Best Scatterbug (Continental) counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Scatterbug (Continental) 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

43.0%
25.5%
21.0%
2.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	119.25	14826.98	31.2s	317.3
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	96.38	8768.83	39.0s	240.5
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	93.26	9828.29	40.1s	239.8
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	91.45	9201.41	40.9s	233.0
5	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	87.84	10089.66	42.4s	229.9
6	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	79.64	11931.67	46.4s	220.2
7	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	83.81	9504.67	44.5s	218.8
8	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	87.84	7900.12	42.8s	218.6
9	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	75.39	14050.09	48.8s	218.0
10	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	81.21	9384.32	45.9s	212.8
11	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	82.14	8358.39	45.5s	209.7
12	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	75.82	11242.95	48.8s	209.2
13	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	75.89	10967.67	48.8s	208.2
14	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	80.52	8399.13	46.4s	206.6
15	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	81.75	7736.89	45.9s	205.6
16	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	86.43	5943.54	44.1s	203.6
17	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	74.46	10168.17	49.8s	202.0
18	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	76.45	9157.76	48.7s	201.8
19	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	71.74	11645.49	51.4s	201.6
20	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	83.04	5811.58	45.8s	196.3
21	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	68.67	11848.01	53.6s	195.4
22	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	80.35	6325.07	47.1s	194.6
23	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	77.03	7172.06	48.7s	193.1
24	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	75.06	7740.49	49.8s	192.2
25	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	78.83	6114.97	48.0s	190.4
26	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	74.38	7549.10	50.3s	189.8
27	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	80.21	5612.43	47.4s	189.6
28	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	66.29	11322.32	55.6s	188.3
29	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	73.08	7599.85	51.2s	187.4
30	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	68.28	9680.27	54.2s	186.6
31	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	81.04	4926.81	47.3s	186.2
32	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	76.21	6203.30	49.6s	185.9
33	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	76.21	6203.30	49.6s	185.9
34	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	68.73	9209.50	53.9s	185.7
35	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	77.12	5807.99	49.2s	185.1
36	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	68.21	9168.07	54.4s	184.4
37	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	73.43	6616.43	51.2s	182.9
38	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	66.16	9872.80	55.9s	182.7
39	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	67.67	8961.17	54.8s	182.4
40	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	73.64	6420.96	51.1s	182.1
41	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	74.04	6148.47	51.0s	181.3
42	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	70.38	7426.45	53.1s	181.0
43	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	68.49	8073.88	54.3s	180.2
44	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	65.07	9227.21	56.9s	177.9
45	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	75.22	5231.95	50.6s	177.6
46	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.84	5747.65	52.6s	174.6
47	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	63.50	9169.79	58.3s	174.2
48	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	62.11	9663.79	59.4s	173.1
49	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	65.51	7778.90	56.8s	172.6
50	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	65.51	7778.90	56.8s	172.6

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About the results

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

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

Scatterbug (Continental) type chart

When fighting Scatterbug (Continental), 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.

Best move-types and weather for Scatterbug (Continental) Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	43.0%	Sunny
Rock	25.5%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	21.0%	Windy
Psychic	2.0%	Windy
Ghost	2.0%	Fog
Dragon	1.5%	Windy
Electric	1.5%	Rainy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Steel	1.0%	Snow
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Poison	0.5%	Cloudy
Bug	0.5%	Rainy

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.