Best Honchkrow counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Honchkrow 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

33.5%
23.5%
17.5%
12.0%
2.5%
2.5%
2.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	60.50	1374.68	2	70.0s	113.7
2	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	58.73	1425.73	2	71.4s	111.8
3	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	51.03	2453.34	1	76.4s	111.7
4	Mega Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	60.38	1213.71	2	71.5s	110.6
5	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	57.90	1329.65	2	73.0s	109.0
6	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	58.74	1218.11	2	73.1s	108.3
7	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Discharge	60.09	1074.70	3	73.3s	107.5
8	Shadow Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	61.15	954.45	3	74.0s	106.4
9	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	61.53	909.03	3	74.3s	105.9
10	Shadow Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	55.67	1331.79	2	75.5s	105.7
11	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	57.97	1117.78	3	75.0s	105.3
12	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Thunderbolt	57.30	1133.75	3	75.5s	104.7
13	Zekrom	Charge Beam	Fusion Bolt *	53.32	1399.34	2	77.8s	103.2
14	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	50.92	1604.48	2	79.7s	102.3
15	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	53.41	1300.60	2	78.5s	101.8
16	Shadow Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	57.34	900.46	3	78.8s	99.9
17	Thundurus (Therian)	Volt Switch	Thunderbolt	53.93	1028.27	3	80.8s	97.8
18	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	56.26	870.23	4	80.5s	97.7
19	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rollout *	Wild Charge	51.62	1191.51	3	81.8s	97.3
20	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	55.85	874.71	4	80.9s	97.3
21	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	48.10	1390.86	2	85.2s	94.9
22	Shadow Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	55.06	804.10	4	83.3s	94.6
23	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Zap Cannon	48.76	1247.73	2	85.4s	93.8
24	Galarian Standard Darmanitan	Ice Fang	Avalanche	54.87	752.80	4	84.7s	93.0
25	Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	48.32	1193.19	3	86.6s	92.3
26	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	46.62	1361.90	2	87.8s	92.2
27	Shadow Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	55.57	664.54	5	86.5s	91.6
28	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	50.58	959.38	3	86.2s	91.6
29	Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	50.21	934.35	3	87.1s	90.6
30	Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	46.03	1307.71	2	89.2s	90.5
31	Shadow Zebstrika	Spark	Wild Charge	53.16	707.37	5	88.1s	89.6
32	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	51.04	815.20	4	88.2s	89.3
33	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Thunderbolt	47.15	1111.28	3	89.3s	89.2
34	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	47.47	1078.25	3	89.2s	89.2
35	Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	49.97	881.68	4	88.4s	89.2
36	Shadow Granbull	Charm	Play Rough	52.73	679.22	5	89.5s	88.3
37	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.32	1583.13	2	94.2s	88.0
38	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Dazzling Gleam *	51.87	714.33	5	89.6s	88.0
39	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	48.04	942.02	3	90.2s	87.6
40	Mega Glalie	Frost Breath	Avalanche	49.97	796.35	4	90.1s	87.3
41	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Thunderbolt	50.81	742.76	4	90.2s	87.3
42	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Blizzard	44.24	1218.09	2	93.2s	86.4
43	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	45.01	1095.54	3	93.1s	85.8
44	Xerneas	Geomancy *	Moonblast	44.94	1101.88	3	93.2s	85.8
45	Tapu Koko	Volt Switch	Dazzling Gleam	45.83	1017.83	3	92.7s	85.7
46	Shadow Mr. Rime	Ice Shard	Triple Axel	50.85	655.58	5	92.8s	85.1
47	Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	47.02	880.51	4	92.9s	84.9
48	Shadow Magneton	Thunder Shock	Discharge	48.14	789.61	4	93.0s	84.6
49	Shadow Arcanine	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	49.44	707.30	5	93.2s	84.5
50	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	46.99	843.21	4	93.7s	84.1

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About the results

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

The top-ranked Honchkrow counter is Mega Diancie, followed by Shadow Rhyperior, Mega Tyranitar, and Mega Gardevoir. The table also includes Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Raikou, Xurkitree, and Shadow Electivire, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

Honchkrow type chart

When fighting Honchkrow, keep in mind the following that Dark and Flying-type Pokémon are weak to Electric, Fairy, Ice, and Rock type moves. They take reduced damage from Dark, Ghost, Grass, Ground, and Psychic type moves.

Weaknesses

Electric	160.0%
Fairy	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Ground	39.1%
Psychic	39.1%
Dark	62.5%
Ghost	62.5%
Grass	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Honchkrow Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Electric	33.5%	Rainy
Rock	23.5%	Partly Cloudy
Ice	17.5%	Snow
Fairy	12.0%	Cloudy
Dragon	2.5%	Windy
Fighting	2.5%	Cloudy
Fire	2.0%	Sunny
Flying	1.5%	Windy
Water	1.5%	Rainy
Normal	1.5%	Partly Cloudy
Steel	1.0%	Snow
Psychic	0.5%	Windy
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.