Best Leavanny counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Leavanny 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

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Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 53.5%
• 33.0%
• 3.5%
• 3.5%
• 2.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	86.08	4553.95	0	45.0s	192.2
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	66.04	3542.06	1	58.6s	147.9
3	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	69.53	2368.19	1	57.9s	141.9
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	66.49	2772.72	1	59.3s	141.4
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	62.71	2764.84	1	62.6s	134.9
6	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	56.91	3325.94	1	67.6s	129.7
7	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	59.06	2851.93	1	66.0s	129.4
8	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	57.46	2555.01	1	68.3s	123.8
9	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	63.26	1564.11	2	66.1s	120.9
10	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	57.37	2204.76	1	69.3s	120.0
11	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	58.59	1904.24	1	69.0s	118.4
12	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	51.27	3076.60	1	74.9s	117.5
13	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	52.00	2703.51	1	74.6s	115.7
14	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	57.60	1789.71	2	70.5s	115.3
15	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	56.27	1864.19	1	71.7s	114.2
16	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	58.49	1481.26	2	71.3s	112.4
17	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	47.38	3249.29	1	80.4s	111.6
18	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	52.18	2223.05	1	75.5s	111.5
19	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	64.07	988.03	3	70.8s	111.2
20	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	57.56	1427.94	2	72.6s	110.1
21	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	58.91	1289.45	2	72.3s	109.8
22	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	47.82	2805.13	1	80.4s	109.0
23	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	55.87	1448.77	2	74.4s	107.8
24	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	51.80	1830.37	1	77.4s	106.5
25	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	52.84	1597.60	2	77.1s	105.2
26	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	54.43	1385.39	2	76.5s	104.7
27	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	54.43	1385.39	2	76.5s	104.7
28	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	53.95	1426.30	2	76.8s	104.5
29	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	56.00	1223.03	2	76.1s	104.4
30	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	54.43	1310.07	2	77.1s	103.5
31	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	52.18	1531.76	2	78.4s	103.3
32	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.56	2156.47	1	82.4s	102.9
33	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	48.71	1879.53	1	81.6s	102.0
34	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	49.62	1671.73	2	81.2s	101.0
35	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	50.94	1479.88	2	80.4s	100.6
36	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.42	1277.92	2	82.7s	96.9
37	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	46.37	1739.28	2	85.9s	96.5
38	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	48.30	1451.31	2	84.5s	96.1
39	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	54.31	912.43	3	82.1s	95.9
40	Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	48.95	1274.07	2	84.8s	94.6
41	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	48.47	1301.57	2	85.3s	94.2
42	Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	47.49	1398.51	2	86.1s	94.1
43	Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	52.15	959.51	3	84.0s	93.9
44	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	45.85	1560.19	2	87.8s	93.5
45	Braviary	Air Slash	Brave Bird	46.04	1448.51	2	88.1s	92.4
46	Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	43.21	1807.63	1	91.3s	92.0
47	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	44.66	1401.85	2	90.9s	89.6
48	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang	Overheat	45.62	1263.97	2	90.3s	89.2
49	Pyroar	Fire Fang	Overheat	45.62	1263.97	2	90.3s	89.2
50	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	51.40	788.11	4	88.3s	89.1

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Leavanny type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	256.0%
Flying	256.0%
Bug	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Poison	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Leavanny counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Mega Blaziken, and Rayquaza. The table also includes Shadow Moltres, Shadow Ho-Oh, Reshiram, and Mega X Charizard, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Leavanny 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.