Barbaracle counters

#0689

rock waterTier 1

Lobby CP

7,593

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

124

Defense

131

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Barbaracle should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,455-1,528.

Weak tograss2.56xfighting1.6xground1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Grass Mega — most top counters attack with Grass

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 Barbaracle counters are Mega Chesnaught, Shadow Sceptile, Shadow Exeggutor, Shadow Alolan Exeggutor, Kartana & Shaymin (Sky).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Chesnaught
S. Sceptile
S. Exeggutor
S. Alolan Exeggutor
Kartana
Shaymin (Sky)

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 %

1Mega ChesnaughtMegapartyLow Kick / Seed Bomb+0.060:11
2Mega SceptileMegaFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.060:11
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
4Shadow SceptileShadowpartyBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.070:13
5Shadow ExeggutorShadowpartyBullet Seed / Solar Beam0.070:13
6Shadow Alolan ExeggutorShadowpartyBullet Seed / Solar Beam0.070:13
7KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.070:13
8Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Solar Beam0.070:13
9Shaymin (Sky)LegendarypartyMagical Leaf / Seed Flare0.070:13
10XurkitreeLegendarySpark / Power Whip0.070:13

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

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Top 15 Barbaracle 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 Chesnaughtgrassfightingjoint top pick	fightingLow KickgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:11	0.06	4036.1%
2	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:11	0.06	3896.1%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	3797.0%
4	Shadow Sceptilegrass	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:13	0.07	3476.6%
5	Shadow Exeggutorgrasspsychic	grassBullet SeedgrassSolar Beam	3,014	0:13	0.07	3460.1%
6	Shadow Alolan Exeggutorgrassdragon	grassBullet SeedgrassSolar Beam	3,014	0:13	0.07	3406.0%
7	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:13	0.07	3384.8%
8	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgrassSolar Beam	5,902	0:13	0.07	3377.0%
9	Shaymin (Sky)grassflying	grassMagical LeafgrassSeed Flare	3,592	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
10	Xurkitreeelectric	electricSparkgrassPower Whip	3,937	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
11	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricSparkelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
12	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgrassSolar Beam	4,115	0:13	0.07	3333.1%
13	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,505	0:13	0.07	3273.0%
14	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:13	0.07	3263.2%
15	Shadow Victreebelgrasspoison	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	2,431	0:13	0.07	3246.2%

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 Barbaracle.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Barbaracle'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	841%	3504.4%	0:12	0.07
Water Gun / Grass Knot	100%	882%	3424.1%	0:13	0.07
Water Gun / Skull Bash	100%	1029%	3426.0%	0:13	0.07
Water Gun / Stone Edge	100%	978%	3444.8%	0:13	0.07
Fury Cutter / Grass Knot	100%	837%	3463.8%	0:13	0.07
Fury Cutter / Skull Bash	100%	887%	3471.5%	0:13	0.07
Mud-Slap / Skull Bash	100%	816%	3483.0%	0:13	0.07
Mud-Slap / Grass Knot	100%	838%	3488.8%	0:12	0.07
Fury Cutter / Stone Edge	100%	833%	3490.8%	0:12	0.07
Mud-Slap / Stone Edge	100%	792%	3506.4%	0:12	0.07
Water Gun / Cross Chop	100%	867%	3524.1%	0:12	0.07
Water Gun / Razor Shell	100%	859%	3524.1%	0:12	0.07
Fury Cutter / Razor Shell	100%	804%	3548.0%	0:12	0.07
Mud-Slap / Razor Shell	100%	793%	3558.0%	0:12	0.07
Mud-Slap / Cross Chop	100%	795%	3566.1%	0:12	0.07
Fury Cutter / Cross Chop	100%	793%	3566.1%	0:12	0.07

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…

Barbaracle 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.

grass2.56x fighting1.6x ground1.6x electric1.6x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x flying0.63x poison0.63x ice0.63x fire0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fire0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xpoison0.625xice0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Barbaracle throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
groundMud-Slap	19	+13	1.5s	1.25s
waterWater GunSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
bugFury Cutter	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockStone EdgeSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
waterRazor ShellSTAB	55	-33	1.5s	0.85s
normalSkull Bash	130	-100	3.0s	1.70s
grassGrass Knot	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
fightingCross Chop	50	-50	1.5s	0.80s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,455	1,820
11/11/11	1,470	1,838
12/12/12	1,484	1,856
13/13/13	1,499	1,874
14/14/14	1,514	1,892
15/15/15hundo	1,528	1,911

Caught CP range 1,455 - 1,528, or 1,820 - 1,911 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.

Barbaracle 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 124 / Defense 131 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Low Kick / Seed Bomb+	Low Kick / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	100%	4036.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,093	57.8	624
2	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	86%	3896.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,056	61.0	682
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	86%	3797.0%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,112	64.9	744
4	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	70%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,757	53.6	671
5	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Bullet Seed / Solar Beam	Bullet Seed / Solar Beam+11 more movesets	73%	3460.1%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,014	51.4	647
6	Shadow Alolan Exeggutor grassdragonshadow Bullet Seed / Solar Beam	Bullet Seed / Solar Beam+7 more movesets	74%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,014	50.4	645
7	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	68%	3384.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,677	59.2	761
8	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Solar Beam	Mud Shot / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	71%	3377.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	5,902	50.6	652
9	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Seed Flare	Magical Leaf / Seed Flare+11 more movesets	71%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,592	46.3	602
10	Xurkitree electric Spark / Power Whip	Spark / Power Whip+7 more movesets	64%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,937	46.6	606
11	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Spark / Zap Cannon+	Spark / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	65%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,780	46.3	602
12	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Solar Beam	Mud Shot / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	67%	3333.1%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,115	46.1	603
13	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	67%	3273.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,505	49.5	659
14	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	62%	3263.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,161	48.1	641
15	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	62%	3246.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,431	46.0	618
16	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	66%	3166.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,030	51.4	707
17	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Leaf Blade	Psycho Cut / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	63%	3159.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,521	44.6	615
18	Shadow Tangela grassshadow Vine Whip / Grass Knot	Vine Whip / Grass Knot+7 more movesets	60%	3159.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,238	46.6	642
19	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	62%	3150.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,826	45.0	622
20	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	67%	3150.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,833	50.1	693
21	Roserade grasspoison Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+29 more movesets	62%	3147.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,971	48.5	672
22	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	67%	3129.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,954	53.7	748
23	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	65%	3125.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,720	53.3	743
24	Tapu Bulu grassfairy Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	Bullet Seed / Grass Knot+9 more movesets	63%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,419	43.0	602
25	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard	Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard+9 more movesets	65%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,698	43.3	606
26	Tsareena grass Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+17 more movesets	62%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,964	44.6	624
27	Shadow Meganium grassshadow Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	61%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,410	44.0	616
28	Decidueye grassghost Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant+19 more movesets	65%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,775	45.1	632
29	Shadow Shiftry grassdarkshadow Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade	Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade+15 more movesets	57%	3105.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,333	43.7	612
30	Simisage grass Vine Whip / Grass Knot	Vine Whip / Grass Knot+5 more movesets	59%	3089.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,350	42.9	605

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