Pokémon Go Cliff counters and team line-up for November 2025

Want to know the best Pokémon Go Cliff counters for this month? Well, we're here to help. Cliff can sometimes feel like the toughest Team Rocket Go Leader, so it's only natural that you may need a little bit of extra help working out which Pokémon you should use in a team against him.

With help from our Cliff counters guide, you will soon have a team full of strong Pokémon to take into battle. We have also gone ahead and listed all of the available rewards you can get your hands on by knocking out all three of the Team Rocket Go leaders' Pokémon. Check out our Pokémon Go Arlo, Pokémon Go Sierra, and Pokémon Go Giovanni guides for even more assistance.

Here are the best counters for Pokémon Go's Cliff:

Larvitar
Skarmory
Honchkrow
Annihilape
Machamp
Tyranitar
Luxray

What are the best counters for Larvitar?

Currently, Cliff's first Pokémon is always Larvitar; it's double weak to grass and water-type moves and weak to fighting, ground, ice, and steel. It should be fairly easy to take out.

Here are our recommended Larvitar counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Swampert	Mud Shot and Hydro Cannon
	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap and Breaking Swipe
	Garchomp	Mud Shot and Sand Tomb
	Sceptile	Bullet Seed and Leaf Blade

What are the best counters for Skarmory?

Skarmory is weak to electric and fire-type moves and can be one of Cliff's second Pokémon.

Use one of the following Pokémon to counter Skarmory:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Electivire	Thunder Shock and Wild Charge
	Magnezone	Volt Switch and Wild Charge
	Raikou	Thunder Shock and Wild Charge

What are the best counters for Honchkrow?

Cliff can choose Honchkrow as one of his second Pokémon; it's weak to electric, fairy, rock, and ice-types.

Here are the Pokémon we recommend using against Honchkrow:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Magnezone	Volt Switch and Wild Charge
	Mamoswine	Powder Snow and Avalanche
	Rhyperior	Smack Down and Rock Wrecker

What are the best counters for Annihilape?

Shadow Annihilape is one of the second Pokémon Cliff uses; it's weak to fairy, flying, ghost, and psychic-type attacks.

We recommend you use one of these Annihilape counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Alakazam	Confusion and Psychic
	Mewtwo	Confusion and Psychic
	Gardevoir	Confusion and Psychic

What are the best counters for Machamp?

Shadow Machamp can be one of Cliff's final Pokémon; it's weak to fairy, flying, and fairy-type moves.

Here are our recommended Machamp counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Alakazam	Confusion and Psychic
	Mewtwo	Confusion and Psychic
	Gardevoir	Confusion and Psychic

What are the best counters for Tyranitar?

Tyranitar is one of Cliff's final Pokémon; it's double weak to fighting-type attacks, and you can also use bug-, fairy-, grass-, ground-, steel-, and water-type moves.

Here are our recommended Tyranitar counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Machamp	Counter and Dynamic Punch or Cross Chop
	Lucario	Counter and Power-up Punch
	Conkeldurr	Counter and Power-up Punch

What are the best counters for Luxray?

Luxray is only weak to ground-type attacks; it's one of three potential final Pokémon Cliff uses.

Here are the Pokémon we recommend using against Luxray:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap and Earthquake
	Excadrill	Mud-Slap and Drill Run
	Swampert	Mud Shot and Earthquake

Cliff's team changes up slightly each month, so we'll update this page frequently.

What rewards do I get for beating Cliff?

When you defeat Cliff or any other Team Go Rocket Leader, you will receive some handy rewards. You will always get 1,000 Stardust and a random selection of two of the following items:

A 12km egg
One Revive
One Max Revive
One Max Potion
One Unova Stone
One Sinnoh Stone

For more content like this, make sure you check out our Pokémon Go best Pokémon guide. Then, head on over to our Pokédex and Pokémon Go codes to pick up some freebies.