Pokemon GO Steenee Raid guide: Best counters and weaknesses

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Steenee raid guide for Pokemon GO (Image via The Pokemon Company, TPC)

An informative Pokemon GO Steenee raid guide is essential in fighting this Grass-type beast in 4-star raids. The critter's Grass elemental typing makes it vulnerable to a lot of monsters, especially the Fire variant. For instance, Pokemon like Charizard, Blaziken, Reshiram, and more are great counters against this raid boss.

This Pokemon GO Steenee Raid guide will run through this creature's best moveset and weaknesses so you can be well-prepared for the 4-star raid.


Pokemon GO Steenee Raid guide: Strengths and weaknesses of the raid boss

Steenee in the anime (Image via TPC)
Steenee in the anime (Image via TPC)

Being a Grass-type beast, Steenee is vulnerable to the following elemental typing:

  • Fire (160% increased damage)
  • Flying (160% increased damage)
  • Bug (160% increased damage)
  • Ice (160% increased damage)
  • Poison (160% increased damage)

It's strong against the following elemental typings:

  • Electric
  • Grass
  • Ground
  • Water

Best Steenee counters in Pokemon GO

There are lots of options you can use to counter Steenee in GO. To help you pick, we have made distinct sections for the best counters:

Recommended Mega or Primal Pokemon for Steenee raids

  • Mega Rayquaza
  • Mega Charizard Y
  • Mega Blaziken
  • Mega Charizard X
  • Mega Pidgeot
  • Mega Heracross
  • Mega Houndoom

Recommended Legendary counters for Steenee raids

  • Rayquaza
  • Moltres
  • Reshiram
  • Ho-Oh
  • Entei
  • Heatran

Recommended Shadow counters for Steenee raids

  • Shadow Moltres
  • Shadow Ho-Oh
  • Shadow Chandelure
  • Shadow Entei
  • Shadow Blaziken
  • Shadow Charizard
  • Shadow Staraptor
  • Shadow Typhlosion

Recommended budget counters for Steenee raids

  • Charizard
  • Blaziken
  • Darmanitan
  • Chandelure
  • Beedrill
  • Gengar
  • Pidgeot
  • Staraptor

Steenee’s moveset as a raid boss in Pokemon GO

Steenee with its trainer (Image via TPC)
Steenee with its trainer (Image via TPC)

As a four-star raid boss, this critter can have the following moves:

Fast moves

  • Razor Leaf
  • Charm

Charged moves

  • Draining Kiss
  • Grass Knot
  • Energy Ball
  • Triple Axel

Catch Combat Power (CP) of Steenee in GO

Steenee will have the following catch CPs:

  • Weather boosted: 491 CP to 541 CP at level 25 with cloudy boost
  • Non-weather boosted: 393 CP to 432 CP at level 20

100% IV CP of Steenee

  • Weather boosted: 541 CP
  • Non-weather boosted: 432 CP

That concludes our GO Steenee Raid guide. If you are interested in Pokemon GO, check out some of our other guides:

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