Pokémon Go Sierra counters and team line-up May 2026

Pokémon 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 take 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.

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

Duskull
Ferrothorn
Flygon
Blastoise
Steelix
Milotic
Houndoom

What are the best counters for Duskull?

Sierra sends out Duskull as her first combatant; it's a ghost-type 'mon and is weak to dark- and ghost-type enemies.

Here are our recommended Duskull counters:

Sprites	Pokémon	Moves
	Gengar	Lick and Shadow Ball
	Dragapult	Astonish and Shadow Ball
	Chandelure	Hex and Shadow Ball

What are the best counters for Ferrothorn?

Shadow Ferrothorn can be one of Sierra's second Pokémon. It's weak to fighting- and fire-type attacks and resistant to dragon-, grass-, electric-, fairy-, normal-, poison-, psychic-, rock-, steel-, and water-types.

Here are our recommended Ferrothorn counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Charizard	Fire Spin and Blast Burn
	Heatran	Fire Spin and Magma Storm
	Blaziken	Fire Spin and Blast Burn

What are the best counters for Flygon?

Sierra's second Pokémon can also be Flygon, a ground/dragon-type 'mon. Make sure you use Pokémon with ice-, dragon-, or fairy-type attacks to take it down.

Here are our recommended Flygon counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Mamoswine	Powder Snow and Icicle Spear
	Walrein	Powder Snow and Icicle Spear
	Garchomp	Mud Shot and Earth Power

What are the best counters for Blastoise?

Another of Sierra's secondary Pokémon can be Blastoise, a water-type 'mon. Make sure you use Pokémon with electric or grass attacks

Here are our recommended Blastoise counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Electivire	Thunder Shock and Wild Charge
	Magnezone	Spark and Wild Charge
	Kartana	Razor Leaf and Leaf Blade

What are the best counters for Steelix?

Sierra can use the steel/ground-type Steelix as her third Pokémon. You should go for fighting-, fire, water-, or ground-type counters.

Here are our recommended Steelix counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Excadrill	Mud-Slap and Scorching Sands
	Garchomp	Mud Shot and Earth Power
	Groudon	Mud Shot and Precipice Blades

What are the best counters for Milotic?

Sierra can use this as one of her third Pokémon. If you encounter Sierra's Milotic, make sure you have a grass- or electric-type 'mon on hand.

Here are the Milotic counters we recommend you use:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Magnezone	Spark and Wild Charge
	Electivire	Thunder Shock and Wild Charge
	Kartana	Razor Leaf and Leaf Blade

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
	Kyogre	Waterfall and Origin Pulse
	Rhyperior	Smack Down and Rock Wrecker or Surf
	Conkeldurr	Counter and Dynamic Punch or Stone Edge
	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!