Suicune, the line-up

I'm still getting questions about this raid boss, so here goes.

Suicune is weak against electric and grass type attacks.

If you're basically lacking just about everything, you still have jolteon. Give it Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt or Discharge, and you're ready to go. The main weakness with jolteon is that it's a squishy.


However, you really want an exeggutor. There's a lot of targets in the gyms that hate grass attacks anyway, and a Bullet Seed / Solar Beam exeggutor should be part of your offensive lineup.

Now there's a catch with exeggutor when it comes to taking down suicune. Your target comes with either Extrasensory or Snarl. The attacks are identical apart from typing. Psychic and dark. Snarl will inflict twice the damage that Extrasensory does due to that difference in typing.


Since we in Europe got to see raikou last there's a perfectly valid reason to build a zapdos. Charge Beam / Thunderbolt and start spamming super effective charge attacks.


I personally lead into the fights with my trusty victrebeel. Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade is an outright nasty combination for softening suicune up before it starts spamming charge attacks of its own. Now victrebeel isn't anything I suggest you investing your hardwon stardust into. I just happen to have a perfect IV one I maxed out a long time ago.


Suicune's charge attacks are all water, so they're ineffective against grass but deal neautral damage to electric type pokemon. It shows in staying power when you compare your electric type attackers with your grass type ones.


As usual, if you're short of a full team there's always dragonite as a backup. In this fight it comes with the added bonus that water attacks are ineffective against dragon type pokemon.