Typhlosion Raid Guide

Typhlosion

Typhlosion is a Tier 3, Fire type raid boss with a raid boss CP of 19579. Its rounded stats, 223 attack, and 173 defense, make it a good candidate for duos, though it can be soloed relatively easily. As a Fire type it is weak to: Ground, Rock, and Water

Typhlosion can be caught in the following CP ranges from Raid encounters:

• 1574 – 1651 CP (Level 20, no weather boost)
• 1968 – 2064 CP (Level 25, boosted by Sunny weather)

Without Blast Burn, Typhlosion is not very important to the raiding or PVP scene and is outclassed by Blast Burn Charizard and other Fire-types such as legendary Moltres and Entei. With that in mind, it is not important to stock up on Typhlosion raids, but could be fun for the speedy raider challenge.

Typhlosion Raid Counters

As mentioned above, Typhlosion is weak to Ground, Rock and Water types, so we will use those types primarily. The nice thing about them is that all three counter types are boosted in different weather conditions, providing a wider variety of scenarios.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	80.44s	2.44
2.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	89.32s	2.78
3.	Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	91.44s	2.56
4.	Gengar (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	107.56s	4.33
5.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Rock Wrecker Rock	127.41s	2.67
6.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Surf Water	124.74s	3.44
7.	Samurott	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	131.98s	3.83
8.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	129.27s	4.83
9.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	120.46s	6.33
10.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Hydro Cannon Water	131.97s	4.14
11.	Terrakion	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	131.63s	4.22
12.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	130.75s	4.78
13.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	137.32s	3.56
14.	Houndoom (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	138.69s	3.67
15.	Feraligatr	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	134.52s	4.67
16.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	132.62s	5.11
17.	Slowbro (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Water Pulse Water	140.61s	3.56
18.	Ampharos (Mega)	Volt Switch Electric	Power Gem Rock	141.83s	3.22
19.	Beedrill (Mega)	Poison Jab Poison	Sludge Bomb Poison	130.03s	4.67
20.	Clawitzer	Water Gun Water	Crabhammer Water	139.30s	4.67
21.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	132.33s	5.78
22.	Crawdaunt	Waterfall Water	Crabhammer Water	135.40s	5.43
23.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	134.34s	5.33
24.	Tyranitar	Smack Down Rock	Stone Edge Rock	142.36s	3.67
25.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	136.80s	5.00
26.	Palkia	Dragon Breath Dragon	Hydro Pump Water	146.52s	3.00
27.	Empoleon	Waterfall Water	Hydro Cannon Water	136.18s	5.22
28.	Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	144.13s	4.11
29.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	139.84s	5.00
30.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Drill Run Ground	131.82s	6.00
31.	Gigalith	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	149.57s	3.86
32.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	151.56s	3.83
33.	Lopunny (Mega)	Pound Normal	Hyper Beam Normal	142.59s	5.33
34.	Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	147.19s	5.50
35.	Krookodile	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	147.74s	5.25

We will talk more about weather effects in battle down below in terms of moves, but the weather is always about half the battle, and the weather conditions are important for picking your best counters. If you look at the table above, they are sorted into the counter types.

In Rainy, you’re better off using water, in Partly Cloudy use your rock types and in Sunny give your ground types a spin! In neutral weather, use your best counters from the various typings, and if you do not have a full team of one type (ie. A full water type team), fill in the extra spaces with your best Pokémon from the other counter types. No shame in a mixed typing team of well-rounded counters.

Typhlosion Move Set

Typhlosion has access to this set of moves as a raid boss:

Fast Moves

• Ember Fire
• Incinerate Fire
• Shadow Claw Ghost

Charge Moves

• Overheat Fire, 1 bar
• Solar Beam Grass, 1 bar
• Fire Blast Fire, 1 bar

As far as fast moves go, all of your optimal counters will resist Ember, making it the easier move to go against. Not that Shadow Claw will hit super effective against any Pokémon that you will probably use, but not having the resistance tends to make it hit a little harder.

For charge move, the red sirens go off for Solar Beam! Solar Beam hits super effectively against every normal counter listed above, except for the dragons. It is a very good coverage move but could make a duo run of it a little tighter than it should be, especially in sunny weather. Fire Blast is the weaker of the one bar, fire type, charge moves, so that would be the easiest charge to go up against.

Weather Effect on Battle

As mentioned above under our counters list, the weather is half the battle! Here is a visual representation of how the weather will play a role in your battle against Typhlosion!

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