Mega Absol counters

#0359

darkMega

Lobby CP

37,583

9,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

259

Defense

114

Difficulty

0.65

Pokebattler scale

Beating Mega Absol should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,370-1,443 (you catch Absol).

Weak tofighting1.6xbug1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

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+ also breaks two Super Mega shields at once; that part is not simulated. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Mega Absol counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Keldeo, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Conkeldurr, Lucario & Terrakion.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
Keldeo
S. Blaziken
S. Conkeldurr
Lucario
Terrakion

7 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 Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.522:24
2Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.632:55
3Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.642:59
4Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+0.703:14
5KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.713:18
6Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.713:19
7Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.733:25
8Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.753:28
9Mega HeracrossMegaCounter / Megahorn0.793:40
10Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyForce Palm / Dynamic Punch0.813:47
12LucariopartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.823:50
13TerrakionLegendarypartyDouble Kick / Sacred Sword0.833:51

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

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Related countersAbsol

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Top 15 Mega Absol 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	2:24	0.52	5.3	211.9%
2	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	2:55	0.63	5.8	173.5%
3	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	2:59	0.64	5.7	170.2%
4	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	3:14	0.70	5.9	156.6%
5	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	3:18	0.71	6.0	153.6%
6	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	3:19	0.71	6.0	152.7%
7	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	3:25	0.73	6.0	148.5%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	3:28	0.75	6.0	146.3%
9	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterbugMegahorn	4,814	3:40	0.79	6.0	138.6%
10	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingForce PalmfightingDynamic Punch	3,337	3:47	0.81	6.0	134.3%
11	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	6,428	3:47	0.82	6.0	133.8%
12	Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	2,703	3:50	0.82	6.0	132.3%
13	Terrakionrockfighting	fightingDouble KickfightingSacred Sword	3,698	3:51	0.83	6.0	131.7%
14	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	3,093	3:52	0.83	6.0	131.2%
15	Kartanagrasssteel	bugFury CutterfightingSacred Sword	3,677	3:55	0.84	6.0	129.3%

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 Mega Absol.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Mega Absol'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.

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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	166%	148.1%	3:25	5.9	0.74
Psycho Cut / Thunder	100%	151%	145.5%	3:29	5.8	0.75
Snarl / Thunder	100%	150%	146.8%	3:27	5.8	0.74
Psycho Cut / Payback	100%	165%	147.4%	3:26	5.8	0.74
Snarl / Payback	100%	164%	147.7%	3:26	6.0	0.74
Snarl / Dark Pulse	100%	172%	148.3%	3:25	6.0	0.74
Psycho Cut / Dark Pulse	100%	173%	149.5%	3:24	5.9	0.73
Psycho Cut / Megahorn	100%	185%	150.8%	3:22	5.8	0.72
Snarl / Megahorn	100%	183%	150.9%	3:22	5.9	0.72

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…

Mega Absol 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.

fighting1.6x bug1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x ghost0.63x dark0.63x psychic0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists psychic0.39xghost0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Mega Absol throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkSnarlSTAB	11	+13	1.0s	0.75s
psychicPsycho Cut	4	+7	0.5s	0.27s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkPaybackSTAB	95	-100	2.0s	0.90s
bugMegahorn	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
electricThunder	100	-100	2.5s	1.30s
darkDark PulseSTAB	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,370	1,712
11/11/11	1,384	1,731
12/12/12	1,399	1,749
13/13/13	1,414	1,767
14/14/14	1,429	1,786
15/15/15hundo	1,443	1,805

Caught CP range 1,370 - 1,443, or 1,712 - 1,805 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.

Mega Absol 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

Mega: 9,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 259 / Defense 114 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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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	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	211.9%	0.52	2:24	5.6	100%	6,112	65.1	1464
2	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	79%	173.5%	0.63	2:55	7.8	100%	3,826	54.0	1128
3	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	78%	170.2%	0.64	2:59	7.7	100%	4,161	52.6	1142
4	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	72%	156.6%	0.70	3:14	7.3	100%	3,670	48.9	1192
5	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	70%	153.6%	0.71	3:18	7.7	100%	3,698	47.7	1126
6	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	66%	152.7%	0.71	3:19	12.3	100%	3,383	49.4	761
7	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	65%	148.5%	0.73	3:25	11.1	100%	2,848	46.8	821
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	64%	146.3%	0.75	3:28	10.8	100%	4,521	45.5	813
9	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Megahorn	Counter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	63%	138.6%	0.79	3:40	7.8	100%	4,814	42.8	1089
10	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	60%	134.3%	0.81	3:47	10.2	100%	3,337	41.8	858
11	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+26 more movesets	59%	133.8%	0.82	3:47	11.5	100%	6,428	42.0	799
12	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	58%	132.3%	0.82	3:50	11.1	100%	2,703	41.3	802
13	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	59%	131.7%	0.83	3:51	8.9	100%	3,698	40.7	979
14	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	56%	131.2%	0.83	3:52	14.3	100%	3,093	41.7	626
15	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	55%	129.3%	0.84	3:55	14.4	100%	3,677	40.9	632
16	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	56%	125.0%	0.87	4:04	9.0	100%	5,713	38.4	982
17	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	55%	124.5%	0.88	4:05	11.1	100%	2,848	38.7	807
18	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	54%	124.0%	0.88	4:05	11.8	100%	4,512	38.8	750
19	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	54%	123.5%	0.88	4:06	11.8	100%	3,056	38.5	748
20	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	53%	123.0%	0.89	4:07	12.9	100%	5,007	38.7	754
21	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	56%	122.4%	0.89	4:09	7.0	100%	4,979	37.4	1236
22	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere	Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	53%	122.1%	0.89	4:09	12.3	100%	3,452	38.3	740
23	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	52%	119.9%	0.91	4:14	11.5	100%	2,829	37.2	766
24	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	51%	117.5%	0.93	4:19	12.7	100%	4,182	36.8	713
25	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	49%	115.8%	0.94	4:23	16.5	100%	3,117	36.9	563
26	Urshifu (Rapid Strike) fightingwater Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	51%	115.3%	0.95	4:24	10.0	100%	3,606	35.7	887
27	Urshifu (Single Strike) fightingdark Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	52%	114.8%	0.95	4:25	8.7	100%	3,606	35.2	1067
28	Conkeldurr fighting Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	51%	114.8%	0.95	4:25	10.0	100%	3,337	35.3	884
29	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+7 more movesets	49%	112.5%	0.97	4:30	12.9	84%	3,548	35.4	801
30	Mega Lopunny normalfightingmega Double Kick / Focus Blast	Double Kick / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	49%	111.6%	0.98	4:33	10.4	100%	3,745	34.6	850

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 0.5 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.