Wormadam (Sandy) counters

#0413

bug groundTier 1

Lobby CP

5,336

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

116

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Wormadam (Sandy) should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 954-1,013.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xwater1.6xice1.6x

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 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 Wormadam (Sandy) counters are Mega Staraptor, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Darmanitan (Standard), Shadow Kyogre & Shadow Salamence.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Staraptor
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Darmanitan (Standard)
S. Kyogre
S. Salamence

6 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 StaraptorMegapartyGust / Brave Bird+0.060:11
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:11
3Mega StarmieMegaWater Gun / Liquidation+0.060:12
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.070:12
5Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.070:12
6BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.070:13
7Mega GreninjaMegaBubble / Surf+0.080:13
8Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:14
9Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Brave Bird0.080:14
10Mega SkarmoryMegaSteel Wing / Drill Peck+0.080:14
11Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.080:14
12Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.080:14

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

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Top 15 Wormadam (Sandy) counters in detail

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:11	0.06	3962.7%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
3	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	waterWater GunwaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:12	0.06	3757.8%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:12	0.07	3687.8%
5	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:12	0.07	3499.0%
6	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
7	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterSurf+	3,784	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
8	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	0:14	0.08	3159.2%
9	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinflyingBrave Bird	4,161	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
10	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	steelSteel WingflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:14	0.08	3113.6%
11	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	0:14	0.08	3091.9%
12	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:14	0.08	3091.9%
13	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:14	0.08	3091.9%
14	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:14	0.08	3091.9%
15	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	0:14	0.08	3044.4%

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 Wormadam (Sandy).

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Wormadam (Sandy)'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%	763%	3318.1%	0:13	0.07
Bug Bite / Psybeam	100%	836%	3286.8%	0:13	0.07
Sucker Punch / Psybeam	100%	810%	3286.8%	0:13	0.07
Bug Bite / Bulldoze	100%	878%	3300.6%	0:13	0.07
Sucker Punch / Bulldoze	100%	868%	3300.6%	0:13	0.07
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	100%	923%	3311.1%	0:13	0.07
Sucker Punch / Bug Buzz	100%	889%	3311.1%	0:13	0.07
Confusion / Bulldoze	100%	676%	3357.1%	0:13	0.07
Confusion / Psybeam	100%	697%	3360.7%	0:13	0.07
Confusion / Bug Buzz	100%	710%	3378.8%	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…

Wormadam (Sandy) 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 water1.6x ice1.6x normal1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x grass1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x poison0.63x ground0.63x electric0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (10)
Resists (4)

It resists electric0.39xfighting0.625xpoison0.625xground0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Wormadam (Sandy) 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
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
darkSucker Punch	5	+6	0.5s	0.10s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
groundBulldozeSTAB	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s
psychicPsybeam	65	-50	3.0s	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	954	1,192
11/11/11	965	1,207
12/12/12	977	1,222
13/13/13	989	1,237
14/14/14	1,001	1,252
15/15/15hundo	1,013	1,267

Caught CP range 954 - 1,013, or 1,192 - 1,267 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.

Wormadam (Sandy) 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 93 / Defense 116 (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	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,979	56.5	622
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	98%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	5,713	52.7	606
3	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	87%	3757.8%	0.06	0:12	100%	3,701	55.4	642
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	90%	3687.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,783	62.0	732
5	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	81%	3499.0%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,038	50.7	632
6	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	75%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,297	46.9	610
7	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Surf+	Bubble / Surf++17 more movesets	74%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,784	44.6	602
8	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	66%	3159.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,105	45.9	632
9	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Brave Bird	Fire Spin / Brave Bird+20 more movesets	67%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,161	43.1	603
10	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	79%	3113.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,741	44.7	626
11	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	70%	3091.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,115	45.0	633
12	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	72%	3091.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,749	47.2	665
13	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	73%	3091.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,465	46.7	659
14	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	69%	3091.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,689	45.2	637
15	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	65%	3044.4%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,268	46.7	668
16	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	75%	2973.8%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,031	42.8	627
17	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	72%	2969.8%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,902	48.4	710
18	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	72%	2957.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,455	44.8	660
19	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+20 more movesets	58%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	2,848	40.3	605
20	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	63%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,754	40.0	600
21	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	71%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,863	41.9	628
22	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	59%	2849.4%	0.09	0:15	100%	2,982	41.7	636
23	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Blast Burn	Wing Attack / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	64%	2838.3%	0.09	0:15	100%	2,889	39.5	607
24	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	65%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	4,605	39.0	605
25	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	57%	2766.2%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,829	40.3	635
26	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	63%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	6,428	39.3	628
27	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	59%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,473	39.1	625
28	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	56%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,132	38.2	611
29	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+9 more movesets	61%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,038	37.7	603
30	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Fire Blast	Fire Fang / Fire Blast+17 more movesets	60%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,842	37.8	605

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.