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The Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff April 2025Pokemon GOShadow Pokemon remain unchanged. Cliff has an identical battle roster as the previous month, but winning still requires extensive meta-knowledge. You must strategize the Cliff counters for April 2025 only after studying his Shadow Pokemon roster.
First, you must locate the leader Cliff inPokemon GOto defeat him. Doing so requires a Rocket Radar, which comprises 6 Mysterious Components. You can collect the Mysterious Components by defeating Team GO Rocket Grunts. But after you locate the leader, Cliff, you must possess strategically selected counters to cover Cliff’s entire Shadow Pokemon line-up. This guide details how to beat Cliff in April 2025.
The Rocket Radar can lead to any of the three Team GO Rocket leaders; Cliff, Arlo, and Sierra.
Pokemon GO: How To Beat Cliff (April 2025)
Once you figure out Cliff’s April 2025Shadow Pokemon inPokemon GOyou can select appropriate counters. The key to defeating Cliff is to strategize your counters in a way that they can cover almost all of his roster. The battle with Cliff has 3 rounds, and he has 7 Pokemon to choose from. While the first round always starts with a fixed Pokemon, he has 3 choices for each of the last 2 rounds.
1st Round
2nd Round
3rd Round
Cliff’s most Shadow Pokemon share common weaknesses of Fairy andIce-type moves. Select powerful monsters with these move-typings as your best Cliff counters in April 2025. Among some of the best Cliff counter teams inPokemon GOareMamoswine, Xerneas, and Mewtwo. But if you do not have them, you’re able to also use other Pokemon of similar damage output and typing.
Use Mamoswine to exploit Cubone’s weakness against Ice-type moves. You can also use Mamoswine later against Marowak and Crobat. Apart from them, all of Cliff’s Shadow Pokemon are weak against Fairy-type moves.
you’re able to use Xerneas if Cliff chooses Annihilape, Machoke, Tyranitar, and Machamp since they are all weak toFairy-type moves inPokemon GO. Select the Psychic-type Mewtwo to win against Annihilape, Machoke, Machamp, and Crobat.
Pokemon GO - All Cliff Shadow Pokemon Counters In April 2025
DefeatingPokemon GOTeam GO Rocket leader Cliff in April 2025 requires you to understand his Shadow Pokemon meta. Each of the Shadow Pokemon has multiple type-weaknesses and resistances. Below are all of Cliff’s Shadow Pokemon and their counters; you can select some and create your battle roster.
