Best Mega Aerodactyl counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Mega Aerodactyl 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

Mega Raid (9000 HP)↓

Attacker typing

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Best overall 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

• 27.5%
• 21.5%
• 17.5%
• 17.0%
• 12.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	31.26	784.92	11	333.8s	59.9
2	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	28.99	740.89	12	359.0s	55.8
3	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	31.00	559.74	16	354.7s	55.6
4	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	28.65	468.78	19	390.9s	50.4
5	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	27.30	534.40	16	397.0s	49.8
6	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	27.45	483.35	18	402.3s	49.0
7	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	28.79	392.91	22	404.2s	48.8
8	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	30.01	332.62	27	408.1s	48.7
9	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Discharge	29.50	346.81	25	408.9s	48.5
10	Shadow Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	30.08	308.33	29	416.0s	48.1
11	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	25.51	548.83	16	418.5s	47.4
12	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	29.58	301.68	29	423.6s	47.2
13	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	29.56	301.13	29	424.0s	47.2
14	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Thunderbolt	28.43	341.20	26	422.1s	46.9
15	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	27.35	381.88	23	423.4s	46.5
16	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	27.80	353.25	25	425.7s	46.4
17	Shadow Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	27.30	370.01	24	427.0s	46.2
18	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	24.40	530.78	16	436.7s	45.4
19	Shadow Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	28.28	291.50	30	441.8s	45.2
20	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	23.90	559.81	16	440.8s	45.2
21	Zekrom	Charge Beam	Wild Charge	25.35	439.48	20	437.0s	45.1
22	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	24.43	500.36	17	440.4s	44.9
23	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Thunderbolt	26.44	349.83	25	443.3s	44.5
24	Melmetal	Thunder Shock	Double Iron Bash *	23.05	587.01	15	451.7s	44.3
25	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	26.15	348.95	25	447.4s	44.1
26	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	28.13	256.93	35	460.1s	43.9
27	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	28.82	222.46	40	474.1s	43.5
28	Thundurus (Therian)	Volt Switch	Thunderbolt	26.23	303.59	29	461.7s	43.0
29	Galarian Standard Darmanitan	Ice Fang	Avalanche	27.83	235.66	38	476.2s	42.8
30	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	23.34	455.88	19	464.6s	42.5
31	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Wild Charge	26.02	288.18	31	470.8s	42.2
32	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	22.58	497.95	18	470.8s	42.2
33	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	24.70	346.19	25	468.4s	42.1
34	Jirachi	Charge Beam	Doom Desire	22.21	519.58	17	474.6s	42.0
35	Empoleon	Metal Claw	Hydro Cannon *	22.82	459.96	19	472.7s	41.8
36	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	22.57	474.12	18	474.6s	41.7
37	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	25.04	313.75	28	474.1s	41.7
38	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Aqua Tail *	24.80	322.02	27	474.7s	41.6
39	Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	23.60	384.62	23	474.9s	41.4
40	Kyurem	Steel Wing	Glaciate *	24.81	314.03	28	477.4s	41.4
41	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	25.06	294.55	30	481.3s	41.2
42	Shadow Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	27.18	213.00	42	500.1s	41.1
43	Mega Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	20.92	587.86	15	491.4s	41.0
44	Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	24.26	321.46	27	483.0s	40.8
45	Shadow Zebstrika	Spark	Wild Charge	26.37	230.05	39	497.8s	40.8
46	Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	24.60	301.29	29	485.4s	40.8
47	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Ancient Power	23.02	390.24	23	483.1s	40.8
48	Mega Gardevoir	Charge Beam	Triple Axel	23.64	336.37	26	487.7s	40.4
49	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	24.30	295.91	30	492.1s	40.2
50	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Zap Cannon	22.62	382.29	23	492.0s	40.0

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About the results

Mega Aerodactyl type chart

When fighting Mega Aerodactyl, keep in mind the following that Rock and Flying-type Pokémon are weak to Electric, Ice, Rock, Steel, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Fire, Flying, Ground, Normal, and Poison type moves.

Weaknesses

Electric	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Steel	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	62.5%
Fire	62.5%
Flying	62.5%
Ground	62.5%
Normal	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 Mega Aerodactyl Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Electric	27.5%	Rainy
Water	21.5%	Rainy
Rock	17.5%	Partly Cloudy
Steel	17.0%	Snow
Ice	12.5%	Snow
Dragon	1.5%	Windy
Psychic	1.0%	Windy
Ghost	1.0%	Fog
Fighting	0.5%	Cloudy

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.