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Empoleon

#0395
Attack
210
Defense
186
Stamina
197
Best fast:
Steel Wing 16.80 DPS with STAB
Best charged:
Hydro Cannon 2.16 DPE with STAB
Max CP:
3,318

In-game artwork for this exact form (PokeMiners asset dump).

Slug:
empoleon
Game Master form:
EMPOLEON (no form template)
Family:
FAMILY_PIPLUP

Base stats and CP

Straight from the Game Master; CP uses the level 1 to 51 CPM table. Ranks are recomputed over the released forms in the snapshot on every render.

Attack#320 of 1,123 · top 28.5%
210
Defense#257 of 1,123 · top 22.9%
186
Stamina#262 of 1,123 · top 23.3%
197

Stat product 7,694,820 — #231 of 1,123 released forms. Bars are scaled against the highest value in the snapshot, not a round number.

Max CP (L40)
2,900
15/15/15, old level cap
Max CP (L50)
3,279
15/15/15, current level cap
Max CP (L51)
3,318
15/15/15 best buddy — Pokebattler's headline
Catch CP (L20)
1,581 - 1,657
IV 10 to 15
Catch CP (L25)
1,976 - 2,072
weather boosted, IV 10 to 15

Evolution family

2 evolutions in this line, with the candy and everything else the game asks for — read out of the Game Master's evolutionBranch, form by form.

  1. Base
  2. Stage 2
    Prinplup150/139/162 · 1,701 CP
    25 candy
    • 22 candy once purified
  3. Stage 3
    Empoleon210/186/197 · 2,900 CP
    100 candy
    • 90 candy once purified

Evolutions are form-accurate: a regional form evolves into its own regional form, and a branch the game does not have is not drawn (Alolan Raichu names Pikachu as its parent but is not what Pikachu evolves into, so no line is shown). Mega Evolution is not part of this family — it costs Mega Energy and reverts, so it sits with the forms above.

In the field

Buddy, Pokedex and unlock numbers, all read from this form's own Game Master template.

Buddy distance
3 km
walked per candy
Height
1.7 m
Weight
84.5 kg
Second charged move
25 candy
10,000 stardust
Shadow move
Frustration
Return once purified

Best against

Which raid bosses Empoleon is a top counter for, aggregated over the 120 bosses on the roster the same way pokebattler.com aggregates its own attacker rankings.

Top ten finishes
1
of 120 bosses ranked
Matchups
13
bosses it places on at all
Points
170
Pokebattler's published weighting

Its best showing is6againstDiancie(Tier 5) with Steel Wing + Flash Cannon.

  • #6DiancierockfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    2.65
    Time to win
    12:10
    Points
    30
    Steel Wing + Flash Cannon
  • #13XerneasfairyTier 5live
    Estimator
    3.00
    Time to win
    13:50
    Points
    20
    Steel Wing + Flash Cannon
  • #14RegirockrockTier 5
    Estimator
    3.66
    Time to win
    16:51
    Points
    20
    Metal Claw + Hydro Cannon
  • #14ZacianfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    3.69
    Time to win
    16:57
    Points
    20
    Metal Claw + Flash Cannon
  • #17EnteifireTier 5
    Estimator
    2.37
    Time to win
    10:55
    Points
    10
    Waterfall + Hydro Cannon
  • #21Shadow TorchicfireShadow Tier 1live
    Estimator
    0.11
    Time to win
    0:19
    Points
    0
    Waterfall + Hydro Cannon
  • #21KyuremdragoniceTier 5
    Estimator
    2.63
    Time to win
    12:06
    Points
    10
    Metal Claw + Flash Cannon
  • #23VictinipsychicfireTier 5
    Estimator
    2.85
    Time to win
    13:06
    Points
    10
    Waterfall + Hydro Cannon
  • #23Tapu LelepsychicfairyTier 5
    Estimator
    3.33
    Time to win
    15:20
    Points
    10
    Steel Wing + Flash Cannon
  • #24TerrakionrockfightingTier 5
    Estimator
    2.56
    Time to win
    11:46
    Points
    10
    Metal Claw + Hydro Cannon
  • #25BlacephalonfireghostTier 5
    Estimator
    2.16
    Time to win
    9:57
    Points
    10
    Waterfall + Hydro Cannon
  • #27NihilegorockpoisonTier 5
    Estimator
    2.63
    Time to win
    12:06
    Points
    10
    Steel Wing + Hydro Cannon
  • #27Enamorus (Therian)fairyflyingTier 5
    Estimator
    3.11
    Time to win
    14:18
    Points
    10
    Metal Claw + Flash Cannon

"Details" opens Empoleon's per-move damage against that boss, its breakpoints and its energy cycle — the same drawer the boss page opens.

Ranked with Shadow, Mega and Legendary attackers hidden — pokebattler.com's own default, so a place here is comparable with a place on its counter page. With everything switched on it places on 0 bosses. Its Shadow form places on 2 more, best #18 vs Diancie. Points follow pokebattler.com's published rule — 5 for a first place, 4 for a second, 3 for a fourth, 2 for an eighth, 1 for a sixteenth, weighted 10x at Tier 5 / Mega, 4x at Tier 3 and 0x at Tier 1. Level 40, 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging. Snapshot generated 2026-10-05.

As a raid boss (Tier 3)

Boss stats use 15/15/15 IVs, the tier CP multiplier and the tier's fixed HP pool.

Lobby CP
19,139
Attack
164
Defense
146
HP
3,600

Not in the current raid rotation snapshot. The counters below are still exact for the tier this form would be hosted at.

Best counters against Empoleon →

Catch CP after the raid

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor1,5811,976
11/11/111,5961,995
12/12/121,6112,014
13/13/131,6262,033
14/14/141,6422,052
15/15/15hundo1,6572,072

Caught CP range 1,581 - 1,657, or 1,976 - 2,072 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.

Type matchups

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 0.625x resisted, 0.390625x doubly resisted.

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

Every tile and chip is a link: it opens the Pokedex filtered to that type, so a weakness leads straight to the attackers that exploit it. Pokebattler lists only the weaknesses; the eleven types that do neither matter as much to a raider deciding what to bring, so all 18 are shown with the exact multiplier.

Movepool

4 fast and 5 charged moves, elite / legacy included. Ranked by damage per second (fast) and damage per energy (charged), both with this form's x1.2 STAB applied where it earns it.

Best moveset25.7 DPS

10 x Metal Claw per Hydro Cannon · 7.0s cycle · 180 power with STAB

#225.1 DPS

7 x Steel Wing per Hydro Cannon · 9.0s cycle · 226 power with STAB

#323.3 DPS

8 x Waterfall per Hydro Cannon · 10.0s cycle · 233 power with STAB

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSEPSSource
Steel WingSTABsteel14+81.0s16.808.00standard
WaterfallSTABwater13+71.0s15.607.00standard
Metal ClawSTABsteel6+50.5s14.4010.00standard
Metal SoundSTABsteel4+60.5s9.6012.00standard

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSDPESource
Hydro CannonSTABwater90-502.0s54.002.16elite / legacy
Drill Peckflying70-332.5s28.002.12standard
Hydro PumpSTABwater135-1003.5s46.291.62standard
Blizzardice130-1003.0s43.331.30standard
Flash CannonSTABsteel100-1002.5s48.001.20standard

STAB marks moves that share a type with this form (x1.2 damage), and the DPS and DPE columns above already have that x1.2 in them — so a STAB move and a stronger-on-paper neutral move can be compared straight down the column, which is how the best-moveset cards rank them too. Power and Duration stay raw; hover a DPS or DPE figure to see the arithmetic. Att DPS and Def DPS are the two columns pokebattler.com prints in the same table, reproduced exactly: both are raw with no STAB, Def DPS is power / duration, and Att DPS is power / (duration + 2s), the gym move delay. They are there so this table can be diffed against theirs row by row — every row on the pages read on 2026-09-11 matches. Energy is gained on fast moves and spent on charged moves. Every move name opens its own page with the damage window and every other form that learns it — or browse all moves.

Trainer Battles

The same moves, on the Trainer Battle clock: 0.5s per turn, 100 energy cap, stat changes included. These numbers come from a separate Game Master template and are not the raid numbers above.

Best pairing12.6DPT

Metal Sound+Hydro Cannon

5 fast throws · 10 turns · 5.0s to fire

#212.4DPT

Waterfall+Hydro Cannon

4 fast throws · 12 turns · 6.0s to fire

#311.0DPT

Metal Claw+Hydro Cannon

6 fast throws · 12 turns · 6.0s to fire

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyTurnsDPTEPT
WaterfallSTABwater11+103(1.5s)4.403.33
Steel WingSTABsteel7+52(1.0s)4.202.50
Metal ClawSTABsteel5+72(1.0s)3.003.50
Metal SoundSTABsteel5+82(1.0s)3.004.00

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDPEEffect
Hydro CannonSTABwater80-402.40none
Hydro PumpSTABwater130-752.08none
Flash CannonSTABsteel110-652.03none
Blizzardice140-751.87none
Drill Peckflying70-401.75none

Turns are the one-based count the game and every reference site print: the Game Master ships a zero-based durationTurns, so its 1 is a 2-turn move. DPT and EPT are damage and energy per turn and DPE is damage per energy, both with this form's x1.2 STAB already in them where the row is flagged STAB, so the columns can be read straight down; Power and Energy stay raw. A stat change moves the target up or down the game's own ladder (0.50, 0.57, 0.67, 0.80, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 for stages -4 to +4). Every Trainer Battle number is audited on the data-quality page.

Acquisition and variants

Shadow and Purified

Available as a Shadow Pokemon (x1.2 attack, x0.833 defense). Shadow charged move FRUSTRATION, purified RETURN.

Second charged move

10,000 Stardust and 25 Candy.

Max Battles

Cannot Dynamax.

Mega Evolution

This entry is not a Mega or Primal form.

Forms of Empoleon (1)

Every form the snapshot carries for this dex number. Each one appears exactly once.

FormTypesAtkDefStaMovesStatus
Empoleonwatersteel2101861974f / 5creleased

Where this data comes from

Every field above is read from the committed snapshot, never typed by hand.

Built 2026-10-03 from the PokeMiners Game Master (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeMiners/game_masters/master/latest/latest.json), refreshed automatically every day.

No hand-curated correction was needed for this form; it comes straight from the Game Master template.

Checked against Pokebattler1 movepool difference

Their entry: EMPOLEON — 4 fast, 6 charged. Ours: 4 fast, 5 charged.

  • Return (charged) — only on Pokebattler: Return (purified only)

Source: https://fight.pokebattler.com/pokemon, read 2026-10-03. The full diff across all 1,269 forms is on the movepool cross-check.

Snapshot integrity is re-checked on every build and on the data quality page.