Duskull counters

#0355

ghostTier 1

Lobby CP

2,770

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

105

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Duskull should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 364-403.

Weak toghost1.6xdark1.6x

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 Dark Mega — most top counters attack with Dark

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 Duskull counters are Mega Houndoom, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Chandelure, Shadow Gengar & Shadow Absol.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Houndoom
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Darkrai
S. Chandelure
S. Gengar
S. Absol

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 HoundoomMegapartySnarl / Dark Pulse+0.050:09
2Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
3Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Moongeist Beam0.070:12
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.070:13
5Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.070:13
6Mega GengarMegaHex / Shadow Ball0.070:13
7Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.070:13
8Shadow GengarShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.070:13
9Mega BanetteMegaHex / Shadow Ball0.080:13
10Shadow AbsolShadowpartySnarl / Brutal Swing0.080:13

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 Duskull counters in detail

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Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:09	0.05	4637.2%
2	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3725.6%
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	steelMetal ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:12	0.07	3544.5%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	0:13	0.07	3424.7%
5	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
6	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:13	0.07	3263.2%
7	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:13	0.07	3263.2%
8	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:13	0.07	3263.2%
9	Mega Banetteghost	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:13	0.08	3234.2%
10	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
11	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:14	0.08	3168.3%
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin)ghostdragon	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Force	3,683	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
13	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishghostShadow Ball	3,297	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
14	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	0:15	0.08	2906.4%
15	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	0:15	0.08	2906.4%

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 Duskull.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Duskull'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%	976%	3504.0%	0:12	0.07
Astonish / Shadow Sneak	100%	1010%	3463.4%	0:13	0.07
Astonish / Night Shade	100%	1015%	3471.1%	0:13	0.07
Hex / Shadow Sneak	100%	991%	3476.8%	0:13	0.07
Hex / Night Shade	100%	995%	3482.6%	0:13	0.07
Astonish / Ominous Wind	100%	983%	3494.3%	0:12	0.07
Hex / Ominous Wind	100%	964%	3507.9%	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…

Duskull 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.

ghost1.6x dark1.6x flying1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x poison0.63x bug0.63x normal0.39x fighting0.39x

Weak (2)
Neutral (12)
Resists (4)

It resists normal0.39xfighting0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Duskull 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
ghostNight ShadeSTAB	60	-50	2.5s	2.00s
ghostOminous WindSTAB	55	-33	2.5s	2.05s
ghostShadow SneakSTAB	50	-33	3.0s	2.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	364	456
11/11/11	372	465
12/12/12	380	475
13/13/13	387	484
14/14/14	395	494
15/15/15hundo	403	504

Caught CP range 364 - 403, or 456 - 504 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.

Duskull 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 50 / Defense 105 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

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#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	4637.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	67.1	631
2	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	70%	3725.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	52.4	613
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam	Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	60%	3544.5%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,099	49.8	612
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	63%	3424.7%	0.07	0:13	100%	6,112	47.9	610
5	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	64%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,739	47.9	623
6	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	56%	3263.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,336	50.8	679
7	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	53%	3263.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,268	48.0	641
8	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	51%	3263.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,878	46.7	623
9	Mega Banette ghostmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	54%	3234.2%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,594	45.5	612
10	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	57%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	2,526	46.6	629
11	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	58%	3168.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,301	48.3	664
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	54%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,683	43.0	602
13	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	49%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,297	43.6	610
14	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	60%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,347	40.8	612
15	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	56%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,834	40.4	606
16	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	55%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,625	40.8	612
17	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Bite / Wildbolt Storm	Bite / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	49%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,659	40.1	601
18	Shadow Haunter ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	41%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	1,963	40.5	608
19	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Feint Attack / Surf+	Feint Attack / Surf++17 more movesets	53%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,784	39.0	605
20	Darkrai dark Snarl / Shadow Ball	Snarl / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	52%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,739	37.5	600
21	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Feint Attack / Foul Play	Feint Attack / Foul Play+11 more movesets	48%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,005	38.3	612
22	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Snarl / Dark Pulse	Snarl / Dark Pulse+7 more movesets	48%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,711	37.9	606
23	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	43%	2717.9%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,994	38.6	620
24	Shadow Banette ghostshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	40%	2701.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,298	41.3	666
25	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	45%	2696.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,178	41.9	678
26	Lunala psychicghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+11 more movesets	43%	2664.8%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,042	38.9	637
27	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	44%	2651.8%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,510	41.8	688
28	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Fly	Bite / Fly+20 more movesets	45%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,749	36.9	609
29	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	44%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,512	37.5	618
30	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	40%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,057	37.7	622

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 0.2 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.