Best Talonflame counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Talonflame 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 Diancie

Rock Throw Rock Slide

Best performing move types

• 51.0%
• 19.5%
• 18.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	66.33	2036.91	1	61.3s	132.5
2	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	62.10	2481.50	1	63.8s	130.9
3	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	56.33	3332.09	1	68.2s	128.7
4	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	57.69	2300.19	1	68.7s	121.6
5	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	56.08	2179.61	1	70.8s	117.6
6	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	58.85	1524.11	2	70.6s	113.6
7	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	51.23	2430.24	1	76.2s	111.9
8	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	51.52	2273.79	1	76.2s	110.8
9	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	51.49	1789.31	2	78.0s	105.5
10	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	54.42	1434.12	2	76.2s	105.4
11	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	50.04	1837.49	1	79.8s	103.7
12	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	51.24	1652.74	2	79.0s	103.4
13	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	49.01	1954.71	1	80.8s	103.3
14	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	48.95	1945.71	1	81.0s	103.1
15	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	46.64	2150.31	1	83.9s	101.2
16	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	45.98	2177.66	1	84.9s	100.4
17	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	49.16	1569.65	2	82.4s	99.0
18	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Ancient Power	45.81	1782.49	2	86.7s	96.0
19	Shadow Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	42.04	1983.70	1	92.9s	91.7
20	Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	42.90	1765.44	2	92.1s	91.0
21	Aurorus	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	44.74	1488.60	2	90.1s	90.9
22	Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	45.05	1411.43	2	90.1s	90.4
23	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Power Gem	41.85	1872.63	1	93.7s	90.3
24	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	44.10	1523.68	2	91.1s	90.2
25	Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	41.59	1807.12	1	94.5s	89.2
26	Alolan Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	40.84	1921.42	1	95.6s	89.0
27	Lycanroc (Dusk)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	45.24	1207.26	2	91.5s	87.8
28	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	41.50	1688.75	2	95.3s	87.8
29	Lycanroc	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	44.70	1200.23	2	92.5s	86.9
30	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	44.72	1156.51	3	93.0s	86.3
31	Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	40.99	1553.14	2	97.1s	85.5
32	Lycanroc (Midnight)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	42.52	1331.48	2	95.5s	85.3
33	Archeops	Wing Attack	Ancient Power	43.49	1160.58	3	95.2s	84.4
34	Nihilego	Acid	Rock Slide	38.31	1900.36	1	101.5s	84.4
35	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Ancient Power	41.99	1151.30	3	98.2s	82.0
36	Shadow Hippowdon	Thunder Fang	Weather Ball	42.25	1105.33	3	98.2s	81.7
37	Hisuian Arcanine	Snarl	Rock Slide	37.46	1699.14	2	104.6s	81.0
38	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	38.56	1428.15	2	103.5s	80.0
39	Zekrom	Charge Beam	Fusion Bolt *	36.79	1686.83	2	106.4s	79.8
40	Shadow Kabutops	Waterfall	Ancient Power	39.77	1241.45	2	102.1s	79.7
41	Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	35.12	1956.14	1	109.9s	79.2
42	Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	38.26	1389.80	2	104.4s	79.1
43	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	39.93	1146.90	3	102.7s	78.7
44	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Discharge	40.66	1007.96	3	102.8s	77.8
45	Kleavor	Quick Attack	Rock Slide	41.89	861.96	4	102.6s	77.1
46	Shadow Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	41.44	897.09	4	102.9s	77.1
47	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	39.62	1057.23	3	104.5s	76.9
48	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	42.07	820.07	4	103.1s	76.6
49	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Ancient Power	39.18	1052.91	3	105.6s	76.2
50	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	38.62	1089.35	3	106.4s	75.8

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Talonflame type chart

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

Weaknesses

Rock	256.0%
Electric	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Fairy	62.5%
Fighting	62.5%
Fire	62.5%
Ground	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 Talonflame in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Talonflame down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Talonflame counter is Mega Diancie, followed by Shadow Rhyperior, Mega Tyranitar, and Mega Aerodactyl. The table also includes Shadow Tyranitar, Rampardos, Rhyperior, and Tyrantrum, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Talonflame 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.