Grubbin counters

#0736

bugTier 1

Lobby CP

3,184

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Grubbin should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 518-562.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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

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 Grubbin counters are Blacephalon, Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Salamence, Mega Delphox & Shadow Staraptor.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Blacephalon
S. Toucannon
S. Moltres
S. Salamence
M. Delphox
S. Staraptor

3 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 %

1BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.040:07
2Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.040:07
3Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.040:08
4Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyDragon Tail / Fly0.040:08
5Mega DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Flamethrower0.040:08
6Mega SalamenceMegaFire Fang / Fly0.040:08
7Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Flamethrower0.040:08
8Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Fly0.040:08
9Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Fly0.040:08
10Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.050:08

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 Grubbin

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Top 15 Grubbin 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	Blacephalonfireghostjoint top pick	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
2	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
3	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:08	0.04	5547.2%
4	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,783	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
6	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
7	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,455	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
8	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingFly	3,979	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
9	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
10	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5368.2%
11	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingAerial Ace	5,713	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
12	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
13	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangrockRock Slide	3,105	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
14	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	3,850	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
15	Shadow Emboarfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,982	0:08	0.05	5129.4%

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 Grubbin.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Grubbin'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1524%	5636.1%	0:08	0.04
Bug Bite / X-Scissor	100%	1557%	5626.0%	0:08	0.04
Bug Bite / Crunch	100%	1642%	5626.0%	0:08	0.04
Spark / X-Scissor	100%	1486%	5626.0%	0:08	0.04
Spark / Crunch	100%	1498%	5626.0%	0:08	0.04
Bug Bite / Vice Grip	100%	1643%	5676.8%	0:08	0.04
Spark / Vice Grip	100%	1567%	5676.8%	0:08	0.04

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…

Grubbin 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 rock1.6x fire1.6x normal1x poison1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x grass0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Grubbin throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
electricSpark	4	+6	0.5s	0.10s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s
normalVice Grip	35	-33	2.0s	1.20s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	518	647
11/11/11	526	658
12/12/12	535	669
13/13/13	544	680
14/14/14	553	691
15/15/15hundo	562	703

Caught CP range 518 - 562, or 647 - 703 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.

Grubbin 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 77 / Defense 59 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

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

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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	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,297	86.0	602
2	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	82%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,689	85.0	637
3	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	84%	5547.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,465	86.0	676
4	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	79%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	79.4	635
5	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+23 more movesets	79%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,783	79.8	638
6	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,031	80.3	642
7	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+29 more movesets	83%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,455	76.5	612
8	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+19 more movesets	86%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	78.1	625
9	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	76%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,825	78.4	627
10	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	81%	5368.2%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	101.2	821
11	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Aerial Ace	Air Slash / Aerial Ace+11 more movesets	80%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,713	74.6	634
12	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	78%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,754	73.3	623
13	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Rock Slide	Fire Fang / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	71%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,105	70.7	601
14	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	77%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,850	73.4	624
15	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	77%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,982	76.8	653
16	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	75%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,848	77.9	662
17	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	73%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	73.1	621
18	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	72%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	73.1	621
19	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Flamethrower	Smack Down / Flamethrower+5 more movesets	67%	5034.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	77.3	669
20	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blaze Kick	Ember / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	75%	5000.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,161	74.1	646
21	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	69%	4882.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,590	76.0	678
22	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	68%	4859.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	76.6	687
23	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Shadow Ball	Fire Spin / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,268	68.3	615
24	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+17 more movesets	69%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	68.0	612
25	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,749	69.0	621
26	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Sky Attack	Air Slash / Sky Attack+9 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,741	68.0	612
27	Shadow Unfezant normalflyingshadow Air Slash / Sky Attack	Air Slash / Sky Attack+5 more movesets	65%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,734	67.7	609
28	Moltres fireflying Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,465	68.1	613
29	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	74%	4833.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	80.5	726
30	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	64%	4759.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	70.2	642

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