Venusaur counters

#0003

grass poisonTier 3

Lobby CP

18,253

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

155

Defense

148

Difficulty

0.48

Pokebattler scale

Beating Venusaur should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,480-1,554.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

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

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 YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.371:05
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.461:20
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.471:22
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.481:24
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.521:32
6Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.541:35
7Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.551:36
8Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.571:40
9Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.571:40
10Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.571:41
11Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Fly0.581:42
13BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.581:42

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

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Top 15 Venusaur 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	1:05	0.37	1.4	361.7%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	1:20	0.46	1.2	292.4%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	1:22	0.47	2.0	286.9%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	1:24	0.48	1.8	280.8%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	1:32	0.52	3.4	254.8%
6	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	1:35	0.54	2.0	246.0%
7	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	1:36	0.55	2.2	244.0%
8	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	1:40	0.57	2.6	235.2%
9	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	1:40	0.57	3.0	235.0%
10	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	1:41	0.57	2.0	233.3%
11	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	1:42	0.58	3.0	230.4%
12	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	1:42	0.58	3.9	230.4%
13	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	1:42	0.58	3.4	229.6%
14	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	1:42	0.58	2.6	229.1%
15	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	1:43	0.59	1.1	228.1%

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 Venusaur.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Venusaur'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%	152%	253.2%	1:33	2.7	0.53
Razor Leaf / Solar Beam	100%	153%	250.1%	1:34	2.7	0.53
Razor Leaf / Sludge Bomb	100%	136%	251.4%	1:33	3.3	0.53
Vine Whip / Solar Beam	100%	158%	251.6%	1:33	2.7	0.53
Vine Whip / Sludge Bomb	100%	138%	253.2%	1:33	3.2	0.53
Razor Leaf / Petal Blizzard	100%	175%	253.7%	1:33	2.3	0.53
Razor Leaf / Sludge	100%	177%	255.9%	1:32	2.1	0.52
Vine Whip / Petal Blizzard	100%	183%	256.4%	1:32	2.1	0.52
Vine Whip / Sludge	100%	182%	256.9%	1:31	2.1	0.52

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…

Venusaur 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 fire1.6x psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x fairy0.63x grass0.39x

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

It resists grass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Venusaur throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassRazor LeafSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.60s
grassVine WhipSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassPetal BlizzardSTAB	110	-100	2.5s	1.60s
grassSolar BeamSTAB	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
poisonSludgeSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,480	1,851
11/11/11	1,495	1,869
12/12/12	1,510	1,887
13/13/13	1,524	1,906
14/14/14	1,539	1,924
15/15/15hundo	1,554	1,943

Caught CP range 1,480 - 1,554, or 1,851 - 1,943 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.

Venusaur 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 155 / Defense 148 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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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 Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	361.7%	0.37	1:05	1.3	100%	6,428	56.4	1570
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	83%	292.4%	0.46	1:20	1.1	100%	5,713	45.6	1788
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	76%	286.9%	0.47	1:22	1.8	100%	6,112	44.8	1280
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	75%	280.8%	0.48	1:24	1.7	100%	4,783	43.7	1339
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	62%	254.8%	0.52	1:32	3.1	100%	4,178	39.6	855
6	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	65%	246.0%	0.54	1:35	1.8	100%	4,038	38.2	1335
7	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	64%	244.0%	0.55	1:36	2.0	100%	3,979	38.2	1185
8	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	60%	235.2%	0.57	1:40	2.3	100%	3,749	36.7	1124
9	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	58%	235.0%	0.57	1:40	2.8	100%	4,161	36.8	941
10	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	62%	233.3%	0.57	1:41	1.8	100%	4,455	36.5	1323
11	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	57%	230.4%	0.58	1:42	2.7	100%	3,590	35.7	946
12	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	55%	230.4%	0.58	1:42	3.6	100%	4,510	36.0	762
13	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	56%	229.6%	0.58	1:42	3.1	100%	3,297	35.8	856
14	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	58%	229.1%	0.58	1:42	2.4	100%	3,465	35.8	1101
15	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	65%	228.1%	0.59	1:43	1.0	100%	3,741	36.7	1838
16	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	59%	227.3%	0.59	1:43	2.0	100%	4,605	35.5	1181
17	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	58%	221.7%	0.60	1:46	1.9	100%	3,835	34.8	1275
18	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	60%	219.3%	0.61	1:47	1.4	100%	5,031	34.0	1515
19	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	51%	217.3%	0.62	1:48	3.9	100%	2,689	34.3	715
20	Mewtwo psychic Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	53%	216.1%	0.62	1:49	3.0	100%	4,178	33.9	892
21	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	59%	214.6%	0.62	1:49	1.3	100%	3,754	33.3	1580
22	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	51%	210.4%	0.64	1:52	3.2	100%	4,521	32.8	827
23	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	54%	210.4%	0.64	1:52	2.3	100%	5,007	32.8	1087
24	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	49%	209.6%	0.64	1:52	3.9	100%	2,825	33.0	716
25	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	49%	207.2%	0.64	1:53	4.0	100%	4,512	32.7	707
26	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	48%	204.2%	0.65	1:55	4.3	100%	2,848	32.5	680
27	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	53%	203.7%	0.66	1:55	1.8	100%	3,863	32.1	1382
28	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	50%	203.6%	0.66	1:55	3.3	100%	3,812	31.8	828
29	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	50%	203.6%	0.66	1:55	3.2	100%	3,268	32.1	842
30	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	47%	200.5%	0.67	1:57	4.3	100%	3,105	32.0	682

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.