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 Blaziken, Nega Charizard X & Y, and Mega Houndoom.

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:

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	Faints	TTW
1.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	8	248s
2.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	7	253s
3.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare Fire	8	287s
4.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	9	294s
5.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Magma Storm Fire	7	318s
6.	Houndoom (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	12	317s
7.	Groudon (Primal)	Mud Shot Ground	Fire Punch Fire	9	334s
8.	Volcarona	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	11	332s
9.	Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	13	336s
10.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	15	335s
11.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	15	335s
12.	Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	10	343s
13.	Emboar	Ember Fire	Blast Burn Fire	11	343s
14.	Entei	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	11	351s
15.	Salamence (Mega)	Fire Fang Fire	Fire Blast Fire	10	354s
16.	Chandelure	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	16	352s
17.	Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	12	357s
18.	Delphox	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	17	358s
19.	Infernape	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	13	362s
20.	Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire Fire	9	378s
21.	Victini	Quick Attack Normal	V-create Fire	13	372s
22.	Typhlosion	Incinerate Fire	Blast Burn Fire	15	372s
23.	Flareon	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	16	377s
24.	Incineroar	Fire Fang Fire	Blaze Kick Fire	14	384s
25.	Arcanine	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	15	389s
26.	Arcanine (Hisuian)	Fire Fang Fire	Flamethrower Fire	17	387s
27.	Magmortar	Fire Spin Fire	Fire Punch Fire	16	393s
28.	Pyroar (Female)	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	16	395s
29.	Pyroar	Fire Fang Fire	Overheat Fire	16	395s
30.	Solgaleo	Fire Spin Fire	Flamethrower Fire	14	412s

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

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