Best Deerling (Winter) counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Deerling (Winter) 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

33.0%
18.0%
16.0%
13.5%
9.0%
5.5%
2.0%
1.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	82.36	6603.80	0	45.9s	200.2
2	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	67.98	3133.79	1	57.6s	147.6
3	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	63.39	4035.38	0	60.4s	147.0
4	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	64.52	3612.43	0	59.8s	145.7
5	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	57.34	4789.71	0	65.8s	140.6
6	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	55.20	4244.28	0	68.6s	133.1
7	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	61.24	2815.71	1	63.9s	132.9
8	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	55.64	3394.09	1	68.9s	127.9
9	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	56.62	2910.35	1	68.5s	125.7
10	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	61.50	2069.68	1	65.5s	125.2
11	Mega Beedrill	Bug Bite *	Sludge Bomb	57.35	2546.33	1	68.4s	123.5
12	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	49.66	3963.66	0	76.1s	120.6
13	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	53.40	2916.68	1	72.4s	120.0
14	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	56.07	2350.94	1	70.3s	119.4
15	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	58.64	1920.86	1	68.9s	118.7
16	Volcarona	Bug Bite	Overheat	50.99	3305.04	1	75.0s	118.7
17	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.02	2244.97	1	70.7s	118.2
18	Mega Gengar	Sucker Punch	Sludge Bomb	53.94	2579.06	1	72.3s	118.0
19	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	53.26	2646.14	1	73.0s	117.4
20	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	57.95	1791.52	2	70.2s	115.9
21	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	46.65	4117.92	0	80.7s	115.7
22	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	54.84	2151.05	1	72.3s	115.2
23	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	56.65	1886.86	1	71.2s	115.1
24	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.15	1933.81	1	71.6s	114.8
25	Galarian Zapdos	Counter	Brave Bird	52.43	2480.35	1	74.5s	114.4
26	Mega Pinsir	Bug Bite	X-Scissor	51.07	2718.17	1	75.8s	114.2
27	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	50.80	2755.62	1	76.1s	114.0
28	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	57.20	1698.78	2	71.4s	113.5
29	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	58.32	1560.26	2	71.0s	113.3
30	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	50.43	2736.45	1	76.7s	113.2
31	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	58.67	1515.34	2	70.9s	113.1
32	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	53.86	2097.75	1	73.7s	112.9
33	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	47.91	3286.38	1	79.5s	112.8
34	Pheromosa	Bug Bite	Bug Buzz	58.64	1421.77	2	71.5s	111.6
35	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	51.69	2296.53	1	75.9s	111.4
36	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	52.59	2125.61	1	75.2s	111.1
37	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	52.59	2125.61	1	75.2s	111.1
38	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	46.33	3318.46	1	82.0s	110.1
39	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	52.69	2005.42	1	75.5s	110.0
40	Mega Scizor	Fury Cutter	X-Scissor	45.68	3454.81	1	83.0s	109.7
41	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	51.57	2157.08	1	76.5s	109.7
42	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	55.49	1617.27	2	73.8s	109.7
43	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	53.95	1792.41	2	74.8s	109.5
44	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Brave Bird	56.59	1488.09	2	73.3s	109.5
45	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	47.59	2913.42	1	80.6s	109.5
46	Nihilego	Poison Jab	Sludge Bomb	48.22	2676.16	1	80.0s	108.7
47	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	47.17	2863.79	1	81.3s	108.3
48	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	54.93	1523.11	2	75.0s	107.5
49	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	50.92	2029.05	1	77.8s	107.3
50	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	51.42	1947.86	1	77.4s	107.2

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About the results

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

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

Deerling (Winter) type chart

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

Weaknesses

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

Resistances

Ghost	39.1%
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.

Best move-types and weather for Deerling (Winter) Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	33.0%	Sunny
Fighting	18.0%	Cloudy
Flying	16.0%	Windy
Bug	13.5%	Rainy
Ice	9.0%	Snow
Poison	5.5%	Cloudy
Psychic	2.0%	Windy
Dragon	1.5%	Windy
Dark	0.5%	Fog
Electric	0.5%	Rainy
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy

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.