Mega Scizor Raid Guide

Scizor (Mega)

Due to its 2x weakness to the Fire type, the best counters for Mega Scizor are strong Fire type mega evolutions such as Mega Charizard Y, Mega Houndoom, and Mega Charizard X.

It is strongly recommended to use mega-evolved Pokémon not just because of their inherent raw power, but also for the added bonus in damage output by all Fire type Pokémon in the raid battle. That said, Pokémon like Reshiram, Unovan Darmanitan, and Chandelure are also excellent Pokémon to use in the battle.

It is possible to solo Mega Scizor in Sunny weather, particularly with the use of Mega evolved Fire type Pokémon, and Shadow Pokémon, but only for the high level, well prepared trainer. In all other cases, around 2-5 trainers with strong and high-level Fire type Pokémon can take down Mega Scizor with relative ease, no matter what the weather in the game is like.

This write-up will serve as a comprehensive guide to successfully beating Mega Scizor in the raid.

Mega Scizor 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 Mega Scizor are the following:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	280.82s	7.50
2.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	290.86s	7.67
3.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	337.81s	10.00
4.	Houndoom (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	353.67s	11.83
5.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare Fire	416.92s	11.17
6.	Salamence (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	472.16s	12.33
7.	Groudon (Primal)	Mud Shot Ground	Fire Punch Fire	509.78s	10.67
8.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	470.50s	19.50
9.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	471.47s	19.50
10.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	505.36s	13.83
11.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	497.33s	16.17
12.	Emboar	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	511.12s	14.00
13.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	509.56s	13.83
14.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	486.10s	21.00
15.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	534.02s	10.83
16.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	527.39s	15.83
17.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	531.59s	17.00
18.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	522.62s	19.83
19.	Typhlosion	Incinerate Fire	Blast Burn Fire	537.07s	18.83
20.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire Fire	564.27s	12.00
21.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	547.97s	19.83
22.	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	550.64s	20.17
23.	Arcanine (Hisuian)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	547.82s	20.50
24.	Victini	Quick Attack Normal	V-create Fire	557.69s	18.50
25.	Magmortar	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Blast Fire	556.31s	19.00
26.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	574.99s	18.67
27.	Manectric (Mega)	Thunder Fang Electric	Overheat Fire	581.92s	23.83
28.	Salamence	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	588.85s	22.33
29.	Alakazam (Mega)	Psycho Cut Psychic	Fire Punch Fire	539.05s	34.67
30.	Solgaleo	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	605.99s	18.83
31.	Houndoom	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	584.38s	25.50
32.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	586.10s	25.50
33.	Salazzle	Incinerate Fire	Fire Blast Fire	624.48s	18.50
34.	Incineroar	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	623.53s	20.17
35.	Lopunny (Mega)	Double Kick Fighting	Fire Punch Fire	643.48s	20.40

How to get Mega Scizor

You cannot catch Scizor 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 Scizor.

Scizor can be caught with the following CP values:

• 1636 – 1714 CP at level 20, no weather boost
• 2046 – 2143 CP at level 25 with Rainy or Snow weather boost

To get Mega Scizor you will need to gather 200 Mega Energy for Mega Scizor to evolve your Scizor. Once you have evolved a Scizor you can use 40 Mega Energy to evolve it again, or you can wait for the cooldown period to end for a free Mega Evolution. There are different levels for Mega Pokemon, and the higher the level, the quicker the cooldown. Each new Mega Scizor you evolve will cost 200 Mega Energy.

Stats and Max CP

Scizor (Mega) BugSteel
Max CP at Level 40 4087 | Max CP at Level 50 4621
ATK 279		DEF 250		HP 172
Weak to			Strong Against
Fire			Dark Grass Psychic Fairy Ice Rock

Mega Scizor Movepool

All the best, trainers!