Best Swinub counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Swinub 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 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

• 28.5%
• 22.0%
• 15.5%
• 15.5%
• 13.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	90.90	8691.74	0	41.3s	229.1
2	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	85.40	7202.11	0	44.2s	209.8
3	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	91.98	5315.19	0	41.8s	209.1
4	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	79.25	6616.72	0	47.6s	194.3
5	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	89.10	3744.78	0	44.2s	189.8
6	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	76.38	6153.53	0	49.5s	185.9
7	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	71.04	6958.37	0	52.7s	180.0
8	Kartana	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	80.28	4261.73	0	48.2s	179.4
9	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	86.96	3035.63	1	46.1s	178.3
10	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	78.54	4449.09	0	49.1s	177.8
11	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	73.92	5584.77	0	51.3s	177.5
12	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	82.92	3519.79	1	47.5s	177.0
13	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	77.13	4142.59	0	50.2s	172.7
14	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	81.47	3340.94	1	48.5s	172.7
15	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	69.46	6172.04	0	54.2s	172.5
16	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	70.60	5665.22	0	53.5s	171.7
17	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	70.60	5604.23	0	53.6s	171.3
18	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	77.06	3910.92	0	50.4s	170.6
19	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	67.38	6460.32	0	55.7s	169.9
20	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	71.80	5035.04	0	53.0s	169.8
21	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	76.24	3976.90	0	50.8s	169.7
22	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	77.28	3700.73	0	50.5s	169.1
23	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	72.42	4302.66	0	53.1s	165.6
24	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	66.93	5724.06	0	56.3s	164.9
25	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	76.16	3409.73	1	51.5s	164.3
26	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	80.05	2738.50	1	50.2s	163.5
27	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	75.78	3288.50	1	51.9s	162.5
28	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	70.20	4282.74	0	54.6s	161.4
29	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	72.49	3761.72	0	53.5s	161.2
30	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	71.07	3978.69	0	54.3s	160.5
31	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	70.82	3898.28	0	54.5s	159.4
32	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	69.58	4171.74	0	55.2s	159.4
33	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	74.79	3065.63	1	52.8s	158.5
34	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	70.49	3640.38	0	55.0s	156.6
35	Empoleon	Metal Claw	Hydro Cannon *	61.96	5991.12	0	60.5s	156.6
36	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	63.30	5396.64	0	59.5s	155.8
37	Mega Aggron	Iron Tail	Heavy Slam	59.16	6957.72	0	62.9s	155.6
38	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	72.71	3128.36	1	54.1s	155.6
39	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	66.38	4411.50	0	57.5s	155.3
40	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	77.72	2314.94	1	52.5s	154.3
41	Mega Tyranitar	Iron Tail	Fire Blast	60.24	6092.89	0	62.1s	153.6
42	Zarude	Vine Whip	Power Whip	65.79	4264.47	0	58.1s	153.1
43	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	70.63	3228.68	1	55.4s	153.0
44	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	71.60	3025.39	1	55.0s	152.7
45	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	71.60	3025.39	1	55.0s	152.7
46	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	68.74	3444.11	1	56.6s	151.8
47	Shaymin (Sky)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	73.35	2658.88	1	54.5s	151.6
48	Shadow Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	74.38	2511.93	1	54.1s	151.5
49	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	71.85	2857.82	1	55.1s	151.3
50	Mega Scizor	Bullet Punch	Iron Head	61.58	5098.24	0	61.3s	150.7

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Swinub type chart

When fighting Swinub, keep in mind the following that Ice and Ground-type Pokémon are weak to Fighting, Fire, Grass, Steel, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Poison, and Electric type moves.

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Grass	160.0%
Steel	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Electric	39.1%
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 Swinub in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Swinub down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Swinub counter is Primal Kyogre, followed by Shadow Metagross, Mega Blaziken, and Mega Swampert. The table also includes Mega Y Charizard, Terrakion, Metagross, and Kartana, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Swinub 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.