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Ariados counters

#0168

bug poisonTier 1

Lobby CP

5,082

Attack

105

Defense

600

Raid timer

3 min

180s

Caught CP range 953 - 1,012.

Raid tierTier 3Tier 1Tier 5 Elite Full counter tool (weather, friendship, dodge, Shadow / Mega / Legendary) →

Ariados weaknesses and resistances

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this boss's typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 2.56x doubly, 0.625x resisted, 0.39x doubly resisted.

Ariados is weak to flying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6x

flying1.6x rock1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x normal1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x poison0.63x bug0.63x fairy0.63x fighting0.39x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fighting0.39xgrass0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

Best Ariados counters

One trainer with counters this good beats Ariados alone. Difficulty rating 0.07 with the best counter, 0:12 to win.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Cinderacefirejoint top pick	fireFire SpinfirePyroball	3,018	0:12	0.07	3533.0%
2	Staraptornormalflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	2,825	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
3	Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:14	0.08	3159.2%
4	Glimmorarockpoison	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,273	0:14	0.08	3177.6%
5	Braviarynormalflying	flyingAir SlashflyingBrave Bird	3,088	0:14	0.08	3219.8%
6	Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:14	0.08	3070.2%
7	Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:14	0.08	3205.6%
8	Volcaronabugfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,632	0:14	0.08	3014.9%
9	Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight	3,057	0:12	0.07	3515.9%
10	Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:14	0.08	3027.5%
11	Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinflyingBrave Bird	2,848	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
12	Hisuian Typhlosionfireghost	fireEmberfireOverheat	2,994	0:14	0.08	3114.0%

Ordered by Overall, pokebattler.com's own default — a blend of how fast the fight ends and how many of your six go down. Click any numeric column heading to re-order on that column alone.

Times are one trainer with six copies of that attacker, level 40 at 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging, Shadow / Mega / Legendary attackers hidden — the same defaults pokebattler.com's own counter pages open with. Open the full counter tool to change any of them. "Details" opens the per-move damage, breakpoints and energy cycle against Ariados.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Ariados's HP that six of that attacker remove inside one raid timer, so over 100% means they finish it with time to spare. Faints is how many of the six go down inside that timer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The boss rolls one of these 12 pairings, and it changes the fight. Each row re-runs the top 6 counters against that single moveset.

#	Boss moveset	Time to win	Estimator	Win %
1	bugInfestation+grassTrailblazehardest	0:14	0.08	100%
2	poisonPoison Sting+bugMegahorn	0:14	0.08	100%
3	poisonPoison Sting+grassTrailblaze	0:14	0.08	100%
4	poisonPoison Sting+bugLunge	0:14	0.08	100%
5	poisonPoison Sting+ghostShadow Sneak	0:14	0.08	100%
6	bugInfestation+bugLunge	0:14	0.08	100%
7	bugInfestation+darkFoul Play	0:13	0.08	100%
8	bugInfestation+ghostShadow Sneak	0:13	0.08	100%
9	poisonPoison Sting+darkFoul Play	0:13	0.07	100%
10	bugInfestation+bugMegahorn	0:13	0.07	100%
11	bugInfestation+poisonCross Poison	0:13	0.07	100%
12	poisonPoison Sting+poisonCross Poison	0:13	0.07	100%

A raid boss rolls only its standard movepool — never a legacy or Elite TM move, verified against Pokebattler's own per-moveset list for six reference bosses. The ranked table above averages over all of these, which is what Pokebattler's DEFENSE_RANDOM_MC means.

What Ariados throws at you

Its standard movepool, with the damage window a dodge has to beat.

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugInfestationSTAB	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugMegahornSTAB	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
darkFoul Play	70	-50	2.0s	1.70s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
poisonCross PoisonSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.90s
bugLungeSTAB	55	-33	3.0s	2.50s
ghostShadow Sneak	50	-33	3.0s	2.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	953	1,191
11/11/11	964	1,206
12/12/12	976	1,220
13/13/13	988	1,235
14/14/14	1,000	1,250
15/15/15hundo	1,012	1,265

Caught CP range 953 - 1,012, or 1,191 - 1,265 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

Read from the committed LeekDuck rotation snapshot, fetched 2026-10-05.

Ariados is not in the current rotation snapshot. The simulation below is still exact for the tier chosen above — Pokebattler simulates any defender you name, current boss or not.

Boss stats

How the numbers in the header are built.

Base Attack

161

Game Master

Base Defense

124

Game Master

Base Stamina

172

ignored by a raid boss

Tier CPM

0.5974

600 fixed HP

Header number	Worked out	Value	Inputs from
Attack	floor((161 + 15) x 0.5974)	105	Game Master base Attack, tier CPM
Defense	floor((124 + 15) x 0.5974)	83	Game Master base Defense, tier CPM
HP	600 — fixed by tier, base Stamina 172 unused	600	tier HP pool
Lobby CP	floor((161 + 15) x sqrt(124 + 15) x sqrt(600) / 10) — no CPM term	5,082	Game Master base stats, tier HP pool

A raid boss uses 15/15/15 IVs, its tier's CP multiplier and its tier's fixed HP pool — stamina does nothing, which is why the same species is a different fight at every tier. Every tier constant above (CPM 0.5974, 600 HP, 180s timer) is copied from Pokebattler's own published /raids tier table into src/engine/constants.ts, with the source named there.

Ariados's own Pokemon page has its full movepool, evolution family, stat ranks and what it is good against as an attacker.