Heracross #0214

BugFighting

Max CP	L403101L503506L51 · Best Buddy3548
Buddy Distance	3 km per Candy
Released	Feb 16, 2017Aug 6, 2021

Type Effectiveness

Heracross takes 256% from Flying, and 160% from Fire, Psychic and Fairy moves.

Weak ×2.6

Flying

Weak ×1.6

FirePsychicFairy

Resists ×0.6

GrassFightingGroundBugDark

Heracross is a Bug/Fighting-type Pokémon in Pokémon GO, doubly weak to Flying and weak to Fire, Psychic and Fairy.

It reaches 3506 CP at level 50, or 3548 as a Best Buddy.

Its best raid moveset is Counter with Megahorn.

Base Stats

Attack234

Defense179

Stamina190

Not main-series base stats. Bars scale to 450 / 450 / 500.

Best Movesets

#	Fast Move	Charged Move	DPS	TDO
	FightingCounter	BugMegahorn	12.5	231
2	BugFury Cutter	BugMegahorn	12.5	231
3	FightingCounter	FightingClose Combat	12.1	224
4	FightingCounter	FightingUpper Hand	12.0	222
5	FightingCounter	GroundEarthquake	11.8	219
6	BugFury Cutter	FightingClose Combat	11.8	218
7	BugFury Cutter	FightingUpper Hand	11.6	214
8	BugFury Cutter	GroundEarthquake	11.4	211

10 More Pairings

#	Fast Move	Charged Move	DPS	TDO
9	FightingCounter	RockRock Blast	11.0	204
10	BugStruggle Bug	FightingUpper Hand	10.8	199
11	BugStruggle Bug	BugMegahorn	10.7	198
12	BugStruggle Bug	FightingClose Combat	10.3	191
13	BugFury Cutter	RockRock Blast	10.2	190
14	FightingCounter	RockRock Tomb	10.1	188
15	BugStruggle Bug	GroundEarthquake	10.1	188
16	BugStruggle Bug	RockRock Blast	9.7	180
17	BugFury Cutter	RockRock Tomb	9.1	168
18	BugStruggle Bug	RockRock Tomb	8.8	163

Raid damage at level 40, 15/15/15 IVs, no weather boost.

DPS is damage per second, TDO total damage before fainting. For one boss, see the raid counters.

Moves

Fast Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Time	DPS	EPS
Counter	Fighting	13	9	1.0s	13.0	9.0
Struggle Bug	Bug	15	15	1.5s	10.0	10.0
Fury Cutter	Bug	4	8	0.5s	8.0	16.0

Charged Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Time	DPS	DPE
Megahorn	Bug	105	100	2.0s	52.5	1.05
Close Combat	Fighting	105	100	2.5s	42.0	1.05
Earthquake	Ground	140	100	3.5s	40.0	1.40
Rock Blast	Rock	50	33	2.0s	25.0	1.52
Upper Hand	Fighting	50	33	2.0s	25.0	1.52
Rock Tomb	Rock	65	50	3.0s	21.7	1.30

Fast Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	Turns	DPT	EPT
Counter	Fighting	8	6	2	4.0	3.0
Struggle Bug	Bug	9	8	3	3.0	2.7
Fury Cutter	Bug	3	4	1	3.0	4.0

Charged Moves

Move	Type	Power	Energy	DPE
Close Combat	Fighting	100	45	2.22
Megahorn	Bug	110	55	2.00
Earthquake	Ground	120	65	1.85
Upper Hand	Fighting	70	40	1.75
Rock Blast	Rock	50	40	1.25
Rock Tomb	Rock	75	50	1.50

DPS damage per second · EPS energy per second · DPE damage per energy.

Top Counters

Full Rankings

As a Tier 5 raid boss. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather boost.

1Mega RayquazaFlyingAir SlashFlyingDragon AscentK71.7 eDPS
2Mega StaraptorFlyingGustEFlyingBrave Bird+56.0 eDPS
3Shadow MoltresFlyingWing AttackFlyingFly52.4 eDPS
4Shadow ToucannonFlyingPeckFlyingBeak BlastE51.5 eDPS
5Mega SkarmoryFlyingAir SlashFlyingDrill Peck+50.9 eDPS
6Shadow SalamenceFireFire FangFlyingFly48.5 eDPS

See Full Rankings

Worth Powering Up?

Not stronger than the everyday pick against any Tier 5 or Mega boss.

The everyday pick is the best attacker that isn’t a Mega, Shadow or Legendary. Each number is how much more of the boss’s health this Pokémon takes off than that pick would. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather boost.

CP by Level

Encounter	Level	Guaranteed CP	Max CP
Research	15	126910/10/10	132915/15/15
Raids & Eggs	20	169310/10/10	177215/15/15
Weather-Boosted Raids	25	211610/10/10	221515/15/15
L40	40	26950/0/0	310115/15/15
L50	50	30470/0/0	350615/15/15
L51 · Best Buddy	51	30830/0/0	354815/15/15

All Power-Up Levels (L15–L51)

Level	15/15/15	0/0/0
Level 15	1329	1155
Level 20	1772	1540
Level 25	2215	1925
Level 30	2658	2310
Level 35	2879	2502
Level 40	3101	2695
Level 45	3300	2868
Level 50	3506	3047
Level 51	3548	3083

Research, raid and egg catches have at least 10/10/10 IVs. A wild catch can be as low as 0/0/0.

L40 is the cap without XL Candy, L50 with it. L51 is Best Buddy only.

Dex Details

Second Charged Move	50 Candy · 50,000 Stardust
Height / Weight	1.5 m · 54 kg
Gender Ratio	50.0%50.0%
Trading	TradableTransferable

Abilities, EVs, breeding and learnsets: Heracross in the RotomLabs Pokédex

PvP IV Spreads

Great League

1500 CP Cap

Best IVs0/15/151498 CP at level 18

Rank	IVs	CP	Level	% of Best
#1	0/15/15	1498	18	100.00%
#2	1/15/13	1497	18	99.56%
#3	0/14/15	1495	18	99.48%
#4	2/14/13	1500	18	99.46%
#5	1/13/15	1497	18	99.39%
#6	2/12/15	1500	18	99.29%
#7	0/15/13	1491	18	99.13%
#8	0/15/14	1495	18	99.13%
#9	2/15/12	1500	18	99.11%
#10	1/14/13	1494	18	99.04%

A 15/15/15 ranks #3033 of 4,096, with 93.34% of the best stat product.

Great League Rankings on PvPoke

Ultra League

2500 CP Cap

Best IVs0/14/132500 CP at level 30.5

Rank	IVs	CP	Level	% of Best
#1	0/14/13	2500	30.5	100.00%
#2	0/15/12	2500	30.5	99.84%
#3	0/15/14	2492	30	99.68%
#4	0/15/15	2498	30	99.68%
#5	0/12/15	2499	30.5	99.62%
#6	1/14/14	2496	30	99.59%
#7	0/9/15	2500	31	99.53%
#8	2/13/14	2500	30	99.50%
#9	0/13/13	2493	30.5	99.48%
#10	0/13/14	2500	30.5	99.48%

A 15/15/15 ranks #2252 of 4,096, with 95.68% of the best stat product.

Ultra League Rankings on PvPoke

Ranked by stat product at the highest level under the CP cap.

Trades and research have at least 10 in each IV, lucky trades 12. Check your own. This ranks IVs only. For the meta, see PvPoke.

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Heracross #0214

Type Effectiveness

Base Stats

Best Movesets

Moves

Fast Moves

Charged Moves

Fast Moves

Charged Moves

Top Counters

Worth Powering Up?

CP by Level

Dex Details

PvP IV Spreads

Great League

Ultra League