Best Armaldo counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Armaldo 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 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall

Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

36.0%
23.5%
21.0%
5.0%
4.0%
2.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	41.41	2014.46	1	94.1s	90.9
2	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	39.91	1349.64	2	100.9s	81.3
3	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	37.36	1594.55	2	105.4s	79.8
4	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	34.77	1324.95	2	114.4s	72.6
5	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	34.66	1293.43	2	115.0s	72.1
6	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	38.25	795.20	4	112.2s	70.6
7	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	33.07	1324.01	2	119.7s	69.7
8	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	37.47	800.89	4	114.1s	69.5
9	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	37.84	761.85	4	114.0s	69.4
10	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	34.71	1031.19	3	117.7s	68.9
11	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	32.27	1288.68	2	122.7s	68.0
12	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	31.76	1298.22	2	124.4s	67.3
13	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	32.41	1160.55	3	123.5s	66.8
14	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	33.96	935.33	3	121.4s	66.4
15	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	29.13	1549.99	2	132.9s	65.1
16	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	33.68	810.42	4	124.6s	64.0
17	Empoleon	Metal Claw	Hydro Cannon *	28.94	1334.25	2	135.2s	62.8
18	Mega Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	27.99	1505.17	2	138.2s	62.7
19	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	31.74	855.69	4	130.2s	61.8
20	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	34.86	578.74	6	128.2s	61.4
21	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	32.49	756.42	4	129.9s	61.3
22	Melmetal	Thunder Shock	Double Iron Bash *	27.37	1367.35	2	142.1s	60.4
23	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	32.12	710.69	5	132.3s	60.0
24	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	31.34	749.42	4	134.1s	59.5
25	Mega Scizor	Bullet Punch	Iron Head	28.45	1083.12	3	139.8s	59.4
26	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	29.72	889.94	4	137.3s	59.1
27	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	28.74	1014.19	3	139.5s	59.1
28	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	30.66	781.18	4	135.9s	59.0
29	Shadow Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	29.56	857.66	4	138.6s	58.4
30	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	29.26	866.31	4	139.7s	58.0
31	Samurott	Fury Cutter	Hydro Cannon *	28.93	877.77	4	140.8s	57.7
32	Jirachi	Charge Beam	Doom Desire	26.75	1167.63	3	146.9s	57.4
33	Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	28.17	920.94	3	143.5s	57.0
34	Genesect (Shock)	Metal Claw	Magnet Bomb	28.30	893.61	4	143.3s	56.9
35	Genesect (Normal)	Metal Claw	Magnet Bomb	28.30	893.61	4	143.3s	56.9
36	Genesect (Douse)	Metal Claw	Magnet Bomb	28.30	893.61	4	143.3s	56.9
37	Genesect (Chill)	Metal Claw	Magnet Bomb	28.30	893.61	4	143.3s	56.9
38	Genesect (Burn)	Metal Claw	Magnet Bomb	28.30	893.61	4	143.3s	56.9
39	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike *	30.17	683.44	5	140.4s	56.6
40	Shadow Scizor	Bullet Punch	Iron Head	29.74	721.09	4	141.0s	56.6
41	Shadow Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	28.69	819.39	4	143.1s	56.5
42	Clawitzer	Water Gun	Crabhammer	29.04	776.13	4	142.5s	56.4
43	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	32.21	508.13	7	140.1s	56.2
44	Excadrill	Metal Claw	Iron Head	28.44	783.15	4	145.0s	55.6
45	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	29.10	689.75	5	144.6s	55.2
46	Shadow Dragonite	Steel Wing	Draco Meteor *	28.05	774.67	4	146.9s	54.8
47	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	28.33	729.96	4	146.8s	54.6
48	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	25.68	1069.13	3	153.6s	54.6
49	Mega Slowbro	Water Gun	Surf *	25.50	1086.38	3	154.4s	54.5
50	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	27.24	806.74	4	150.0s	54.0

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About the results

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

The top-ranked Armaldo counter is Primal Kyogre, followed by Shadow Metagross, Mega Swampert, and Mega Blastoise. The table also includes Mega Rayquaza, Mega Diancie, Metagross, and Shadow Rhyperior, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

Armaldo type chart

When fighting Armaldo, keep in mind the following that Rock and Bug-type Pokémon are weak to Rock, Steel, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Normal, and Poison type moves.

Weaknesses

Rock	160.0%
Steel	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Normal	62.5%
Poison	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Armaldo Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Water	36.0%	Rainy
Steel	23.5%	Snow
Rock	21.0%	Partly Cloudy
Dragon	5.0%	Windy
Psychic	4.0%	Windy
Flying	2.0%	Windy
Electric	2.0%	Rainy
Fire	1.5%	Sunny
Bug	1.0%	Rainy
Ghost	1.0%	Fog
Ground	1.0%	Sunny
Fighting	1.0%	Cloudy
Grass	0.5%	Sunny
Ice	0.5%	Snow

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.