THE BEST POKÉMON OF EACH TYPE in Pokémon GO!! (Updated with the New Shadows October 2023)

With the introduction of a lot of Pokémon over the past few months, including some really powerful Shadow Pokémon, the list of what is considered the best of each type has shifted. In this video, I will be taking a look at each Pokémon Type in Pokémon GO and go over which Pokémon are the ones you should focus your resources on.
0:00 Intro
1:19 Bug Types
2:17 Dark Types
3:04 Dragon Types
4:07 Electric Types
5:10 Fairy Types
6:01 Fighting Types
6:56 Fire Types
7:38 Flying Types
8:30 Ghost Types
9:34 Grass Types
11:07 Ground Types
12:13 Ice Types
13:09 Normal Types
13:32 Poison Types
14:31 Psychic Types
15:28 Rock Types
16:08 Steel Types
16:39 Water Types
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[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

I messed up the graphic at the end xD The ideal moves for reg Kyogre are Waterfall and Origin Pulse lol

[@MP-ej9pw]

Thought maybe you put it in to see who watched until the end

[@strategygamelover10nathanh34]

you also messed up on mega rayqaza outrage has better DPS

[@erwinmateo6862]

Hahaha! I was about to comment that, but we already know, kind of glitchy graphics. Thanks for sharing. 🎉🎉🎉

[@iankendall5647]

Shadow Machamp is worthy of a mention, higher DPS than Keldo but lower ER.

[@petomunk9321]

Ye, it looks like he sometimes use raw dps and sometimes ER.

[@ttv.x34nng80]

what is ER

[@bringmearavencroft]

Emergency Room

[@iankendall5647]

Equivalent Rating - a combination of DPS (Damage Per Second) and TDO (Total Damage Output)

[@Rose_J]

Great video, thank you. I’m slowly collecting some shadows and Megas and legendaries, so this list is far more relevant to me now than your last one.

[@JasonBoyce]

trying to catch the shadow lugias was awful. just non-stop attacks and it was so far away it was almost impossible to hit the circle. i did about 10 over the 2 days, the moment I got a 15/10/15, I immediately quit 😂 I was lucky there were roaming groups doing these raids as I just play by myself. I can't imagine how much more frustrating it is to be scraping together a group just once and then seeing Lugia flee

[@mallardd5700]

I know it's too late now but if shadow lugia ever comes back instead of using golden raspberry use the nanaberries to make it sit still. Because of the large circle I hit excellent throws on almost every throw and because of that I caught every lugia that I tried for.

[@metalguard4]

I didn’t realize how lucky I was when I got my 3* shadow ryhorn on day one of the rocket event. I don’t know how many hundreds of grunts I’ve checked, but I’ve only encountered only 2 more ryhorn that were 0 stars.

[@michaelgalindo6571]

Been hunting this as well. You got super lucky. Haven’t even encountered even 1 yet

[@unwono]

pretty sure you are going to need an elite tm to get the correct charged move for rhyperior which is why I'm personally looking for a shadow rampardos

[@petomunk9321]

0 ramp, 0 ryhorn. Ofc daughter was lucky again.

[@metalguard4]

@@unwono rock wrecker acquired :).

[@miguel_7515]

What's the CP of it ? I had one that was 563 but it ran away, I got another one but was much lower so it was a 0*

[@marks2791]

So glad for this updated video

[@cellophanezombie5621]

Thanks as always for this type of content

Great video man! Appreciate the help you give us.

[@bobhoskins11]

Great video, thanks very much for the time & effort making this :)

[@jonniedarko5542]

This style was very nice to watch. Love it. Happy Halloween 👻🎃

[@spimgamofexe]

So usefull thanks 👍

[@jamesashby7977]

Very helpful video

[@gingerr8015]

Very helpful for newer players, thanks!

[@savyfrancis5690]

Thanks 🙏🏽 for explaining the process, i was level 29 and I just starting to play again this past May this year now level 39 most of my poke guys are low on CP 😢 thanks again for your time to make the this video

[@oneonone8855]

I would highly recommend to watch Poke Daxi's top attacker's tier lists aswell. He's made list with more options to use that are still good that this guy has not listed.

[@TheFunGuyJustin]

great video

[@thefurbyman]

Just noticed I got a shadow 15/14/13 ralts, which of course I evolved and gave it a second charge move literally right away. Now as soon as I get it to great friends imma bring it to lvl 50 once I get the candy of course 🙃

[@drakejun4907]

Ayo good video

[@knoxville363]

Great video count

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Thanks!

[@Weav576]

Shadow chomp, shadow swine ans shadow rhy for ground as well

[@duncanmeatbreak1724]

Hi Count! Will you do a video on the new Wayfarer review interface and onboarding system. It is actually excellent now. I’m still not overly keen on giving Niantic free labor to build their business with, but taking it by itself, it takes use of wayfarer as far forward as PoGo has gone backwards.

[@Weav576]

Shadow ans Mega Tyranitar are #1 & #2 of dark types, both have nesrly identical dps but what puts mega Tyranitar at #1 is at the same time of having almost identical dps as thr shadow, it also has higher bulk and tdo, thus it is able to dish out the just about the same dps, but for a longer period of time ans that is what pushes its ER value a bit higher. But nonetheless shadow Tyranitar is still reall good at #2. Shadow Tyranitar has an ER of 48 and Mega has an ER of about 53-54 as far as dark type damage

[@573semobulls3]

I have a 3* shadow granbull with charm and play rough , I have a 3* magnetic but I never used him going to start also have a 3* shadow Hitmonlee

[@krushking643]

After seeing this I've got to tm "confusion" and "psystrike" on my Kyogre to get in the top water dps 😂 jk. But this is a great video and very informative.

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

😆😆

[@Blaze-ut5vl]

You an me both lol.

[@courraffe]

Are you going to talk about the Rare candy and Rare candy XL bonus next video from the halloween event because its near impossible to get a single rare candy from costume pokemon

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Yup. Such bs

[@Weav576]

For fire types both Mega Blaziken qnd Mega Charizard Y are tied as its good to have both maxed, as each will have a niche that each will do slightly better in depending on their resistances from their different secondary typing, flying for zard and fighting for Blaze. Theh both have a nearly identical ER value as Blaze has slightly higher dps but zard has slightly higher tdo and thus their overall performance is just about equal, as both are the #1 fire mega

[@Weav576]

As I have a maxed out hundo zard and about t9 max my hundo blaziken so I can have both depending on which does better when it comes to raid bosses weak to fire as each will do better against certain raid bosses depending on the moves they have

[@Weav576]

M Blaze is best against ice ans steel types for it can use its best moveset which is counter ans blastburn since those 2 types are weak to both fire and steel, ans M Blaze best moveset is its dual moveset. Then for bug and grass generally speaking Mega Zard Y wirh fire spin and blast burn and since it being fire and flying it double or more resists grass ans bug

[@john_titor1]

Yeah, this video is kinda confusing, and I think, just flat out wrong in some instances, like with the "best fire type DPS" being reshiram. Mega blaziken and mega charizard Y, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Chandelure, and Shadow moltres all have higher DPS. And mega charizard Y has higher everything.

[@3abbosi]

@@john_titor1 IMHO, the reshiram comes with a very unique speacial charged attack (FF), however... a charged attack is only as good as how fast it can be ready, in other words it has to be coupled with a fast attack that generates good energy. Groudon for one has precipice blades which actually takes more energy than fusion flare, however what makes Grodon good is mud shot which can get the blades ready in a snap, so IMHO what reshiram needs is a good fast attack made available.

[@AJ.Hernandez]

What's that third Pokémon in Best F2P for dragon type?... sorry I'm new to Pokémon in general 😅

[@TreFKennedy]

Dope vid Count, Zekrom is the best electric and dragon legendary Pokémon , don’t @ me

[@Angel4heaven]

Best dragon will always be rayquaza. Zekrom couldn't touch ray

[@courraffe]

*Rayquaza left the chat*

[@TreFKennedy]

@@Angel4heaven black Kyruem smoking on that Mega Rayquaza pack

[@Angel4heaven]

@@TreFKennedy you wish rayquaza better than any other dragon especially mega

[@TreFKennedy]

@@Angel4heaven black Kyurem is an Ice and Dragon, Mega Rayquaza is 2X weak to ice and Black Kyurem is a permanent form as opposed to an 8 hour mega transformation

[@baeleth7953]

I just wanna say DPS doesn't always mean the best. You should do a list on TDO instead because some of these pokemon won't stay out long. I will also say imma call cap on mega Tyranitar being the best rock mega while it's easily being Diancie

[@oneonone8855]

yep that cap. Diancie is better. And Aerodactyl is even better as he's a part Flying that will boost XL candies to drop from party flying type Pokemon as Ho-Oh, Lugia, Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno.

[@MihiLos]

Hey Count, what about shadow kyogre?

[@jeremiasdelnegro9036]

Hey! nice content!. I'm a beginner and i was Wondering about Zacian in the Fairy Type. He isn't even in the picture. I thought he was the best of the type and his stats are crazy. It's because of his move set? I thought he was way better than Xerneas. And the same with Darkrai in dark type, I expended all my raid passess expecting that a singular pokemon was best, but some very common pokemon ar better. 😢 Am I correct?

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Movesets are the reason. Xerneas had Geomancy, which generates energy much faster

[@jeremiasdelnegro9036]

@@CountJinsulaOfficial Thanks for the feedback!

[@jeroenvandersijde5345]

When will you consider to max out/power up a top tier shadow mon? For example: is it worth to maxout an 12/10/7 shadow Excadrill?

[@livelikelarry0017]

For me personally, and I consider myself to be a pretty experienced pokemon go player, I would say anything 3* and above is worth it and maybe in some cases a fringe 2* with high attack I will build if its a rare enough shadow. For instance I got only one shadow cranidos from this rocket event and it was a 13/7/7. I made it anyway because I knew I wouldn’t get another one without frustration for a long while and I can deal with the fear of missing out if I get a better one in the future. The stats really dont change too much in reality theres only a 7% damage output difference in raids and gyms for the 0/0/0 and 15/15/15 for any given pokemon

[@livelikelarry0017]

Another sidenote is that if you are planning on using said shadow pokemon for pvp I would suggest being a bit more stingy on getting better IVs as the bulk does come into play more often and sometimes CMP ties (Charged move priority where if you throw a move as the same time as the opponent with the same pokemon as the opponent the pokemon with the higher attack will throw their move first) can win you games.

[@oneonone8855]

@@livelikelarry0017 this is very great explination.

[@Hokie200proof]

Commenting so I can bookmark. Just started the game with my son we got none of these. Good to know now who to prioritize and who to invest in

[@ismeJC]

someone get that shundo gengar an elite charged tm for lick, stat!

[@Weav576]

Mega beedrill is thr top poison mega for it has a full posion moveset with high attack stat

[@Weav576]

Ans has highest poison dps wirh poison jab ans sludge bomb

[@Weav576]

Mega Gengar and Mega venu are good as well but not #1 poison Mega, like Mega Beedrill for having a full set and highest poison dps

[@bronxxneho]

Which app do you use for naming your Pokemon? Specifically the crown in the name

[@oneonone8855]

Poke Geni

[@Weav576]

Shadow venu, and shadow torterra are similar to shadow tangrowth as grass attackers and shadow sceptile as well and zarude is the best non shadow non mega

[@Weav576]

*besides Kartana non ultra beast non shadow no mega for zarudw

[@filipdz7163]

I like kyogre with confiusion and psystrike

[@zaion8917]

15:06 Ultra-Necrozma will probably annihilate Mewtwo and its megas like the primals

[@-Khepri]

Did you ever play castle clash back in the day you look so familiar

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Yes

[@javierheng5426]

16:50 lol confusion and psystrike kyogre? haha Also, shouldnt mega diancie be the strongest rock instead of mega ttar?

[@oneonone8855]

yeah, Tyranitar will last longer on the field. Though i would recommend Mega Aerodactyl due to many Pokemon are part flying type and there for getting the boosted candies and XL candies when catching Pokemon that shares a typing with the Mega evolved Pokmon.

[@momomo3809]

Sry I'm very mew to pogo but why is shadow excadrill better than shadow gorchamp for ground?

[@sebastienmorningstern6838]

Should I power up my darkrai because I started in June and missed all the ttar and shadow ttar stuff

[@3abbosi]

Will not pretend to be an expert, been playing for 1 year, luckily have 2 hundo ttars, got them on ttar comm day on Jan this year :D no shadows & not enough to mega them! been using them as rock not dark in raids. I'm not surprised that he did not mention darkrai in this video as (IMHO) it lacks a good move set... but I was expecting to see guzzlord as dark top mon.

[@john_titor1]

This video is kinda confusing, and I think, just flat out wrong in some instances, like with the "best fire type DPS" being reshiram. Mega blaziken, mega charizard Y, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Chandelure, and Shadow moltres all have higher DPS. And mega charizard Y has higher everything. I'm a new player, so i could easily be missing something, but at the very least, that's what the gamepress dps spreadsheet says.

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Where it says "Top DPS", it is referring to what the best non-Mega Pokémpn is the best Attacker. For Fire, the top three overall is Mega Blaziken, then Mega Charizard Y, then Reshiram. But I didn't necessarily include both Mega Blaziken and Mega Charizard Y. I just mentioned the better out of the two so players who are watching this can just invest in one of them. Also It's not just raw DPS, but TDO is factored in as well. Otherwise, technically Deoxys Attack Form is better than Mewtwo, but it has the bulk of paper so no one ever uses it.

[@john_titor1]

@@CountJinsulaOfficial Gotcha, thanks for clearing that up!

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Great video, I wish there was an explanation of CP in raids. What is too low and what is good. I feel like I must have 2-3 3000-3300 CP Pokémon of that weaken raid bosses. As a new player this year this is mildly infuriating.

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

It's part of the grind my friend. When you finally get one of the good ones, you have to farm up the trash for the Stardust to power them up.

[@TyphoonBlizzard]

CP is largely irellivent. Its just a calculation of stats. But stats arent the whole picture. Levels and movesets mayter much more. Blaziken might be king, but if its 20 levels under its competitors or does not have blast burn it falls way behind. Level 40 is max for most players. Level 50 for players above 31. Raid bosses are caught at level 20 or 25 in weather boost for reference. CP is just a representation of TV at pokemons base stats, current level, and ivs combined. Plenty pf pokemon are trash with high cp like slacking. You need to find which Pokemon you can easily boost the highest.

[@ashley-paul]

CP is not as important as having the right typings, moveset, and levels. I promise that a 2500+ CP Greninja is doing way more damage than a 3000+ CP Gyarados. Generally, you want multiple raid attackers at Lvl 30+ before you start maxing them. Quick way to check is look at how much it takes to power up the Pokémon. if it reads at least 4 candy 5000 stardust, it's Lvl 29+. At that point, it's probably good enough. I usually power up my attackers to the exact point where it starts taking 6 candy per power up, and that takes me to Lvl 31.

[@MrWhitmen1981]

@@ashley-paul for example is better to have a one strong 3300+ cp Pokémon or 4 2000-2500cp Pokémon Of the same? This isn’t explained well.

[@oneonone8855]

You know your stuff, great to hear! @@TyphoonBlizzard

[@zaion8917]

7:16 Shadow Chandelure is as good as Reshiram or better with dodging.

[@zaion8917]

You forgot for Ghost types too while it's the best in the game 💀

[@christopherlawyer4214]

Um, shadow chandelure changed the power balance for both fire types and ghost types....

[@Grimmy85]

I've never run Bite on my Ttar. I always use Smack Down as the fast move. I'm personally not a fan of bite

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

The good news is that Smack Down generates a lot of energy so it can still be useful with Brutal Swing.

[@Grimmy85]

​@CountJinsulaOfficial this is true. I noticed that when I battle gyms or use it for Team Rocket grunts and leaders

[@oneonone8855]

Bite is superior as a Dark attacker. Smack Down make you weaker. @@Grimmy85

[@Grimmy85]

@oneonone8855 i prefer Smack Down. Does more damage for me. I hate bite on any mon. Unless I'm playing the actual series games. Bite for Pogo is very dookie for me. Non of my mons that can learn bite have bite as fast move. I've been using my 2 hundos with smack down for Tr n gym battles. Smack down runs things. But nice try to get me to use a move I dislike for pogo

[@mr-fh2be]

Just happy that mega's are not allowed in Master. The GBL is messed up enough.

[@sebastienmorningstern6838]

I have a rank 2 blastoise for UL that I haven't powered up cuz the mega brings it right under 2.5k I hope they bring back the mega meta sometime

[@jacksonmacali9482]

Kyogre gets psystrike omg broken

[@edg810]

Only one pokemon can take the throne away from Mewtwo and that is of course... Mega Mewtwo XD

[@zaion8917]

Ultra Necrozma ?

[@doritofan1002]

The answer for 2 of the 18 types is medicham

[@KingofKirb]

16:41 no way water type psystrike and water type confusion on kyogre

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Oops lol

[@mareczuczek]

What do you think about using Mega Gardevoir as an ice attacker? Charm + triple axel can deal a lot of dmg

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

Would be interesting for sure, and it could definitely work. But Mega Glalie is tried and true.

[@mareczuczek]

@@CountJinsulaOfficial I did some calculations on pokebattler because I need to prepare for Garchomp duos and decent Gardevoir should do decent job

[@mareczuczek]

Also Mew2 with Ice beam

[@ashley-paul]

My feeling is that with a Pokebattler rating of 1.17, Mega Garchomp should be a really easy duo and not worth overthinking. While Mega Gardevoir with Charm + Triple Axel looks good for this particular raid, I would personally use a Dragon mega instead of a Fairy mega. If you match types with the raid boss, you will receive more XP and XL candy, and Dragon type megas will do super effective damage against Garchomp while also increasing your XL chances. Both Mega Rayquaza and Mega Salamence should perform well in that aspect.

[@mareczuczek]

@@ashley-paul true, should be easy as you say. I was ale to Duo 5* darkrai with 1.8 rating so 4* should be piece od cake. I Dont have any mega drago but I have 45lvl Gardevoir that I can use

[@dominic8972]

is ampharous really a worse mega than manetric

[@oneonone8855]

It last longer due to it's stats, and part Dragon type makes it resist Water moves. But you will take more damage if the Kyogre has Blizzard. More like one-hit KO.

[@eugeneclyne]

what about shadow chandelure?

[@oneonone8855]

Very very good option.

[@zaion8917]

He forgot it, best DPS for both Ghost and Fire

[@gregwuh]

Sorry, what does F2P mean? (Thank you in advance)

[@eastbayej]

Free to play? Idk, I'm high

[@user-cy3pq6wz7k]

First😊

[@Dapokemonguy]

What about zacian as a fairy

[@oneonone8855]

There are better options, Zacian can't learn a fast Fairy move which throws it down the list by a lot.

[@3abbosi]

I used to have couple of zacians & couple of zamazentas, I transfered them one by one as I ran out of storage space especially after I got couple of xerneas & coballions. IMO a fairy with no fairy move & fighter with no fighter move is pointless. If they want to make zacian a true legend they should give it geomancy.

[@paulvizcarra7041]

As someone who could care less for pvp, these are the videos I instantly click on.

[@oneonone8855]

Poke Daxi has made a great video, though it's very outdated now due to amount of new Pokemon and new moves given to certain Pokemon.

[@SYNDICATE_POTG]

15:38 Mega diancie is better

[@49storyabortion58]

Ur tellin me tyranitar n hydregion are better then darkrai

[@wuhanbatman3889]

So Mega charizard aint a good fire type?

[@oneonone8855]

Mega Charizard Y is #1 Fire attacker if it has Blast Burn. It's a community Day Exclusive move.

[@RandolphCarter_Randy.C]

Volcarona F2P lol

[@GorillaField]

Shadow garchomp is better than shadow excadrill I really don’t get why people keep arguing this

[@CountJinsulaOfficial]

In terms of raw DPS, totally false. Even Shadow HH Mamoswine outranks it

[@GorillaField]

In terms of overall dps you are completely right but your ignoring garchomps massively better tdo and resistances which make it far better than both mamo and exca

[@oneonone8855]

@@GorillaField And Garchomp is a part Dragon which makes it reists Fire moves, as therefor can also be used as a Fire attacker and not worry about Flame Charge one-hit KO. Unlike Mamo and Excadril lthat is weak to them. There's just a lot more information and things to think about doing these lists, it's not hard to do this additional work and mention this. I would take this KZbinr life above my 7-16 work life anyday.