Tadbulb counters

#0938

electricTier 1

Lobby CP

2,734

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Tadbulb should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 477-520.

Weak toground1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 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 Tadbulb counters are Shadow Garchomp, Shadow Landorus (Incarnate), Mega Garchomp, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Excadrill & Shadow Mamoswine.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Garchomp
S. Landorus (Incarnate)
M. Garchomp
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Excadrill
S. Mamoswine

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 %

1Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
2Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
3Mega GarchompMegapartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
4Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Bulldoze0.040:08
5Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud Shot / Scorching Sands0.040:08
6Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.050:08
7Shadow MamoswineShadowpartyPowder Snow / High Horsepower0.050:08
8Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.050:08
9Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.050:09
10Shadow RhyperiorShadowMud-Slap / Drill Run0.050:09

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Tadbulb 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	Shadow Garchompdragongroundjoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:08	0.04	5589.9%
2	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflyingjoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:08	0.04	5589.9%
3	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundBulldoze	3,922	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
6	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.05	5177.0%
7	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	icePowder SnowgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
8	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,428	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
9	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:09	0.05	5021.9%
10	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundDrill Run	3,733	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
11	Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundDrill Run	3,244	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
12	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:09	0.05	4722.6%
13	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:09	0.05	4717.5%
14	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpingroundEarth Power	3,754	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
15	Shadow Golurkgroundghost	groundMud-SlapgroundEarth Power	2,854	0:09	0.05	4589.4%

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 Tadbulb.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Tadbulb'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”: 2 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%	1829%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Thunder Shock / Parabolic Charge	100%	1822%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Thunder Shock / Discharge	100%	1750%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon	100%	2017%	5393.9%	0:08	0.05
Water Gun / Discharge	100%	1682%	5459.6%	0:08	0.04
Water Gun / Parabolic Charge	100%	1778%	5497.8%	0:08	0.04
Water Gun / Zap Cannon	100%	1849%	5507.5%	0:08	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…

Tadbulb 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 normal1x fighting1x poison1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x fire1x water1x grass1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x flying0.63x steel0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (1)
Neutral (14)
Resists (3)

It resists flying0.625xsteel0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Tadbulb throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterWater Gun	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
electricThunder ShockSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricZap CannonSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.80s
electricDischargeSTAB	65	-33	2.5s	1.70s
electricParabolic ChargeSTAB	70	-50	3.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	477	596
11/11/11	486	607
12/12/12	494	618
13/13/13	503	629
14/14/14	512	640
15/15/15hundo	520	651

Caught CP range 477 - 520, or 596 - 651 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.

Tadbulb 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 71 / Defense 52 (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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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	Shadow Garchomp top pickdragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	96%	5589.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,962	83.4	650
2	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) top pickgroundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	86%	5589.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,588	83.4	650
3	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	100%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,424	87.5	700
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Bulldoze	Mud Shot / Bulldoze+9 more movesets	80%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,922	77.5	620
5	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	84%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,244	76.4	611
6	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	85%	5177.0%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,112	104.2	877
7	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / High Horsepower	Powder Snow / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,328	71.0	603
8	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	77%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	79.1	672
9	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	71%	5021.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,784	78.5	679
10	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,733	79.7	717
11	Excadrill groundsteel Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+14 more movesets	71%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,244	70.2	632
12	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	67%	4722.6%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	84.7	781
13	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	69%	4717.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	85.1	785
14	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Earth Power	Fire Spin / Earth Power+11 more movesets	62%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,754	64.4	612
15	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	66%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,854	76.1	723
16	Golurk groundghost Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	65%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,854	63.5	603
17	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	64%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	66.5	632
18	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Sacred Sword	Confusion / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	64%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,521	63.5	603
19	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	58%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,455	63.4	602
20	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Blast Burn	Counter / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,161	65.2	619
21	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Infestation / Fell Stinger+	Infestation / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	64%	4578.8%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,383	78.1	743
22	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	72%	4435.3%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,902	102.2	1005
23	Shadow Nidoking poisongroundshadow Fury Cutter / Earthquake	Fury Cutter / Earthquake+29 more movesets	65%	4430.8%	0.05	0:10	100%	2,567	64.3	632
24	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	70%	4430.8%	0.05	0:10	100%	4,115	94.2	927
25	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	72%	4417.3%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,115	78.9	779
26	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Earthquake	Fury Cutter / Earthquake+17 more movesets	66%	4390.6%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,814	76.1	755
27	Garchomp dragonground Dragon Tail / Earth Power	Dragon Tail / Earth Power+13 more movesets	71%	4377.4%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,962	62.8	625
28	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	60%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	70.9	709
29	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Fury Cutter / Earthquake	Fury Cutter / Earthquake+15 more movesets	67%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,911	66.1	661
30	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	57%	4316.7%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,593	65.8	665

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.