Deerling counters

#0585

normal grassTier 1

Lobby CP

3,414

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Deerling should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 601-648.

Weak tofighting1.6xflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 Deerling counters are Mega Blaziken, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Galarian Zapdos, Shadow Moltres & Blacephalon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Blaziken
S. Salamence
S. Blaziken
S. Galarian Zapdos
S. Moltres
Blacephalon

8 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 BlazikenMegapartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Flamethrower0.040:08
3Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.040:08
4Mega LucarioMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
5Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
6Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.050:08
8Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.050:08
9Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.050:08
10Mega Charizard YMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
12Shadow Galarian ZapdosShadowLegendarypartyCounter / Fly0.050:09
13Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.050:09
14BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.050:09

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Deerling 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 Blazikenfirefightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:08	0.04	5589.9%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,112	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
3	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
4	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
6	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
7	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5315.9%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:08	0.05	5272.1%
9	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
10	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
11	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,783	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
12	Shadow Galarian Zapdosfightingflying	fightingCounterflyingFly	3,548	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
13	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
14	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
15	Kartanagrasssteel	bugFury CutterfightingSacred Sword	3,677	0:09	0.05	4749.4%

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 Deerling.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Deerling'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%	1276%	5163.2%	0:08	0.05
Tackle / Energy Ball	100%	1548%	5129.4%	0:08	0.05
Take Down / Energy Ball	100%	1395%	5129.4%	0:08	0.05
Take Down / Wild Charge	100%	1069%	5129.4%	0:08	0.05
Tackle / Wild Charge	100%	1087%	5163.2%	0:08	0.05
Take Down / Seed Bomb	100%	1388%	5163.2%	0:08	0.05
Take Down / Trailblaze	100%	1341%	5163.2%	0:08	0.05
Tackle / Seed Bomb	100%	1428%	5171.7%	0:08	0.05
Tackle / Trailblaze	100%	1400%	5171.7%	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…

Deerling 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.

fighting1.6x flying1.6x poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x rock1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x ghost0.39x

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

It resists ghost0.39xground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Deerling throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalTackleSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
normalTake DownSTAB	7	+8	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassTrailblazeSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
electricWild Charge	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
grassSeed BombSTAB	55	-33	2.0s	1.10s
grassEnergy BallSTAB	90	-50	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	601	751
11/11/11	610	763
12/12/12	619	774
13/13/13	629	786
14/14/14	639	798
15/15/15hundo	648	810

Caught CP range 601 - 648, or 751 - 810 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.

Deerling 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 77 / Defense 68 (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 Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	88%	5589.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,161	86.0	670
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	77.1	617
3	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	75.1	601
4	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	86%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,826	80.1	641
5	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	80%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,848	75.3	602
6	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	88.6	709
7	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	92%	5315.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	87.0	713
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	81%	5272.1%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,521	74.6	616
9	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	83%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,814	72.1	613
10	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	83%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,455	73.9	628
11	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+23 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	67.7	609
12	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,548	71.2	641
13	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	73%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,465	71.1	640
14	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	78.7	708
15	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	75%	4749.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,677	68.5	629
16	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	69%	4658.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,059	68.6	642
17	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	74%	4637.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	64.6	607
18	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Fusion Flare	Ice Fang / Fusion Flare+17 more movesets	75%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,605	67.3	639
19	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Ice Beam	Counter / Ice Beam+23 more movesets	66%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,178	63.9	607
20	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	65%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,337	63.8	606
21	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	74%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,850	66.8	634
22	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Low Kick / Blast Burn	Low Kick / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	66%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,982	63.4	602
23	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+23 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,383	66.5	632
24	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	65%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,698	63.7	605
25	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	67%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,889	66.4	631
26	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	64%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,689	65.0	617
27	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	66%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,683	65.6	623
28	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	74%	4579.7%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,835	74.0	704
29	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	80%	4532.1%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,713	96.3	925
30	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Close Combat	Bug Bite / Close Combat+7 more movesets	58%	4329.6%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,842	66.8	672

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.