Mega Beedrill Raid Guide

Beedrill (Mega)

Mega Beedrill is a budget bug beast, boasting a bountiful attack stat with a cheaper than normal 100 initial and 20 subsequent mega energy cost. It’s a Bug and Poison type, so many types are strong against it. Use Psychic, Fire, Rock, and Flying types to swat this bee. Be mindful that although Psychic is super effective, Bug can hit it right back for weakness. Bee careful!

Mega Beedrill doesn’t have amazing bulk, so it can be beaten with 2-3 trainers no problem. Just watch out for that massive attack stat, it rivals Mewtwo’s! Figure out it’s movepool from recommendations, you don’t want to bring a Mewtwo in against X-Scissor.

Mega Beedrill Counters

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Rayquaza (Mega)	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	5	172s
2.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	7	217s
3.	Salamence (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Fly Flying	6	234s
4.	Salamence (Shadow)	Fire Fang Fire	Fly Flying	10	214s
5.	Mewtwo (Shadow)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	14	196s
6.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	9	225s
7.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	12	212s
8.	Heatran (Shadow)	Fire Spin Fire	Magma Storm Fire	10	239s
9.	Moltres (Shadow)	Fire Spin Fire	Sky Attack Flying	10	237s
10.	Alakazam (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	17	217s
11.	Ho-Oh (Shadow)	Incinerate Fire	Brave Bird Flying	8	263s
12.	Ho-Oh (Apex Shadow)	Incinerate Fire	Brave Bird Flying	8	263s
13.	Latios (Mega)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	13	239s
14.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	14	233s
15.	Rhyperior (Shadow)	Smack Down Rock	Rock Wrecker Rock	11	253s
16.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fly Flying	10	257s
17.	Gardevoir (Mega)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	14	237s
18.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	12	252s
19.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare Fire	11	257s
20.	Staraptor (Shadow)	Gust Flying	Fly Flying	15	239s
21.	Metagross (Shadow)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	12	257s
22.	Diancie (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	14	249s
23.	Charizard (Shadow)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	13	253s
24.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	9	282s
25.	Groudon (Primal)	Mud Shot Ground	Fire Blast Fire	8	288s
26.	Lugia (Shadow)	Extrasensory Psychic	Aeroblast Flying	8	285s
27.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Oblivion Wing Flying	10	270s
28.	Chandelure (Shadow)	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	15	246s
29.	Pidgeot (Mega)	Gust Flying	Brave Bird Flying	11	266s
30.	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Sunsteel Strike Steel	10	275s

Mega Beedrill Moveset Analysis

* Denotes a legacy move available through use of an Elite TM

How to Get Mega Beedrill

Mega Beedrill rewards a regular Beedrill, which has the potential to be shiny. You’ll also be rewarded Beedrill Mega Energy depending on the raid’s speed.

Beedrill can be caught with the following CP values:

• 994 – 1054 CP with no weather boost
• 1242 – 1318 CP boosted by Rainy or Cloudy weather boost

Mega Beedrill costs 100 Mega Energy to Mega Evolve for the first time, making it one of cheapest options to Mega evolve a Pokémon. You can walk any Weedle, Kakuna or Beedrill to earn Mega Energy, as long as you have previously Mega evolved one to register it to your Mega Pokédex.

Shiny Beedrill

Like all Mega Raid Bosses, you can catch the shiny version of Beedrill from a raid.

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite

Mega Beedrill Stats

Beedrill (Mega) BugPoison
Max CP at lvl 40 3383 | Max CP at lvl 50 3824
ATK 303		DEF 163		HP 148
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire Rock Psychic Flying			Fightingx2 Grassx2 Bug Poison Fairy

Mega Beedrill is very powerful, but it has low defence. Be cautious in Cloudy or Rainy weather, and if it’s Windy, Sunny, or Partly Cloudy, change your team to match.

Conclusion

Mega Beedrill is a potent attacker, and it’s easy to get the energy for since they literally hand you some via a special research and some field research tasks. Granted, that may make it an unpopular raid boss, which is fair. Still, it’s an easy duo, so if you like to challenge yourself give it a shot!