Magmar Raid Counters Guide

Magmar is a Tier 3 raid boss in Pokémon Go and is a part of the Festival of Lights event, running from November 5th, 10 AM local time – November 14th, 8 PM local time 2021. Magmar evolves into the funky Magmortar which is quite a spice pick in the meta.

Magmar can be caught with the following CP values:

1298 – 1367 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
1623 – 1710 CP at Level 25 with Sunny weather boost

With a mono Fire typing, it is weak to the Ground, Rock, and Water types. As such, its best counters include strong mega evolutions like Mega Blastoise, Mega Gengar, and Mega Gyarados. If you are not willing to mega evolve a Pokémon for the raid, then you can go ahead with Rhyperior, Garchomp, Kyogre, and Rampardos. For high-level trainers, Magmar is an easy solo. Trainers of lower levels can beat it if they go with a team of 2-3.

Magmar Raid 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.

The best counters for Magmar are the following:

Magmar Counters
Supreme Counters
Blastoise (Mega)	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon* Water
Gengar (Mega)	Shadow Claw Ghost	Shadow Ball Ghost
Great Counters
Gyarados (Mega)	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water
Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock
Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Surf Water
Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Rock Wrecker* Rock
Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power* Ground
Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground
Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water
Terrakion	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock
Tyranitar	Smack Down* Rock	Stone Edge Rock
Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground
Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Hydro Cannon* Water