Best Budew counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Budew 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

37.5%
33.0%
19.5%
7.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	75.19	9595.92	0	49.4s	201.1
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	58.90	6289.32	0	63.4s	151.9
3	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	69.03	3010.43	1	56.9s	148.1
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	57.73	5881.53	0	64.8s	147.4
5	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	61.46	3919.29	0	62.3s	142.6
6	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	53.08	6181.21	0	70.2s	139.3
7	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	55.56	4947.28	0	67.7s	138.0
8	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	54.97	4719.79	0	68.5s	135.5
9	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	63.82	2591.32	1	62.0s	135.0
10	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	51.24	5976.96	0	72.7s	134.6
11	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.87	5452.53	0	73.4s	131.3
12	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	57.15	2955.32	1	67.9s	127.0
13	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	57.08	2888.70	1	68.0s	126.3
14	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	53.76	3532.68	1	71.0s	125.5
15	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	52.26	3718.39	0	72.8s	124.0
16	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	51.54	3751.96	0	73.7s	122.8
17	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.81	3949.25	0	74.5s	122.7
18	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	45.58	5769.65	0	81.5s	121.7
19	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	47.66	4846.85	0	78.5s	121.7
20	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	51.74	3496.61	1	73.7s	121.5
21	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	46.60	5123.10	0	80.1s	120.9
22	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	48.66	4279.44	0	77.3s	120.6
23	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	47.06	4867.91	0	79.5s	120.5
24	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	55.37	2581.92	1	70.6s	120.5
25	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	46.26	4821.66	0	80.8s	118.7
26	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	54.89	2428.82	1	71.5s	118.2
27	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	43.22	6041.94	0	85.7s	117.8
28	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	42.73	5794.23	0	86.7s	115.7
29	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	49.07	3369.86	1	77.6s	115.6
30	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	46.65	4069.54	0	80.7s	115.4
31	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	52.64	2535.33	1	74.1s	115.3
32	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	58.07	1652.32	2	70.7s	114.2
33	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	50.37	2772.32	1	76.7s	113.4
34	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	50.24	2727.94	1	76.9s	112.8
35	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	51.34	2449.35	1	76.0s	112.2
36	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Brave Bird	46.13	3634.47	0	82.0s	111.8
37	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	52.34	2199.54	1	75.3s	111.5
38	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	46.09	3430.29	1	82.3s	110.4
39	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	47.98	2903.52	1	80.0s	110.1
40	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	46.01	3372.79	1	82.5s	109.8
41	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	48.52	2717.52	1	79.5s	109.6
42	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	48.52	2717.52	1	79.5s	109.6
43	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	48.84	2573.62	1	79.3s	109.0
44	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	46.71	3041.09	1	81.8s	108.8
45	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	45.85	3152.24	1	83.1s	108.0
46	Victini	Confusion	V-create	43.38	3894.55	0	86.7s	107.9
47	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.71	3455.25	1	84.7s	107.9
48	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	47.34	2742.17	1	81.3s	107.7
49	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	43.58	3659.97	0	86.5s	107.0
50	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	51.20	1904.98	1	77.9s	106.4

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About the results

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

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

Budew type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Grass	39.1%
Electric	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fighting	62.5%
Water	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Budew Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	37.5%	Sunny
Psychic	33.0%	Windy
Flying	19.5%	Windy
Ice	7.5%	Snow
Dragon	1.0%	Windy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Electric	0.5%	Rainy

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.