Suicune leaves Pokémon GO raids tomorrow, replaced by Dragon / Psychic duo from Latias and Latios. Let’s take a look at the top counters to help Latios coaches, who can be found in their Brilliant form. With this Raid Guide, you can prepare a team to face this Legendary from the Hoenn region, perfect your capture strategy and understand the 100% IVs of Latios.
Top Latios accountants
Pokebattler, who calculates all possible Pokémon combinations and moves, lists the top 10 Latios counters as:
- Mega Gengar (Lick, Shadow Ball)
- Shadow Salamence (Dragon Tail, Outrage)
- Shadow Dragonite (Dragon Tail, Draco Meteor)
- Mega Houndoom (growl, dirty game) *
- Rayquaza (Dragon Tail, Outrage)
- Salamence (Dragon Tail, Draco Meteor)
- Dialga (Dragon’s Breath, Meteor Drake)
- Shadow Weavile (Snarl, Avalanche)
- Shadow Mewtwo (Psycho Cut, Shadow Ball)
- Zekrom (dragon’s breath, outrage)
It is recommended to increase your counters as much as possible, but creating this amount of strong Shadow or Mega Pokémon with your movements unlocked is a difficult task even for the most experienced players. Here are ten additional non-Shadow and non-Mega counters that can help bring Latios down efficiently.
* Remember that only one Mega can be active at a time at the time of writing, so your best bet is to enter Gengar instead of Houndoom.
- Darkrai (growl, dark pulse)
- Garchomp (Dragon Tail, Outrage)
- Dragonite (Dragon Tail, Outrage)
- Palkia (Dragon Tail, Draco Meteor)
- Reshiram (Dragon’s Breath, Meteor Draco)
- Origin Forme Giratina (Shadow Claw, Shadow Ball)
- Latios (dragon’s breath, dragon’s claw)
- Haxorus (dragon tail, dragon claw)
- Chandelure (Hex, Shadow Ball)
- Weavile (Snarl, Avalanche)
How many coaches are needed?
Latios can be defeated with three coaches, but if you can’t guarantee the best accountants with maximum CP and the best moves, your best bet is to make sure you have four or five players.
Using the Circle Blocking Technique to ensure Great or Excellent launches, along with Golden Razz Berries, is the best way to capture Latios. However, be careful, as these Pokémon are known to move a lot.
Brilliant odds and 100% IVs
The brightness rate for legendary Pokémon is approximately one in twenty.
When looking for a Pokémon with the best stats, the 100% IV Latios will have a CP of 2178 in normal weather conditions and 2723 in optimized conditions.
Good forays, fellow coaches!