Best Garbodor counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Garbodor 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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Primal Groudon

Mud Shot Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

• 51.5%
• 28.5%
• 5.5%
• 4.0%
• 3.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	43.39	2894.87	1	87.9s	101.6
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	48.96	1535.38	2	82.9s	98.2
3	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	44.84	1312.79	2	91.3s	88.7
4	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	39.11	1796.17	2	100.1s	84.8
5	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	40.44	1506.06	2	98.6s	84.0
6	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	36.14	2173.54	1	106.2s	82.8
7	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	40.38	1280.08	2	100.4s	81.2
8	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	35.60	1990.49	1	108.4s	80.4
9	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	38.52	1336.93	2	104.2s	78.9
10	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	36.31	1622.76	2	108.0s	78.3
11	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	38.82	1144.59	3	105.3s	76.9
12	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	32.76	2135.36	1	116.6s	76.3
13	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	33.82	1857.89	1	114.2s	76.1
14	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	31.88	2273.34	1	119.3s	75.7
15	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	40.99	838.31	4	105.0s	75.4
16	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	37.42	1156.37	3	108.7s	74.9
17	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	34.05	1573.12	2	114.9s	73.9
18	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	34.85	1379.83	2	113.7s	73.3
19	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	30.08	2123.50	1	126.5s	71.2
20	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	31.35	1759.29	2	123.0s	70.8
21	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	36.06	1017.52	3	114.0s	70.8
22	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	32.34	1526.78	2	120.7s	70.5
23	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	32.94	1301.88	2	120.3s	69.3
24	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	37.06	809.69	4	114.9s	69.1
25	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	31.88	1425.74	2	123.0s	68.8
26	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	36.45	844.50	4	115.8s	68.8
27	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	32.64	1278.77	2	121.5s	68.5
28	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	31.93	1312.68	2	123.7s	67.7
29	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	30.13	1594.25	2	128.5s	67.3
30	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	31.50	1270.75	2	125.6s	66.5
31	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	32.26	1086.40	3	124.8s	65.7
32	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	30.04	1362.75	2	130.4s	65.0
33	Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	33.96	825.42	4	123.4s	64.7
34	Espeon	Confusion	Psychic	32.87	919.87	3	125.2s	64.4
35	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	31.09	1142.37	3	128.4s	64.4
36	Shadow Mr. Rime	Confusion	Psychic	32.91	910.38	3	125.2s	64.4
37	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle	High Horsepower *	29.99	1269.35	2	131.4s	64.0
38	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Future Sight	27.59	1718.78	2	138.9s	63.7
39	Jirachi	Confusion	Psychic	26.39	2039.24	1	143.5s	63.7
40	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Future Sight	29.58	1308.24	2	132.7s	63.7
41	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	29.03	1363.77	2	134.6s	63.3
42	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Earthquake *	28.22	1474.20	2	137.3s	62.8
43	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	30.95	1015.14	3	130.5s	62.7
44	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion	Psyshock	28.64	1343.63	2	136.4s	62.4
45	Azelf	Confusion	Future Sight	31.73	860.73	4	130.2s	61.8
46	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	28.47	1300.04	2	137.5s	61.7
47	Shadow Golem	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	30.40	961.65	3	133.4s	61.1
48	Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	29.90	1000.85	3	134.8s	60.8
49	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	27.58	1369.78	2	141.0s	60.8
50	Tapu Lele	Confusion	Future Sight	30.39	899.89	4	134.5s	60.3

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Garbodor type chart

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

Weaknesses

Ground	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

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

The top-ranked Garbodor counter is Primal Groudon, followed by Shadow Mewtwo, Mega Alakazam, and Mega Latios. The table also includes Mewtwo, Shadow Metagross, Mega Gardevoir, and Mega Rayquaza, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Garbodor 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.