Best Maractus counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Maractus 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)↓

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 39.5%
• 19.0%
• 15.0%
• 10.0%
• 10.0%
• 2.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	67.01	3474.10	1	57.9s	149.0
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	51.82	2249.50	1	75.9s	111.1
3	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	51.81	2112.10	1	76.3s	109.7
4	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	55.29	1357.76	2	75.7s	105.5
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	49.41	1746.09	2	81.1s	101.6
6	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	46.07	2180.01	1	84.8s	100.5
7	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	44.42	2097.81	1	87.9s	96.9
8	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	44.76	1951.09	1	87.8s	96.1
9	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Sludge Bomb	47.02	1371.82	2	87.1s	93.0
10	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	45.70	1439.54	2	88.8s	91.8
11	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	39.90	2436.00	1	96.1s	91.7
12	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	43.24	1701.79	2	91.7s	90.9
13	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.73	897.19	4	87.0s	90.6
14	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	45.20	1390.73	2	90.0s	90.3
15	Mega Beedrill	Bug Bite *	Sludge Bomb	47.03	1154.68	3	89.0s	89.8
16	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	44.83	1352.40	2	91.0s	89.2
17	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	48.63	891.97	4	90.2s	87.5
18	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	40.92	1713.95	2	96.4s	87.1
19	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	43.18	1329.90	2	94.2s	86.3
20	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	50.57	715.24	5	91.3s	86.3
21	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	44.84	1078.31	3	93.6s	85.2
22	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	45.87	971.62	3	93.3s	84.9
23	Mega Pinsir	Bug Bite	X-Scissor	41.44	1432.89	2	96.9s	84.8
24	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	37.30	2149.61	1	103.2s	84.8
25	Volcarona	Bug Bite	Overheat	41.01	1425.51	2	97.9s	84.0
26	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.81	849.02	4	93.9s	84.0
27	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	36.98	2062.27	1	104.3s	83.5
28	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	39.89	1490.98	2	99.9s	82.9
29	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	40.40	1392.71	2	99.4s	82.6
30	Mega Scizor	Fury Cutter	X-Scissor	36.99	1868.58	1	105.0s	81.8
31	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	40.63	1270.29	2	99.9s	81.5
32	Nihilego	Poison Jab	Sludge Bomb	39.38	1431.02	2	101.5s	81.4
33	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	42.14	1079.53	3	98.8s	81.1
34	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.47	1046.30	3	98.5s	81.1
35	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.47	1046.30	3	98.5s	81.1
36	Pheromosa	Bug Bite	Bug Buzz	50.64	523.59	6	98.6s	81.1
37	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	43.74	924.97	3	97.9s	81.0
38	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	42.47	990.75	3	99.3s	80.2
39	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	45.62	748.58	4	98.2s	80.2
40	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	41.17	1083.13	3	100.7s	79.7
41	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	39.09	1322.58	2	103.0s	79.7
42	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	38.02	1424.11	2	104.8s	79.1
43	Shadow Scizor	Fury Cutter	X-Scissor	38.57	1251.62	2	104.8s	77.9
44	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Ice Beam	41.95	891.01	4	102.0s	77.7
45	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	37.42	1365.14	2	106.8s	77.4
46	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.83	1169.00	3	105.0s	77.3
47	Galarian Standard Darmanitan	Ice Fang	Avalanche	42.96	782.69	4	102.2s	77.2
48	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	34.95	1747.79	2	111.2s	77.1
49	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	41.67	878.40	4	102.8s	77.1
50	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	36.34	1468.68	2	108.9s	76.8

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Maractus type chart

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

Weaknesses

Bug	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Poison	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Maractus counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Rayquaza, and Mega Blaziken. The table also includes Shadow Moltres, Reshiram, Shadow Ho-Oh, 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 Maractus 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.