Honchkrow counters

#0430

dark flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

6,864

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

154

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Honchkrow should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,471-1,549.

Weak torock1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6xfairy1.6x

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 an Electric Mega — most top counters attack with Electric

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 Honchkrow counters are Regieleki, Shadow Rampardos, Mega Raichu X, Xurkitree, Shadow Rhyperior & Shadow Thundurus (Therian).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Regieleki
S. Rampardos
M. Raichu X
Xurkitree
S. Rhyperior
S. Thundurus (Therian)

2 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 %

1RegielekiLegendarypartyLock-On / Thunder Cage0.050:08
2Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.050:09
3Mega Raichu XMegapartyThunder Shock / Volt Tackle+0.050:09
4Mega DiancieMegaLegendaryRock Throw / Power Gem0.050:09
5Mega Raichu YMegaCharm / Wild Charge0.050:09
6XurkitreeLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Discharge0.050:09
7Shadow RhyperiorShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Wrecker0.060:10
8Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Thunder0.060:10
9ZekromLegendaryCharge Beam / Fusion Bolt0.060:10
10Thundurus (Therian)LegendaryVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.060:10

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Honchkrow

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Top 15 Honchkrow 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	Regielekielectricjoint top pick	normalLock-OnelectricThunder Cage	2,803	0:08	0.05	5278.5%
2	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:09	0.05	5058.0%
3	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:09	0.05	4811.3%
4	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockPower Gem	4,346	0:09	0.05	4801.7%
5	Mega Raichu Yelectric	fairyCharmelectricWild Charge	3,780	0:09	0.05	4683.1%
6	Xurkitreeelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricDischarge	3,937	0:09	0.05	4633.3%
7	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:10	0.06	4377.4%
8	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunder	3,659	0:10	0.06	4373.0%
9	Zekromdragonelectric	electricCharge BeamelectricFusion Bolt	4,038	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
10	Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
11	Shadow Weaviledarkice	iceIce ShardiceTriple Axel	3,005	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
12	Shadow Magnetonelectricsteel	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon	2,485	0:10	0.06	4249.4%
13	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	fairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam	4,512	0:10	0.06	4228.8%
14	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:10	0.06	4199.4%
15	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceBlizzard	4,605	0:10	0.06	4164.1%

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 Honchkrow.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Honchkrow'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%	872%	4740.3%	0:09	0.05
Peck / Brave Bird	100%	1035%	4662.9%	0:09	0.05
Peck / Psychic	100%	931%	4683.7%	0:09	0.05
Peck / Dark Pulse	100%	929%	4683.7%	0:09	0.05
Peck / Sky Attack	100%	965%	4708.3%	0:09	0.05
Snarl / Brave Bird	100%	794%	4798.3%	0:09	0.05
Snarl / Psychic	100%	783%	4802.0%	0:09	0.05
Snarl / Dark Pulse	100%	782%	4802.0%	0:09	0.05
Snarl / Sky Attack	100%	827%	4831.6%	0:09	0.05

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…

Honchkrow 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.

rock1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x dragon1x ghost0.63x grass0.63x dark0.63x ground0.39x psychic0.39x

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

It resists ground0.39xpsychic0.39xghost0.625xgrass0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Honchkrow throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkSnarlSTAB	11	+13	1.0s	0.75s
flyingPeckSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.45s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingBrave BirdSTAB	130	-100	2.0s	1.00s
flyingSky AttackSTAB	80	-50	2.0s	1.50s
darkDark PulseSTAB	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s
psychicPsychic	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,471	1,839
11/11/11	1,486	1,858
12/12/12	1,502	1,878
13/13/13	1,518	1,897
14/14/14	1,533	1,917
15/15/15hundo	1,549	1,937

Caught CP range 1,471 - 1,549, or 1,839 - 1,937 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.

Honchkrow 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 154 / Defense 70 (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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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	Regieleki electric Lock-On / Thunder Cage	Lock-On / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	100%	5278.5%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,803	79.6	657
2	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	82%	5058.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	72.6	625
3	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	92%	4811.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	97.7	885
4	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Power Gem	Rock Throw / Power Gem+5 more movesets	84%	4801.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	67.4	612
5	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Charm / Wild Charge	Charm / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	80%	4683.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,780	69.3	643
6	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Discharge	Thunder Shock / Discharge+7 more movesets	77%	4633.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,937	65.5	616
7	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	77%	4377.4%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,733	64.5	642
8	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Thunder	Volt Switch / Thunder+9 more movesets	73%	4373.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,659	66.7	665
9	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt	Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt+9 more movesets	79%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,038	61.3	613
10	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	76%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,659	72.1	721
11	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Triple Axel	Ice Shard / Triple Axel+11 more movesets	72%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,005	60.4	604
12	Shadow Magneton electricsteelshadow Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+19 more movesets	70%	4249.4%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,485	59.2	607
13	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	74%	4228.8%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,512	68.4	704
14	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	73%	4199.4%	0.06	0:10	100%	6,112	79.7	824
15	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Blizzard	Ice Fang / Blizzard+17 more movesets	74%	4164.1%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,605	63.5	664
16	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Quick Attack / Liquidation+	Quick Attack / Liquidation++44 more movesets	70%	4159.7%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,701	57.4	600
17	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	59.9	629
18	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Charge Beam / Zap Cannon	Charge Beam / Zap Cannon+11 more movesets	72%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,527	62.9	660
19	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder	Thunder Shock / Thunder+7 more movesets	67%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,345	57.4	603
20	Mega Ampharos electricdragonmega Charge Beam / Zap Cannon	Charge Beam / Zap Cannon+15 more movesets	76%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,245	60.4	634
21	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Charge Beam / Zap Cannon	Charge Beam / Zap Cannon+15 more movesets	73%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,205	59.0	619
22	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	66%	4116.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,298	58.0	615
23	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	67%	4063.2%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,670	58.4	625
24	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Charm / Sacred Sword	Charm / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	64%	3977.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,521	55.3	606
25	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	65%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,093	59.6	656
26	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	67%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,783	66.6	730
27	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	66%	3941.3%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,979	57.9	640
28	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	69%	3899.6%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,346	66.2	738
29	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / Avalanche	Powder Snow / Avalanche+11 more movesets	66%	3892.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,328	63.1	706
30	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	64%	3694.7%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,429	60.7	712

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