Mega Ampharos counters

#0181

electric dragonMega

Lobby CP

43,282

9,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

244

Defense

172

Difficulty

0.97

Pokebattler scale

Beating Mega Ampharos should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,554-1,630 (you catch Ampharos).

Weak toground1.6xice1.6xdragon1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Dragon Mega — most top counters attack with Dragon

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 Ampharos counters are Eternatus, Mega Rayquaza, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Haxorus, Shadow Garchomp & Kyurem (White).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Eternatus
M. Rayquaza
Kyurem (Black)
S. Haxorus
S. Garchomp
Kyurem (White)

3 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 %

1EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.894:09
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.924:15
3Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Tail / Outrage+0.964:29
4Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.984:33
5Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe1.014:41
6Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe1.044:50
7Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades1.064:56
8Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe1.085:00
9Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyDragon Breath / Ice Burn1.095:04
10Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendaryMud Shot / Sandsear Storm1.105:06

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

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Raid tier — Easy Mega Raid

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Related countersAmpharos

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Top 15 Mega Ampharos 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	Eternatuspoisondragonjoint top pick	dragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	4:09	0.89	5.2	122.3%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,713	4:15	0.92	5.7	119.2%
3	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	4:29	0.96	5.7	113.1%
4	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	dragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock	4,605	4:33	0.98	5.9	111.3%
5	Mega Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,424	4:41	1.01	4.3	108.2%
6	Shadow Haxorusdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,593	4:50	1.04	6.0	104.8%
7	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	4:56	1.06	5.1	102.8%
8	Shadow Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,962	5:00	1.08	5.0	101.4%
9	Kyurem (White)dragonice	dragonDragon BreathiceIce Burn	4,605	5:04	1.09	6.0	100.2%
10	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	5:06	1.10	6.0	99.4%
11	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	5:18	1.14	5.8	95.8%
12	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	5:18	1.14	6.0	95.7%
13	Mega Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	5,031	5:31	1.19	5.8	91.9%
14	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	dragonDragon BreathdragonDraco Meteor	4,038	5:34	1.20	5.9	91.0%
15	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	bugFury CutterdragonBreaking Swipe	4,056	5:35	1.20	5.9	90.7%

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 Ampharos.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Mega Ampharos'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	81%	150%	109.1%	4:39	5.6	1.00
Volt Switch / Focus Blast	49%	123%	105.2%	4:49	6.0	1.04
Charge Beam / Power Gem	63%	123%	105.7%	4:48	6.0	1.03
Volt Switch / Power Gem	64%	124%	106.4%	4:46	6.0	1.03
Charge Beam / Focus Blast	58%	130%	106.7%	4:45	6.0	1.02
Charge Beam / Zap Cannon	90%	157%	108.3%	4:41	5.8	1.01
Charge Beam / Thunder	85%	176%	108.9%	4:39	5.4	1.00
Volt Switch / Zap Cannon	92%	157%	109.2%	4:39	5.8	1.00
Volt Switch / Thunder	85%	173%	109.8%	4:37	5.6	0.99
Volt Switch / Brutal Swing	88%	141%	110.1%	4:36	6.0	0.99
Charge Beam / Brutal Swing	86%	141%	110.1%	4:36	6.0	0.99
Charge Beam / Thunder Punch	86%	204%	111.1%	4:34	5.1	0.98
Volt Switch / Thunder Punch	85%	201%	111.3%	4:33	5.2	0.98
Charge Beam / Trailblaze	82%	202%	111.5%	4:33	5.1	0.98
Volt Switch / Trailblaze	89%	193%	111.5%	4:33	5.3	0.98

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 Ampharos 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.

ground1.6x ice1.6x dragon1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x poison1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x psychic1x dark1x flying0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (8)
Resists (6)

It resists electric0.39xflying0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Mega Ampharos throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricVolt SwitchSTAB	13	+20	1.5s	0.60s
electricCharge BeamSTAB	7	+14	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricZap CannonSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.80s
electricThunderSTAB	100	-100	2.5s	1.30s
fightingFocus Blast	140	-100	3.5s	3.00s
darkBrutal Swing	65	-33	2.0s	1.30s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
electricThunder PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.90s
rockPower Gem	80	-50	3.0s	2.05s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,554	1,943
11/11/11	1,569	1,961
12/12/12	1,584	1,980
13/13/13	1,599	1,999
14/14/14	1,614	2,018
15/15/15hundo	1,630	2,037

Caught CP range 1,554 - 1,630, or 1,943 - 2,037 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 Ampharos 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 244 / Defense 172 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	100%	122.3%	0.89	4:09	5.8	100%	4,429	37.2	1465
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	93%	119.2%	0.92	4:15	9.1	100%	5,713	36.5	1023
3	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	89%	113.1%	0.96	4:29	8.0	98%	4,823	34.8	1158
4	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	87%	111.3%	0.98	4:33	9.4	100%	4,605	34.3	1024
5	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	89%	108.2%	1.01	4:41	5.3	100%	5,424	32.5	1806
6	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	78%	104.8%	1.04	4:50	13.9	86%	3,593	32.7	664
7	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	83%	102.8%	1.06	4:56	6.3	64%	5,902	31.0	1432
8	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	81%	101.4%	1.08	5:00	7.5	68%	3,962	30.6	1348
9	Kyurem (White) dragonice Dragon Breath / Ice Burn	Dragon Breath / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	77%	100.2%	1.09	5:04	10.5	34%	4,605	30.8	908
10	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	75%	99.4%	1.10	5:06	12.8	34%	3,922	31.1	707
11	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	74%	95.8%	1.14	5:18	9.9	10%	4,115	29.3	990
12	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	73%	95.7%	1.14	5:18	11.0	6%	6,428	29.7	828
13	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	71%	91.9%	1.19	5:31	10.4	0%	5,031	28.2	927
14	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+9 more movesets	69%	91.0%	1.20	5:34	12.5	0%	4,038	28.2	797
15	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	70%	90.7%	1.20	5:35	10.9	0%	4,056	27.8	890
16	Shadow Palkia waterdragonshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	67%	90.6%	1.20	5:36	16.2	0%	3,991	28.6	571
17	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	69%	90.5%	1.21	5:36	11.0	0%	6,112	27.9	812
18	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	70%	90.2%	1.21	5:37	10.4	0%	5,007	27.5	875
19	Rayquaza dragonflying Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	66%	89.1%	1.22	5:41	15.3	0%	3,835	27.8	633
20	Palkia (Origin) waterdragon Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend	Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend+9 more movesets	67%	88.9%	1.23	5:42	13.6	0%	4,142	27.6	655
21	Haxorus dragon Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	66%	88.8%	1.23	5:43	13.8	0%	3,593	27.4	659
22	Dialga (Origin) steeldragon Dragon Breath / Roar of Time	Dragon Breath / Roar of Time+7 more movesets	68%	88.4%	1.23	5:44	9.8	0%	4,090	27.0	974
23	Shadow Dragonite dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Dragon Claw	Dragon Tail / Dragon Claw+23 more movesets	65%	87.8%	1.24	5:47	15.9	0%	3,792	27.4	606
24	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	64%	87.8%	1.24	5:47	18.2	0%	3,749	28.1	574
25	Baxcalibur dragonice Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush	Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush+11 more movesets	65%	87.7%	1.24	5:47	15.2	0%	3,550	27.5	712
26	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+5 more movesets	65%	86.8%	1.26	5:51	14.6	0%	4,038	27.4	796
27	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	64%	86.5%	1.26	5:52	14.1	0%	4,512	26.8	649
28	Garchomp dragonground Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	67%	85.0%	1.28	5:58	8.5	0%	3,962	25.7	1310
29	Dragapult dragonghost Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+7 more movesets	62%	83.7%	1.30	6:03	14.1	0%	3,532	25.8	688
30	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	61%	82.9%	1.32	6:07	16.0	0%	3,244	26.0	695

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