Raichu counters

#0026

electricTier 1

Lobby CP

6,564

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

124

Defense

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Raichu should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,180-1,247.

Weak toground1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Raichu counters are Shadow Landorus (Therian), Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mamoswine, Shadow Excadrill, Shadow Rhyperior & Shadow Landorus (Incarnate).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Landorus (Therian)
M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mamoswine
S. Excadrill
S. Rhyperior
S. Landorus (Incarnate)

4 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 %

1Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.060:11
2Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyConfusion / Future Sight+0.060:11
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.070:12
4Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Earthquake0.070:12
5Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earthquake0.080:13
6Shadow MamoswineShadowpartyMud-Slap / High Horsepower0.080:13
7Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Earthquake0.080:14
8Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Tail / Outrage+0.080:14
9Shadow RhyperiorShadowpartyMud-Slap / Earthquake0.080:14
10Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.080:14

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 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	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflyingjoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:11	0.06	4116.9%
2	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:11	0.06	3854.1%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.07	3725.8%
4	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	5,902	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
5	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	5,424	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
6	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	groundMud-SlapgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
7	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,244	0:14	0.08	3100.7%
8	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	0:14	0.08	3055.1%
9	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,733	0:14	0.08	3055.1%
10	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:14	0.08	3033.8%
11	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	4,115	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
12	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:15	0.08	2984.0%
13	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:15	0.08	2879.5%
14	Shadow Haxorusdragon	dragonDragon TailgroundEarthquake	3,593	0:15	0.09	2812.6%
15	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:15	0.09	2812.6%

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 Raichu.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of 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.

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%	727%	3339.6%	0:13	0.07
Spark / Skull Bash	100%	807%	3219.7%	0:14	0.08
Thunder Shock / Skull Bash	100%	766%	3219.7%	0:14	0.08
Spark / Thunder Punch	100%	890%	3248.0%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	100%	890%	3248.0%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Skull Bash	100%	707%	3261.5%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Thunder Punch	100%	838%	3280.3%	0:13	0.07
Spark / Volt Tackle	100%	858%	3297.5%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle	100%	858%	3297.5%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Volt Tackle	100%	799%	3311.4%	0:13	0.07
Spark / Brick Break	100%	830%	3311.4%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Brick Break	100%	830%	3311.4%	0:13	0.07
Spark / Wild Charge	100%	791%	3321.9%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	100%	791%	3321.9%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Wild Charge	100%	763%	3341.4%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Skull Bash	100%	617%	3344.9%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Brick Break	100%	773%	3348.5%	0:13	0.07
Spark / Trailblaze	100%	689%	3366.5%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Trailblaze	100%	689%	3366.5%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Thunder Punch	100%	723%	3375.5%	0:13	0.07
Spark / Surf	100%	614%	3381.0%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Surf	100%	614%	3381.0%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Volt Tackle	100%	699%	3384.6%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Trailblaze	100%	648%	3390.1%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Wild Charge	100%	676%	3404.8%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Brick Break	100%	697%	3447.8%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Trailblaze	100%	617%	3455.4%	0:13	0.07
Volt Switch / Surf	100%	598%	3470.7%	0:13	0.07
Charm / Surf	100%	585%	3513.4%	0:12	0.07

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…

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 normal1x fighting1x poison1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x fire1x water1x grass1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x flying0.63x steel0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (1)
Neutral (14)
Resists (3)

It resists flying0.625xsteel0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Raichu throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fairyCharm	20	+11	1.5s	0.90s
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
normalSkull Bash	130	-100	3.0s	1.70s
electricWild ChargeSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
waterSurf	60	-50	1.5s	1.20s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
electricVolt TackleSTAB	90	-33	3.5s	2.10s
electricThunder PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.90s
fightingBrick Break	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	1,180	1,476
11/11/11	1,193	1,492
12/12/12	1,207	1,508
13/13/13	1,220	1,525
14/14/14	1,233	1,542
15/15/15hundo	1,247	1,558

Caught CP range 1,180 - 1,247, or 1,476 - 1,558 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.

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 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 124 / Defense 99 (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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	100%	4116.9%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,922	57.9	613
2	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	98%	3854.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	6,428	57.4	648
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	92%	3725.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	6,112	53.0	618
4	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	92%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	5,902	48.9	611
5	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+13 more movesets	84%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	0.0	100%	5,424	44.5	600
6	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	73%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	0.0	100%	3,328	46.0	621
7	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	72%	3100.7%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,244	48.9	686
8	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	73%	3055.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,823	43.5	620
9	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	71%	3055.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,733	45.9	653
10	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	70%	3033.8%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,588	46.7	670
11	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	72%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,115	42.0	609
12	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	74%	2984.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,962	46.3	675
13	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	63%	2879.5%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,826	40.6	614
14	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Earthquake	Dragon Tail / Earthquake+9 more movesets	61%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,593	40.1	621
15	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	65%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,922	39.3	609
16	Shadow Donphan groundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+19 more movesets	63%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,013	39.7	615
17	Excadrill groundsteel Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	64%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,244	39.4	610
18	Shadow Rhydon groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+9 more movesets	62%	2805.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,179	41.3	635
19	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+11 more movesets	61%	2792.7%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	2,949	39.2	593
20	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	63%	2728.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	5,713	38.6	616
21	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	62%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,783	38.3	613
22	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	57%	2705.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,784	43.6	694
23	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	59%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,328	36.4	601
24	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	65%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,429	36.5	602
25	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	57%	2602.7%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,178	39.7	664
26	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	59%	2590.3%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,733	36.2	608
27	Shadow Torterra grassgroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	60%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	2,934	36.5	621
28	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	56%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,346	35.5	604
29	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	54%	2549.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,161	37.5	642
30	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Earth Power	Fire Spin / Earth Power+11 more movesets	56%	2531.7%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,754	35.6	612

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