Best Nihilego Counters for Pokemon Go Raids: Weaknesses & Type Effectiveness

Nihilego will once again appear in Pokemon GO raids as part of GO Fest 2024 Global, with a sneak preview the week before to help trainers prepare. Here are the best counters for Nihilego in Pokemon GO.

All Nihilego Weaknesses & Type Effectiveness in Pokemon Go

The key to beating any 5-Star Raid is to lean into type strengths and weaknesses to give your team an edge against the boss. Nihilego is a dual-type Rock and Poison-type Ultra Beast Pokemon. So, when planning for your Nihilego raid in Pokemon GO, your best counters are to train up Ground-type Pokemon, alongside Psychic, Water, and Steel-type creatures. Because Nihilego is 2X weak to Ground, these moves will be your biggest powerhouse, but a mix of other strong types doesn’t hurt.

Pokemon	Type	Vulnerable To	Strong Against	Resistant To
Nihilego	Rock/Poison	Ground (2x) Psychic Steel Water	Bug Fairy Fire Grass Ice	Bug Fairy Fire Flying Fighting Grass Normal Poison

The Best Nihilego Counters in Pokemon Go

Here are our recommendations for some of the best Pokemon to counter Nihilego in Pokemon GO.

Shadow forms will always be a bit more powerful in battle, so if you have them, bring them. Same goes for Mega evolutions of the listed Pokemon, if you’ve got the Mega Energy to spare.

Pokemon	Suggested Moveset
Primal Groudon or Groudon	Mud Shot Precipice Blades
Garchomp	Mud Shot Earth Power
Excadrill	Mud-Slap Scorching Sans
Swampert	Mud Shot Earthquake
Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Earthquake
Mamoswine	Mud-Slap High Horsepower
Landorus	Mud Shot Earth Power
Donphan	Mud-Slap Earthquake
Hippowdon	Sand Attack Scorching Sands
Golem	Mud-Slap Earthquake

When it comes to CP, the Raid Boss version of Nihilego will cap out at 48499, so you’ll want to bring the highest CP Pokemon you have. In terms of catching it, you’ll be able to get your own Nihilego with somewhere between a 2165 and 2830 CP.

To be successful against this Raid Boss, we recommend a team of no fewer than three high-level trainers, or more if you’ve got some lower-level friends who want to take part. It can be done with just two trainers, but you’ll want to be sure you’ve got some high CP heavy-hitting Ground types to manage it. Like most 5-star raids, solo isn’t really a viable option.

Grab your favorite Ground-type powerhouse and best of luck against 5-star Nilego, trainers!

Pokemon GO is available to play now.