Pokémon Go Mega Sableye: best counters to win the raid

How to win against Mega Sableye in Pokémon Go

Marco Wutz | Jun 28, 2023

Pokémon Go Mega Sableye: best counters to win the raid /

Mega Sableye is coming to Pokémon Go on June 29, 2023, as the newest mega evolution. Since you require Sableye Mega Energy to evolve one of your own specimens into Mega Sableye, you’ll first need to participate in mega raids to farm enough of this resource before you can reap the benefits of having this powerful companion by your side.

Mega Sableye is a Dark- and Ghost-type Pokémon, which leaves it with only a single weakness: Fairy-type attacks. That makes picking your counters relatively simple. However, there are some fairly good options that deal neutral damage to it as well, which can help bolster your team just in case you don’t have enough fairies sitting around in your storage.

Pokémon Go: best Mega Sableye raid counters

Here are the best raid counters to Mega Sableye:

Mega Gardevoir (Charm, Dazzling Gleam)
Xurkitree (Thunder Shock, Dazzling Gleam)
Primal Kyogre (Waterfall, Origin Pulse)
Zacian (Hero Forme) (Snarl, Play Rough)
Mega Alakazam (Psycho Cut, Dazzling Gleam)
Togekiss (Charm, Dazzling Gleam)
Gardevoir (Charm, Dazzling Gleam)
Primal Groudon (Mud Shot, Precipice Blades)
Mega Sceptile (Fury Cutter, Frenzy Plant)
Tapu Koko (Volt Switch, Dazzling Gleam)
Mega Blaziken (Fire Spin, Blast Burn)
Mega Tyranitar (Bite, Brutal Swing)
Primarina (Charm, Moonblast)
Sylveon (Charm, Dazzling Gleam)
Tapu Bulu (Bullet Seed, Dazzling Gleam)

We excluded Shadow Pokémon from the list, as they are more difficult and expensive to build and go down more often in battles, requiring even more resources.

Mega Sableye can field the moves Shadow Claw (Ghost) or Feint Attack (Dark) as Fast Attacks and Shadow Sneak (Ghost), Foul Play (Dark), or Power Gem (Rock) as Charged Attacks.

You should be able to defeat Mega Sableye with one raid partner if all of your Pokémon are at least on level 40. A quicker finish will guarantee more rewards, though, so it’s always better to have additional trainers at your side when going into a battle.

Published Jun 28, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg