Best Shelmet counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shelmet 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 Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 44.5%
• 24.0%
• 21.0%
• 2.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	60.71	6144.11	0	61.6s	154.8
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	48.86	4333.81	0	77.0s	121.3
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.28	4909.14	0	79.1s	121.2
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	46.70	3765.15	0	80.9s	113.7
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	44.63	3893.43	0	84.4s	110.4
6	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	44.84	3467.16	1	84.4s	108.2
7	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	41.09	4666.68	0	90.7s	107.3
8	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	42.75	3948.10	0	87.8s	107.0
9	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.88	2900.11	1	87.0s	102.5
10	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	41.90	3374.74	1	90.2s	102.0
11	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	41.03	3487.22	1	91.9s	100.9
12	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	36.52	5187.69	0	101.3s	99.9
13	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	41.45	3150.47	1	91.4s	99.7
14	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	41.23	3139.74	1	91.9s	99.2
15	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	38.52	4002.47	0	97.0s	98.8
16	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	38.84	3834.32	0	96.5s	98.5
17	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.80	3109.64	1	92.9s	98.2
18	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.74	2746.16	1	93.6s	95.6
19	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	37.19	3782.39	0	100.6s	94.9
20	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	42.15	2308.54	1	91.7s	94.8
21	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	39.22	2976.63	1	96.6s	94.3
22	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	38.67	2983.55	1	97.9s	93.3
23	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	37.84	3101.44	1	99.8s	92.4
24	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	40.11	2464.37	1	95.6s	92.3
25	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	34.89	4222.79	0	106.6s	92.3
26	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	34.28	4504.53	0	108.2s	92.2
27	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	34.79	3863.20	0	107.2s	90.4
28	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	39.57	2345.14	1	97.1s	90.4
29	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	38.91	2478.93	1	98.3s	90.3
30	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	38.91	2478.93	1	98.3s	90.3
31	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	37.81	2709.43	1	100.5s	89.8
32	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	39.20	2337.56	1	98.0s	89.7
33	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	35.06	3557.96	1	106.7s	89.5
34	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	37.56	2589.16	1	101.4s	88.5
35	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	37.92	2488.10	1	100.7s	88.5
36	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	36.51	2828.01	1	103.7s	88.1
37	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	34.99	3307.02	1	107.2s	88.0
38	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	42.46	1542.23	2	94.1s	87.8
39	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	38.55	2103.27	1	100.2s	86.6
40	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	33.87	3410.49	1	110.5s	86.3
41	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	39.01	1923.37	1	99.8s	85.8
42	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	38.41	1969.72	1	101.0s	85.2
43	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	34.25	3064.64	1	109.8s	85.2
44	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	36.17	2458.45	1	105.4s	85.0
45	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	34.18	3059.74	1	110.0s	85.0
46	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	33.99	3022.95	1	110.7s	84.4
47	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	35.35	2446.48	1	107.7s	83.4
48	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	31.79	3621.48	0	117.2s	83.1
49	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	35.28	2314.11	1	108.3s	82.3
50	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	33.92	2675.96	1	111.5s	82.2

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Shelmet type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

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

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

The most effective move-types to use against Shelmet 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.