Best Water counters
Use these mons to break Water-type raid bosses and gym defenders. Each section is grouped by the attacker's type — pick whichever type your team has built up.
×1.6 damage from the listed attacker types (more if defender is dual-type and stacks with a second weakness).
Top Electric legendary
Top Electric mega
Top Electric shadow
Electric/Flying shadow
Elite pure Electric DPS
Reliable Electric
Top Grass mega
Strong Grass/Poison mega
Top non-mega Grass
Strong Grass shadow
Grass/Fighting glass cannon
Grass/Ground shadow
The inverse question — the strongest Water-type attackers, ranked S/A/B with movesets.
Select an actual raid boss to see counters scored by tier × effectiveness.
See everything Water resists / takes SE from across all 18 types.
Compare DPT / EPT / DPE on every fast and charged move.