Best Medicham counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Medicham 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

• 29.0%
• 28.5%
• 17.5%
• 7.5%
• 3.5%
• 3.0%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	59.10	2515.12	1	66.6s	126.2
2	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	47.79	1839.65	1	83.2s	100.0
3	Mega Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	40.73	2497.46	1	94.2s	93.7
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	45.81	1531.20	2	88.0s	93.1
5	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw	Shadow Ball	43.07	1621.40	2	92.5s	89.7
6	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	41.78	1580.23	2	95.3s	87.1
7	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball *	39.20	1758.26	2	100.0s	84.6
8	Shadow Cursola	Hex	Shadow Ball	41.09	1401.86	2	97.9s	83.9
9	Mega Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball	38.67	1600.69	2	102.1s	82.1
10	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	37.23	1739.69	2	105.0s	81.0
11	Shadow Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	36.48	1673.67	2	107.3s	79.1
12	Lunala	Air Slash	Shadow Ball	31.53	2889.31	1	119.2s	78.8
13	Giratina (Origin Forme)	Shadow Claw	Shadow Force *	33.95	2163.91	1	112.7s	78.7
14	Chandelure	Hex	Shadow Ball	36.28	1594.75	2	108.3s	78.0
15	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	38.98	1188.01	3	104.5s	77.7
16	Gholdengo	Hex	Shadow Ball	34.12	1932.11	1	113.0s	77.2
17	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	41.37	910.45	3	102.8s	77.2
18	Hoopa (Confined)	Astonish	Shadow Ball	33.50	2034.48	1	114.5s	76.9
19	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	36.80	1268.87	2	109.2s	75.3
20	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	34.66	1549.98	2	113.1s	74.8
21	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	39.87	855.47	4	107.1s	74.0
22	Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	36.91	1114.78	3	110.5s	73.5
23	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	30.23	2388.97	1	125.1s	73.3
24	Shadow Banette	Shadow Claw	Shadow Ball	37.64	981.74	3	110.3s	72.7
25	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball *	32.54	1721.68	2	119.0s	72.6
26	Shadow Mismagius	Hex	Shadow Ball	34.71	1211.62	2	115.6s	71.2
27	Hoopa (Unbound)	Astonish	Shadow Ball	33.51	1352.53	2	118.1s	70.8
28	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	38.03	814.26	4	112.3s	70.6
29	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	32.43	1499.45	2	120.6s	70.4
30	Xerneas	Geomancy *	Moonblast	31.36	1679.09	2	123.4s	70.2
31	Shadow Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball	35.39	1037.76	3	115.6s	70.0
32	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	31.67	1594.46	2	122.7s	70.0
33	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	30.72	1739.80	2	125.5s	69.5
34	Giratina (Altered Forme)	Shadow Claw	Shadow Force *	28.65	2131.97	1	132.4s	68.6
35	Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	30.34	1634.48	2	127.5s	68.0
36	Shadow Granbull	Charm	Play Rough	34.46	989.64	3	119.0s	67.9
37	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Dazzling Gleam	34.05	961.54	3	120.7s	66.9
38	Shadow Drifblim	Hex	Shadow Ball	31.79	1246.25	2	124.8s	66.8
39	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	29.41	1662.73	2	131.1s	66.6
40	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	29.68	1582.31	2	130.4s	66.4
41	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Shadow Ball	32.64	1066.00	3	123.8s	66.0
42	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Brave Bird	33.50	955.05	3	122.5s	65.9
43	Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	33.97	889.96	4	122.2s	65.7
44	Zacian (Hero)	Snarl	Play Rough	29.47	1535.67	2	131.5s	65.6
45	Togekiss	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	29.19	1501.24	2	132.9s	64.8
46	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	30.43	1241.92	2	129.9s	64.4
47	Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	33.16	846.13	4	125.6s	63.8
48	Darkrai	Snarl	Shadow Ball	32.15	934.07	3	127.4s	63.5
49	Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	25.27	2331.72	1	148.6s	63.2
50	Shadow Dragonite	Dragon Tail	Hurricane	31.30	988.69	3	129.6s	62.9

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Medicham type chart

When fighting Medicham, keep in mind the following that Fighting and Psychic-type Pokémon are weak to Fairy, Flying, and Ghost type moves. They take reduced damage from Fighting, and Rock type moves.

Weaknesses

Fairy	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ghost	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Medicham counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Mega Gengar, Mega Gardevoir, and Rayquaza. The table also includes Mega Banette, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Mewtwo, and Shadow Cursola, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Medicham 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.