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Scyther

#0123
Attack
218
Defense
170
Stamina
172
Best fast:
Air Slash 14.40 DPS with STAB
Best charged:
Bug Buzz 2.28 DPE with STAB
Max CP:
3,096

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

Slug:
scyther
Game Master form:
SCYTHER (no form template)
Family:
FAMILY_SCYTHER

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#280 of 1,123 · top 24.9%
218
Defense#383 of 1,123 · top 34.1%
170
Stamina#466 of 1,123 · top 41.5%
172

Stat product 6,374,320 — #371 of 1,123 released forms. Bars are scaled against the highest value in the snapshot, not a round number.

Max CP (L40)
2,706
15/15/15, old level cap
Max CP (L50)
3,060
15/15/15, current level cap
Max CP (L51)
3,096
15/15/15 best buddy — Pokebattler's headline
Catch CP (L20)
1,472 - 1,546
IV 10 to 15
Catch CP (L25)
1,841 - 1,933
weather boosted, IV 10 to 15

Evolution family

1 evolution 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
    Scizor236/181/172 · 3,001 CP
    50 candy
    • Metal Coat
    • 45 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
5 km
walked per candy
Height
1.5 m
Weight
56 kg
Second charged move
75 candy
75,000 stardust
Shadow move
Frustration
Return once purified

Best against

Which raid bosses Scyther is a top counter for, aggregated over the 123 bosses on the roster the same way pokebattler.com aggregates its own attacker rankings.

Top ten finishes
1
of 123 bosses ranked
Matchups
8
bosses it places on at all
Points
104
Pokebattler's published weighting

Its best showing is9againstZarude(Tier 5) with Fury Cutter + X-Scissor.

  • #9ZarudedarkgrassTier 5
    Estimator
    2.02
    Time to win
    9:17
    Points
    20
    Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
  • #11CelebipsychicgrassTier 5
    Estimator
    2.04
    Time to win
    9:23
    Points
    20
    Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
  • #12Hoopa (Unbound)psychicdarkTier 5
    Estimator
    1.97
    Time to win
    9:03
    Points
    20
    Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
  • #15PheromosabugfightingTier 5
    Estimator
    1.02
    Time to win
    4:41
    Points
    20
    Air Slash + Aerial Ace
  • #16Hisuian LilligantgrassfightingTier 3live
    Estimator
    0.59
    Time to win
    1:43
    Points
    4
    Air Slash + Aerial Ace
  • #18BuzzwolebugfightingTier 5
    Estimator
    2.07
    Time to win
    9:32
    Points
    10
    Air Slash + Aerial Ace
  • #31Meloetta (Aria)normalpsychicTier 5
    Estimator
    3.62
    Time to win
    16:40
    Points
    10
    Fury Cutter + X-Scissor
  • #32DarkraidarkTier 5
    Estimator
    3.11
    Time to win
    14:20
    Points
    0
    Fury Cutter + X-Scissor

"Details" opens Scyther'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 1 boss (best #29 vs Hoopa (Unbound)). Its Shadow form places on 3 more, best #11 vs Hoopa (Unbound). 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 2026-10-04.

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
19,014
Attack
170
Defense
135
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 Scyther →

Catch CP after the raid

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor1,4721,841
11/11/111,4871,859
12/12/121,5021,877
13/13/131,5161,896
14/14/141,5311,914
15/15/15hundo1,5461,933

Caught CP range 1,472 - 1,546, or 1,841 - 1,933 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.

  • Double weak (1)
  • Weak (4)
  • Neutral (9)
  • Resists (3)
  • Double resists (1)
Resists
0.24xground
0.63xbug

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 bug / flying forms with the highest attack — they share every weakness and resistance above.

Movepool

3 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 moveset21.1 DPS

7 x Fury Cutter per Bug Buzz · 7.0s cycle · 148 power with STAB

#220.5 DPS

7 x Air Slash per Bug Buzz · 10.5s cycle · 215 power with STAB

#320.2 DPS

7 x Steel Wing per Bug Buzz · 10.5s cycle · 212 power with STAB

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSEPSSource
Air SlashSTABflying12+81.0s14.408.00standard
Steel Wingsteel14+81.0s14.008.00elite / legacy
Fury CutterSTABbug4+80.5s9.6016.00standard

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDurationDPSDPESource
Bug BuzzSTABbug95-503.5s32.572.28elite / legacy
Aerial AceSTABflying55-332.5s26.402.00standard
X-ScissorSTABbug45-331.5s36.001.64standard
Night Slashdark45-332.0s22.501.36standard
Trailblazegrass65-502.0s32.501.30standard

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 pairing11.6DPT

Fury Cutter+Bug Buzz

15 fast throws · 15 turns · 7.5s to fire

Lowers the opponent's Defense by 1 stage (30% chance)

#211.4DPT

Fury Cutter+X-Scissor

10 fast throws · 10 turns · 5.0s to fire

#39.6DPT

Fury Cutter+Aerial Ace

12 fast throws · 12 turns · 6.0s to fire

Fast moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyTurnsDPTEPT
Air SlashSTABflying9+93(1.5s)3.603.00
Fury CutterSTABbug3+41(0.5s)3.604.00
Steel Wingsteel7+52(1.0s)3.502.50

Charged moves

MoveTypePowerEnergyDPEEffect
Bug BuzzSTABbug100-602.00foe Def -1 @30%
X-ScissorSTABbug65-401.95none
Aerial AceSTABflying60-451.60none
Trailblazegrass65-451.44self Atk +1
Night Slashdark50-351.43self Atk +1 @13%

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

75,000 Stardust and 75 Candy.

Max Battles

Cannot Dynamax.

Mega Evolution

This entry is not a Mega or Primal form.

Forms of Scyther (1)

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

FormTypesAtkDefStaMovesStatus
Scytherbugflying2181701723f / 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) by npm run data:build.

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

Checked against Pokebattler1 movepool difference

Their entry: SCYTHER — 3 fast, 6 charged. Ours: 3 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.