Best Smoochum counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Smoochum 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 👑

Shadow Metagross

Bullet Punch

Meteor Mash *

Best performing move types

34.0%
14.5%
14.5%
12.0%
11.5%
6.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	68.89	3678.55	0	56.2s	154.1
2	Mega Tyranitar	Bite	Brutal Swing	65.12	4022.11	0	58.9s	150.1
3	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	74.23	2276.13	1	54.8s	148.2
4	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.51	2431.44	1	56.3s	145.9
5	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	76.36	1816.17	1	55.1s	144.8
6	Shadow Tyranitar	Bite	Brutal Swing	65.89	2685.16	1	60.0s	139.5
7	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	57.19	3591.64	1	67.0s	132.3
8	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Foul Play	59.27	3053.53	1	65.5s	131.6
9	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	66.66	1896.31	1	61.6s	131.1
10	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	61.68	2555.93	1	64.0s	131.0
11	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw	Shadow Ball	68.91	1645.74	2	61.0s	130.8
12	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	62.98	2334.10	1	63.3s	130.7
13	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	53.91	4090.65	0	70.3s	129.6
14	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	67.71	1500.26	2	62.8s	126.6
15	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	61.74	2107.74	1	65.1s	126.0
16	Shadow Weavile	Snarl	Foul Play	60.57	2268.19	1	65.8s	126.0
17	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	63.87	1758.25	2	64.6s	124.8
18	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	65.08	1629.30	2	64.2s	124.7
19	Mega Gyarados	Bite	Crunch	51.75	3839.28	0	73.3s	123.8
20	Shadow Cursola	Hex	Shadow Ball	65.90	1422.81	2	64.7s	122.5
21	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	60.13	1901.72	1	67.4s	120.8
22	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	54.97	2657.76	1	70.9s	120.5
23	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Shadow Ball	59.09	2005.50	1	68.1s	120.5
24	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	65.39	1334.75	2	65.8s	120.2
25	Tyranitar	Bite	Brutal Swing	54.49	2630.27	1	71.5s	119.4
26	Gholdengo	Hex	Shadow Ball	53.57	2810.36	1	72.3s	119.4
27	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball *	59.16	1882.62	1	68.5s	119.1
28	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	62.67	1501.43	2	67.0s	119.0
29	Volcarona	Bug Bite	Overheat	55.42	2374.72	1	71.0s	118.5
30	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	62.56	1420.76	2	67.7s	117.5
31	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	56.28	2079.80	1	70.9s	116.8
32	Mega Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	49.08	3458.00	1	77.5s	116.2
33	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Foul Play	56.84	1928.74	1	70.8s	115.9
34	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	57.29	1861.01	1	70.6s	115.8
35	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	57.29	1861.01	1	70.6s	115.8
36	Darkrai	Snarl	Shadow Ball	56.06	2001.64	1	71.4s	115.5
37	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	56.42	1901.96	1	71.4s	114.9
38	Mega Absol	Snarl	Dark Pulse	60.48	1433.51	2	69.6s	114.6
39	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	57.18	1754.76	2	71.2s	114.2
40	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball	57.47	1706.13	2	71.1s	114.0
41	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	59.24	1488.12	2	70.4s	113.6
42	Shadow Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	51.47	2530.24	1	75.6s	113.2
43	Hydreigon	Bite	Brutal Swing *	57.58	1628.73	2	71.4s	113.1
44	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	51.33	2521.77	1	75.8s	112.9
45	Mega Scizor	Fury Cutter	Iron Head	49.83	2784.69	1	77.4s	112.5
46	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	51.80	2358.53	1	75.6s	112.2
47	Pheromosa	Bug Bite	Bug Buzz	67.30	842.44	4	70.6s	112.0
48	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	59.69	1346.30	2	71.0s	112.0
49	Giratina (Origin Forme)	Shadow Claw	Shadow Force *	54.27	1803.29	1	74.3s	110.2
50	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	47.88	2916.91	1	80.1s	110.0

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About the results

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

The top-ranked Smoochum counter is Shadow Metagross, followed by Mega Tyranitar, Mega Blaziken, and Mega Y Charizard. The table also includes Mega Gengar, Shadow Tyranitar, Metagross, and Mega Houndoom, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

Smoochum type chart

When fighting Smoochum, keep in mind the following that Ice and Psychic-type Pokémon are weak to Bug, Dark, Fire, Ghost, Rock, and Steel type moves. They take reduced damage from Ice, and Psychic type moves.

Weaknesses

Bug	160.0%
Dark	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Ghost	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Steel	160.0%

Resistances

Ice	62.5%
Psychic	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

Best move-types and weather for Smoochum Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	34.0%	Sunny
Dark	14.5%	Fog
Ghost	14.5%	Fog
Steel	12.0%	Snow
Rock	11.5%	Partly Cloudy
Bug	6.0%	Rainy
Electric	2.0%	Rainy
Psychic	1.5%	Windy
Flying	1.0%	Windy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Dragon	0.5%	Windy
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
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.