Best Grubbin counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Grubbin 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

• 45.0%
• 24.5%
• 22.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	95.25	6642.81	0	40.0s	225.0
2	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	76.05	4836.55	0	50.3s	176.3
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	73.81	4658.81	0	51.9s	170.9
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	73.35	4061.07	0	52.6s	165.3
5	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	69.29	4125.42	0	55.4s	158.5
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	69.90	3658.47	0	55.4s	155.7
7	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	66.00	4284.54	0	57.9s	153.7
8	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	63.81	4394.94	0	59.7s	150.4
9	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	68.47	3230.08	1	57.0s	149.3
10	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	63.84	3815.48	0	60.2s	146.1
11	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	64.89	3578.01	1	59.5s	146.1
12	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	64.44	3673.90	0	59.8s	146.1
13	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	64.24	3249.63	1	60.5s	142.1
14	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	59.62	4145.10	0	63.9s	140.8
15	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	60.98	3792.66	0	62.8s	140.7
16	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	60.31	3766.29	0	63.5s	139.3
17	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	63.49	3056.87	1	61.4s	139.0
18	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	56.99	4604.23	0	66.3s	138.8
19	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	63.95	2920.04	1	61.2s	138.5
20	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	65.45	2369.15	1	61.1s	135.2
21	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	61.10	3056.19	1	63.6s	134.9
22	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	62.82	2642.65	1	62.8s	133.8
23	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	54.42	4582.19	0	69.3s	133.6
24	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	58.02	3564.95	1	66.1s	133.6
25	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	58.43	3293.72	1	66.0s	132.2
26	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	66.43	1980.99	1	61.5s	131.9
27	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	59.21	2908.36	1	65.8s	130.2
28	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	53.14	4271.06	0	71.1s	129.3
29	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	60.24	2620.52	1	65.3s	129.2
30	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	60.24	2620.52	1	65.3s	129.2
31	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	59.33	2774.77	1	65.9s	129.2
32	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	53.57	4113.91	0	70.7s	129.1
33	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	59.24	2755.69	1	66.0s	128.8
34	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.81	3147.75	1	67.9s	128.0
35	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	60.46	2468.55	1	65.4s	128.0
36	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	59.00	2649.03	1	66.5s	127.4
37	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	57.95	2734.36	1	67.4s	126.4
38	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	61.04	2214.19	1	65.5s	126.2
39	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	52.48	3937.58	0	72.3s	125.9
40	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	54.05	3507.97	1	70.7s	125.8
41	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	54.14	3408.78	1	70.7s	125.3
42	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	53.37	3578.56	1	71.5s	125.1
43	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	60.56	2184.77	1	66.0s	125.0
44	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	53.35	3412.43	1	71.7s	123.8
45	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	54.49	2835.85	1	71.2s	121.2
46	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	56.42	2392.51	1	69.8s	120.4
47	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	52.71	2977.30	1	73.1s	119.3
48	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	53.07	2846.75	1	72.9s	118.8
49	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	58.54	1941.85	1	68.9s	118.8
50	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	54.33	2448.79	1	72.1s	117.4

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Grubbin type chart

When fighting Grubbin, 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 Grubbin in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Grubbin down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

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

The most effective move-types to use against Grubbin 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.