Bite/Focus Blast Thundurus-T Duo Raid, Cloudy Weather, Mega Rayquaza Only, Neutral Damage Only

Thundurus in its Therian form returned to legendary raid, following Tornadus-Therian. Thundurus also learn a new exclusive move this time – Wildbolt Storm.

Thundurus-Therian is a Electric/Flying type Pokemon, which is only weak against Rock/Ice type moves. As a raid boss, it has 244 attack and 139 defense stats, which is pretty frail within Tier 5 raid bosses. As a raid boss, it learns Bite/Volt Switch as fast moves and Sludge Wave/Focus Blast/Thunderbolt/Thunder as charged moves.

Wildbolt Storm is a 1-bar move with 140 base power and 2.3s cooldown, similar to Bleakwind Storm. Thundurus was already one of the best Electric-type before it receive its exclusive move. With Wildbolt Storm, Thundurus-Therian is now even closer to other top Electric-type Pokemons, close to Shadow Zapdos.

With Thundurus-Therian relatively low defense stats, there are plenty of Pokemons capable to defeat Thundurus as Duo Raid without weatherboost.

Specifically, Rhyperior, Baxcalibur, Terrakion, Rampardos, Tyrantrum, Mamoswine, Galarian Darmanitan, Shadow Rhyperior, Shadow Rampardos, Gigalith, Kyurem, Mewtwo, Nihilego, Shadow Mamoswine, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Weavile, Shadow Regigigas, Shadow Tyranitar and Shadow Articuno can defeat Thundurus-Therian as Duo Raid without weatherboost.

For Mega Evolutions, Mega Diancie, Mega Tyranitar, Mega Aerodactyl, Mega Rayquaza, Mega Gardevoir, Primal Kyogre, Mega Abomasnow, Mega Garchomp, Mega Glalie, Mega Gengar, Mega Aggron, Mega Alakazam, Mega Latios, Mega Blaziken, Mega Swampert, Mega Salamence and Mega Charizard Y can defeat Tornadus-Therian as Duo Raid without weather boost. With Thundurus low defense stats, most top tier Mega Evolved Pokemons can outrace the timer even if they cannot hit Thundurus super effectively, similar to Xurkitree.

Similar to Xurkitree or Tornadus, this time we would once again have Mega Rayquaza fight against Thundurus. As stated above, Thundurus learns Focus Blast as one of its charged move. If you take a look on the list of effective non-mega counters, you could found almost all of them are weak to Focus Blast, with Mewtwo, Articuno and Nihilego being the only exception. In the other hand, a handful of them have Ground-type or Dragon-type subtyping, which allows them to resist Thundurus STAB Electric-type moves.

However, for Mega Rayquaza, it instead resists Focus Blast and only neutral to Thunder/Thunderbolt. So for Mega Rayquaza, it would find the most hatred Focus Blast Thundurus in Cloudy weather being one of the more comfortable setup for them instead.

For this raid, Mega Rayquaza is fighting against Focus Blast Thundurus in Cloudy weather as a Duo Raid without weather boost, which is supposed to be the /”hardest/” moveset for this raid. However, as shown in the execution, Mega Rayquaza does not found it being threatening at all, where it defeated Thundurus rather comfortably with over a minute left.

Pokemon used:

CP 6458 Mega Rayquaza – Lv50 15/15/15 Dragon Tail/Outrage