Gallade counters

#0475

psychic fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

8,945

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

150

Defense

125

Difficulty

0.08

Pokebattler scale

Beating Gallade should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,688-1,767.

Weak toflying1.6xghost1.6xfairy1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type this boss 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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Gallade counters are Mega Skarmory, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Salamence & Shadow Staraptor.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Skarmory
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Toucannon
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Salamence
S. Staraptor

6 more Megas 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 SkarmoryMegapartyAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.070:13
2Mega GengarMegaLick / Shadow Ball0.080:14
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.080:14
4Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.080:14
5Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Moongeist Beam0.080:14
6Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.090:15
7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Shadow Ball0.090:15
8Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Shadow Ball0.090:16
9Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.090:16
10Mega BanetteMegaShadow Claw / Shadow Ball0.090:16
11Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyDragon Tail / Fly0.090:16
12Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Fly0.090:16

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Gallade 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 Skarmorysteelflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:13	0.07	0.0	3292.3%
2	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:14	0.08	0.0	3205.6%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
4	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:14	0.08	0.0	3109.6%
5	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	ghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:14	0.08	0.0	3072.3%
6	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:15	0.09	0.1	2826.1%
7	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionghostShadow Ball	6,112	0:15	0.09	0.0	2821.7%
8	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionghostShadow Ball	6,428	0:16	0.09	0.0	2773.3%
9	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	0:16	0.09	0.0	2771.5%
10	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:16	0.09	0.0	2754.9%
11	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingFly	3,749	0:16	0.09	0.0	2707.8%
12	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:16	0.09	0.1	2689.5%
13	Enamorus (Incarnate)fairyflying	fairyFairy WindflyingFly	3,425	0:16	0.09	0.0	2677.8%
14	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:17	0.09	0.0	2567.4%
15	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:17	0.09	0.0	2567.4%

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 Gallade.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Gallade'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 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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	519%	2871.8%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Low Kick / Psychic	100%	511%	2830.2%	0:15	0.1	0.09
Psycho Cut / Psychic	100%	515%	2835.6%	0:15	0.2	0.09
Low Kick / Close Combat	100%	639%	2844.9%	0:15	0.0	0.09
Psycho Cut / Close Combat	100%	617%	2859.2%	0:15	0.0	0.09
Low Kick / Sacred Sword	100%	632%	2859.5%	0:15	0.0	0.09
Charm / Psychic	100%	491%	2862.7%	0:15	0.1	0.08
Low Kick / Leaf Blade	100%	635%	2863.1%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Psycho Cut / Sacred Sword	100%	620%	2868.7%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Psycho Cut / Leaf Blade	100%	647%	2873.6%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Charm / Close Combat	100%	507%	2877.5%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Confusion / Psychic	100%	503%	2877.8%	0:15	0.1	0.08
Confusion / Close Combat	100%	531%	2882.8%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Confusion / Sacred Sword	100%	522%	2883.9%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Confusion / Leaf Blade	100%	549%	2909.6%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Charm / Sacred Sword	100%	493%	2916.3%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Charm / Leaf Blade	100%	537%	2920.4%	0:15	0.0	0.08

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…

Gallade 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.

flying1.6x ghost1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x rock0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (13)
Resists (2)

It resists fighting0.625xrock0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Gallade throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
fairyCharm	20	+11	1.5s	0.90s
fightingLow KickSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.20s
psychicPsycho CutSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.27s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingSacred SwordSTAB	50	-33	1.0s	0.30s
fightingClose CombatSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	1.20s
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
grassLeaf Blade	70	-33	2.5s	1.35s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,688	2,110
11/11/11	1,704	2,130
12/12/12	1,720	2,150
13/13/13	1,735	2,170
14/14/14	1,751	2,189
15/15/15hundo	1,767	2,209

Caught CP range 1,688 - 1,767, or 2,110 - 2,209 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.

Gallade 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 150 / Defense 125 (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

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	100%	3292.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,741	48.4	639
2	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	90%	3205.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,336	45.9	611
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	88%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,979	44.3	620
4	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	94%	3109.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	5,713	49.1	692
5	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam	Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	97%	3072.3%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,099	46.1	653
6	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	74%	2826.1%	0.09	0:15	0.1	100%	2,689	41.1	597
7	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	82%	2821.7%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	6,112	40.1	619
8	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	85%	2773.3%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,428	41.1	645
9	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	82%	2771.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,590	39.4	619
10	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	74%	2754.9%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,594	40.0	625
11	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	74%	2707.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,749	39.1	630
12	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	70%	2689.5%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	2,825	39.4	607
13	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+8 more movesets	75%	2677.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,425	40.6	661
14	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	72%	2567.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,465	42.0	712
15	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	73%	2567.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,835	43.0	728
16	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Sky Attack	Peck / Sky Attack+7 more movesets	66%	2564.2%	0.09	0:17	0.1	100%	2,711	38.9	623
17	Enamorus (Therian) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+23 more movesets	72%	2555.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,388	35.2	601
18	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	64%	2544.0%	0.10	0:17	0.3	100%	2,878	39.2	563
19	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Shadow Ball	Fire Spin / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	67%	2530.7%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	3,268	35.1	579
20	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Charm / Zap Cannon+	Charm / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	64%	2527.2%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	3,780	35.9	567
21	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Air Slash / Play Rough	Air Slash / Play Rough+7 more movesets	73%	2522.9%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,979	35.6	615
22	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Drill Peck	Thunder Shock / Drill Peck+11 more movesets	68%	2515.6%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,527	35.9	621
23	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Low Kick / Fly	Low Kick / Fly+7 more movesets	64%	2477.3%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,548	35.3	605
24	Moltres fireflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	69%	2463.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,465	35.9	634
25	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	70%	2457.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,683	34.9	619
26	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / Fly	Bug Bite / Fly+15 more movesets	63%	2456.8%	0.10	0:18	0.1	100%	3,117	34.1	585
27	Toucannon normalflying Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	63%	2449.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	2,689	33.8	589
28	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Shadow Ball	Charm / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	71%	2442.3%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,512	37.9	676
29	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	70%	2419.2%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,031	33.8	609
30	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	62%	2399.1%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,057	34.7	614

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.