elemental invasion

Fighting Grunt (Female)

Lineup is weak to Flying, Psychic, Fairy, Ground.

Lineup

first
Catchable ✓
Timburr sprite

Timburr

Machop sprite

Machop

Mankey sprite

Mankey

second
Catchable ✓
Hitmontop sprite

Hitmontop

Hitmonlee sprite

Hitmonlee

Hitmonchan sprite

Hitmonchan

third
Annihilape sprite

Annihilape

Conkeldurr sprite

Conkeldurr

Infernape sprite

Infernape

Counters

Deoxys Attack

Attack 414 · 1.60× effective

Mega Mewtwo Y

Attack 413 · 1.60× effective

Mega Mewtwo X

Attack 399 · 1.60× effective

Mega Rayquaza

Attack 377 · 1.60× effective

Mega Alakazam

Attack 367 · 1.60× effective

Shadow Mewtwo

Attack 360 · 1.60× effective

Shadow Thundurus Therian

Attack 354 · 1.60× effective

Shadow Archeops

Attack 350.4 · 1.60× effective

Shadow Landorus Therian

Attack 346.8 · 1.60× effective

Deoxys

Attack 345 · 1.60× effective

Mega Latios

Attack 335 · 1.60× effective

Shadow Salamence

Attack 332.4 · 1.60× effective

How invasions work
Beat the grunt's three slots, then catch the reward. Counter the lineup's types. Shadow Pokémon hit hard but fold to super-effective damage.

Shadow Pokémon

Rocket Pokémon are caught as Shadow: boosted attack, weaker defense, and the charged move Frustration until purified.

Purification

Purifying drops Frustration, lowers power-up cost, and bumps IVs, but removes the Shadow attack bonus, so keep raiders shadow.

Catchable slot

Only the marked reward position awards an encounter after the battle; the other slots are battle-only.

Leaders & Giovanni

Cliff, Arlo, and Sierra need a Rocket Radar; Giovanni needs a Super Rocket Radar from the monthly Special Research.