Best Weedle counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Weedle 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

Raid Difficulty

Attacker typing

Attacker moves type

Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash

Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

32.0%
31.0%
20.0%
14.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	142.95	17929.30	26.0s	381.0
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	127.75	11146.52	29.5s	316.0
3	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	119.66	9349.25	31.6s	289.4
4	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	115.51	10597.87	32.5s	288.7
5	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	111.76	11883.42	33.4s	287.9
6	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	109.59	11119.01	34.1s	279.6
7	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	105.25	11878.86	35.4s	274.5
8	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	106.16	10739.15	35.3s	270.7
9	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	106.95	10281.44	35.1s	269.9
10	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	103.64	11496.90	36.0s	269.3
11	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	95.38	14696.04	38.7s	265.2
12	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	100.36	11482.50	37.1s	262.5
13	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	105.22	9542.43	35.7s	262.4
14	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	90.30	16995.40	40.7s	261.7
15	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	96.37	12927.22	38.5s	260.4
16	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	97.36	11349.69	38.2s	255.6
17	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	84.54	19533.00	43.3s	255.5
18	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	98.39	10091.98	38.0s	251.6
19	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	102.62	8376.90	36.8s	250.4
20	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	101.10	8862.69	37.2s	250.3
21	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	90.88	13262.92	40.7s	249.9
22	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	90.83	13274.40	40.7s	249.8
23	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	96.48	10152.38	38.7s	248.0
24	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	97.99	9352.78	38.3s	246.9
25	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	108.12	6210.39	35.6s	245.5
26	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	103.56	7177.72	36.8s	244.4
27	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	85.91	14349.68	42.9s	242.9
28	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	89.19	12284.00	41.5s	242.3
29	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	91.62	11067.25	40.6s	242.3
30	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	88.07	12832.02	42.0s	242.1
31	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	86.54	13613.78	42.7s	241.6
32	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	89.87	11524.13	41.3s	240.6
33	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	86.20	13258.13	42.8s	239.6
34	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	99.54	7020.49	38.2s	235.7
35	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	82.23	14558.08	44.8s	235.3
36	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Blast	85.34	12460.76	43.3s	234.7
37	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	96.27	7640.30	39.3s	233.6
38	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	92.24	8661.04	40.7s	231.6
39	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	89.92	9347.45	41.6s	230.6
40	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	95.27	7293.26	39.8s	229.4
41	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	94.51	7389.94	40.0s	228.6
42	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	95.34	7052.26	39.8s	228.0
43	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	89.10	9121.40	42.0s	227.8
44	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	96.10	6777.94	39.6s	227.6
45	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	79.38	13935.83	46.4s	226.7
46	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Brave Bird	87.18	9374.99	42.8s	225.1
47	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	87.53	9180.36	42.7s	224.9
48	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	94.88	6551.44	40.1s	223.7
49	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	97.04	5942.43	39.5s	223.3
50	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	91.26	7486.59	41.4s	222.9

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About the results

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

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

Weedle type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Fighting	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Poison	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Weedle Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	32.0%	Sunny
Psychic	31.0%	Windy
Rock	20.0%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	14.0%	Windy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Electric	0.5%	Rainy
Dragon	0.5%	Windy

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.