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Palkia

#0484
Attack
280
Defense
215
Stamina
189
Best fast:
Dragon Tail 16.80 DPS with STAB
Best charged:
Aqua Tail 1.82 DPE with STAB
Max CP:
4,565

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

FormsPalkiaPalkia (Origin)
Slug:
palkia
Game Master form:
PALKIA (no form template)
Family:
FAMILY_PALKIA

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#60 of 1,123 · top 5.3%
280
Defense#108 of 1,123 · top 9.6%
215
Stamina#335 of 1,123 · top 29.8%
189

Stat product 11,377,800 — #64 of 1,123 released forms. Bars are scaled against the highest value in the snapshot, not a round number.

Max CP (L40)
3,991
15/15/15, old level cap
Max CP (L50)
4,512
15/15/15, current level cap
Max CP (L51)
4,565
15/15/15 best buddy — Pokebattler's headline
Catch CP (L20)
2,190 - 2,280
IV 10 to 15
Catch CP (L25)
2,737 - 2,850
weather boosted, IV 10 to 15

In the field

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

Buddy distance
20 km
walked per candy
Height
4.2 m
Weight
336 kg
Second charged move
100 candy
100,000 stardust
Shadow move
Frustration
Return once purified

Best against

Which raid bosses Palkia 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
0
of 120 bosses ranked
Matchups
4
bosses it places on at all
Points
30
Pokebattler's published weighting

Its best showing is15againstBagon(Shadow Tier 1) with Dragon Tail + Draco Meteor.

  • #15Shadow BagondragonShadow Tier 1live
    Estimator
    0.08
    Time to win
    0:15
    Points
    0
    Dragon Tail + Draco Meteor
  • #30ZekromdragonelectricTier 5
    Estimator
    2.36
    Time to win
    10:53
    Points
    10
    Dragon Tail + Draco Meteor
  • #31PalkiawaterdragonTier 5
    Estimator
    2.67
    Time to win
    12:16
    Points
    10
    Dragon Tail + Draco Meteor
  • #31Palkia (Origin)waterdragonTier 5
    Estimator
    2.81
    Time to win
    12:54
    Points
    10
    Dragon Tail + Draco Meteor

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

Palkia places nowhere with Shadow, Mega and Legendary attackers hidden, so the table above is the everything-on ranking. With everything switched on it places on 4 bosses (best #15 vs Bagon). Its Shadow form places on 15 more, best #13 vs Palkia. 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 5)

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

Lobby CP
54,793
Attack
233
Defense
181
HP
15,000

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 Palkia →

Catch CP after the raid

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor2,1902,737
11/11/112,2072,760
12/12/122,2252,782
13/13/132,2442,805
14/14/142,2622,828
15/15/15hundo2,2802,850

Caught CP range 2,190 - 2,280, or 2,737 - 2,850 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 (2)
  • Neutral (13)
  • Resists (3)
Weak to
Resists
0.63xsteel

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.

Same typing, same matchups

Released water / dragon forms with the highest attack — they share every weakness and resistance above.

Movepool

2 fast and 4 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 moveset24.1 DPS

13 x Dragon Tail per Draco Meteor · 16.5s cycle · 398 power with STAB

#223.1 DPS

13 x Dragon Tail per Hydro Pump · 16.5s cycle · 380 power with STAB

#322.5 DPS

25 x Dragon Breath per Draco Meteor · 16.0s cycle · 360 power with STAB

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSEPSSource
Dragon TailSTABdragon14+81.0s16.808.00standard
Dragon BreathSTABdragon6+40.5s14.408.00standard

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSDPESource
Aqua TailSTABwater50-332.0s30.001.82standard
Draco MeteorSTABdragon150-1003.5s51.431.80standard
Hydro PumpSTABwater135-1003.5s46.291.62standard
Fire Blastfire140-1004.0s35.001.40standard

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 pairing14.2DPT

Dragon Breath+Draco Meteor

17 fast throws · 17 turns · 8.5s to fire

Lowers its own Attack by 2 stages

#213.6DPT

Dragon Tail+Draco Meteor

6 fast throws · 18 turns · 9.0s to fire

Lowers its own Attack by 2 stages

#311.8DPT

Dragon Breath+Hydro Pump

19 fast throws · 19 turns · 9.5s to fire

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyTurnsDPTEPT
Dragon TailSTABdragon9+123(1.5s)3.604.00
Dragon BreathSTABdragon3+41(0.5s)3.604.00

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDPEEffect
Draco MeteorSTABdragon150-652.77self Atk -2
Hydro PumpSTABwater130-752.08none
Aqua TailSTABwater55-351.89none
Fire Blastfire140-801.75none

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

100,000 Stardust and 100 Candy.

Max Battles

Cannot Dynamax.

Mega Evolution

This entry is not a Mega or Primal form.

Forms of Palkia (2)

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

FormTypesAtkDefStaMovesStatus
Palkiawaterdragon2802151892f / 4creleased
Palkia (Origin)waterdragon2862231892f / 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: PALKIA — 2 fast, 5 charged. Ours: 2 fast, 4 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.