Best Pichu Raid Counters

Raid Battles

Find the best counters for defeating Pichu in Pokémon GO. Here are the top 100 Pichu counters, including moves, DPS, TDO, faints, and time to win.

Pichu CP range from Raids

Pichu can be caught with the following Combat Power after being defeated in Raids:

  • From 240 CP to 270 CP, with no weather boost
  • From 300 CP to 338 CP with Rain weather boost

Pichu weaknesses

Pichu type chart

When fighting Pichu, keep in mind the that Electric-type Pokémon are weak to Ground-type moves. They take reduced damage from Electric, Flying, and Steel-type moves.

Pichu takes increased damage from:Pichu takes increased damage from:
+60.0%
  • Ground
Pichu takes reduced damage from:Pichu takes reduced damage from:
-37.5%
  • Electric
  • Flying
  • Steel

Best move-types and best weather for defeating Pichu

Move-typeUsage (%)Weather
Ground233.3%
  • sunnySunny
Psychic30.0%
  • windyWindy
Dragon26.7%
  • windyWindy
Fire26.7%
  • sunnySunny
Fighting20.0%
  • cloudyCloudy
Bug20.0%
  • rainRain
Normal16.7%
  • partlyCloudyPartly Cloudy
Ghost10.0%
  • fogFog
Water6.7%
  • rainRain
Poison3.3%
  • cloudyCloudy
Ice3.3%
  • snowSnow
Rock3.3%
  • partlyCloudyPartly Cloudy

About our ranking methodology

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

This guide displays a list of best Pichu 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. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

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 attacks, 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. Reddit

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.