Best Castform (Snowy) counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Castform (Snowy) 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

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Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Mega Blaziken

Counter Blast Burn *

Best performing move types

• 37.5%
• 26.0%
• 16.0%
• 15.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	51.33	2012.05	1	77.3s	107.8
2	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	48.09	2112.53	1	81.7s	103.4
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.68	1544.82	2	81.8s	99.5
4	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	46.58	1330.90	2	88.1s	91.7
5	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.67	1863.21	1	92.1s	91.6
6	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	37.28	2925.96	1	101.5s	90.2
7	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	46.30	1207.57	2	89.7s	89.5
8	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	43.76	1483.22	2	92.0s	89.2
9	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	44.08	1422.27	2	91.8s	88.9
10	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	39.92	2063.32	1	97.2s	88.7
11	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	40.17	1923.78	1	97.1s	87.9
12	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.91	1339.94	2	94.6s	86.0
13	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	39.30	1859.65	1	99.4s	85.8
14	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	40.20	1699.32	2	98.0s	85.7
15	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	44.27	1116.46	3	94.2s	85.0
16	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	46.08	950.10	3	93.3s	84.9
17	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	41.38	1379.09	2	97.4s	84.1
18	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.49	1242.78	2	96.3s	84.0
19	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	44.50	1002.17	3	95.3s	83.5
20	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	38.29	1720.91	2	102.4s	82.7
21	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	38.42	1696.79	2	102.2s	82.7
22	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	40.87	1313.79	2	99.0s	82.4
23	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	47.13	732.39	4	96.0s	82.0
24	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.64	957.75	3	97.5s	81.4
25	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	39.65	1360.59	2	101.4s	81.0
26	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	39.65	1360.59	2	101.4s	81.0
27	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	42.49	1036.74	3	98.6s	81.0
28	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	39.01	1386.37	2	102.7s	80.3
29	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	38.79	1398.02	2	103.1s	80.1
30	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	39.57	1279.52	2	102.2s	79.9
31	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	41.90	1011.18	3	100.2s	79.7
32	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	38.95	1316.64	2	103.4s	79.4
33	Mega Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	34.09	2180.83	1	112.2s	79.1
34	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	35.57	1835.76	1	109.1s	79.0
35	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	39.22	1220.36	2	103.6s	78.6
36	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	38.54	1304.82	2	104.4s	78.5
37	Shadow Aggron	Iron Tail	Meteor Beam	35.75	1606.97	2	109.7s	77.2
38	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	41.62	863.43	4	103.2s	76.8
39	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	41.59	860.71	4	103.3s	76.7
40	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	36.00	1488.95	2	109.7s	76.4
41	Emboar	Low Kick	Blast Burn *	36.42	1416.77	2	109.0s	76.4
42	Mega Scizor	Bullet Punch	Iron Head	34.38	1749.60	2	112.9s	76.2
43	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	38.18	1135.62	3	107.0s	75.8
44	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	38.64	1074.59	3	106.6s	75.6
45	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	38.54	1070.09	3	106.9s	75.4
46	Melmetal	Thunder Shock	Double Iron Bash *	32.84	1985.11	1	116.9s	75.4
47	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	33.40	1847.08	1	115.6s	75.3
48	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	31.72	2084.93	1	120.4s	74.0
49	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	36.13	1242.46	2	111.2s	73.9
50	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	37.98	992.81	3	109.3s	73.4

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About the results

Castform (Snowy) type chart

When fighting Castform (Snowy), keep in mind the following that Ice-type Pokémon are weak to Fighting, Fire, Rock, and Steel type moves. They take reduced damage from Ice type moves.

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Steel	160.0%

Resistances

Ice	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Castform (Snowy) Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	37.5%	Sunny
Fighting	26.0%	Cloudy
Rock	16.0%	Partly Cloudy
Steel	15.0%	Snow
Electric	1.5%	Rainy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Dragon	0.5%	Windy
Flying	0.5%	Windy
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Psychic	0.5%	Windy
Ghost	0.5%	Fog

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.