Hoopa (Unbound) counters

#0720

psychic darkTier 1

Lobby CP

11,461

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

194

Defense

123

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Hoopa (Unbound) should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,197-2,289.

Weak tobug2.56xfairy1.6x

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 Bug Mega — most top counters attack with Bug

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 Hoopa (Unbound) counters are Mega Beedrill, Shadow Vikavolt, Shadow Pinsir, Shadow Scyther, Shadow Accelgor & Shadow Escavalier.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Beedrill
S. Vikavolt
S. Pinsir
S. Scyther
S. Accelgor
S. Escavalier

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 %

1Mega BeedrillMegapartyPoison Sting / Fell Stinger+0.060:10
2Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.060:10
3Shadow VikavoltShadowpartyBug Bite / X-Scissor0.060:11
4Mega PinsirMegaBug Bite / X-Scissor0.060:11
5Shadow PinsirShadowpartyBug Bite / X-Scissor0.060:11
6Shadow ScytherShadowpartyFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.070:12
7Shadow AccelgorShadowpartyInfestation / Bug Buzz0.070:13
8Shadow EscavalierShadowpartyBug Bite / Megahorn0.070:13
9KleavorFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.070:13
10Shadow ScizorShadowFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.070:13

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 Hoopa (Unbound)Hoopa

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Top 15 Hoopa (Unbound) 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 Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	poisonPoison StingbugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:10	0.06	0.2	4175.7%
2	Mega Heracrossbugfightingjoint top pick	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:10	0.06	0.0	4152.2%
3	Shadow Vikavoltbugelectric	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	3,117	0:11	0.06	0.0	4070.8%
4	Mega Pinsirbugflying	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	4,182	0:11	0.06	0.0	3949.1%
5	Shadow Pinsirbug	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	2,959	0:11	0.06	0.1	3859.4%
6	Shadow Scytherbugflying	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	2,706	0:12	0.07	0.0	3506.7%
7	Shadow Accelgorbug	bugInfestationbugBug Buzz	2,441	0:13	0.07	0.1	3476.8%
8	Shadow Escavalierbugsteel	bugBug BitebugMegahorn	2,889	0:13	0.07	0.2	3413.3%
9	Kleavorbugrock	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,146	0:13	0.07	0.0	3397.0%
10	Shadow Scizorbugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,001	0:13	0.07	0.0	3366.9%
11	Yanmegabugflying	bugBug BitebugBug Buzz	2,946	0:13	0.07	0.0	3317.2%
12	Genesectbugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,353	0:13	0.07	0.0	3315.3%
13	Genesect (Burn)bugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,353	0:13	0.07	0.0	3315.3%
14	Genesect (Chill)bugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,353	0:13	0.07	0.0	3315.3%
15	Genesect (Douse)bugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,353	0:13	0.07	0.0	3315.3%

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 Hoopa (Unbound).

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Hoopa (Unbound)'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	407%	3657.9%	0:12	0.1	0.07
Astonish / Psychic	100%	407%	3420.3%	0:13	0.1	0.07
Astonish / Shadow Ball	100%	448%	3686.3%	0:12	0.1	0.07
Astonish / Dark Pulse	100%	457%	3686.3%	0:12	0.1	0.07
Confusion / Psychic	100%	408%	3820.4%	0:11	0.1	0.06
Confusion / Shadow Ball	100%	413%	3923.6%	0:11	0.1	0.06
Confusion / Dark Pulse	100%	417%	3923.6%	0:11	0.1	0.06

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…

Hoopa (Unbound) 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.

bug2.56x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x psychic0.24x

Double weak (1)
Weak (1)
Neutral (15)
Double resists (1)

It resists psychic0.24x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Hoopa (Unbound) 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
ghostAstonish	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
ghostShadow Ball	100	-50	3.0s	2.40s
darkDark PulseSTAB	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	2,197	2,746
11/11/11	2,215	2,769
12/12/12	2,233	2,792
13/13/13	2,252	2,815
14/14/14	2,270	2,838
15/15/15hundo	2,289	2,862

Caught CP range 2,197 - 2,289, or 2,746 - 2,862 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.

Hoopa (Unbound) 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 194 / Defense 123 (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 Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Poison Sting / Fell Stinger+	Poison Sting / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	100%	4175.7%	0.06	0:10	0.2	100%	3,383	72.5	608
2	Mega Heracross top pickbugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	100%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,814	57.2	600
3	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	94%	4070.8%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,117	59.0	631
4	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	96%	3949.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	4,182	57.9	638
5	Shadow Pinsir bugshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	88%	3859.4%	0.06	0:11	0.1	100%	2,959	53.7	582
6	Shadow Scyther bugflyingshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	80%	3506.7%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	2,706	52.7	638
7	Shadow Accelgor bugshadow Infestation / Bug Buzz	Infestation / Bug Buzz+14 more movesets	77%	3476.8%	0.07	0:13	0.1	100%	2,441	54.0	647
8	Shadow Escavalier bugsteelshadow Bug Bite / Megahorn	Bug Bite / Megahorn+9 more movesets	78%	3413.3%	0.07	0:13	0.2	100%	2,889	47.9	544
9	Kleavor bugrock Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+11 more movesets	80%	3397.0%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,146	48.8	612
10	Shadow Scizor bugsteelshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	81%	3366.9%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,001	54.0	685
11	Yanmega bugflying Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+5 more movesets	75%	3317.2%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,946	47.3	609
12	Genesect bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	82%	3315.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,353	48.2	633
13	Genesect (Burn) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	82%	3315.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,353	48.2	633
14	Genesect (Chill) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	82%	3315.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,353	48.2	633
15	Genesect (Douse) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	82%	3315.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,353	48.2	633
16	Genesect (Shock) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	82%	3315.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,353	48.2	633
17	Volcarona bugfire Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	78%	3302.8%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,632	53.0	698
18	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	79%	3288.1%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,677	51.2	662
19	Mega Scizor bugsteelmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	83%	3251.0%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,087	52.4	702
20	Vikavolt bugelectric Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	75%	3198.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,117	50.0	681
21	Frosmoth icebug Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	70%	3169.4%	0.08	0:14	0.1	100%	2,728	46.0	580
22	Pinsir bug Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	73%	3164.8%	0.08	0:14	0.1	100%	2,959	44.3	590
23	Shadow Galvantula bugelectricshadow Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz	Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz+9 more movesets	68%	3160.1%	0.08	0:14	0.2	100%	2,206	45.8	542
24	Scizor bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	74%	3109.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,001	43.9	615
25	Shadow Samurott watershadow Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+11 more movesets	70%	3074.5%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,826	46.3	655
26	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	65%	3064.7%	0.08	0:14	0.6	100%	2,842	52.7	511
27	Centiskorch firebug Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	69%	2985.8%	0.08	0:15	0.1	100%	2,990	43.2	611
28	Shadow Scolipede bugpoisonshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	63%	2984.1%	0.08	0:15	0.4	100%	2,447	44.7	539
29	Heracross bugfighting Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	66%	2908.8%	0.08	0:15	0.1	100%	3,101	49.2	693
30	Shadow Crustle bugrockshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	65%	2875.3%	0.08	0:15	0.2	100%	2,542	43.2	599

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.