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Haxorus counters

dragonTier 3
Lobby CP
24,532
HP
3,600
Timer
3:00
Attack
218
Defense
136
Difficulty
0.48
Pokebattler scale

Beating Haxorus should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,966-2,053.

Weak toice1.6xdragon1.6xfairy1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMegaLegendaryShadow
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Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to
No boostSunny or clearRainyPartly cloudyCloudy ★Windy ★Snow ★Fog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend
NoneGood 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 Dragon Mega — most top counters attack with Dragon

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x
Off2 trainers3 trainers4 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 Haxorus counters are Mega Rayquaza, Eternatus, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Haxorus, Shadow Garchomp & Kyurem (White).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. M. Rayquaza
  2. Eternatus
  3. Kyurem (Black)
  4. S. Haxorus
  5. S. Garchomp
  6. Kyurem (White)

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 %

  1. 1Mega RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.451:19
  2. 2EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.451:20
  3. 3Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Tail / Outrage+0.471:23
  4. 4Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.481:25
  5. 5Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.491:27
  6. 6Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.531:32
  7. 7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.531:33
  8. 8Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.531:33
  9. 9Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.541:35
  10. 10Shadow PalkiaShadowLegendaryDragon Tail / Draco Meteor0.581:41

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

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Raid tier — Group Raid
Super Mega LegendarySuper MegaPrimalMega LegendaryMegaEliteShadow Tier 5Tier 5Shadow Tier 3Tier 3Shadow Tier 1Tier 1Tier 4Tier 2
Related countersShadow Haxorus
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Top 15 Haxorus 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
#AttackerMoveset
1Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pickdragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe5,7131:190.452.0297.3%
2Eternatuspoisondragonjoint top pickdragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon4,4291:200.452.3294.4%
3Mega DragonitedragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+4,8231:230.471.9281.4%
4Kyurem (Black)dragonicedragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock4,6051:250.482.8276.9%
5Mega GarchompdragongrounddragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe5,4241:270.492.6270.3%
6Shadow HaxorusdragondragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,5931:320.534.7254.5%
7Mega Mewtwo YpsychicpsychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+6,4281:330.532.5251.7%
8Shadow GarchompdragongrounddragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,9621:330.533.9251.4%
9Kyurem (White)dragoniceiceIce FangiceIce Burn4,6051:350.543.3247.5%
10Shadow PalkiawaterdragondragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor3,9911:410.584.0232.4%
11BaxcaliburdragoniceiceIce FangdragonGlaive Rush3,5501:410.584.0231.4%
12Mega SalamencedragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor5,0311:420.582.2230.1%
13Shadow SalamencedragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor3,7491:440.593.9226.4%
14Palkia (Origin)waterdragondragonDragon TaildragonSpacial Rend4,1421:440.593.5226.2%
15RayquazadragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,8351:440.593.5226.1%

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 Haxorus.

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

Simulating each boss moveset…

Haxorus 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.

ice1.6xdragon1.6xfairy1.6xnormal1xfighting1xflying1xpoison1xground1xrock1xbug1xghost1xsteel1xpsychic1xdark1xfire0.63xwater0.63xgrass0.63xelectric0.63x
  • Weak (3)
  • Neutral (11)
  • Resists (4)

It resists fire0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Haxorus throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
dragonDragon TailSTAB14+81.0s0.75s
fightingCounter13+91.0s0.80s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
waterSurf60-501.5s1.20s
groundEarthquake140-1003.5s2.60s
dragonDragon ClawSTAB45-331.5s0.90s
darkNight Slash45-332.0s1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor1,9662,458
11/11/111,9832,479
12/12/122,0012,501
13/13/132,0182,523
14/14/142,0352,544
15/15/15hundo2,0532,566

Caught CP range 1,966 - 2,053, or 2,458 - 2,566 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.

Haxorus 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 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 218 / Defense 136 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

Attackers allowed
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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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Mega Rayquaza
top pickdragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.451:191.8
2
Eternatus
top pickpoisondragon
Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon
0.451:202.1
3
Mega Dragonite
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Outrage+
0.471:231.7
4
Kyurem (Black)
dragonice
Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock
0.481:252.6
5
Mega Garchomp
dragongroundmega
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.491:272.4
6
Shadow Haxorus
dragonshadow
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.531:324.5
7
Mega Mewtwo Y
psychicmega
Psycho Cut / Future Sight+
0.531:332.3
8
Shadow Garchomp
dragongroundshadow
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.531:333.5
9
Kyurem (White)
dragonice
Ice Fang / Ice Burn
0.541:353.0
10
Shadow Palkia
waterdragonshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.581:413.8
11
Baxcalibur
dragonice
Ice Fang / Glaive Rush
0.581:413.7
12
Mega Salamence
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.581:422.0
13
Shadow Salamence
dragonflyingshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.591:443.8
14
Palkia (Origin)
waterdragon
Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend
0.591:443.2
15
Rayquaza
dragonflying
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.591:443.2
16
Mega Mewtwo X
psychicfightingmega
Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+
0.601:452.4
17
Shadow Dragonite
dragonflyingshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.601:453.4
18
Haxorus
dragon
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.611:474.3
19
Mega Latios
dragonpsychicmega
Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw
0.611:483.4
20
Dialga (Origin)
steeldragon
Dragon Breath / Roar of Time
0.621:483.0
21
Mega Sceptile
grassdragonmega
Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe
0.621:483.9
22
Mega Gardevoir
psychicfairymega
Charm / Dazzling Gleam
0.621:502.5
23
Garchomp
dragonground
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.631:513.7
24
Regidrago
dragon
Dragon Breath / Dragon Energy
0.631:513.6
25
Shadow Latios
dragonpsychicshadow
Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw
0.641:524.5
26
Zacian (Crowned Sword)
fairysteel
Metal Claw / Play Rough
0.651:542.4
27
Dragapult
dragonghost
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.651:544.3
28
Primal Groudon
groundfiremega
Dragon Tail / Precipice Blades
0.681:593.5
29
Shadow Mamoswine
icegroundshadow
Powder Snow / Avalanche
0.681:595.6
30
Shadow Reshiram
dragonfireshadow
Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
0.681:595.4
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.

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