Spearow counters

#0021

normal flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

2,694

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Spearow should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 415-456.

Weak torock1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6x

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 an Electric Mega — most top counters attack with Electric

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 Spearow counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Raikou, Shadow Electivire, Kyurem (White), Shadow Zapdos & Shadow Magnezone.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Raikou
S. Electivire
Kyurem (White)
S. Zapdos
S. Magnezone

2 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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Thunderbolt0.030:06
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Thunderbolt0.030:06
3Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
4Shadow RaikouShadowLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
5Shadow ElectivireShadowpartyThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
6Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.040:06
7Shadow ZapdosShadowLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Thunderbolt0.040:06
8Shadow MagnezoneShadowpartyCharge Beam / Wild Charge0.040:06
9Mega ManectricMegaCharge Beam / Wild Charge0.040:06
10Mega Raichu XMegaThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.040:06

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Spearow

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Top 15 Spearow 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutelectricThunderbolt	6,428	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutelectricThunderbolt	6,112	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
3	Mega Raichu Yelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,780	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
4	Shadow Raikouelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,452	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
5	Shadow Electivireelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,079	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
6	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
7	Shadow Zapdoselectricflying	electricThunder ShockelectricThunderbolt	3,527	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
8	Shadow Magnezoneelectricsteel	electricCharge BeamelectricWild Charge	3,205	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
9	Mega Manectricelectric	electricCharge BeamelectricWild Charge	3,580	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
10	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,510	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
11	Shadow Manectricelectric	electricThunder FangelectricWild Charge	2,340	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
12	Shadow Luxrayelectric	electricSparkelectricWild Charge	2,888	0:07	0.04	6488.5%
13	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunderbolt	3,659	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
14	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CuticeIce Beam	4,178	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
15	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)ice	iceIce FangiceAvalanche	3,105	0:07	0.04	6228.9%

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 Spearow.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Spearow'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”: 5 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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1865%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Peck / Aerial Ace	100%	1924%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Peck / Drill Peck	100%	1841%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Peck / Sky Attack	100%	1937%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Quick Attack / Aerial Ace	100%	1883%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Quick Attack / Drill Peck	100%	1803%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03
Quick Attack / Sky Attack	100%	1910%	6976.6%	0:06	0.03

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…

Spearow 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.

rock1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x steel1x fire1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x bug0.63x grass0.63x ground0.39x ghost0.39x

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

It resists ground0.39xghost0.39xbug0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Spearow throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingPeckSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.45s
normalQuick AttackSTAB	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingSky AttackSTAB	80	-50	2.0s	1.50s
flyingDrill PeckSTAB	70	-33	2.5s	1.90s
flyingAerial AceSTAB	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	415	519
11/11/11	423	529
12/12/12	431	539
13/13/13	439	549
14/14/14	447	559
15/15/15hundo	456	570

Caught CP range 415 - 456, or 519 - 570 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.

Spearow 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 75 / Defense 44 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	100%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,428	103.9	623
2	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	93%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,112	100.0	600
3	Mega Raichu Y top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	97%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,780	120.4	722
4	Shadow Raikou top pickelectricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	98%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,452	102.7	616
5	Shadow Electivire top pickelectricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	96%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,079	106.2	637
6	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	95%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,605	107.3	697
7	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt+11 more movesets	90%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,527	94.2	612
8	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+15 more movesets	98%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,205	93.4	607
9	Mega Manectric electricmega Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	93%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,580	92.8	603
10	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	91%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,510	95.3	619
11	Shadow Manectric electricshadow Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	83%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,340	93.7	609
12	Shadow Luxray electricshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	85%	6488.5%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,888	93.7	629
13	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	84%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,659	107.2	750
14	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Ice Beam	Psycho Cut / Ice Beam+23 more movesets	80%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,178	89.5	626
15	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	78%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,105	97.9	685
16	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	84%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,659	89.6	627
17	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	96%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	106.6	746
18	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rollout / Wild Charge	Rollout / Wild Charge+8 more movesets	91%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,949	88.7	621
19	Gigalith rock Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	99%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	88.9	622
20	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Ancient Power	Dragon Tail / Ancient Power+11 more movesets	78%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	5,713	83.2	624
21	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Tackle / Rock Slide	Tackle / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	78%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,346	81.9	614
22	Shadow Archeops rockflyingshadow Steel Wing / Ancient Power	Steel Wing / Ancient Power+5 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,331	82.8	621
23	Xurkitree electric Spark / Discharge	Spark / Discharge+7 more movesets	76%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,937	82.7	620
24	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Ancient Power	Rock Throw / Ancient Power+23 more movesets	82%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,118	84.8	636
25	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / Avalanche	Powder Snow / Avalanche+11 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,328	81.8	613
26	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	83%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,038	82.3	617
27	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	72%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,005	94.8	711
28	Mega Glalie icemega Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	73%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,229	82.0	615
29	Shadow Zebstrika electricshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+5 more movesets	73%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,428	80.6	604
30	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	67%	5707.0%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,161	83.4	636

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