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Kartana will soon enter the5-star raid rotation. It will be available only in the Northern Hemisphere from Thursday, August 12, 2025,at 10:00 AM Local Time until Friday, August 01, 2025.
You can catch Kartana at the followingCP ranges:
Kartana will be available in both shiny and normal variations! Here is what it looks like:
Kartana’s typing is highly exploitable! It is aGrass and Steel-type Pokemon, which gives it weakness toFighting and Fire-type moves. We will be focusing mostly on exploring Kartana’s 4x weakness to Fire when designing our teams. However, I will be listing some other half-decent Pokémon to use against it as well.
Kartana will be weather boosted bySunny or Snowyweather conditions. It will be stronger if you encounter it during these conditions, and will be higher level when you catch it. However, given that these conditions may also come with actual risks to your person, be wise when you decide to go out or not. It may be worth it to stay in and remote raid instead.
Kartana is not currently duo-able, however the amount of Trainers you should need to defeat it won’t be too many. With great counters, you can get away with 3-4 Trainers in a raid team and reliably take Kartana down. If you don’t have amazing counters in general, consider taking between 6-8 Trainers, just so that you can consistently bring it down and catch it. The more people you get, the faster these raids will go by. Remember, take advantage of the buffs you get from Party Play! It’s free damage, if you’re all together anyway.
Recommended Party
As ever, if you have Shadow variations of the Pokémon listed below, they will be better picks over their normal counterparts.Shadow Pokémon do more damagethan their regular counterparts (even with mediocre IVs), so consider taking them for this raid for the extra damage.
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