Pokémon Go: Mewtwo as a raid boss – 15 best counters in the guide

Update from June 20, 2022: Not only can Mewtwo currently be found in Pokémon Go’s Tier 5 Raids through July 1, 2022, but it can also be found with catch guaranteed charge attacks – until June 23, 2022 with the spooky ball charge attack and from June 23, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. with the psycho shock charge attack! If that’s not a good reason to farm the legendary raid hour on June 22, 2022 and June 29, 2022 between 18:00 and 19:00!

Because by no means has the psycho-Pokémon Mewtwo lost any of its meta power in the meantime. Do you want to challenge Mewtwo in June 2022 and, if you’re lucky, also get your hands on Shiny Mewtwo in its green form? Then you will find below the 15 best counters for the battle with Mewtwo!

Guide: Best counters for Mewtwo

• Mega Gengar with dark claw and haunted ball
• Crypto Mewtwo with psycho blade and haunted ball
• Mega Dogemon with lectures and freeloaders
• Crypto Snibunna with lectures and freeloaders
• Crypto despot with bite and crunch
• Mega Gyarados with bite and crunch
• Mega Absol with a lecture and a dark aura
• skeleton with burden and haunted ball
• Giratina (primordial form) with dark claw and haunted ball
• Hoopa (Unleashed) with wonder and aura of darkness
• Hoopa (Bound) with astonishment and spooky ball
• darkrai with a lecture and a dark aura
• Crypto dogmon with lectures and freeloaders
• Yveltal with a lecture and a dark aura
• Crypto Pinsir with beetle bite and cross scissors

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Updated July 11, 2019: The armored Mewtwo in Pokémon Go offers a few different stats as a raid boss compared to the unarmored Mewtwo, although the counters don’t really change much. Compared to Mewtwo, the armored Mewtwo has lower Attack (182) but higher Defense (278). In windy weather, Mewtwo is boosted with armor to level 25 and has CP between 2376 and 2732. Unboosted (at level 20) Mewtwo has armor between 1,740 and 1,821 cps, if you catch the mon after defeating the raid boss. Incidentally, the raid boss himself has 41,299 CP, which you best beat down with three or more trainers. As previously mentioned, the counters against armored Mewtwo remain the same as unarmored Mewtwo.

Pokémon Go: Mewtwo as a raid boss

Mewtwo is a Tier 5 Raid Boss and has 54,148 WP; You have to beat down 15,000 life points within the time frame of the raid. Mewtwo is a Psychic-type Pokémon, and is vulnerable to Dark-, Bug-, and Ghost-type attacks. For Mewtwo, you should be at least three trainers with well-chosen counters. Accordingly, Pokémon such as Despotar, Giratina (original form), Gengar or Mewtwo are themselves suitable counter-pocket monsters. In fog, your attackers’ dark attacks are most effective, in rainy weather your Mon’s bug attacks are buffed. But don’t be surprised if Mewtwo has the Focus Blast Charged Attack – the legendary Mon will send your Tyranitar to the ground in an instant.

Mewtwo can have the following Charged Attacks: Ice Beam (damage is boosted in snow), Thunderbolt (damage is boosted in rainy weather), Flamethrower (damage is boosted in sunny weather), and Focus Blast (damage is boosted in cloudy weather). So watch out!

For the fight against Mewtwo as a raid boss in Pokémon Go, we recommend the following attackers:

• Tyranitar with Bite and Crunch attacks
• Giratina (Primal Form) with Dark Claw and Spook Ball attacks
• Mewtwo with Psycho Blade and Spook Ball attacks
• Gengar with Dark Claw/Licky and Haunted Ball attacks

Other good counters to use to fill up your team include:

• Snibunna with Feint and Freeload attacks
• Houndoom with the attacks Teachdown and Freeloader
• Absol with the attacks Teachdown and Dark Aura
• Pinsir with the Bug Bite and Cross Scissors attacks
• Raikou with Thunder Shock and Spook Ball attacks
• Traunmagil with the attacks Low Strike and Spook Ball
• Yanmega with the attacks Beetle Bite and Beetle Smash

You can also attack with Banette (with Dark Claw/Haunted Ball) and Tohaido (with Bite and Crunch), but the two right-hand glass cannons are; so don’t last much.