Pinsir counters

#0127

bugTier 3

Lobby CP

21,306

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

184

Defense

143

Difficulty

0.51

Pokebattler scale

Beating Pinsir should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,613-1,690.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6x

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Pinsir counters are Mega Delphox, Blacephalon, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres & Shadow Toucannon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
Blacephalon
S. Reshiram
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
S. Toucannon

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 DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.451:19
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.461:20
3Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.511:30
4BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.531:33
5Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.541:35
6Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.541:35
7Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.541:36
8Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.561:38
9Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.561:38
10Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.561:38
12Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.591:43

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

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Raid tier — Group Raid

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Related countersShadow Pinsir Mega Pinsir

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Top 15 Pinsir 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 Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	1:19	0.45	1.2	297.4%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	1:20	0.46	1.0	293.5%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	1:30	0.51	1.1	260.9%
4	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	1:33	0.53	1.6	251.4%
5	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	1:35	0.54	2.2	247.9%
6	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	1:35	0.54	2.0	247.5%
7	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	1:36	0.54	2.4	245.6%
8	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	1:38	0.56	1.4	240.3%
9	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	1:38	0.56	1.8	238.8%
10	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	1:38	0.56	1.9	238.6%
11	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	1:41	0.58	1.6	231.4%
12	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	1:43	0.59	3.8	227.1%
13	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	1:43	0.59	1.1	226.9%
14	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	1:44	0.59	1.9	225.5%
15	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	1:45	0.60	1.7	222.9%

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 Pinsir.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Pinsir'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%	180%	249.2%	1:34	2.0	0.54
Fury Cutter / Close Combat	100%	165%	245.3%	1:36	2.4	0.54
Bug Bite / Close Combat	100%	166%	246.5%	1:35	2.4	0.54
Rock Smash / Superpower	100%	165%	247.5%	1:35	2.5	0.54
Bug Bite / Superpower	100%	164%	249.1%	1:34	2.4	0.54
Fury Cutter / Superpower	100%	166%	250.2%	1:34	2.4	0.53
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	100%	192%	250.7%	1:34	1.7	0.53
Bug Bite / Vice Grip	100%	211%	250.9%	1:34	1.6	0.53
Rock Smash / Close Combat	100%	161%	251.2%	1:33	2.5	0.53
Bug Bite / X-Scissor	100%	192%	251.6%	1:33	1.7	0.53
Rock Smash / X-Scissor	100%	180%	252.2%	1:33	1.9	0.53
Rock Smash / Vice Grip	100%	199%	252.8%	1:33	1.8	0.53
Fury Cutter / Vice Grip	100%	213%	253.1%	1:33	1.5	0.53

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…

Pinsir 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 rock1.6x fire1.6x normal1x poison1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x grass0.63x

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

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Pinsir throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
fightingRock Smash	17	+12	1.5s	0.75s
bugFury CutterSTAB	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingClose Combat	105	-100	2.5s	1.20s
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
fightingSuperpower	85	-50	3.0s	2.10s
normalVice Grip	35	-33	2.0s	1.20s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,613	2,016
11/11/11	1,628	2,035
12/12/12	1,643	2,055
13/13/13	1,659	2,074
14/14/14	1,675	2,094
15/15/15hundo	1,690	2,113

Caught CP range 1,613 - 1,690, or 2,016 - 2,113 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.

Pinsir 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 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 184 / Defense 143 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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

Share these exact settings

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 Delphox top pickfirepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	98%	297.4%	0.45	1:19	1.1	100%	4,783	46.4	1708
2	Mega Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	293.5%	0.46	1:20	0.9	100%	5,713	47.2	1884
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	87%	260.9%	0.51	1:30	1.0	100%	3,979	40.2	1866
4	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	80%	251.4%	0.53	1:33	1.4	100%	3,297	39.0	1469
5	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	75%	247.9%	0.54	1:35	2.0	100%	4,038	38.7	1221
6	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	76%	247.5%	0.54	1:35	1.8	100%	3,749	38.7	1264
7	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	74%	245.6%	0.54	1:36	2.2	100%	4,161	38.5	1205
8	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	78%	240.3%	0.56	1:38	1.3	100%	4,455	37.4	1606
9	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	74%	238.8%	0.56	1:38	1.6	100%	3,465	36.9	1373
10	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	75%	238.6%	0.56	1:38	1.7	100%	3,741	37.7	1429
11	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	73%	231.4%	0.58	1:41	1.5	100%	6,428	37.0	1544
12	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	64%	227.1%	0.59	1:43	3.5	100%	2,689	35.8	818
13	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	75%	226.9%	0.59	1:43	1.0	100%	5,031	35.6	1803
14	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	70%	225.5%	0.59	1:44	1.7	100%	3,835	35.7	1324
15	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	71%	222.9%	0.60	1:45	1.5	100%	3,268	34.9	1419
16	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	69%	221.8%	0.60	1:46	1.7	100%	3,590	34.5	1353
17	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	63%	217.9%	0.61	1:48	2.8	100%	3,754	33.9	1127
18	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	61%	217.3%	0.62	1:48	3.5	100%	2,825	34.0	806
19	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	64%	214.1%	0.62	1:50	2.1	100%	3,215	33.5	1111
20	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	69%	213.7%	0.63	1:50	1.3	100%	3,863	33.5	1609
21	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	213.5%	0.63	1:50	3.4	100%	2,848	33.5	842
22	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	62%	213.1%	0.63	1:50	2.6	100%	4,346	33.1	1067
23	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	209.5%	0.64	1:52	2.9	100%	3,059	32.9	920
24	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	63%	207.0%	0.65	1:53	2.1	100%	4,038	32.2	1183
25	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	57%	206.6%	0.65	1:54	3.9	100%	3,105	33.0	748
26	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	61%	205.7%	0.65	1:54	2.3	100%	3,850	32.1	1101
27	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	61%	204.7%	0.65	1:55	2.3	100%	2,889	31.9	1086
28	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	58%	204.3%	0.65	1:55	3.1	100%	2,982	32.1	945
29	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	63%	204.1%	0.65	1:55	1.8	100%	3,749	31.8	1217
30	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	57%	202.8%	0.66	1:56	3.2	100%	3,733	31.9	956

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