Best Burmy (Sandy) counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Burmy (Sandy) 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%
21.0%
2.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.5%
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	94.78	13055.06	39.1s	257.5
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	76.68	7764.49	48.8s	195.6
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	74.23	8660.59	50.2s	194.9
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	72.68	8140.28	51.3s	189.2
5	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	70.04	8772.18	53.0s	186.6
6	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	63.39	10486.92	58.2s	178.8
7	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	66.86	8399.09	55.6s	178.2
8	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	69.89	7015.12	53.6s	177.9
9	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	60.13	12202.36	61.1s	177.0
10	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	64.67	8284.71	57.4s	173.1
11	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	65.48	7446.52	56.9s	171.0
12	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	60.49	9707.20	61.0s	169.6
13	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	60.52	9568.43	61.0s	169.2
14	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	64.11	7405.88	58.1s	168.0
15	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	65.12	6857.12	57.4s	167.4
16	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	68.71	5297.39	55.1s	165.7
17	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	59.37	8949.91	62.2s	164.3
18	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	60.81	8099.99	61.0s	164.1
19	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	57.16	10138.53	64.4s	163.6
20	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	66.12	5191.05	57.2s	160.1
21	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	54.80	10198.14	67.1s	158.4
22	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	63.92	5620.27	58.9s	158.4
23	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	61.40	6349.91	60.9s	157.3
24	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	59.76	6860.06	62.3s	156.4
25	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	62.67	5431.45	60.1s	154.8
26	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	59.32	6686.53	62.8s	154.7
27	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	63.79	4998.29	59.3s	154.4
28	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	52.81	9907.21	69.6s	152.9
29	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	58.21	6726.05	64.0s	152.5
30	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	60.76	5547.56	61.8s	151.7
31	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	60.76	5547.56	61.8s	151.7
32	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	54.36	8484.66	67.9s	151.5
33	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	64.33	4409.64	59.2s	151.5
34	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	54.87	8076.54	67.4s	151.1
35	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	61.51	5176.80	61.3s	151.0
36	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	54.44	8071.13	67.9s	150.2
37	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	58.44	5876.06	64.0s	148.8
38	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	58.75	5727.11	63.8s	148.7
39	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	52.73	8631.17	69.9s	148.5
40	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	53.92	7875.89	68.6s	148.3
41	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	58.99	5477.42	63.7s	147.8
42	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	56.11	6558.74	66.4s	147.4
43	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	54.64	7169.34	67.9s	147.0
44	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	51.91	8074.35	71.1s	144.6
45	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	59.82	4663.45	63.3s	144.6
46	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	57.16	5108.76	65.8s	142.1
47	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	50.66	8070.58	72.8s	141.8
48	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	49.56	8467.23	74.3s	140.8
49	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	52.31	6852.61	70.9s	140.7
50	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	52.31	6852.61	70.9s	140.7

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About the results

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

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

Burmy (Sandy) type chart

When fighting Burmy (Sandy), 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.

Best move-types and weather for Burmy (Sandy) Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	43.0%	Sunny
Rock	25.5%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	21.0%	Windy
Psychic	2.0%	Windy
Ghost	2.0%	Fog
Dragon	1.5%	Windy
Electric	1.5%	Rainy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Steel	1.0%	Snow
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Bug	0.5%	Rainy
Poison	0.5%	Cloudy

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.