Ivysaur counters

#0002

grass poisonTier 1

Lobby CP

5,111

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Ivysaur should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 912-970.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Ivysaur counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Mewtwo, Kyurem (White), Blacephalon & Mewtwo.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Mewtwo
Kyurem (White)
Blacephalon
Mewtwo

6 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 / Future Sight+0.050:08
2Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.060:10
3Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.060:10
5Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.060:11
6Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.060:11
7Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11
8Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.060:11
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11
10BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.060:11
12MewtwoLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.070:12

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 Ivysaur

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Top 15 Ivysaur 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 CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5315.9%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:10	0.06	4403.0%
3	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	4368.6%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
5	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	0:11	0.06	3970.7%
6	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:11	0.06	3804.3%
7	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,783	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
8	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
10	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
11	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:12	0.06	3774.7%
12	Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:12	0.07	3660.6%
13	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight	4,510	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
14	Mega Pidgeotnormalflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird	3,680	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
15	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird	2,825	0:12	0.07	3633.1%

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 Ivysaur.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Ivysaur'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%	1050%	3984.0%	0:11	0.06
Vine Whip / Solar Beam	100%	1296%	3951.4%	0:11	0.06
Razor Leaf / Solar Beam	100%	1066%	3973.9%	0:11	0.06
Vine Whip / Sludge Bomb	100%	982%	3981.4%	0:11	0.06
Vine Whip / Power Whip	100%	1012%	3996.6%	0:11	0.06
Razor Leaf / Sludge Bomb	100%	985%	4019.7%	0:11	0.06
Razor Leaf / Power Whip	100%	1007%	4019.7%	0:11	0.06

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…

Ivysaur 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.

flying1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x fairy0.63x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists grass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Ivysaur throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassRazor LeafSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.60s
grassVine WhipSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassSolar BeamSTAB	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
grassPower WhipSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.15s
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	912	1,141
11/11/11	924	1,155
12/12/12	935	1,169
13/13/13	947	1,184
14/14/14	959	1,199
15/15/15hundo	970	1,213

Caught CP range 912 - 970, or 1,141 - 1,213 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.

Ivysaur 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 99 / Defense 94 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	5315.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	101.3	831
2	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	78%	4403.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,979	68.7	680
3	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	82%	4368.6%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	69.1	688
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	75%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	6,112	64.6	646
5	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	65%	3970.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,590	56.1	616
6	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	61%	3804.3%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,178	65.2	746
7	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	62%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,783	55.1	634
8	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	66%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,605	55.0	632
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	65%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,455	52.4	603
10	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	60%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,297	52.2	600
11	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	3774.7%	0.06	0:12	100%	4,161	54.2	626
12	Mewtwo psychic Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	58%	3660.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,178	53.3	634
13	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight	Psycho Cut / Future Sight+17 more movesets	55%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,510	50.1	601
14	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	59%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,680	50.8	609
15	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+15 more movesets	56%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,825	51.5	618
16	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Dark Pulse+	Fire Fang / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	59%	3614.4%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,842	54.2	654
17	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	56%	3597.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,346	54.3	656
18	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	62%	3556.0%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,754	51.6	633
19	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	56%	3544.5%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,215	54.6	671
20	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	50%	3535.9%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,057	55.1	678
21	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	62%	3515.9%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,703	53.0	657
22	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge	Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge+9 more movesets	57%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	5,007	49.8	623
23	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge	Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge+9 more movesets	54%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,812	49.1	614
24	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Synchronoise	Psycho Cut / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	54%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,521	48.4	605
25	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Extrasensory / Sacred Fire++	Extrasensory / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	61%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,863	48.8	610
26	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	49%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,105	49.7	621
27	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	56%	3411.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	54.1	690
28	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	57%	3411.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,038	61.9	791
29	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock	Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	57%	3390.1%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,605	48.5	622
30	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	51%	3374.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,689	46.8	604

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.