Lapras Raid Guide

Lapras Raid guide

Ice  /  Water

Lapras is an easy Tier 3 raid boss to defeat, with a CP value of 14847. 2 trainers should be more than enough to defeat Lapras in the raid. Lapras is vulnerable to Fighting, Rock, Steel, Fire type moves and mainly weaker to Pokémon such as Ho-Oh, Dialga, Tyranitar, Metagross, Heatran.

Lapras can obtain below CP values when defeated.

  • 1794 - 1886 CP during Rainy and Snow weather conditions.
  • 1435 - 1509 CP during other weather conditions.

Lapras is not available at the moment in raids and the last recently available date was December 31, 2022. Shiny Lapras is also available from raids in the game.

Weather boost

Lapras raids will be boosted during Rainy and Snow weather conditions.

Ice type Damage Relations

Double damage from: Fighting
Double damage to: Flying
Half damage from: Ice
Half damage to: Steel
No damage from: -
No damage to: -

Lapras Raid Counters

  • Ho-Oh

    Ho-Oh is a Fire, Flying type Pokémon with charged moves: Fire Blast   and fast moves: Incinerate   Steel Wing   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Dialga

    Dialga is a Steel, Dragon type Pokémon with charged moves: Iron Head   and fast moves: Metal Claw   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Tyranitar

    Tyranitar is a Rock, Dark type Pokémon with charged moves: Fire Blast   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Iron Tail   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Metagross

    Metagross is a Steel, Psychic type Pokémon with charged moves: Flash Cannon   and fast moves: Bullet Punch   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Heatran

    Heatran is a Fire, Steel type Pokémon with charged moves: Fire Blast   Flamethrower   Iron Head   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Fire Spin   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Terrakion

    Terrakion is a Rock, Fighting type Pokémon with charged moves: Close Combat   Rock Slide   and fast moves: Smack Down   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Entei

    Entei is a Fire type Pokémon with charged moves: Fire Blast   Flame Charge   Flamethrower   Iron Head   Overheat   and fast moves: Fire Fang   Fire Spin   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Conkeldurr

    Conkeldurr is a Fighting type Pokémon with charged moves: Dynamic Punch   Focus Blast   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Counter   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Moltres

    Moltres is a Fire, Flying type Pokémon with charged moves: Ancient Power   Fire Blast   Heat Wave   Overheat   and fast moves: Fire Spin   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Rampardos

    Rampardos is a Rock type Pokémon with charged moves: Flamethrower   Rock Slide   and fast moves: Smack Down   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Gigalith

    Gigalith is a Rock type Pokémon with charged moves: Heavy Slam   Rock Slide   Superpower   and fast moves: Smack Down   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Tyrantrum

    Tyrantrum is a Rock, Dragon type Pokémon with charged moves: Stone Edge   and fast moves: Rock Throw   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Victini

    Victini is a Fire, Psychic type Pokémon with charged moves: Focus Blast   Overheat   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Jirachi

    Jirachi is a Steel, Psychic type Pokémon with charged moves: Doom Desire   which is effective against Lapras.

  • Regirock

    Regirock is a Rock type Pokémon with charged moves: Focus Blast   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Rock Smash   Rock Throw   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Archeops

    Archeops is a Rock, Flying type Pokémon with charged moves: Ancient Power   and fast moves: Steel Wing   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Cobalion

    Cobalion is a Steel, Fighting type Pokémon with charged moves: Close Combat   Iron Head   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Metal Claw   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Aggron

    Aggron is a Steel, Rock type Pokémon with charged moves: Heavy Slam   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Iron Tail   Smack Down   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Magmortar

    Magmortar is a Fire type Pokémon with charged moves: Brick Break   Fire Blast   Fire Punch   and fast moves: Fire Spin   Karate Chop   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Golem

    Golem is a Rock, Ground type Pokémon with charged moves: Ancient Power   Rock Blast   Stone Edge   and fast moves: Rock Throw   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Flareon

    Flareon is a Fire type Pokémon with charged moves: Fire Blast   Flamethrower   Overheat   and fast moves: Ember   Fire Spin   which are effective against Lapras.

  • Delphox

    Delphox is a Fire, Psychic type Pokémon with charged moves: Fire Blast   Flame Charge   Flamethrower   and fast moves: Fire Spin   which are effective against Lapras.

Lapras Mega counters

Mega Aggron, Mega Blaziken, Mega Charizard Y, Mega Lopunny are best Mega counters to battle with Lapras if you have Mega evolved Pokemon or Mega candy.

Lapras shadow counters

Shadow Aggron, Shadow Arcanine, Shadow Aron, Shadow Camerupt, Shadow Charizard, Shadow Charmander, Shadow Charmeleon, Shadow Cyndaquil, Shadow Entei, Shadow Gallade, Shadow Growlithe, Shadow Hariyama, Shadow Hitmonchan, Shadow Hitmonlee, Shadow Ho-Oh, Shadow Kabuto, Shadow Kabutops, Shadow Lairon, Shadow Machamp, Shadow Machoke, Shadow Machop, Shadow Magmar, Shadow Magmortar, Shadow Makuhita, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Ninetales, Shadow Nosepass, Shadow Numel, Shadow Omanyte, Shadow Omastar, Shadow Poliwrath, Shadow Probopass, Shadow Quilava, Shadow Sudowoodo, Shadow Typhlosion, Shadow Vulpix are best Shadow counters to battle with Lapras.

Lapras moves set

Lapras will use below moves during the battle.

Blizzard Charged Ice 41.9
Frost Breath Fast Ice 11.1
Hydro Pump Charged Water 39.4
Skull Bash Charged Normal
Surf Charged Water 38.2
Water Gun Fast Water 10.0

Lapras raids weather impact

Here is how each weather condition boosts Lapras moves and impacts your Pokemon during the battle with Lapras.

Cloudy Great for battle
Fog Great for battle
Partly cloudy Boosts Skull Bash Skull Bash is bad for Fighting type Pokemon
Rainy Boosts Hydro Pump
Boosts Surf
Boosts Water Gun		 Great for battle
Snow Boosts Blizzard
Boosts Frost Breath		 Blizzard is bad for Fire type Pokemon, Blizzard is bad for Steel type Pokemon, Blizzard is bad for Rock type Pokemon, Blizzard is bad for Fighting type Pokemon
Frost Breath is bad for Fire type Pokemon, Frost Breath is bad for Steel type Pokemon, Frost Breath is bad for Rock type Pokemon, Frost Breath is bad for Fighting type Pokemon
Sunny / clear Great for battle
Windy Great for battle

Lapras stats

Attack: 131
Defence: 137
HP: 3600
Max CP (level 50): 3451
Max HP (level 50): 234

Shiny Lapras

There is a chance that you may encounter a shiny Lapras if you win the raid. The rate of encounting a shiny Lapras can be around 1%.

Raid events