Swadloon counters

#0541

bug grassTier 5

Lobby CP

21,182

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

102

Defense

139

Difficulty

0.81

Pokebattler scale

Beating Swadloon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 730-783.

Weak toflying2.56xfire2.56xpoison1.6xrock1.6xbug1.6xice1.6x

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 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 Swadloon counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres & Rayquaza.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
Rayquaza

5 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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.723:18
2Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.743:23
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.823:46
4Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.853:54
5BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.853:54
6Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.863:58
7Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.884:02
8Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.894:05
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.894:05
10Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.904:07
11RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.934:17

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

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Raid tier — Legendary Raid

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Top 15 Swadloon 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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	3:18	0.72	1.6	153.6%
2	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	3:23	0.74	3.3	149.7%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	3:46	0.82	1.9	134.7%
4	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	3:54	0.85	2.7	130.2%
5	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	3:54	0.85	3.8	129.8%
6	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	3:58	0.86	2.6	127.9%
7	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	4:02	0.88	1.9	125.4%
8	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	4:05	0.89	3.5	124.2%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	4:05	0.89	1.8	124.1%
10	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	4:07	0.90	2.3	122.9%
11	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	4:17	0.93	3.0	118.4%
12	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	4:21	0.95	5.3	116.3%
13	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	4:23	0.95	4.0	115.6%
14	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	4:24	0.96	2.2	115.1%
15	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	4:28	0.97	2.2	113.3%

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 Swadloon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Swadloon'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%	409%	129.3%	3:55	2.8	0.85
Bug Bite / Energy Ball	100%	455%	128.2%	3:57	2.5	0.86
Struggle Bug / Energy Ball	100%	446%	128.8%	3:56	2.5	0.86
Struggle Bug / Silver Wind	100%	436%	128.9%	3:56	2.6	0.85
Bug Bite / Silver Wind	100%	438%	128.9%	3:56	2.5	0.85
Struggle Bug / Bug Buzz	100%	348%	129.0%	3:56	3.5	0.85
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	100%	351%	129.4%	3:55	3.5	0.85

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…

Swadloon 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.

flying2.56x fire2.56x poison1.6x rock1.6x bug1.6x ice1.6x normal1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x ground0.39x grass0.39x

Double weak (2)
Weak (4)
Neutral (7)
Resists (5)

It resists ground0.39xgrass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Swadloon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugStruggle BugSTAB	15	+15	1.5s	1.20s
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
grassEnergy BallSTAB	90	-50	4.0s	3.10s
bugSilver WindSTAB	65	-33	3.5s	1.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	730	913
11/11/11	741	926
12/12/12	751	939
13/13/13	762	952
14/14/14	772	965
15/15/15hundo	783	979

Caught CP range 730 - 783, or 913 - 979 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.

Swadloon 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 102 / Defense 139 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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Attackers allowed

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

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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 Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	153.6%	0.72	3:18	1.6	100%	5,713	76.9	6044
2	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	92%	149.7%	0.74	3:23	3.1	100%	4,783	74.7	3724
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	87%	134.7%	0.82	3:46	1.8	100%	3,979	67.0	5642
4	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	81%	130.2%	0.85	3:54	2.6	100%	4,038	64.8	4281
5	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	79%	129.8%	0.85	3:54	3.6	100%	3,297	64.8	3338
6	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	80%	127.9%	0.86	3:58	2.5	100%	4,161	63.6	4487
7	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	81%	125.4%	0.88	4:02	1.8	100%	3,741	62.5	5403
8	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	76%	124.2%	0.89	4:05	3.3	100%	3,749	61.6	3496
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	80%	124.1%	0.89	4:05	1.7	100%	4,455	61.9	5666
10	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	78%	122.9%	0.90	4:07	2.2	100%	3,465	60.9	4671
11	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	73%	118.4%	0.93	4:17	2.9	100%	3,835	58.9	3994
12	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	68%	116.3%	0.95	4:21	5.1	100%	2,689	58.7	2443
13	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	70%	115.6%	0.95	4:23	3.9	100%	3,268	57.6	3161
14	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	74%	115.1%	0.96	4:24	2.1	100%	5,031	57.0	4942
15	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	72%	113.3%	0.97	4:28	2.1	100%	3,754	56.2	4774
16	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	68%	113.1%	0.97	4:29	4.1	100%	2,848	56.5	3019
17	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	66%	112.9%	0.98	4:29	5.2	100%	2,825	56.7	2401
18	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	65%	112.1%	0.98	4:31	5.5	100%	3,105	56.8	2303
19	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	71%	110.0%	1.00	4:37	1.9	100%	3,863	54.7	5222
20	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	65%	108.9%	1.01	4:39	4.5	100%	3,215	54.4	2704
21	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	67%	108.6%	1.01	4:40	2.8	100%	4,038	53.9	4000
22	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	66%	107.4%	1.03	4:43	3.2	100%	3,850	53.3	3615
23	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	65%	107.2%	1.03	4:44	3.8	100%	2,982	53.4	3203
24	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	66%	106.7%	1.03	4:45	3.0	100%	2,889	53.1	3730
25	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	106.6%	1.03	4:45	6.5	100%	3,059	54.1	2034
26	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	63%	105.6%	1.04	4:48	4.4	96%	2,683	52.9	2879
27	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	64%	104.4%	1.06	4:51	3.4	100%	3,749	51.7	3463
28	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	62%	104.0%	1.06	4:52	4.1	90%	3,680	51.8	2936
29	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	60%	104.0%	1.06	4:52	5.8	90%	3,590	52.5	2246
30	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	62%	103.7%	1.06	4:53	3.9	94%	3,473	51.5	3056

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.