Best Mega Heracross counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Mega Heracross 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

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Raid Difficulty

Mega Raid (9000 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 50.0%
• 23.0%
• 16.0%
• 2.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 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	68.53	869.03	10	172.8s	114.3
2	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	54.47	536.58	16	232.3s	86.3
3	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	54.42	301.77	29	284.7s	76.8
4	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	49.30	418.08	21	268.7s	75.8
5	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	42.11	512.80	17	283.9s	69.7
6	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	44.29	383.24	23	297.1s	68.4
7	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	45.39	292.59	30	321.3s	66.0
8	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	39.74	403.51	22	315.7s	63.4
9	Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	42.90	285.04	31	336.1s	62.8
10	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	39.76	370.34	24	323.6s	62.3
11	Shadow Staraptor	Wing Attack	Brave Bird	41.79	269.58	33	348.9s	60.8
12	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike *	38.50	338.49	26	340.1s	59.6
13	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Sky Attack	32.37	508.93	17	348.7s	56.4
14	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	35.21	364.72	24	354.3s	56.4
15	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	34.47	366.22	24	359.4s	55.5
16	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	33.83	389.67	23	358.4s	55.4
17	Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	36.33	280.47	32	376.1s	54.8
18	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Brave Bird	35.02	306.84	29	374.3s	54.2
19	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	32.53	356.87	25	377.6s	52.7
20	Braviary	Air Slash	Brave Bird	33.53	314.25	28	383.0s	52.6
21	Staraptor	Wing Attack	Brave Bird	34.39	265.73	33	397.2s	51.9
22	Toucannon	Peck	Drill Peck	34.08	263.12	34	400.9s	51.4
23	Shadow Scyther	Air Slash	Aerial Ace	34.25	231.07	38	418.6s	50.3
24	Kartana	Air Slash	Aerial Ace	30.86	346.79	25	395.4s	50.2
25	Bombirdier	Wing Attack	Fly	32.92	268.83	33	407.3s	50.2
26	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike *	31.07	327.10	27	399.7s	49.9
27	Hisuian Braviary	Air Slash	Brave Bird	31.84	291.12	30	406.4s	49.7
28	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle	Aerial Ace	30.50	340.27	26	400.9s	49.6
29	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Psychic *	32.36	269.42	33	411.8s	49.6
30	Galarian Moltres	Wing Attack	Brave Bird	29.27	371.75	24	404.3s	48.9
31	Tornadus (Incarnate)	Air Slash	Hurricane	31.53	267.69	33	419.9s	48.5
32	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	29.01	353.81	25	412.0s	48.0
33	Lunala	Air Slash	Psychic	23.53	789.91	11	428.1s	47.9
34	Lugia	Extrasensory	Sky Attack	26.29	494.05	18	415.3s	47.5
35	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	27.84	383.70	23	417.1s	47.2
36	Mega Sceptile	Fury Cutter	Aerial Ace	30.42	266.71	33	430.9s	47.1
37	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Brave Bird	32.31	201.89	44	456.8s	46.7
38	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	29.01	302.91	29	429.1s	46.5
39	Tornadus (Therian)	Gust	Hurricane	29.30	283.03	31	434.3s	46.3
40	Yanmega	Wing Attack	Aerial Ace	29.98	257.65	34	439.9s	46.2
41	Shadow Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	30.90	227.66	39	449.4s	46.2
42	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	29.61	268.08	33	438.3s	46.1
43	Mega X Charizard	Wing Attack *	Blast Burn *	28.43	303.38	29	435.2s	45.8
44	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	26.27	403.67	22	431.8s	45.6
45	Togekiss	Air Slash	Aerial Ace	27.80	319.76	28	436.4s	45.5
46	Shadow Dragonite	Dragon Breath	Hurricane	28.52	264.94	33	451.5s	44.7
47	Mega Altaria	Peck	Sky Attack	27.64	293.86	30	448.1s	44.5
48	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	28.44	256.83	35	456.7s	44.3
49	Shadow Gliscor	Wing Attack	Aerial Ace	28.41	256.58	35	457.2s	44.2
50	Shadow Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Psychic *	30.97	177.04	50	493.9s	44.0

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Mega Heracross type chart

When fighting Mega Heracross, keep in mind the following that Bug and Fighting-type Pokémon are weak to Flying, Fairy, Fire, and Psychic type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Dark, Fighting, Grass, and Ground type moves.

Weaknesses

Flying	256.0%
Fairy	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	62.5%
Dark	62.5%
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.

About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Mega Heracross in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Mega Heracross 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 Heracross counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Rayquaza, Shadow Honchkrow, and Shadow Moltres. The table also includes Yveltal, Shadow Zapdos, Shadow Unfezant, and Moltres, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Mega Heracross 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.