Kirlia counters

#0281

psychic fairyTier 1

Lobby CP

3,313

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Kirlia should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 508-552.

Weak topoison1.6xghost1.6xsteel1.6x

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 Steel Mega — most top counters attack with Steel

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 Kirlia counters are Zamazenta (Crowned Shield), Mega Gengar, Shadow Gengar, Shadow Metagross, Shadow Dialga & Shadow Chandelure.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
M. Gengar
S. Gengar
S. Metagross
S. Dialga
S. Chandelure

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 %

1Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash0.040:06
2Mega GengarMegapartyLick / Shadow Ball0.040:07
3Shadow GengarShadowpartyLick / Shadow Ball0.040:08
4Mega MetagrossMegaBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.050:08
5Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.050:08
6Mega LucarioMegaBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.050:08
7Mega BeedrillMegaPoison Jab / Sludge Bomb0.050:08
8Mega BanetteMegaShadow Claw / Shadow Ball0.050:09
9Shadow DialgaShadowLegendarypartyMetal Claw / Iron Head0.050:09
10Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.050:09

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 Kirlia 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	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
2	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:07	0.04	5989.3%
3	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
4	Mega Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	4,911	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
5	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,791	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
6	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,826	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
7	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	poisonPoison JabpoisonSludge Bomb	3,383	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
8	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:09	0.05	4915.4%
9	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	steelMetal ClawsteelIron Head	4,038	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
10	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
11	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:09	0.05	4843.3%
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin)ghostdragon	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,683	0:09	0.05	4828.3%
13	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:09	0.05	4758.7%
14	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:09	0.05	4687.1%
15	Eternatuspoisondragon	poisonPoison JabpoisonSludge Bomb	4,429	0:09	0.05	4589.4%

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 Kirlia.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Kirlia'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%	1357%	5421.9%	0:08	0.04
Magical Leaf / Psychic	100%	1336%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Disarming Voice	100%	1610%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Shadow Sneak	100%	1456%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Triple Axel	100%	1485%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Draining Kiss	100%	1462%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Charge Beam / Psychic	100%	1317%	5407.9%	0:08	0.04
Charge Beam / Disarming Voice	100%	1626%	5407.9%	0:08	0.04
Charge Beam / Shadow Sneak	100%	1429%	5407.9%	0:08	0.04
Charge Beam / Triple Axel	100%	1450%	5407.9%	0:08	0.04
Charge Beam / Draining Kiss	100%	1458%	5407.9%	0:08	0.04
Confusion / Psychic	100%	1230%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Confusion / Disarming Voice	100%	1397%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Confusion / Shadow Sneak	100%	1282%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Confusion / Triple Axel	100%	1312%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Confusion / Draining Kiss	100%	1290%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04

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…

Kirlia 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.

poison1.6x ghost1.6x steel1.6x normal1x flying1x ground1x rock1x bug1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dark1x fairy1x psychic0.63x fighting0.39x dragon0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists fighting0.39xdragon0.39xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Kirlia 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
grassMagical Leaf	17	+17	1.5s	0.85s
electricCharge Beam	7	+14	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
iceTriple Axel	60	-33	2.0s	1.50s
fairyDraining KissSTAB	60	-50	2.5s	0.90s
fairyDisarming VoiceSTAB	70	-33	4.0s	3.30s
ghostShadow Sneak	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	508	635
11/11/11	517	646
12/12/12	526	657
13/13/13	534	668
14/14/14	543	679
15/15/15hundo	552	690

Caught CP range 508 - 552, or 635 - 690 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.

Kirlia 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 78 / Defense 62 (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	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	100%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,172	92.5	601
2	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	75%	5989.3%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,336	87.7	638
3	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	63%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,878	76.4	611
4	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	76%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,911	72.4	615
5	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	72%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,791	74.7	635
6	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	66%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,826	74.6	634
7	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+23 more movesets	62%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,383	75.1	638
8	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	61%	4915.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,594	76.5	678
9	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	65%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,038	68.6	617
10	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	60%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,268	68.9	620
11	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	65%	4843.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	67.3	606
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	62%	4828.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,683	66.7	602
13	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	62%	4758.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	67.8	621
14	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	65%	4687.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	71.0	659
15	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+7 more movesets	59%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,429	66.4	631
16	Shadow Overqwil darkpoisonshadow Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+9 more movesets	58%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,946	64.0	608
17	Gengar ghostpoison Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	52%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,878	63.9	607
18	Shadow Banette ghostshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	51%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,298	64.4	612
19	Hisuian Zoroark normalghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	52%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,615	63.9	607
20	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Surf+	Bubble / Surf++17 more movesets	58%	4555.0%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,784	64.4	616
21	Shadow Haunter ghostpoisonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	47%	4538.9%	0.05	0:10	100%	1,963	65.1	619
22	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	57%	4504.0%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,713	65.9	637
23	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	55%	4484.6%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,979	65.8	639
24	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	55%	4484.6%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	73.7	716
25	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	61%	4364.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,099	89.8	897
26	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	59%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,979	60.1	601
27	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	51%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,659	60.7	607
28	Lunala psychicghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+11 more movesets	57%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,042	60.7	607
29	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike	Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	66%	4346.8%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,099	89.5	897
30	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+14 more movesets	54%	4333.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,244	62.4	628

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.