Vulpix counters

#0037

fireTier 1

Lobby CP

3,027

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Vulpix should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 463-504.

Weak toground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

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 Vulpix counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Shadow Groudon, Shadow Rampardos, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Landorus (Therian) & Shadow Kyogre.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
S. Groudon
S. Rampardos
S. Landorus (Therian)
Landorus (Therian)
S. Kyogre

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 XMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
2Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.050:08
3Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.050:08
4Mega StarmieMegaPsywave / Liquidation+0.050:09
5Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.050:09
6Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Surf0.050:09
7Mega DiancieMegaLegendaryRock Throw / Rock Slide0.050:09
8Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.050:09
9Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.050:10
10Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
11Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.060:10
12Landorus (Therian)LegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.060:10
13Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Surf0.060:10

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 Vulpix Alolan Vulpix

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Top 15 Vulpix 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 Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5414.9%
2	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5283.6%
3	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:08	0.05	5251.8%
4	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:09	0.05	4816.6%
5	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	0:09	0.05	4643.2%
6	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
7	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
8	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
9	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	0:10	0.05	4494.7%
10	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4443.4%
11	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:10	0.06	4224.7%
12	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:10	0.06	4180.1%
13	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	4,115	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
14	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
15	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:10	0.06	4152.2%

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 Vulpix.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Vulpix'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%	1186%	4497.2%	0:10	0.05
Quick Attack / Body Slam	100%	1265%	4452.5%	0:10	0.05
Ember / Body Slam	100%	1243%	4462.0%	0:10	0.05
Ember / Flamethrower	100%	1228%	4465.2%	0:10	0.05
Quick Attack / Flame Charge	100%	1250%	4487.5%	0:10	0.05
Quick Attack / Flamethrower	100%	1229%	4497.2%	0:10	0.05
Ember / Flame Charge	100%	1237%	4497.2%	0:10	0.05
Quick Attack / Weather Ball (Fire)	100%	1177%	4510.1%	0:10	0.05
Ember / Weather Ball (Fire)	100%	1167%	4510.1%	0:10	0.05

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…

Vulpix 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.

ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x electric1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x bug0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (6)

It resists bug0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Vulpix throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireEmberSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s
normalQuick Attack	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireWeather Ball (Fire)STAB	55	-33	1.5s	1.25s
fireFlamethrowerSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
normalBody Slam	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
fireFlame ChargeSTAB	70	-33	4.0s	3.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	463	579
11/11/11	471	589
12/12/12	479	599
13/13/13	488	610
14/14/14	496	620
15/15/15hundo	504	631

Caught CP range 463 - 504, or 579 - 631 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.

Vulpix 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 66 / Defense 74 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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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 Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	5414.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	75.7	609
2	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	99%	5283.6%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	81.7	674
3	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	98%	5251.8%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,784	92.1	764
4	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	93%	4816.6%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	90.6	820
5	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	81%	4643.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,115	70.1	658
6	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	88%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,902	65.2	619
7	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	81%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	64.3	611
8	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	78%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	67.0	636
9	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	88%	4494.7%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,902	73.8	715
10	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	73%	4443.4%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	63.0	618
11	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	73%	4224.7%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,922	77.1	796
12	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	72%	4180.1%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,922	64.7	674
13	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	74%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,115	59.5	625
14	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	77%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	57.5	604
15	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	77%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,733	60.4	634
16	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+14 more movesets	64%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,244	57.4	603
17	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	65%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,829	54.7	602
18	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	67%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,654	65.2	717
19	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Crabhammer	Waterfall / Crabhammer+11 more movesets	63%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,474	54.6	601
20	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	69%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,979	55.5	611
21	Shadow Hisuian Samurott waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Razor Shell	Waterfall / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	63%	3797.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,802	55.6	638
22	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Earth Power	Dragon Tail / Earth Power+13 more movesets	70%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	5,424	53.8	619
23	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Rock Throw / Earth Power	Rock Throw / Earth Power+7 more movesets	61%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,588	55.3	636
24	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	67%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,118	52.6	605
25	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	63%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,298	53.7	617
26	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+13 more movesets	68%	3761.6%	0.06	0:12	100%	3,962	60.5	702
27	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Razor Shell	Waterfall / Razor Shell+11 more movesets	63%	3751.9%	0.06	0:12	100%	2,826	54.0	627
28	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	58%	3735.9%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,328	65.3	759
29	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	64%	3735.9%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,115	51.9	605
30	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	68%	3723.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,401	54.8	641

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.