Hitmontop Raid Counters Guide

Hitmontop is a pure Fighting type raid boss. Optimal raid counters will include powerful Psychic Flying and Fairy types, with quite a mixed range of different counters available to help you defeat it.

Hitmontop is a level 3 raid, depending on your levels and counters, high level trainers may be able to solo Hitmontop, but lower level trainers may want to team together in groups of 2-5 depending on counters.

This guide will tell you how to beat this raid boss, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range.

Hitmontop Counters

Since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to remove Frustration with a Charge TM, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article. That being said, if you have the shadow form of a listed raid counter Pokémon powered up and TMed, use it.

Let’s check out the top raid counters for Hitmontop:

Hitmontop Counters

The supreme Hitmontop Raid Counters
Mewtwo	Confusion Psychic	Psytrike Psychic
Mega Gengar	Lick Ghost	Psychic Psychic
Great Hitmontop raid counters
Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Mega Pidgeot	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying
Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying
Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Alakazam	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Lugia	Extrasensory Psychic	Aeroblast Flying
Mega Y Charizard	Wing Attack Flying	Blast Burn Fire
Azelf	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic
Gallade	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Exeggutor	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic
Rayquaza	Air Slash [air]	Aerial Ace Flying

For more budget counters you can check out the whole counters list here, but Gardevoir, Celebi, Jirachi and Ho-oh all make an appearance, so keep them in mind.

Hitmontop Sprites

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite

At the time of writing (July 2021), shiny Hitmontop is not available in game.

Hitmontop Stats

Hitmontop Fighting
Max CP at lvl 40 2438
ATK 173		DEF 207		HP 137
Weak to			Strong Against
Flying Psychic Fairy			Normal Ice Dark Rock Steel

Caught CP range – 1166 -1232

Hitmontop Moveset Analysis

For optimal DPS Counter and Close Combat are going to be the best option, and give you access to STAB.

Conclusion

Hitmontop should be a decent solo for a single high level trainer thanks to an array of hard hitting Psychic, Fairy and Flying types, but may be trickier for those without maxed out counters.