Best Venipede counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Venipede 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 Rayquaza

Air Slash

Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

35.0%
29.0%
17.5%
15.0%
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	83.62	5840.34	0	45.5s	197.6
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	75.72	2808.21	1	52.7s	157.2
3	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	66.93	3991.99	0	57.4s	153.2
4	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	64.62	4547.84	0	58.9s	153.0
5	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	64.42	3565.52	1	59.9s	145.2
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	69.72	2398.24	1	57.6s	142.5
7	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	61.15	3573.78	1	62.9s	139.3
8	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	57.96	4055.62	0	65.7s	137.0
9	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	55.94	4297.60	0	67.7s	134.8
10	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	62.60	2747.05	1	62.7s	134.5
11	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	60.80	3027.71	1	64.0s	134.1
12	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	56.09	3878.61	0	67.9s	132.3
13	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	49.52	6244.44	0	75.0s	132.1
14	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	56.92	3454.09	1	67.4s	130.7
15	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	62.66	2351.11	1	63.6s	130.4
16	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	55.95	3604.42	0	68.3s	130.1
17	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	60.33	2653.70	1	65.1s	129.7
18	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	56.49	3345.96	1	68.0s	129.1
19	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Blast	49.28	5307.36	0	75.8s	127.3
20	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	61.62	2168.52	1	65.1s	126.6
21	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	56.39	2944.00	1	68.7s	125.6
22	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	59.80	2263.09	1	66.6s	124.7
23	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	55.93	2852.32	1	69.4s	123.9
24	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	53.63	3221.82	1	71.6s	122.9
25	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	52.44	3464.08	1	72.8s	122.5
26	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	50.79	3821.56	0	74.6s	121.9
27	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	53.07	3188.91	1	72.4s	121.6
28	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	52.12	3410.01	1	73.3s	121.5
29	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	63.54	1538.89	2	66.0s	120.9
30	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	55.93	2513.36	1	70.1s	120.8
31	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	60.61	1821.32	1	67.3s	120.5
32	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	52.55	3116.65	1	73.1s	120.1
33	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	50.58	3595.06	1	75.2s	120.0
34	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	50.81	3483.09	1	75.0s	119.6
35	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	49.62	3810.88	0	76.3s	119.6
36	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	57.45	2142.57	1	69.4s	119.4
37	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	54.93	2543.18	1	71.2s	119.3
38	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	53.68	2737.17	1	72.3s	118.9
39	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	51.30	3180.40	1	74.7s	118.3
40	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	51.76	2797.77	1	74.7s	116.1
41	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	46.61	4174.11	0	80.7s	115.9
42	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	55.63	2087.67	1	71.6s	115.8
43	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	52.85	2530.88	1	73.8s	115.6
44	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	52.85	2530.88	1	73.8s	115.6
45	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	58.59	1677.10	2	70.0s	115.4
46	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	47.48	3783.20	0	79.6s	115.3
47	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	53.10	2385.88	1	73.8s	114.7
48	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	51.68	2553.89	1	75.3s	113.8
49	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	47.09	3628.30	0	80.4s	113.6
50	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	46.65	3760.59	0	81.0s	113.5

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About the results

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

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

Venipede type chart

When fighting Venipede, keep in mind the following that Bug and Poison-type Pokémon are weak to Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Fairy, Poison, Fighting, and Grass type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Fighting	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Poison	62.5%

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

Best move-types and weather for Venipede Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	35.0%	Sunny
Psychic	29.0%	Windy
Rock	17.5%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	15.0%	Windy
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Dragon	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.