Walrein Raid Counters Guide

Walrein is a Tier 4 Raid Boss, with a Raid Boss CP of 25828 and a dual Ice / Water typing. Walrein’s max capture CP is as follows:

• 1483 – 1557 CP (No weather boost, level 20, 100% IV)
• 1854 – 1947 CP ( Snow and Rainy weather, level 25, 100% IV)

In this guide, you will learn how to handle Walrein in the Raid Boss scene. To take down a Walrein you will need a minimum of 3 trainers but we recommend you go with 4-5 trainers.

Walrein Raid Counters

Walrein raid counters are an easy pick. You should look at mainly using one of two types, either your side sweeping Fighting types or your quick Electric types.

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	342.6s	17
2.	Machamp	Karate Chop	Dynamic Punch	385.2s	15
3.	Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	392.4s	15
4.	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	341.8s	23
5.	Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	398.8s	15
6.	Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	408.0s	15
7.	Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	379.9s	18
8.	Tangrowth	Vine Whip	Power Whip	418.0s	13
9.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock	Thunderbolt	393.6s	17
10.	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	392.9s	18
11.	Breloom	Counter	Dynamic Punch	382.3s	19
12.	Mewtwo	Confusion	Thunderbolt	431.4s	15
13.	Tyranitar	Smack Down	Stone Edge	423.2s	17
14.	Roserade	Razor Leaf	Grass Knot	412.4s	18
15.	Heracross	Counter	Close Combat	436.0s	16
16.	Shaymin (Sky)	Hidden Power	Grass Knot	437.7s	15
17.	Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	415.5s	20
18.	Torterra	Razor Leaf	Frenzy Plant	431.6s	18
19.	Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant	439.4s	18
20.	Gallade	Low Kick	Close Combat	455.1s	18
21.	Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant	438.5s	18
22.	Exeggutor	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	448.2s	18
23.	Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	418.6s	23
24.	Golem (Alola)	Rock Throw	Wild Charge	437.1s	21
25.	Toxicroak	Counter	Dynamic Punch	429.9s	22
26.	Simisage	Vine Whip	Grass Knot	442.0s	20
27.	Leafeon	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	457.5s	17
28.	Porygon-Z	Charge Beam	Solar Beam	453.5s	20
29.	Exeggutor (Alola)	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	461.0s	16
30.	Jolteon	Thunder Shock	Thunderbolt	446.3s	21

Choosing Walrein counters can be easy if you take the time to analyze your counters, although being a Tier 4 boss, the previous counters can be used pretty much interchangeably.

Counters Based on Walrein Movesets

When it comes time to making your counters team, take caution of Walrein’s following moves:

• Frost Breath Ice (Fast)
• Waterfall Water (Fast)
• Blizzard Ice (Charged, 1 bar)
• Earthquake Ground (Charged, 1 bar)
• Water Pulse Water (Charged, 2 bars)

Like said previously, Walrein can be handled almost entirely by the same counters, however, if you want to play it safe, these are the best counters you can used based off of its moveset.

Additional Walrein Counters

If you are unable to catch the Pokémon stated above, these are a few different backups or alternatives you can use in your next Walrein Raid.

• Tangrowth with Vine Whip Grass / Solar Beam Grass
• Tyranitar with Smack Down Rock / Stone Edge Rock
• Heracross with Counter Fighting / Close Combat Fighting
• Attack Deoxys with Poison Jab Poison / Zap Cannon Electric
• Blaziken with Counter Fighting / Focus Blast Fighting
• Groudon with Mud Shot Ground / Solar Beam Grass

Weather Influence

Since we can see that Walrein can be managed a bit differently depending on its moveset, you should most likely take advantage of weather for strength.

Generally, your best option is to wait until Cloudy weather appears and use Machamp along with your Fighting types, this will give you a well needed advantage over Walrein, and so it should be able to go down with less trainers.

If Cloudy weather is hard to come by where you are, try to go for Rainy weather and use your strongest Electric type counters, this may be a bit risky since Walrein will also be boosted, but as long as you have a strong team and enough trainers, this shouldn’t prove to be that much of a challenge.

Besides this you should completely avoid Snow if you can, this will only benefit Walrein and may hurt your chances of taking one down.

Final Notes

• Take advantage of Fighting types when battling against Walrein in Cloudy weather or use your Electric types in Rainy weather
• To catch a weather boosted Walrein, raid during Rainy weather
• A level 20, 100% IV Walrein will be 1557 CP, and weather boosted will be 1947 CP
• Avoid using Pokémon that will take super effective damage, unless if they have a high CP and DPS value