Raid counters

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?

Bellsprout

Tier 1 · CP 3,288

grasspoison

HP: 600
Raid timer: 3:00
Attack / Defense: 91 / 45
Difficulty rating: 0.04
Catch CP: 543 – 590
Boosted (Sunny or clear, Cloudy): 679 – 738

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Beating Bellsprout should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters of this strength. The Win % column is quoted at 1 trainer — 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

flying 1.60xfire 1.60xpsychic 1.60xice 1.60x

Resists

grass 0.39xfighting 0.63xwater 0.63xelectric 0.63xfairy 0.63x

Related countersShadow Bellsprout

Best attackers

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The best Bellsprout counters at level 40 are Salamence, Alakazam, Toucannon, Braviary, Hisuian Braviary & Staraptor.

#1top pick
Salamence
dragonflying
Fire Fang / Fly
Power
5737.0%
Estimator
0.04
Time
0:08
#2top pick
Alakazam
psychic
Psycho Cut / Psychic
Power
6228.9%
Estimator
0.04
Time
0:07
#3top pick
Toucannon
normalflying
Peck / Beak Blast
Power
5813.6%
Estimator
0.04
Time
0:07
#4
Braviary
normalflying
Air Slash / Fly
Power
5533.1%
Estimator
0.04
Time
0:08
#5
Hisuian Braviary
psychicflying
Air Slash / Fly
Power
5450.1%
Estimator
0.04
Time
0:08
#6
Staraptor
normalflying
Wing Attack / Fly
Power
5450.1%
Estimator
0.04
Time
0:08

Top pick: Salamence, Alakazam, Toucannon — 3 attackers inside 2.1% of each other, which is this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com's published times (median 1.6% per attacker across six reference bosses). Bring any of them: the order inside this band is below what we can measure, while re-rolling the Monte Carlo seed moves a row by only 0.91%.

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	Salamence top pickdragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	100%	5737.0%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	97.2	737
2	Alakazam top pickpsychic Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	98%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,057	87.9	615
3	Toucannon top picknormalflying Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	98%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,689	92.8	696
4	Braviary normalflying Air Slash / Fly	Air Slash / Fly+9 more movesets	92%	5533.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,088	84.6	666
5	Hisuian Braviary psychicflying Air Slash / Fly	Air Slash / Fly+9 more movesets	88%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,814	77.4	619
6	Staraptor normalflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	88%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,825	78.4	627
7	Cinderace fire Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+14 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,018	75.6	605
8	Flareon fire Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	87%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,029	78.3	626
9	Unfezant normalflying Air Slash / Sky Attack	Air Slash / Sky Attack+5 more movesets	86%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,734	77.1	617
10	Charizard fireflying Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	85%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	79.8	678
11	Honchkrow darkflying Peck / Sky Attack	Peck / Sky Attack+7 more movesets	85%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,711	76.1	609
12	Metagross steelpsychic Bullet Punch / Psychic	Bullet Punch / Psychic+15 more movesets	85%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,791	67.3	606
13	Exeggutor grasspsychic Extrasensory / Psychic	Extrasensory / Psychic+11 more movesets	84%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,014	78.0	624
14	Emboar firefighting Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	84%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,982	83.8	712
15	Typhlosion fire Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	83%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	79.8	678
16	Gallade psychicfighting Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	82%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,093	77.8	661
17	Magmortar fire Fire Spin / Psychic	Fire Spin / Psychic+11 more movesets	81%	5069.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,132	77.6	666
18	Glaceon ice Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+9 more movesets	81%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,126	72.7	618
19	Darmanitan (Standard) fire Fire Fang / Psychic	Fire Fang / Psychic+11 more movesets	81%	5069.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,105	82.6	710
20	Blaziken firefighting Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	81%	5165.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,848	83.2	700
21	Chandelure ghostfire Fire Spin / Shadow Ball	Fire Spin / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	81%	4909.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,268	75.4	669
22	Incineroar firedark Fire Fang / Blaze Kick	Fire Fang / Blaze Kick+23 more movesets	80%	4988.6%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,996	73.9	645
23	Weavile darkice Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,005	74.3	631
24	Espeon psychic Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+11 more movesets	79%	5069.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,170	84.4	725
25	Sirfetch'd fighting Fury Cutter / Brave Bird	Fury Cutter / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,985	71.4	607
26	Gardevoir psychicfairy Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,093	77.8	661
27	Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) ice Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,105	72.8	619
28	Baxcalibur dragonice Dragon Breath / Avalanche	Dragon Breath / Avalanche+11 more movesets	78%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,550	67.1	604
29	Jynx icepsychic Frost Breath / Avalanche	Frost Breath / Avalanche+14 more movesets	77%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,555	71.0	603
30	Mamoswine iceground Powder Snow / Icicle Spear	Powder Snow / Icicle Spear+11 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,328	68.6	617

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 3:00 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 1 trainer 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 moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1321%	5707.8%	0:08	0.04
Vine Whip / Wrap	100%	1469%	5626.0%	0:08	0.04
Acid / Power Whip	100%	1287%	5697.5%	0:08	0.04
Acid / Sludge Bomb	100%	1134%	5697.5%	0:08	0.04
Acid / Wrap	100%	1335%	5697.5%	0:08	0.04
Vine Whip / Power Whip	100%	1471%	5707.8%	0:08	0.04
Vine Whip / Sludge Bomb	100%	1283%	5707.8%	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.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid, 600 HP, 3:00 timer

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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 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1), moveset table 0.0 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.