TOP 30 BEST POKEMON to POWER UP for ROCKETS in Pokémon GO! (2024)

★ In this video I will be covering the best Pokemon to power up in Pokémon GO.
This list of Pokemon focuses on attackers for the Team Rocket meta, while also highlighting Pokemon that have dual functionality in both raids and PvP.
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[@VampzOh.]

NOW THIS. THIS IS A GOOD VIDEO PEOPLE HAVE WANTED

[@diegobanos6190]

Greninja is one of the best pokemon when it comes to pve, but it shines against rocket battles It reaches charge moves so fast thanks to water shuriken, and it learns both hydro cannon (for damage) and night slash (for baiting shields and it can boost your attack)

[@LuckyBunz]

I have a maxed Level 50 Greninja, gonna need to try this out!

[@KFC_OG]

This is spot on, greninja is one of the best for rockets. Even as neutral damage it can be good.

[@LeCaleb]

So should I use water shuriken and night slash or hydro cannon and night slash?

[@diegobanos6190]

@@LeCaleb water shuriken is a fast move, and is not a legacy one. So I recommend those three moves in its moveset

[@meobachan5028]

agreed. Greninja is the best for Rocket battles, especially the Leaders since it only needs 5 fast moves to remove all the shields (using Night Slash). Moreover, the current leaders lineups are weak against Water-type (two of the 1st Pokémon are rock-type, last one of Cliff commonly is Tyranitar while Sierra is Houndoom). The Ultra League Greninja is far enough, and it's perfect for LV50's Task that requires using a team of 3 Pokémon under 2500CP to take down the leaders.

[@roseakanotfakegoku]

Forced palm for lucario right now is a little worse imo because the spam of counter was amazing but the new nerf just makes forced palm leagues ahead

[@skaare1]

I have to recommend shadow Chandelure as a fire attacker. Incinerate + flame charge buff is absolutely insane

[@sleepy3151]

Thanks for the info Lucky!

[@Alice_Haukea]

This is all very overwhelming to be honest. The video is clear and easy to understand yes, but what's overwhelming is that all these pokemon take a great deal of candy and stardust to invest in. Deciding who to invest in first is hard. I don't play a ton because I'm basically stuck doing solo play and I don't have a lot around me where i live. Which is the other part of things, how do I capitalize on raiding for these cool legendary pokemon when I can't really rely on help or anything?

[@Divercitylife]

There are no real secrets. You just have to grind. The only things you can do is visit really populated areas for bigger events. You could start a second account on another phone, but honestly it’s more work than you would think. And invest in an auto catcher. Any way you look at it, it’s a lot of work, and even more work in your situation. The one thing you can do is use poke genie and join raids remotely. But that can get really expensive.

[@Divercitylife]

I will add, if you are serious about grinding, what I do is an auto catcher and I cycle a lot. Assuming you are of working age you can use an auto catcher when commuting, and maybe your work has pokestops near by so your auto catcher can work in the background.

[@Jackolantirn]

I'm new. Wtf is an autocatcher

[@Shqiptarivertet]

​@@DivercitylifeWhich autocatcher do you use?

[@Lafter-san]

​@@Jackolantirn pokemonn go+, pokemon goplus+, and other 3rd party peripherals

[@KickassKlein]

Could you do a quick in depth for specific pokémon? movesets, what they’re good for, what iv’s to look for (other than hundo) shadow forms etc? i have a lot of good pokémon that need some help

[@mc3628]

Virizion. Great against water, ground, rock, steel, dark, and normal grunts. Excels against Leaders. Dominates against Giovanni. Pretty good in UL, too. Expensive but worth it.

[@LuckyBunz]

You have piqued my interest! I always knew Virizion was good for the UL, but I never considered it for Rockets

[@aaronsapp3407]

Force palm feels like it takes a lot longer to get to charge moves than counter. I don’t know the numbers, just how it feela

[@cesarfranciscocuevaangeles9524]

In poke genie raids simulator it is recomended force palm for lucario insead of counter, so i guess is more dps overall.After counter nerf i think the debate has ended but we still need to see.(I would elite tm my lucario, I tm counter after raid day :(. Talking about pvp, pvppoke still recommends counter but in my veteran grind all lucarios i had seen have force palm. When im against lucario i notice hugely the fast attack damage, i am pro force palm.

[@Darrenlm7]

The nerf is only towards pvp...

[@skaare1]

@@Darrenlm7 and rocket grunts/leaders

[@LuckyBunz]

Thank you for the feedback on Lucario!

[@roseakanotfakegoku]

@@Darrenlm7 rocket battles use pvp format and forced palm was already recommended for raids

[@Darrenlm7]

@@roseakanotfakegoku ohh I see, thx

[@frederickdelius1106]

Was cres worth getting ir was it a win saving the super secret ultra radar?

[@Darrenlm7]

Save

[@LuckyBunz]

After the meta shakeup, it was worth stacking the radar.

[@khadeir55]

First to comment ever is crazy!!!! 😂 Hey you’re amazing at doing these videos and your tips have help me out so much thank you always ❤🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@FlyingDilPickle]

You need a life

[@LuckyBunz]

Thank you, appreciate it! 💙

[@shadow7684]

Hey lucky, just a question about the DPS/TDO spreadsheet, the link in your description does not show newer Pokemon like Dusk Mane Necrozma for me. Can you help me see the rankings for the newer Pokemon too? I know gamepress is making a v2 website but that spreadsheet doesn't let me type in the sort bar for some reason. Thanks and great vids, keep it up

[@LuckyBunz]

They've been doing site maintenance for a while now and still haven't updated it with new Pokémon or moves. The old webpage only started working again recently

[@shadow7684]

@@LuckyBunzthanks, but in your beldum community day tips you saw the spreadsheet and it had dusk mane necrozma

[@LuckyBunz]

​@@shadow7684 I added Dusk Mane and Dawn Wings manually by inputting all of their information.

[@shadow7684]

@@LuckyBunz gotcha thanks

[@RisingBrie]

for rocket grunts I am using a Giratina with shadow claw and dragon claw. its a very spammy moveset

[@LuckyBunz]

Giratina (Altered) is a fantastic Pokemon, and it also benefits from ML relevance!

[@clownanaround7996]

Great video

[@xdifficultviper9916]

To my knowledge rocket battles use the same stats as gbl so be mindful of the upcoming nerfs to many many moves one for example is counter while it’s still great for gyms and raids it will be strictly a downgrade from forcepalm (lucario) and karate chop (machamp) both sadly are elite tms. Like im sure counter will get the job done but it is something to be mindful of

[@LuckyBunz]

Yeah, hopefully the shakeup isn't too bad for Counter, but we'll have to wait and see. On the other hand, Pokemon with Mud Slap that were featured will be even more powerful once the updates go into effect.

[@roseakanotfakegoku]

@@LuckyBunz sadly counter got hit pretty bad according to pvpoke

[@RebeccaPaige]

None of the characters listed are available in the wild. These are all obtained from Raids and whatnot.

[@TreFKennedy]

12:50 Terrakion > Lucario Lucky 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

[@roseakanotfakegoku]

for rocket battles??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@TreFKennedy]

@@roseakanotfakegoku yes

[@tigerroommovies9441]

​@@TreFKennedy hard disagree. Terrakion quick move is too slow. I'd rather clear it with lucario w power up punch or shadow machamp

[@TreFKennedy]

@@tigerroommovies9441 i respect your perspective

[@noahloe5501]

Can I hear people's fav overall team rocket battle party?

[@fenixstorm2165]

Mine is by far Lucario, usually a counter for what there rocket member is running then Swampert can get the job done most of the time

[@LeCaleb]

I’m so confused, in your clips you had options to choose between 2 moves. I’ve never seen that in my game before. How do I do that!?

[@LuckyBunz]

You can do this with Elite TMs

[@dylanh2705]

You can teach a second move with candy and stardust

[@kshineducking7714]

my friend gave me a hundo lucky palkia with spacial rend the day of the event at night after we finished raiding.

[@slycooper7613]

i have a xxs shadow machamp with 15 attack. does the xxs matter?

[@grimdeth2197]

Spent 1 million stardust ❤ thank you.

[@eriklund8592]

Kind of irrelevant now, but the force Palm felt a lot Worse than counter on lucario imo…

[@LuckyBunz]

Thank you for the feedback on Lucario!

[@ChinoWantan]

I have a shadow shiny raiko but its 58... worth powering up?

[@LuckyBunz]

Yes

[@BhongasBracks]

Why in the world would you even consider including apex ho-oh in this list 😭just to flex or what

[@minkhoo790]

But mudshot is going to be nerfed. I have been using mudshot users for rocket members. I dont knw what to do now😢

[@minkhoo790]

And rockets too, no?

[@MateoOld]

What if I have a hundo on the Pokémon you say ultra league ? Like I have a hundo alolan Muk is it better than the ultra league one ?

[@LuckyBunz]

The hundo is only better when the max CP of the Pokemon falls below the 1500 or 2500 CP limits for GL and UL. In the case of Alolan Muk, you will want to go with normal PvP IVs

[@ahmedshuvo6385]

Is it the updated video ?

[@f0xyplayz_yt307]

im sensing bias with typhlosion >.> /j

[@xTeRRaSnipin]

No Terrakion for fighting?

[@tigerroommovies9441]

His fast move (double kick) seems very lack luster for a quick take down if you have lucario and shadow machamp

[@chromekronic3941]

Project Mockingbird.

[@bastiano2939]

Many good here, including shadow hooh, S tyr, S rampardos, S salamence, kartana etc. However you left out MANY top picks for go rocket and i do not know why you didnt include these which are much better than many you mentioned. These are: Shadow Machamp, S Conkeldurr, S Darmanitan, S Chandelure, S Gengar, S Metagross

[@Hibbard1986]

I can't find any of this stuff lol

[@RebeccaPaige]

Nobody can.

[@thingsofinterest603]

This is almost entirely irrelevant info for players like me that just started a couple weeks ago but I understand I'm not the target audience. I got RayQ but because i didn't spend and started late i couldn't get meteorite. Maybe add more budget options for newer players?

[@andrewtucker2014]

He’s literally one of the only content creators who has videos like what you’re requesting. The time you spent commenting could have been spent looking at his most popular uploads. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZSTn4augsRnfNksi=NL1N2Qiy5AHh6WmD

[@andrewtucker2014]

And before you complain it’s out of date, the annual updates have new meta relevant budget options.

[@andrewtucker2014]

Also, did you even watch the video? I’m only 2.5 min in and one of the suggestions is Talonflame, which could literally be built from this event.

[@samurai-jach]

The meteorite was free. You didn’t take advantage of the special research

[@basedblueboy8770]

Welcome to the game!

[@ohhi5237]

fake vid, pvp is DONE, they just nerfed it