Tapu Lele counters

#0786

psychic fairyTier 3

Lobby CP

24,550

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

200

Defense

162

Difficulty

0.61

Pokebattler scale

Beating Tapu Lele should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,912-1,996.

Weak topoison1.6xghost1.6xsteel1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Steel Mega — most top counters attack with Steel

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 Tapu Lele counters are Zamazenta (Crowned Shield), Zacian (Crowned Sword), Necrozma (Dusk Mane), Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Metagross & Mega Mewtwo Y.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
Zacian (Crowned Sword)
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Metagross
M. Mewtwo Y

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash0.561:38
2Zacian (Crowned Sword)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Blade0.561:38
3Necrozma (Dusk Mane)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Sunsteel Strike0.581:42
4Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Moongeist Beam0.611:47
5Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.651:54
6Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.671:58
7Mega MetagrossMegaBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.681:59
8Mega GengarMegaShadow Claw / Shadow Ball0.682:00
9Mega VictreebelMegaAcid / Acid Spray+0.692:02
10Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.712:04

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

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Top 15 Tapu Lele 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	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	1:38	0.56	2.7	239.6%
2	Zacian (Crowned Sword)fairysteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Blade	4,979	1:38	0.56	2.1	238.5%
3	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)psychicsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelSunsteel Strike	4,099	1:42	0.58	1.9	231.1%
4	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	ghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	1:47	0.61	2.5	218.4%
5	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,791	1:54	0.65	2.7	206.0%
6	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	1:58	0.67	2.5	199.0%
7	Mega Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	4,911	1:59	0.68	1.8	196.9%
8	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	4,336	2:00	0.68	4.6	195.4%
9	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	poisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+	3,505	2:02	0.69	4.4	192.4%
10	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	2:04	0.71	3.8	189.0%
11	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,826	2:05	0.71	5.1	187.1%
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin)ghostdragon	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Force	3,683	2:10	0.74	4.4	181.2%
13	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	steelMetal ClawsteelIron Head	4,038	2:10	0.74	4.2	180.4%
14	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	2:10	0.74	5.4	180.3%
15	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	steelSteel WingflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	2:12	0.75	3.5	178.2%

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 Tapu Lele.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Tapu Lele'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	155%	222.4%	1:46	2.3	0.60
Astonish / Focus Blast	100%	134%	213.8%	1:50	3.2	0.63
Confusion / Focus Blast	100%	142%	217.3%	1:48	3.0	0.62
Astonish / Moonblast	100%	132%	218.3%	1:48	3.0	0.61
Confusion / Moonblast	100%	138%	218.8%	1:47	2.9	0.61
Astonish / Psyshock	100%	178%	219.7%	1:47	1.8	0.61
Confusion / Future Sight	100%	163%	223.3%	1:45	2.2	0.60
Confusion / Psyshock	100%	186%	223.5%	1:45	1.7	0.60
Confusion / Draining Kiss	100%	164%	223.6%	1:45	2.2	0.60
Astonish / Draining Kiss	100%	161%	223.9%	1:45	2.2	0.60
Astonish / Future Sight	100%	156%	224.1%	1:45	2.3	0.60

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…

Tapu Lele 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.

poison1.6x ghost1.6x steel1.6x normal1x flying1x ground1x rock1x bug1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dark1x fairy1x psychic0.63x fighting0.39x dragon0.39x

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

It resists fighting0.39xdragon0.39xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Tapu Lele throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
ghostAstonish	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicFuture SightSTAB	115	-100	2.5s	1.20s
fightingFocus Blast	140	-100	3.5s	3.00s
fairyMoonblastSTAB	130	-100	4.0s	2.30s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.80s
fairyDraining KissSTAB	60	-50	2.5s	0.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,912	2,390
11/11/11	1,929	2,411
12/12/12	1,945	2,432
13/13/13	1,962	2,453
14/14/14	1,979	2,474
15/15/15hundo	1,996	2,496

Caught CP range 1,912 - 1,996, or 2,390 - 2,496 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.

Tapu Lele 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 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 200 / Defense 162 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) top pickfightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	96%	239.6%	0.56	1:38	2.5	100%	4,172	37.3	1025
2	Zacian (Crowned Sword) top pickfairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	100%	238.5%	0.56	1:38	1.9	100%	4,979	37.5	1260
3	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	98%	231.1%	0.58	1:42	1.7	100%	4,099	37.2	1435
4	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam	Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	89%	218.4%	0.61	1:47	2.3	100%	4,099	34.4	1118
5	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	83%	206.0%	0.65	1:54	2.5	100%	3,791	32.2	1072
6	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	81%	199.0%	0.67	1:58	2.3	100%	6,428	31.1	1083
7	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	84%	196.9%	0.68	1:59	1.6	100%	4,911	30.8	1407
8	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	70%	195.4%	0.68	2:00	5.1	100%	4,336	31.5	661
9	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Acid / Acid Spray+	Acid / Acid Spray++23 more movesets	71%	192.4%	0.69	2:02	4.5	100%	3,505	31.2	708
10	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	73%	189.0%	0.71	2:04	3.5	100%	6,112	29.9	790
11	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	67%	187.1%	0.71	2:05	5.3	100%	3,826	30.3	582
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	67%	181.2%	0.74	2:10	4.1	100%	3,683	28.5	718
13	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	68%	180.4%	0.74	2:10	3.9	100%	4,038	28.2	723
14	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	64%	180.3%	0.74	2:10	5.5	100%	3,594	29.3	547
15	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	69%	178.2%	0.75	2:12	3.2	100%	3,741	27.6	839
16	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	63%	176.2%	0.76	2:13	5.5	100%	3,268	28.5	570
17	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+7 more movesets	66%	176.2%	0.76	2:13	4.0	100%	4,429	27.6	725
18	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+23 more movesets	60%	173.5%	0.77	2:15	6.3	100%	3,383	28.1	521
19	Metagross steelpsychic Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	68%	170.3%	0.78	2:18	2.6	100%	3,791	26.5	1034
20	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+14 more movesets	61%	169.0%	0.79	2:19	5.2	100%	3,244	26.7	605
21	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	57%	168.6%	0.79	2:19	7.9	98%	2,878	28.1	439
22	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	62%	167.1%	0.80	2:20	4.2	100%	4,178	26.0	660
23	Shadow Overqwil darkpoisonshadow Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb+9 more movesets	60%	164.7%	0.81	2:23	4.6	100%	2,946	26.1	618
24	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	61%	163.2%	0.82	2:24	4.2	100%	5,713	25.8	693
25	Lunala psychicghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+11 more movesets	64%	162.3%	0.82	2:25	2.9	100%	4,042	25.2	952
26	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	63%	161.0%	0.83	2:26	3.0	100%	4,783	25.1	865
27	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	55%	158.7%	0.84	2:28	6.7	92%	3,297	26.2	481
28	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	57%	157.7%	0.85	2:29	4.7	100%	4,346	25.1	615
29	Gholdengo steelghost Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	60%	155.0%	0.86	2:31	3.3	100%	3,517	24.0	795
30	Tinkaton fairysteel Fairy Wind / Gigaton Hammer	Fairy Wind / Gigaton Hammer+9 more movesets	59%	154.2%	0.87	2:32	3.4	96%	2,250	24.0	797

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 0.4 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.