Machoke counters

#0067

fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

5,564

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

114

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Machoke should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,096-1,160.

Weak toflying1.6xpsychic1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Machoke counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Shadow Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Staraptor & Shadow Honchkrow.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
S. Mewtwo
Rayquaza
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Staraptor
S. Honchkrow

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 Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
2Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.050:08
4Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:09
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.060:10
6Mega AlakazamMegaPsycho Cut / Future Sight0.060:10
7Mega GardevoirMegaCharm / Psychic0.060:10
8RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
9Mega MalamarMegaPeck / Psybeam+0.060:11
10Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.060:11
11Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyWing Attack / Brave Bird0.060:11
12Shadow HonchkrowShadowpartyPeck / Brave Bird0.060:11

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 Machoke

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Top 15 Machoke 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 Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5469.3%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5335.4%
4	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
6	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight	4,510	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
7	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	fairyCharmpsychicPsychic	4,512	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
8	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
9	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	flyingPeckpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:11	0.06	4104.5%
10	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	0:11	0.06	3977.9%
11	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird	2,825	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
12	Shadow Honchkrowdarkflying	flyingPeckflyingBrave Bird	2,711	0:11	0.06	3927.7%
13	Shadow Regigigasnormal	normalHidden PowernormalCrush Grip	4,346	0:11	0.06	3827.7%
14	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicSynchronoise	4,521	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
15	Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:11	0.06	3791.1%

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 Machoke.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Machoke'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1101%	4253.4%	0:10	0.06
Low Kick / Submission	100%	1132%	4236.2%	0:10	0.06
Low Kick / Brick Break	100%	1102%	4241.9%	0:10	0.06
Karate Chop / Submission	100%	1129%	4253.4%	0:10	0.06
Low Kick / Dynamic Punch	100%	1042%	4253.4%	0:10	0.06
Karate Chop / Brick Break	100%	1074%	4259.1%	0:10	0.06
Karate Chop / Dynamic Punch	100%	1049%	4276.6%	0:10	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…

Machoke 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 psychic1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x poison1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x rock0.63x bug0.63x dark0.63x

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

It resists rock0.625xbug0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Machoke throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingLow KickSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.20s
fightingKarate ChopSTAB	10	+13	1.0s	0.80s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingDynamic PunchSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.00s
fightingSubmissionSTAB	55	-50	2.0s	1.60s
fightingBrick BreakSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.70s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,096	1,370
11/11/11	1,109	1,386
12/12/12	1,122	1,402
13/13/13	1,134	1,418
14/14/14	1,147	1,434
15/15/15hundo	1,160	1,451

Caught CP range 1,096 - 1,160, or 1,370 - 1,451 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.

Machoke 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 114 / Defense 83 (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	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	96%	5469.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	78.4	625
2	Mega Staraptor top pickfightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	76.1	609
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	5335.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	115.0	939
4	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	80%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,713	79.6	756
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	70%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,178	65.6	656
6	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight	Psycho Cut / Future Sight+17 more movesets	69%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,510	60.9	609
7	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Psychic	Charm / Psychic+19 more movesets	72%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,512	57.5	604
8	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	67%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,835	58.2	611
9	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Peck / Psybeam+	Peck / Psybeam++14 more movesets	64%	4104.5%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,143	58.9	624
10	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	70%	3977.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,590	62.7	687
11	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+15 more movesets	55%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,825	55.0	605
12	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Brave Bird	Peck / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	53%	3927.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,711	56.8	630
13	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	53%	3827.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,346	55.1	626
14	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	60%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,521	52.4	602
15	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	60%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,178	52.4	602
16	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+8 more movesets	63%	3707.3%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,425	57.7	678
17	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Fury Cutter / Psychic	Fury Cutter / Psychic+15 more movesets	55%	3651.4%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,791	51.2	612
18	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge	Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge+9 more movesets	57%	3639.2%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,812	55.6	665
19	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	58%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	5,007	51.4	617
20	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+23 more movesets	58%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,783	51.4	617
21	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Extrasensory / Brave Bird	Extrasensory / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	58%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,863	51.7	620
22	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	52%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,006	51.9	623
23	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Future Sight	Psycho Cut / Future Sight+17 more movesets	52%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,057	50.5	606
24	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	53%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,680	51.5	618
25	Enamorus (Therian) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+23 more movesets	62%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,388	50.8	610
26	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Extrasensory / Sandsear Storm	Extrasensory / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	53%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,922	49.7	621
27	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Hurricane	Gust / Hurricane+9 more movesets	53%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,215	50.8	635
28	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	57%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,093	48.4	605
29	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Psycho Cut / Synchronoise	Psycho Cut / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	52%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,093	48.4	605
30	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	64%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,703	58.8	735

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.