Barboach counters

#0339

water groundTier 1

Lobby CP

2,605

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.03

Pokebattler scale

Beating Barboach should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 427-468.

Weak tograss2.56x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type it is weak to

No boost Sunny or clear ★Rainy Partly cloudy Cloudy Windy Snow Fog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

None Good friend (+3%)Great friend (+5%)Ultra friend (+7%)Best friend (+10%)

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others

Try a Grass Mega — most top counters attack with Grass

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

Off 2 trainers 3 trainers 4 trainers

Adventure Effects

only these three change a raid

Behemoth Blade (+10% attack)Behemoth Bash (+10% defense)Dynamic Punch+ (+15% attack vs Mega)

Of the game's eleven Adventure Effects only Behemoth Blade (Crowned Sword Zacian), Behemoth Bash (Crowned Shield Zamazenta) and Dynamic Punch+ (Mega Mewtwo X) change a raid; Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, Sunsteel Strike, Moongeist Beam, Future Sight+ and Dynamax Cannon act outside raids. Dynamic Punch+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Barboach counters are Mega Sceptile, Shadow Sceptile, Xurkitree, Tapu Bulu, Roserade & Breloom.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Sceptile
S. Sceptile
Xurkitree
Tapu Bulu
Roserade
Breloom

1 more Mega ranked inside the top six — a party can hold only one Mega, so the best one stays and the next non-Mega takes the slot.

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Mega SceptileMegapartyBullet Seed / Leaf Blade0.030:05
2Mega VictreebelMegaMagical Leaf / Leaf Blade0.030:05
3Shadow SceptileShadowpartyFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.030:06
4XurkitreeLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Power Whip0.040:06
5Tapu BuluLegendarypartyBullet Seed / Grass Knot0.040:06
6RoseradepartyBullet Seed / Grass Knot0.040:06
7BreloompartyBullet Seed / Grass Knot0.040:06
8SceptileBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.040:06
9Shadow CacturneShadowSucker Punch / Grass Knot0.040:07
10KartanaLegendaryAir Slash / Leaf Blade0.040:07

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersShadow Barboach

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Top 15 Barboach counters in detail

Click a row for damage per move, breakpoints and the energy cycle. Click a column to sort. All 30 ranked attackers, with every column, are under All settings.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Sceptilegrassdragonjoint top pick	grassBullet SeedgrassLeaf Blade	4,056	0:05	0.03	7928.3%
2	Mega Victreebelgrasspoisonjoint top pick	grassMagical LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,505	0:05	0.03	7928.3%
3	Shadow Sceptilegrass	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
4	Xurkitreeelectric	electricThunder ShockgrassPower Whip	3,937	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
5	Tapu Bulugrassfairy	grassBullet SeedgrassGrass Knot	3,419	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
6	Roseradegrasspoison	grassBullet SeedgrassGrass Knot	2,971	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
7	Breloomgrassfighting	grassBullet SeedgrassGrass Knot	2,628	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
8	Sceptilegrass	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
9	Shadow Cacturnegrassdark	darkSucker PunchgrassGrass Knot	2,298	0:07	0.04	6636.7%
10	Kartanagrasssteel	flyingAir SlashgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:07	0.04	6431.1%
11	Shaymin (Sky)grassflying	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	3,592	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
12	Shadow Victreebelgrasspoison	grassMagical LeafgrassLeaf Blade	2,431	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
13	Shaymin (Land)grass	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	3,265	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
14	Tsareenagrass	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	2,964	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
15	Shadow Meganiumgrass	grassMagical LeafgrassFrenzy Plant	2,410	0:07	0.04	6228.9%

Ordered by Estimator alone, fewest trainers needed first. . The place badge names each row's Overall place on hover.

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 Barboach.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Barboach'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.

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The same boss is a different fight depending on what it knows. Each row re-simulates the top 6 counters above against one specific moveset; the list is ordered hardest first, and clicking a row filters the whole page to that moveset — the ranking, the estimator and the share link all follow.

Boss moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	2322%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Water Gun / Aqua Tail	100%	2269%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Water Gun / Ice Beam	100%	2477%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Water Gun / Mud Bomb	100%	2219%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Water Gun / Scald	100%	2477%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Mud Shot / Aqua Tail	100%	2269%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Mud Shot / Ice Beam	100%	2477%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Mud Shot / Mud Bomb	100%	2219%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Mud Shot / Scald	100%	2477%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03

Measured over the top 6 attackers on the list above rather than by re-ranking the whole roster once per moveset — the ordering is what the table is for, and a full re-rank per moveset would cost ten times the page's whole simulation budget. Win % is the share of runs 1 trainers of those attackers finish inside the raid timer. Overall is Pokebattler's published blend on its own absolute scale (higher is easier), not a percentage of the best row the way the ranked table's Overall column is — which is why an easy boss reads well above 100% here.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Barboach 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.

grass2.56x normal1x fighting1x flying1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x water1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x poison0.63x rock0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x electric0.63x

Double weak (1)
Neutral (12)
Resists (5)

It resists poison0.625xrock0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Barboach throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterWater GunSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
groundMud ShotSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterAqua TailSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
groundMud BombSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.90s
iceIce Beam	95	-50	3.5s	1.50s
waterScaldSTAB	75	-50	3.5s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	427	534
11/11/11	435	544
12/12/12	443	554
13/13/13	451	564
14/14/14	459	574
15/15/15hundo	468	585

Caught CP range 427 - 468, or 534 - 585 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

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Barboach is not on the raid schedule right now. The simulation above is still exact for the tier chosen — any boss can be simulated, current or not.

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 64 / Defense 57 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

Share these exact settings

Every column, and pokebattler.com's own rank

On a phone the list shows estimator, time to win and faints. Overall, Power, win chance, CP, DPS and TDO appear on a wider screen.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Sceptile top pickgrassdragonmega Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade	Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade+11 more movesets	100%	7928.3%	0.03	0:05	100%	4,056	116.8	642
2	Mega Victreebel top pickgrasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade	Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	97%	7928.3%	0.03	0:05	100%	3,505	112.4	618
3	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	97%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	2,757	109.2	655
4	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Power Whip	Thunder Shock / Power Whip+7 more movesets	80%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,937	93.4	607
5	Tapu Bulu grassfairy Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	Bullet Seed / Grass Knot+9 more movesets	83%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,419	100.6	654
6	Roserade grasspoison Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	Bullet Seed / Grass Knot+29 more movesets	79%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,971	98.3	639
7	Breloom grassfighting Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	Bullet Seed / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	79%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,628	97.7	635
8	Sceptile grass Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	81%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,757	98.3	639
9	Shadow Cacturne grassdarkshadow Sucker Punch / Grass Knot	Sucker Punch / Grass Knot+14 more movesets	75%	6636.7%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,298	96.2	632
10	Kartana grasssteel Air Slash / Leaf Blade	Air Slash / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	73%	6431.1%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,677	91.1	616
11	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	72%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,592	116.9	818
12	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade	Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	63%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,431	96.6	676
13	Shaymin (Land) grass Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	80%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,265	95.5	668
14	Tsareena grass Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+17 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,964	100.3	702
15	Shadow Meganium grassshadow Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	77%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,410	99.7	698
16	Decidueye grassghost Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant+19 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,775	102.2	715
17	Meowscarada grassdark Leafage / Flower Trick	Leafage / Flower Trick+11 more movesets	66%	6030.7%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,825	91.4	661
18	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	68%	5852.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,030	112.7	840
19	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	65%	5852.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,720	115.9	863
20	Shadow Tangela grassshadow Vine Whip / Grass Knot	Vine Whip / Grass Knot+7 more movesets	63%	5852.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,238	100.0	745
21	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Low Kick / Frenzy Plant	Low Kick / Frenzy Plant+20 more movesets	77%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,093	87.5	656
22	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	71%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,833	108.7	815
23	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	70%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,698	115.6	867
24	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Low Kick / Frenzy Plant	Low Kick / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	75%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,954	87.1	653
25	Shadow Shiftry grassdarkshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+15 more movesets	61%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,333	97.9	734
26	Leafeon grass Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+11 more movesets	65%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,944	87.2	654
27	Tangrowth grass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	67%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,030	93.2	699
28	Chesnaught grassfighting Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	68%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,954	97.8	733
29	Shadow Bellossom grassshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+11 more movesets	63%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,281	83.9	629
30	Venusaur grasspoison Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	65%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,720	95.6	717

How accurate is this? Same top pick as pokebattler.com on 26 of 27 lists checked, 90% of its top tens shared; weakest on Mewtwo's default list (7 of 10).

Ranking. Our full ranking against the page pokebattler.com serves for the same boss and settings, on 27 boss and filter combinations read live (2026-10-04): 242 of 270 top-ten places shared, the same #1 on 26. On the six fixed reference bosses (read 2026-10-03): 85% top-ten overlap with its default filters, 83% with Shadow, Mega and Legendary on. A close top three is shown as a tie because the order inside it is below what we can measure.

Time to win. Graded with Pokebattler's own movesets against every boss moveset, average per boss: Tier 1 and 3 +0.1% to +1.2%; Tier 5 −2.9% to +1.3%; Mega −1.1% to +2.6%; Shadow Tier 5 −1.8% to +0.3%. One attacker can be off by more: median 1.6%, worst 15%, RMS per boss moveset 2.05%.

Known weak spots.

Mewtwo (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of Pokebattler's top 10: Absol, Incineroar and Salamence sit just outside ours, Polteageist, Cursola and Hisuian Typhlosion just inside.
Groudon (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of 10; its Grass and Water counters run 2-6% fast here.
Tier 5 times run about 2-3% fast for attackers that faint often, and 2-3% slow on Mega Charizard Y and Mega Beedrill, whose counters resist the boss.
Tier 1 lists are the least checked: Combee (Tier 1) shares only 3 of Pokebattler's top 10, with Gigalith first here where Pokebattler puts Rhyperior.

This boss on pokebattler.com. Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.