Nidoking counters

#0034

poison groundTier 3

Lobby CP

17,182

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

159

Defense

124

Difficulty

0.41

Pokebattler scale

Beating Nidoking should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,395-1,466.

Weak toground1.6xwater1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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 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 Nidoking counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Kyurem (White), Shadow Kyogre & Shadow Groudon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Landorus (Therian)
Kyurem (White)
S. Kyogre
S. Groudon

7 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+0.310:54
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.391:08
3Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.421:13
4Mega StarmieMegaPsywave / Liquidation+0.421:14
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.431:16
6Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.481:24
7Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.491:25
8Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyExtrasensory / Sandsear Storm0.491:26
9Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.491:26
10Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.501:27
11Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.521:32
13Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.531:33

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

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Related countersShadow Nidoking

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Top 15 Nidoking 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	0:54	0.31	1.0	433.8%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	1:08	0.39	1.4	345.6%
3	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	1:13	0.42	2.4	320.8%
4	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	1:14	0.42	1.9	315.8%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	1:16	0.43	2.7	308.0%
6	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	5,902	1:24	0.48	1.4	278.5%
7	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	1:25	0.49	3.2	275.4%
8	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	psychicExtrasensorygroundSandsear Storm	3,922	1:26	0.49	2.1	274.4%
9	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	1:26	0.49	2.3	273.1%
10	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	1:27	0.50	1.9	269.1%
11	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	1:32	0.52	2.6	254.7%
12	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,512	1:33	0.53	3.1	253.1%
13	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	1:33	0.53	2.7	253.0%
14	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,521	1:33	0.53	2.8	252.9%
15	Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	1:33	0.53	3.1	252.5%

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 Nidoking.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Nidoking'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	176%	287.0%	1:22	2.3	0.47
Double Kick / Earthquake	100%	169%	283.7%	1:23	2.6	0.47
Iron Tail / Avalanche	100%	178%	284.5%	1:22	2.7	0.47
Poison Sting / Earthquake	100%	173%	284.7%	1:22	2.6	0.47
Poison Jab / Earthquake	100%	161%	284.7%	1:22	2.7	0.47
Poison Jab / Avalanche	100%	175%	285.4%	1:22	2.7	0.47
Iron Tail / Earthquake	100%	159%	285.4%	1:22	2.8	0.47
Iron Tail / Earth Power	100%	176%	287.4%	1:22	2.3	0.47
Double Kick / Avalanche	100%	187%	288.2%	1:21	2.4	0.46
Poison Jab / Earth Power	100%	178%	288.7%	1:21	2.3	0.46
Poison Sting / Earth Power	100%	185%	289.4%	1:21	2.1	0.46
Poison Sting / Avalanche	100%	183%	289.5%	1:21	2.5	0.46
Double Kick / Earth Power	100%	188%	289.7%	1:21	2.1	0.46
Iron Tail / Sludge Wave	100%	183%	290.4%	1:21	2.2	0.46
Poison Sting / Megahorn	100%	184%	290.6%	1:21	2.2	0.46
Poison Jab / Sludge Wave	100%	181%	290.8%	1:21	2.2	0.46
Poison Jab / Sand Tomb	100%	237%	291.4%	1:21	1.4	0.46
Iron Tail / Megahorn	100%	172%	291.9%	1:20	2.3	0.46
Double Kick / Sludge Wave	100%	198%	292.4%	1:20	2.0	0.46
Poison Jab / Megahorn	100%	172%	292.4%	1:20	2.3	0.46
Iron Tail / Sand Tomb	100%	235%	292.5%	1:20	1.5	0.46
Poison Sting / Sand Tomb	100%	255%	292.9%	1:20	1.2	0.46
Double Kick / Sand Tomb	100%	252%	293.0%	1:20	1.3	0.46
Poison Sting / Sludge Wave	100%	206%	293.5%	1:20	1.8	0.46
Double Kick / Megahorn	100%	180%	294.6%	1:20	2.2	0.45

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…

Nidoking 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 water1.6x psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x flying1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x grass1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x rock0.63x bug0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x electric0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (8)
Resists (6)

It resists poison0.39xelectric0.39xfighting0.625xrock0.625xbug0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Nidoking throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonPoison JabSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.40s
steelIron Tail	14	+6	1.0s	0.75s
fightingDouble Kick	10	+13	1.0s	0.30s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugMegahorn	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
groundEarthquakeSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.60s
poisonSludge WaveSTAB	105	-100	3.0s	1.80s
groundEarth PowerSTAB	100	-50	3.5s	2.60s
iceAvalanche	85	-50	2.5s	1.50s
groundSand TombSTAB	60	-33	4.0s	1.70s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,395	1,743
11/11/11	1,409	1,761
12/12/12	1,423	1,779
13/13/13	1,437	1,797
14/14/14	1,452	1,815
15/15/15hundo	1,466	1,833

Caught CP range 1,395 - 1,466, or 1,743 - 1,833 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.

Nidoking 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 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 159 / Defense 124 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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 Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	433.8%	0.31	0:54	0.9	100%	6,428	69.3	1983
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	76%	345.6%	0.39	1:08	1.3	100%	6,112	54.0	1593
3	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	66%	320.8%	0.42	1:13	2.1	100%	3,784	50.2	1142
4	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	67%	315.8%	0.42	1:14	1.8	100%	3,701	50.9	1384
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	62%	308.0%	0.43	1:16	2.5	100%	4,178	48.1	1042
6	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	61%	278.5%	0.48	1:24	1.3	100%	5,902	43.7	1586
7	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	54%	275.4%	0.49	1:25	2.9	100%	4,510	43.0	930
8	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Extrasensory / Sandsear Storm	Extrasensory / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	57%	274.4%	0.49	1:26	1.9	100%	3,922	43.6	1472
9	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	56%	273.1%	0.49	1:26	2.1	100%	4,605	42.5	1153
10	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	57%	269.1%	0.50	1:27	1.8	100%	5,902	42.5	1411
11	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	52%	254.7%	0.52	1:32	2.4	100%	4,115	39.6	1083
12	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	50%	253.1%	0.53	1:33	2.8	100%	4,512	39.4	942
13	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	51%	253.0%	0.53	1:33	2.5	100%	4,115	39.4	1040
14	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	51%	252.9%	0.53	1:33	2.5	100%	4,521	39.4	1018
15	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	50%	252.5%	0.53	1:33	2.8	100%	4,178	39.6	957
16	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	51%	249.5%	0.54	1:34	2.1	100%	4,605	39.0	1117
17	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	53%	249.4%	0.54	1:34	1.8	100%	4,401	39.2	1311
18	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	51%	248.5%	0.54	1:34	2.0	100%	5,424	38.7	1269
19	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	50%	248.2%	0.54	1:35	2.5	100%	5,007	38.8	1016
20	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+23 more movesets	48%	242.9%	0.55	1:37	2.8	100%	4,783	38.1	1000
21	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / Avalanche	Mud-Slap / Avalanche+11 more movesets	47%	240.5%	0.56	1:38	3.2	100%	3,328	37.5	855
22	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	49%	240.2%	0.56	1:38	2.4	100%	3,143	38.7	1103
23	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	46%	238.5%	0.56	1:38	3.3	100%	3,812	37.2	820
24	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	44%	236.2%	0.57	1:39	3.8	100%	2,829	37.3	738
25	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	48%	232.8%	0.57	1:41	2.1	100%	3,922	37.0	1410
26	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	44%	231.1%	0.58	1:42	3.5	100%	4,006	36.7	821
27	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	43%	230.7%	0.58	1:42	4.2	100%	2,654	36.8	689
28	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	45%	229.2%	0.58	1:42	3.0	100%	3,962	36.1	933
29	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	45%	229.2%	0.58	1:42	2.9	100%	3,791	36.0	1040
30	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	41%	227.0%	0.59	1:43	4.9	100%	3,057	36.8	601

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 0.3 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.