Pokemon Go’s Sierra puts forward a pretty big challenge. Not to mention, she often switches around her lineup, just like her fellow Leaders. Well, if you’re looking for the best Pokémon to use to ensure you can her down, search no further! We’ve put together a list of the best counters to use against her, to give you that necessary edge in battle.
If you find this useful and want to be the very best like no one ever was, take a look at our Pokémon Go Cliff, Pokémon Go Arlo, and Pokémon Go Giovanni guides to learn about the best counters for their teams.
Now, let’s get into the best counters for Pokémon Go’s Sierra.
What are the best counters for Sableye?
Currently, Sierra always uses Shadow Sableye as her first Pokémon. Sableye is weak to fairy-type attacks and resistant to fighting-, normal-, poison-, and psychic-types.
Here are our recommended Sableye counters:
| Sprite | Pokémon | Moves |
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Togekiss | Charm and Dazzling Gleam |
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Sylveon | Charm and Dazzling Gleam |
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Gardevoir | Charm and Dazzling Gleam |
What are the best counters for Skarmory?
Sierra may send out Skarmory as her second combatant, it’s a steel/flying-type ‘mon and is weak to electric and fire-type enemies.
Here are our recommended Skarmory counters:
| Sprites | Pokémon | Moves |
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Electivire | Thunder Shock and Wild Charge |
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Magnezone | Spark and Wild Charge |
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Heatran | Fire Spin and Magma Storm |
What are the best counters for Gardevoir?
Sierra’s second Pokémon can also be Gardevoir, a psychic/fairy-type ‘mon. Make sure you use Pokémon with ghost, poison, or steel attacks.
Here are our recommended Gardevoir counters:
| Sprite | Pokémon | Moves |
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Gengar | Hex and Shadow Ball |
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Excadrill | Metal Claw and Iron Head |
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Metagross | Bullet Punch and Meteor Mash |
What are the best counters for Muk?
Another of Sierra’s secondary Pokémon can be Muk, it is weak to ground and psychic-type attacks.
Here are our recommended Muk counters:
| Sprite | Pokémon | Moves |
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Excadrill | Mud Shot and Drill Run |
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Garchomp | Mud Shot and Earth Power |
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Mewtwo | Psycho Cut and Psystrike |
What are the best counters for Gyarados?
Sierra can use the water/flying-type Gyarados as her third Pokémon. You should go for rock- and electric-type counters.
Here are our recommended Gyarados counters:
| Sprite | Pokémon | Moves |
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Electivire | Thunder Shock and Wild Charge |
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Magnezone | Charge Beam and Wild Charge |
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Tyranitar | Smack Down and Brutal Swing |
What are the best counters for Kingdra?
Sierra can use this as one of her third Pokémon. If you encounter Sierra’s Kingdra, make sure you have a dragon or fairy-type ‘mon on hand.
Here are the Kingdra counters we recommend you use:
| Sprite | Pokémon | Moves |
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Gardevoir | Charm and Dazzling Gleam |
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Dragonite | Dragon Breath and Dragon Claw |
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Togekiss | Charm and Dazzling Gleam |
What are the best counters for Houndoom?
Sierra’s Houndoom only uses dark and fire moves, and is weak to water-, fighting-, rock-, and ground-types, so you’ve got quite a few options!
Here are the Houndoom counters we recommend you use:
| Sprite | Pokémon | Moves |
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Kyogre | Waterfall and Surf |
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Rhyperior | Smack Down and Rock Wrecker or Surf |
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Conkeldurr | Counter and Dynamic Punch or Stone Edge |
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Machamp | Counter and Cross Chop or Rock Slide |
What rewards do I get for defeating Sierra?
When you defeat Sierra, or any other Team Go Rocket Leader, you are granted some well-deserved 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 Pokémon goodness, take a look at our Pokédex and Pokémon Go best Pokémon guide. You can also head over to our Pokémon Go events or Pokémon Go codes lists to see what freebies you can snag!