Best Bonsly counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Bonsly 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

• 26.0%
• 23.5%
• 16.5%
• 14.5%
• 14.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	52.48	2906.64	1	73.6s	118.3
2	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	52.52	2525.56	1	74.2s	115.0
3	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	46.28	2830.61	1	82.9s	106.4
4	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	50.37	1930.15	1	78.9s	105.3
5	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	49.57	1780.59	2	80.7s	102.3
6	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	43.46	2146.01	1	89.6s	95.7
7	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	45.12	1831.24	1	87.7s	95.4
8	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	48.46	1363.50	2	84.9s	95.1
9	Kartana	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	46.85	1483.64	2	86.6s	94.2
10	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	43.65	1894.24	1	90.1s	93.6
11	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	44.77	1636.29	2	89.2s	92.7
12	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	40.70	2370.18	1	94.5s	92.7
13	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	41.57	2131.41	1	93.4s	92.2
14	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	42.60	1827.31	1	92.4s	91.1
15	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	41.75	1892.81	1	93.8s	90.3
16	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	47.74	1096.31	3	88.5s	89.9
17	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	45.24	1309.30	2	90.6s	89.3
18	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	44.22	1396.72	2	91.7s	88.8
19	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	42.00	1691.02	2	94.2s	88.7
20	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	40.85	1858.13	1	95.9s	88.4
21	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	40.17	1960.88	1	97.0s	88.2
22	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	40.41	1886.20	1	96.7s	87.9
23	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	41.49	1631.73	2	95.6s	87.2
24	Shadow Torterra	Razor Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	39.13	1967.88	1	99.3s	86.5
25	Shaymin (Sky)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	42.09	1406.39	2	95.8s	85.5
26	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	40.14	1686.77	2	98.2s	85.5
27	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	42.48	1334.20	2	95.5s	85.3
28	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	42.59	1314.50	2	95.5s	85.2
29	Zarude	Vine Whip	Power Whip	38.24	1956.69	1	101.5s	84.8
30	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	38.55	1855.33	1	101.2s	84.4
31	Shadow Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	43.01	1199.34	3	95.7s	84.3
32	Shadow Tangrowth	Vine Whip	Power Whip	40.12	1545.64	2	99.0s	84.0
33	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	41.80	1298.75	2	97.2s	83.7
34	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	38.29	1743.35	2	102.3s	82.9
35	Shadow Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	41.24	1292.61	2	98.4s	82.7
36	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	39.44	1488.69	2	100.9s	82.2
37	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	36.05	2105.50	1	106.7s	82.1
38	Shadow Ursaluna	Rock Smash	High Horsepower *	36.86	1860.11	1	105.4s	81.5
39	Excadrill	Metal Claw	Scorching Sands	38.56	1489.96	2	103.0s	80.7
40	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	43.40	880.72	4	99.3s	79.7
41	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	37.16	1607.25	2	105.8s	79.6
42	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	37.14	1608.52	2	105.9s	79.6
43	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	38.88	1331.21	2	103.4s	79.4
44	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	40.23	1162.31	3	101.9s	79.4
45	Shadow Exeggutor	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	39.26	1256.78	2	103.2s	79.1
46	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	37.18	1547.32	2	106.1s	79.0
47	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Focus Blast	38.69	1311.07	2	104.0s	78.9
48	Mega Latios	Dragon Breath	Solar Beam	36.29	1664.32	2	107.8s	78.7
49	Breloom	Counter	Grass Knot *	38.32	1339.51	2	104.7s	78.6
50	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	36.10	1667.30	2	108.3s	78.4

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Bonsly type chart

When fighting Bonsly, 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 Bonsly in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Bonsly down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

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

The most effective move-types to use against Bonsly 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.