Tier 3 and Tier 4 Raid Counter Infographics

I did my best to make my wife go blind these last few days making her mess with teeny tiny Pokemon Go icons in Photoshop. But if you know anything about Pokebattler, you know we can’t rest until we’ve got THE most accurate and effective Pokemon analyses! So while there are plenty of nice looking infographics floating around out there in the interwebs, and some may even be more attractive or better organized, NONE are more accurate or effective than these! How do I know? Because as far as I can tell, everyone making these infographics is using my site. And I JUST updated my site (twice) for more accuracy, which is what these infographics are based on. Plus those other graphics aren’t even trying to show counters based on the move the raid boss is using, which is a big deal! If you go in to a Alakazam fight with Tyranitar and he has Focus Blast, you are in for a world of pain (unless you dodge).

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Reading the Infographics

Borrowing some organization styles from other infographics, and using the updated data from the interactive raid guide, these guides will help you get started on a raid when you don’t know what types of moves your boss has yet. The icons below each mon are the strongest types of quick and special moves.”All’ means all their move sets are good. Some Pokemons have two icons separated with a slash. For these, the top left one is stronger than the bottom right, but they are both good choices. On the right side, there are specific counters for after you’ve lost the first round and know what types of moves the boss is using. The icons to the right of the counter are types of moves that you should use this counter against. Typically these counters are strong but have a very big weakness such as Tyranitar vs. raid bosses with fighting moves. But if a boss is REALLY throwing you for a loop, or if your level if throwing off your counters, it’s time to get custom results using pokebattler.com. Fortunately for you, it’s as mobile-user friendly as I can make it.

Using custom counters from the Interactive Raid Guide

Many players may just use the infographics to choose their guys and call it a day. But if you’re a Pokebattler.com user, you don’t just stop there. You see the infographic as something to help you get started and do a few rounds with your raid boss to see how you do. But if you haven’t got a strong team for a raid 4, or are trying to solo a tier 3, you’re probably going to lose that first round. So like I mentioned before, pay attention to the types of moves your raid boss is using. Sometimes it’s obvious – Arcanine only has one special electric move – wild charge. And in that case, he’s going to murder your normally very effective Vaporeons way too quickly. The other thing the interactive raid guide gives you is the ability to choose your level and attack strategy. If you want to solo a boss, sometimes you have to dodge!

Data used for this chart

Pokebattler is by far the most analytical Pokemon Go site out there. There are a huge number of simulation options and it is constantly being updated. The most recent update added full support for raids, running 6 attackers in a row against the boss. This helps handle some situations that were skewing the results of previous simulations. For example, if you managed to get 2 big solar beams off and then die to a quick attack, there was no penalty for the 2nd attacker having to face an immediate special to the face. I know what some of you are thinking, ‘I have no idea what he’s talking about’ and that’s okay! Just leave the simulations to me and trust that the results have the best research currently available behind them. For the few of you who do want to get into the details, I encourage you to join me in the Pokebattler subreddit for detailed Pokemon Go research.

How I Get My Results
So when new research is complete, new highly accurate monte carlo simulations need to be run. These take up a ton of space even in highly optimized binary format! The latest update is still generating for all combinations of rankings but the results for this infographic were from monte carlo runs. This means 200 simulations were run for each possible combination of movesets that every attacker and boss might have. The results from all possible movesets were collected in the below table along with the chart. As before, the overall numbers below can be used to see which bosses are easiest, with the most counters. These numbers should not be used for soloing, for that, use the raid guide and sort by time to win!

Tier 3, level 30 attacker, no dodging, Monte Carlo

	Raid Boss	Quick	Special	Overall
	Arcanine	Unknown	Unknown	224.5%
	Arcanine	Snarl	Wild Charge	212.7%
	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Wild Charge	214.5%
	Arcanine	Snarl	Crunch	221.6%
	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Crunch	221.8%
	Arcanine	Snarl	Fire Blast	232.1%
	Arcanine	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	232.7%
	Alakazam	Unknown	Unknown	181.2%
	Alakazam	Confusion	Shadow Ball	167.2%
	Alakazam	Confusion	Focus Blast	167.4%
	Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Shadow Ball	171.1%
	Alakazam	Confusion	Future Sight	183.0%
	Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Focus Blast	192.0%
	Alakazam	Psycho Cut	Future Sight	206.6%
	Machamp	Unknown	Unknown	222.9%
	Machamp	Counter	Heavy Slam	212.7%
	Machamp	Bullet Punch	Dynamic Punch	213.9%
	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	214.9%
	Machamp	Bullet Punch	Heavy Slam	216.8%
	Machamp	Bullet Punch	Close Combat	238.8%
	Machamp	Counter	Close Combat	240.3%
	Gengar	Unknown	Unknown	219.1%
	Gengar	Sucker Punch	Shadow Ball	190.1%
	Gengar	Hex	Shadow Ball	192.6%
	Gengar	Hex	Sludge Bomb	226.9%
	Gengar	Sucker Punch	Sludge Bomb	228.3%
	Gengar	Hex	Focus Blast	232.9%
	Gengar	Sucker Punch	Focus Blast	243.6%
	Vaporeon	Unknown	Unknown	180.2%
	Vaporeon	Water Gun	Water Pulse	217.7%
	Vaporeon	Water Gun	Aqua Tail	217.7%
	Vaporeon	Water Gun	Hydro Pump	221.7%
	Jolteon	Unknown	Unknown	133.7%
	Jolteon	Volt Switch	Thunderbolt	155.7%
	Jolteon	Thunder Shock	Discharge	157.3%
	Jolteon	Thunder Shock	Thunderbolt	157.5%
	Jolteon	Volt Switch	Discharge	158.5%
	Jolteon	Volt Switch	Thunder	159.6%
	Jolteon	Thunder Shock	Thunder	167.5%
	Flareon	Unknown	Unknown	133.7%
	Flareon	Fire Spin	Overheat	178.6%
	Flareon	Ember	Overheat	178.7%
	Flareon	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	179.1%
	Flareon	Ember	Fire Blast	179.1%
	Flareon	Fire Spin	Flamethrower	180.7%
	Flareon	Ember	Flamethrower	181.2%

Tier 4, level 30 attacker, no dodging, Monte Carlo

	Raid Boss	Quick	Special	Overall
	Venusaur	Unknown	Unknown	219.0%
	Venusaur	Vine Whip	Sludge Bomb	196.9%
	Venusaur	Razor Leaf	Sludge Bomb	197.8%
	Venusaur	Razor Leaf	Solar Beam	218.1%
	Venusaur	Vine Whip	Solar Beam	222.2%
	Venusaur	Razor Leaf	Petal Blizzard	226.8%
	Venusaur	Vine Whip	Petal Blizzard	230.2%
	Charizard	Unknown	Unknown	265.8%
	Charizard	Air Slash	Overheat	262.9%
	Charizard	Air Slash	Dragon Claw	264.3%
	Charizard	Fire Spin	Dragon Claw	264.5%
	Charizard	Fire Spin	Overheat	265.1%
	Charizard	Air Slash	Fire Blast	268.1%
	Charizard	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	269.9%
	Blastoise	Unknown	Unknown	196.8%
	Blastoise	Water Gun	Ice Beam	177.6%
	Blastoise	Bite	Ice Beam	178.0%
	Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Pump	204.7%
	Blastoise	Bite	Hydro Pump	204.7%
	Blastoise	Bite	Flash Cannnon	207.0%
	Blastoise	Water Gun	Flash Cannnon	208.8%
	Rhydon	Unknown	Unknown	260.3%
	Rhydon	Mud Slap	Stone Edge	252.9%
	Rhydon	Mud Slap	Earthquake	255.9%
	Rhydon	Mud Slap	Megahorn	257.7%
	Rhydon	Rock Smash	Earthquake	262.3%
	Rhydon	Rock Smash	Stone Edge	265.5%
	Rhydon	Rock Smash	Megahorn	267.2%
	Lapras	Unknown	Unknown	233.6%
	Lapras	Frost Breath	Ice Beam	222.4%
	Lapras	Water Gun	Ice Beam	225.2%
	Lapras	Frost Breath	Blizzard	228.9%
	Lapras	Frost Breath	Hydro Pump	237.3%
	Lapras	Water Gun	Blizzard	243.1%
	Lapras	Water Gun	Hydro Pump	244.9%
	Snorlax	Unknown	Unknown	211.6%
	Snorlax	Zen Headbutt	Hyper Beam	193.8%
	Snorlax	Zen Headbutt	Heavy Slam	207.5%
	Snorlax	Lick	Heavy Slam	214.0%
	Snorlax	Lick	Hyper Beam	215.5%
	Snorlax	Zen Headbutt	Earthquake	215.8%
	Snorlax	Lick	Earthquake	222.8%
	Tyranitar	Unknown	Unknown	241.7%
	Tyranitar	Iron Tail	Crunch	235.2%
	Tyranitar	Iron Tail	Fire Blast	237.8%
	Tyranitar	Iron Tail	Stone Edge	238.3%
	Tyranitar	Bite	Crunch	240.5%
	Tyranitar	Bite	Fire Blast	241.0%
	Tyranitar	Bite	Stone Edge	257.1%

Conclusion

Infographics are a lot of work, especially when you have high quality standards like Pokebattler does. We hope you find these infographics useful in your raids. As always, the official raid guide is always kept up to date with the latest and greatest information.

My next updates will include allowing you to enter your own personal Pokémon and getting counter results based on your own custom line up, so keep checking back later.

Special thanks to Reddit and Twitter fans

I posted this yesterday and was informed of some errors so I deleted the post. In addition, there were multiple bug reports on twitter so I decided to ship out yet another release and tweak the formulas to make them more consistant and fit the meta. This has the new updated power formulas and the new weighting for Overall that is now 2/3s time to win and 1/3 power. The effect of this is to dramatically shift the rankings towards the higher dps options.