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Every attacker in the Game Master, simulated against this boss move by move. Change the tier, level, weather, friendship or filters and the ranking re-runs; the URL is the share link. Same boss on pokebattler.com. How accurate is this?

Not released in Pokemon GONo trainer can own this one yet.

Not obtainable in Pokemon GO as of 2026-10-03: PvPoke flags it released:false and onemorecatch.site lists the species as unavailable. It is left out of default counter lists, boss pickers, tools and the Pokebox; the numbers on this page are what the Game Master gives it.

List checked 2026-10-03. Source: PvPoke gamemaster released:false flags (github.com/pvpoke/pvpoke, snapshot 2026-10-03 03:11:52) cross-checked with onemorecatch.site's unavailable list (updated 2026-10-02) and theclick.gg's Mega list (2026-09-16); PvP-only exclusions (Ditto, Shedinja, Spewpa, Cosmog, Cosmoem) and the stale Mega Camerupt flag corrected by hand.

Arceus (Steel)Not released in Pokemon GO
Elite · CP 56,910
steel
HP
20,000
Raid timer
5:00
Attack / Defense
249 / 249
Difficulty rating
4.83
Catch CP
2,190 – 2,279
Boosted (Snow)
2,738 – 2,850

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Beating Arceus (Steel) should take 5 trainers with level 40 counters of this strength. The Win % column is quoted at 5 trainers — the count the Estimator rounds up to, because at a full lobby every counter on this list wins every run and the column stops telling you anything. Set a lobby size below to ask a different question.

Weak to
fighting 1.60xground 1.60xfire 1.60x
Resists
poison 0.39xnormal 0.63xflying 0.63xrock 0.63xbug 0.63xsteel 0.63xgrass 0.63xpsychic 0.63xice 0.63xdragon 0.63xfairy 0.63x

The best Arceus (Steel) counters at level 40 are Lucario, Cinderace, Chandelure, Volcarona, Excadrill & Delphox.

  1. #1
    Lucario
    fightingsteel
    Force Palm / Aura Sphere
    Power
    26.5%
    Estimator
    4.15
    Time
    19:07
  2. #2
    Cinderace
    fire
    Fire Spin / Pyroball
    Power
    23.2%
    Estimator
    4.75
    Time
    21:51
  3. #3
    Chandelure
    ghostfire
    Fire Spin / Overheat
    Power
    22.2%
    Estimator
    4.97
    Time
    22:51
  4. #4
    Volcarona
    bugfire
    Fire Spin / Overheat
    Power
    22.3%
    Estimator
    4.94
    Time
    22:45
  5. #5
    Excadrill
    groundsteel
    Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands
    Power
    21.6%
    Estimator
    5.11
    Time
    23:30
  6. #6
    Delphox
    firepsychic
    Fire Spin / Blast Burn
    Power
    21.6%
    Estimator
    5.09
    Time
    23:25

Top pick: Lucario — the only attacker inside 2.1% of the leader, so this one is a real verdict rather than a tie.

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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Lucario
fightingsteel
Force Palm / Aura Sphere
4.1519:0761.1
2
Cinderace
fire
Fire Spin / Pyroball
4.7521:5172.0
3
Chandelure
ghostfire
Fire Spin / Overheat
4.9722:5166.7
4
Volcarona
bugfire
Fire Spin / Overheat
4.9422:4569.8
5
Excadrill
groundsteel
Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands
5.1123:3060.9
6
Delphox
firepsychic
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
5.0923:2568.2
7
Gallade
psychicfighting
Low Kick / Sacred Sword
5.0423:1179.6
8
Incineroar
firedark
Fire Fang / Blast Burn
5.2324:0462.2
9
Garchomp
dragonground
Mud Shot / Earth Power
5.2123:5868.8
10
Conkeldurr
fighting
Force Palm / Dynamic Punch
5.1523:4182.5
11
Darmanitan (Standard)
fire
Fire Fang / Overheat
5.2123:5887.6
12
Rhyperior
groundrock
Mud-Slap / Drill Run
5.4224:5761.9
13
Charizard
fireflying
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
5.3324:3077.2
14
Blaziken
firefighting
Counter / Aura Sphere
5.2123:59111.6
15
Mamoswine
iceground
Mud-Slap / High Horsepower
5.4124:5483.8
16
Typhlosion
fire
Ember / Blast Burn
5.5025:1878.0
17
Flareon
fire
Fire Spin / Overheat
5.4925:1684.1
18
Skeledirge
fireghost
Incinerate / Blast Burn
5.7326:2266.2
19
Krookodile
grounddark
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
5.7026:1373.4
20
Magmortar
fire
Fire Spin / Fire Blast
5.6325:5483.1
21
Hisuian Arcanine
firerock
Fire Fang / Flamethrower
5.7526:2880.4
22
Arcanine
fire
Fire Fang / Flamethrower
5.8727:0086.7
23
Ceruledge
fireghost
Incinerate / Flamethrower
5.9927:3578.7
24
Machamp
fighting
Karate Chop / Dynamic Punch
5.9027:08106.9
25
Emboar
firefighting
Low Kick / Blast Burn
6.0527:51114.2
26
Hawlucha
fightingflying
Low Kick / Flying Press
6.1428:14122.0
27
Infernape
firefighting
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
6.3029:01125.7
28
Breloom
grassfighting
Force Palm / Dynamic Punch
6.5029:54149.7
29
Sirfetch'd
fighting
Counter / Close Combat
6.6630:39137.4
30
Mienshao
fighting
Force Palm / Blaze Kick
6.6130:26168.9
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.

What the columns mean

Power and Estimator are printed on Pokebattler's own scale, converted from our simulated time to win by the per-tier constants measured off its published rows (Tier 5 / Mega / Shadow Tier 5: within ~3% of its numbers per attacker; Tier 1 and Tier 3 are a loose fit — read the ordering there, not the digits). Faints is our own solo-trainer count and is the column that still disagrees with Pokebattler's effectiveDeaths on which attackers are bulky — the same disagreement that puts a frail attacker a few places too high on this list; that is a simulator question, tracked in the accuracy report.

Overall is time to win discounted by how much damage the attacker deals per life, so a bulkier attacker can outrank a marginally faster glass cannon — Pokebattler's own published Overall blend (“Tier 5 Raids — 50% Power, 50% Time to Win. Time to Win goal is 300s. Raid size 8”) carried onto the one scale both simulators measure. It is the default sort, as on Pokebattler, and like Pokebattler's it is taken over a random boss moveset: each attacker's moveset is chosen, and every number on its row averaged, over the boss's whole movepool, not over one boss moveset. Power is the share of the boss one attacker removes in a single life. Estimator is the number of trainers of this attacker needed to finish inside the 5:00 raid timer — it is time to win ÷ timer, so sorting on it gives the same order as sorting on Time to win. Time to win, faints and TDO are one trainer soloing the boss with a party of six, relobbying after a wipe. Win % is the share of runs that beat the timer with 5 trainers of it. Open a moveset to see every alternative the simulator scored for that attacker.

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 movesetWin % (5)OverallPowerTime to winFaintsEstimator
Random (any moveset)showing100%22%22.8%22:136.04.83
Iron Tail / Future Sight100%22%22.6%22:246.04.87
Shadow Claw / Hyper Beam99%22%22.7%22:216.04.86
Shadow Claw / Future Sight100%22%22.7%22:186.04.85
Shadow Claw / Outrage100%22%22.8%22:116.04.82
Iron Tail / Hyper Beam99%23%22.9%22:066.04.80
Iron Tail / Outrage100%23%23.0%22:056.04.80

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 5 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.

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Schedule snapshot 2026-10-05 · 1 not in the Pokemon snapshot yet (Astronaut Pikachu)

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Shadow, Mega and Legendary start unchecked because that is the filter state pokebattler.com serves a visitor. Ranked 30 attackers in 2.4 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1), moveset table 0.1 s. Update ranking re-reads the settings; Re-run simulation rolls a new seed on the same settings, so the difference between two runs is this table's own error bar. The same ranking, with the same cache and the same settings, is available as JSON at /api/raids/rank.