🥊 Personalized Heatran Counters

📊Heatran Raid Infographic

Heatran– Lava Dome Pokémon

Heatran is weak to the following types: x1 Water, x1 Fighting, x2 Ground Generally speaking, the best counters for it are:Rhyperior, Landorus and Garchomp. Heatran can be beaten by 2 players in optimal weather, with max friendship and perfect level 40 counters or by 3 unfriended players using level 20 counters from this guide. When caught, Heatran will be between 2058 and 2145 cp without a weather boost. In Clear weather, Heatran will be between 2573 and 2681 when caught.


Raid Meta – Fire Spin / Flamethrower

PVP Meta – Fire Spin / Flamethrower + Iron Head

Best in Master League, where it’s typing invalidates Togekiss and Dialga.


There are a couple classes of unique pokemon that are more difficult to use than others, they have been filtered out here to not clog up the counters too much. These pokemon are much more resource expensive than other options.
 • Shadow Flygon– Great in General simulations.
Less relavant Shadow and Mega Pokemon:Shadow Swampert, Mega Blastoise

Sorted Easiest to Hardest.

Fire Blast:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Flamethrower:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Iron Head:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Stone Edge:

  • Ground-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance
  • Fighting-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Here is a list of Pokemon that can perform similar or better than the typical #1 option (in this case, Garchomp) with weather bonuses:
PokemonWeatherFast MoveCharge MoveEstimator
Garchomp☀️ClearMud ShotEarthquake1.3
Rhyperior☀️ClearMud SlapEarthquake1.4
Landorus☀️ClearMud ShotEarth Power1.4
Groudon☀️ClearMud ShotEarthquake1.4
Excadrill☀️ClearMud SlapDrill Run1.4
Rhydon☀️ClearMud SlapEarthquake1.5
Krookodile☀️ClearMud SlapEarthquake1.6


#1 Rhyperior
Mud Slap
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rhyhorn is very common and boosted in the common Sunny, but Rhyperior is a Sinnoh Stone evolution Pokemon. Rhydon is a pretty good Ground-Type as well, so if you get a good moveset on it and don’t have the candy or stone to evolve, it’s not that bad. It’s also great as a Rock-Type attacker with different moves. Rhyhorn currently can be found in nests. With Level 35 Rhyperior you need 2 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Iron Head
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock
• 1× Weak: Steel
#2 Landorus
Mud Shot
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
With Level 35 Landorus you need 2 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Flamethrower
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Iron Head
Type Interactions:
• Negated Interaction: Rock
#3 Garchomp
Mud Shot
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐
Garchomp, while a great Dragon AND Ground-Type attacker (and one with resistance to Rock and triple resistance to Electric) is very difficult to acquire for now. No nests, no events, very rare, very new. Gible are exceedingly rare in the wild. It’s likely he will someday get a community day however. With Level 35 Garchomp you need 2 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Flamethrower
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock
#4 Groudon
Mud Shot
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
Groudon is a Legendary Pokemon and thus can only be gotten in time limited ways, by being featured in Event Raids or Field Research Breakthroughs. They are the a pretty safe investment to power up, but might get Precipital Blade someday. Mud-shot and Earthquake got buffed December 2019. With Level 35 Groudon you need 2 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Flamethrower
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Rock
#5 Excadrill
Mud Slap
Drill Run
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
Excadrill is a new pokemon, but Drilbur are not rare, and it is boosted in sunny weather! It doesn’t look it, but Excadrill is a phenomental ground-Type attacker, and it’s Steel duel typing ussually help it more than it hurts. With Level 35 Excadrill you need 2 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Mud Shot
Alternative Charge Moves: Earthquake
Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Iron Head
Type Interactions:
• 2× Resists: Rock
• 1× Resists: Steel
• 1× Weak: Fire
#6 Krookodile
Mud Slap
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility:
With Level 35 Krookodile you need 2 players.

Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Flamethrower
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Rock


#7 Rhydon
Mud Slap
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rhyhorn is very common and boosted in the common Sunny. It’s evolution is better in this role, but we were already using Rhydons before Rhyperior came out. Rhyhorn currently can be found in nests. With Level 35 Rhydon you need 2 players.

Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Iron Head
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock
• 1× Weak: Steel
#8 Golurk
Mud Slap
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐
Golurk is a brand new pokemon and incredibly rare in the wild. Goletts family are duel typed with Ghost. With Level 35 Golurk you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Rock
#9 Donphan
Mud Slap
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Donphan has not had much chance to shine in this game, but now that Earthquake has been buffed he is more useful! Phanphy are uncommon but not exceedingly rare however. Phanpy currently can be found in nests. With Level 35 Donphan you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Flamethrower
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Iron Head
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Rock
#10 Golem
Mud Slap
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Geodude are not too much of a pain to acquire for most people and exist in research rewards as well. Hunt down a nest or play in partly cloudy will be enough for many to get Golem. Geodude can be in “Make 5 Nice Throws” quests. With Level 35 Golem you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Iron Head
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock
• 1× Weak: Steel
#11 Flygon
Mud Shot
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Trapinch have been uncommon spawns in a couple recent events but is overall pretty difficult to acquire and doesn’t nest. 50/50 on whether it will be getting a community day someday. With Level 35 Flygon you need 3 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Earthquake
Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock
#12 Swampert
Mud Shot
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mudkip Community day way July 2019, but the moveset you want isn’t the community day move. Swampert as a Ground-Type is unfortunate, since it’s Water typing negates some of it’s resistances to Electric. It does give it a resistance to Steel and Fire however! Mudkip currently can be found in nests. With Level 35 Swampert you need 3 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Hydro Cannon
Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock, Steel
#13 Mamoswine
Mud Slap
Bulldoze
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
Mamoswine evolves from Swinub which is a nesting species that has been in raids in the past. Swinub can also be found in Nests. It does however require a Sinnoh Stone to evolve which can be acquired randomly from your first trainer battle every day. Swinub has gotten a community day (February 2019) and was also featured in Christmas events. Finally, Swinub can also spawn in the pool of Pokemon from Glacial Lure Modules, which you can get from the shop for 200 coins. Swinub currently can be found in nests. With Level 35 Mamoswine you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Stone Edge
Type Interactions:
• 1× Weak: Fire, Steel
• Negated Interaction: Rock
#14 Haxorus
Counter
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility:
With Level 35 Haxorus you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Flamethrower
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire
#15 Ho-Oh
Hidden Power Ground
Earthquake
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility:
With Level 35 Ho-Oh you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Stone Edge
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Steel
• 2× Weak: Rock
#16 Seismitoad
Mud Shot
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility:
With Level 35 Seismitoad you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Bubble
Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock, Steel
#17
Mud Slap
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
Shellos while cosmetically region-locked, is still available globally otherwise. They aren’t too hard to find for the time being With Level 35 you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Hidden Power Ground
Alternative Charge Moves: Earthquake
Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock, Steel
#18
Mud Slap
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
Shellos while cosmetically region-locked, is still available globally otherwise. They aren’t too hard to find for the time being With Level 35 you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Hidden Power Ground
Alternative Charge Moves: Earthquake
Best Estimator VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Rock, Steel
#19 Kingler
Mud Shot
Crabhammer
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kingler received Crabhammer 9/2/19 making it a monster Water Type. Quests where its been a reward: “Water Festival: Catch 5 Water-type Pokemon.” Boosted spawns of Krabby during Water Festival 2019. With Level 35 Kingler you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Bubble
Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Stone Edge
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Steel
#20 Kyogre
Waterfall
Surf
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐
Kyogre was first available January 2018. It is the premier Water-Type attacker and an incredibly powerful attacker. Someday it will likely be outclassed by itself if Niantic gives it the move Origin Pulse. With Level 35 Kyogre you need 3 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Hydro Pump
Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Stone Edge
Best Ranking VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Fire, Steel
#21 Hippowdon
Thunder Fang
Earth Power
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐⭐⭐
Hippowdon does not nest, and is slightly uncommon. With Level 35 Hippowdon you need 3 players.

Alternative Fast Moves: Fire Fang, Ice Fang
Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Stone Edge
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Rock
#22 Conkeldurr
Counter
Dynamic Punch
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility:
With Level 35 Conkeldurr you need 3 players.

Alternative Charge Moves: Focus Blast
Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Flamethrower
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Stone Edge
Type Interactions:
• 1× Resists: Rock
#23 Regigigas
Hidden Power Ground
Focus Blast
⚔️ Raw Damage: ⭐⭐
🛡️ Survival/Bulk: ⭐⭐
📉 Consistency: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌐 Accessibility: ⭐
Regigigas has only been available during the paid “A Colossas Discovery” event and has come to EX raids starting November 12th 2019. Hidden Power is a gamble moveset for typing and you can’t change it in your ownership. With Level 35 Regigigas you need 3 players.

Best Estimator VS: Bug Bite / Fire Blast
Best Ranking VS: Fire Spin / Fire Blast
Type Interactions:
• No Type Interactions


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