Best Tinkaton counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Tinkaton 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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Primal Groudon

Mud Shot Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

• 54.5%
• 31.5%
• 3.5%
• 2.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	37.10	2238.33	1	103.5s	85.1
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	35.77	1599.91	2	109.6s	77.2
3	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	37.38	1269.94	2	107.6s	76.2
4	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	32.07	1305.30	2	123.3s	67.9
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	32.27	1176.51	3	123.8s	66.8
6	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	31.46	1244.86	2	126.0s	66.2
7	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	34.04	837.53	4	123.0s	65.0
8	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	31.18	1169.17	3	127.8s	64.9
9	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	31.21	990.66	3	129.9s	62.8
10	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	32.21	865.66	4	128.4s	62.6
11	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	27.76	1516.10	2	139.2s	62.4
12	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	28.34	1379.35	2	137.5s	62.2
13	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	29.81	1021.58	3	134.8s	60.9
14	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	29.25	1098.16	3	136.2s	60.9
15	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	30.47	920.45	3	133.8s	60.7
16	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	31.49	794.02	4	132.4s	60.4
17	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	28.16	1210.44	2	139.7s	60.3
18	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	32.64	634.19	5	133.0s	59.4
19	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	29.25	907.16	3	138.9s	58.6
20	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	29.25	907.16	3	138.9s	58.6
21	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	28.85	928.81	3	140.3s	58.2
22	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	26.86	1226.66	2	145.8s	58.2
23	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	30.05	763.28	4	138.7s	57.8
24	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	26.95	1163.51	3	146.0s	57.7
25	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	29.10	852.67	4	140.6s	57.6
26	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	26.25	1231.83	2	148.8s	57.2
27	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	28.52	840.27	4	143.4s	56.5
28	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	27.47	909.06	3	146.9s	55.7
29	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	28.13	822.65	4	145.5s	55.6
30	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	27.37	863.00	4	148.2s	55.0
31	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	26.70	911.46	3	150.7s	54.5
32	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	26.78	898.29	4	150.5s	54.5
33	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	26.03	984.62	3	152.9s	54.3
34	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	25.88	973.50	3	153.9s	53.9
35	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	28.79	641.75	5	147.5s	53.9
36	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	23.63	1357.08	2	162.9s	53.7
37	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	26.57	849.79	4	152.4s	53.5
38	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	28.87	612.22	5	148.2s	53.5
39	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	26.16	854.38	4	154.4s	52.9
40	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	28.26	630.30	5	150.3s	52.9
41	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	26.16	836.76	4	154.8s	52.7
42	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	23.48	1244.59	2	164.9s	52.5
43	Victini	Quick Attack	V-create	24.02	1099.89	3	162.9s	52.1
44	Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	25.23	903.46	3	158.6s	52.0
45	Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	26.06	780.45	4	156.6s	51.8
46	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	27.81	599.65	6	153.5s	51.7
47	Shadow Hippowdon	Fire Fang	Scorching Sands	25.68	802.54	4	158.1s	51.5
48	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	26.45	702.30	5	156.6s	51.3
49	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	27.03	626.55	5	156.2s	51.0
50	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	24.00	916.46	3	165.7s	50.1

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Tinkaton type chart

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

The top-ranked Tinkaton counter is Primal Groudon, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Mega Blaziken, and Reshiram. The table also includes Shadow Moltres, Shadow Entei, 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 Tinkaton 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.