moves (Energy Ball, Flamethrower, Play Rough and Draining Kiss), which makes it a bit inflexible. Furthermore, you’ll need to fully XL it if you want to use it in Ultra League.

Unfortunately, there is not much use for Slurpuff outside of PvP.

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