Best Perrserker counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Perrserker 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

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Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Primal Groudon

Mud Shot Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

• 43.5%
• 34.0%
• 20.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	44.31	1867.81	1	89.0s	94.4
2	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	45.80	1214.93	2	90.4s	88.8
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.96	1541.56	2	93.1s	88.6
4	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	38.21	1283.14	2	105.4s	77.7
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	38.49	1126.32	3	106.3s	76.1
6	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	41.92	805.14	4	103.8s	76.1
7	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	37.44	1158.13	3	108.6s	74.9
8	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	37.68	1108.99	3	108.5s	74.6
9	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	40.52	764.91	4	107.7s	73.3
10	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	38.95	879.36	4	108.8s	73.1
11	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	37.61	958.51	3	110.7s	72.3
12	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	37.12	930.63	3	112.4s	71.2
13	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	33.84	1321.30	2	117.3s	71.0
14	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	39.74	698.99	5	111.2s	70.9
15	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	33.64	1251.52	2	118.5s	69.9
16	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.17	751.24	4	113.5s	69.6
17	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	35.79	950.64	3	115.7s	69.4
18	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	36.99	831.00	4	114.7s	69.3
19	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	33.53	1156.41	3	119.8s	68.6
20	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	37.82	711.70	5	115.4s	68.4
21	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	39.58	579.02	6	115.8s	68.0
22	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	34.91	945.22	3	118.3s	68.0
23	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	37.10	702.79	5	117.5s	67.2
24	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	37.05	676.94	5	118.4s	66.6
25	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	34.84	834.03	4	120.6s	66.2
26	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	35.03	807.67	4	120.6s	66.0
27	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	35.03	807.67	4	120.6s	66.0
28	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	32.09	1112.05	3	125.1s	65.7
29	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Punch	35.07	764.37	4	121.5s	65.3
30	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	34.53	788.42	4	122.5s	64.9
31	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	36.29	627.82	5	122.1s	64.5
32	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	31.37	1095.57	3	127.9s	64.3
33	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	34.02	791.37	4	124.0s	64.2
34	Emboar	Low Kick	Blast Burn *	33.02	864.74	4	125.7s	63.9
35	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	30.89	1095.30	3	129.7s	63.6
36	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	33.87	753.17	4	125.4s	63.4
37	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	33.77	752.46	4	125.7s	63.2
38	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	32.13	875.68	4	128.5s	62.6
39	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	32.53	822.40	4	128.2s	62.5
40	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	32.01	859.33	4	129.2s	62.2
41	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	33.56	705.73	5	127.7s	62.1
42	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	32.27	819.32	4	129.1s	62.0
43	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	33.58	700.54	5	127.7s	62.0
44	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	31.10	938.90	3	131.1s	61.9
45	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	34.76	600.46	5	127.6s	61.8
46	Shadow Ursaluna	Rock Smash	High Horsepower *	32.58	770.85	4	129.2s	61.7
47	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	35.39	546.56	6	128.1s	61.5
48	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	28.18	1298.08	2	138.8s	61.2
49	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	35.43	530.99	6	128.7s	61.2
50	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	31.54	808.99	4	132.0s	60.7

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Perrserker type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Ground	160.0%

Resistances

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

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

The most effective move-types to use against Perrserker 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.