Best Klefki counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Klefki 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 👑

Primal Groudon

Mud Shot Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

• 55.0%
• 31.0%
• 2.5%
• 2.5%
• 2.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	40.25	2358.61	1	95.6s	91.8
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.97	1617.24	2	101.3s	82.8
3	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.78	1282.90	2	99.5s	81.9
4	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	34.85	1313.43	2	114.3s	72.6
5	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	34.16	1320.41	2	116.3s	71.5
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	35.08	1188.30	3	114.7s	71.5
7	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	37.19	848.23	4	113.8s	69.9
8	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	33.99	1180.06	3	118.1s	69.6
9	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	30.03	1774.95	2	128.0s	68.6
10	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	35.22	879.03	4	118.6s	67.4
11	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	34.04	1004.09	3	120.1s	67.4
12	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	30.83	1392.18	2	127.1s	66.6
13	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	32.32	1128.03	3	124.1s	66.3
14	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	31.69	1173.75	3	125.9s	65.8
15	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	33.16	978.18	3	123.3s	65.7
16	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	35.19	767.77	4	121.1s	65.6
17	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	34.39	803.56	4	122.6s	65.0
18	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	30.59	1220.58	2	129.5s	64.5
19	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	32.49	939.39	3	126.1s	64.1
20	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	31.76	963.18	3	128.3s	63.3
21	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	31.76	963.18	3	128.3s	63.3
22	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	31.34	985.68	3	129.5s	62.9
23	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	31.59	904.15	3	129.9s	62.2
24	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	29.14	1232.14	2	135.2s	62.1
25	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	29.27	1173.57	3	135.2s	61.8
26	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	28.49	1304.11	2	137.4s	61.8
27	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	29.68	1059.96	3	134.9s	61.1
28	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	30.96	819.71	4	133.9s	60.0
29	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	30.69	831.66	4	134.6s	59.8
30	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	29.69	891.59	4	137.4s	59.0
31	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	31.19	711.22	5	135.7s	58.6
32	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	29.27	909.97	3	138.8s	58.6
33	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	29.16	890.41	4	139.6s	58.2
34	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	28.20	984.93	3	142.3s	57.8
35	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	28.28	962.00	3	142.3s	57.7
36	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	31.56	620.59	5	137.3s	57.6
37	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	29.01	861.01	4	140.8s	57.5
38	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	25.69	1367.73	2	150.6s	57.4
39	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	30.07	738.86	4	139.2s	57.4
40	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	28.39	904.12	3	142.7s	57.1
41	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	28.47	867.35	4	143.1s	56.8
42	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	29.17	757.79	4	142.4s	56.3
43	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	30.73	617.01	5	140.5s	56.3
44	Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	27.44	958.45	3	146.2s	56.3
45	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	25.52	1251.00	2	152.6s	56.1
46	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	26.35	1078.69	3	150.0s	55.8
47	Shadow Hippowdon	Fire Fang	Scorching Sands	27.90	862.05	4	145.8s	55.8
48	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	28.42	788.41	4	144.9s	55.6
49	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	28.72	754.35	4	144.4s	55.6
50	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	27.03	928.81	3	148.7s	55.3

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Klefki type chart

When fighting Klefki, keep in mind the following that Steel and Fairy-type Pokémon are weak to Fire, and Ground type moves. They take reduced damage from Dark, Fairy, Flying, Grass, Ice, Normal, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Bug, and Dragon type moves.

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Ground	160.0%

Resistances

Dragon	24.4%
Bug	39.1%
Dark	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Flying	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Normal	62.5%
Poison	62.5%
Psychic	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 Klefki in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Klefki down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Klefki counter is Primal Groudon, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Mega Blaziken, and Reshiram. The table also includes Shadow Entei, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Blaziken, and Mega X Charizard, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Klefki 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.