When this raid first started a few hours ago, I was knocked on my ass. I didn’t think this raid would be winnable, much less farmable. But oh what a difference a few hours makes! I don’t think think this raid can be soloed, but a team win is not too tough, if you have the right pokemon for the job.
There are a few pokemon that can play support roles in this raid, but after trying several different mons, it’s pretty clear only one pokemon matters for this raid, and if you get a team with four of these — it’s actually an easy win:
Mew @ Leftovers
Adamant Nature
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 HP / 210 Atk / 48 Spe
- Leech Life
- Swords Dance
- Struggle Bug
- Misty Terrain
This Mew is built to take advantage of Mewtwo’s weakness to Bug without opening yourself up to a supereffective hit, AND getting a steady stream of healing with every Leech Life. And because we are hitting on the physical side, we don’t care about Mewtwo boosting its SpDef with Calm Mind. We use Struggle Bug to keep M2’s SpAtk in check when it starts snowballing. And the icing on the cake move is Misty Terrain, which prevents Mewtwo from getting off that scripted Rest when the shield goes down.
The playbook is pretty clear with this:
Start off the battle using Struggle Bug, and if your teammates do the same, the attacks from Mewtwo will not bother you at all. After you get the SpAtk lowered, then proceed to Swords Dance up to +6, then start spamming Leech Seed and Tera as soon as you can. When you see the shield is getting close to breaking, you set Misty Terrain and the scripted Rest does nothing. Niiiiice. After that, just keep Struggle Bugging whenever it Calm Minds and otherwise just Leech Life for the win!
The EV’s above are important as it puts Mew at 248 Speed, which allows Mew to outspeed Mewtwo after the 20% speed boost is factored in. Very key to be able to Struggle Bug or Leech heal before M2 takes its shot. Also Leech Life is PP maxed and is totally necessary so you don’t run out of attacks.
I’ve seen some players use Electric Terrain instead of Misty Terrain, and that’s fine for the Rest-prevention. But Misty Terrain also protects your team from Ice Beam freezes, which can be a thing depending on your team. It’s also highly useful for someone to do Go All Out cheers at the appropriate times, because this is a long grind that needs all the DPS you can get.
I’ve run Light Screen and Life Dew as well (in addition to SD Leech, which are must-haves), and those were fine. But when you run those moves, you are probably counting on one or more of your teammates to be doing SpAtk debuffing and setting terrain to prevent the Rest. So yeah, if you have a coordinated team with everything in sync, it can be a very smooth raid with various teammates with different Mew sets or even an Armarouge or Grimmsnarl or whatever.
But if you run the Mew I show above, you can join almost any random team of not-stupid Mews and you’re probably gonna win.