Mega Ampharos Raid Counters Guide

Ampharos (Mega)

Mega Ampharos is an Electric and Dragon type Mega Raid Boss. Optimal raid counters include powerful Dragon Ground Fairy and Ice types, with a large variety available to potentially help you win.

You cannot catch Ampharos in its mega evolved form from the raid. The Mega Raid Boss is always catchable in its base form and as such, the CP ranges are for a regular Ampharos.

Ampharos can be caught with the following CP values:

• 1554 –1630 CP at level 20, no weather boost
• 1943 – 2037 CP at level 25 with Rainy or Windy weather boost

Depending on your levels and counters, we would recommend 3-5 trainers who are high level, and more if you don’t have optimal teams. This guide will tell you how to beat this long haired beauty of a Mega, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range.

Mega Ampharos 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 Mega Ampharos:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Garchomp	Dragon Tail Dragon	Outrage Dragon	630.27s	12.20
2.	Zekrom	Dragon Breath Dragon	Outrage Dragon	628.97s	17.00
3.	Rayquaza	Dragon Tail Dragon	Outrage Dragon	604.86s	31.40
4.	Salamence	Dragon Tail Dragon	Outrage Dragon	609.90s	31.50
5.	Haxorus	Dragon Tail Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	622.36s	27.00
6.	Palkia	Dragon Tail Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	622.19s	29.80
7.	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap Ground	Avalanche Ice	656.31s	18.50
8.	Reshiram	Dragon Breath Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	643.94s	23.90
9.	Dragonite	Dragon Tail Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	631.96s	30.50
10.	Dialga	Dragon Breath Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	654.46s	24.60
11.	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	664.89s	23.70
12.	Latios	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	672.24s	22.90
13.	Excadrill	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	687.35s	17.63
14.	Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Earthquake Ground	691.99s	16.10
15.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	686.51s	24.30
16.	Landorus	Mud Shot Ground	Earth Power Ground	690.96s	24.50
17.	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	721.83s	15.89
18.	Exeggutor (Alola)	Dragon Tail Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	708.00s	22.20
19.	Hydreigon	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Pulse Dragon	709.13s	23.88
20.	Darmanitan (Galarian Standard)	Ice Fang Ice	Avalanche Ice	656.15s	45.30
21.	Kyurem	Dragon Breath Dragon	Dragon Claw Dragon	710.26s	26.38
22.	Tyrantrum	Dragon Tail Dragon	Outrage Dragon	730.61s	26.38
23.	Latias	Dragon Breath Dragon	Outrage Dragon	739.13s	22.30
24.	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock Electric	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	728.33s	31.00
25.	Zacian	Quick Attack Normal	Play Rough Fairy	735.68s	29.40
26.	Zacian (Hero)	Snarl Dark	Play Rough Fairy	738.59s	29.80
27.	Glaceon	Frost Breath Ice	Avalanche Ice	706.60s	38.80
28.	Goodra	Dragon Breath Dragon	Draco Meteor Dragon	758.80s	22.70
29.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Outrage Dragon	727.41s	47.00
30.	Togekiss	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	760.21s	25.00
31.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Ice Beam Ice	740.52s	30.83
32.	Weavile	Ice Shard Ice	Avalanche Ice	712.10s	44.86
33.	Gardevoir	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	732.13s	32.67
34.	Rhydon	Mud-Slap Ground	Earthquake Ground	781.98s	17.00
35.	Golurk	Mud-Slap Ground	Earth Power Ground	779.28s	20.00

Thanks to its dual Dragon and Electric typing, many of Mega Ampharos counters aren’t Mega evolutions, and are instead a variety of Legendarys we have had return to the game several times. Some are incredibly rare, (Axew, where art thou?), but some, like Dragonite and Salamence, have been featured in Community Days, so many trainers will find they have high IV options that are maxed out already.

For budget options, Mamoswine, Rhyperior, Galarian Damanitan, Golurk, Alolan Exeggutor, Gardevoir, Weavile and Glaceon, are all fairly accessible choices.

Ampharos Shiny

Like all Mega Raid Bosses, you can catch the shiny version of Ampharos from a raid, and also in the wild potentially, if you can find it!

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite

Mega Ampharos Stats

Ampharos (Mega) ElectricDragon
Max CP at lvl 40 4245
ATK 294		DEF 207		HP 203
Weak to			Strong Against
Dragon Ground Ice Fairy			Dragon Water Flying

Mega Ampharos Moveset Analysis

As a a Dragon type, Mega Ampharos is sadly lacking, in large part due to its lack of Dragon type fast move, and also the fact that its one Dragon type charge move Dragon Pulse is not only legacy, but also not so great. Needing 50 energy to power it up, and dealing 90 damage, it is massively outclassed by the likes of Draco Meteor and Outrage. Outrage does 110 damage for the same energy cost, making Dragon Pulse very energy inefficient. There are plenty of much stronger and better Mega Dragons, but where Mega Ampharos gets to shine is as an Electric type attacker.

As one of only two Electric type Megas, Ampharos is the stand out because of its massive attack stat. With a huge 294 attack stat, it can dish out some serious damage, despite being squisher because of its defense stat of 207. It has access to much better Electric type moves, we recommend Volt Switch and Zap Cannon for optimal total damage output and damage per second.

With its lock flowing locks, Mega Ampharos is a really striking and cool looking Mega to add to your collection. With a fantastic pink shiny form, Mega Ampharos can be a really great Electric type addition to your team when battling against Flying types like Mega Pigeot, and powerful Water types like Mega Blastoise and Kyogre.