Drifloon counters

#0425

ghost flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

3,151

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Drifloon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 633-684.

Weak torock1.6xghost1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6xdark1.6x

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 Ghost Mega — most top counters attack with Ghost

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 Drifloon counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Chandelure, Shadow Gengar, Zeraora & Kyurem (White).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Darkrai
S. Chandelure
S. Gengar
Zeraora
Kyurem (White)

4 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 / Shadow Ball0.040:07
2Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Shadow Ball0.040:07
3Mega GengarMegaSucker Punch / Shadow Ball0.040:07
4Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.040:07
5Mega Raichu YMegaVolt Switch / Wild Charge0.040:07
6Shadow GengarShadowpartyLick / Shadow Ball0.040:07
7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.040:07
8ZeraoraLegendarypartySpark / Plasma Fists0.040:08
9Mega TyranitarMegaSmack Down / Brutal Swing0.040:08
10Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.040:08

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 Drifloon

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Top 15 Drifloon 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 CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
2	Shadow Darkraidarkjoint top pick	darkSnarlghostShadow Ball	3,739	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
3	Mega Gengarghostpoisonjoint top pick	darkSucker PunchghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
4	Shadow Chandelureghostfirejoint top pick	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
5	Mega Raichu Yelectricjoint top pick	electricVolt SwitchelectricWild Charge	3,780	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
6	Shadow Gengarghostpoisonjoint top pick	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
7	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
8	Zeraoraelectric	electricSparkelectricPlasma Fists	3,419	0:08	0.04	5519.1%
9	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DowndarkBrutal Swing	5,347	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
10	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
11	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DowndarkBrutal Swing	3,834	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
12	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
13	Mega Banetteghost	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
14	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:08	0.05	5315.9%
15	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate)electricflying	electricThunder ShockelectricThunder Punch	3,345	0:08	0.05	5184.3%

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 Drifloon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Drifloon'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”: 6 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%	1361%	5962.7%	0:07	0.04
Hex / Ominous Wind	100%	1443%	5962.7%	0:07	0.04
Hex / Icy Wind	100%	1492%	5962.7%	0:07	0.04
Hex / Shadow Ball	100%	1329%	5962.7%	0:07	0.04
Astonish / Ominous Wind	100%	1458%	5962.7%	0:07	0.04
Astonish / Icy Wind	100%	1515%	5962.7%	0:07	0.04
Astonish / Shadow Ball	100%	1338%	5962.7%	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…

Drifloon 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.

rock1.6x ghost1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x dark1.6x flying1x steel1x fire1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x fairy1x poison0.63x grass0.63x normal0.39x ground0.39x bug0.39x fighting0.24x

Weak (5)
Neutral (7)
Resists (5)
Double resists (1)

It resists fighting0.24xnormal0.39xground0.39xbug0.39xpoison0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Drifloon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostHexSTAB	8	+13	1.0s	0.80s
ghostAstonishSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostShadow BallSTAB	100	-50	3.0s	2.40s
ghostOminous WindSTAB	55	-33	2.5s	2.05s
iceIcy Wind	65	-33	3.5s	2.20s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	633	791
11/11/11	643	804
12/12/12	653	816
13/13/13	663	829
14/14/14	673	842
15/15/15hundo	684	855

Caught CP range 633 - 684, or 791 - 855 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.

Drifloon 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 78 / Defense 56 (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

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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 Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	97%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	6,428	86.2	603
2	Shadow Darkrai top pickdarkshadow Snarl / Shadow Ball	Snarl / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,739	87.7	614
3	Mega Gengar top pickghostpoisonmega Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball	Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	90%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,336	93.6	655
4	Shadow Chandelure top pickghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	86%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,268	86.7	607
5	Mega Raichu Y top pickelectricmega Volt Switch / Wild Charge	Volt Switch / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	97%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,780	88.7	621
6	Shadow Gengar top pickghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	84%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,878	89.6	627
7	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	90%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	6,112	80.4	603
8	Zeraora electric Spark / Plasma Fists	Spark / Plasma Fists+9 more movesets	86%	5519.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,419	77.8	614
9	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Brutal Swing	Smack Down / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	97%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,347	78.0	624
10	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	90%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,605	75.5	604
11	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Brutal Swing	Smack Down / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	91%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,834	76.8	614
12	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,625	75.9	607
13	Mega Banette ghostmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	78%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,594	76.6	613
14	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	91%	5315.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,784	75.2	617
15	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch+7 more movesets	75%	5184.3%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,345	73.7	620
16	Shadow Absol darkshadow Psycho Cut / Brutal Swing	Psycho Cut / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	79%	5153.7%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,526	74.1	626
17	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Bite / Thunderbolt	Bite / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	76%	5141.5%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,659	82.2	697
18	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	80%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,005	71.1	604
19	Mega Manectric electricmega Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	77%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,580	71.7	609
20	Regieleki electric Lock-On / Thunder Cage	Lock-On / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	88%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,803	94.1	800
21	Shadow Haunter ghostpoisonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	61%	5034.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	1,963	74.2	642
22	Lunala psychicghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+11 more movesets	71%	5034.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,042	70.5	610
23	Shadow Banette ghostshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	65%	5034.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,298	73.3	634
24	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	79%	5023.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	86.2	747
25	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	78%	5023.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,118	74.0	642
26	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rock Throw / Wild Charge	Rock Throw / Wild Charge+8 more movesets	76%	5023.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,949	71.9	624
27	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	76%	4898.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,301	91.3	812
28	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	79%	4870.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	122.2	1093
29	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Flamethrower	Smack Down / Flamethrower+5 more movesets	67%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	69.3	624
30	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	69%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,178	74.0	666

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.