Poltchageist counters

#1012

grass ghostTier 1

Lobby CP

3,845

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Poltchageist should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 603-650.

Weak toflying1.6xghost1.6xfire1.6xice1.6xdark1.6x

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 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 Poltchageist counters are Mega Gengar, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Chandelure, Shadow Blaziken & Shadow Toucannon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Gengar
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
S. Chandelure
S. Blaziken
S. Toucannon

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 %

1Mega GengarMegapartyLick / Shadow Ball0.040:07
2Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.040:08
3Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.040:08
4Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.050:08
6Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyFire Spin / Shadow Ball0.050:08
7Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
8Mega Charizard YMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
9Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
10Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.050:08

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 Poltchageist

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Top 15 Poltchageist 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Gengarghostpoisonjoint top pick	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
2	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
3	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
4	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5348.5%
6	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
7	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
8	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
9	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,848	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
10	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
11	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:09	0.05	5034.7%
12	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:09	0.05	4937.7%
13	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:09	0.05	4887.9%
14	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	0:09	0.05	4887.9%
15	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:09	0.05	4844.4%

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 Poltchageist.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Poltchageist'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%	1429%	5348.0%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Shadow Ball	100%	1037%	5311.8%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Energy Ball	100%	1323%	5311.8%	0:08	0.05
Astonish / Shadow Ball	100%	1267%	5348.0%	0:08	0.05
Astonish / Energy Ball	100%	1422%	5348.0%	0:08	0.05
Magical Leaf / Poltergeist	100%	1590%	5348.0%	0:08	0.05
Astonish / Poltergeist	100%	1613%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05

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…

Poltchageist 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 ghost1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x dark1.6x poison1x rock1x bug1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x normal0.39x fighting0.39x

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

It resists normal0.39xfighting0.39xground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Poltchageist throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassMagical LeafSTAB	17	+17	1.5s	0.85s
ghostAstonishSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostPoltergeistSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.70s
ghostShadow BallSTAB	100	-50	3.0s	2.40s
grassEnergy BallSTAB	90	-50	4.0s	3.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	603	754
11/11/11	612	765
12/12/12	622	777
13/13/13	631	789
14/14/14	641	801
15/15/15hundo	650	813

Caught CP range 603 - 650, or 754 - 813 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.

Poltchageist 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 89 / Defense 66 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

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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	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	87%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,336	80.8	606
2	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	78.1	625
3	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,465	77.1	617
4	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	91.5	732
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	89%	5348.5%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	91.5	746
6	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Shadow Ball	Fire Spin / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	74%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,268	80.0	679
7	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	82%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,161	79.2	673
8	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	85%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,455	77.0	654
9	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	78%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,848	70.7	601
10	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	84%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,689	71.2	605
11	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	69%	5034.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,878	73.9	639
12	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	69%	4937.7%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,594	72.9	643
13	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	73%	4887.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,301	78.2	697
14	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	69%	4887.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,526	74.4	663
15	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,059	71.9	646
16	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	78%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	6,112	69.8	628
17	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+23 more movesets	76%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	70.2	632
18	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	84%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,031	69.1	622
19	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Shadow Ball	Snarl / Shadow Ball+14 more movesets	74%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,739	68.9	620
20	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Fly	Bite / Fly+9 more movesets	79%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,625	66.9	602
21	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	79%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,590	68.1	613
22	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Triple Axel	Snarl / Triple Axel+11 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,005	69.0	621
23	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	69%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	81.5	733
24	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	83%	4748.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	108.0	990
25	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	67%	4668.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,683	68.8	642
26	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Aerial Ace	Air Slash / Aerial Ace+11 more movesets	75%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,713	65.8	625
27	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Fusion Flare	Ice Fang / Fusion Flare+17 more movesets	77%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,605	69.4	659
28	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	73%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,850	68.9	654
29	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,982	65.5	622
30	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	70%	4462.5%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,754	66.3	651

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.