Pokemon Go will have you facing off against challenging raid Pokemon throughout your journey outdoors. If one of these is Scyther, you are going to need to have some strong teammates available to you, because they can be a difficult fight if you don’t have the right setup available. If you are getting ready to battle a Scyther, we’ll walk you through the best counters and all of its weaknesses in this guide!
Scyther Weakness & Counters
Scyther is a Bug and Flying-type Pokemon, which means it has a weakness to Electric, Fire, Flying, and Ice. In particular, it is the weakest to Rock-type moves, which do 4x damage to the Pokemon.
If your team isn’t full when battling against Scyther, you will want to avoid Pokemon with Ground, Fighting, Grass, and Bug-type moves. Scyther is resistant to all of these, in particular Ground-type moves, which it is significantly strong against.
Scyther Counters
The best counters for Scyther are Pokemon that have strong Rock-type moves while being resistant to the attacks that the Pokemon will fire off at you. This includes Pokemon like Rampardos, Rhyperior, Terrakion, Tyranitar, Aerodactyl, Gigalith, Archeops, Omastar, and many others!
Here’s an extended list of the Pokemon you can use with the best moves that they have available to them for the fight. You don’t have to have the exact moveset, but make sure you have the right type of moves to take advantage of Scyther’s weaknesses.
- Rampardos – Smack Down/Rock Slide
- Rhyperior – Smack Down/Rock Wrecker
- Terrakion – Smack Down/Rock Slide
- Tyranitar – Smack Down/Stone Edge
- Aerodactyl – Rock Throw/Rock Slide
- Gigalith – Smack Down/Rock Slide
- Archeops – Wing Attack/Ancient Power
- Omastar – Rock Throw/Rock Slide
- Golem – Rock Throw/Stone Edge
- Darmanitan – Fire Fang/Rock Slide
- Aggron – Smack Down/Stone Edge
- Lunatone – Rock Throw/Rock Slide
- Solrock – Rock Throw/Rock Slide
- Regirock – Rock Throw/Stone Edge
- Crustle – Smack Down/Rock Slide
If you’re running out of Pokemon to use for your team, you can throw anything that has strong Electric, Fire, Flying, or Ice-type moves on the list. These will do fine against Scyther, they just don’t take full advantage of their weakness!
Those are all of the weaknesses and best counters for Scyther in Pokemon Go. We have more detailed guides for you to checkout in the Pokemon Go section of our website.
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