Metang counters

#0375

steel psychicTier 1

Lobby CP

5,179

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

114

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Metang should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 925-983.

Weak toground1.6xghost1.6xfire1.6xdark1.6x

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Metang counters are Mega Houndoom, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Gengar, Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) & Shadow Chandelure.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Houndoom
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Gengar
S. Darmanitan (Standard)
S. Chandelure

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+0.070:12
2Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.070:12
3Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.070:12
4BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.070:13
5Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.070:13
6Shadow GengarShadowpartyLick / Shadow Ball0.070:13
7Mega GengarMegaSucker Punch / Shadow Ball0.070:13
8Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:14
9Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyFire Spin / Poltergeist0.080:14
10Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blaze Kick0.080:14

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 Metang

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Top 15 Metang 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	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
2	Mega Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:12	0.07	3578.8%
3	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:12	0.07	3544.5%
4	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:13	0.07	3406.0%
5	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:13	0.07	3268.1%
6	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:13	0.07	3265.7%
7	Mega Gengarghostpoison	darkSucker PunchghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:13	0.07	3263.2%
8	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	0:14	0.08	3136.4%
9	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinghostPoltergeist	3,268	0:14	0.08	3127.4%
10	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlaze Kick	4,161	0:14	0.08	3118.5%
11	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarlghostShadow Ball	3,739	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
12	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,465	0:14	0.08	3019.1%
13	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
14	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	4,455	0:15	0.08	3002.5%
15	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	ghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:15	0.08	3000.4%

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 Metang.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Metang'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.

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%	738%	3326.9%	0:13	0.07
Fury Cutter / Gyro Ball	100%	862%	3300.7%	0:13	0.07
Metal Claw / Gyro Ball	100%	812%	3312.9%	0:13	0.07
Fury Cutter / Psychic	100%	730%	3319.4%	0:13	0.07
Metal Claw / Psychic	100%	705%	3330.0%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Gyro Ball	100%	757%	3342.9%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Psychic	100%	713%	3368.0%	0:13	0.07
Fury Cutter / Psyshock	100%	753%	3371.6%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Psyshock	100%	734%	3380.7%	0:13	0.07
Metal Claw / Psyshock	100%	732%	3380.7%	0:13	0.07

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…

Metang 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.

ground1.6x ghost1.6x fire1.6x dark1.6x fighting1x bug1x water1x electric1x normal0.63x flying0.63x rock0.63x steel0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x psychic0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (4)
Resists (10)

It resists poison0.39xpsychic0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xsteel0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Metang throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelMetal ClawSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.23s
psychicZen HeadbuttSTAB	11	+9	1.0s	0.75s
bugFury Cutter	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
steelGyro BallSTAB	85	-50	3.5s	3.20s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.80s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	925	1,156
11/11/11	936	1,171
12/12/12	948	1,185
13/13/13	960	1,200
14/14/14	972	1,215
15/15/15hundo	983	1,229

Caught CP range 925 - 983, or 1,156 - 1,229 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.

Metang 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 91 / Defense 114 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

Share these exact settings

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 top pickdarkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	99%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,842	50.6	607
2	Mega Delphox top pickfirepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	100%	3578.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,783	62.6	762
3	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	89%	3544.5%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,038	52.4	643
4	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	82%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,297	50.7	649
5	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	78%	3268.1%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,301	45.9	613
6	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	68%	3265.7%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,878	46.4	618
7	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball	Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	74%	3263.2%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,336	48.6	648
8	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	71%	3136.4%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,105	46.3	642
9	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Poltergeist	Fire Spin / Poltergeist+19 more movesets	71%	3127.4%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,268	45.4	633
10	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	70%	3118.5%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,161	43.4	607
11	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Shadow Ball	Snarl / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	76%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,739	44.0	616
12	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	71%	3019.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,465	43.8	632
13	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	69%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,922	41.7	604
14	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	73%	3002.5%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,455	45.6	661
15	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam	Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	78%	3000.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,099	49.8	724
16	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	75%	2984.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	5,424	42.7	624
17	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	64%	2922.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,982	43.0	638
18	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	74%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,754	40.4	606
19	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	72%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,863	42.7	640
20	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	69%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,473	40.4	606
21	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	65%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,132	40.1	601
22	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	71%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,038	40.5	608
23	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+20 more movesets	60%	2884.0%	0.08	0:15	0.1	100%	2,848	41.2	598
24	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	63%	2849.4%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	2,526	42.4	649
25	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Brutal Swing	Fire Fang / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	64%	2849.4%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,749	40.7	623
26	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	67%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,244	40.7	630
27	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	63%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,962	37.8	604
28	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	61%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,588	37.8	604
29	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	64%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,683	37.8	605
30	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	64%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,850	37.9	607

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.