Raid Meta – Fire Fang / Overheat + Flamethrower

Entei used to be among the best fire types, sitting as a tankier alternative to Moltres, with advantage in situations where Moltres’ Flying sub-typing harmed it. The most important one being Ice Pokemon with Ice Attacks. Now with Shadow Pokemon, Megas and Reshiram Entei is far less notable. Entei also has another major advantage, which is the moveset Flamethrower. While it has less raw power, being a 2 bar move allows it to be slightly more consistent and able to avoid wasting energy. That said, none of that means anything to Blast Burn Blaziken. Fighting Duel Typing doesn’t have any major downsides-and a couple upsides. Including an extra resistance to Bug and negating weakness to Rock.

PVP Meta – Fire Spin / Flame Charge + Iron Head + Overheat

Entei in raids aren’t Great League eligible generally, but he can be used in Ultra and Master. He was granted access to Flame Charge which is a fantastic bait move that powers up his damage. Iron head is coverage against Rock and Dragon Types but doesn’t help against Fire and Steel resistance. You can also opt to just be a nuke with Overheat, using Flame Charge to replenish your attack stat to nuke again. Does well against Registeel, Cresselia, and Articuno. His strongest showing is in Master League.

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.
 • Mega Blastoise– Best in General simulations.
 • Shadow Swampert– Great in General simulations.
 • Shadow Tyranitar– Great in General simulations.
 • Shadow Gyarados– Great in General simulations.
Less relavant Shadow and Mega Pokemon:Shadow Omastar, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Blastoise, Shadow Politoed, Shadow Flygon, Shadow Sharpedo, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Golduck, Mega Gengar, Shadow Poliwrath, Shadow Dragonite, Mega Ampharos, Shadow Lapras

Sorted Easiest to Hardest.

Flamethrower:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance
  • Rock-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Flame Charge:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance
  • Rock-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Fire Blast:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance
  • Rock-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Iron Head:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance
  • Rock-Types are hit for 💥 Weakness

Overheat:

  • Water-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance
  • Rock-Types are hit for 🛡️ Resistance

Entei is a difficult duo,, even with Best Friend(❤️×4) bonus. If you don’t dodge, Flame Charge is the easiest, if you do, Flamethrower is.
If you need to increase your survivability, Parkia and Kyogre can tank a hit easy. If resources are no limitation, go with Mega Blastoise, it tops the performance in almost every area.
Down at Level 20, Mega Blastoise* and Shadow Tyranitar* can beat Entei in Partly Cloudy. If you want to avoid Shadow/Mega pokemon, Rampardos and Rhyperior can pull it off at level 30. Kinglier and Swampert* are water pokemon who can do it at level 30 too.

Here is a list of Pokemon that can perform similar or better than the typical #1 option (in this case, Rampardos) with weather bonuses:

Pokemon	Weather	Fast Move	Charge Move	Estimator
Kyogre	☔️Rainy	Waterfall	Surf	1.5
Rampardos	⛅️Partly Cloudy	Smack Down	Rock Slide	1.5
Kingler	☔️Rainy	Bubble	Crabhammer	1.6
Rhyperior	⛅️Partly Cloudy	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker	1.6
Terrakion	⛅️Partly Cloudy	Smack Down	Rock Slide	1.7
Swampert	☔️Rainy	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon	1.7
Rhyperior	☀️Clear	Mud Slap	Earthquake	1.7
Feraligatr	☔️Rainy	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon	1.7
Empoleon	☔️Rainy	Waterfall	Hydro Cannon	1.7
Tyranitar	⛅️Partly Cloudy	Smack Down	Stone Edge	1.7
Garchomp	☀️Clear	Mud Shot	Earthquake	1.7
Crawdaunt	☔️Rainy	Waterfall	Crabhammer	1.7
Gyarados	☔️Rainy	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	1.8
Landorus	☀️Clear	Mud Shot	Earth Power	1.8