With the same Shadow Pokémon lineup as in prior months, defeating Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff in Pokémon Go should be a familiar battle for most.
After you defeat six Team GO Rocket Grunts in Pokémon GO, you'll face a more difficult challenge from the Leaders Sierra, Arlo, and Cliff. Beyond that is the most challenging of all: defeating Team GO Rocket Boss Giovanni. As a result, your Pokémon will need to be in tip-top shape, because there are lots of battles coming your way this October, and Leader Cliff is one you need to watch out for.
Thankfully, Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff has the same Pokémon GO lineup from September. In fact, he's had the same lineup for the last four months in a row. Therefore, any trainer who's previously battled Leader Cliff will know what to expect this October and should be able to quickly wipe out the character's three Shadow Pokémon.
Beating team Leader Cliff will net Trainers with 1,000 Star Dust, two bundle items, and the possibility to catch one of the Leader's Shadow Pokémon.
Cliff's Team in October 2023 in Pokémon GO
Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff's starting Pokémon is a generation one Rock- and Flying-type Aerodactyl. Following that, Cliff will either bring out Water- and Psychic-type Slowking, Psychic- and Flying-type Gallade, or Rock- and Grass-type Cradily. Finally, in the third wave, Cliff has the possibility to pull out a Rock- and Dark-type Tyranitar, an Ice- and Ground-type Mamoswine, or a Ghost-type Dusknoir, according to PokemonGoHub.
Wave | Cliff's Pokémon | Type | Weaknesses | Best Pokémon Counters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Aerodactyl | Rock & Flying | Electric, Ice, Rock, Steel, and Water | Tyranitar, Rampardos, Raikou, Magnezone, or Swampert |
2 | Slowking | Water & Psychic | Bug, Dark, Electric, Ghost, and Grass | Magnezone, Raikou, Gengar, Torterra, or Hydreigon |
Gallade | Psychic & Flying | Flying, Ghost, and Fairy | Gengar, Togekiss, Giratina, Gardevoir, or Xurkitree | |
Cradily | Rock & Grass | Bug, Fighting, Ice, and Steel | Machamp, Lucario, Terrakion, Mamoswine, or Metagross | |
3 | Tyranitar | Rock & Dark | Fighting, Bug, Fairy, Grass, Ground, Steel, and Water | Machamp, Lucario, Swampert, Terrakion, or Togekiss |
Mamoswine | Ice & Ground | Fighting, Fire, Grass, Steel, and Water | Metagross, Swampert, Machamp, Hydreigon, or Terrakion | |
Dusknoir | Ghost | Dark and Ghost | Gengar, Hydreigon, Tyranitar, Darkrai, or Chandelur |
The Best Counters For Cliff In Pokémon GO October 2023
Regardless of who you face in waves two and three of Cliff's battle, the Pokémon GO team you'll want for this fight is Lucario, Tyranitar, and either Togekiss or Gengar. Starting with Lucario, whose Fighting- and Steel-type are both weaknesses for Aerodactyl.
As a result, Lucario should make quick work of the first wave and then should only be played in round two if Cradilly appears. If not, save Lucario for wave three due to the fact the Pokémon counters both Tyranitar and Mamoswine.
How To Beat Giovanni In Pokémon GO (October 2023)
Team GO Rocket Boss Giovanni returns for trainers to face in Pokémon GO, with a unchanged line-up in October 2023 led by Legendary Shadow Regirock.In round two, you'll want to bring out Tyranitar. Although the Pokémon really only counters Slowking, he'll also counter Dusknoir in wave three should you face him. Nonetheless, finishing off your team with either Togekiss or Gengar will cover all your bases. Togekiss is Fairy and Flying-type, which counters Gallade and Tyranitar. Gengar, on the other hand is a Ghost- and Poison-type, which counters Slowking, Gallade, and Dusknoir.
While battling Leader Cliff with this setup is somewhat a matter of getting the right matchups, when the stars do align, you'll easily walk through his team of shadow Pokémon in Pokémon GO.
Source: PokemonGOHub/Zeroghan
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Pokémon GO
- Released:
- 2016-07-06
- Developer(s):
- The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, Niantic
- Genre(s):
- Augmented Reality, RPG
- Platform(s):
- Android, iOS
- Publisher(s):
- Niantic, Nintendo
- Franchise:
- Pokemon
