Team GO Rocket Guides

Team GO Rocket constitutes a relatively small part of Pokemon Go, but they are extremely important regardless, as the primary source of Shadow Pokemon. Despite being technically PvE battles, they utilize PvP gameplay, meaning many of the top Pokemon in our Master League PVP Tier List will do the trick, However, some of the stronger Rockets, in particular the team leaders and Giovanni, may take very specific counters to effectively take down in many cases.

Team GO Rocket Leaders

Team GO Rocket Grunts

General Good Counters

While we highly encourage you to look at the specific Rocket Guides, here are some general good options that have utility across multiple grunts and leaders. Investing in these Pokemon can pay dividends as they not only tend to destroy Rockets with ease, but most of them also have utility outside of Rocket battles too.