Pokémon Go Sierra counters January 2025

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.

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

Ralts
Sableye
Steelix
Milotic
Gardevoir
Nidoqueen
Houndoom

What are the best counters for Ralts?

Sierra sends out Ralts as her first combatant, it’s a psychic/fairy-type ‘mon and is weak to ghost-, poison-, and steel-type enemies.

Here are our recommended Ralts counters:

Sprites	Pokémon	Moves
	Excadrill	Metal Claw and Iron Head
	Gengar	Shadow Claw (Fast Move) & Shadow Ball
	Dusk Mane Necrozma	Metal Claw and Sunsteel Strike

What are the best counters for Sableye?

Shadow Sableye can be one of Sierra’s second Pokémon. It’s weak to fairy-type attacks and resistant to fighting-, normal-, poison-, and psychic-types.

Here are our recommended Sableye counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Togekiss	Charm and Dazzling Gleam
	Sylveon	Charm and Dazzling Gleam
	Gardevoir	Charm and Dazzling Gleam

What are the best counters for Steelix?

Sierra’s second Pokémon can also be Steelix, a steel/ground-type ‘mon. Make sure you use Pokémon with fighting-, fire-, ground-, or water-type attacks to take it down.

Here are our recommended Steelix counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Excadrill	Mud-Slap and Scorching Sands
	Lucario	Force Palm and Aura Sphere
	Groudon	Mud Shot and Precipice Blades

What are the best counters for Milotic?

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

Here are our recommended Milotic counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Electivire	Thunder Shock and Wild Charge
	Magnezone	Spark and Wild Charge
	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock and Discharge

What are the best counters for Gardevoir?

Sierra can use the psychic/fairy-type Gardevoir as her third Pokémon. You should go for ghost-, poison-, or steel-type counters.

Here are our recommended Gardevoir counters:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Gengar	Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball
	Dusk Mane Necrozma	Metal Claw and Sunsteel Strike
	Metagross	Shadow Claw and Shadow Ball

What are the best counters for Nidoqueen?

Sierra can use this as one of her third Pokémon. If you encounter Sierra’s Nidoqueen, make sure you have a ground-, ice-, psychic-, or water-type ‘mon on hand.

Here are the Nidoqueen counters we recommend you use:

Sprite	Pokémon	Moves
	Mewtwo	Confusion and Psystrike
	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap and Avalanche
	Metagross	Zen Headbutt and Psychic

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 Surf
	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!