Best Pineco counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Pineco 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

43.5%
23.0%
20.5%
3.5%
2.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	69.64	4919.87	0	54.6s	165.0
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.09	2903.73	1	69.1s	124.7
3	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	53.68	2993.26	1	71.9s	121.2
4	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.50	2714.55	1	71.4s	120.2
5	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	48.54	2755.94	1	79.4s	110.0
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	51.85	2104.70	1	76.3s	109.7
7	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.68	1913.65	1	78.6s	105.6
8	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	47.48	2446.09	1	81.7s	105.4
9	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	46.87	2540.18	1	82.5s	105.2
10	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	47.00	2473.29	1	82.4s	104.8
11	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	47.74	2314.30	1	81.6s	104.7
12	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.99	2457.21	1	82.5s	104.7
13	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	44.50	2997.44	1	85.7s	104.4
14	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	51.59	1627.82	2	78.6s	103.6
15	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	43.74	2978.72	1	87.1s	102.8
16	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	47.88	1788.58	2	83.2s	99.6
17	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	39.89	3422.16	1	94.5s	98.3
18	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.96	1814.90	1	84.6s	98.3
19	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	44.58	2188.79	1	87.3s	98.0
20	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	44.94	2085.50	1	87.0s	97.7
21	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	48.42	1546.98	2	83.7s	97.5
22	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.43	1676.51	2	84.5s	97.5
23	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	42.18	2601.89	1	90.9s	97.2
24	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	43.29	2292.94	1	89.4s	96.7
25	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	46.22	1710.47	2	86.3s	95.9
26	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	39.33	3076.91	1	96.2s	95.1
27	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	42.98	2066.82	1	90.7s	94.1
28	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	43.49	1954.88	1	90.1s	93.9
29	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	42.53	2011.38	1	91.8s	92.8
30	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	42.96	1912.52	1	91.3s	92.6
31	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	44.34	1686.59	2	89.7s	92.5
32	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	44.34	1686.59	2	89.7s	92.5
33	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	44.32	1651.09	2	89.9s	92.1
34	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	43.51	1735.96	2	91.0s	91.7
35	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	43.54	1717.25	2	91.1s	91.5
36	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	44.36	1592.76	2	90.2s	91.5
37	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.00	1878.45	1	93.4s	90.6
38	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	39.03	2495.94	1	98.0s	90.6
39	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	39.30	2396.65	1	97.6s	90.3
40	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	45.21	1388.32	2	90.0s	90.3
41	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	39.78	2284.73	1	96.8s	90.3
42	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	36.66	3101.52	1	102.8s	90.1
43	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	40.70	2031.53	1	95.5s	89.8
44	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	35.33	3397.12	1	106.1s	89.2
45	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	39.60	2035.43	1	98.0s	87.9
46	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	39.89	1892.38	1	97.9s	87.1
47	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.23	1825.87	1	97.4s	87.1
48	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	38.94	2047.78	1	99.5s	86.8
49	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	40.19	1767.56	2	97.7s	86.4
50	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	43.14	1309.63	2	94.4s	86.0

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About the results

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

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

Pineco type chart

When fighting Pineco, 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.

Best move-types and weather for Pineco Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	43.5%	Sunny
Flying	23.0%	Windy
Rock	20.5%	Partly Cloudy
Psychic	3.5%	Windy
Dragon	2.0%	Windy
Water	2.0%	Rainy
Electric	1.5%	Rainy
Normal	1.0%	Partly Cloudy
Bug	1.0%	Rainy
Ghost	1.0%	Fog
Steel	1.0%	Snow

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.