Pogo Raid Counters

A web tool for Pokémon GO raiders that calculates type effectiveness against raid bosses and generates search strings for finding counters in your Pokémon storage.

Live: https://raid.lackas.net/

Features

• Calculate effective and double-effective attacking types for any raid boss type combination
• Generate Pokémon GO search strings to filter your storage (e.g., @1fire,@1rock&@2fire,@3fire)
• Display current Tier 5+ raids from Pokébattler with difficulty ratings
• Clean URLs: /water/ghost for Water/Ghost type boss

Installation

Docker (recommended)

docker compose up -d --build

The app runs on port 8000. Raid data is stored in a Docker volume and refreshed daily at 3 AM UTC.

Local development

pip install -r requirements.txt
gunicorn -w 2 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 raid:application

To fetch raid data manually:

python availableraids.py --output available_raids.json
export RAID_DATA_PATH=./available_raids.json

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
RAID_DATA_PATH	/data/available_raids.json	Path to raid data JSON file
RAID_SOURCE_TZ	America/Los_Angeles	Timezone for parsing raid schedules