Cubone counters

#0104

groundTier 1

Lobby CP

3,243

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Cubone should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 536-582.

Weak towater1.6xgrass1.6xice1.6x

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 Water Mega — most top counters attack with Water

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 Cubone counters are Mega Starmie, Kyurem (White), Shadow Kingler, Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard), Kyurem (Black) & Shadow Greninja.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Starmie
Kyurem (White)
S. Kingler
S. Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)
Kyurem (Black)
S. Greninja

6 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 StarmieMegapartyPsywave / Liquidation+0.050:09
2Mega GreninjaMegaBubble / Surf+0.050:09
3Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.060:11
4Mega SceptileMegaFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.060:11
5Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.060:11
6Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:12
7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
8Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Crabhammer0.070:12
9Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Surf0.070:12
10Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyIce Fang / Avalanche0.070:12
11Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Freeze Shock0.070:13
12Shadow GreninjaShadowpartyBubble / Hydro Cannon0.070:13

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Cubone 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 Starmiewaterpsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:09	0.05	4843.3%
2	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterSurf+	3,784	0:09	0.05	4687.1%
3	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:11	0.06	4010.1%
4	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:11	0.06	3906.6%
5	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
6	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.06	3790.4%
7	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3725.6%
8	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
9	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
10	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)ice	iceIce FangiceAvalanche	3,105	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
11	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	ghostShadow ClawiceFreeze Shock	4,605	0:13	0.07	3366.5%
12	Shadow Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	2,654	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
13	Inteleonwater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	2,964	0:13	0.07	3335.6%
14	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:13	0.07	3258.3%
15	Kartanagrasssteel	bugFury CuttergrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:13	0.07	3253.5%

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 Cubone.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Cubone'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%	922%	3682.0%	0:12	0.07
Mud-Slap / Dig	100%	914%	3664.8%	0:12	0.07
Rock Smash / Dig	100%	998%	3677.7%	0:12	0.07
Mud-Slap / Bone Club	100%	894%	3679.9%	0:12	0.07
Mud-Slap / Bulldoze	100%	916%	3684.2%	0:12	0.07
Rock Smash / Bone Club	100%	928%	3688.5%	0:12	0.07
Rock Smash / Bulldoze	100%	1005%	3703.7%	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…

Cubone 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.

water1.6x grass1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x poison0.63x rock0.63x electric0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists electric0.39xpoison0.625xrock0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Cubone throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
groundMud-SlapSTAB	19	+13	1.5s	1.25s
fightingRock Smash	17	+12	1.5s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
groundBone ClubSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.90s
groundBulldozeSTAB	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s
groundDigSTAB	100	-50	4.5s	2.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	536	671
11/11/11	545	682
12/12/12	554	693
13/13/13	564	705
14/14/14	573	716
15/15/15hundo	582	728

Caught CP range 536 - 582, or 671 - 728 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.

Cubone 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 62 / Defense 94 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	100%	4843.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	70.6	635
2	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Surf+	Bubble / Surf++17 more movesets	85%	4687.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,784	68.9	641
3	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	85%	4010.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,093	60.7	660
4	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	76%	3906.6%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,056	54.7	610
5	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	71%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,605	54.6	628
6	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	74%	3790.4%	0.06	0:12	100%	6,112	55.1	634
7	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	74%	3725.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	58.8	688
8	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	61%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,829	51.3	616
9	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	66%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	5,902	48.5	606
10	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	57%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,105	49.1	614
11	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock	Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	61%	3366.5%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,605	48.1	622
12	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	55%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,654	47.6	619
13	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	56%	3335.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,964	47.3	618
14	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	62%	3258.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,401	49.0	655
15	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade	Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	54%	3253.5%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,677	47.6	638
16	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	60%	3251.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,941	46.8	628
17	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	66%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,592	44.7	626
18	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Solar Beam	Magical Leaf / Solar Beam+23 more movesets	55%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,505	45.9	642
19	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	54%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,974	43.3	606
20	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	55%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,757	43.0	602
21	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	54%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,857	42.9	600
22	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Magical Leaf / Solar Beam	Magical Leaf / Solar Beam+19 more movesets	51%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,431	43.3	606
23	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	55%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,346	43.1	604
24	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	53%	3089.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,720	45.9	647
25	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	50%	3083.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,005	46.0	651
26	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	56%	3057.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,030	43.8	625
27	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	57%	3040.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,954	46.0	659
28	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Ice Beam	Psycho Cut / Ice Beam+23 more movesets	53%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,178	41.4	600
29	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	57%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,833	42.6	617
30	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	54%	2990.1%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,115	54.8	799

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.