Wurmple counters

#0265

bugTier 3

Lobby CP

4,645

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.20

Pokebattler scale

Beating Wurmple should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 296-330.

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Wurmple counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres, Blacephalon, Shadow Reshiram & Shadow Staraptor.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
Blacephalon
S. Reshiram
S. Staraptor

5 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 Ascent0.170:30
2Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.190:33
3Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.190:34
4Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.200:35
5Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.210:36
6Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.210:37
7Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.210:37
8Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.210:37
9BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.210:37
10Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.220:38
11Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Fly0.220:39

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

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Related countersShadow Wurmple

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Top 15 Wurmple 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	0:30	0.17	769.6%
2	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:33	0.19	711.3%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:34	0.19	690.3%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:35	0.20	670.2%
5	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:36	0.21	652.0%
6	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:37	0.21	638.5%
7	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:37	0.21	634.4%
8	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:37	0.21	634.4%
9	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:37	0.21	627.9%
10	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:38	0.22	613.1%
11	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:39	0.22	604.9%
12	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:39	0.22	601.8%
13	Shadow Tornadus (Therian)flying	flyingGustflyingBleakwind Storm	3,215	0:39	0.22	594.2%
14	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:40	0.23	586.8%
15	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	0:41	0.23	572.5%

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 Wurmple.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Wurmple'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%	888%	646.7%	0:36	0.21
Bug Bite / Struggle	100%	894%	646.0%	0:36	0.21
Tackle / Struggle	100%	882%	647.0%	0:36	0.21

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…

Wurmple 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 Wurmple throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalStruggle	35	-0	2.0s	1.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	296	370
11/11/11	302	378
12/12/12	309	386
13/13/13	316	395
14/14/14	323	404
15/15/15hundo	330	413

Caught CP range 296 - 330, or 370 - 413 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.

Wurmple 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 65 / Defense 54 (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

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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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	769.6%	0.17	0:30	100%	5,713	119.8	3653
2	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	90%	711.3%	0.19	0:33	100%	4,783	110.6	3648
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	86%	690.3%	0.19	0:34	100%	3,979	106.3	3615
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	80%	670.2%	0.20	0:35	100%	4,161	104.1	3644
5	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	76%	652.0%	0.21	0:36	100%	3,749	100.5	3619
6	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	80%	638.5%	0.21	0:37	100%	6,428	99.8	3670
7	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	77%	634.4%	0.21	0:37	100%	4,455	98.8	3655
8	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	75%	634.4%	0.21	0:37	100%	3,465	97.7	3613
9	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	81%	627.9%	0.21	0:37	100%	3,297	107.6	4022
10	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	75%	613.1%	0.22	0:38	100%	4,038	107.7	4121
11	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	67%	604.9%	0.22	0:39	100%	2,825	94.7	3675
12	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	601.8%	0.22	0:39	100%	3,835	93.0	3627
13	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	69%	594.2%	0.22	0:39	100%	3,215	92.0	3632
14	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	68%	586.8%	0.23	0:40	100%	3,298	90.2	3608
15	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	72%	572.5%	0.23	0:41	100%	5,031	87.9	3605
16	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	72%	572.5%	0.23	0:41	100%	3,268	88.4	3623
17	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	73%	572.5%	0.23	0:41	100%	3,741	88.1	3612
18	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	64%	566.8%	0.24	0:41	100%	2,689	97.4	4032
19	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	63%	566.1%	0.24	0:41	100%	2,848	94.6	3922
20	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	73%	563.7%	0.24	0:42	100%	3,754	90.9	3783
21	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	63%	562.3%	0.24	0:42	100%	3,105	97.4	4064
22	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	62%	561.2%	0.24	0:42	100%	2,683	87.6	3665
23	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	68%	558.8%	0.24	0:42	100%	4,038	86.2	3621
24	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	68%	558.8%	0.24	0:42	100%	3,228	88.4	3714
25	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	68%	558.8%	0.24	0:42	100%	3,128	87.1	3657
26	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	63%	558.3%	0.24	0:42	100%	2,889	88.3	3711
27	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	63%	557.5%	0.24	0:42	100%	3,059	90.5	3808
28	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	64%	554.3%	0.24	0:42	100%	3,590	90.9	3848
29	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	69%	552.8%	0.24	0:42	100%	4,346	91.0	3862
30	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	64%	548.1%	0.24	0:43	100%	3,473	86.9	3720

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.