Bruxish counters

#0779

water psychicTier 1

Lobby CP

6,909

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

133

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Bruxish should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,295-1,365.

Weak tobug1.6xghost1.6xgrass1.6xelectric1.6xdark1.6x

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 an Electric Mega — most top counters attack with Electric

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 Bruxish counters are Mega Raichu X, Shadow Thundurus (Therian), Regieleki, Shadow Darkrai, Necrozma (Dawn Wings) & Shadow Electivire.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu X
S. Thundurus (Therian)
Regieleki
S. Darkrai
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Electivire

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 %

1Mega Raichu XMegapartyThunder Shock / Volt Tackle+0.050:09
2Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.050:09
3Mega HoundoomMegaSnarl / Dark Pulse+0.050:09
4Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
5Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.060:10
6Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.060:10
7Mega SceptileMegaFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.060:11
8RegielekiLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Thunder Cage0.060:11
9Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.060:11
10Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Moongeist Beam0.060:11
11Shadow ElectivireShadowpartyThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.070:12

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

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Top 15 Bruxish 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 Raichu Xelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:09	0.05	4908.8%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:09	0.05	4865.0%
3	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:09	0.05	4717.5%
4	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4588.4%
5	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
6	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:10	0.06	4232.0%
7	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:11	0.06	3977.9%
8	Regielekielectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunder Cage	2,803	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
9	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:11	0.06	3797.7%
10	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	psychicPsycho CutghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
11	Shadow Electivireelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,079	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
12	Mega Manectricelectric	electricThunder FangelectricWild Charge	3,580	0:12	0.07	3556.0%
13	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:12	0.07	3533.0%
14	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
15	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	0:12	0.07	3487.8%

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 Bruxish.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Bruxish'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%	768%	4046.6%	0:11	0.06
Bite / Psychic Fangs	100%	894%	4007.9%	0:11	0.06
Water Gun / Psychic Fangs	100%	920%	4013.0%	0:11	0.06
Confusion / Psychic Fangs	100%	802%	4018.1%	0:11	0.06
Water Gun / Psyshock	100%	853%	4023.3%	0:11	0.06
Bite / Psyshock	100%	821%	4023.3%	0:11	0.06
Water Gun / Aqua Tail	100%	811%	4028.4%	0:11	0.06
Water Gun / Crunch	100%	810%	4028.4%	0:11	0.06
Bite / Aqua Tail	100%	775%	4028.4%	0:11	0.06
Bite / Crunch	100%	803%	4028.4%	0:11	0.06
Confusion / Crunch	100%	701%	4041.4%	0:11	0.06
Confusion / Psyshock	100%	747%	4059.7%	0:11	0.06
Confusion / Aqua Tail	100%	706%	4062.3%	0:11	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…

Bruxish 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.

bug1.6x ghost1.6x grass1.6x electric1.6x dark1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x dragon1x fairy1x fighting0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x water0.63x psychic0.63x ice0.63x

Weak (5)
Neutral (7)
Resists (6)

It resists fighting0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xwater0.625xpsychic0.625xice0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Bruxish throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
waterWater GunSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
darkBite	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychic FangsSTAB	25	-33	1.0s	0.20s
waterAqua TailSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.80s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,295	1,620
11/11/11	1,309	1,637
12/12/12	1,323	1,654
13/13/13	1,337	1,671
14/14/14	1,351	1,689
15/15/15hundo	1,365	1,707

Caught CP range 1,295 - 1,365, or 1,620 - 1,707 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.

Bruxish 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 133 / Defense 95 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Raichu X top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	98%	4908.8%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,510	73.8	655
2	Mega Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	89%	4865.0%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,383	73.6	657
3	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	4717.5%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,842	74.6	689
4	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	89%	4588.4%	0.05	0:10	0.0	100%	3,780	79.3	753
5	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	82%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,659	63.8	638
6	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	88%	4232.0%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,093	62.5	642
7	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	79%	3977.9%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	4,056	58.4	639
8	Regieleki electric Volt Switch / Thunder Cage	Volt Switch / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	72%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	2,803	54.8	603
9	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	75%	3797.7%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,739	55.9	641
10	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	74%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	4,099	52.4	602
11	Shadow Electivire electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	65%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,079	50.7	608
12	Mega Manectric electricmega Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	65%	3556.0%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,580	49.5	606
13	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	61%	3533.0%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,336	53.1	658
14	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	72%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	5,347	48.6	608
15	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	71%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,625	48.6	608
16	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Volt Switch / Wild Charge	Volt Switch / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	64%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,452	48.0	600
17	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	59%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,994	48.9	613
18	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	66%	3473.9%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,683	49.2	616
19	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	67%	3468.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,834	48.8	614
20	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	59%	3460.1%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,268	54.9	691
21	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	69%	3424.7%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	6,112	50.1	637
22	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	57%	3423.4%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,297	51.3	644
23	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	64%	3422.0%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,301	55.5	705
24	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	62%	3416.7%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,526	53.0	675
25	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	70%	3398.0%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	6,428	51.2	656
26	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	55%	3387.1%	0.07	0:13	0.1	100%	2,878	55.9	670
27	Shadow Luxray electricshadow Snarl / Wild Charge	Snarl / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	58%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,888	46.2	600
28	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Bite / Wildbolt Storm	Bite / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	61%	3333.1%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,659	49.4	645
29	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	61%	3333.1%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,677	50.4	659
30	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	52%	3263.8%	0.07	0:13	0.1	100%	2,842	50.7	638

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.