Buzzwole counters

#0794

bug fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

8,930

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

149

Defense

126

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Buzzwole should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,894-1,977.

Weak toflying2.56xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xfairy1.6x

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 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 Buzzwole counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Rayquaza, Shadow Staraptor, Shadow Honchkrow, Shadow Galarian Articuno & Enamorus (Incarnate).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
Rayquaza
S. Staraptor
S. Honchkrow
S. Galarian Articuno
Enamorus (Incarnate)

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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.040:08
2Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
3Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:09
4RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:09
5Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyWing Attack / Brave Bird0.060:10
6Mega PidgeotMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird0.060:10
7Shadow HonchkrowShadowpartyPeck / Brave Bird0.060:10
8Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.060:11
9Enamorus (Incarnate)LegendarypartyFairy Wind / Fly0.060:11
10Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.060:12

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 Buzzwole

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Top 15 Buzzwole 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.04	5489.9%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5421.7%
3	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:09	0.05	4678.0%
4	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
5	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird	2,825	0:10	0.06	4308.2%
6	Mega Pidgeotnormalflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird	3,680	0:10	0.06	4216.5%
7	Shadow Honchkrowdarkflying	flyingPeckflyingBrave Bird	2,711	0:10	0.06	4216.5%
8	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	0:11	0.06	4109.2%
9	Enamorus (Incarnate)fairyflying	fairyFairy WindflyingFly	3,425	0:11	0.06	3851.4%
10	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:12	0.06	3777.3%
11	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:12	0.06	3755.2%
12	Staraptornormalflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	2,825	0:12	0.07	3707.3%
13	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinflyingBrave Bird	4,161	0:12	0.07	3694.7%
14	Shadow Galarian Moltresdarkflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,167	0:12	0.07	3639.2%
15	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	grassBullet SeedflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:12	0.07	3633.1%

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 Buzzwole.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Buzzwole'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%	853%	4345.2%	0:10	0.06
Counter / Superpower	100%	1023%	4303.5%	0:10	0.06
Poison Jab / Superpower	100%	878%	4312.4%	0:10	0.06
Counter / Lunge	100%	916%	4348.3%	0:10	0.06
Counter / Power-Up Punch	100%	960%	4357.3%	0:10	0.06
Poison Jab / Lunge	100%	808%	4375.5%	0:10	0.06
Counter / Fell Stinger	100%	890%	4384.7%	0:10	0.06
Poison Jab / Power-Up Punch	100%	837%	4384.7%	0:10	0.06
Poison Jab / Fell Stinger	100%	790%	4412.4%	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…

Buzzwole 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.

flying2.56x fire1.6x psychic1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x poison1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x bug0.63x grass0.63x dark0.63x

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

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xbug0.625xgrass0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Buzzwole throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingCounterSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.80s
poisonPoison Jab	13	+9	1.0s	0.40s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingSuperpowerSTAB	85	-50	3.0s	2.10s
fightingPower-Up PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.70s
bugFell StingerSTAB	45	-33	2.0s	1.60s
bugLungeSTAB	55	-33	3.0s	2.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,894	2,368
11/11/11	1,910	2,388
12/12/12	1,927	2,409
13/13/13	1,944	2,430
14/14/14	1,960	2,451
15/15/15hundo	1,977	2,472

Caught CP range 1,894 - 1,977, or 2,368 - 2,472 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.

Buzzwole 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 149 / Defense 126 (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 Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	97%	5489.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	78.6	623
2	Mega Staraptor top pickfightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5421.7%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	74.7	600
3	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	86%	4678.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,713	85.6	797
4	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	77%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,835	64.6	614
5	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+15 more movesets	64%	4308.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,825	60.4	610
6	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	67%	4216.5%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,680	59.2	612
7	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Brave Bird	Peck / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	60%	4216.5%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,711	61.8	638
8	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	70%	4109.2%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,590	62.1	658
9	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+8 more movesets	63%	3851.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,425	56.5	638
10	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	62%	3777.3%	0.06	0:12	100%	4,783	58.2	671
11	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	63%	3755.2%	0.06	0:12	100%	6,112	53.9	625
12	Staraptor normalflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	56%	3707.3%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,825	52.6	618
13	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Brave Bird	Fire Spin / Brave Bird+20 more movesets	58%	3694.7%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,161	52.9	624
14	Shadow Galarian Moltres darkflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+7 more movesets	56%	3639.2%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,167	55.1	659
15	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	56%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,689	59.5	714
16	Toucannon normalflying Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	56%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,689	50.0	600
17	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	60%	3579.4%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,465	66.4	808
18	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	63%	3550.3%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,703	56.3	690
19	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Hurricane	Gust / Hurricane+9 more movesets	55%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,215	54.2	677
20	Tornadus (Therian) flying Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	56%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,215	53.7	671
21	Braviary normalflying Air Slash / Brave Bird	Air Slash / Brave Bird+9 more movesets	53%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,088	49.1	616
22	Moltres fireflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	58%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	54.6	684
23	Shadow Swanna waterflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+14 more movesets	51%	3438.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,088	52.0	657
24	Yveltal darkflying Gust / Oblivion Wing	Gust / Oblivion Wing+17 more movesets	54%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,781	56.1	716
25	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Low Kick / Fly	Low Kick / Fly+7 more movesets	55%	3374.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,548	48.6	627
26	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Wing Attack / Overheat	Wing Attack / Overheat+29 more movesets	55%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,455	47.6	619
27	Honchkrow darkflying Peck / Sky Attack	Peck / Sky Attack+7 more movesets	47%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,711	47.9	623
28	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	51%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,038	46.3	602
29	Shadow Talonflame fireflyingshadow Peck / Fly	Peck / Fly+19 more movesets	51%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,205	46.5	605
30	Shadow Tornadus (Incarnate) flyingshadow Air Slash / Hurricane	Air Slash / Hurricane+7 more movesets	52%	3317.9%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,345	57.6	756

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.