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Not obtainable in Pokemon GO as of 2026-10-03: PvPoke flags it released:false and onemorecatch.site lists the species as unavailable. It is left out of default counter lists, boss pickers, tools and the Pokebox; the numbers on this page are what the Game Master gives it.

List checked 2026-10-03. Source: PvPoke gamemaster released:false flags (github.com/pvpoke/pvpoke, snapshot 2026-10-03 03:11:52) cross-checked with onemorecatch.site's unavailable list (updated 2026-10-02) and theclick.gg's Mega list (2026-09-16); PvP-only exclusions (Ditto, Shedinja, Spewpa, Cosmog, Cosmoem) and the stale Mega Camerupt flag corrected by hand.

Archaludon counters

Not released in Pokemon GO
Lobby CP
9,844
HP
600
Timer
3:00
Attack
158
Defense
137
Difficulty
0.08
Pokebattler scale

Beating Archaludon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,050-2,137.

Weak tofighting1.6xground1.6x

Who to bring

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

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

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+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Archaludon counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Conkeldurr, Shadow Gallade, Shadow Groudon & Keldeo.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. M. Mewtwo X
  2. S. Blaziken
  3. S. Conkeldurr
  4. S. Gallade
  5. S. Groudon
  6. Keldeo

5 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 %

  1. 1Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
  2. 2Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.080:14
  3. 3Mega LucarioMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.080:14
  4. 4Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.080:15
  5. 5Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+0.090:15
  6. 6Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.090:16
  7. 7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Focus Blast0.090:16
  8. 8Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyForce Palm / Dynamic Punch0.090:17
  9. 9Shadow GalladeShadowpartyLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.100:18
  10. 10Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:18
  11. 11KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.100:18

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

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Related countersShadow Archaludon
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Top 15 Archaludon 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
#AttackerMoveset
1Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pickfightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+6,1120:110.060.03948.4%
2Mega BlazikenfirefightingfightingCounterfightingAura Sphere4,1610:140.080.03168.3%
3Mega LucariofightingsteelfightingCounterfightingAura Sphere3,8260:140.080.03035.9%
4Mega GalladepsychicfightingfightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword4,5210:150.080.02864.4%
5Mega FalinksfightingfightingCounterfightingBrick Break+3,6700:150.090.02812.6%
6Shadow BlazikenfirefightingfightingCounterfightingAura Sphere2,8480:160.090.02698.1%
7Mega Mewtwo YpsychicfightingCounterfightingFocus Blast6,4280:160.090.02642.1%
8Shadow ConkeldurrfightingfightingForce PalmfightingDynamic Punch3,3370:170.090.02626.2%
9Shadow GalladepsychicfightingfightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword3,0930:180.100.12483.3%
10Shadow GroudongroundgroundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades4,1150:180.100.02463.0%
11KeldeowaterfightingfightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword3,6980:180.100.02408.6%
12Primal GroudongroundfiregroundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades5,9020:180.100.02357.7%
13Mega HeracrossbugfightingfightingCounterfightingClose Combat4,8140:180.100.02356.5%
14TerrakionrockfightingfightingDouble KickfightingSacred Sword3,6980:190.100.02351.0%
15BlazikenfirefightingfightingCounterfightingAura Sphere2,8480:190.100.02323.8%

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 Archaludon.

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

Simulating each boss moveset…

Archaludon 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.

  • Weak (2)
  • Neutral (6)
  • Resists (10)

It resists poison0.39xgrass0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xbug0.625xsteel0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Archaludon throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
dragonDragon TailSTAB14+81.0s0.75s
steelMetal ClawSTAB6+50.5s0.23s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
steelFlash CannonSTAB100-1002.5s1.40s
normalHyper Beam150-1004.0s3.50s
dragonDragon ClawSTAB45-331.5s0.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor2,0502,563
11/11/112,0672,584
12/12/122,0842,606
13/13/132,1022,627
14/14/142,1192,649
15/15/15hundo2,1372,671

Caught CP range 2,050 - 2,137, or 2,563 - 2,671 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.

Archaludon 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

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 158 / Defense 137 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Attackers allowed
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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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Mega Mewtwo X
psychicfightingmega
Counter / Dynamic Punch+
0.060:110.0
2
Mega Blaziken
firefightingmega
Counter / Aura Sphere
0.080:140.0
3
Mega Lucario
fightingsteelmega
Counter / Aura Sphere
0.080:140.0
4
Mega Gallade
psychicfightingmega
Low Kick / Sacred Sword
0.080:150.0
5
Mega Falinks
fightingmega
Counter / Brick Break+
0.090:150.0
6
Shadow Blaziken
firefightingshadow
Counter / Aura Sphere
0.090:160.0
7
Mega Mewtwo Y
psychicmega
Counter / Focus Blast
0.090:160.0
8
Shadow Conkeldurr
fightingshadow
Force Palm / Dynamic Punch
0.090:170.0
9
Shadow Gallade
psychicfightingshadow
Low Kick / Sacred Sword
0.100:180.1
10
Shadow Groudon
groundshadow
Mud Shot / Precipice Blades
0.100:180.0
11
Keldeo
waterfighting
Low Kick / Secret Sword
0.100:180.0
12
Primal Groudon
groundfiremega
Mud Shot / Precipice Blades
0.100:180.0
13
Mega Heracross
bugfightingmega
Counter / Close Combat
0.100:180.0
14
Terrakion
rockfighting
Double Kick / Sacred Sword
0.100:190.0
15
Blaziken
firefighting
Counter / Aura Sphere
0.100:190.0
16
Shadow Excadrill
groundsteelshadow
Mud Shot / Drill Run
0.110:190.0
17
Shadow Machamp
fightingshadow
Karate Chop / Dynamic Punch
0.110:190.1
18
Shadow Latios
dragonpsychicshadow
Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere
0.110:190.0
19
Groudon
ground
Mud Shot / Precipice Blades
0.110:190.0
20
Shadow Hariyama
fightingshadow
Counter / Dynamic Punch
0.110:190.0
21
Lucario
fightingsteel
Force Palm / Aura Sphere
0.110:190.0
22
Shadow Landorus (Therian)
groundflyingshadow
Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm
0.110:190.0
23
Mega Garchomp
dragongroundmega
Dragon Tail / Earth Power
0.110:190.0
24
Shadow Garchomp
dragongroundshadow
Mud Shot / Earth Power
0.110:190.0
25
Mega Alakazam
psychicmega
Counter / Focus Blast
0.110:200.1
26
Landorus (Therian)
groundflying
Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm
0.110:200.0
27
Kartana
grasssteel
Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword
0.110:200.0
28
Shadow Mewtwo
psychicshadow
Counter / Focus Blast
0.110:200.0
29
Shadow Raikou
electricshadow
Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere
0.110:200.0
30
Mega Latios
dragonpsychicmega
Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere
0.110:200.0
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 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.

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