Pokemon Go Reshiram raid guide: Best counters, weaknesses and moves

Reshiram and Zekrom are both leaving  Pokemon Go  very soon. The two legendary dragon Pokemon are appearing in five-star raids until Dec. 16, making this your last chance to catch them for the foreseeable future. 

Your best opportunity to catch the legendaries will happen tonight, Dec. 15, during Pokemon Go's weekly Raid Hour event. More Reshiram and Zekrom raids will occur from 6-7 p.m. local time, giving you more chances to challenge both legendary dragons. Here are some tips to help you beat and capture Reshiram before it leaves raids again.

Reshiram weaknesses

Reshiram is a dragon/fire type, which gives it only three weaknesses: ground, rock, and other dragon Pokemon. Fortunately, there are plenty of strong Pokemon of each of those types in Pokemon Go, so there are a lot of options to use against Reshiram. 

Although they won't deal super-effective damage against it, fairy Pokemon resist Reshiram's dragon-type attacks, while water Pokemon will resist its fire-type moves, making them good defensive monsters to use if you don't have enough ground, rock or dragon Pokemon to round out your team.

Best Reshiram counters

Any Pokemon that has a type advantage against Reshiram will be helpful when battling it, but here are some recommended monsters and moves to use when you challenge the legendary Pokemon:

Ground

• Groudon: Mud Shot, Earthquake
• Garchomp: Mud Shot, Earth Power
• Golurk: Mud-Slap, Earth Power
• Landorus: Mud Shot, Earth Power

Rock

• Tyranitar: Smack Down, Stone Edge
• Rhyperior: Smack Down, Rock Wrecker
• Rampardos: Smack Down, Rock Slide
• Terrakion: Smack Down, Rock Slide

Dragon

• Dragonite: Dragon Tail, Draco Meteor
• Salamence: Dragon Tail, Outrage
• Rayquaza: Dragon Tail, Outrage
• Garchomp: Dragon Tail, Outrage
• Palkia: Dragon Tail, Draco Meteor

Best moves

If you want to leverage Reshiram's fire typing, which gives it an advantage over bug, grass, steel and ice Pokemon, you'll want to teach it the Fast Attack Fire Fang and the Charged Attack Overheat. You can also teach the legendary Pokemon the dragon-type moves Dragon Breath and Draco Meteor to use it as a counter against other dragon Pokemon. However, keep in mind that it will take super-effective damage in return if the opposing Pokemon also knows dragon attacks.

Reshiram and Zekrom are appearing in raid battles until Dec. 16, when they'll be replaced by Kyurem. You can catch up on everything else happening in the game this month in our Pokemon Go December events roundup.