Best Pinsir counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Pinsir counters in Pokémon GO with their Fast Attacks, Charged Attacks, DPS (damage per second), TDO (total damage output), faints, TTW (time to win), and score. The list is sorted by the score, which is calculated based on the DPS and TDO.

Simulation settings

Weather

Extreme↓

Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 42.0%
• 23.5%
• 20.0%
• 4.5%
• 2.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	50.20	2128.44	1	78.5s	107.1
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.51	1497.24	2	103.1s	80.7
3	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	38.93	1298.92	2	103.6s	79.1
4	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.92	987.74	3	102.6s	77.8
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	36.82	1169.88	3	110.1s	74.1
6	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	32.89	1392.07	2	119.8s	70.2
7	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	36.54	854.69	4	115.4s	69.0
8	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	34.56	1018.13	3	118.3s	68.5
9	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	37.55	655.34	5	117.8s	66.9
10	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	33.99	922.44	3	121.5s	66.2
11	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	36.60	690.72	5	119.2s	66.2
12	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	33.67	931.69	3	122.4s	65.8
13	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	34.15	852.56	4	122.3s	65.4
14	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	30.48	1301.94	2	129.2s	65.1
15	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	32.78	923.32	3	125.4s	64.3
16	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	37.96	497.22	7	123.8s	63.8
17	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	30.50	1146.35	3	130.6s	63.5
18	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	33.30	795.86	4	126.2s	63.2
19	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	32.01	916.09	3	128.2s	63.0
20	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	31.80	937.61	3	128.6s	63.0
21	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	34.66	620.00	5	127.1s	62.0
22	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	30.20	1030.39	3	133.2s	61.6
23	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	29.47	1132.15	3	134.9s	61.6
24	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	33.73	642.81	5	129.1s	61.1
25	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	27.74	1306.28	2	140.8s	60.5
26	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	27.39	1365.58	2	142.0s	60.4
27	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	34.15	573.39	6	130.5s	60.3
28	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	31.37	746.68	4	134.0s	59.5
29	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	30.06	848.88	4	136.7s	59.0
30	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	33.20	556.38	6	134.3s	58.6
31	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	33.28	544.86	6	134.6s	58.5
32	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	31.77	645.02	5	135.6s	58.3
33	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	25.88	1419.25	2	149.2s	58.2
34	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	25.60	1466.04	2	150.5s	58.1
35	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	31.76	620.22	5	136.6s	57.9
36	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	31.76	620.22	5	136.6s	57.9
37	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	34.91	424.94	8	137.0s	57.8
38	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	32.05	591.16	6	136.7s	57.7
39	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	31.96	590.81	6	137.0s	57.6
40	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	30.88	641.04	5	139.1s	57.0
41	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	30.46	666.38	5	139.8s	56.8
42	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	28.90	795.63	4	142.6s	56.5
43	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	27.87	912.93	3	144.9s	56.4
44	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	28.42	843.36	4	143.7s	56.4
45	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	27.17	1002.88	3	146.8s	56.4
46	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	29.68	706.31	5	141.7s	56.3
47	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	29.87	671.78	5	141.9s	56.0
48	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	26.50	1035.01	3	149.8s	55.6
49	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	30.44	575.80	6	143.3s	55.1
50	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	26.26	916.84	3	152.8s	53.9

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Pinsir type chart

When fighting Pinsir, keep in mind the following that Bug-type Pokémon are weak to Fire, Flying, and Rock type moves. They take reduced damage from Fighting, Grass, and Ground type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Fighting	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ground	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Pinsir in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Pinsir down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Pinsir counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Rayquaza, and Mega Blaziken. The table also includes Shadow Moltres, Shadow Ho-Oh, Mega Diancie, and Reshiram, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Pinsir are:

About our ranking methodology

When calculating the best counters for any Pokémon, our simulator takes into account various factors, such as the defender's typing and average DPS against each attacker, the weather's influence, energy left over from using charge moves, Shadow Pokémon attack and defense stat changes, and more. During the initial phase of simulations, we calculate DPS and TDO for each attacker that is currently available in the game, and then we continue to rank them.

We use a ranking method developed by a Reddit user named /u/Elastic_Space, which is described in detail in this Reddit post. It is a fairly complicated, but very well thought-out mathematical model for predicting simulation results without actually running the simulations. It also correlates with field data almost too well not to be used.

Our Time to Win (TTW) and Faint numbers are also estimated, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Since we do not account for factors like Friendship and Mega damage boost, they will differ from actual experience in the field.