Best Galarian Standard Darmanitan counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Galarian Standard Darmanitan 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 👑

Mega Blaziken

Counter Blast Burn *

Best performing move types

• 38.0%
• 25.5%
• 15.5%
• 14.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	63.10	1494.26	2	66.7s	119.6
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	60.21	1456.25	2	69.7s	114.6
3	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	60.51	1235.82	2	71.1s	111.2
4	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	57.94	987.57	3	76.7s	102.7
5	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	52.46	1358.50	2	79.2s	101.2
6	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	55.90	1057.24	3	78.0s	101.2
7	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	54.62	1136.05	3	78.6s	100.8
8	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	51.60	1352.31	2	80.4s	99.8
9	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	57.31	895.67	4	78.9s	99.8
10	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	52.06	1242.02	2	80.7s	98.8
11	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	49.63	1443.84	2	82.5s	98.1
12	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	56.66	836.95	4	80.7s	97.5
13	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	53.07	1033.90	3	81.8s	96.6
14	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	55.35	815.49	4	82.7s	95.2
15	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	49.75	1209.66	2	84.3s	94.8
16	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	46.99	1506.50	2	86.2s	94.7
17	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	53.26	902.29	3	83.6s	94.3
18	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	52.73	921.91	3	83.9s	93.9
19	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	51.10	1022.31	3	84.5s	93.5
20	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	53.19	835.31	4	84.9s	92.7
21	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	46.66	1387.83	2	87.5s	92.6
22	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	47.66	1260.09	2	87.0s	92.4
23	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	49.26	1101.62	3	86.2s	92.2
24	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	46.72	1226.93	2	88.8s	90.4
25	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	50.47	872.76	4	87.8s	89.7
26	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	50.29	861.61	4	88.3s	89.2
27	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	45.93	1226.53	2	90.1s	89.2
28	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	46.19	1195.81	3	90.0s	89.1
29	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	47.88	1020.22	3	89.3s	88.8
30	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	52.62	694.59	5	89.1s	88.5
31	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	47.96	981.72	3	89.7s	88.2
32	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	47.96	981.72	3	89.7s	88.2
33	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	52.34	691.37	5	89.6s	88.1
34	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	48.26	936.73	3	90.0s	87.8
35	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	47.58	966.83	3	90.6s	87.4
36	Emboar	Low Kick	Blast Burn *	45.58	1060.78	3	92.6s	86.1
37	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	47.22	922.63	3	91.8s	86.0
38	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.87	1337.86	2	94.7s	85.9
39	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.79	1212.11	2	94.1s	85.6
40	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	41.09	1527.41	2	97.0s	85.4
41	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	48.05	820.59	4	92.5s	85.2
42	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	46.87	861.93	4	93.5s	84.3
43	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	46.50	868.04	4	94.0s	83.9
44	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	44.14	1024.72	3	95.6s	83.3
45	Melmetal	Thunder Shock	Double Iron Bash *	43.05	1084.40	3	96.9s	82.6
46	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	48.10	693.49	5	95.6s	82.4
47	Dialga	Metal Claw	Iron Head	44.36	911.59	3	96.9s	81.7
48	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	45.32	797.17	4	97.5s	80.8
49	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	38.19	1550.80	2	103.6s	80.8
50	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	48.40	608.41	5	98.1s	80.6

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Galarian Standard Darmanitan type chart

When fighting Galarian Standard Darmanitan, keep in mind the following that Ice-type Pokémon are weak to Fighting, Fire, Rock, and Steel type moves. They take reduced damage from Ice type moves.

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Steel	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Galarian Standard Darmanitan counter is Mega Blaziken, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Shadow Metagross, and Shadow Blaziken. The table also includes Reshiram, Mega Diancie, Terrakion, and Shadow Entei, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Galarian Standard Darmanitan 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.