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Hoopa (Unbound) counters

psychicdarkElite
Lobby CP
66,170
HP
20,000
Timer
5:00
Attack
321
Defense
202
Difficulty
2.44
Pokebattler scale

Beating Hoopa (Unbound) should take 3 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,197-2,289.

Weak tobug2.56xfairy1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMegaLegendaryShadow
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Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to
No boostSunny or clearRainy ★Partly cloudyCloudy ★WindySnowFog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend
NoneGood 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 Bug Mega — most top counters attack with Bug

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x
Off2 trainers3 trainers4 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 (Unbound) counters are Mega Beedrill, Shadow Scizor, Shadow Vikavolt, Volcarona, Shadow Escavalier & Kartana.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. M. Beedrill
  2. S. Scizor
  3. S. Vikavolt
  4. Volcarona
  5. S. Escavalier
  6. Kartana

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 %

  1. 1Mega BeedrillMegapartyInfestation / Fell Stinger+2.2510:20
  2. 2Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn2.2610:23
  3. 3Mega PinsirMegaFury Cutter / X-Scissor2.3810:57
  4. 4Shadow ScizorShadowpartyFury Cutter / X-Scissor2.4911:27
  5. 5Mega ScizorMegaFury Cutter / X-Scissor2.5011:31
  6. 6Shadow VikavoltShadowpartyBug Bite / X-Scissor2.7712:45
  7. 7VolcaronapartyBug Bite / Bug Buzz2.7712:46
  8. 8Shadow EscavalierShadowpartyBug Bite / Megahorn2.7712:46
  9. 9KartanaLegendarypartyFury Cutter / X-Scissor2.7812:48
  10. 10VikavoltBug Bite / X-Scissor2.7812:49

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

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Raid tier — Elite Raid
Super Mega LegendarySuper MegaPrimalMega LegendaryMegaEliteShadow Tier 5Tier 5Shadow Tier 3Tier 3Shadow Tier 1Tier 1Tier 4Tier 2
Related countersHoopa
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Top 15 Hoopa (Unbound) 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.

Trainers3small group
#AttackerMoveset
1Mega Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pickbugInfestationbugFell Stinger+3,38310:202.256.049.1%
2Mega Heracrossbugfightingjoint top pickbugFury CutterbugMegahorn4,81410:232.266.048.8%
3Mega PinsirbugflyingbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor4,18210:572.386.046.3%
4Shadow ScizorbugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,00111:272.496.044.3%
5Mega ScizorbugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor4,08711:312.506.044.0%
6Shadow VikavoltbugelectricbugBug BitebugX-Scissor3,11712:452.776.039.8%
7VolcaronabugfirebugBug BitebugBug Buzz3,63212:462.776.039.7%
8Shadow EscavalierbugsteelbugBug BitebugMegahorn2,88912:462.776.039.7%
9KartanagrasssteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,67712:482.786.039.6%
10VikavoltbugelectricbugBug BitebugX-Scissor3,11712:492.786.039.6%
11GenesectbugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,35312:512.796.039.5%
12Genesect (Burn)bugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,35312:512.796.039.5%
13Genesect (Chill)bugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,35312:512.796.039.5%
14Genesect (Douse)bugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,35312:512.796.039.5%
15Genesect (Shock)bugsteelbugFury CutterbugX-Scissor3,35312:512.796.039.5%

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 (Unbound).

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Hoopa (Unbound)'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.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Hoopa (Unbound) 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.

bug2.56xfairy1.6xnormal1xfighting1xflying1xpoison1xground1xrock1xghost1xsteel1xfire1xwater1xgrass1xelectric1xice1xdragon1xdark1xpsychic0.24x
  • Double weak (1)
  • Weak (1)
  • Neutral (15)
  • Double resists (1)

It resists psychic0.24x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Hoopa (Unbound) throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
psychicConfusionSTAB19+141.5s0.50s
ghostAstonish7+131.0s0.60s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
psychicPsychicSTAB95-503.0s1.50s
ghostShadow Ball100-503.0s2.40s
darkDark PulseSTAB80-503.0s1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor2,1972,746
11/11/112,2152,769
12/12/122,2332,792
13/13/132,2522,815
14/14/142,2702,838
15/15/15hundo2,2892,862

Caught CP range 2,197 - 2,289, or 2,746 - 2,862 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 (Unbound) 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

Elite: 20,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 321 / Defense 202 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.985).

Attackers allowed
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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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Mega Beedrill
top pickbugpoisonmega
Infestation / Fell Stinger+
2.2510:2055.7
2
Mega Heracross
top pickbugfightingmega
Fury Cutter / Megahorn
2.2610:2339.6
3
Mega Pinsir
bugflyingmega
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.3810:5738.2
4
Shadow Scizor
bugsteelshadow
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.4911:2744.2
5
Mega Scizor
bugsteelmega
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.5011:3134.3
6
Shadow Vikavolt
bugelectricshadow
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
2.7712:4567.2
7
Volcarona
bugfire
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
2.7712:4644.4
8
Shadow Escavalier
bugsteelshadow
Bug Bite / Megahorn
2.7712:4648.7
9
Kartana
grasssteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.7812:4849.4
10
Vikavolt
bugelectric
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
2.7812:4952.4
11
Genesect
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.7912:5141.8
12
Genesect (Burn)
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.7912:5141.8
13
Genesect (Chill)
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.7912:5141.8
14
Genesect (Douse)
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.7912:5141.8
15
Genesect (Shock)
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.7912:5141.8
16
Kleavor
bugrock
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.8413:0353.2
17
Shadow Pinsir
bugshadow
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.9013:2070.0
18
Scizor
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.9313:2946.5
19
Pinsir
bug
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
2.9813:4256.1
20
Shadow Hisuian Samurott
waterdarkshadow
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
3.1614:3243.6
21
Shadow Crustle
bugrockshadow
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
3.1714:3559.7
22
Escavalier
bugsteel
Bug Bite / Megahorn
3.1814:3849.2
23
Shadow Scyther
bugflyingshadow
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
3.1914:4077.8
24
Golisopod
bugwater
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
3.2514:5851.7
25
Centiskorch
firebug
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
3.2614:5953.4
26
Yanmega
bugflying
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
3.2915:0858.7
27
Scyther
bugflying
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
3.2915:0861.7
28
Durant
bugsteel
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
3.4315:4858.0
29
Leavanny
buggrass
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
3.4715:5864.4
30
Shadow Scolipede
bugpoisonshadow
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
3.5416:1792.8
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 1.3 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.

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