Meltan counters

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steelTier 1

Lobby CP

3,478

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Meltan should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 564-610.

Weak tofighting1.6xground1.6xfire1.6x

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 Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

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 Meltan counters are Mega Blaziken, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Excadrill, Blacephalon, Shadow Delphox & Shadow Conkeldurr.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Blaziken
S. Blaziken
S. Excadrill
Blacephalon
S. Delphox
S. Conkeldurr

7 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 BlazikenMegapartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
2Mega LucarioMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Flamethrower0.040:08
4Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
5Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.050:08
6Mega Charizard YMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Flamethrower0.050:09
8Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Flamethrower0.050:09
9Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Scorching Sands0.050:09
10BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.050:09
11Shadow DelphoxShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
13Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyCounter / Dynamic Punch0.050:09

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 Meltan

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Top 15 Meltan 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 Blazikenfirefightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:08	0.04	5547.2%
2	Mega Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:08	0.04	5547.2%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,112	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
4	Shadow Blazikenfirefightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:08	0.05	5147.6%
6	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
7	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,428	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
8	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,783	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
9	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
10	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
11	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:09	0.05	4658.0%
12	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:09	0.05	4621.5%
13	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch	3,337	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
14	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,850	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
15	Shadow Emboarfirefighting	fightingLow KickfireBlast Burn	2,982	0:09	0.05	4589.4%

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 Meltan.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Meltan'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”: 4 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%	1165%	4967.1%	0:09	0.05
Thunder Shock / Flash Cannon	100%	1211%	4935.8%	0:09	0.05
Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	100%	1230%	4998.7%	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…

Meltan 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.

fighting1.6x ground1.6x fire1.6x ghost1x water1x electric1x dark1x normal0.63x flying0.63x rock0.63x bug0.63x steel0.63x grass0.63x psychic0.63x ice0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (4)
Resists (11)

It resists poison0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xbug0.625xsteel0.625xgrass0.625xpsychic0.625xice0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Meltan throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricThunder Shock	4	+7	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelFlash CannonSTAB	100	-100	2.5s	1.40s
electricThunderbolt	80	-50	2.5s	1.80s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	564	705
11/11/11	573	716
12/12/12	582	728
13/13/13	591	739
14/14/14	600	751
15/15/15hundo	610	762

Caught CP range 564 - 610, or 705 - 762 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.

Meltan 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 79 / Defense 68 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Blaziken top pickfirefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	97%	5547.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,161	86.2	677
2	Mega Lucario top pickfightingsteelmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	95%	5547.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,826	82.1	644
3	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	100%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	77.4	619
4	Shadow Blaziken top pickfirefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	90%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,848	76.4	611
5	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	91%	5147.6%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,521	73.9	626
6	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	88%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,455	75.0	637
7	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	88%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	6,428	70.3	633
8	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+23 more movesets	87%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	67.9	611
9	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	89%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,244	66.8	601
10	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	82%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	79.4	714
11	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	79%	4658.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,059	69.1	646
12	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	86%	4621.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	64.7	610
13	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	75%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,337	64.1	609
14	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	87%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,850	67.2	638
15	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Low Kick / Blast Burn	Low Kick / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	81%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,982	63.8	606
16	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	80%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,698	64.0	608
17	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	73%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,889	66.8	634
18	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	77%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,683	66.6	633
19	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	96%	4426.3%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,902	78.8	776
20	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	89%	4426.3%	0.05	0:10	100%	4,115	73.7	725
21	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	95%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,424	60.3	603
22	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	74%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,754	60.8	608
23	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	86%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,115	60.2	602
24	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	71%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,093	61.0	610
25	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	70%	4241.1%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,698	67.1	688
26	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Volt Switch / Zap Cannon+	Volt Switch / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	77%	4232.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,780	66.5	685
27	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Upper Hand	Counter / Upper Hand+17 more movesets	73%	4208.3%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,814	64.9	673
28	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Punch	Fire Spin / Fire Punch+11 more movesets	66%	4168.1%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,132	62.1	649
29	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	71%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,733	59.2	621
30	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	69%	4128.6%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,703	70.5	744

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.