Venomoth Raid Guide

Venomoth

Venomoth is a Tier 3 raid boss in Pokémon GO with a raid boss CP of 14631. It cannot be shiny.

Venomoth can be caught with the following CP values:

• 1125 – 1190 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1407 – 1487 CP at Level 25 with Rainy or Cloudy weather boost

Being a Bug and Poison type, it is weak to the Fire, Flying, Psychic and Rock types. 

High-level trainers can easily solo Venomoth, while trainers of a lower level might need to bring a fellow trainers to take down Venomoth.

Venomoth 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.

The best counters for Venomoth are the following:

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	59.84s	1.13
2.	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	63.87s	0.50
3.	Mega Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	58.48s	1.75
4.	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	67.25s	1.50
5.	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	72.99s	1.13
6.	Mega Pidgeot	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	72.72s	1.25
7.	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	75.65s	1.13
8.	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	75.30s	1.50
9.	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	76.19s	1.63
10.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	83.71s	2.25
11.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare Fire	90.14s	1.25
12.	Mega Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Psychic Psychic	88.83s	1.63
13.	Unbound Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	87.84s	2.17
14.	Mega Slowbro	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	90.76s	1.63
15.	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Outrage Dragon	99.67s	1.13
16.	Lunala	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	101.79s	1.25
17.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	101.33s	2.00
18.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	103.83s	1.00
19.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Sky Attack Flying	102.07s	1.38
20.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	100.77s	1.33
21.	Galarian Articuno	Confusion Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	101.83s	1.57
22.	Victini	Confusion Psychic	V-create Fire	107.97s	1.00
23.	Confined Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	102.99s	1.50
24.	Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	99.67s	2.00
25.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	99.40s	2.75
26.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Brave Bird Flying	107.75s	0.00
27.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	104.02s	1.67
28.	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Hydro Cannon Water	104.77s	2.00
29.	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	98.70s	2.17
30.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	107.95s	0.00
31.	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	102.95s	1.50
32.	Rhyperior	Smack Down Rock	Rock Wrecker Rock	110.08s	0.00
33.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	97.90s	2.67

Stats and Max CP

Venomoth BugPoison
Max CP at Level 40 2082 | Max CP at Level 50 2354
ATK 179		DEF 143		HP 171
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire Flying Psychic Rock			Dark Grass Psychic Fairy

Venomoth Movepool

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