Yveltal Raid Guide

Yveltal

Yveltal is a Tier 5 legendary raid boss in Pokémon GO and with a typing of Dark Flying, it is boosted by Fog and Windy weather. Yveltal can be caught with the following CP values:

• 2073- 2160 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 2591- 2701 CP at Level 25 with Fog or Windy weather boost

Its counters include strong Electric Fairy Rock and Ice type Pokémon.

Yveltal’s stats will show that it is pretty bulky and as such, we would suggest 3-5 trainers with strong counters to ensure a hassle-free win. Trainers will less preferable counters or who are lower levelled will want to bring more trainers into the raid with them.

Yveltal 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 Yveltal, based on the time required to win, are the following:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Gardevoir (Mega)	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	387.23s	14.07
2.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Wild Charge Electric	399.27s	18.40
3.	Tyranitar (Mega)	Smack Down Rock	Stone Edge Rock	430.66s	10.33
4.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	433.25s	15.67
5.	Ampharos (Mega)	Charge Beam Electric	Zap Cannon Electric	481.00s	16.93
6.	Glalie (Mega)	Frost Breath Ice	Avalanche Ice	483.25s	24.57
7.	Abomasnow (Mega)	Powder Snow Ice	Weather Ball Ice	505.52s	24.27
8.	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock Electric	Discharge Electric	505.86s	24.60
9.	Zekrom	Charge Beam Electric	Fusion Bolt Electric	549.34s	18.87
10.	Blaziken (Mega)	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	533.57s	28.27
11.	Alakazam (Mega)	Counter Fighting	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	543.29s	27.00
12.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	563.81s	22.13
13.	Thundurus (Therian)	Volt Switch Electric	Thunderbolt Electric	564.26s	23.67
14.	Swampert (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	587.89s	20.27
15.	Salamence (Mega)	Dragon Tail Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	598.63s	17.47
16.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	563.14s	29.79
17.	Rhyperior	Smack Down Rock	Rock Wrecker Rock	609.75s	18.80
18.	Darmanitan (Galarian Standard)	Ice Fang Ice	Avalanche Ice	583.69s	32.58
19.	Electivire	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	595.56s	27.07
20.	Latios (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	607.67s	22.87
21.	Raikou	Thunder Shock Electric	Wild Charge Electric	610.57s	22.00
22.	Terrakion	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	625.92s	21.91
23.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Sludge Bomb Poison	603.99s	28.07
24.	Deoxys (Normal)	Charge Beam Electric	Thunderbolt Electric	618.83s	37.00
25.	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	627.13s	22.25
26.	Mamoswine	Powder Snow Ice	Avalanche Ice	614.78s	25.83
27.	Magnezone	Spark Electric	Wild Charge Electric	634.13s	19.67
28.	Altaria (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	634.33s	21.67
29.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock Electric	Thunderbolt Electric	634.46s	22.00
30.	Beedrill (Mega)	Bug Bite Bug	Sludge Bomb Poison	606.63s	33.29
31.	Aggron (Mega)	Smack Down Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	656.94s	16.43
32.	Latias (Mega)	Charm Fairy	Outrage Dragon	644.46s	19.60
33.	Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	634.26s	23.07
34.	Banette (Mega)	Hex Ghost	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	637.41s	26.00
35.	Gigalith	Smack Down Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	649.35s	20.75

How to get a Shiny Yveltal?

Shiny Yveltal was released with the start of Fashion Week 2022. It is an unusual white, grey and red shiny, and is often referred to as the ‘bacon bird’ shiny.

You can get a Shiny Yveltal from Raid Catch encounters after defeating the Raid Boss.

Yveltal	Shiny Yveltal

Yveltal Stats and Max CP in Pokémon GO

Yveltal DarkFlying
Max CP at Level 40 3781| Max CP at Level 50 4275
ATK 250		DEF 185		HP 246
Weak to			Strong Against
Electric Fairy Ice Rock			Ghost Psychic Bug Fighting Grass

Yveltal’s Moveset Analysis

Yveltal learns the following moves in Pokémon GO:

*Denotes a legacy move only available via Elite TM or during a special event.

While Yveltal has many eyebrow-raising charged moves, it simply cannot be denied that it hits hard. Quite hard. Snarl does decent damage and has a good energy gain, letting Yveltal get to its charged moves fast. Sucker Punch does relatively low damage and has the lowest energy gain out of all Yveltal’s fast moves.

You don’t have to worry too much if the boss Yveltal is using Snarl. Gust does massive damage and also has a good energy gain. However, it is resisted by both Electric and Rock types, which are your best counters. Dark Pulse is a 2-bar charged move, has STAB and does neutral damage to all your main counters. So be wary of this move as it can trouble you a lot.

Hurricane is a powerful STAB move that is not easy to dodge and can do reasonable damage to even the Electric and Rock types that resist it. Coming to the non-STAB moves, Focus Blast is dodgeable but does massive super-effective damage to your Ice and Rock types.

Hyper Beam is again very easy to dodge and despite being a powerful move per see, it shouldn’t be a worry. Psychic won’t KO your counters but is a 2-bar charged move and will come frequently.

In conclusion, Yveltal’s Dark type moves could make it relatively challenging but with the right counters and trainer numbers on your side, it shouldn’t be too hard.

Parting Words

While Yveltal received a nerf to its stats (just like Xerneas), it is still good. It is a good fit in the Master League and PvE meta.

You can read in detail about Yveltal’s performance in my Yveltal Meta-Analysis article and find out just how this amazing Pokémon fares in the meta.

This is a hugely popular Pokémon that can scale more heights with its signature move, Oblivion Wing, done right.

With balanced stats on its side, this legendary monster is a welcome addition to the Dark types. So this is a Pokémon that you definitely want to get good IVs for! Happy Raiding!