Charizard

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Blast Burn

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Very good Fire-Type attacker, with useful flying-typing Legacy: BLAST_BURN. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Charmander currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel, Fighting

With Level 35 Charizard you need 4 players.

Flareon

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Overheat

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Eevee currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel

With Level 35 Flareon you need 4 players.

Hariyama

Best Moveset: Counter/ Dynamic Punch

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hariyama is cheaper to evolve up than Machamp, requiring less candy and a more common Pokemon (with nearly identical practical performance). Makuhita was last in raids April 2019, and they do Nest and are in 2K eggs. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Makuhita currently can be found in nests. Makuhita was last a raid boss 3/27/2019. It was last in Raids 204 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Hyper Beam

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

With Level 35 Hariyama you need 4 players.

Heatran

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Fire Blast

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Heatran was last a raid boss 1/3/2019. It was last in Raids 276 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-2xResists: Steel

-Resists: Normal

-Weak: Fighting

With Level 35 Heatran you need 4 players.

Heracross

Best Moveset: Counter/ Close Combat

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Heracross is a Regional Exclusive Pokemon limited to Central and South America. It’s arguably the most useful Regional, having been among the best Fighting Types (and soon to be obliterated down the rankings once the incredible GEN 5 Fighting-Type Pokemon get released). You can get them in 5K eggs acquired within its spawn region as well. This family hatches from 5K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Fighting

With Level 35 Heracross you need 4 players.

Salamence

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/ Fire Blast

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Salamence Community Day was April 2019, which is when it received Outrage. Draco Meteor, however, is not Legacy on Salamence. It’s not really the best at any of the things it can do, but it’s still a top tier Dragon with powerful off-type movesets as well. This family hatches from 10K eggs. Bagon was last a raid boss 8/31/2019. It was last in Raids 46 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Fighting

With Level 35 Salamence you need 4 players.

Typhlosion

Best Moveset: Ember/ Blast Burn

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Legacy: BLAST BURN. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Cyndaquil currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Legacy Charge Move: Blast_Burn

-Resists: Steel

With Level 35 Typhlosion you need 4 players.

Magmortar

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Fire Punch

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Magmortar evolves from Magmar, and requires a Sinnoh Stone to Evolve. You can acquire them at random from daily Trainer Battles and Research Breakthroughs. This family hatches from 5K 7K eggs. Magmar currently can be found in nests. Magmar was last a raid boss 2/26/2019. It was last in Raids 231 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Steel

With Level 35 Magmortar you need 4 players.

Toxicroak

Best Moveset: Counter/ Dynamic Punch

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Toxicroak is an unexpectedly great Fighting AND Poison Raid Attacker. Crogunk is moderately uncommon outside of cloudy weather. This family hatches from 5K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Resists: Fighting

With Level 35 Toxicroak you need 4 players.

Excadrill

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/ Drill Run

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Exadrill is a new pokemon, but Drilbur are not rare at all and it is boosted in sunny weather.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

With Level 35 Excadrill you need 4 players.

Arcanine

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/ Flamethrower

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Legacy: FLAMETHROWER. This family hatches from 5K eggs. Growlithe currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Legacy Charge Move: Flamethrower

-Resists: Steel

With Level 35 Arcanine you need 4 players.

Groudon

Best Moveset: Mud Shot/ Earthquake

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Groudon is a Legendary Pokemon and thus can only be gotten in time limited ways, by being featured in Event Raids or Field Research Breakthroughs. Groudon was last a raid boss 7/8/2019. It was last in Raids 100 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Rock Smash / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

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With Level 35 Groudon you need 4 players.

Lucario

Best Moveset: Counter/ Close Combat

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐☆☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

Sadly, Riolu is an egg exclusive Pokemon, one of the absolute rarest and highly desired ones in fact. It was added October 2018. It isn’t easy to power up and has a walking distance of 10k. There are increased chances of finding one in a 7k Alolan egg instead of normal 10ks. You also have better chances if you get difficult Adventure Sync eggs. if you collect your weekly adventure sync reward and have earned the 50k distance, AND have an available egg slot, you will get an egg with a skewed hatch pool. This family hatches from 7K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Hyper Beam

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel, Normal

-Weak: Fighting

With Level 35 Lucario you need 4 players.

Infernape

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Flamethrower

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Torchic is in Jump Start 4/6, and is a uncommon spawn that gets boosted in Sunny (and somewhat in cloudy as well, despite not having the fighting typing yet). This family hatches from 2K eggs. Chimchar currently can be found in nests.Monferno was last a raid boss 3/27/2019. It was last in Raids 204 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel

With Level 35 Infernape you need 4 players.

Garchomp

Best Moveset: Mud Shot/ Earthquake

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Garchomp while a great Dragon AND Ground-Type (and one with a resistance to Rock and triple resistance to Electric) is very difficult to acquire for now. No nests, no events, very rare, very new. Gible are exeedingly rare in the wild.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

With Level 35 Garchomp you need 5 players.

Houndoom

Best Moveset: Fire Fang/ Flamethrower

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐☆☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It’s got the benefits of being a Dark-type that doesn’t involve a ton of extra work to evolve and find as a high level, and Houndour can be found weather boosted in the common Sunny weather. It’s also a relatively common research reward as well. This family hatches from 5K eggs.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Flash Cannon

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Focus Blast

-Resists: Steel

-Weak: Fighting

With Level 35 Houndoom you need 5 players.

Ho_Oh

Best Moveset: Hidden Power Fire/ Fire Blast

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Ho-Oh was last a raid boss 12/14/2018. It was last in Raids 304 days ago.

-Best Matchup: Metal Claw / Focus Blast

-Worst Matchup: Rock Smash / Hyper Beam

-Resists: Steel, Fighting

With Level 35 Ho_Oh you need 5 players.

Golurk

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/ Earth Power

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Golurk is a brand new Pokemon and incredibly rare in the wild.

With Level 35 Golurk you need 5 players.

Emboar

Best Moveset: Low Kick/ Focus Blast

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Emboar is a brand new Pokemon from gen 5! They are the final stage of Tepig, the Fire Starter. It does pretty alright as a Fighting-Type but is very new and hard to acquire. They are not currently known to nest or hatch from eggs.

With Level 35 Emboar you need 5 players.

Heatmor

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Flamethrower

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐☆☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐☆☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Heatmor is a new Pokemon, Region-Locked to the American half of the Globe.

With Level 35 Heatmor you need 5 players.

Simisear

Best Moveset: Fire Spin/ Flamethrower

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐☆☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐☆☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Simisage is a new Pokemon, Region-Locked to the Europe-African region.

With Level 35 Simisear you need 5 players.

Gallade

Best Moveset: Low Kick/ Close Combat

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐☆☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Raltz nest, and were featured in Aug-2019’s community day. They are a decently accessible spawn in cloudy weather and also hatch from 10k eggs. In addition, Kirlia is no stranger to 2-star raids. They do not however nest. This family hatches from 10K eggs. Kirlia was last a raid boss 8/31/2019. It was last in Raids 46 days ago.

-Best Matchup: /

-Worst Matchup: /

-Resists: Fighting

With Level 35 Gallade you need 5 players.

Mamoswine

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/ Bulldoze

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐☆☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐☆☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Mamoswine evolves from Swinub which is a nesting species that has been in raids in the past. Swinub can also be found in Nests. It does however require a Sinnoh Stone to evolve which can be acquired randomly from your first trainer battle every day. Swinub has gotten a community day (February 2019) and was also featured in Christmas events. Finally, Swinub can also spawn in the pool of Pokemon from Glacial Lure Modules, which you can get from the shop for 200 coins. This family hatches from 2K eggs. Swinub currently can be found in nests.

-Best Matchup: /

-Worst Matchup: /

-Weak: Steel, Fighting

With Level 35 Mamoswine you need 5 players.

Rhyperior

Best Moveset: Mud Slap/ Earthquake

⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐☆☆☆☆

🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐☆☆☆☆

📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Rhydon is very common and boosted in Sunny, but Rhyperior is a Sinnoh Stone evolution Pokemon. This family hatches from 5K eggs. Rhyhorn currently can be found in nests. Rhydon was last a raid boss 6/4/2019. It was last in Raids 128 days ago.

-Resists: Normal

-Weak: Steel, Fighting

With Level 35 Rhyperior you need 5 players.