Articuno counters

#0144

ice flyingElite

Lobby CP

46,379

20,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

203

Defense

247

Difficulty

2.77

Pokebattler scale

Beating Articuno should take 3 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,665-1,743.

Weak torock2.56xsteel1.6xfire1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Rock Mega — most top counters attack with Rock

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 Articuno counters are Mega Diancie, Shadow Rampardos, Shadow Rhyperior, Shadow Gigalith, Shadow Tyranitar & Zacian (Crowned Sword).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Diancie
S. Rampardos
S. Rhyperior
S. Gigalith
S. Tyranitar
Zacian (Crowned Sword)

2 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 DiancieMegaLegendarypartyRock Throw / Rock Slide2.5911:54
2Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide2.6812:19
3Shadow RhyperiorShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Wrecker2.7412:38
4Mega TyranitarMegaSmack Down / Stone Edge2.7712:44
5Shadow GigalithShadowpartySmack Down / Meteor Beam2.8112:55
6Shadow TyranitarShadowpartySmack Down / Stone Edge2.9013:21
7Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+2.9113:25
8Zacian (Crowned Sword)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Blade2.9513:36
9Mega AerodactylMegaRock Throw / Rock Slide2.9713:39
10RampardosSmack Down / Rock Slide2.9813:42

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

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Raid tier — Elite Raid

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Related countersGalarian Articuno

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Top 15 Articuno 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 Diancierockfairyjoint top pick	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	11:54	2.59	6.0	42.6%
2	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	12:19	2.68	6.0	41.1%
3	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	12:38	2.74	6.0	40.1%
4	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DownrockStone Edge	5,347	12:44	2.77	6.0	39.8%
5	Shadow Gigalithrock	rockSmack DownrockMeteor Beam	3,228	12:55	2.81	6.0	39.3%
6	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DownrockStone Edge	3,834	13:21	2.90	6.0	38.0%
7	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	13:25	2.91	5.9	37.8%
8	Zacian (Crowned Sword)fairysteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Blade	4,979	13:36	2.95	5.6	37.3%
9	Mega Aerodactylrockflying	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,118	13:39	2.97	6.0	37.1%
10	Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	13:42	2.98	6.0	37.0%
11	Glimmorarockpoison	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,273	13:53	3.02	6.0	36.5%
12	Shadow Aurorusrockice	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	2,802	13:53	3.02	6.0	36.5%
13	Shadow Aggronsteelrock	rockSmack DownrockMeteor Beam	3,000	13:56	3.03	6.0	36.4%
14	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)psychicsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelSunsteel Strike	4,099	14:07	3.07	5.8	35.9%
15	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	14:15	3.10	4.9	35.6%

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 Articuno.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Articuno'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 % (3)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	97%	47%	39.7%	12:46	6.0	2.77
Ice Shard / Blizzard	74%	33%	35.9%	14:06	6.0	3.07
Frost Breath / Blizzard	82%	33%	36.1%	14:02	6.0	3.05
Powder Snow / Blizzard	83%	34%	36.2%	13:59	6.0	3.04
Frost Breath / Ice Beam	100%	41%	39.3%	12:54	6.0	2.80
Ice Shard / Ice Beam	100%	42%	39.4%	12:51	6.0	2.79
Powder Snow / Ice Beam	100%	44%	39.8%	12:45	6.0	2.77
Ice Shard / Triple Axel	100%	49%	40.2%	12:36	6.0	2.74
Frost Breath / Triple Axel	100%	48%	40.3%	12:35	6.0	2.73
Powder Snow / Triple Axel	100%	51%	40.5%	12:31	6.0	2.72
Ice Shard / Icy Wind	100%	55%	40.8%	12:26	5.9	2.70
Powder Snow / Icy Wind	100%	58%	41.0%	12:21	5.8	2.68
Frost Breath / Icy Wind	100%	55%	41.1%	12:20	6.0	2.68
Frost Breath / Ancient Power	100%	64%	41.2%	12:17	5.9	2.67
Ice Shard / Ancient Power	100%	65%	41.5%	12:13	5.8	2.66
Powder Snow / Ancient Power	100%	70%	41.5%	12:13	5.8	2.65

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 3 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…

Articuno 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.

rock2.56x steel1.6x fire1.6x electric1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x water1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x bug0.63x grass0.63x ground0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (3)
Neutral (11)
Resists (3)

It resists ground0.39xbug0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Articuno throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
iceFrost BreathSTAB	11	+9	1.0s	0.55s
iceIce ShardSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.40s
icePowder SnowSTAB	6	+15	1.0s	0.85s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
iceBlizzardSTAB	130	-100	3.0s	1.40s
iceTriple AxelSTAB	60	-33	2.0s	1.50s
iceIce BeamSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.50s
iceIcy WindSTAB	65	-33	3.5s	2.20s
rockAncient Power	70	-33	3.5s	2.85s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,665	2,082
11/11/11	1,681	2,101
12/12/12	1,696	2,121
13/13/13	1,712	2,140
14/14/14	1,728	2,160
15/15/15hundo	1,743	2,179

Caught CP range 1,665 - 1,743, or 2,082 - 2,179 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.

Articuno 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

Elite: 20,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 203 / Defense 247 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.985).

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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 % (3)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	100%	42.6%	2.59	11:54	30.9	100%	4,346	29.8	630
2	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	92%	41.1%	2.68	12:19	47.8	82%	3,298	29.9	438
3	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	92%	40.1%	2.74	12:38	37.6	96%	3,733	28.4	598
4	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	98%	39.8%	2.77	12:44	19.8	100%	5,347	27.1	975
5	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	91%	39.3%	2.81	12:55	33.1	100%	3,228	27.4	586
6	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	89%	38.0%	2.90	13:21	30.7	100%	3,834	26.3	642
7	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	92%	37.8%	2.91	13:25	21.7	100%	4,783	25.8	915
8	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	93%	37.3%	2.95	13:36	17.7	100%	4,979	25.3	1083
9	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	84%	37.1%	2.97	13:39	43.3	94%	4,118	26.3	459
10	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	84%	37.0%	2.98	13:42	43.2	88%	3,298	26.2	460
11	Glimmora rockpoison Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+7 more movesets	85%	36.5%	3.02	13:53	34.1	100%	3,273	25.5	573
12	Shadow Aurorus rockiceshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	88%	36.5%	3.02	13:53	24.7	100%	2,802	25.0	784
13	Shadow Aggron steelrockshadow Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+23 more movesets	88%	36.4%	3.03	13:56	22.2	100%	3,000	24.8	878
14	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	89%	35.9%	3.07	14:07	19.2	100%	4,099	24.4	1000
15	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	90%	35.6%	3.10	14:15	15.2	100%	4,172	24.0	1316
16	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	78%	35.3%	3.12	14:21	56.3	80%	3,128	26.1	401
17	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	80%	35.3%	3.12	14:21	43.0	76%	3,780	25.0	461
18	Rhyperior groundrock Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	80%	34.7%	3.17	14:36	37.9	62%	3,733	24.3	586
19	Terrakion rockfighting Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	80%	34.4%	3.21	14:45	31.6	80%	3,698	23.7	661
20	Shadow Omastar rockwatershadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	80%	34.0%	3.24	14:54	31.9	64%	2,786	23.5	611
21	Gigalith rock Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	78%	33.3%	3.30	15:12	32.0	52%	3,228	23.1	606
22	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	76%	32.3%	3.41	15:40	29.5	0%	4,161	22.2	651
23	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Rock Slide	Fire Fang / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	74%	32.3%	3.41	15:41	40.6	0%	3,105	22.6	483
24	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rock Throw / Rock Blast	Rock Throw / Rock Blast+8 more movesets	73%	32.3%	3.41	15:42	42.7	0%	2,949	22.6	460
25	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	73%	32.0%	3.44	15:50	39.9	10%	3,510	22.4	487
26	Tyrantrum rockdragon Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	71%	32.0%	3.44	15:50	54.9	34%	3,128	23.0	407
27	Shadow Hisuian Arcanine firerockshadow Fire Fang / Rock Slide	Fire Fang / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	74%	31.9%	3.45	15:54	36.4	0%	3,145	22.1	562
28	Tyranitar rockdark Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	74%	31.7%	3.47	15:59	32.7	0%	3,834	21.8	615
29	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	75%	31.5%	3.49	16:05	25.6	0%	3,791	21.5	754
30	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	71%	31.3%	3.52	16:11	40.1	2%	4,038	21.9	481

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