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Sandslash counters

#0028

groundTier 1

Lobby CP

6,651

Attack

117

Defense

113

600

Raid timer

3 min

180s

Caught CP range 1,288 - 1,356.

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Sandslash 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.

Sandslash is weak to water1.6xgrass1.6xice1.6x

water1.6x grass1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x poison0.63x rock0.63x electric0.39x

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

It resists electric0.39xpoison0.625xrock0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

Best Sandslash counters

One trainer with counters this good beats Sandslash alone. Difficulty rating 0.10 with the best counter, 0:17 to win.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Rillaboomgrassjoint top pick	grassRazor LeafgrassFrenzy Plant	3,324	0:17	0.10	2517.0%
2	Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	2,654	0:17	0.10	2514.1%
3	Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:17	0.10	2502.6%
4	Sceptilegrass	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:18	0.10	2377.0%
5	Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)ice	iceIce FangiceAvalanche	3,105	0:17	0.10	2520.8%
6	Baxcaliburdragonice	iceIce FangiceAvalanche	3,550	0:18	0.10	2398.0%
7	Inteleonwater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	2,964	0:18	0.10	2461.6%
8	Primarinawaterfairy	waterWaterfallwaterHydro Cannon	3,200	0:18	0.10	2421.9%
9	Meowscaradagrassdark	grassLeafagegrassFrenzy Plant	2,825	0:18	0.10	2356.5%
10	Quaquavalwaterfighting	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,018	0:19	0.10	2355.2%
11	Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	2,974	0:19	0.11	2275.3%
12	Roseradegrasspoison	grassRazor LeafgrassGrass Knot	2,971	0:18	0.10	2408.6%

Ordered by Overall, pokebattler.com's own default — 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 — 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 Sandslash.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Sandslash'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 12 pairings, and it changes the fight. Each row re-runs the top 6 counters against that single moveset.

#	Boss moveset	Time to win	Estimator	Win %
1	groundMud Shot+groundBulldozehardest	0:18	0.10	100%
2	groundSand Attack+groundBulldoze	0:18	0.10	100%
3	groundMud Shot+rockRock Tomb	0:18	0.10	100%
4	groundSand Attack+rockRock Tomb	0:18	0.10	100%
5	steelMetal Claw+rockRock Tomb	0:18	0.10	100%
6	groundMud Shot+groundEarthquake	0:18	0.10	100%
7	groundMud Shot+groundScorching Sands	0:18	0.10	100%
8	steelMetal Claw+groundBulldoze	0:18	0.10	100%
9	groundSand Attack+groundScorching Sands	0:18	0.10	100%
10	groundSand Attack+groundEarthquake	0:18	0.10	100%
11	steelMetal Claw+groundScorching Sands	0:17	0.10	100%
12	steelMetal Claw+groundEarthquake	0:17	0.10	100%

A raid boss rolls only its standard movepool — 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 Sandslash throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelMetal Claw	6	+5	0.5s	0.23s
groundMud ShotSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.25s
groundSand AttackSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
groundEarthquakeSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.60s
groundScorching SandsSTAB	90	-50	3.0s	1.40s
groundBulldozeSTAB	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s
rockRock Tomb	65	-50	3.0s	2.05s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,288	1,610
11/11/11	1,301	1,627
12/12/12	1,315	1,644
13/13/13	1,329	1,661
14/14/14	1,342	1,678
15/15/15hundo	1,356	1,696

Caught CP range 1,288 - 1,356, or 1,610 - 1,696 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.

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

Boss stats

How the numbers in the header are built.

Base Attack

182

Game Master

Base Defense

175

Game Master

Base Stamina

181

ignored by a raid boss

Tier CPM

0.5974

600 fixed HP

Header number	Worked out	Value	Inputs from
Attack	floor((182 + 15) x 0.5974)	117	Game Master base Attack, tier CPM
Defense	floor((175 + 15) x 0.5974)	113	Game Master base Defense, tier CPM
HP	600 — fixed by tier, base Stamina 181 unused	600	tier HP pool
Lobby CP	floor((182 + 15) x sqrt(175 + 15) x sqrt(600) / 10) — no CPM term	6,651	Game 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 — stamina does nothing, which is why the same species is a different fight at every tier. Every tier constant above (CPM 0.5974, 600 HP, 180s timer) is copied from Pokebattler's own published /raids tier table into src/engine/constants.ts, with the source named there.

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