Best Mega Scizor counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Mega Scizor 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 Blaziken

Fire Spin

Blast Burn *

Best performing move types

73.0%
4.0%
3.5%
3.0%
3.0%
2.5%
2.5%
2.0%
2.0%
2.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.26	1049.42	8	247.3s	80.8
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.51	1177.90	7	252.7s	80.0
3	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	35.78	1027.93	8	286.5s	70.5
4	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.76	696.54	12	283.9s	69.4
5	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	35.24	932.55	9	294.0s	68.3
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	36.04	851.00	10	292.0s	68.2
7	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	35.49	803.19	11	298.4s	66.6
8	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	35.65	732.71	12	301.6s	65.6
9	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	31.35	1167.51	7	317.9s	65.1
10	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	35.78	658.97	13	306.2s	64.4
11	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	31.67	1001.10	8	320.2s	63.6
12	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	35.25	609.00	14	314.4s	62.6
13	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	33.82	711.96	12	316.7s	62.6
14	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	30.39	956.70	9	333.8s	61.0
15	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	31.42	794.07	11	331.8s	60.3
16	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	33.15	610.05	14	330.5s	59.7
17	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	31.88	681.17	13	335.2s	59.1
18	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	33.01	584.06	15	334.3s	58.9
19	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	33.01	584.06	15	334.3s	58.9
20	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	30.04	841.65	10	342.4s	58.9
21	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	33.34	558.86	16	334.4s	58.9
22	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	30.60	750.03	11	342.1s	58.4
23	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	29.51	794.31	11	350.3s	57.4
24	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	28.89	857.86	10	353.5s	57.3
25	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	31.58	544.13	16	351.1s	56.1
26	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	29.40	717.43	12	356.3s	56.0
27	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	31.43	551.07	16	351.7s	56.0
28	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	33.07	450.79	19	352.0s	56.0
29	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	31.12	525.34	17	357.7s	55.0
30	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	29.47	645.05	13	361.2s	55.0
31	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	26.36	985.65	9	377.9s	54.8
32	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	28.51	646.89	13	371.4s	53.5
33	Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	28.98	595.37	15	371.1s	53.3
34	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	29.02	544.00	16	376.3s	52.4
35	Incineroar	Fire Fang	Blaze Kick	27.62	626.29	14	383.3s	51.9
36	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	31.40	359.32	25	386.8s	51.3
37	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	27.39	599.54	15	388.7s	51.1
38	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	28.58	504.11	17	386.3s	51.0
39	Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	27.52	548.59	16	392.7s	50.3
40	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang	Overheat	27.56	532.08	16	394.2s	50.1
41	Pyroar	Fire Fang	Overheat	27.56	532.08	16	394.2s	50.1
42	Solgaleo	Fire Spin	Flamethrower	25.47	617.69	14	411.7s	48.5
43	Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	26.22	547.34	16	409.0s	48.4
44	Shadow Ninetales	Fire Spin	Weather Ball	26.74	479.33	18	411.6s	47.9
45	Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	27.28	442.95	20	411.2s	47.9
46	Shadow Magmar	Ember	Flamethrower	27.69	382.66	23	419.1s	47.0
47	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Fire Punch	29.11	313.80	28	423.9s	47.0
48	Shadow Rapidash	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	27.27	393.94	22	421.4s	46.7
49	Skeledirge	Incinerate	Flamethrower	24.02	589.75	15	435.7s	45.8
50	Heatmor	Fire Spin	Flamethrower	24.74	417.83	21	450.0s	43.8

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About the results

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

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

Mega Scizor type chart

When fighting Mega Scizor, keep in mind the following that Bug and Steel-type Pokémon are weak to Fire type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Steel, Grass, and Poison type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	256.0%

Resistances

Grass	39.1%
Poison	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Dragon	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Normal	62.5%
Psychic	62.5%
Steel	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 Scizor Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	73.0%	Sunny
Fighting	4.0%	Cloudy
Flying	3.5%	Windy
Electric	3.0%	Rainy
Dark	3.0%	Fog
Ground	2.5%	Sunny
Psychic	2.5%	Windy
Normal	2.0%	Partly Cloudy
Ghost	2.0%	Fog
Water	2.0%	Rainy
Dragon	1.0%	Windy
Rock	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Bug	0.5%	Rainy
Grass	0.5%	Sunny

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.