Mewtwo team line-up
Prepping for Mewtwo, I have about a million dust and keeping rare candies above a hundred just in case. My team is going to be:
Dragonite: DT/HU
2x Tyranitar: B/SE
Tyranitar: B/C
Snorlax: L/HB
Gyarados: B/C
Not sure what to do if Mewtwo has Focus Blast and with my luck it will.
Answers
Put the SE Tyranitars first, make sure they get at least one special off before fainting if you're against Focus Blast. You don't want to switch in a Tyranitar just as Mewtwo uses Focus Blast, you might miss out on damage bonus seeing as Tyranitar's got the highest DPS of your 6 Pokemon (assuming equal levels)
If you're worried about Focus Blast then change Snorlax to another Gyarados or Dragonite if you have one, since it's another Pokemon that's also weak to fighting.
If you've got 3 Tyranitars and 3 Pokemon resistant to fighting, the raid is going to be quite easy because Tyranitar resists all of the other moves, and if it doesn't, then you've still got half a team that can last the rest of the battle once all 3 Tyranitars faint, and also still deal damage to make sure you get extra balls.
I have a good lineup, but I'm still going in with a dummy squad...Shadowball Gengar, ShB Alakazams, Bug Scizors, Crunch Houndooms, 3k B/HP Gyarados. When we get 40% to 50% through I'm letting the computer pick my real players (Tyranitars and/or Dragonites). I seriously don't trust the competence of the players here, the only ones I do trust are players I've seen in gyms everyday the past 10 months (and I now recognize). Even they may be tempted to double blissey anchor. ****Have some options, these dark types plus 4 big Dragonites and 4 big Bite Gyarados, 2 bug Scizors, a bug Pinsir, SC/ShB Gengar
Two squads of 6 attackers.
Against Non-Focus Blast
9 Ttar B/C
3 Scizors FC/XS
Against Focus Blast
6 TTar B/C
3 Dnite DT/O
3 Gyarados B/C
I may adjust down the amount of TTar and increase Dnites and Gyarados depending on how many people in the raid. If anyone have better suggestions let me know. I've been building an army of Mewtwo counters months before the first raid ever came out.
No adjustment needed. That's good.
You can run two Ttars first then come in with 3/3 Dragons and Ttars. If y'all don't get it it's your raidmates not you.
Folks are super worried about FB. They should be worried about the ghost move special which is brutal as hell and the fact your raidmates are unlikely to have Ttars. All those off brand counters will get rolled and if you are among a bunch of "good" counters it will likely be bloodier than any FB moveset if he has confusion.