Sableye counters

#0302

dark ghostTier 3

Lobby CP

11,501

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

113

Defense

110

Difficulty

0.55

Pokebattler scale

Beating Sableye should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 789-843.

Weak tofairy1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Fairy Mega — most top counters attack with Fairy

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 Sableye counters are Mega Gardevoir, Zacian (Crowned Sword), Shadow Gardevoir, Enamorus (Incarnate), Tapu Koko & Eternatus.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Gardevoir
Zacian (Crowned Sword)
S. Gardevoir
Enamorus (Incarnate)
Tapu Koko
Eternatus

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 GardevoirMegapartyCharm / Dazzling Gleam0.491:26
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryDragon Tail / Dragon Ascent0.511:30
3Mega Raichu YMegaCharm / Zap Cannon+0.541:35
4Zacian (Crowned Sword)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Play Rough0.541:35
5Shadow GardevoirShadowpartyCharm / Dazzling Gleam0.551:37
6Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.571:40
7Enamorus (Incarnate)LegendarypartyFairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam0.571:40
8Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.571:41
9Tapu KokoLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Nature's Madness0.591:43
10EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.591:44

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

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Raid tier — Group Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersShadow Sableye Mega Sableye

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Top 15 Sableye 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 Gardevoirpsychicfairyjoint top pick	fairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam	4,512	1:26	0.49	1.4	271.9%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	1:30	0.51	1.3	261.9%
3	Mega Raichu Yelectric	fairyCharmelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	1:35	0.54	2.5	247.2%
4	Zacian (Crowned Sword)fairysteel	steelMetal ClawfairyPlay Rough	4,979	1:35	0.54	1.0	246.6%
5	Shadow Gardevoirpsychicfairy	fairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam	3,093	1:37	0.55	2.5	242.8%
6	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	1:40	0.57	2.0	234.1%
7	Enamorus (Incarnate)fairyflying	fairyFairy WindfairyDazzling Gleam	3,425	1:40	0.57	2.1	233.7%
8	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	1:41	0.57	2.1	232.5%
9	Tapu Kokoelectricfairy	electricVolt SwitchfairyNature's Madness	3,168	1:43	0.59	1.8	228.0%
10	Eternatuspoisondragon	dragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	1:44	0.59	1.0	226.7%
11	Shadow Granbullfairy	fairyCharmfairyPlay Rough	2,552	1:45	0.60	2.5	222.7%
12	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	1:45	0.60	2.6	222.5%
13	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	1:47	0.61	1.5	219.4%
14	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	1:47	0.61	1.9	218.6%
15	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)psychicsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelSunsteel Strike	4,099	1:48	0.61	1.6	218.1%

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 Sableye.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Sableye'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%	196%	240.3%	1:38	1.7	0.56
Shadow Claw / Foul Play	100%	183%	238.6%	1:38	2.0	0.56
Shadow Claw / Shadow Sneak	100%	199%	238.8%	1:38	1.8	0.56
Shadow Claw / Power Gem	100%	188%	239.8%	1:38	2.0	0.56
Feint Attack / Shadow Sneak	100%	204%	239.9%	1:38	1.6	0.56
Shadow Claw / Dazzling Gleam	100%	181%	240.1%	1:38	2.0	0.56
Feint Attack / Power Gem	100%	195%	240.3%	1:38	1.9	0.56
Feint Attack / Dazzling Gleam	100%	189%	240.9%	1:37	1.9	0.55
Feint Attack / Foul Play	100%	193%	242.2%	1:37	1.8	0.55
Shadow Claw / Drain Punch	100%	281%	242.3%	1:37	0.6	0.55
Feint Attack / Drain Punch	100%	282%	242.5%	1:37	0.7	0.55

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…

Sableye 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.

fairy1.6x flying1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x poison0.63x normal0.39x psychic0.39x

Weak (1)
Neutral (13)
Resists (4)

It resists normal0.39xpsychic0.39xfighting0.625xpoison0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Sableye throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostShadow ClawSTAB	6	+4	0.5s	0.05s
darkFeint AttackSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.85s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkFoul PlaySTAB	70	-50	2.0s	1.70s
fairyDazzling Gleam	100	-50	3.5s	2.10s
rockPower Gem	80	-50	3.0s	2.05s
ghostShadow SneakSTAB	50	-33	3.0s	2.30s
fightingDrain Punch	50	-33	2.5s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	789	986
11/11/11	800	1,000
12/12/12	810	1,013
13/13/13	821	1,027
14/14/14	832	1,040
15/15/15hundo	843	1,054

Caught CP range 789 - 843, or 986 - 1,054 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.

Sableye 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 113 / Defense 110 (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 Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	100%	271.9%	0.49	1:26	1.3	100%	4,512	43.0	1851
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	96%	261.9%	0.51	1:30	1.2	100%	5,713	40.9	1899
3	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Charm / Zap Cannon+	Charm / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	85%	247.2%	0.54	1:35	2.3	100%	3,780	38.7	1080
4	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	96%	246.6%	0.54	1:35	0.9	100%	4,979	38.5	1831
5	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	83%	242.8%	0.55	1:37	2.2	100%	3,093	37.8	1142
6	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	82%	234.1%	0.57	1:40	1.8	100%	4,783	36.8	1357
7	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam	Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam+8 more movesets	82%	233.7%	0.57	1:40	1.9	100%	3,425	37.0	1536
8	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	81%	232.5%	0.57	1:41	1.9	100%	3,784	36.0	1306
9	Tapu Koko electricfairy Volt Switch / Nature's Madness	Volt Switch / Nature's Madness+9 more movesets	81%	228.0%	0.59	1:43	1.7	100%	3,168	35.1	1337
10	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	86%	226.7%	0.59	1:44	0.9	100%	4,429	36.2	2066
11	Shadow Granbull fairyshadow Charm / Play Rough	Charm / Play Rough+8 more movesets	75%	222.7%	0.60	1:45	2.2	100%	2,552	34.7	1151
12	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	75%	222.5%	0.60	1:45	2.3	100%	3,383	35.0	1158
13	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	80%	219.4%	0.61	1:47	1.4	100%	4,823	34.2	1737
14	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	77%	218.6%	0.61	1:47	1.7	100%	3,842	34.8	1396
15	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	77%	218.1%	0.61	1:48	1.5	100%	4,099	34.2	1523
16	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	79%	218.0%	0.61	1:48	1.4	100%	3,979	35.0	1614
17	Tapu Bulu grassfairy Bullet Seed / Nature's Madness	Bullet Seed / Nature's Madness+9 more movesets	79%	217.7%	0.61	1:48	1.4	100%	3,419	33.9	1499
18	Tapu Lele psychicfairy Astonish / Nature's Madness	Astonish / Nature's Madness+11 more movesets	76%	217.5%	0.61	1:48	2.0	100%	3,494	34.3	1245
19	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	72%	217.4%	0.61	1:48	2.6	100%	3,749	33.7	1078
20	Enamorus (Therian) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam	Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam+23 more movesets	77%	216.7%	0.62	1:48	1.6	100%	3,388	33.6	1724
21	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Ice Fang / Behemoth Bash	Ice Fang / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	83%	216.5%	0.62	1:48	0.9	100%	4,172	33.4	2086
22	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	75%	216.4%	0.62	1:48	2.1	100%	3,510	34.0	1141
23	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Dazzling Gleam	Thunder Shock / Dazzling Gleam+7 more movesets	73%	213.4%	0.63	1:50	2.3	100%	3,937	34.1	1125
24	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Dazzling Gleam	Psycho Cut / Dazzling Gleam+17 more movesets	71%	213.3%	0.63	1:50	2.7	100%	4,510	33.1	1042
25	Xerneas fairy Geomancy / Moonblast	Geomancy / Moonblast+14 more movesets	79%	212.6%	0.63	1:50	1.2	100%	3,781	33.2	1707
26	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	74%	209.5%	0.64	1:52	1.6	100%	3,741	32.5	1387
27	Shadow Galarian Rapidash psychicfairyshadow Fairy Wind / Play Rough	Fairy Wind / Play Rough+17 more movesets	67%	208.6%	0.64	1:53	3.3	100%	2,461	32.5	927
28	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Moonblast	Rock Throw / Moonblast+5 more movesets	72%	207.6%	0.64	1:53	2.1	100%	4,346	32.3	1159
29	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	70%	207.5%	0.64	1:53	2.4	100%	3,701	32.8	1138
30	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	71%	204.5%	0.65	1:55	2.0	100%	4,161	31.8	1173

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.