Slugma counters

#0218

fireTier 1

Lobby CP

3,021

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Slugma should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 468-511.

Weak toground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Slugma counters are Mega Greninja, Shadow Gigalith, Shadow Kingler, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) & Shadow Excadrill.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Greninja
S. Gigalith
S. Kingler
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Landorus (Incarnate)
S. Excadrill

1 more Mega 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 GreninjaMegapartyBubble / Hydro Cannon0.040:06
2Mega SwampertMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.040:07
3Shadow GigalithShadowpartyLock-On / Meteor Beam0.040:07
4Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Crabhammer0.040:07
5Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Bulldoze0.040:07
6Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:07
7Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud Shot / Scorching Sands0.040:07
8Mega BlastoiseMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.040:07
9InteleonWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.040:07
10Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08

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 Slugma

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Top 15 Slugma 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 Greninjawaterdarkjoint top pick	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	3,784	0:06	0.04	6770.7%
2	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
3	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
4	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
5	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundBulldoze	3,922	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
6	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
7	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
8	Mega Blastoisewater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,941	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
9	Inteleonwater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	2,964	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
10	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:08	0.04	5519.1%
11	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:08	0.04	5519.1%
12	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5455.6%
13	Shadow Hisuian Samurottwaterdark	darkSnarlwaterRazor Shell	2,802	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
14	Shadow Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	2,654	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
15	Shadow Crawdauntwaterdark	darkSnarlwaterRazor Shell	2,474	0:08	0.04	5450.1%

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 Slugma.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Slugma'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%	1481%	6095.8%	0:07	0.04
Ember / Flame Burst	100%	1520%	6048.8%	0:07	0.04
Ember / Flame Charge	100%	1569%	6048.8%	0:07	0.04
Ember / Rock Slide	100%	1515%	6048.8%	0:07	0.04
Rock Throw / Flame Burst	100%	1425%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Rock Throw / Flame Charge	100%	1550%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Rock Throw / Rock Slide	100%	1508%	6155.6%	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…

Slugma 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.

ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x electric1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x bug0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (6)

It resists bug0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Slugma throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockRock Throw	13	+8	1.0s	0.60s
fireEmberSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFlame BurstSTAB	70	-50	2.5s	0.90s
rockRock Slide	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s
fireFlame ChargeSTAB	70	-33	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	468	585
11/11/11	477	596
12/12/12	485	607
13/13/13	494	617
14/14/14	502	628
15/15/15hundo	511	639

Caught CP range 468 - 511, or 585 - 639 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.

Slugma 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 79 / Defense 51 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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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 Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+17 more movesets	99%	6770.7%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,784	98.4	632
2	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,401	89.6	627
3	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	97%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	92.6	648
4	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	84%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,829	87.9	615
5	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Bulldoze	Mud Shot / Bulldoze+9 more movesets	77%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,922	81.0	607
6	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	79%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,588	86.7	650
7	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,244	81.5	611
8	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	86%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,941	80.3	602
9	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	78%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,964	80.0	600
10	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	89%	5519.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,424	89.6	708
11	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	82%	5519.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,962	84.4	666
12	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	87%	5455.6%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	109.9	878
13	Shadow Hisuian Samurott waterdarkshadow Snarl / Razor Shell	Snarl / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	78%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,802	75.1	601
14	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	72%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,654	79.8	638
15	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Snarl / Razor Shell	Snarl / Razor Shell+11 more movesets	74%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,474	77.0	616
16	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	83%	5441.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	93.1	745
17	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	84%	5388.1%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	119.2	963
18	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	78%	5330.2%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,115	91.2	745
19	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	82%	5215.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,902	97.4	814
20	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	70%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,857	71.9	611
21	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Zen Headbutt / Rock Slide	Zen Headbutt / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	67%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,298	71.2	605
22	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Surf	Smack Down / Surf+15 more movesets	76%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,733	75.3	640
23	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Ancient Power	Rock Throw / Ancient Power+23 more movesets	70%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,118	72.1	613
24	Kyogre water Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	75%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,115	75.1	638
25	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	73%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,974	72.5	616
26	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	70%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,178	70.6	600
27	Shadow Aerodactyl rockflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	65%	5093.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,783	75.7	647
28	Shadow Omastar rockwatershadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	71%	5093.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,786	71.4	611
29	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	73%	5046.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	94.9	820
30	Shadow Empoleon watersteelshadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	68%	5023.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,900	81.5	706

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.