The hardest thing about soloing raid bosses has arguably been catching and powering up the right Pokémon, but it’s been months since generation 3 launched, Mewtwo is no longer restricted to EX raids, and frequent raiders have had an opportunity to amass a heaping pile of Rare Candy. By now, many of us already have a few of the top meta-relevant attackers powered up, and it’s not quite as challenging or exciting to defeat bosses like Alakazam as it once was.

Instead of beating up bosses with the same few Pokémon over and over again, some have developed some of their own goals by placing restrictions on the counters they use for raids. If you’re up for a challenge, consider attempting some of the following. While we’ll focus primarily on soloing level 3 raids, most of this also applies for duoing level 4 raids as well.