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Meltan counters

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steelTier 5
Lobby CP
17,392
Attack
105
Defense
90
HP
15,000
Raid timer
5 min
300s

Caught CP range 564 - 610.

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.

Meltan is weak to fighting1.6xground1.6xfire1.6x

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

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

Best Meltan counters

Beating Meltan should take 2 trainers with Pokemon of this strength. Difficulty rating 1.04 with the best counter, 4:47 to win.

Trainers2duo
#AttackerMoveset
1Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pickfightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere2,7034:471.046.0105.8%
2BlazikenfirefightingfightingCounterfightingAura Sphere2,8485:111.136.097.6%
3CinderacefirefireFire SpinfirePyroball3,0185:321.205.891.5%
4VolcaronabugfirefireFire SpinfireOverheat3,6325:361.225.490.4%
5ChandelureghostfirefireFire SpinfireOverheat3,2685:361.226.090.5%
6ExcadrillgroundsteelgroundMud-SlapgroundScorching Sands3,2445:551.294.185.6%
7Darmanitan (Standard)firefireFire FangfireOverheat3,1055:381.236.089.9%
8ConkeldurrfightingfightingForce PalmfightingDynamic Punch3,3375:431.246.088.6%
9DelphoxfirepsychicfireFire SpinfireBlast Burn3,0595:531.285.686.3%
10GarchompdragongroundgroundMud ShotgroundEarth Power3,9626:091.343.582.5%
11EmboarfirefightingfightingLow KickfireBlast Burn2,9825:531.285.786.2%
12IncineroarfiredarkfireFire FangfireBlast Burn2,9966:111.345.482.0%

Ordered by Overall, pokebattler.com's own default β€” a blend of how fast the fight ends and how many of your six go down. Click any numeric column heading to re-order on that column alone.

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 β€” 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.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The boss rolls one of these 2 pairings, and it changes the fight. Each row re-runs the top 6 counters against that single moveset.

#Boss movesetTime to winEstimatorFaintsWin %
1electricThunder Shock+steelFlash Cannonhardest5:271.185.6100%
2electricThunder Shock+electricThunderbolt5:271.185.5100%

A raid boss rolls only its standard movepool β€” never a legacy or Elite TM move, verified against Pokebattler's own per-moveset list for six reference bosses. The ranked table above averages over all of these, which is what Pokebattler's DEFENSE_RANDOM_MC means.

What Meltan throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
electricThunder Shock4+70.5s0.20s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
steelFlash CannonSTAB100-1002.5s1.40s
electricThunderbolt80-502.5s1.80s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor564705
11/11/11573716
12/12/12582728
13/13/13591739
14/14/14600751
15/15/15hundo610762

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

Read from the committed LeekDuck rotation snapshot, fetched 2026-10-05.

Meltan is not in the current rotation snapshot. The simulation below is still exact for the tier chosen above β€” Pokebattler simulates any defender you name, current boss or not.

Boss stats

How the numbers in the header are built.

Base Attack
118
Game Master
Base Defense
99
Game Master
Base Stamina
130
ignored by a raid boss
Tier CPM
0.79
15,000 fixed HP
Header numberWorked outValueInputs from
Attackfloor((118 + 15) x 0.79)105Game Master base Attack, tier CPM
Defensefloor((99 + 15) x 0.79)90Game Master base Defense, tier CPM
HP15,000 β€” fixed by tier, base Stamina 130 unused15,000tier HP pool
Lobby CPfloor((118 + 15) x sqrt(99 + 15) x sqrt(15,000) / 10) β€” no CPM term17,392Game Master base stats, tier HP pool

A raid boss uses 15/15/15 IVs, its tier's CP multiplier and its tier's fixed HP pool β€” stamina does nothing, which is why the same species is a different fight at every tier. Every tier constant above (CPM 0.79, 15,000 HP, 300s timer) is copied from Pokebattler's own published /raids tier table into src/engine/constants.ts, with the source named there.

Meltan's own Pokemon page has its full movepool, evolution family, stat ranks and what it is good against as an attacker.