Best Breloom counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Breloom 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 Rayquaza

Air Slash

Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

50.0%
20.5%
18.0%
2.5%
2.5%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	99.09	4122.78	0	39.8s	210.6
2	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	76.75	2504.06	1	52.7s	155.2
3	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	70.97	2003.93	1	57.9s	139.4
4	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	64.31	1871.72	1	63.7s	127.1
5	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	74.12	997.69	3	63.0s	125.2
6	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	65.64	1463.38	2	64.7s	122.8
7	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	58.56	1964.44	1	68.8s	119.1
8	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	67.40	1050.30	3	67.1s	117.3
9	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	65.70	1022.43	3	68.9s	114.3
10	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	58.97	1431.64	2	71.1s	112.3
11	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	54.54	1900.26	1	73.6s	111.8
12	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	50.70	2442.76	1	76.9s	111.0
13	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	53.15	2013.13	1	74.9s	110.8
14	Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	60.10	966.44	3	74.8s	105.2
15	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	51.36	1749.32	2	78.3s	104.8
16	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	57.34	1131.78	3	75.5s	104.7
17	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Brave Bird	56.37	1183.45	3	76.0s	104.2
18	Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	55.89	1039.14	3	78.3s	100.8
19	Braviary	Air Slash	Brave Bird	52.91	1191.06	3	80.1s	99.2
20	Tornadus (Incarnate)	Air Slash	Hurricane	51.39	1221.26	2	81.8s	97.4
21	Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	53.74	997.61	3	81.4s	96.9
22	Shadow Scyther	Air Slash	Aerial Ace	50.08	1288.76	2	83.1s	96.5
23	Hisuian Braviary	Air Slash	Brave Bird	48.71	1401.01	2	84.2s	96.0
24	Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	42.24	2405.64	1	91.2s	95.7
25	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	44.17	1981.59	1	88.8s	95.4
26	Tornadus (Therian)	Gust	Hurricane	48.87	1315.00	2	84.6s	95.0
27	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	48.15	1390.68	2	85.1s	95.0
28	Galarian Moltres	Wing Attack	Brave Bird	47.43	1429.66	2	86.0s	94.4
29	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	51.52	955.22	3	85.0s	92.9
30	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.67	1503.13	2	90.2s	90.9
31	Bombirdier	Wing Attack	Fly	49.75	972.84	3	87.2s	90.7
32	Shadow Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	47.40	1164.66	3	88.3s	90.5
33	Toucannon	Peck	Drill Peck	49.91	926.51	3	87.7s	90.0
34	Kartana	Air Slash	Aerial Ace	50.92	850.75	4	87.6s	89.9
35	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	47.05	1106.75	3	89.5s	89.0
36	Yanmega	Wing Attack	Aerial Ace	44.00	1435.19	2	91.9s	89.0
37	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Brave Bird	51.06	770.64	4	89.2s	88.3
38	Mega Beedrill	Poison Jab	Aerial Ace	44.16	1313.06	2	92.5s	87.6
39	Mega X Charizard	Wing Attack *	Blast Burn *	44.26	1295.12	2	92.5s	87.6
40	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Sludge Bomb	42.57	1486.37	2	94.3s	87.3
41	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	46.24	1031.32	3	91.8s	86.5
42	Shadow Dragonite	Dragon Tail	Hurricane	43.11	1328.96	2	94.3s	86.2
43	Togekiss	Air Slash	Aerial Ace	43.11	1309.82	2	94.5s	85.9
44	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	42.49	1349.49	2	95.4s	85.5
45	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.22	1118.71	3	94.3s	84.9
46	Shadow Crobat	Air Slash	Air Cutter	41.35	1452.90	2	97.0s	84.9
47	Mega Sceptile	Fury Cutter	Aerial Ace	45.39	951.82	3	94.4s	83.9
48	Galarian Zapdos	Counter	Brave Bird	42.32	1245.42	2	96.6s	83.8
49	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Fury Cutter	Brave Bird	49.97	637.30	5	94.6s	83.5
50	Lunala	Air Slash	Psychic	39.68	1507.48	2	100.3s	82.8

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Breloom type chart

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

Weaknesses

Flying	256.0%
Fairy	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Poison	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Dark	62.5%
Electric	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ground	62.5%
Rock	62.5%
Water	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 Breloom in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Breloom down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Breloom counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Rayquaza, Shadow Moltres, and Yveltal. The table also includes Shadow Honchkrow, Mega Pidgeot, Moltres, and Shadow Staraptor, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Breloom are:

Typing	Usage %
Flying	50.0%
Psychic	20.5%
Fire	18.0%
Poison	2.5%
Ice	2.5%
Bug	2.0%
Dragon	1.5%
Electric	1.0%
Ghost	0.5%
Fighting	0.5%
Normal	0.5%
Dark	0.5%

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.