Ariados counters

#0168

bug poisonTier 1

Lobby CP

5,082

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

105

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Ariados should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 953-1,012.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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+ 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 Ariados counters are Mega Staraptor, Shadow Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Shadow Rampardos, Shadow Galarian Articuno & Shadow Salamence.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Staraptor
S. Mewtwo
Rayquaza
S. Rampardos
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Salamence

8 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 StaraptorMegapartySand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
2Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.040:08
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.050:08
4Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
5Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
6Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
7Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
8Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:10
9Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.060:10
10RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
11Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.060:11
13Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.060:11
14Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.060:11

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Ariados

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Top 15 Ariados 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	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5455.6%
2	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.04	5441.9%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
4	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
5	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,783	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
6	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
7	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
8	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.05	4570.1%
9	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:10	0.06	4342.5%
10	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
11	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:11	0.06	4128.6%
12	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	flyingPeckpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:11	0.06	4127.8%
13	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	0:11	0.06	4101.4%
14	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
15	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockPower Gem	4,346	0:11	0.06	3963.4%

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 Ariados.

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

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1105%	4311.8%	0:10	0.06
Infestation / Megahorn	100%	1082%	4279.5%	0:10	0.06
Poison Sting / Megahorn	100%	1086%	4288.2%	0:10	0.06
Infestation / Trailblaze	100%	1144%	4294.1%	0:10	0.06
Poison Sting / Trailblaze	100%	1204%	4300.0%	0:10	0.06
Poison Sting / Lunge	100%	1109%	4302.9%	0:10	0.06
Infestation / Lunge	100%	1167%	4305.9%	0:10	0.06
Poison Sting / Cross Poison	100%	1016%	4311.8%	0:10	0.06
Poison Sting / Shadow Sneak	100%	1068%	4314.8%	0:10	0.06
Infestation / Foul Play	100%	1053%	4314.8%	0:10	0.06
Infestation / Cross Poison	100%	993%	4317.7%	0:10	0.06
Infestation / Shadow Sneak	100%	1162%	4320.7%	0:10	0.06
Poison Sting / Foul Play	100%	1094%	4341.6%	0:10	0.06

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…

Ariados 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.

flying1.6x rock1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x normal1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x poison0.63x bug0.63x fairy0.63x fighting0.39x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fighting0.39xgrass0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Ariados throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugInfestationSTAB	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugMegahornSTAB	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
darkFoul Play	70	-50	2.0s	1.70s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
poisonCross PoisonSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.90s
bugLungeSTAB	55	-33	3.0s	2.50s
ghostShadow Sneak	50	-33	3.0s	2.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	953	1,191
11/11/11	964	1,206
12/12/12	976	1,220
13/13/13	988	1,235
14/14/14	1,000	1,250
15/15/15hundo	1,012	1,265

Caught CP range 953 - 1,012, or 1,191 - 1,265 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.

Ariados 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 105 / Defense 83 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Staraptor top pickfightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5455.6%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	76.7	613
2	Mega Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	90%	5441.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	117.4	939
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	81%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,112	77.2	656
4	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,510	66.7	600
5	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	67.1	637
6	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	73%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,455	63.9	607
7	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	72%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,161	65.7	624
8	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	77%	4570.1%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,713	79.9	762
9	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	60%	4342.5%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,178	66.6	670
10	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	64%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,835	58.5	614
11	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	54%	4128.6%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,298	59.0	623
12	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Peck / Psybeam+	Peck / Psybeam++14 more movesets	62%	4127.8%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,143	59.4	626
13	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	60%	4101.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,590	64.4	683
14	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	58%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,749	54.9	604
15	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Power Gem	Rock Throw / Power Gem+5 more movesets	57%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,346	55.0	605
16	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	60%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,465	55.0	605
17	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+15 more movesets	56%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,825	55.2	607
18	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Brave Bird	Peck / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	53%	3934.8%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,711	57.1	631
19	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Extrasensory / Sacred Fire++	Extrasensory / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	62%	3824.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,863	58.2	663
20	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge	Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge+9 more movesets	52%	3817.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,812	57.7	658
21	Mewtwo psychic Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	54%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,178	61.3	704
22	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	53%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,521	53.1	610
23	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	52%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,512	53.1	610
24	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mystical Fire	Incinerate / Mystical Fire+7 more movesets	53%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,297	56.8	653
25	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	51%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,059	52.4	603
26	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	54%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,848	55.0	632
27	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	52%	3764.9%	0.06	0:12	100%	3,733	53.1	615
28	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge	Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge+9 more movesets	52%	3751.9%	0.06	0:12	100%	5,007	59.0	684
29	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Psycho Cut / Synchronoise	Psycho Cut / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	51%	3701.0%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,093	51.5	607
30	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Future Sight	Psycho Cut / Future Sight+17 more movesets	45%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,057	50.7	608

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