Best Mienshao counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Mienshao 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

• 48.5%
• 25.5%
• 9.5%
• 3.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 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	72.04	2069.36	1	56.9s	142.0
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	64.73	1177.56	3	67.8s	116.2
3	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	56.13	1263.79	2	75.5s	105.3
4	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	57.92	986.43	3	76.8s	102.6
5	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	50.31	1504.38	2	81.1s	100.0
6	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	53.03	1147.64	3	80.4s	98.7
7	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	51.84	1111.92	3	82.4s	96.3
8	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	49.91	1126.59	3	84.9s	93.6
9	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	53.07	837.14	4	85.0s	92.6
10	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	50.63	850.81	4	88.0s	89.5
11	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	43.30	1550.53	2	92.4s	89.3
12	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	48.62	955.29	3	89.1s	88.7
13	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	53.52	634.59	5	90.0s	88.1
14	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	55.17	558.04	6	91.1s	87.9
15	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	46.45	1014.54	3	91.7s	86.6
16	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	41.94	1340.45	2	96.6s	84.5
17	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	41.46	1349.62	2	97.5s	83.8
18	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	48.97	681.83	5	94.6s	83.3
19	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	46.87	804.18	4	94.7s	83.2
20	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	46.83	792.87	4	95.0s	82.9
21	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	44.68	948.67	3	95.8s	82.8
22	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	47.13	738.49	4	95.9s	82.1
23	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	46.49	777.95	4	96.0s	82.1
24	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	42.49	1092.81	3	97.9s	81.9
25	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	42.89	992.34	3	98.4s	80.9
26	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	41.13	1100.76	3	100.6s	79.9
27	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	48.13	562.61	6	100.4s	79.0
28	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	47.92	560.93	6	100.8s	78.7
29	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	43.44	815.91	4	100.5s	78.5
30	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	41.67	957.95	3	101.4s	78.5
31	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	42.21	892.34	4	101.4s	78.1
32	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	39.99	933.05	3	105.4s	75.5
33	Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	44.06	621.77	5	104.9s	75.1
34	Espeon	Confusion	Psychic	42.71	694.23	5	105.0s	75.0
35	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Brave Bird	40.73	792.05	4	106.6s	74.1
36	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Dazzling Gleam	42.81	627.33	5	107.0s	73.6
37	Shadow Mr. Rime	Confusion	Psychic	44.76	522.83	6	108.0s	73.5
38	Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	44.43	536.81	6	107.8s	73.4
39	Shadow Granbull	Charm	Play Rough	44.09	551.49	6	107.8s	73.4
40	Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	34.56	1330.55	2	115.0s	72.3
41	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	36.75	1035.84	3	111.9s	72.2
42	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	39.38	769.83	4	110.1s	71.8
43	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion	Psyshock	37.35	925.96	3	111.9s	71.4
44	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	37.07	934.83	3	112.5s	71.1
45	Xerneas	Geomancy *	Moonblast	37.48	888.00	4	112.3s	71.0
46	Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	38.61	776.58	4	111.8s	70.8
47	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	35.16	1105.59	3	115.4s	70.6
48	Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	40.01	664.01	5	111.7s	70.5
49	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	38.22	780.15	4	112.7s	70.2
50	Tapu Lele	Confusion	Future Sight	38.33	767.90	4	112.7s	70.2

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Mienshao type chart

When fighting Mienshao, keep in mind the following that Fighting-type Pokémon are weak to Fairy, Flying, and Psychic type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Dark, and Rock type moves.

Weaknesses

Fairy	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

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

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

The most effective move-types to use against Mienshao 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.