Volbeat counters

#0313

bugTier 1

Lobby CP

5,206

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

108

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Volbeat should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 952-1,012.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6x

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Volbeat counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Moltres, Blacephalon, Shadow Gigalith & Shadow Darmanitan (Standard).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
S. Reshiram
S. Moltres
Blacephalon
S. Gigalith
S. Darmanitan (Standard)

4 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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
2Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.060:11
3Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.070:12
4Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
5Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.070:13
6Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Brave Bird0.070:13
7Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.070:13
8BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.070:13
9Shadow GigalithShadowpartyLock-On / Meteor Beam0.080:14
10Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:14

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Volbeat

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Top 15 Volbeat 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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:11	0.06	3962.7%
3	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:12	0.07	3706.6%
4	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3621.2%
5	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:13	0.07	3476.6%
6	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinflyingBrave Bird	4,161	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
7	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
8	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
9	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:14	0.08	3154.6%
10	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	0:14	0.08	3127.4%
11	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireOverheat	4,455	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
12	Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
13	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
14	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
15	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:14	0.08	3109.6%

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 Volbeat.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Volbeat'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%	923%	3378.9%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Lunge	100%	968%	3369.8%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Bug Buzz	100%	924%	3371.6%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Signal Beam	100%	957%	3382.5%	0:13	0.07
Struggle Bug / Lunge	100%	936%	3386.2%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Thunderbolt	100%	863%	3391.6%	0:13	0.07
Infestation / Lunge	100%	951%	3393.5%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Signal Beam	100%	959%	3402.7%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Bug Buzz	100%	935%	3402.7%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Thunderbolt	100%	811%	3402.7%	0:13	0.07
Struggle Bug / Signal Beam	100%	904%	3413.8%	0:13	0.07
Struggle Bug / Bug Buzz	100%	899%	3419.4%	0:13	0.07
Struggle Bug / Thunderbolt	100%	787%	3432.4%	0:13	0.07

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…

Volbeat 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 normal1x poison1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x grass0.63x

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

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Volbeat throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugStruggle BugSTAB	15	+15	1.5s	1.20s
bugInfestationSTAB	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
electricThunderbolt	80	-50	2.5s	1.80s
bugSignal BeamSTAB	75	-50	3.0s	1.90s
bugLungeSTAB	55	-33	3.0s	2.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	952	1,191
11/11/11	964	1,205
12/12/12	976	1,220
13/13/13	988	1,235
14/14/14	1,000	1,250
15/15/15hundo	1,012	1,265

Caught CP range 952 - 1,012, or 1,191 - 1,265 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.

Volbeat 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 94 / Defense 108 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	59.4	624
2	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	97%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,979	61.0	671
3	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	84%	3706.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,783	66.6	783
4	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	76%	3621.2%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	50.4	605
5	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	79%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,038	54.2	679
6	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Brave Bird	Fire Spin / Brave Bird+20 more movesets	76%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,161	47.2	614
7	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	76%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	47.0	611
8	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	76%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,297	50.7	659
9	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	67%	3154.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,228	45.5	629
10	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	65%	3127.4%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,105	49.1	683
11	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Overheat	Ember / Overheat+29 more movesets	70%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,455	43.9	615
12	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	71%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,038	43.5	609
13	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	63%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,128	43.6	610
14	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	63%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,825	45.9	643
15	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	63%	3109.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,689	48.7	680
16	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	72%	3109.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,741	47.9	671
17	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	71%	3094.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,754	43.6	614
18	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	67%	3091.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,749	50.9	717
19	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	66%	3023.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,749	42.3	610
20	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	65%	3014.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,473	43.6	630
21	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Brave Bird	Incinerate / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	69%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,863	43.0	624
22	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	63%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,215	44.4	644
23	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+20 more movesets	63%	2994.2%	0.08	0:15	100%	2,848	44.0	640
24	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	2981.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,031	46.4	678
25	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Incinerate / Dark Pulse+	Incinerate / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	61%	2978.5%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,842	42.1	614
26	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	65%	2957.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,268	49.5	730
27	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Flamethrower	Smack Down / Flamethrower+5 more movesets	55%	2933.8%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,298	43.7	649
28	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	59%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,132	41.9	628
29	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	64%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,850	41.4	621
30	Volcarona bugfire Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+7 more movesets	62%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,632	40.0	600

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.