Vulpix Raid Guide

Vulpix

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

• 463 – 504 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 579 – 631 CP at Level 25 with Sunny weather boost

It is a Fire type Pokémon, which makes it weak to Water, Rock and Ground type moves. And yes, it can be shiny, but it is a full odds shiny.

Vulpix Raid Counters

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

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	10.99s	0.00
2.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.15s	0.00
3.	Therian Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.19s	0.00
4.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.30s	0.00
5.	Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	12.12s	0.00
6.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Stone Edge Rock	12.14s	0.00
7.	Feraligatr	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	12.17s	0.00
8.	Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	12.34s	0.00
9.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Surf Water	12.49s	0.00
10.	Excadrill	Mud Shot Ground	Drill Run Ground	12.57s	0.00
11.	Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	12.82s	0.00
12.	Midday Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	12.88s	0.00
13.	Midnight Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	12.85s	0.00
14.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	Stone Edge Rock	12.97s	0.00
15.	Dusk Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	12.97s	0.00
16.	Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Hydro Pump Water	12.99s	0.00
17.	Palkia	Dragon Breath Dragon	Hydro Pump Water	13.02s	0.00
18.	Terrakion	Smack Down Rock	Sacred Sword Fighting	13.24s	0.00
19.	Clawitzer	Water Gun Water	Crabhammer Water	13.28s	0.00
20.	Landorus	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	13.42s	0.00
21.	Incarnate Landorus	Rock Throw Rock	Earth Power Ground	13.40s	0.00
22.	Attack Deoxys	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Zap Cannon Electric	13.43s	0.00
23.	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	13.44s	0.00
24.	Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	13.60s	0.00
25.	Omastar	Rock Throw Rock	Hydro Pump Water	13.67s	0.00
26.	Alola Golem	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	13.69s	0.00
27.	Golem	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	13.86s	0.00
28.	Crawdaunt	Waterfall Water	Crabhammer Water	13.91s	0.00
29.	Floatzel	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	14.00s	0.00
30.	Unbound Hoopa	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	14.00s	0.00
31.	Sharpedo	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	14.00s	0.00
32.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	14.10s	0.00
33.	Donphan	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	14.10s	0.00
34.	Nihilego	Acid Poison	Rock Slide Rock	14.13s	0.00
35.	Alola Dugtrio	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	14.10s	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.

Vulpix has plenty of counters, 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 capable of dealing super effective damage such as Vaporeon
• Other heavy-hitting megas

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

Stats and Max CP

Vulpix Fire
Max CP at Level 40 883 | Max CP at Level 50 998
ATK 96		DEF 109		STA 116
Weak to			Strong Against
Water Rock Ground			Bug Grass Steel Ice

Moveset

Ninetales is a good Pokémon to use in Great League PvP. Even if you don’t see it topping the rankings in PvPoke, it can perform quite well if paired up with a strong team to cover its weaknesses. Its shadow variant is actually quite popular in open Great League, and the preferred moveset is usually either Fire Spin or Ember (legacy) as fast moves, and Weather Ball Fire + Overheat as its charge moves.

Ninetales most notable wins vs. the Great League meta include Registeel, Trevenant, Abomasnow, Skarmory and its Alolan counterpart, among others. Not bad, huh?

Vulpix is also one of the best picks in the Little Cup format (under 500 CP). Its moveset is great: Ember is the fast move you should aim for, Body Slam and Weather Ball Fire are very spammy, and Flamethrower is the “nuke” move. It can beat Bronzor, Alolan Diglett, Swinub, Cottonee and many other relevant picks in the meta.

Unfortunately Ninetales just doesn’t have the stats to compete with the top-tier fire type attackers in raids, though.

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