Poliwrath counters

#0062

water fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

6,807

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

117

Defense

118

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Poliwrath should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,405-1,477.

Weak toflying1.6xgrass1.6xelectric1.6xpsychic1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Poliwrath counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Thundurus (Therian) & Mewtwo.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Toucannon
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Thundurus (Therian)
Mewtwo

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+0.050:08
2Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.060:11
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:12
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.070:12
6Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.070:13
7Mega AlakazamMegaPsycho Cut / Psychic0.070:13
8Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.080:13
9Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.080:14
10Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Fly0.080:14
11Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.080:14
13MewtwoLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.080:15

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 Poliwrath 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	0:08	0.05	5361.6%
2	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4548.2%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:11	0.06	3955.5%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.06	3741.7%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
6	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:13	0.07	3457.3%
7	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
8	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:13	0.08	3238.5%
9	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:14	0.08	3205.6%
10	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicConfusionflyingFly	3,590	0:14	0.08	3129.7%
11	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
12	Mega Raichu Xelectric	fairyCharmelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:15	0.08	2965.3%
13	Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:15	0.08	2920.0%
14	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	grassMagical LeafpsychicPsychic	4,512	0:15	0.08	2906.4%
15	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingFly	3,749	0:15	0.08	2898.7%

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 Poliwrath.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Poliwrath'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%	779%	3391.9%	0:13	0.07
Mud Shot / Hydro Pump	100%	898%	3285.4%	0:13	0.07
Mud Shot / Power-Up Punch	100%	900%	3320.2%	0:13	0.07
Mud Shot / Dynamic Punch	100%	832%	3334.3%	0:13	0.07
Bubble / Power-Up Punch	100%	782%	3341.4%	0:13	0.07
Bubble / Hydro Pump	100%	749%	3355.7%	0:13	0.07
Mud Shot / Icy Wind	100%	871%	3361.0%	0:13	0.07
Rock Smash / Power-Up Punch	100%	858%	3362.8%	0:13	0.07
Bubble / Dynamic Punch	100%	813%	3382.8%	0:13	0.07
Rock Smash / Hydro Pump	100%	839%	3388.3%	0:13	0.07
Rock Smash / Dynamic Punch	100%	866%	3390.1%	0:13	0.07
Mud Shot / Ice Punch	100%	811%	3393.8%	0:13	0.07
Mud Shot / Scald	100%	909%	3397.4%	0:13	0.07
Bubble / Scald	100%	833%	3399.3%	0:13	0.07
Bubble / Icy Wind	100%	753%	3403.0%	0:13	0.07
Bubble / Ice Punch	100%	719%	3410.4%	0:13	0.07
Rock Smash / Ice Punch	100%	782%	3412.2%	0:13	0.07
Rock Smash / Scald	100%	829%	3421.5%	0:13	0.07
Rock Smash / Icy Wind	100%	752%	3421.5%	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…

Poliwrath 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.

flying1.6x grass1.6x electric1.6x psychic1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x poison1x ground1x ghost1x dragon1x rock0.63x bug0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x water0.63x ice0.63x dark0.63x

Weak (5)
Neutral (6)
Resists (7)

It resists rock0.625xbug0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xwater0.625xice0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Poliwrath throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingRock SmashSTAB	17	+12	1.5s	0.75s
waterBubbleSTAB	10	+12	1.0s	0.55s
groundMud Shot	4	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterHydro PumpSTAB	135	-100	3.5s	1.10s
fightingDynamic PunchSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.00s
fightingPower-Up PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.70s
waterScaldSTAB	75	-50	3.5s	1.10s
iceIce Punch	50	-33	2.0s	1.40s
iceIcy Wind	65	-33	3.5s	2.20s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,405	1,757
11/11/11	1,420	1,775
12/12/12	1,434	1,793
13/13/13	1,448	1,811
14/14/14	1,463	1,829
15/15/15hundo	1,477	1,847

Caught CP range 1,405 - 1,477, or 1,757 - 1,847 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.

Poliwrath 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 117 / Defense 118 (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

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	5361.6%	0.05	0:08	0.0	100%	6,428	82.5	670
2	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	68%	4548.2%	0.05	0:10	0.0	100%	3,780	63.8	611
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	64%	3955.5%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,979	55.4	610
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	60%	3741.7%	0.06	0:12	0.0	100%	6,112	55.0	640
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	56%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,178	50.0	600
6	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	54%	3457.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	5,713	51.3	648
7	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	50%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,510	46.5	604
8	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	49%	3238.5%	0.08	0:13	0.0	100%	3,741	50.4	678
9	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	44%	3205.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,689	45.4	617
10	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Fly	Confusion / Fly+7 more movesets	47%	3129.7%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,590	44.9	624
11	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	42%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,659	41.7	605
12	Mega Raichu X electricmega Charm / Volt Tackle+	Charm / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	43%	2965.3%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,510	46.8	687
13	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	44%	2920.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,178	42.9	640
14	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Magical Leaf / Psychic	Magical Leaf / Psychic+19 more movesets	45%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,512	40.0	600
15	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	41%	2898.7%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,749	41.6	625
16	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	43%	2891.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,521	42.0	632
17	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	38%	2816.3%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,057	44.2	683
18	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Confusion / Solar Beam	Confusion / Solar Beam+11 more movesets	40%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,014	38.8	601
19	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	39%	2789.2%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,006	41.8	653
20	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	40%	2762.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,791	39.4	621
21	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Quick Attack / Fly	Quick Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	37%	2748.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,825	40.1	634
22	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Solar Beam	Zen Headbutt / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	41%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	5,007	38.2	611
23	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	38%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,346	38.3	612
24	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	42%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,093	37.8	604
25	Zeraora electric Volt Switch / Plasma Fists	Volt Switch / Plasma Fists+9 more movesets	39%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,419	37.5	600
26	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	41%	2714.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	5,031	37.6	603
27	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	36%	2706.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,757	37.3	601
28	Deoxys (Attack) psychic Zen Headbutt / Zap Cannon	Zen Headbutt / Zap Cannon+5 more movesets	32%	2701.5%	0.09	0:16	0.5	100%	2,580	41.9	492
29	Shadow Tornadus (Incarnate) flyingshadow Air Slash / Grass Knot	Air Slash / Grass Knot+7 more movesets	36%	2698.6%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,345	38.0	607
30	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+23 more movesets	40%	2681.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,783	42.0	683

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.