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Zamazenta Raid Counters Guide (Hero of Many Battles)

On May 29, 2025 7:44 am, by NuclearCoffee

The Hero of Many Battles Zamazenta is a Tier 5 legendary raid boss in Pokémon GO and it can be shiny! Zamazenta, along with Zacian, is among the two cover legendaries of the Pokémon Sword and Shield games.

The Hero of Many Battles form of Zamazenta can be form changed into the Crowned Shield form of Zamazenta.

With pure Fighting typing, Zamazenta is boosted by Cloudy weather and its counters include strong Psychic, Flying, and Fairy type Pokémon. With strong counters, Zamazenta can possibly be duo’d in ideal weather conditions and high-level counters. But to be safe, 4-5 high-level trainers can get the job done easily.

It can be caught with the following CP values:

2100 – 2188 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
2625 – 2735 CP at Level 25 with Cloudy weather boost

Let’s check out the best raid counters to make quick work of Zamazenta!

Zamazenta Raid Counters

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	DPS	Faints	TTW
1.	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	36.28	17	414s
2.	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike	31.73	26	473s
3.	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic	28.94	30	519s
4.	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	26.39	24	569s
5.	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike	26.63	26	564s
6.	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	27.42	30	548s
7.	Mega Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	26.24	27	572s
8.	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	25.89	27	580s
9.	Apex Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast+	23.38	19	642s
10.	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack	25.09	24	598s
11.	Crowned Sword Zacian	Air Slash	Play Rough	23.34	19	643s
12.	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail	Fly	24.10	23	623s
13.	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	22.82	20	658s
14.	Apex Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	22.82	20	658s
15.	Incarnate Enamorus	Fairy Wind	Fly	25.40	31	591s
16.	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	24.16	28	621s
17.	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast	21.83	20	688s
18.	Dusk Mane Necrozma	Psycho Cut	Sunsteel Strike	22.77	24	659s
19.	Shadow Salamence	Dragon Tail	Fly	25.54	38	588s
20.	Tapu Lele	Confusion	Nature’s Madness	23.53	29	638s
21.	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	22.56	25	665s
22.	Unbound Hoopa	Confusion	Psychic	24.82	36	605s
23.	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	24.81	38	605s
24.	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing	22.79	28	659s
25.	Dawn Wings Necrozma	Psycho Cut	Moongeist Beam	22.70	28	661s
26.	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock	Drill Peck	23.05	31	651s
27.	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	21.73	26	691s
28.	Shadow Staraptor	Gust	Fly	25.09	45	598s
29.	Mega Pidgeot	Gust	Brave Bird	22.94	34	654s
30.	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack	20.94	25	717s

Zamazenta: Stats and Max CP

Max CP at Level 40 3829 \| Max CP at Level 50 4329
Hero Zamazenta Fighting
ATK 254	DEF 236		HP 192
Weaknesses		Resistances
Psychic Flying Fairy		Bug Dark Rock

How to get the Crowned Shield form of Zamazenta

With enough Crowned Shield Energy, a Zamazenta that knows the Charged Attack Iron Head can be transformed to become a Crowned Shield Zamazenta. Trainers can transform Hero of Many Battles Zamazenta using 1,000 Crowned Shield Energy as long as it knows the Charged Attack Iron Head.

Pokémon	Requirement	Evolution
Zamazenta knows Iron Head	1000× Crowned Shield Energy	Crowned Shield Zamazenta

When Zamazenta becomes Crowned Shield Zamazenta, its Charged Attack Iron Head will change to the Charged Attack Behemoth Bash. Behemoth Bash is a Steel typed Charge Attack that is the Signature attack of Zamazenta.

Zamazenta Moveset Analysis

Fast Moves	Charge Moves
Metal Claw Steel Snarl Dark Ice Fang Ice Quick Attack Normal	Iron Head Steel Moonblast Fairy Close Combat Fighting Crunch Dark

Quick Attack is the easiest of the bunch. It won’t bother any of your counters.

Metal Claw is a good move and troubles your Fairy type counters. With neat damage and energy generation, and being largely unresisted by your counters, it is worth your attention.

Ice Fang does quite a number on your Flying types and is damaging enough. However, it has a 3-turn cooldown and can be used to sneak in your own charged attacks.

Snarl has high energy generation and is threatening in that regard. Plus, it deals super-effective damage to your Psychic types.

Moonblast hits hard but can be dodged to prolong your counters’ presence.

Iron Head does neat neutral damage to most of your counters.

Close Combat is a dangerous STAB move on Zamazenta and with that ATK stat of 254, it should be damaging. However, both Psychic and Flying types resist it. Yay!

Crunch hits very often and when paired with Snarl, is worrisome for your Psychic types.