Best Beedrill counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Beedrill 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)↓

Attacker typing

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 32.5%
• 30.5%
• 17.5%
• 16.0%
• 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	67.27	3296.98	1	57.9s	147.9
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	62.38	1317.01	2	68.6s	115.5
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	51.77	2299.85	1	75.8s	111.5
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	52.03	2007.44	1	76.4s	108.9
5	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.74	1542.87	2	75.1s	107.5
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	56.23	1112.75	3	77.0s	102.7
7	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	49.34	1790.93	2	81.0s	102.0
8	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	51.23	1287.48	2	81.5s	98.3
9	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	49.41	1423.73	2	83.0s	97.4
10	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	44.40	2147.31	1	87.8s	97.3
11	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	50.16	1327.84	2	82.6s	97.2
12	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	48.93	1414.30	2	83.8s	96.6
13	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	46.34	1676.80	2	86.3s	95.7
14	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	46.06	1653.25	2	86.9s	95.0
15	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	42.19	2048.37	1	92.4s	92.5
16	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	45.76	1484.26	2	88.4s	92.5
17	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	44.67	1627.07	2	89.4s	92.4
18	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	45.37	1512.23	2	88.9s	92.2
19	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.03	1019.75	3	86.1s	91.9
20	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	45.74	1404.56	2	89.0s	91.4
21	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	49.07	1062.06	3	86.9s	91.3
22	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	43.22	1713.24	2	91.7s	91.0
23	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	45.13	1426.96	2	89.9s	90.7
24	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	40.25	2111.33	1	96.3s	89.7
25	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	40.30	2023.80	1	96.5s	89.0
26	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	41.88	1666.46	2	94.6s	88.2
27	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	45.62	1174.66	3	91.2s	87.9
28	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	51.79	712.37	5	89.7s	87.9
29	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	48.55	900.83	3	90.1s	87.5
30	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	40.87	1755.08	2	96.3s	87.4
31	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	49.68	817.10	4	90.1s	87.4
32	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	40.49	1803.16	1	96.9s	87.3
33	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	42.50	1472.58	2	94.5s	87.0
34	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	42.21	1464.78	2	95.1s	86.5
35	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	40.17	1762.79	2	97.8s	86.3
36	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.21	965.39	3	92.8s	85.4
37	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	44.92	1053.13	3	93.8s	84.9
38	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	40.96	1487.15	2	97.6s	84.7
39	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	43.55	1126.64	3	95.4s	84.0
40	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	37.32	2031.34	1	103.5s	83.8
41	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	36.97	2105.92	1	104.2s	83.8
42	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	45.19	938.79	3	95.0s	83.4
43	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	40.25	1432.53	2	99.5s	82.9
44	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	43.00	1104.41	3	96.8s	82.8
45	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	45.41	877.93	4	95.7s	82.6
46	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	40.81	1317.74	2	99.1s	82.4
47	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	41.16	1272.43	2	98.8s	82.3
48	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	43.96	956.16	3	96.9s	81.9
49	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	40.44	1320.31	2	99.9s	81.8
50	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	37.98	1616.69	2	103.7s	81.1

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Beedrill type chart

When fighting Beedrill, 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.

About the results

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

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

The most effective move-types to use against Beedrill 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.