"Rank of Feraligatr amongst the best ground, fire and rock counters"

#PokemonGO: When I made this post a few hours ago, I got some feedback saying I had only compared Feraligatr with other water types and I needed to simulate it with other types sharing type advantage.So I decided to do simulations against pure ground, rock and fire types to see how well hydro cannon Feraligatr performs. For simplicity, I haven't considered pokemon like hydro cannon Swampert that aren't available currently.​The following analysis is done on GoBattleSim by considering average of 1000 simulations of 6 units of maxed out attackers against various raid bosses, by using no dodging strategy. Neutral weather is considered where not mentioned.​1) Ground types:Fastest counters against tier 3 tackle / earthquake Donphan:AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsKyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump1182RoseradeRazor Leaf / Solar Beam1242WeavileIce Shard / Avalanche1273FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon1323GyaradosWaterfall / Hydro Pump1331VenusaurVine Whip / Frenzy Plant1383Fastest counters tier 2 mud shot / bulldoze Sandslash:AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsKyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump641WeavileIce Shard / Avalanche691GyaradosWaterfall / Hydro Pump700FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon701MewtwoConfusion / Ice Beam721RoseradeRazor Leaf / Solar Beam722SharpedoWaterfall / Hydro Pump723Points to note:Gary has advantage of double resistance to ground attacks.Sharpedo has a solid DPS, but fails to win consistently without dodging against bosses that hit hard.​2) Fire types:Fastest counters for tier 3 fire spin / overheat Ninetales:AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsKyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump1212FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon1342TyranitarSmack Down / Stone Edge1352GyaradosWaterfall / Hydro Pump1372RhyperiorSmack Down / Stone Edge1402GroudonMud Shot / Earthquake1453Fastest counters for tier 3 fire fang / fire blast Arcanine:​AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsKyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump1051FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon1162GyaradosWaterfall / Hydro Pump1172TyranitarSmack Down / Stone Edge1192RhyperiorSmack Down / Stone Edge1242SharpedoWaterfall / Hydro Pump1245 or 63) Rock types:Fastest counters against tier 2 rock throw / rock slide Sudowoodo:​AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsMetagrossBullet Punch / Meteor Mash560BreloomCounter / Dynamic Punch621KyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump641MachampCounter / Dynamic Punch641ToxicroakCounter / Dynamic Punch691FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon701BlazikenCounter / Focus Blast702Fastest counters against tier 2 rock throw / rock blast Nosepass:​AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsMetagrossBullet Punch / Meteor Mash690BreloomCounter / Dynamic Punch720KyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump730MachampCounter / Dynamic Punch780RoseradeRazor Leaf / Solar Beam801BlazikenCounter / Focus Blast811GroudonMud Shot / Solar Beam820LucarioCounter / Close Combat830ToxicroakCounter / Dynamic Punch840FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon841​Points to note:Gary has disadvantage against rock attacks.There is a lot of competition amongst counters to rock types.​​4) Against types that have double weakness to water:Fastest counters against tier 4 mud-slap / surf Rhydon in rain:AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsKyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump1553FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon1694GyaradosWaterfall / Hydro Pump1743Fastest counters against tier 3 tackle / stone edge Onix:AttackerMovesetTime to win in secondsNumber of deathsKyogreWaterfall / Hydro Pump890RoseradeRazor Leaf / Solar Beam971SharpedoWaterfall / Hydro Pump1022GyaradosWaterfall / Hydro Pump1031VenusaurVine Whip / Frenzy Plant1041FeraligatrWaterfall / Hydro Cannon1041​​Notes:For bosses that don't hit hard to attackers, a lot of counters that are in the middle start closing in to the top.Feraligatr performs quite well in most of the raid situations where it has type advantage.Against rock type bosses, there is a variety of options to choose from since steel, ground, fighting, grass are also super effective. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://bit.ly/2Rm2bRU