Sylveon counters

#0700

fairyTier 1

Lobby CP

7,920

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

130

Defense

131

Difficulty

0.08

Pokebattler scale

Beating Sylveon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,675-1,753.

Weak topoison1.6xsteel1.6x

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 Steel Mega — most top counters attack with Steel

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 Sylveon counters are Necrozma (Dusk Mane), Zacian (Crowned Sword), Zamazenta (Crowned Shield), Mega Lucario, Shadow Metagross & Shadow Dialga.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Necrozma (Dusk Mane)
Zacian (Crowned Sword)
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
M. Lucario
S. Metagross
S. Dialga

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 %

1Necrozma (Dusk Mane)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Sunsteel Strike0.070:13
2Zacian (Crowned Sword)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Blade0.070:13
3Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash0.080:14
4Mega LucarioMegapartyForce Palm / Meteor Mash0.090:16
5Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyFury Cutter / Meteor Mash0.090:16
6Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.090:17
7Mega MetagrossMegaFury Cutter / Meteor Mash0.090:17
8Mega VictreebelMegaAcid / Acid Spray+0.090:17
9Mega BeedrillMegaPoison Jab / Sludge Bomb0.100:17
10Shadow DialgaShadowLegendarypartyMetal Claw / Iron Head0.100:18

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

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Top 15 Sylveon 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	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)psychicsteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelSunsteel Strike	4,099	0:13	0.07	0.0	3353.6%
2	Zacian (Crowned Sword)fairysteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Blade	4,979	0:13	0.07	0.0	3345.9%
3	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
4	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmsteelMeteor Mash	3,826	0:16	0.09	0.0	2759.2%
5	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	bugFury CuttersteelMeteor Mash	3,791	0:16	0.09	0.0	2748.8%
6	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:17	0.09	0.0	2630.7%
7	Mega Metagrosssteelpsychic	bugFury CuttersteelMeteor Mash	4,911	0:17	0.09	0.0	2629.4%
8	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	poisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+	3,505	0:17	0.09	0.0	2564.4%
9	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	poisonPoison JabpoisonSludge Bomb	3,383	0:17	0.10	0.0	2546.4%
10	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	steelMetal ClawsteelIron Head	4,038	0:18	0.10	0.0	2458.8%
11	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:18	0.10	0.0	2444.8%
12	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelIron Head	3,244	0:18	0.10	0.0	2430.0%
13	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostHexpoisonSludge Bomb	4,336	0:18	0.10	0.0	2374.4%
14	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	steelSteel WingflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:18	0.10	0.0	2356.5%
15	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickpoisonSludge Bomb	2,878	0:19	0.10	0.1	2341.7%

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 Sylveon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Sylveon'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	616%	2932.2%	0:15	0.08
Quick Attack / Draining Kiss	100%	716%	2874.4%	0:15	0.08
Quick Attack / Moonblast	100%	672%	2886.3%	0:15	0.08
Quick Attack / Dazzling Gleam	100%	652%	2890.3%	0:15	0.08
Fairy Wind / Draining Kiss	100%	701%	2891.7%	0:15	0.08
Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam	100%	635%	2895.7%	0:15	0.08
Fairy Wind / Moonblast	100%	659%	2913.1%	0:15	0.08
Quick Attack / Shadow Ball	100%	597%	2917.2%	0:15	0.08
Fairy Wind / Shadow Ball	100%	571%	2926.7%	0:15	0.08
Charm / Draining Kiss	100%	635%	2937.7%	0:15	0.08
Charm / Moonblast	100%	618%	2959.8%	0:15	0.08
Charm / Dazzling Gleam	100%	600%	2962.6%	0:15	0.08
Charm / Shadow Ball	100%	538%	2966.8%	0:15	0.08

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…

Sylveon 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.

poison1.6x steel1.6x normal1x flying1x ground1x rock1x ghost1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x fairy1x fighting0.63x bug0.63x dark0.63x dragon0.39x

Weak (2)
Neutral (12)
Resists (4)

It resists dragon0.39xfighting0.625xbug0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Sylveon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fairyCharmSTAB	20	+11	1.5s	0.90s
fairyFairy WindSTAB	9	+13	1.0s	0.63s
normalQuick Attack	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fairyMoonblastSTAB	130	-100	4.0s	2.30s
fairyDazzling GleamSTAB	100	-50	3.5s	2.10s
ghostShadow Ball	100	-50	3.0s	2.40s
fairyDraining KissSTAB	60	-50	2.5s	0.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,675	2,094
11/11/11	1,691	2,114
12/12/12	1,706	2,133
13/13/13	1,722	2,153
14/14/14	1,738	2,172
15/15/15hundo	1,753	2,192

Caught CP range 1,675 - 1,753, or 2,094 - 2,192 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.

Sylveon 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 130 / Defense 131 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

Share these exact settings

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	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) top pickpsychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	98%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,099	46.8	608
2	Zacian (Crowned Sword) top pickfairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	100%	3345.9%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,979	49.8	649
3	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	90%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,172	43.1	604
4	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Meteor Mash	Force Palm / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	71%	2759.2%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,826	39.9	630
5	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	75%	2748.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,791	39.0	617
6	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	74%	2630.7%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	45.3	750
7	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	75%	2629.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,911	36.2	600
8	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Acid / Acid Spray+	Acid / Acid Spray++23 more movesets	69%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,505	35.7	607
9	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+23 more movesets	66%	2546.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,383	36.7	629
10	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	63%	2458.8%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,038	37.4	662
11	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	61%	2444.8%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,701	35.2	626
12	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+14 more movesets	62%	2430.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,244	34.9	626
13	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Hex / Sludge Bomb	Hex / Sludge Bomb+31 more movesets	62%	2374.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,336	35.8	649
14	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	63%	2356.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,741	33.4	617
15	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Sludge Bomb	Lick / Sludge Bomb+31 more movesets	55%	2341.7%	0.10	0:19	0.1	100%	2,878	33.5	580
16	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	56%	2313.7%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,780	36.7	690
17	Lucario fightingsteel Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	54%	2301.1%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,703	32.0	600
18	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	56%	2256.8%	0.11	0:19	0.1	100%	4,099	32.1	586
19	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	56%	2255.0%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	5,713	32.2	617
20	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	55%	2248.3%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,510	31.2	597
21	Dialga steeldragon Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	57%	2223.1%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,038	30.7	602
22	Metagross steelpsychic Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	59%	2221.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,791	34.1	668
23	Kyurem (White) dragonice Steel Wing / Ice Burn	Steel Wing / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	53%	2199.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,605	31.4	622
24	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	54%	2188.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	6,112	33.8	672
25	Shadow Overqwil darkpoisonshadow Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+9 more movesets	53%	2154.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,946	34.4	695
26	Naganadel poisondragon Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+9 more movesets	52%	2143.3%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,173	33.5	681
27	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Metal Sound / Flash Cannon	Metal Sound / Flash Cannon+15 more movesets	53%	2115.2%	0.11	0:21	0.0	100%	3,205	29.2	602
28	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+7 more movesets	57%	2113.1%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	4,429	34.7	716
29	Shadow Vileplume grasspoisonshadow Acid / Sludge Bomb	Acid / Sludge Bomb+7 more movesets	51%	2108.1%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,559	29.4	595
30	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Acid / Sludge Bomb	Acid / Sludge Bomb+19 more movesets	50%	2088.8%	0.12	0:21	0.1	100%	2,431	29.6	579

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.