Pheromosa counters

#0795

bug fightingTier 5

Lobby CP

40,539

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

261

Defense

Difficulty

0.51

Pokebattler scale

Beating Pheromosa should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,538-1,624.

Weak toflying2.56xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Pheromosa counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Moltres, Rayquaza, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Salamence & Shadow Tornadus (Therian).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
S. Moltres
Rayquaza
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Salamence
S. Tornadus (Therian)

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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.401:51
2Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.482:12
3Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.532:28
4Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.552:31
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.562:33
6RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.562:34
7Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.582:41
8Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.592:44
9Shadow Tornadus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyGust / Bleakwind Storm0.622:53
10Mega SalamenceMegaFire Fang / Fly0.632:53

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

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Raid tier — Legendary Raid

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Related countersShadow Pheromosa

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Top 15 Pheromosa 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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	1:51	0.40	3.1	274.1%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	2:12	0.48	3.5	229.9%
3	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	2:28	0.53	4.3	206.2%
4	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	2:31	0.55	4.7	201.5%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	2:33	0.56	5.2	198.4%
6	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	2:34	0.56	5.2	197.8%
7	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	2:41	0.58	5.4	189.3%
8	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	2:44	0.59	5.7	185.2%
9	Shadow Tornadus (Therian)flying	flyingGustflyingBleakwind Storm	3,215	2:53	0.62	5.7	176.2%
10	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	2:53	0.63	4.5	176.0%
11	Enamorus (Incarnate)fairyflying	fairyFairy WindflyingFly	3,425	2:56	0.64	4.9	173.1%
12	Shadow Lugiapsychicflying	psychicExtrasensoryflyingAeroblast++	3,703	3:02	0.66	4.0	166.7%
13	Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	3:03	0.66	4.7	166.1%
14	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	3:04	0.67	5.7	165.4%
15	Mega Pidgeotnormalflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird	3,680	3:04	0.67	5.6	165.3%

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 Pheromosa.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Pheromosa'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%	245%	200.3%	2:32	5.0	0.55
Low Kick / Focus Blast	100%	207%	192.7%	2:38	5.6	0.57
Bug Bite / Focus Blast	100%	206%	193.1%	2:37	5.6	0.57
Low Kick / Close Combat	100%	237%	199.0%	2:33	5.3	0.55
Bug Bite / Close Combat	100%	234%	199.5%	2:32	5.4	0.55
Low Kick / Bug Buzz	100%	260%	200.1%	2:32	5.1	0.55
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	100%	260%	200.3%	2:32	5.1	0.55
Low Kick / Lunge	100%	354%	207.0%	2:27	4.0	0.53
Bug Bite / Lunge	100%	356%	207.2%	2:27	4.0	0.53

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…

Pheromosa 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.

flying2.56x fire1.6x psychic1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x poison1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x bug0.63x grass0.63x dark0.63x

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

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xbug0.625xgrass0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Pheromosa throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
fightingLow KickSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingClose CombatSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	1.20s
fightingFocus BlastSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	3.00s
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
bugLungeSTAB	55	-33	3.0s	2.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,538	1,922
11/11/11	1,555	1,944
12/12/12	1,572	1,965
13/13/13	1,589	1,986
14/14/14	1,606	2,008
15/15/15hundo	1,624	2,030

Caught CP range 1,538 - 1,624, or 1,922 - 2,030 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.

Pheromosa 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 261 / Defense 79 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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 Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	274.1%	0.40	1:51	3.0	100%	5,713	138.2	3956
2	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	83%	229.9%	0.48	2:12	3.4	100%	3,979	116.5	3835
3	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	70%	206.2%	0.53	2:28	5.5	100%	3,741	105.6	2923
4	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	69%	201.5%	0.55	2:31	5.5	100%	3,465	103.4	2659
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	68%	198.4%	0.56	2:33	5.8	100%	6,428	102.4	2329
6	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	68%	197.8%	0.56	2:34	5.7	100%	3,835	102.5	2391
7	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	64%	189.3%	0.58	2:41	6.2	100%	3,590	96.8	2161
8	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	62%	185.2%	0.59	2:44	6.7	100%	3,749	96.1	2011
9	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	58%	176.2%	0.62	2:53	7.7	100%	3,215	91.8	1838
10	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	62%	176.0%	0.63	2:53	4.4	100%	5,031	88.7	2884
11	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+8 more movesets	60%	173.1%	0.64	2:56	4.8	100%	3,425	87.7	2651
12	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	59%	166.7%	0.66	3:02	4.1	100%	3,703	85.5	3252
13	Moltres fireflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	57%	166.1%	0.66	3:03	5.9	100%	3,465	84.8	2586
14	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	56%	165.4%	0.67	3:04	5.9	100%	6,112	85.0	2171
15	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	54%	165.3%	0.67	3:04	8.5	100%	3,680	86.7	1768
16	Yveltal darkflying Gust / Oblivion Wing	Gust / Oblivion Wing+17 more movesets	53%	161.6%	0.68	3:08	8.7	100%	3,781	84.6	1658
17	Shadow Galarian Moltres darkflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+7 more movesets	52%	159.4%	0.69	3:11	9.2	100%	3,167	83.3	1497
18	Galarian Articuno psychicflying Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	53%	158.0%	0.70	3:12	6.6	100%	3,590	81.3	2141
19	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Drill Peck	Thunder Shock / Drill Peck+11 more movesets	52%	156.6%	0.70	3:14	7.8	100%	3,527	81.4	1783
20	Shadow Tornadus (Incarnate) flyingshadow Air Slash / Hurricane	Air Slash / Hurricane+7 more movesets	51%	156.4%	0.70	3:14	9.5	100%	3,345	81.9	1482
21	Enamorus (Therian) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+23 more movesets	54%	154.4%	0.71	3:17	4.7	100%	3,388	78.3	2765
22	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Low Kick / Fly	Low Kick / Fly+7 more movesets	52%	154.3%	0.71	3:17	6.1	100%	3,548	78.7	2303
23	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	52%	154.1%	0.71	3:17	7.1	100%	3,749	79.3	1934
24	Braviary normalflying Air Slash / Fly	Air Slash / Fly+9 more movesets	50%	154.0%	0.72	3:17	8.4	100%	3,088	79.7	1696
25	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	51%	153.4%	0.72	3:18	7.4	100%	4,783	79.9	1810
26	Tornadus (Therian) flying Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	50%	149.7%	0.74	3:23	7.5	100%	3,215	77.3	1857
27	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Air Slash / Air Cutter	Air Slash / Air Cutter+29 more movesets	50%	147.3%	0.75	3:26	6.3	100%	4,455	74.6	2392
28	Hisuian Braviary psychicflying Air Slash / Fly	Air Slash / Fly+9 more movesets	47%	142.3%	0.77	3:34	8.2	100%	2,814	73.9	1677
29	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Brave Bird	Incinerate / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	49%	142.3%	0.77	3:34	5.1	100%	3,863	72.5	2674
30	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Spark / Fly	Spark / Fly+15 more movesets	44%	138.7%	0.79	3:39	11.5	100%	3,117	73.2	1184

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