Cacnea counters

#0331

grassTier 1

Lobby CP

3,951

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

102

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Cacnea should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 658-709.

Weak toflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 Cacnea counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Moltres, Blacephalon, Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Heatran & Shadow Vikavolt.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Moltres
Blacephalon
S. Toucannon
S. Heatran
S. Vikavolt

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 / Ice Beam0.040:07
2Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire0.040:07
3Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.040:07
4BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.040:07
5Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.040:07
6Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Aerial Ace0.040:07
7Mega GengarMegaLick / Sludge Bomb0.040:07
8Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm0.040:07
9Shadow VikavoltShadowpartyBug Bite / Fly0.040:07
10Shadow WeavileShadowIce Shard / Avalanche0.040:07

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 Cacnea

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Top 15 Cacnea 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 CuticeIce Beam	6,428	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
2	Mega Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire	4,783	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
3	Shadow Moltresfireflyingjoint top pick	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
4	Blacephalonfireghostjoint top pick	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
5	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:07	0.04	5876.2%
6	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingAerial Ace	5,713	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
7	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickpoisonSludge Bomb	4,336	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
8	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
9	Shadow Vikavoltbugelectric	bugBug BiteflyingFly	3,117	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
10	Shadow Weaviledarkice	iceIce ShardiceAvalanche	3,005	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
11	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugInfestationpoisonSludge Bomb	3,383	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
12	Pheromosabugfighting	bugBug BitebugBug Buzz	2,842	0:08	0.04	5699.5%
13	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5677.3%
14	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:08	0.04	5677.3%
15	Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5677.3%

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 Cacnea.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Cacnea'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”: 4 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%	1592%	6025.6%	0:07	0.04
Poison Sting / Grass Knot	100%	1844%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Poison Sting / Seed Bomb	100%	1651%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Poison Sting / Payback	100%	1753%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Poison Sting / Trailblaze	100%	1769%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sucker Punch / Grass Knot	100%	1593%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sucker Punch / Seed Bomb	100%	1520%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sucker Punch / Payback	100%	1454%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sucker Punch / Trailblaze	100%	1520%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sand Attack / Grass Knot	100%	1714%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sand Attack / Seed Bomb	100%	1575%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sand Attack / Payback	100%	1602%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Sand Attack / Trailblaze	100%	1600%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Poison Sting / Brick Break	100%	1615%	6060.5%	0:07	0.04
Sucker Punch / Brick Break	100%	1464%	6060.5%	0:07	0.04
Sand Attack / Brick Break	100%	1563%	6060.5%	0:07	0.04

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…

Cacnea 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 poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

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

It resists ground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Cacnea throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkSucker Punch	5	+6	0.5s	0.10s
poisonPoison Sting	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s
groundSand Attack	4	+7	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkPayback	95	-100	2.0s	0.90s
grassGrass KnotSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
grassTrailblazeSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
grassSeed BombSTAB	55	-33	2.0s	1.10s
fightingBrick Break	40	-33	1.5s	0.70s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	658	822
11/11/11	668	835
12/12/12	678	848
13/13/13	689	861
14/14/14	699	874
15/15/15hundo	709	887

Caught CP range 658 - 709, or 822 - 887 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.

Cacnea 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 102 / Defense 53 (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 / Ice Beam	Psycho Cut / Ice Beam+26 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	6,428	86.0	602
2	Mega Delphox top pickfirepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+23 more movesets	94%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,783	89.3	625
3	Shadow Moltres top pickfireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	97%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,465	91.5	640
4	Blacephalon top pickfireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	96%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,297	96.6	676
5	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	86%	5876.2%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,689	95.8	710
6	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Aerial Ace	Air Slash / Aerial Ace+11 more movesets	91%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	5,713	86.4	648
7	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Sludge Bomb	Lick / Sludge Bomb+31 more movesets	88%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,336	81.6	612
8	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	85%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,754	85.6	642
9	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / Fly	Bug Bite / Fly+15 more movesets	79%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,117	81.4	610
10	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	73%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,005	80.2	601
11	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Infestation / Sludge Bomb	Infestation / Sludge Bomb+23 more movesets	90%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,383	80.2	601
12	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	74%	5699.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,842	84.8	648
13	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	87%	5677.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	99.6	763
14	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Aura Sphere	Fire Spin / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	81%	5677.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,161	87.4	671
15	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	86%	5677.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	83.1	637
16	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+29 more movesets	86%	5618.7%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,455	86.1	667
17	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	82%	5589.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,548	81.2	632
18	Kyurem (White) dragonice Dragon Breath / Ice Burn	Dragon Breath / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	82%	5547.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,605	80.1	629
19	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	90%	5505.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,031	91.0	720
20	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	86%	5476.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	105.7	841
21	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Fly	Confusion / Fly+7 more movesets	81%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,590	78.1	625
22	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	81%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,182	75.3	602
23	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	77%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,473	76.9	615
24	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+17 more movesets	77%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,842	79.3	634
25	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+19 more movesets	83%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	80.0	640
26	Shadow Hisuian Arcanine firerockshadow Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	71%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,145	75.6	605
27	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+20 more movesets	74%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,059	75.4	603
28	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	74%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,825	80.3	642
29	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Sky Attack	Peck / Sky Attack+7 more movesets	72%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,711	78.0	624
30	Yveltal darkflying Gust / Oblivion Wing	Gust / Oblivion Wing+17 more movesets	81%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,781	75.9	607

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.