Mega Heracross Raid Guide

Mega Heracross

Mega Heracross is a Bug and Fighting type Mega Raid boss. Best Mega Heracross raid counters include powerful Flying, Fairy, Fire, and Psychic types, with a focus on Flying types as it is double weak to Flying. This guide will tell you how to beat this Mega Beast, as well as its optimal stats, moves and CP range.

Depending on your levels and counters, we would recommend 5+ trainers who are high level, and more if you don’t have optimal teams. You need to be as prepared as possible when defeating a Mega Raid Boss, not only are they difficult to beat, but the quicker you beat it, the more Mega Energy you will get.

Mega Heracross Counters

Let’s check out the top raid counters for Mega Heracross:

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	DPS	Faints	TTW
1.	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	57.20	5	164s
2.	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	43.36	9	218s
3.	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Dragon Ascent	39.15	13	244s
4.	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fly	36.59	8	255s
5.	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack	38.32	12	246s
6.	Incarnate Enamorus	Fairy Wind	Fly	36.02	10	261s
7.	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing	35.98	13	264s
8.	Shadow Staraptor	Gust	Fly	37.87	20	257s
9.	Mega Pidgeot	Gust	Brave Bird	35.36	15	269s
10.	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Fly	33.72	10	278s
11.	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock	Drill Peck	34.42	15	278s
12.	Apex Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast+	32.14	7	288s
13.	Salamence	Fire Fang	Fly	33.00	12	287s
14.	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack	32.46	12	290s
15.	Therian Tornadus	Gust	Bleakwind Storm	32.18	13	294s
16.	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn	32.17	12	293s
17.	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Fly	36.60	8	304s
18.	Braviary	Air Slash	Fly	32.21	16	297s
19.	Staraptor	Gust	Fly	32.98	19	292s
20.	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	29.78	11	313s
21.	Apex Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	29.78	11	313s
22.	Hisuian Braviary	Air Slash	Fly	29.98	14	314s
23.	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	32.47	24	300s
24.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock	Drill Peck	28.91	15	328s
25.	Galarian Moltres	Wing Attack	Fly	29.13	15	326s
26.	Shadow Toucannon	Peck	Drill Peck	31.11	25	313s
27.	Incarnate Tornadus	Air Slash	Hurricane	28.60	217	333s
28.	Crowned Sword Zacian	Air Slash	Play Rough	27.59	13	337s
29.	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike	28.90	22	322s
30.	Galarian Zapdos	Counter	Fly	25.97	12	361s

Mega Heracross Overview

Mega Heracross BugFighting
Max CP	5443
ATK	334
DEF	223
HP	190
Weak to	x2
Resists
Fast moves	Struggle Bug Counter
Charge moves	Megahorn Close Combat Upper Hand Rock Blast Earthquake

How to Get Mega Heracross

You cannot catch Heracross 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 Heracross.

Heracross can be caught with the following CP values:

• 1693 – 1772 CP no weather boost
• 2116 – 2215 CP boosted by Rainy and Cloudy weather boost

In order to get Mega Heracross you will need 200 Mega Energy for the initial evolution, then 40 Mega Energy to evolve the same Heracross again in the future. If you wait for their ‘cooldown’ period to end, Mega Evolution is free. This cooldown period is shorter the higher mega level your Mega Pokémon is.

Mega Energy can be obtained via Mega Heracross Raids, and once you have evolved Mega Heracross, you can earn 100 Mega Energy per candy while walking it as your buddy. You can walk any Heracross to earn Mega Energy, as long as you have previously evolved one to register it to your Mega Pokédex.

Shiny Heracross

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

	Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite
Heracross (M)
Heracross (F)

And here are the sprites of Mega Heracross:

Regular Sprite	Shiny Sprite

All the best, Trainers!