Varoom counters

#0965

steel poisonTier 1

Lobby CP

3,733

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Varoom should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 603-650.

Weak toground2.56xfire1.6x

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

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

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

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

1Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud Shot / Drill Run0.040:07
2Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Bulldoze0.040:08
3Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
4GarchomppartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
5Landorus (Incarnate)LegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
6Mega GarchompMegapartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
7Shadow GarchompShadowMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
8Shadow FlygonShadowMud Shot / Earth Power0.040:08
9Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
10Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.050:08

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 Varoom

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Top 15 Varoom 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 Excadrillgroundsteeljoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundDrill Run	3,244	0:07	0.04	6014.1%
2	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundBulldoze	3,922	0:08	0.04	5729.5%
3	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:08	0.04	5729.5%
4	Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:08	0.04	5684.7%
5	Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:08	0.04	5684.7%
6	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:08	0.04	5626.0%
7	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:08	0.04	5626.0%
8	Shadow Flygongrounddragon	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	2,661	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
9	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
10	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5315.9%
11	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	icePowder SnowgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
12	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundBulldoze	3,922	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
13	Shadow Hippowdonground	groundSand AttackgroundEarth Power	3,085	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
14	Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
15	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:08	0.05	5129.4%

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 Varoom.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Varoom'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%	1667%	5760.2%	0:08	0.04
Poison Jab / Acid Spray	100%	1849%	5687.1%	0:08	0.04
Poison Jab / Gyro Ball	100%	1435%	5687.1%	0:08	0.04
Lick / Acid Spray	100%	1941%	5760.2%	0:08	0.04
Lick / Gyro Ball	100%	1654%	5760.2%	0:08	0.04
Metal Sound / Acid Spray	100%	1960%	5760.2%	0:08	0.04
Metal Sound / Gyro Ball	100%	1661%	5760.2%	0:08	0.04
Poison Jab / Gunk Shot	100%	1857%	5770.8%	0:08	0.04
Lick / Gunk Shot	100%	1993%	5878.9%	0:07	0.04
Metal Sound / Gunk Shot	100%	2015%	5878.9%	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…

Varoom 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.

ground2.56x fire1.6x fighting1x ghost1x water1x electric1x psychic1x dark1x normal0.63x flying0.63x rock0.63x steel0.63x ice0.63x dragon0.63x bug0.39x grass0.39x fairy0.39x poison0.24x

Double weak (1)
Weak (1)
Neutral (6)
Resists (9)
Double resists (1)

It resists poison0.24xbug0.39xgrass0.39xfairy0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xsteel0.625xice0.625xdragon0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Varoom throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonPoison JabSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.40s
ghostLick	5	+6	0.5s	0.20s
steelMetal SoundSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonGunk ShotSTAB	130	-100	3.0s	1.60s
steelGyro BallSTAB	85	-50	3.5s	3.20s
poisonAcid SpraySTAB	20	-50	3.0s	2.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	603	753
11/11/11	612	765
12/12/12	621	777
13/13/13	631	789
14/14/14	640	801
15/15/15hundo	650	813

Caught CP range 603 - 650, or 753 - 813 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.

Varoom 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 82 / Defense 72 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Drill Run	Mud Shot / Drill Run+14 more movesets	100%	6014.1%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,244	89.2	646
2	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Bulldoze	Mud Shot / Bulldoze+9 more movesets	91%	5729.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,922	91.1	693
3	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	92%	5729.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,588	97.4	741
4	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	95%	5684.7%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,962	80.7	618
5	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	93%	5684.7%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,588	80.7	618
6	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	97%	5626.0%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,424	102.5	794
7	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	94%	5626.0%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,962	96.5	748
8	Shadow Flygon grounddragonshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+23 more movesets	84%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,661	75.3	602
9	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	92%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	76.9	615
10	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	91%	5315.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	83.2	682
11	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / High Horsepower	Powder Snow / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	83%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,328	71.3	606
12	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Bulldoze	Mud Shot / Bulldoze+9 more movesets	80%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,922	72.5	616
13	Shadow Hippowdon groundshadow Sand Attack / Earth Power	Sand Attack / Earth Power+29 more movesets	81%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,085	72.0	612
14	Excadrill groundsteel Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	84%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,244	71.0	603
15	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	78%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,161	71.8	610
16	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Scorching Sands	Fire Spin / Scorching Sands+11 more movesets	71%	4977.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,132	73.2	641
17	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,733	91.9	827
18	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	76%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,733	76.8	691
19	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Scorching Sands	Fire Spin / Scorching Sands+11 more movesets	73%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,473	69.0	621
20	Shadow Arcanine fireshadow Fire Fang / Scorching Sands	Fire Fang / Scorching Sands+27 more movesets	71%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,029	67.0	603
21	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	74.1	667
22	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Fire Punch	Mud Shot / Fire Punch+9 more movesets	79%	4623.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,902	69.5	656
23	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Earth Power	Fire Spin / Earth Power+11 more movesets	75%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,754	74.5	708
24	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,854	87.8	834
25	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / Bulldoze	Mud-Slap / Bulldoze+11 more movesets	67%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,328	71.8	682
26	Mega Camerupt firegroundmega Ember / Earth Power	Ember / Earth Power+17 more movesets	72%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,220	64.8	615
27	Shadow Nidoqueen poisongroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+19 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,488	72.6	690
28	Golurk groundghost Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	70%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,854	73.2	695
29	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	76.4	726
30	Shadow Heliolisk electricnormalshadow Mud-Slap / Bulldoze	Mud-Slap / Bulldoze+14 more movesets	62%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,600	64.4	612

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.