Pokémon GO: Tapu Lele Raid Guide (2024)

Hey there, Trainers!

Tapu Lele is coming to the tier 5 raid rotation soon. It will be available from Thursday, March 21st, 2024, at 10:00 am local time to Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 10:00 am local time.

You can catch Tapu Lele at the following CP ranges:

• Level 20: 1912 – 1996 CP
• Level 25 with weather boost: 2390 – 2496 CP

Tapu Lele will be available in both shiny and normal variations! Here is what it looks like:

Typing

Tapu Lele is a Psychic and Fairy-Type Pokémon, which gives it weakness to Steel, Ghost, and Poison-type moves. This gives us a bunch of Pokémon that we can work with, thankfully! However, some of these Pokémon are difficult to catch at earlier levels, so newer trainers may not have all of the Pokémon that are best against Tapu Lele.

Boosts

Tapu Lele will be weather boosted by Windy and Cloudy weather conditions. It will be stronger if you encounter it during these conditions, and will be higher level when you catch it. However, given that these conditions may also come with actual risks to your person, be wise when you decide to go out or not. It may be worth it to stay in and remote raid instead.

Tapu Lele is not currently duo-able, however the amount of Trainers you should need to defeat it won't be too many. With great counters, you can get away with 3-4 Trainers in a raid team and reliably take Tapu Lele down. If you don't have amazing counters in general, consider taking between 6-8 Trainers, just so that you can consistently bring it down and catch it. The more people you get, the faster these raids will go by. Remember, take advantage of the buffs you get from Party Play! It's free damage, if you're all together anyway.

Recommended Party

As ever, if you have Shadow variations of the Pokémon listed below, they will be better picks over their normal counterparts. Shadow Pokémon do more damage than their regular counterparts (even with mediocre IVs), so consider taking them for this raid for the extra damage.

Normal

• Metagross with Bullet Punch and Meteor Mash
• Gengar with Lick and Shadow Ball
• Banette with Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball
• Chandelure with Hex and Shadow Ball
• Cursola with Hex and Shadow Ball
• Excadrill with Metal Claw and Iron Head
• Gholdengo with Hex and Shadow Ball
• Drifblim with Hex and Shadow Ball
• Mismagius with Hex and Shadow Ball

Legendary

• Rayquaza (Mega) with Air Slash and Dragon Ascent
• Mewtwo with Psycho Cut and Shadow Ball
• Giratina (Origin) with Shadow Claw and Shadow Force
• Nihilego with Poison Jab and Sludge Bomb
• Hoopa (Confined or Unbound) with Astonish and Shadow Ball
• Melmetal with Thunder Shock and Double Iron Bash
• Dialga (Origin or regular) with Metal Claw and Iron Head
• Jirachi with Charge Beam and Doom Desire

Mega

• Mega Gengar with Lick and Shadow Ball
• Mega Banette with Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball
• Mega Beedrill with Poison Jab and Sludge Bomb
• Mega Alakazam with Psycho Cut and Shadow Ball
• Mega Gardevoir with Magical Leaf and Shadow Ball
• Mega Scizor with Bullet Punch and Iron Head
• Mega Aggron with Iron Tail and Heavy Slam

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