Darumaka counters

#0554

fireTier 1

Lobby CP

4,135

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

100

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Darumaka should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 768-823.

Weak toground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Darumaka counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Shadow Excadrill, Shadow Kyogre, Shadow Kingler, Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) & Shadow Garchomp.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
S. Excadrill
S. Kyogre
S. Kingler
S. Landorus (Incarnate)
S. Garchomp

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 Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
2Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
3Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
4Mega GreninjaMegaBubble / Hydro Cannon0.040:08
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.040:08
6Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Scorching Sands0.050:08
7Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
8Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
9Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Razor Shell0.050:09
10Mega DiancieMegaLegendaryRock Throw / Rock Slide0.050:09
11Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.050:09
12Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.050:09

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 Darumaka Galarian Darumaka

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Top 15 Darumaka 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 Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5574.2%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5510.7%
3	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
4	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	3,784	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.04	5435.2%
6	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:08	0.05	5153.7%
7	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
8	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	4,115	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
9	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterRazor Shell	2,829	0:09	0.05	5046.3%
10	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:09	0.05	4866.0%
11	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
12	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
13	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundDrill Run	3,733	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
14	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
15	Shadow Empoleonwatersteel	waterWaterfallwaterHydro Cannon	2,900	0:09	0.05	4844.4%

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 Darumaka.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Darumaka'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%	1259%	5042.7%	0:09	0.05
Tackle / Flame Charge	100%	1304%	5030.6%	0:09	0.05
Fire Fang / Flame Charge	100%	1204%	5067.1%	0:09	0.05
Tackle / Fire Punch	100%	1252%	5104.2%	0:09	0.05
Fire Fang / Fire Punch	100%	1144%	5129.2%	0:08	0.05

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…

Darumaka 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.

ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x electric1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x bug0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (6)

It resists bug0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Darumaka throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire FangSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.74s
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
fireFlame ChargeSTAB	70	-33	4.0s	3.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	768	961
11/11/11	779	974
12/12/12	790	988
13/13/13	801	1,002
14/14/14	812	1,016
15/15/15hundo	823	1,030

Caught CP range 768 - 823, or 961 - 1,030 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.

Darumaka 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 100 / Defense 60 (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 Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	99%	5574.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	95.7	748
2	Mega Staraptor top pickfightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	96%	5510.7%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	80.3	635
3	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	100%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,424	76.0	608
4	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+17 more movesets	93%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,784	75.0	600
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	97%	5435.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	101.2	811
6	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	75%	5153.7%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,244	77.2	651
7	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	95%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,902	83.0	705
8	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	89%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,115	76.6	651
9	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	81%	5046.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,829	74.7	644
10	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	84%	4866.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	80.2	718
11	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,588	67.1	604
12	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	83%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,962	67.1	604
13	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	84%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,733	69.5	625
14	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	85%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,401	67.1	604
15	Shadow Empoleon watersteelshadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	76%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,900	69.0	621
16	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	79%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,826	69.3	624
17	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	80%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,857	67.5	607
18	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Crabhammer	Waterfall / Crabhammer+11 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,474	70.7	636
19	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	90%	4838.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	111.9	1008
20	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	77%	4827.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	72.3	653
21	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	77%	4749.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	82.7	758
22	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	81%	4667.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	73.5	686
23	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	77%	4663.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,115	85.6	800
24	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	76%	4633.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,115	71.1	668
25	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	80%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,118	68.1	647
26	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / Bulldoze	Mud-Slap / Bulldoze+11 more movesets	65%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,328	65.4	621
27	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+14 more movesets	75%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,228	64.1	609
28	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	74%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	68.4	650
29	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,854	66.3	630
30	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	79%	4504.0%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,713	68.3	661

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.