Best Combusken counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Combusken 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 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 36.0%
• 24.5%
• 18.0%
• 16.5%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	75.34	3439.92	1	52.0s	163.2
2	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	59.42	3860.88	0	64.3s	138.4
3	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	59.21	3847.27	0	64.5s	137.9
4	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	67.50	1994.65	1	60.6s	133.8
5	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	52.35	3352.99	1	73.1s	121.5
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	61.68	1705.48	2	66.8s	120.6
7	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	58.32	2087.76	1	68.6s	120.2
8	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	53.30	2782.83	1	72.7s	118.7
9	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	55.67	1956.26	1	72.0s	114.3
10	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	55.20	1905.43	1	72.8s	112.9
11	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	52.40	2070.56	1	75.7s	110.2
12	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	49.22	2543.64	1	78.8s	109.4
13	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	49.07	2500.86	1	79.1s	108.7
14	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	47.41	2629.23	1	81.4s	106.9
15	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	46.09	2875.57	1	83.1s	106.4
16	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	53.21	1601.11	2	76.7s	105.9
17	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	55.17	1344.27	2	76.0s	105.1
18	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	53.79	1454.76	2	76.8s	104.7
19	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	45.43	2729.47	1	84.5s	104.1
20	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	48.13	2160.74	1	81.5s	103.9
21	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	46.23	2469.75	1	83.7s	103.4
22	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	56.44	1087.02	3	77.0s	102.5
23	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	46.34	2106.40	1	84.5s	100.3
24	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	51.79	1335.66	2	80.3s	99.8
25	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	48.55	1708.42	2	82.6s	99.7
26	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	47.58	1759.42	2	83.9s	98.7
27	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	50.06	1349.82	2	82.6s	97.4
28	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	44.94	2017.23	1	87.2s	97.0
29	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	47.83	1569.20	2	84.4s	96.9
30	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.81	2015.09	1	87.5s	96.8
31	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	55.08	898.17	4	81.4s	96.7
32	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	44.70	1996.21	1	87.7s	96.4
33	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	49.59	1327.80	2	83.4s	96.3
34	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	52.47	1039.29	3	82.5s	95.9
35	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	43.89	2073.42	1	89.0s	95.8
36	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	49.75	1255.40	2	83.8s	95.5
37	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	43.43	2031.52	1	90.0s	94.6
38	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	40.82	2495.81	1	94.0s	93.9
39	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	48.39	1243.43	2	86.0s	93.2
40	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	51.28	967.68	3	85.1s	92.8
41	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	51.94	914.80	3	85.1s	92.6
42	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	45.47	1501.07	2	88.8s	92.2
43	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	39.50	2590.08	1	96.7s	92.1
44	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	45.21	1481.19	2	89.4s	91.5
45	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	46.14	1301.47	2	89.1s	90.6
46	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	44.88	1419.88	2	90.4s	90.2
47	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	44.60	1430.61	2	90.8s	89.9
48	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Brave Bird	43.41	1581.51	2	92.0s	89.8
49	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	45.47	1319.27	2	90.1s	89.8
50	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	45.17	1334.25	2	90.5s	89.5

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Combusken type chart

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

Weaknesses

Flying	160.0%
Ground	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	39.1%
Dark	62.5%
Fire	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Steel	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 Combusken in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Combusken down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Combusken counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Primal Kyogre, Primal Groudon, and Shadow Mewtwo. The table also includes Mega Swampert, Mega Alakazam, Rayquaza, and Mega Latios, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Combusken 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.