Can you solo defeat Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO 5-star raids?

Whether you can solo defeat Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO 5-star raids will impact your level of preparedness as you set out to challenge the creature. Incarnate Forme Thundurus was released in March 2020, and has since returned as a raid boss several times. Unfortunately, solo trainers cannot overwhelm it in 5-star raid battles, irrespective of how good their counters are.

There are several reasons why it is impossible to solo defeat Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO. This article will provide an overview of these reasons and give you an idea of the minimum number of trainers you should enter the battle with to come out victorious.

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Why is it impossible to solo defeat Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO?

Incarnate Forme Landorus (Image via TPC)

Before getting into the reasons why it is impossible to solo defeat Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO, let's look at the creature's attributes:

• Combat Power: 46,044
• Attack: 266
• Defense: 164
• Stamina: 15,000 HP
• Fast Attacks: Astonish, Thunder Shock
• Charged Attacks: Brick Break, Crunch, Thunder, Thunder Punch

Here are the reasons why you cannot take down Incarnate Forme Thundurus on your own:

1) High attack stat: Despite being relatively frain defensively, Thundurus hits like a truck. This means that your attackers faint more often—requiring you to revive and heal them. This costs additional time.

2) No double weakness: One of the key factors that makes 5-star raid bosses solo-able is having a 256% weakness to an elemental type. Moltres, for example, is doubly weak to Rock-type attackers, therefore enabling trainers to whittle down its HP bar within 300 seconds. Such is not the case with the Electric- and Flying-type Incarnate Forme Thundurus.

3) Lack of strong attackers: Rock and Ice, the only two types Thundurus is weak to, have a poor selection of raid attackers. Even with weather boost, these critters don't do enough damage within 300 seconds to solo defeat Incarnate Forme Thundurus.

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Minimum number of raiders required to defeat Pokemon GO Incarnate Thundurus 5-star raids

Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO (Image via TPC)

While it is impossible to solo defeat Incarnate Thundurus in Pokemon GO, you can do so easily with two trainers—as long as you have the best counters equipped. In the absence of favorable weather conditions, the following using the following creatures at level 50, with the recommended movesets, will let you duo the raid boss:

• Mega Diancie: Rock Throw and Rock Slide
• Shadow Rhyperior: Smack Down and Rock Wrecker
• Shadow Rampardos: Smack Down and Rock Slide
• Mega Aerodactyl: Rock Throw and Rock Slide
• Mega or Shadow Tyranitar: Smack Down and Stone Edge
• Tyrantrum: Rock Throw and Meteor Beam
• Terrakion: Smack Down and Rock Slide
• Shadow Mamoswine: Powder Snow and Avalanche
• Shadow Weavile: Ice Shard and Avalanche
• Baxcalibur: Ice Fang and Avalanche
• Galarian Darmanitan: Ice Fang and Avalanche
• Mega Glalie: Frost Breath and Avalanche

For more details check out our extensive Pokemon GO Incarnate Forme Thundurus raid guide.

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