Every available Dynamax, Gigantamax and eligible special-form tank, ranked by the HP it loses per hit averaged across all 18 attack types, each weighted equally. The best overall tank sets 100. These are the tanks to bring when you don’t know the boss’s moves; once you do, the per-type tank rankings show who handles that attack type best. You can search by Pokémon or Fast Attack and change the settings to match your roster.
Know which Max Battle boss you’re facing? Find it in the Dynamax Pokémon list and open its Counters tab for the best tanks, attackers and healers against it.
Dynamax Blissey
Dynamax Lugia
Crowned Shield Zamazenta
Dynamax ChanseyTank scores measure how well a Pokémon takes hits from Dynamax and Gigantamax bosses. Higher is better.
Incoming damage is half a spread hit and half a targeted hit. The targeted half averages the best and worst dodge reductions. Each hit is rounded on its own.
We average each tank’s HP loss percentage over all 18 attack types, each weighted equally, and score that average. The individual type scores aren’t averaged.
Score = 100 × Dynamax Blissey’s average HP loss % across all types ÷ this Pokémon’s average HP loss % across all types
Ties go to the Pokémon that fills the Max Meter faster, then to the one with more Max Attack damage.
The benchmark boss takes the median stats of 29 available Tier 5 Dynamax and Tier 6 Gigantamax bosses whose encounter profiles are verified. Each boss counts once, with its encounter and damage multipliers already applied.
Dynamax Blissey is the best overall Max Battle tank with the current settings, at 100 on the shared 100-point scale. Against the combined Tier 5 and Tier 6 boss benchmark, it loses 26.2% of its HP per hit on average across all 18 attack types. That makes it a strong all-round tank, but another tank can do better against a specific attack type, such as a Ghost or Steel type against Normal-type attacks.
After Dynamax Blissey, the best all-round tanks include Dynamax Lugia, Crowned Shield Zamazenta, and Dynamax Chansey. They hold up well across every attack type, so they’re good picks when the boss’s moves are unknown or varied. Compare their scores and type matchups to find the right fit for your team.
Use Pound on Dynamax Blissey with the current settings. If two movesets are equally durable, the one that fills the Max Meter faster wins, then the one with more Max Attack damage. An asterisk (*) marks a legacy move.
