Archen counters

#0566

rock flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

5,695

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

136

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Archen should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 989-1,052.

Weak torock1.6xsteel1.6xwater1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Steel Mega — most top counters attack with Steel

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 Archen counters are Zamazenta (Crowned Shield), Mega Mewtwo X, Kyurem (White), Shadow Kingler, Shadow Kyogre & Shadow Metagross.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
M. Mewtwo X
Kyurem (White)
S. Kingler
S. Kyogre
S. Metagross

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 %

1Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash0.040:06
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.040:08
4Kyurem (White)LegendarypartySteel Wing / Ice Burn0.040:08
5Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Razor Shell0.050:08
6Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.050:08
7Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
8Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
9Mega MetagrossMegaBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.050:08
10Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyBullet Punch / Meteor Mash0.050:08

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Archen 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	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5588.5%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.04	5469.3%
4	Kyurem (White)dragonice	steelSteel WingiceIce Burn	4,605	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterRazor Shell	2,829	0:08	0.05	5382.8%
6	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:08	0.05	5315.9%
7	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:08	0.05	5304.2%
8	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	4,115	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
9	Mega Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	4,911	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
10	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,791	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
11	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricWild Charge	3,780	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
12	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,826	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
13	Regielekielectric	normalLock-OnelectricThunder Cage	2,803	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
14	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunderbolt	3,659	0:09	0.05	5046.3%
15	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:09	0.05	5023.0%

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 Archen.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Archen'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%	1226%	5536.4%	0:08	0.04
Quick Attack / Ancient Power	100%	1373%	5516.9%	0:08	0.04
Wing Attack / Ancient Power	100%	1233%	5516.9%	0:08	0.04
Quick Attack / Dragon Claw	100%	1327%	5531.5%	0:08	0.04
Quick Attack / Crunch	100%	1314%	5531.5%	0:08	0.04
Wing Attack / Dragon Claw	100%	1189%	5531.5%	0:08	0.04
Wing Attack / Crunch	100%	1198%	5551.1%	0:08	0.04

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…

Archen 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.

rock1.6x steel1.6x water1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x fighting1x ghost1x grass1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x flying0.63x poison0.63x ground0.63x bug0.63x fire0.63x

Weak (5)
Neutral (7)
Resists (6)

It resists normal0.625xflying0.625xpoison0.625xground0.625xbug0.625xfire0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Archen throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingWing AttackSTAB	10	+11	1.0s	0.75s
normalQuick Attack	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDragon Claw	45	-33	1.5s	0.90s
rockAncient PowerSTAB	70	-33	3.5s	2.85s
darkCrunch	65	-33	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	989	1,236
11/11/11	1,001	1,252
12/12/12	1,014	1,268
13/13/13	1,027	1,284
14/14/14	1,040	1,300
15/15/15hundo	1,052	1,316

Caught CP range 989 - 1,052, or 1,236 - 1,316 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.

Archen 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 136 / Defense 62 (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	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	100%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,172	93.1	605
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	74%	5588.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	92.1	718
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	73%	5469.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	99.6	793
4	Kyurem (White) dragonice Steel Wing / Ice Burn	Steel Wing / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	67%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,605	80.0	640
5	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	61%	5382.8%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,829	74.9	606
6	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	69%	5315.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,784	110.0	902
7	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	71%	5304.2%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,902	81.2	666
8	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	64%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,115	74.8	636
9	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	70%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,911	72.8	619
10	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	65%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,791	75.2	639
11	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Volt Switch / Wild Charge	Volt Switch / Wild Charge+35 more movesets	60%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,780	73.2	622
12	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	66%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,826	75.0	637
13	Regieleki electric Lock-On / Thunder Cage	Lock-On / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	68%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,803	87.3	742
14	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	58%	5046.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,659	74.5	647
15	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	65%	5023.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,346	78.3	679
16	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	64%	4970.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	110.2	965
17	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt	Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt+9 more movesets	62%	4909.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,038	75.3	668
18	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	59%	4886.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	73.5	655
19	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	64%	4886.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	112.5	1003
20	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	61%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,038	68.8	619
21	Shadow Empoleon watersteelshadow Steel Wing / Hydro Cannon	Steel Wing / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	61%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,900	69.6	626
22	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	56%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,826	67.6	608
23	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Crabhammer	Waterfall / Crabhammer+11 more movesets	54%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,474	68.9	620
24	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	56%	4823.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	81.3	733
25	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder	Thunder Shock / Thunder+7 more movesets	54%	4733.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,345	69.6	640
26	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Discharge	Thunder Shock / Discharge+7 more movesets	56%	4703.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,937	74.8	693
27	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder	Thunder Shock / Thunder+11 more movesets	55%	4678.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,527	65.6	611
28	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	59%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,401	64.5	613
29	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder	Thunder Shock / Thunder+9 more movesets	55%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,452	63.2	600
30	Shadow Archeops rockflyingshadow Steel Wing / Ancient Power	Steel Wing / Ancient Power+5 more movesets	49%	4373.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,331	69.1	692

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.