Best Galvantula counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Galvantula 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

Fire Spin Blast Burn *

Best performing move types

• 52.0%
• 30.0%
• 3.5%
• 3.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.73	1932.32	1	73.2s	112.5
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	53.05	1886.11	1	75.5s	109.2
3	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	46.65	2319.81	1	83.4s	102.8
4	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	45.29	2073.95	1	86.4s	98.2
5	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	44.86	2107.34	1	87.1s	97.7
6	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	49.76	1321.85	2	83.2s	96.5
7	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.78	1272.11	2	83.6s	95.8
8	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	47.20	1499.95	2	85.9s	95.0
9	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.18	1608.13	2	86.9s	94.6
10	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	40.20	2724.02	1	94.8s	94.4
11	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	47.48	1366.89	2	86.3s	93.6
12	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	40.57	2307.92	1	95.0s	91.9
13	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.46	1163.87	3	89.9s	89.0
14	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.05	1205.76	2	90.1s	89.0
15	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.57	1553.92	2	93.8s	88.1
16	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	45.15	1200.22	2	91.7s	87.6
17	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	41.79	1614.93	2	95.1s	87.5
18	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	43.56	1370.59	2	93.2s	87.4
19	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	43.89	1271.07	2	93.3s	86.6
20	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	41.27	1557.75	2	96.5s	86.0
21	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	41.72	1415.29	2	96.5s	85.1
22	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	37.85	1980.55	1	102.4s	84.3
23	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.91	1169.15	3	96.2s	83.7
24	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	42.91	1169.15	3	96.2s	83.7
25	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	42.45	1202.39	2	96.8s	83.4
26	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	42.79	1103.63	3	97.2s	82.5
27	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	41.02	1276.41	2	99.0s	82.2
28	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	41.10	1248.75	2	99.1s	81.9
29	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	45.13	865.00	4	96.4s	81.9
30	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	38.44	1590.85	2	102.7s	81.6
31	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	38.85	1468.45	2	102.5s	81.0
32	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.65	1010.71	3	98.6s	80.8
33	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	39.56	1353.50	2	101.6s	80.8
34	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	39.06	1361.17	2	102.7s	80.1
35	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	38.40	1440.96	2	103.7s	79.9
36	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	38.80	1324.71	2	103.7s	79.2
37	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	38.08	1323.50	2	105.4s	78.0
38	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	39.51	1118.17	3	104.0s	77.6
39	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	37.06	1408.61	2	107.4s	77.3
40	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Flamethrower	41.80	865.08	4	102.8s	77.0
41	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	42.55	797.17	4	102.7s	76.9
42	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.06	1184.30	3	106.8s	76.2
43	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.37	1142.89	3	106.4s	76.2
44	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	41.33	855.35	4	103.9s	76.2
45	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	38.27	1102.94	3	107.1s	75.5
46	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	34.79	1593.17	2	112.5s	75.4
47	Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	37.29	1178.04	3	108.8s	74.9
48	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	32.70	1882.25	1	117.7s	74.3
49	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	36.07	1256.22	2	111.3s	73.9
50	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	35.22	1358.06	2	112.8s	73.7

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Galvantula type chart

When fighting Galvantula, keep in mind the following that Bug and Electric-type Pokémon are weak to Fire, and Rock type moves. They take reduced damage from Electric, Fighting, Grass, and Steel type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

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

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

The most effective move-types to use against Galvantula 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.