Best Cranidos counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Cranidos 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 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

• 25.5%
• 24.0%
• 17.0%
• 15.0%
• 14.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	90.14	4201.77	0	43.4s	196.1
2	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	89.71	3643.87	0	44.1s	189.8
3	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	86.64	2985.02	1	46.4s	177.2
4	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	79.34	4032.06	0	48.9s	175.7
5	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	85.75	2558.88	1	47.6s	170.3
6	Kartana	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	80.33	2387.79	1	50.8s	159.4
7	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	77.79	2689.42	1	51.6s	159.2
8	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	75.03	3051.45	1	52.7s	158.7
9	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	82.97	1874.59	1	51.1s	155.7
10	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	74.80	2722.77	1	53.4s	154.7
11	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	77.69	2191.79	1	52.9s	152.5
12	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	69.20	3353.16	1	56.3s	151.8
13	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	71.62	2931.62	1	55.2s	151.7
14	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	71.71	2867.78	1	55.2s	151.2
15	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	73.32	2584.50	1	54.7s	150.7
16	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	82.58	1574.83	2	52.7s	149.7
17	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	77.88	1959.80	1	53.6s	149.4
18	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	72.06	2591.55	1	55.5s	148.7
19	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	68.74	3103.90	1	57.0s	148.6
20	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	70.06	2670.04	1	56.8s	146.3
21	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	75.38	1989.10	1	55.0s	146.0
22	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	72.57	2188.76	1	56.2s	144.4
23	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	69.60	2524.82	1	57.4s	143.9
24	Shadow Torterra	Razor Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	67.60	2778.48	1	58.4s	143.3
25	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	73.10	2026.02	1	56.4s	143.0
26	Zarude	Vine Whip	Power Whip	65.22	3099.46	1	59.8s	142.5
27	Shaymin (Sky)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	73.09	1984.38	1	56.5s	142.4
28	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	73.20	1910.41	1	56.7s	141.5
29	Shadow Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	74.60	1717.50	2	56.6s	140.5
30	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	68.47	2393.42	1	58.6s	140.4
31	Shadow Tangrowth	Vine Whip	Power Whip	69.11	2202.13	1	58.6s	139.1
32	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	66.67	2488.69	1	59.8s	138.6
33	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	66.23	2387.79	1	60.4s	136.7
34	Shadow Ursaluna	Rock Smash	High Horsepower *	63.32	2797.60	1	62.0s	136.3
35	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Leaf Blade	71.58	1720.99	2	58.7s	136.0
36	Shadow Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	71.55	1722.39	2	58.7s	136.0
37	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	68.35	2058.63	1	59.7s	136.0
38	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	61.99	2996.52	1	62.9s	135.9
39	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	65.19	2366.06	1	61.3s	134.8
40	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	63.33	2543.10	1	62.5s	133.6
41	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	66.66	2035.62	1	61.1s	133.0
42	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	69.20	1682.27	2	60.6s	131.8
43	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	69.32	1628.47	2	60.8s	131.1
44	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Power Whip	70.71	1488.22	2	60.6s	130.8
45	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	64.15	2155.58	1	62.8s	130.5
46	Shadow Exeggutor	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	67.39	1775.06	2	61.5s	130.5
47	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	74.31	1204.16	2	60.4s	130.3
48	Mega Aggron	Iron Tail	Heavy Slam	58.85	2988.77	1	66.0s	130.3
49	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	63.72	2181.92	1	63.1s	130.2
50	Empoleon	Metal Claw	Hydro Cannon *	63.28	2190.97	1	63.5s	129.5

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Cranidos type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Grass	160.0%
Ground	160.0%
Steel	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Cranidos counter is Primal Kyogre, followed by Primal Groudon, Shadow Metagross, and Mega Swampert. The table also includes Mega Sceptile, Kartana, Terrakion, and Shadow Garchomp, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Cranidos 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.