How To Beat Cliff In April 2025

The Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff April 2025 Pokemon GO Shadow 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 in Pokemon GO to 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.

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Pokemon GO: How To Beat Cliff (April 2025)

Once you figure out Cliff’s April 2025 Shadow Pokemon in Pokemon GO you 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.

Pokemon GO – All Cliff Shadow Pokemon In April 2025

Cliff’s most Shadow Pokemon share common weaknesses of Fairy and Ice-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 in Pokemon GO are Mamoswine, Xerneas, and Mewtwo. But if you do not have them, you can 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 can use Xerneas if Cliff chooses Annihilape, Machoke, Tyranitar, and Machamp since they are all weak to Fairy-type moves in Pokemon GO. Select the Psychic-type Mewtwo to win against Annihilape, Machoke, Machamp, and Crobat.

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Pokemon GO – All Cliff Shadow Pokemon Counters In April 2025

Shadow Cubone

• Type: Ground
• Weakness: Grass, Ice, and Water-type moves
• Resistance: Poison, Rock, and Electric-type moves

Best Shadow Cubone Counters

Shadow Machoke

• Type: Fighting
• Weakness: Fairy, Flying, and Psychic-type moves
• Resistance: Bug, Dark, and Rock-type moves

Best Shadow Machoke Counters

Shadow Marowak

• Type: Ground
• Weaknesses: Grass, Ice, and Water-type moves
• Resistances: Poison, Rock, and Electric-type moves

Best Shadow Marowak Counters

Shadow Annihilape

• Type: Fighting and Ghost
• Weakness: Fairy, Flying, Ghost, and Psychic-type moves
• Resistance: Poison, Rock, Bug, Fighting, Normal-type moves

Best Shadow Annihilape Counters

Shadow Tyranitar

• Type: Rock and Dark
• Weaknesses: Bug, Fairy, Fighting, Ground, Water, Steel, and Grass-type moves
• Resistances: Psychic, Dark, Fire, Flying, Ghost, Normal, and Poison-type

Best Shadow Tyranitar Counters

Shadow Machamp

• Type: Dark and Normal
• Weakness: Fighting, Bug, and Fairy-type moves
• Resistance: Dark, Psychic, and Ghost-type moves

Best Shadow Machamp Counters

Shadow Crobat

• Type: Poison and Flying
• Weakness: Electric, Ice, Psychic, and Rock-type moves
• Resistance: Fairy, Ground, Poison, Bug, Fighting, and Grass-type moves

Best Shadow Crobat Counters

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