Swablu counters

#0333

normal flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

2,702

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Swablu should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 429-470.

Weak torock1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6x

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 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 Swablu counters are Mega Raichu X, Shadow Thundurus (Therian), Regieleki, Kyurem (White), Shadow Rampardos & Thundurus (Therian).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu X
S. Thundurus (Therian)
Regieleki
Kyurem (White)
S. Rampardos
Thundurus (Therian)

3 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 Raichu XMegapartyThunder Shock / Volt Tackle+0.050:09
2Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
3Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.060:10
4RegielekiLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Thunder Cage0.060:11
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.060:11
6Mega DiancieMegaLegendaryRock Throw / Rock Slide0.060:11
7Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.060:11
8Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.060:11
9Thundurus (Therian)LegendarypartyVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.060:11
10Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:12

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 Swablu

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Top 15 Swablu 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 Raichu Xelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:09	0.05	4779.6%
2	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4438.9%
3	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
4	Regielekielectric	electricThunder ShockelectricThunder Cage	2,803	0:11	0.06	4144.3%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
6	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
7	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
8	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
9	Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
10	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.06	3790.4%
11	Shadow Electivireelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,079	0:12	0.07	3660.6%
12	Shadow Zapdoselectricflying	electricThunder ShockelectricThunderbolt	3,527	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
13	Shadow Raikouelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,452	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
14	Mega Manectricelectric	electricCharge BeamelectricWild Charge	3,580	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
15	Shadow Magnezoneelectricsteel	electricCharge BeamelectricWild Charge	3,205	0:12	0.07	3544.5%

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 Swablu.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Swablu'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%	1180%	4080.8%	0:11	0.06
Peck / Disarming Voice	100%	1194%	4075.5%	0:11	0.06
Astonish / Disarming Voice	100%	1197%	4075.5%	0:11	0.06
Peck / Aerial Ace	100%	1223%	4080.8%	0:11	0.06
Peck / Ice Beam	100%	1150%	4080.8%	0:11	0.06
Astonish / Aerial Ace	100%	1221%	4080.8%	0:11	0.06
Astonish / Ice Beam	100%	1164%	4080.8%	0:11	0.06

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…

Swablu 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 Swablu 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
ghostAstonish	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
iceIce Beam	95	-50	3.5s	1.50s
flyingAerial AceSTAB	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s
fairyDisarming Voice	70	-33	4.0s	3.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	429	537
11/11/11	437	547
12/12/12	445	557
13/13/13	454	567
14/14/14	462	578
15/15/15hundo	470	588

Caught CP range 429 - 470, or 537 - 588 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.

Swablu 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 54 / Defense 87 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	100%	4779.6%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	78.9	719
2	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	89%	4438.9%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	84.3	828
3	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	84%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,659	69.3	693
4	Regieleki electric Thunder Shock / Thunder Cage	Thunder Shock / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	77%	4144.3%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,803	61.3	644
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	75%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,428	52.7	606
6	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	71%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,346	52.3	601
7	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	74%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,605	58.8	676
8	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	67%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,298	53.9	620
9	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	70%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,659	53.2	612
10	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	73%	3790.4%	0.06	0:12	100%	6,112	60.1	691
11	Shadow Electivire electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	67%	3660.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,079	54.3	646
12	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt+11 more movesets	67%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,527	51.2	614
13	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	69%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,452	52.7	632
14	Mega Manectric electricmega Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	68%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,580	50.3	603
15	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+15 more movesets	71%	3544.5%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,205	49.9	613
16	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	69%	3535.9%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,783	50.3	620
17	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	66%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,733	48.6	607
18	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	66%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,346	49.7	621
19	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	63%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,105	53.2	665
20	Shadow Luxray electricshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	61%	3374.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,888	49.3	636
21	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch+7 more movesets	59%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,345	46.6	606
22	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Avalanche	Snarl / Avalanche+11 more movesets	60%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,005	46.8	608
23	Shadow Manectric electricshadow Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	57%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,340	47.9	622
24	Deoxys (Attack) psychic Zen Headbutt / Zap Cannon	Zen Headbutt / Zap Cannon+5 more movesets	48%	3317.9%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,580	52.1	684
25	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	63%	3292.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,605	56.2	744
26	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	65%	3246.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,979	45.7	613
27	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rollout / Wild Charge	Rollout / Wild Charge+8 more movesets	62%	3217.4%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,949	46.4	627
28	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	61%	3215.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,429	45.6	618
29	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	57%	3200.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,128	54.0	735
30	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Ice Beam	Psycho Cut / Ice Beam+23 more movesets	57%	3163.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,178	46.5	640

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.