Best Hippopotas counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Hippopotas 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

• 41.0%
• 28.5%
• 14.0%
• 4.0%
• 2.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	58.10	3772.30	0	65.8s	135.3
2	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	51.29	3168.74	1	74.7s	118.2
3	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	54.59	2357.55	1	72.1s	116.9
4	Kartana	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	51.53	2027.38	1	77.0s	108.3
5	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	47.63	2717.92	1	80.9s	108.0
6	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	48.00	2448.12	1	80.9s	106.4
7	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	52.58	1429.73	2	78.5s	102.5
8	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	44.41	2712.89	1	86.4s	102.1
9	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	49.19	1775.82	2	81.3s	101.6
10	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	47.19	2049.51	1	83.3s	101.2
11	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	45.20	2418.00	1	85.6s	101.1
12	Shaymin (Sky)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	45.83	2230.56	1	85.0s	100.6
13	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	44.59	2369.99	1	86.8s	99.6
14	Zarude	Vine Whip	Power Whip	41.96	2764.34	1	91.0s	98.0
15	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	46.52	1729.20	2	85.7s	96.6
16	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Solar Beam	42.81	2362.85	1	90.2s	96.4
17	Shadow Torterra	Razor Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	43.42	2211.17	1	89.4s	96.2
18	Shadow Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	47.23	1591.33	2	85.3s	96.2
19	Shadow Tangrowth	Vine Whip	Power Whip	44.04	2047.65	1	88.8s	95.8
20	Mega Gardevoir	Magical Leaf	Triple Axel	44.35	1991.88	1	88.4s	95.8
21	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	44.15	1834.91	1	89.4s	93.8
22	Shadow Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	45.37	1630.57	2	88.2s	93.6
23	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	47.72	1267.29	2	86.8s	92.5
24	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Ice Beam	43.41	1642.64	2	91.7s	90.5
25	Shadow Exeggutor	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	43.51	1578.14	2	91.9s	89.9
26	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	44.16	1479.18	2	91.3s	89.8
27	Exeggutor (Alola Shadow)	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	42.95	1642.66	2	92.6s	89.7
28	Mega Abomasnow	Leafage	Weather Ball	41.49	1866.71	1	94.5s	89.6
29	Mega Latios	Dragon Breath	Solar Beam	40.15	2044.12	1	96.7s	88.9
30	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	42.11	1680.28	2	94.1s	88.8
31	Galarian Standard Darmanitan	Ice Fang	Avalanche	44.57	1299.52	2	91.9s	88.1
32	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	43.61	1403.81	2	92.8s	88.0
33	Shadow Porygon-Z	Lock-On	Solar Beam	44.02	1347.79	2	92.5s	87.9
34	Tapu Bulu	Bullet Seed	Grass Knot	39.55	1964.86	1	98.3s	87.2
35	Chesnaught	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	37.72	2345.82	1	101.6s	87.1
36	Roserade	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	42.45	1470.06	2	94.6s	86.9
37	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	39.16	2011.48	1	99.1s	86.9
38	Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	40.61	1739.48	2	96.9s	86.8
39	Meowscarada	Leafage	Grass Knot	40.81	1614.78	2	97.1s	85.9
40	Shaymin (Land)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	37.13	2277.96	1	103.3s	85.4
41	Mega Glalie	Frost Breath	Avalanche	41.58	1393.79	2	96.9s	84.6
42	Tsareena	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	38.96	1788.00	2	100.5s	84.5
43	Shadow Meganium	Magical Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	39.08	1680.42	2	100.7s	83.6
44	Samurott	Fury Cutter	Hydro Cannon *	39.43	1613.98	2	100.2s	83.5
45	Shadow Victreebel	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	42.73	1150.82	3	96.8s	83.1
46	Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	38.62	1698.40	2	101.7s	83.0
47	Empoleon	Waterfall	Hydro Cannon *	38.43	1720.37	2	102.0s	82.9
48	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	35.78	2264.67	1	107.0s	82.9
49	Celebi	Magical Leaf *	Leaf Storm	36.19	2156.38	1	106.2s	82.8
50	Shadow Shiftry	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	41.31	1269.93	2	98.5s	82.5

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Hippopotas type chart

When fighting Hippopotas, keep in mind the following that Ground-type Pokémon are weak to Grass, Ice, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Poison, Rock, and Electric type moves.

Weaknesses

Grass	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Electric	39.1%
Poison	62.5%
Rock	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 Hippopotas in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Hippopotas down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Hippopotas counter is Primal Kyogre, followed by Mega Swampert, Mega Sceptile, and Kartana. The table also includes Mega Rayquaza, Mega Blastoise, Shadow Kingler, and Mega Gyarados, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Hippopotas 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.