The majority of players inPokemon GOwill encounter members of Team GO Rocket as they travel around and visit PokeStops. While many of the grunts are pushovers and no threat most of the time, the leaders of Team GO Rocket are a different story.
There are three different administrative leaders that players can initially face inPokemon GO. Each of them have their own strengths and weaknesses, but they will be a challenge for most players facing them for the first time.
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Sierra is one of the three leaders that players can face. While her first Pokemon will always remain the same, her second and third party members will be different each time players encounter her. Her team composition is:
Drowzee
Drowzee is a purepsychic-type Pokemonthat will always be the first Pokemon players will face when going up against Sierra. Being a pure psychic-type, Drowzee is weak to bug, ghost, and dark-type moves. It however is resistant to fighting and psychic-type moves.
Finally, the best dark-type Pokemon to take down Drowzee include:
Sharpedo
Sharpedo is a dual water anddark-type Pokemon. It has the possibility of being Sierra’s second Pokemon in her party. Due to its typing, Sharpedo is weak to fighting, bug, grass, electric, and fairy-type moves. It also resists ghost, steel, fire, water, ice, and dark-type moves. If players know that Sierra is using Sharpedo in their current encounter, they can prepare for it.
The best fighting-type Pokemon to use against Sharpedo include:
Like with Drowzee, the best bug Pokemon to bring against Sharpedo are:
Finally, the best fairy-type Pokemon for this job include:
Exeggutor
The second option for Sierra’s second Pokemon is Kantonian Exeggutor. This Pokemon is a dual grass and psychic-type Pokemon giving it weaknesses to flying, poison, bug, ghost, fire, ice, and dark type moves. It is also resistant to fighting, ground, water, grass, electric, and psychic-type moves.
The best flying-type Pokemon to bring along for Exeggutor include:
For poison-types, the following are recommended:
Just like the previous two Pokemon, the best bug-types for the job include:
Finally, the best dark-types are:
Lapras
Lapras is the final possibility for Sierra’s second party slot. This Pokemon is a dual water and ice-type Pokemon, making it weak to fighting, rock, grass, and electric-type moves. It also resists water and ice-type moves.
Those who want to use fighting-type Pokemon are recommended to use:
With rock-type Pokemon, the best to use are:
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For grass-type Pokemon, the ones that will put out the most damage are:
Finally, the best electric-type Pokemon include:
Houndoom
The first possibility for Sierra’s final team member is Houndoom. This Pokemon is a dual dark and fire-type Pokemon, making it weak to fighting, ground, rock, and water-type moves. It also resists ghost, steel, fire, grass, ice, and dark-type moves.
Finally, the best water-types for the job include:
Alakazam
The second possibility for Sierra’s final team member is Alakazam. This Pokemon is a pure psychic-type Pokemon, giving it weaknesses to bug, dark, and ghost-type moves.
Alakazam has the same typing, weaknesses, and resistances as Sierra’s Drowzee. This means that players can use what they used to counter Drowzee in order to take down Alakazam if they know that it is coming.
Shiftry
The final possible party member for Sierra isShiftry. This Pokemon is a dual grass and dark-type which makes it weak to fighting, flying, poison, bug, fire, ice, and fairy-type moves. It also has many resistances with it resisting ground, ghost, water, grass, electric, and dark-type moves.
Like usual, the best fighting-type Pokemon to use for Shiftry are:
For ice-type Pokemon, the ones for the job are:
Finally, the fairy-types to use are:
Players should note that if they lose against Sierra and rematch her again in the same encounter, her team will remain the same. This makes it easier for players to plan around her team and match up weaknesses shared by most or all of her party for the encounter. Many of her Pokemon share weaknesses againstbug-type Pokemon, making them especially recommended for the first attempt against her.
Pokemon GOis available now in select regions on Android and iOS devices.
