Magneton Raid Counters Guide

Magneton

Magneton is a Tier 3 Raid boss in Pokémon GO and is one of the easiest Pokémon to solo courtesy of its quadruple weakness to the Ground type. Best Magneton counters include Ground Fire and Fighting types, with all three being common types in the meta.

Magneton can be caught with the following CP values:

• 1210- 1420 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 1513- 1775 CP at Level 25 with Rainy and Snow weather boost

Magneton evolves into the powerful Magnezone, which is a powerful pick in the Master League as well as raids. So if you don’t have a good IV Magnezone or need XL candy, this is a good opportunity to get those!

With that being said, let’s check out the raid guide for Magnezone!

Magneton 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.

It should be noted that Magneton has a 4x weakness to the Ground type

The best counters for Magneton are the following:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.14s	0.00
2.	Excadrill	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.22s	0.00
3.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.22s	0.00
4.	Garchomp	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	11.22s	0.00
5.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	Bulldoze Ground	13.35s	0.00
6.	Haxorus	Counter Fighting	Earthquake Ground	13.52s	0.00
7.	Golem	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	13.66s	0.00
8.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	13.69s	0.00
9.	Dugtrio (Alola)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	13.90s	0.00
10.	Donphan	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	13.87s	0.00
11.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	13.87s	0.00
12.	Krookodile	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	13.90s	0.00
13.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	13.99s	0.00
14.	Chandelure	Incinerate Fire	Overheat Fire	14.24s	0.00
15.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	14.39s	0.00
16.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	14.33s	0.00
17.	Flygon	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	14.57s	0.00
18.	Terrakion	Double Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	14.86s	0.00
19.	Seismitoad	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	14.88s	0.00
20.	Pheromosa	Low Kick Fighting	Focus Blast Fighting	15.53s	0.00
21.	Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	15.59s	0.00
22.	Swampert	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	15.59s	0.00
23.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	15.68s	0.00
24.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	15.70s	0.00
25.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Earthquake Ground	15.90s	0.00
26.	Nidoking	Double Kick Fighting	Earth Power Ground	15.94s	0.00
27.	Blaziken	Counter Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	15.99s	0.00
28.	Dugtrio	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	16.18s	0.00
29.	Heracross	Counter Fighting	Earthquake Ground	16.30s	0.00
30.	Lucario	Counter Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	16.36s	0.00
31.	Lycanroc	Sucker Punch Dark	Drill Run Ground	16.47s	0.00
32.	Heliolisk	Mud-Slap Ground	Bulldoze Ground	16.67s	0.00
33.	Gastrodon (East Sea)	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	16.80s	0.00
34.	Camerupt	Incinerate Fire	Earth Power Ground	16.78s	0.00
35.	Machamp	Karate Chop Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	16.76s	0.00

* denotes a legacy move

Stats and Max CP

Magneton ElectricSteel
Max CP at Level 40 2485| Max CP at Level 50 2810
ATK 223		DEF 169		HP 137
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire Fighting Ground			Flying Water Fairy Ice Rock

Magnezone Moveset Analysis

Garchomp, with its triple resistance to Electric type moves simply shrugs off all its Electric attacks and can finish the raid in no time. That said, Magnet Bomb does decent damage to your counters. Zap Cannon hits very hard but can be easily dodged.

Conclusion

All in all, Magneton is an easy raid. The fact that it lacks bulk is a huge bonus to you.

A Pokémon that evolves into an absolute beast that has the highest number of resistances in the meta. You can check out our Magnezone meta analysis article for more!

Let’s go!