Pokemon Go Team Rocket Leaders Counters: Giovanni, Arlo, Sierra, & Cliff

Pokemon Go team Rocket is a villain team that has invaded Pokemon Go 2021. If you need some tips and suggestions for Pokemon Go team rocket leaders counters, check out their Pokemon lineups and the best Pokemons to counter all four leaders in team Rocket here.

1. Best Counters Against Giovanni
2. Best Counters Against Arlo
3. Best Counters Against Sierra
4. Best Counters Against Cliff

1. Best Counters Against Giovanni

Giovanni is the ultimate leader of this team who controls the three main leaders: Arlo, Sierra, and Cliff. He will give the order directly to these leaders. As he takes over the highest position in this organization, Giovanni is also the hardest boss to counter in Pokemon Go.

Giovanni Pokemon Go — Giovanni is the highest boss in the Pokemon Go team rocket.

Giovanni’s Pokémon Lineup

Firstly, you need to understand his Pokemon lineup. Then, you can choose the best counters to defeat Giovanni's Pokemons.

First Pokemon	Second Pokemon	Final Pokemon
Persian	Machamp/Golem/Cloyster	Shadow Ho-Oh

Giovanni Persian — Giovanni always uses Persian as the first Pokemon to counter Pokemon trainers.

Best Counters For The Battle With Giovanni

There are many choices for Pokemon trainers to defeat Giovanni and his Pokemon. Let's check out the top counters for each Pokemon of this leader.

Giovanni's Pokemon	Features	Recommended Counters
Persian	It uses Normal and Dark fast moves. Its Charged moves are Dark, Rock, and Fairy types. Besides, this Pokemon is weak to Fighting-type Pokemons and resist Ghost-type Pokemons.	Melmetal, Melmetal, Swampert, Conkeldurr, or Lucario
Machamp	Its fast move is Steel and its charged move is Rock. It's weak to Fairy, Flying, and Psychic-type Pokemon.	Sylveon, Gardevoir, Altered Giratina, Mewtwo, and Cresselia.
Golem	Golem is weak to the Pokemon of Steel, Ice, Fighting, and Ground types. Moreover, it's double weak to Water and Grass-type Pokemon.	Tangrowth, Swampert, Vileplume, Torterra, and Kyogre.
Cloyster	It's weak to the Pokemon of Electric, Rock, Grass, and Fighting types	Heatran, Magnezone, Typhlosion, Barbaracle, and Regirock.
Ho-Oh	It's weak to Rock, Electric, and Water-type moves.	Tyranitar, Barbaracle, Terrakion, Palkia, and Regirock.

Giovanni Counters — Choose the best counters against Giovanni in this Pokemon game from this list.

Those are the best counters against Giovanni in this Pokemon game. You can choose one of those recommended Pokemon to counter against this boss.

2. Best Counters Against Arlo

Arlo is a male leader in the Pokemon Go team rocket who wears glasses. You need to know all Pokemon he will use before choosing the best Pokemon Go team Rocket leader counters.

Arlo Pokemon Go — Arlo is a male leader in the Pokemon Go team rocket who wears glasses.

Arlo’s Pokémon Line-Up

Arlo also has three lines of Pokemon. Unlike Giovanni, he has more options in the final line.

First Pokemon	Second Pokemon	Final Pokemon
Venonat	Ursaring/Crobat/Manectric	Vileplume/Magnezone/Scizor

Pokemon Go Arlo Counters — Venonat is always the first Pokemon Arlo uses when countering Pokemon trainers.

Recommended Counters

Here are some recommended Pokemon Go team rocket leader countersto fight against Arlo.

Arlo's Pokemon	Recommended Pokemon
Venonat	Reshiram, Dragonite, Ho-Oh, Dialga
Manectric	Virizion, Tyranitar, Rhyperior, Togekiss, Scrafty
Crobat	Tyranitar, Jirachi, Probopass, Melmetal, Regirock, Aggron
Ursaring	Heracross, Medicham, Conkeldurr, Lucario
Scizor	Charizard, Chandelure, Ho-Oh, Moltres, Heatran
Magnezone	Garchomp, Therian Landorus, Groudon, Rhyperior
Vileplume	Lugia, Reshiram, Dragonite, Heatran, Ho-Oh, Dialga

Pokemon Go Arlo — Those are the most recommended Pokemon Go team rocket leaders counters against Arlo.

Obviously, you have a lot of options to counter and defeat Arlo in this game. Just get ready for it.

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3. Best Counters Against Sierra

Sierra is the only female leader in the Pokemon Go team rocket. This beautiful woman is really dangerous with great ambitions and schemes.

Sierra’s Pokémon Line-Up

Like Arlo, she also has seven Pokemon to counter players. They are also divided into three waves.

First Pokemon	Second Pokemon	Final Pokemon
Sneasel	Gliscor/Granbull/Ampharos	Houndoom/Kingdra/Drapion

How To Beat Sierra Pokemon Go — The beautiful leader Sierra is really dangerous with great ambitions and schemes.

Recommended Counters

Pokemon trainers also have a lot of choices to counter these 7 Pokemon of this leader. This list will help you build the best team to win the battle against Sierra.

Sierra’s Pokemon	Recommended Pokemon
Sneasel	Shadow Machamp, Shadow Hariyama, Shadow Gallade, Shadow Ursaring, Shadow Hitmonlee & Conkeldurr
Gliscor	Mamoswine, Avalugg, Aurorus, Abomasnow, Mr. Rime
Granbull	Shadow Metagross, Mega Beedrill, Mega Gengar, Metagross, Shadow Victreebel & Roserade
Ampharos	Landorus (Therian), Excadrill, Groudon, Garchomp, Rhyperior
Houndoom	Landorus (Therian), Rampardos, Lucario, Kingler, and Conkeldurr
Kingdra	Palkia, Shadow Gardevoir, Haxorus, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Dragonite, and Rayquaza
Drapion	Garchomp, Landorus, Shadow Mamoswine, Landorus Therian, Excadrill, and Rhyperior

How To Beat Sierra — Choose these recommended Pokemon and build a strong team to defeat her.

Make sure that you have those Pokemon in your collection so that you can defeat this leader.

4. Best Counters Against Cliff

Cliff is the last leader in the Pokemon Go team rocket that you need to defeat. Before listing all recommended counters, you should know his Pokemon Lineup.

Cliff’s Pokémon Line-Up

Cliff uses Seedot as his first Pokemon. Then, he has more options for the second and the final Pokemon in the battle. All of his Pokemon are Shadow Pokemon.

First Pokemon	Second Pokemon	Final Pokemon
Seedot	Kingler/Hariyama/Shadow Poliwrath	Tyranitar/Torterra/Sharpedo

Battle Against Cliff — Seedot is always the first Pokemon that Cliff uses in the battle.

Recommended Counters

Choosing the right counters is very vital for defeating this dangerous leader in the battle. Check out some recommended counters for Cliff's Pokemon lineup here.

Cliff's Pokemon	Recommended Pokemon
Seedot	Crobat, Dialga, Dragonite, Moltres
Kingler	Thundurus (Therian), Zekrom, Deoxys (Attack), Deoxys (Normal), Electivire.
Hariyama	Mewtwo, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Alakazam, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Ho-Oh & Shadow Metagross
Poliwrath	Azelf, Gardevoir, Raikou, Espeon
Tyranitar	Lucario, Machamp, Mega Lopunny, Shadow Machamp, Shadow Hariyama, Conkeldurr
Torterra	Darmanitan (Galarian Zen), Mamoswine, Glaceon, Darmanitan (Galarian Standard), Weavile.
Sharpedo	Machamp, Blaziken, Raikou, Thundurus (Therian), and Sirfetch'd.

Those are all recommended Pokemon Go team rocket leaders counters that you should use. Try to catch more Pokemon to have more options to counter these bosses.