Starly counters

#0396

normal flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

2,427

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.03

Pokebattler scale

Beating Starly should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 372-410.

Weak torock1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6x

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 an Electric Mega — most top counters attack with Electric

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 Starly counters are Mega Raichu Y, Shadow Raikou, Shadow Electivire, Shadow Zapdos, Kyurem (White) & Shadow Magnezone.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu Y
S. Raikou
S. Electivire
S. Zapdos
Kyurem (White)
S. Magnezone

3 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 Raichu YMegapartyThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
2Shadow RaikouShadowLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
3Shadow ElectivireShadowpartyThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
4Mega Raichu XMegaThunder Shock / Wild Charge0.030:06
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Thunderbolt0.030:06
6Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Thunderbolt0.030:06
7Shadow ZapdosShadowLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Thunderbolt0.030:06
8Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.040:06
9Shadow MagnezoneShadowpartyCharge Beam / Wild Charge0.040:06
10Shadow WeavileShadowSnarl / Avalanche0.040:06

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 Starly

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Top 15 Starly 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 Raichu Yelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,780	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Shadow Raikouelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,452	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
3	Shadow Electivireelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,079	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
4	Mega Raichu Xelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,510	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutelectricThunderbolt	6,428	0:06	0.03	7207.3%
6	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutelectricThunderbolt	6,112	0:06	0.03	7207.3%
7	Shadow Zapdoselectricflyingjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricThunderbolt	3,527	0:06	0.03	7195.4%
8	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
9	Shadow Magnezoneelectricsteel	electricCharge BeamelectricWild Charge	3,205	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
10	Shadow Weaviledarkice	darkSnarliceAvalanche	3,005	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
11	Mega Manectricelectric	electricCharge BeamelectricWild Charge	3,580	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
12	Shadow Manectricelectric	electricThunder FangelectricWild Charge	2,340	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
13	Shadow Luxrayelectric	electricSparkelectricWild Charge	2,888	0:07	0.04	6626.6%
14	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunderbolt	3,659	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
15	Xurkitreeelectric	electricSparkelectricDischarge	3,937	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 Starly.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Starly'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.

“Joint top pick”: 7 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

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%	2069%	7063.0%	0:06	0.03
Sand Attack / Aerial Ace	100%	2032%	7031.3%	0:06	0.03
Sand Attack / Fly	100%	2204%	7031.3%	0:06	0.03
Tackle / Aerial Ace	100%	2047%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Tackle / Brave Bird	100%	2299%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Tackle / Fly	100%	2215%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Quick Attack / Aerial Ace	100%	1908%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Quick Attack / Brave Bird	100%	2150%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Quick Attack / Fly	100%	1849%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03
Sand Attack / Brave Bird	100%	2394%	7070.9%	0:06	0.03

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…

Starly 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.

rock1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x steel1x fire1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x bug0.63x grass0.63x ground0.39x ghost0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (11)
Resists (4)

It resists ground0.39xghost0.39xbug0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Starly throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalTackleSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
normalQuick AttackSTAB	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s
groundSand Attack	4	+7	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingBrave BirdSTAB	130	-100	2.0s	1.00s
flyingFlySTAB	90	-50	2.0s	1.40s
flyingAerial AceSTAB	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	372	465
11/11/11	380	475
12/12/12	387	484
13/13/13	395	494
14/14/14	403	503
15/15/15hundo	410	513

Caught CP range 372 - 410, or 465 - 513 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.

Starly 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 69 / Defense 43 (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 Raichu Y top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	95%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,780	122.9	737
2	Shadow Raikou top pickelectricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	97%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,452	105.9	635
3	Shadow Electivire top pickelectricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	94%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,079	109.7	658
4	Mega Raichu X top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	95%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,510	101.7	610
5	Mega Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	100%	7207.3%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,428	105.5	638
6	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	95%	7207.3%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,112	102.9	622
7	Shadow Zapdos top pickelectricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt+11 more movesets	96%	7195.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,527	101.0	612
8	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	98%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,605	109.7	713
9	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+15 more movesets	94%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,205	96.0	624
10	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Avalanche	Snarl / Avalanche+11 more movesets	85%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,005	93.9	610
11	Mega Manectric electricmega Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	90%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	3,580	95.4	620
12	Shadow Manectric electricshadow Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	81%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,340	96.8	629
13	Shadow Luxray electricshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	87%	6626.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,888	96.8	636
14	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	81%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,659	110.5	773
15	Xurkitree electric Spark / Discharge	Spark / Discharge+7 more movesets	79%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,937	88.0	616
16	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Ice Beam	Psycho Cut / Ice Beam+23 more movesets	80%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,178	91.5	640
17	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	75%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,105	100.6	704
18	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,659	92.2	645
19	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	97%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	109.3	765
20	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Volt Switch / Wild Charge	Volt Switch / Wild Charge+8 more movesets	85%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,949	87.3	611
21	Zeraora electric Volt Switch / Wild Charge	Volt Switch / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,419	86.0	602
22	Gigalith rock Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	94%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,228	91.0	637
23	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Tackle / Rock Slide	Tackle / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	76%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,346	84.8	636
24	Shadow Archeops rockflyingshadow Wing Attack / Ancient Power	Wing Attack / Ancient Power+5 more movesets	73%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,331	81.8	613
25	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / Avalanche	Powder Snow / Avalanche+11 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,328	84.0	630
26	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	78%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,038	84.7	635
27	Mega Glalie icemega Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	68%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,229	84.0	630
28	Electivire electric Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,079	80.6	604
29	Deoxys psychic Charge Beam / Thunderbolt	Charge Beam / Thunderbolt+5 more movesets	64%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,160	80.4	603
30	Glaceon ice Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+9 more movesets	67%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,126	80.0	600

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.