Zamazenta Raid Counters Guide (Hero of Many Battles)

Zamazenta (Hero)

The Hero of Many Battles Zamazenta is a Tier 5 legendary raid boss in Pokémon Go and marks its debut in the undoubtedly unexpected Ultra Unlock 3: Galar region event.

Zamazenta, along with Zacian, is among the two cover legendaries of the Pokémon Sword and Shield games.

Zamazenta can be caught with the following CP values:

• 2100 – 2188 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
• 2625 – 2735 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

With a pure Fighting typing, Zamazenta is boosted by Cloudy weather and its counters include strong Psychic, Flying and Fairy type Pokémon such as Mewtwo, Metagross, Moltres, Rayquaza, and mega evolutions like Mega Pidegot and Mega Gengar with Psychic. With such strong counters, Zamazenta can possibly be duo’d in ideal weather conditions and high-level counters. But to be safe, 4-5 high-level trainers can get the job done easily. 

Zamazenta Crowned form is a tremendous Pokémon with Fighting and Steel typing, making it a potential threat to Dialga in the Master League and an amazing Pokémon in general. While that’s for the future, we will now check out the raid guide of Zamazenta!

Zamazenta: Stats and Max CP

Zamazenta Fighting
Max CP at Level 40 3829  Max CP at Level 50 4329
ATK 254		DEF 236		HP 192
Weak to			Strong Against
Psychic Flying Fairy			Dark Rock Ice Normal Steel

Zamazenta 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 Zamazenta, based on the time required to win, are the following:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	Time to win	Deaths
1.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut Psychic	Psystrike Psychic	579.87s	20.63
2.	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	636.49s	28.06
3.	Moltres	Wing Attack Flying	Sky Attack Flying	728.20s	19.06
4.	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	720.32s	28.75
5.	Latios	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	739.13s	26.88
6.	Metagross	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	773.65s	21.63
7.	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock Electric	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	750.71s	27.63
8.	Alakazam	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	720.75s	34.88
9.	Espeon	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	734.17s	32.75
10.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	767.27s	27.60
11.	Tapu Lele	Confusion Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	791.09s	23.92
12.	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory Psychic	Brave Bird Flying	826.28s	16.56
13.	Deoxys (Attack)	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psycho Boost Psychic	724.77s	56.50
14.	Azelf	Extrasensory Psychic	Future Sight Psychic	762.18s	33.80
15.	Honchkrow	Peck Flying	Sky Attack Flying	769.52s	32.09
16.	Gardevoir	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	804.14s	25.92
17.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Hurricane Flying	819.89s	22.81
18.	Gallade	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	805.40s	27.50
19.	Staraptor	Wing Attack Flying	Brave Bird Flying	790.57s	32.43
20.	Togekiss	Charm Fairy	Dazzling Gleam Fairy	869.62s	16.83
21.	Exeggutor	Extrasensory Psychic	Psychic Psychic	798.23s	29.42
22.	Zacian	Quick Attack Normal	Play Rough Fairy	853.64s	19.21
23.	Zacian (Hero)	Quick Attack Normal	Play Rough Fairy	862.80s	18.86
24.	Unfezant	Air Slash Flying	Sky Attack Flying	818.10s	32.50
25.	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion Psychic	Psyshock Psychic	836.14s	24.07
26.	Braviary	Air Slash Flying	Brave Bird Flying	817.99s	28.50
27.	Tornadus (Incarnate)	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	820.70s	29.92
28.	Beheeyem	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	820.00s	32.00
29.	Zapdos	Thunder Shock Electric	Drill Peck Flying	836.19s	23.93
30.	Tornadus	Air Slash Flying	Hurricane Flying	822.18s	30.50
31.	Lugia	Extrasensory Psychic	Aeroblast Flying	868.87s	15.00
32.	Delphox	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	854.99s	21.00
33.	Jirachi	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	879.45s	15.20
34.	Victini	Confusion Psychic	Psychic Psychic	880.71s	16.00
35.	Latias	Zen Headbutt Psychic	Psychic Psychic	840.62s	25.33

* marks a legacy Move

Zamazenta Moveset Analysis

Quick Attack is the easiest of the bunch. It won’t bother any of your counters.

Metal Claw is a good move and troubles your Fairy type counters. With neat damage and energy generation, and being largely unresisted by your counters, it is worth your attention.

Ice Fang does quite a number on your Flying types and is damaging enough. However, it has a 3-turn cooldown and can be used to sneak in your own charged attacks.

Snarl has high energy generation and is threatening in that regard. Plus, it deals super-effective damage to your Psychic types.

Moonblast hits hard but can be dodged to prolong your counters’ presence.

Iron Head does neat neutral damage to most of your counters.

Close Combat is a dangerous STAB move on Zamazenta and with that ATK stat of 254, it should be damaging. However, both Psychic and Flying types resist it. Yay!

Crunch hits very often and when paired with Snarl, is worrisome for your Psychic types.

Conclusion

Zamazenta turns out to be quite a nice Pokémon in the Master League. While Snarl is a good addition, it could have done better with Fire Fang (something which Zacian got!). Regardless, Zamazenta does seem to be a fine prospect in the meta and is undoubtedly worth your time and attention.

The shield doggo and its Crowned form look decently good in the game. Despite lacking a Fighting type fast move, it is usable.

All the best, trainers!