Scatterbug counters

#0664

bugTier 1

Lobby CP

1,687

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Scatterbug should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 249-281.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6x

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Scatterbug counters are Mega Delphox, Shadow Archeops, Shadow Heatran, Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Moltres & Shadow Gigalith.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
S. Archeops
S. Heatran
S. Toucannon
S. Moltres
S. Gigalith

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 DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire0.030:06
2Shadow ArcheopsShadowpartyWing Attack / Ancient Power0.040:06
3Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm0.040:06
4Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyBullet Seed / Beak Blast0.040:06
5Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Aerial Ace0.040:07
6Mega Charizard YMegaEmber / Flamethrower0.040:07
7Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blaze Kick0.040:07
8Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.040:07
9Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Fly0.040:07
10Shadow GigalithShadowpartyLock-On / Meteor Beam0.040:07

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

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Raid tier — Solo 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 Scatterbug

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Top 15 Scatterbug 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 Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire	4,783	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Shadow Archeopsrockflying	flyingWing AttackrockAncient Power	3,331	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
3	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
4	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	grassBullet SeedflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
5	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingAerial Ace	5,713	0:07	0.04	6469.3%
6	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireFlamethrower	4,455	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
7	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlaze Kick	4,161	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
8	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
9	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,979	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
10	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
11	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMystical Fire	3,297	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
12	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire	3,059	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
13	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	2,825	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
14	Shadow Honchkrowdarkflying	flyingPeckflyingSky Attack	2,711	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
15	Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:07	0.04	6228.9%

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 Scatterbug.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Scatterbug'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%	2047%	6623.3%	0:07	0.04
Bug Bite / Struggle	100%	2050%	6623.3%	0:07	0.04
Tackle / Struggle	100%	2045%	6623.3%	0:07	0.04

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…

Scatterbug 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 rock1.6x fire1.6x normal1x poison1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x grass0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

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

What Scatterbug 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
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalStruggle	35	-0	2.0s	1.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	249	312
11/11/11	256	320
12/12/12	262	327
13/13/13	268	335
14/14/14	274	343
15/15/15hundo	281	351

Caught CP range 249 - 281, or 312 - 351 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.

Scatterbug 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 46 / Defense 46 (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

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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+23 more movesets	100%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	4,783	107.2	643
2	Shadow Archeops rockflyingshadow Wing Attack / Ancient Power	Wing Attack / Ancient Power+5 more movesets	87%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,331	92.3	600
3	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	95%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,754	101.9	662
4	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	84%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,689	95.9	623
5	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Aerial Ace	Air Slash / Aerial Ace+11 more movesets	91%	6469.3%	0.04	0:07	100%	5,713	100.8	678
6	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Flamethrower	Ember / Flamethrower+29 more movesets	83%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,455	89.9	629
7	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,161	94.7	663
8	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,465	104.0	728
9	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+19 more movesets	85%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,979	97.2	680
10	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	88%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	101.5	710
11	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mystical Fire	Incinerate / Mystical Fire+7 more movesets	86%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,297	95.3	667
12	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Mystical Fire	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+20 more movesets	77%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,059	86.2	603
13	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	79%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,825	97.6	683
14	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Sky Attack	Peck / Sky Attack+7 more movesets	76%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,711	94.2	659
15	Moltres fireflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,465	87.2	610
16	Gigalith rock Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	89%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	85.7	600
17	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,590	81.2	609
18	Heatran firesteel Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	83%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,754	81.4	610
19	Toucannon normalflying Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,689	90.4	678
20	Shadow Houndoom darkfireshadow Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+14 more movesets	69%	5767.4%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,635	85.2	643
21	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Ancient Power	Rock Throw / Ancient Power+23 more movesets	79%	5633.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,118	80.9	626
22	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	72%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	77.1	617
23	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	73%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	75.5	604
24	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Brutal Swing	Smack Down / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	78%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,347	78.6	629
25	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Tackle / Rock Slide	Tackle / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	72%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,346	76.5	612
26	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Brutal Swing	Smack Down / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	74%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,834	77.5	620
27	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	69%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,548	79.0	632
28	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Flame Charge	Fire Spin / Flame Charge+19 more movesets	75%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,268	85.5	684
29	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	75%	5265.8%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,031	93.4	772
30	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	70%	5265.8%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,749	100.2	828

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.