Tangela counters

#0114

grassTier 1

Lobby CP

6,578

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

118

Defense

109

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Tangela should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,212-1,278.

Weak toflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 a Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Tangela counters are Mega Beedrill, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Moltres, Blacephalon, Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) & Reshiram.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Beedrill
S. Reshiram
S. Moltres
Blacephalon
S. Darmanitan (Standard)
Reshiram

6 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 BeedrillMegapartyBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.060:10
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.060:11
4Mega VictreebelMegaAcid / Acid Spray+0.070:12
5Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.070:12
6Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.070:12
7Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.070:13
8BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.070:13
9Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:14
10Mega Charizard YMegaEmber / Overheat0.080:14
12ReshiramLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.080:14

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Tangela

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Top 15 Tangela 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 Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:10	0.06	4206.4%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:11	0.06	3962.7%
4	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	poisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+	3,505	0:12	0.07	3700.3%
5	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:12	0.07	3669.2%
6	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:12	0.07	3504.6%
7	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
8	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
9	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
10	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireOverheat	4,455	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
11	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinflyingBrave Bird	4,161	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
12	Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
13	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
14	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:14	0.08	3087.5%
15	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:14	0.08	3070.2%

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 Tangela.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Tangela'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%	827%	3392.7%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Solar Beam	100%	1011%	3332.2%	0:13	0.07
Vine Whip / Solar Beam	100%	970%	3342.1%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Grass Knot	100%	859%	3394.9%	0:13	0.07
Vine Whip / Grass Knot	100%	815%	3403.0%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Sludge Bomb	100%	766%	3417.1%	0:13	0.07
Vine Whip / Sludge Bomb	100%	706%	3447.9%	0:13	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…

Tangela 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.

flying1.6x poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (5)
Neutral (9)
Resists (4)

It resists ground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Tangela throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassVine WhipSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.25s
bugInfestation	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassGrass KnotSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
grassSolar BeamSTAB	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
poisonSludge Bomb	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,212	1,515
11/11/11	1,225	1,531
12/12/12	1,238	1,548
13/13/13	1,251	1,565
14/14/14	1,265	1,581
15/15/15hundo	1,278	1,598

Caught CP range 1,212 - 1,278, or 1,515 - 1,598 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.

Tangela 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 118 / Defense 109 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	96%	4206.4%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,383	58.8	609
2	Mega Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	58.1	610
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	93%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,979	60.0	660
4	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Acid / Acid Spray+	Acid / Acid Spray++23 more movesets	82%	3700.3%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,505	52.8	621
5	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	81%	3669.2%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,783	65.7	780
6	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	75%	3504.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,038	54.0	671
7	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	73%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	46.5	605
8	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	70%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,297	49.5	644
9	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	59%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,105	47.9	669
10	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Overheat	Ember / Overheat+29 more movesets	69%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,455	43.5	609
11	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Brave Bird	Fire Spin / Brave Bird+20 more movesets	62%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,161	45.0	630
12	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	67%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,038	43.2	605
13	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	60%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,825	45.1	632
14	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	65%	3087.5%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,749	50.3	709
15	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	60%	3070.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,689	47.7	676
16	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	72%	3061.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,741	46.9	667
17	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	55%	3021.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,842	42.6	614
18	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	62%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	6,428	43.4	629
19	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	64%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,605	42.7	619
20	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Brave Bird	Incinerate / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	67%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,863	42.4	614
21	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon	Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	67%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,429	43.0	623
22	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	60%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,215	43.7	633
23	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	58%	2990.1%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,268	48.6	708
24	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	59%	2990.1%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,473	42.4	618
25	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+20 more movesets	56%	2990.1%	0.08	0:15	100%	2,848	43.5	634
26	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	68%	2981.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,031	45.8	670
27	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	63%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,754	41.9	628
28	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	55%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,132	41.5	623
29	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Fire Blast	Fire Fang / Fire Blast+17 more movesets	57%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,842	40.4	606
30	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	61%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,850	40.3	605

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.