Venomoth counters

#0049

bug poisonTier 3

Lobby CP

14,631

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

141

Defense

115

Difficulty

0.37

Pokebattler scale

Beating Venomoth should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,125-1,190.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6x

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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Venomoth counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence & Shadow Galarian Articuno.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Salamence
S. Galarian Articuno

7 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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyConfusion / Future Sight+0.300:53
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.351:01
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.351:02
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.371:04
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.401:11
6Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.421:13
7Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.431:15
8Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.431:16
9Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.441:17
10BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.441:17
11Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.441:17
13Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.451:19

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

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Top 15 Venomoth 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:53	0.30	0.7	439.8%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	1:01	0.35	0.6	382.8%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	1:02	0.35	0.8	377.3%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	1:04	0.37	0.9	364.9%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	1:11	0.40	2.0	330.5%
6	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	1:13	0.42	1.2	321.0%
7	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	1:15	0.43	1.3	312.6%
8	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	1:16	0.43	0.5	309.4%
9	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	1:17	0.44	1.6	306.6%
10	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	1:17	0.44	1.7	303.9%
11	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	1:17	0.44	1.6	303.1%
12	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	1:18	0.44	1.0	300.7%
13	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	1:19	0.45	1.5	298.9%
14	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	1:19	0.45	1.3	297.5%
15	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,510	1:19	0.45	2.3	297.2%

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 Venomoth.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Venomoth'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%	233%	323.8%	1:12	1.5	0.41
Psywave / Bug Buzz	100%	201%	318.1%	1:14	2.0	0.42
Confusion / Bug Buzz	100%	192%	318.8%	1:14	2.1	0.42
Infestation / Bug Buzz	100%	209%	321.9%	1:13	1.9	0.42
Psywave / Psychic	100%	250%	323.1%	1:13	1.5	0.41
Infestation / Psychic	100%	230%	323.3%	1:13	1.5	0.41
Psywave / Silver Wind	100%	256%	323.4%	1:13	1.3	0.41
Confusion / Psychic	100%	235%	323.8%	1:12	1.7	0.41
Infestation / Silver Wind	100%	247%	324.8%	1:12	1.3	0.41
Psywave / Poison Fang	100%	308%	326.9%	1:12	0.8	0.41
Confusion / Silver Wind	100%	235%	327.1%	1:12	1.3	0.41
Infestation / Poison Fang	100%	280%	327.3%	1:12	0.8	0.41
Confusion / Poison Fang	100%	281%	330.7%	1:11	0.9	0.40

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…

Venomoth 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.

flying1.6x rock1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x normal1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x poison0.63x bug0.63x fairy0.63x fighting0.39x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fighting0.39xgrass0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Venomoth throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusion	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
bugInfestationSTAB	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s
psychicPsywave	4	+7	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
psychicPsychic	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
poisonPoison FangSTAB	30	-33	1.5s	0.70s
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	1,125	1,407
11/11/11	1,138	1,423
12/12/12	1,151	1,439
13/13/13	1,164	1,455
14/14/14	1,177	1,471
15/15/15hundo	1,190	1,487

Caught CP range 1,125 - 1,190, or 1,407 - 1,487 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.

Venomoth 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 141 / Defense 115 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	439.8%	0.30	0:53	0.7	100%	6,428	68.1	2491
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	88%	382.8%	0.35	1:01	0.5	100%	5,713	59.3	2627
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	85%	377.3%	0.35	1:02	0.7	100%	6,112	59.2	2283
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	82%	364.9%	0.37	1:04	0.8	100%	4,783	57.8	2179
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	67%	330.5%	0.40	1:11	1.8	100%	4,178	52.0	1384
6	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	70%	321.0%	0.42	1:13	1.1	100%	3,979	49.5	2069
7	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	67%	312.6%	0.43	1:15	1.1	100%	4,038	49.6	1706
8	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	72%	309.4%	0.43	1:16	0.4	100%	3,741	47.8	2751
9	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	64%	306.6%	0.44	1:17	1.4	100%	4,161	48.7	1812
10	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	63%	303.9%	0.44	1:17	1.5	100%	3,297	48.6	1539
11	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	63%	303.1%	0.44	1:17	1.4	100%	3,749	47.3	1501
12	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	66%	300.7%	0.44	1:18	0.9	100%	4,455	47.0	2095
13	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	63%	298.9%	0.45	1:19	1.3	100%	3,590	46.7	1565
14	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	63%	297.5%	0.45	1:19	1.1	100%	3,465	46.4	1814
15	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	59%	297.2%	0.45	1:19	2.1	100%	4,510	47.2	1275
16	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	61%	286.1%	0.47	1:22	1.3	100%	3,835	44.6	1570
17	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	63%	281.5%	0.47	1:23	0.9	100%	5,031	44.3	1993
18	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	56%	280.2%	0.48	1:24	2.1	100%	2,689	44.7	1188
19	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	56%	279.0%	0.48	1:24	1.8	100%	4,178	43.4	1347
20	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	58%	277.8%	0.48	1:24	1.4	100%	4,512	43.2	1496
21	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	57%	277.6%	0.48	1:25	1.5	100%	4,521	43.2	1448
22	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	52%	275.4%	0.49	1:25	2.9	100%	3,298	42.7	974
23	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	55%	275.1%	0.49	1:25	2.1	100%	2,825	43.0	1173
24	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	63%	275.1%	0.49	1:25	0.6	100%	3,754	43.1	2592
25	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	56%	274.3%	0.49	1:26	1.7	100%	3,268	43.4	1456
26	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	56%	270.6%	0.49	1:27	1.5	100%	5,007	42.6	1488
27	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	60%	268.0%	0.50	1:28	0.8	100%	3,703	43.0	2187
28	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	55%	266.8%	0.50	1:28	1.5	100%	4,346	41.6	1451
29	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	59%	266.4%	0.50	1:28	1.0	100%	3,863	42.0	2065
30	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	53%	264.7%	0.50	1:29	1.9	100%	3,059	41.4	1230

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