Galarian Slowpoke Tier 4 Community Day Raid Guide

Galarian Slowpoke is a tier 4 raid that can be soloed, and it can be shiny! Galarian Slowpoke has a raid boss CP of 12504, and can be caught with the following CP values:

650 – 700 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
812 – 876 CP at Level 25 with Windy or Rainy weather boost

Galarian Slowpoke evolves into Galarian Slowbro with 50 candies and after catching 50 Poison-type Pokémon* while adventuring with Galarian Slowpoke as your buddy or Galarian Slowking with 50 candies and after catching 50 Psychic-type Pokémon while adventuring with Galarian Slowpoke as your buddy.

*On Saturday, March 18 2023 from 2:00 pm local time and 10:00 pm local time trainers can evolve Galarian Slowpoke into Galarian Slowbro by catching 30 psychic-type Pokémon while adventuring with Galarian Slowpoke as your buddy.

These raids can only be participated in via in person raid passes, using either your free daily raid pass, or premium remote raid passes. You cannot partake in them using remote raid passes.

Completing these special raids will cause Slowpoke to appear around the gym in higher numbers, with the same shiny rate as during Community Day hours!

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Galarian Slowpoke 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 raid counters according to our GO Hub battle simulator for Slowpoke are:

#	Pokémon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Gengar (Mega)	Lick Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	113.67s	3.50
2.	Banette (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	126.85s	3.33
3.	Houndoom (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	143.25s	2.00
4.	Absol (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Payback Dark	140.88s	2.83
5.	Gyarados (Mega)	Bite Dark	Crunch Dark	161.40s	1.00
6.	Scizor (Mega)	Fury Cutter Bug	X-Scissor Bug	172.80s	1.83
7.	Alakazam (Mega)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Shadow Ball Ghost	171.83s	2.67
8.	Beedrill (Mega)	Infestation Bug	X-Scissor Bug	155.96s	6.17
9.	Gardevoir (Mega)	Charm Fairy	Shadow Ball Ghost	184.28s	2.67
10.	Sceptile (Mega)	Fury Cutter Bug	Frenzy Plant Grass	181.10s	3.50
11.	Darkrai	Snarl Dark	Shadow Ball Ghost	197.15s	2.33
12.	Ampharos (Mega)	Volt Switch Electric	Brutal Swing Dark	195.99s	2.83
13.	Hydreigon	Bite Dark	Brutal Swing Dark	203.07s	1.83
14.	Salamence (Mega)	Bite Dark	Draco Meteor Dragon	201.43s	2.33
15.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	191.96s	3.83
16.	Giratina (Origin)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Force Ghost	204.53s	2.67
17.	Gholdengo	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	204.44s	2.67
18.	Swampert (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	204.08s	2.83
19.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	185.61s	6.17
20.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Astonish Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	212.53s	2.00
21.	Blastoise (Mega)	Bite Dark	Hydro Cannon Water	208.42s	3.00
22.	Latios (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	216.35s	2.33
23.	Pheromosa	Bug Bite Bug	Bug Buzz Bug	172.38s	9.60
24.	Hoopa (Confined)	Astonish Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	209.83s	3.50
25.	Chandelure	Hex Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	196.72s	5.50
26.	Yveltal	Snarl Dark	Dark Pulse Dark	223.12s	2.00
27.	Manectric (Mega)	Snarl Dark	Wild Charge Electric	206.50s	4.67
28.	Zoroark	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	213.58s	4.00
29.	Gengar	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost	193.69s	7.40
30.	Weavile	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	218.23s	3.17
31.	Latias (Mega)	Dragon Breath Dragon	Outrage Dragon	231.90s	2.00
32.	Zarude	Bite Dark	Dark Pulse Dark	237.98s	1.50
33.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	222.55s	4.00
34.	Honchkrow	Snarl Dark	Dark Pulse Dark	229.87s	3.00
35.	Houndoom	Snarl Dark	Foul Play Dark	234.16s	2.50