Best Kricketot counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Kricketot 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

43.0%
25.5%
22.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	103.83	17304.61	35.5s	293.4
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	84.02	10679.65	44.2s	224.5
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	81.39	11866.64	45.4s	223.7
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	79.55	10806.69	46.6s	215.5
5	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	76.95	11116.93	48.1s	211.1
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	76.53	9663.48	48.5s	204.3
7	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	73.42	11159.55	50.3s	203.6
8	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	69.63	12441.54	52.9s	199.6
9	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	71.06	11387.50	51.9s	199.2
10	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	71.88	9932.19	51.5s	195.4
11	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	66.13	13572.28	55.5s	195.1
12	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	66.54	12318.12	55.3s	192.1
13	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	70.31	9826.60	52.7s	191.6
14	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	71.58	9138.22	51.9s	191.5
15	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	66.45	12118.63	55.4s	191.3
16	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	75.18	7320.70	49.9s	190.2
17	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	62.72	13371.81	58.5s	186.5
18	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	66.73	10247.71	55.4s	185.4
19	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	72.65	6942.20	51.6s	183.1
20	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	69.99	7748.14	53.3s	181.8
21	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	65.30	9750.51	56.6s	180.4
22	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	67.39	8035.29	55.2s	177.7
23	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	60.24	12306.59	60.9s	177.5
24	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	69.82	6902.50	53.6s	177.2
25	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	65.18	8901.29	56.8s	176.8
26	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	68.70	7234.61	54.4s	176.6
27	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	63.76	9236.32	58.0s	175.1
28	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	65.64	8092.21	56.6s	174.3
29	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	66.68	7411.40	55.9s	173.4
30	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	66.68	7411.40	55.9s	173.4
31	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	67.63	6915.16	55.3s	172.8
32	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	59.52	11208.20	61.8s	172.5
33	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	59.82	10707.02	61.5s	171.5
34	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	58.00	11795.61	63.3s	170.8
35	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	70.37	5558.84	53.7s	170.6
36	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	59.24	10782.43	62.1s	170.5
37	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	64.53	7645.36	57.7s	170.0
38	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	63.88	7798.82	58.2s	169.3
39	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	60.28	9618.59	61.2s	168.8
40	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	64.64	7295.41	57.7s	168.6
41	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	59.98	9543.87	61.5s	167.9
42	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	57.90	10929.21	63.5s	167.9
43	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	61.57	8299.05	60.2s	166.6
44	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	65.46	6209.64	57.3s	164.7
45	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	62.58	7042.30	59.6s	163.1
46	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	57.05	9627.96	64.6s	161.6
47	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	55.66	10225.13	66.1s	160.5
48	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	60.85	6688.37	61.3s	157.8
49	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	60.04	7029.10	62.0s	157.8
50	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	54.12	10485.25	67.9s	157.8

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Kricketot type chart

When fighting Kricketot, keep in mind the following that Bug-type Pokémon are weak to Fire, Flying, and Rock type moves. They take reduced damage from Fighting, Grass, and Ground type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Kricketot counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Mega Blaziken, Mega Y Charizard, and Rayquaza. The table also includes Mega Diancie, Shadow Moltres, Reshiram, and Shadow Rhyperior, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

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

Typing	Usage %
Fire	43.0%
Rock	25.5%
Flying	22.0%
Psychic	2.0%
Dragon	1.5%
Electric	1.5%
Ghost	1.0%
Water	1.0%
Steel	1.0%
Normal	0.5%
Bug	0.5%
Poison	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.