Kabutops counters

#0141

rock waterTier 1

Lobby CP

8,160

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

140

Defense

120

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Kabutops should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,476-1,550.

Weak tograss2.56xfighting1.6xground1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Grass Mega — most top counters attack with Grass

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 Kabutops counters are Mega Raichu Y, Kartana, Shadow Sceptile, Shaymin (Sky), Roserade & Xurkitree.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu Y
Kartana
S. Sceptile
Shaymin (Sky)
Roserade
Xurkitree

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 Raichu YMegapartyThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
2Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.060:11
3KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.060:11
4Mega SceptileMegaBullet Seed / Leaf Blade0.060:11
5Shadow SceptileShadowpartyFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.060:11
6Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
7Shaymin (Sky)LegendarypartyMagical Leaf / Seed Flare0.060:11
8RoseradepartyMagical Leaf / Leaf Storm0.060:11
9XurkitreeLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Power Whip0.060:12
10Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Future Sight+0.070:12

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 Kabutops

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Top 15 Kabutops 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 Raichu Yelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4497.6%
2	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:11	0.06	4089.1%
3	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:11	0.06	3959.8%
4	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	grassBullet SeedgrassLeaf Blade	4,056	0:11	0.06	3941.9%
5	Shadow Sceptilegrass	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:11	0.06	3924.2%
6	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	3860.9%
7	Shaymin (Sky)grassflying	grassMagical LeafgrassSeed Flare	3,592	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
8	Roseradegrasspoison	grassMagical LeafgrassLeaf Storm	2,971	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
9	Xurkitreeelectric	electricThunder ShockgrassPower Whip	3,937	0:12	0.06	3774.7%
10	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3722.5%
11	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:12	0.07	3569.8%
12	Shadow Cacturnegrassdark	groundSand AttackgrassGrass Knot	2,298	0:12	0.07	3557.6%
13	Mega Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassPetal Blizzard	3,698	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
14	Shadow Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassPetal Blizzard	2,720	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
15	Sceptilegrass	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:13	0.07	3482.2%

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 Kabutops.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Kabutops'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%	761%	3943.4%	0:11	0.06
Mud Shot / Stone Edge	100%	772%	3886.8%	0:11	0.06
Mud Shot / Water Pulse	100%	884%	3930.6%	0:11	0.06
Rock Smash / Water Pulse	100%	743%	3933.0%	0:11	0.06
Waterfall / Stone Edge	100%	642%	3933.0%	0:11	0.06
Rock Smash / Stone Edge	100%	613%	3940.4%	0:11	0.06
Mud Shot / Aqua Jet	100%	968%	3945.4%	0:11	0.06
Mud Shot / Ancient Power	100%	780%	3952.8%	0:11	0.06
Rock Smash / Ancient Power	100%	639%	3952.8%	0:11	0.06
Rock Smash / Aqua Jet	100%	757%	3961.4%	0:11	0.06
Waterfall / Ancient Power	100%	705%	3967.8%	0:11	0.06
Waterfall / Water Pulse	100%	781%	3977.9%	0:11	0.06
Waterfall / Aqua Jet	100%	822%	3979.4%	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…

Kabutops 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.

grass2.56x fighting1.6x ground1.6x electric1.6x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x flying0.63x poison0.63x ice0.63x fire0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fire0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xpoison0.625xice0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Kabutops throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterWaterfallSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.75s
fightingRock Smash	17	+12	1.5s	0.75s
groundMud Shot	4	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockStone EdgeSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
waterWater PulseSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	2.00s
rockAncient PowerSTAB	70	-33	3.5s	2.85s
waterAqua JetSTAB	45	-33	2.5s	1.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,476	1,845
11/11/11	1,490	1,863
12/12/12	1,505	1,882
13/13/13	1,520	1,900
14/14/14	1,535	1,919
15/15/15hundo	1,550	1,938

Caught CP range 1,476 - 1,550, or 1,845 - 1,938 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.

Kabutops 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 140 / Defense 120 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	92%	4497.6%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	62.9	609
2	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	100%	4089.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,093	77.0	820
3	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	80%	3959.8%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,677	60.3	666
4	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade	Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade+11 more movesets	85%	3941.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,056	56.8	629
5	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	80%	3924.2%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,757	56.5	627
6	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	88%	3860.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,112	59.2	668
7	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Seed Flare	Magical Leaf / Seed Flare+11 more movesets	79%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,592	53.0	609
8	Roserade grasspoison Magical Leaf / Leaf Storm	Magical Leaf / Leaf Storm+29 more movesets	78%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,971	53.1	610
9	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Power Whip	Thunder Shock / Power Whip+7 more movesets	75%	3774.7%	0.06	0:12	100%	3,937	55.6	642
10	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Future Sight+	Counter / Future Sight++26 more movesets	79%	3722.5%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	53.3	623
11	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	74%	3569.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,670	50.5	616
12	Shadow Cacturne grassdarkshadow Sand Attack / Grass Knot	Sand Attack / Grass Knot+14 more movesets	64%	3557.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,298	50.0	598
13	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard	Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard+9 more movesets	74%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,698	48.4	605
14	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard	Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard+9 more movesets	69%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,720	48.4	605
15	Sceptile grass Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	69%	3482.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,757	48.8	610
16	Shadow Shiftry grassdarkshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+15 more movesets	64%	3482.2%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,333	49.7	622
17	Shadow Torterra grassgroundshadow Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant+14 more movesets	69%	3479.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,934	49.3	619
18	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade	Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	72%	3454.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,505	52.7	665
19	Shadow Alolan Exeggutor grassdragonshadow Bullet Seed / Solar Beam	Bullet Seed / Solar Beam+7 more movesets	72%	3432.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,014	54.9	697
20	Tapu Bulu grassfairy Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	Bullet Seed / Grass Knot+9 more movesets	71%	3432.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,419	49.5	628
21	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Solar Beam	Mud Shot / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	69%	3427.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	5,902	56.2	713
22	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade	Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	66%	3427.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,431	50.2	639
23	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Solar Beam	Mud Shot / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	68%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,115	51.6	659
24	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb	Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb+11 more movesets	67%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,014	50.7	648
25	Shadow Sirfetch'd fightingshadow Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade	Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade+7 more movesets	64%	3400.7%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,985	48.0	614
26	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	63%	3384.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,161	54.0	694
27	Shadow Porygon-Z normalshadow Charge Beam / Solar Beam	Charge Beam / Solar Beam+14 more movesets	64%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,266	47.1	612
28	Breloom grassfighting Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	Bullet Seed / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	65%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,628	47.5	618
29	Meowscarada grassdark Leafage / Flower Trick	Leafage / Flower Trick+11 more movesets	62%	3260.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,825	46.3	619
30	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	64%	3243.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,826	50.6	682

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.