Best Mothim counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Mothim 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 Diancie

Rock Throw

Rock Slide

Best performing move types

45.5%
22.0%
14.0%
10.0%
4.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	98.91	3504.75	1	40.5s	203.5
2	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	93.81	3421.76	1	42.6s	194.1
3	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	84.69	4156.68	0	46.0s	186.2
4	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	86.98	3741.13	0	45.2s	186.1
5	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	86.06	3732.68	0	45.7s	184.5
6	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	84.51	2709.00	1	47.9s	170.3
7	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	76.53	3948.64	0	50.7s	170.0
8	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	88.89	2098.66	1	47.4s	168.3
9	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	77.24	3348.10	1	50.9s	165.6
10	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	81.03	2327.45	1	50.6s	159.7
11	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	77.50	2639.00	1	51.9s	158.1
12	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	76.77	2463.25	1	52.7s	154.7
13	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	65.29	4264.00	0	58.5s	152.2
14	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	73.53	2680.71	1	54.3s	152.1
15	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	73.43	2382.16	1	55.1s	148.3
16	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	75.93	2046.10	1	54.5s	147.7
17	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	70.15	2672.94	1	56.7s	146.5
18	Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	63.77	3872.02	0	60.2s	146.4
19	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	73.61	2145.92	1	55.6s	145.5
20	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	66.56	2662.47	1	59.5s	140.3
21	Aurorus	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	66.12	2639.63	1	59.9s	139.4
22	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	67.37	2270.15	1	59.8s	137.2
23	Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	67.05	2288.22	1	60.0s	136.9
24	Archeops	Wing Attack	Ancient Power	68.34	1987.12	1	59.9s	135.0
25	Shadow Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	62.83	2714.10	1	62.6s	134.6
26	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	65.69	2266.71	1	61.2s	134.4
27	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.15	1633.14	2	59.4s	134.0
28	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Power Gem	63.22	2423.13	1	62.9s	132.1
29	Lycanroc (Dusk)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	67.71	1648.43	2	61.9s	129.0
30	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	63.53	2060.66	1	63.7s	128.3
31	Alolan Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	61.15	2353.77	1	65.0s	127.9
32	Lycanroc	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	66.89	1638.72	2	62.6s	127.6
33	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	60.52	2402.42	1	65.5s	127.4
34	Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	62.88	2012.76	1	64.4s	126.7
35	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Ancient Power	61.53	2183.51	1	65.1s	126.6
36	Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	61.27	2121.89	1	65.5s	125.4
37	Lycanroc (Midnight)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	63.61	1818.36	1	64.5s	125.2
38	Nihilego	Acid	Rock Slide	57.58	2644.97	1	68.0s	124.9
39	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	59.06	2318.86	1	67.2s	124.1
40	Shadow Hippowdon	Thunder Fang	Weather Ball	62.20	1872.10	1	65.6s	123.7
41	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	56.98	2477.69	1	69.0s	122.2
42	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	62.94	1634.75	2	66.0s	121.5
43	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	62.94	1634.75	2	66.0s	121.5
44	Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	56.91	2380.42	1	69.3s	121.1
45	Hisuian Avalugg	Powder Snow	Rock Slide	55.57	2546.80	1	70.4s	120.5
46	Shadow Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	56.29	2394.13	1	70.0s	120.2
47	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	57.77	2089.58	1	69.2s	119.3
48	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	59.18	1843.35	1	68.6s	118.6
49	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	58.29	1936.68	1	69.2s	118.3
50	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Ancient Power *	62.26	1495.92	2	67.4s	118.3

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About the results

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

The top-ranked Mothim counter is Mega Diancie, followed by Shadow Rhyperior, Mega Tyranitar, and Mega Rayquaza. The table also includes Mega Aerodactyl, Shadow Tyranitar, Shadow Aggron, and Rampardos, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

Mothim type chart

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

Weaknesses

Rock	256.0%
Electric	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%

Resistances

Ground	24.4%
Fighting	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Bug	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Mothim Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Rock	45.5%	Partly Cloudy
Fire	22.0%	Sunny
Electric	14.0%	Rainy
Flying	10.0%	Windy
Ice	4.0%	Snow
Bug	1.0%	Rainy
Steel	1.0%	Snow
Poison	0.5%	Cloudy
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Dragon	0.5%	Windy
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Psychic	0.5%	Windy

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.