Hoopa counters

#0720

psychic ghostTier 5

Lobby CP

48,043

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

218

Defense

159

Difficulty

1.10

Pokebattler scale

Beating Hoopa should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,836-1,919.

Weak toghost2.56xdark2.56x

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 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 Hoopa counters are Mega Houndoom, Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Tyranitar, Shadow Hydreigon, Shadow Absol & Shadow Giratina (Origin).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Houndoom
S. Darkrai
S. Tyranitar
S. Hydreigon
S. Absol
S. Giratina (Origin)

3 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+0.944:20
2Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play1.074:56
3Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing1.125:10
4Mega TyranitarMegaBite / Brutal Swing1.155:18
5Shadow TyranitarShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing1.165:22
6Shadow HydreigonShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing1.175:23
7Shadow AbsolShadowpartySnarl / Brutal Swing1.195:28
8Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball1.225:37
9Shadow Giratina (Origin)ShadowLegendarypartyShadow Claw / Shadow Force1.255:46
10Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball1.255:46

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

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Raid tier — Legendary Raid

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Related countersShadow Hoopa Hoopa (Unbound)

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Top 15 Hoopa 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 Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	4:20	0.94	5.3	117.1%
2	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	4:56	1.07	6.0	102.8%
3	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	5:10	1.12	6.0	98.0%
4	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	5:18	1.15	4.4	95.7%
5	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	5:22	1.16	5.6	94.6%
6	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	5:23	1.17	5.9	94.2%
7	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	5:28	1.19	6.0	92.6%
8	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	5:37	1.22	6.0	90.4%
9	Shadow Giratina (Origin)ghostdragon	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Force	3,683	5:46	1.25	6.0	87.9%
10	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	5:46	1.25	6.0	87.8%
11	Shadow Weaviledarkice	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,005	5:51	1.27	6.0	86.7%
12	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	5:54	1.28	6.0	85.8%
13	Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	5:56	1.29	5.7	85.5%
14	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,749	6:03	1.31	6.0	83.9%
15	Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	6:20	1.37	5.6	80.1%

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 Hoopa.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Hoopa'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	28%	146%	97.1%	5:13	5.8	1.13
Astonish / Shadow Ball	18%	110%	94.9%	5:20	6.0	1.16
Confusion / Shadow Ball	25%	111%	95.9%	5:17	6.0	1.15
Astonish / Psychic	32%	157%	97.3%	5:13	6.0	1.13
Confusion / Psychic	32%	154%	97.6%	5:11	6.0	1.13
Confusion / Psybeam	33%	200%	98.9%	5:07	5.5	1.11
Astonish / Psybeam	33%	206%	99.1%	5:07	5.4	1.11

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…

Hoopa 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.

ghost2.56x dark2.56x flying1x ground1x rock1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x poison0.63x psychic0.63x normal0.39x fighting0.24x

Double weak (2)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)
Double resists (1)

It resists fighting0.24xnormal0.39xpoison0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Hoopa throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
ghostAstonishSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostShadow BallSTAB	100	-50	3.0s	2.40s
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
psychicPsybeamSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,836	2,295
11/11/11	1,852	2,316
12/12/12	1,869	2,336
13/13/13	1,886	2,357
14/14/14	1,902	2,378
15/15/15hundo	1,919	2,399

Caught CP range 1,836 - 1,919, or 2,295 - 2,399 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.

Hoopa 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 218 / Defense 159 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	117.1%	0.94	4:20	6.1	100%	3,842	59.5	2230
2	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	85%	102.8%	1.07	4:56	8.5	78%	3,739	52.7	1638
3	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	78%	98.0%	1.12	5:10	11.9	26%	3,301	50.6	1258
4	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	84%	95.7%	1.15	5:18	4.7	0%	5,347	47.8	2798
5	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	80%	94.6%	1.16	5:22	7.1	0%	3,834	47.7	1935
6	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	78%	94.2%	1.17	5:23	8.3	0%	3,625	48.1	1689
7	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	72%	92.6%	1.19	5:28	14.3	0%	2,526	48.2	1004
8	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	73%	90.4%	1.22	5:37	11.0	0%	6,428	47.0	1488
9	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	68%	87.9%	1.25	5:46	15.0	0%	3,683	45.9	955
10	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	69%	87.8%	1.25	5:46	13.8	0%	6,112	45.7	1059
11	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	69%	86.7%	1.27	5:51	11.7	0%	3,005	44.3	1234
12	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	63%	85.8%	1.28	5:54	25.6	0%	4,336	47.0	573
13	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	70%	85.5%	1.29	5:56	9.1	0%	3,739	43.6	1589
14	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	64%	83.9%	1.31	6:03	18.8	0%	3,749	44.3	748
15	Hydreigon darkdragon Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	66%	80.1%	1.37	6:20	8.2	0%	3,625	40.6	1691
16	Tyranitar rockdark Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	67%	80.0%	1.38	6:20	7.2	0%	3,834	40.2	1901
17	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	63%	79.6%	1.38	6:22	12.8	0%	5,031	40.8	1077
18	Shadow Houndoom darkfireshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	61%	78.2%	1.41	6:29	15.1	0%	2,635	40.5	1015
19	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Snarl / Dark Pulse	Snarl / Dark Pulse+7 more movesets	60%	78.1%	1.41	6:30	15.7	0%	2,711	40.5	953
20	Absol dark Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	60%	77.4%	1.42	6:33	15.9	0%	2,526	40.1	935
21	Mega Gyarados waterdarkmega Bite / Crunch	Bite / Crunch+23 more movesets	65%	77.4%	1.42	6:33	6.6	0%	4,717	38.8	2042
22	Shadow Alolan Muk poisondarkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+17 more movesets	60%	75.9%	1.45	6:41	13.5	0%	2,757	39.0	1030
23	Kingambit darksteel Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+19 more movesets	64%	75.2%	1.46	6:44	6.6	0%	3,614	37.6	2277
24	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	56%	74.5%	1.48	6:48	23.5	28%	4,099	43.7	1187
25	Shadow Giratina (Altered) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	57%	74.4%	1.48	6:49	16.4	0%	3,379	38.7	902
26	Gholdengo steelghost Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	57%	73.9%	1.49	6:52	16.2	0%	3,517	38.4	965
27	Weavile darkice Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	59%	73.4%	1.50	6:54	11.7	0%	3,005	37.4	1235
28	Incineroar firedark Snarl / Darkest Lariat	Snarl / Darkest Lariat+23 more movesets	60%	73.4%	1.50	6:55	9.4	0%	2,996	37.3	1492
29	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+23 more movesets	56%	72.8%	1.51	6:58	17.6	0%	4,118	38.0	799
30	Zoroark dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	56%	72.5%	1.52	6:59	16.9	0%	2,571	37.7	890

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