Alolan Raichu counters

#0026

electric psychicTier 3

Lobby CP

16,848

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

157

Defense

123

Difficulty

0.48

Pokebattler scale

Beating Alolan Raichu should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,238-1,306.

Weak toground1.6xbug1.6xghost1.6xdark1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Dark Mega — most top counters attack with Dark

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 Alolan Raichu counters are Mega Houndoom, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Groudon & Shadow Tyranitar.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Houndoom
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Darkrai
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Groudon
S. Tyranitar

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 HoundoomMegapartySnarl / Dark Pulse+0.431:15
2Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.431:16
3Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Moongeist Beam0.471:22
4Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.481:24
5Mega GengarMegaLick / Shadow Ball0.481:25
6Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.491:26
7Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.501:27
8Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.511:29
9Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.521:31
10Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.521:31
12Shadow TyranitarShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing0.531:33

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

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Top 15 Alolan Raichu 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 Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	1:15	0.43	1.7	312.8%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	1:16	0.43	2.9	308.7%
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	psychicPsycho CutghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	1:22	0.47	1.5	284.6%
4	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	1:24	0.48	1.0	278.6%
5	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	1:25	0.48	2.7	277.5%
6	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	1:26	0.49	2.6	272.1%
7	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	1:27	0.50	2.4	268.8%
8	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	1:29	0.51	3.6	262.3%
9	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	1:31	0.52	2.2	258.9%
10	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	1:31	0.52	1.4	257.2%
11	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	1:32	0.52	1.7	255.1%
12	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	1:33	0.53	2.5	251.9%
13	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	1:33	0.53	0.9	251.0%
14	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	1:34	0.53	1.5	250.3%
15	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	1:34	0.53	1.6	249.9%

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 Alolan Raichu.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Alolan Raichu'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%	170%	273.6%	1:26	2.2	0.49
Thunder Shock / Surf	100%	150%	269.8%	1:27	2.8	0.50
Spark / Surf	100%	150%	270.5%	1:27	2.8	0.49
Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	100%	170%	270.5%	1:27	2.4	0.49
Volt Switch / Psychic	100%	194%	270.5%	1:27	1.8	0.49
Spark / Wild Charge	100%	169%	270.8%	1:27	2.4	0.49
Volt Switch / Grass Knot	100%	154%	272.2%	1:26	2.7	0.49
Spark / Psychic	100%	201%	272.3%	1:26	1.9	0.49
Volt Switch / Surf	100%	153%	272.3%	1:26	2.7	0.49
Spark / Grass Knot	100%	155%	272.6%	1:26	2.8	0.49
Thunder Shock / Psychic	100%	202%	272.8%	1:26	1.8	0.49
Thunder Shock / Grass Knot	100%	155%	272.9%	1:26	2.8	0.49
Spark / Psyshock	100%	242%	273.5%	1:26	1.3	0.49
Thunder Shock / Psyshock	100%	242%	273.5%	1:26	1.3	0.49
Volt Switch / Volt Tackle	100%	184%	273.6%	1:26	2.1	0.49
Volt Switch / Trailblaze	100%	177%	274.6%	1:25	2.2	0.49
Volt Switch / Wild Charge	100%	171%	274.9%	1:25	2.4	0.49
Spark / Trailblaze	100%	182%	275.4%	1:25	2.1	0.49
Spark / Volt Tackle	100%	187%	275.5%	1:25	2.1	0.49
Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle	100%	187%	275.5%	1:25	2.1	0.49
Volt Switch / Psyshock	100%	229%	275.7%	1:25	1.3	0.48
Thunder Shock / Trailblaze	100%	182%	275.9%	1:25	2.1	0.48
Spark / Thunder Punch	100%	224%	275.9%	1:25	1.5	0.48
Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	100%	224%	275.9%	1:25	1.5	0.48
Volt Switch / Thunder Punch	100%	216%	278.6%	1:24	1.6	0.48

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…

Alolan Raichu 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.

ground1.6x bug1.6x ghost1.6x dark1.6x normal1x poison1x rock1x fire1x water1x grass1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x fighting0.63x flying0.63x steel0.63x electric0.63x psychic0.63x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fighting0.625xflying0.625xsteel0.625xelectric0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Alolan Raichu throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricVolt SwitchSTAB	13	+20	1.5s	0.60s
electricSparkSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.10s
electricThunder ShockSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricWild ChargeSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
waterSurf	60	-50	1.5s	1.20s
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
grassGrass Knot	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
electricVolt TackleSTAB	90	-33	3.5s	2.10s
electricThunder PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.90s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	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	1,238	1,548
11/11/11	1,252	1,565
12/12/12	1,265	1,582
13/13/13	1,279	1,599
14/14/14	1,292	1,616
15/15/15hundo	1,306	1,633

Caught CP range 1,238 - 1,306, or 1,548 - 1,633 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.

Alolan Raichu 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 157 / Defense 123 (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

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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 Houndoom top pickdarkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	312.8%	0.43	1:15	1.6	100%	3,842	49.5	1503
2	Mega Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	92%	308.7%	0.43	1:16	2.7	100%	3,383	48.8	1085
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	92%	284.6%	0.47	1:22	1.3	100%	4,099	44.4	1531
4	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	94%	278.6%	0.48	1:24	0.9	100%	5,902	43.6	2220
5	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	83%	277.5%	0.48	1:25	2.5	100%	4,336	44.1	1074
6	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	82%	272.1%	0.49	1:26	2.3	100%	3,739	42.2	1110
7	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	82%	268.8%	0.50	1:27	2.2	100%	3,922	43.3	1186
8	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	75%	262.3%	0.51	1:29	3.2	100%	3,301	41.1	890
9	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	80%	258.9%	0.52	1:31	2.0	100%	4,115	40.0	1417
10	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	84%	257.2%	0.52	1:31	1.3	100%	6,428	41.2	1613
11	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	81%	255.1%	0.52	1:32	1.6	100%	6,112	39.9	1430
12	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	76%	251.9%	0.53	1:33	2.3	100%	3,834	39.0	1155
13	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	85%	251.0%	0.53	1:33	0.9	100%	5,424	39.3	2352
14	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	81%	250.3%	0.53	1:34	1.3	100%	3,625	38.9	1530
15	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	80%	249.9%	0.53	1:34	1.5	100%	5,347	38.8	1640
16	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	72%	249.2%	0.54	1:34	3.3	100%	3,594	39.0	832
17	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	75%	247.7%	0.54	1:35	2.3	100%	4,814	39.2	1165
18	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	69%	246.8%	0.54	1:35	3.9	100%	2,526	39.1	737
19	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	73%	240.0%	0.56	1:38	2.1	100%	3,922	37.7	1192
20	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	72%	238.9%	0.56	1:38	2.3	100%	3,244	37.2	1138
21	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	67%	237.0%	0.56	1:39	3.7	100%	3,268	38.1	794
22	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	76%	234.6%	0.57	1:40	1.4	100%	3,683	36.8	1528
23	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	75%	233.6%	0.57	1:40	1.6	100%	3,962	36.9	1764
24	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	68%	229.4%	0.58	1:42	2.7	100%	3,588	36.2	989
25	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	68%	228.1%	0.59	1:43	2.7	100%	3,749	35.4	1007
26	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	65%	227.9%	0.59	1:43	3.5	100%	3,005	35.7	831
27	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	68%	227.7%	0.59	1:43	2.5	100%	3,739	35.4	1067
28	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	66%	226.6%	0.59	1:44	3.1	100%	3,328	35.7	1034
29	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	59%	222.0%	0.60	1:46	5.8	96%	2,878	37.3	635
30	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	65%	221.5%	0.60	1:46	2.8	100%	4,178	34.9	961

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.