Budew counters

#0406

grass poisonTier 1

Lobby CP

2,891

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Budew should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 448-489.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Budew counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Alakazam, Blacephalon & Shadow Delphox.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Alakazam
Blacephalon
S. Delphox

9 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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.040:07
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.040:08
3Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
4Mega MalamarMegaPsycho Cut / Psybeam+0.050:08
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.050:08
6Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
7Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Brave Bird0.050:09
8Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
9Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Psychic0.050:09
10Mega GalladeMegaConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
12Shadow AlakazamShadowpartyConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
13BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.050:09
15Shadow DelphoxShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersShadow Budew

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Top 15 Budew 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,428	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
4	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:08	0.05	5374.8%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
6	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
7	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingBrave Bird	3,590	0:09	0.05	4871.5%
8	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
9	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinpsychicPsychic	4,783	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
10	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
11	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,512	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
12	Shadow Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	3,057	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
13	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
14	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
15	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:09	0.05	4589.4%

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 Budew.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Budew'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%	1273%	4986.8%	0:09	0.05
Hidden Power / Energy Ball	100%	1306%	4982.9%	0:09	0.05
Razor Leaf / Energy Ball	100%	1420%	4982.9%	0:09	0.05
Razor Leaf / Grass Knot	100%	1223%	4982.9%	0:09	0.05
Hidden Power / Grass Knot	100%	1262%	5002.7%	0:09	0.05

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…

Budew 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 psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x fairy0.63x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists grass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Budew throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassRazor LeafSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.60s
normalHidden Power	15	+15	1.5s	1.10s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassGrass KnotSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
grassEnergy BallSTAB	90	-50	4.0s	3.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	448	560
11/11/11	456	570
12/12/12	464	580
13/13/13	472	591
14/14/14	481	601
15/15/15hundo	489	611

Caught CP range 448 - 489, or 560 - 611 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.

Budew 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 63 / Defense 74 (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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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	93%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	0.0	100%	6,428	80.3	602
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	86%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	0.0	100%	6,112	75.8	606
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	0.0	100%	3,979	86.4	691
4	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	93%	5374.8%	0.05	0:08	0.0	100%	3,143	80.4	652
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	76%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	0.0	100%	4,178	78.1	664
6	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	0.0	100%	4,161	71.0	603
7	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	75%	4871.5%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,590	69.1	619
8	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	4,510	74.7	672
9	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Psychic	Fire Spin / Psychic+23 more movesets	77%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	4,783	69.2	623
10	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	71%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	4,521	66.7	600
11	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	71%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	4,512	66.7	600
12	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	64%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,057	66.9	602
13	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	71%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,297	73.1	658
14	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	75%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	4,455	71.7	681
15	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	68%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,059	63.4	602
16	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	66%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	2,848	65.6	623
17	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	74%	4541.6%	0.05	0:10	0.0	100%	3,835	68.2	655
18	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	78%	4467.1%	0.05	0:10	0.0	100%	5,713	80.9	788
19	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	68%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	5,007	62.1	621
20	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,749	63.5	635
21	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	64%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,812	60.4	604
22	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	68%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,465	63.9	639
23	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	63%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,178	61.7	617
24	Deoxys (Attack) psychic Zen Headbutt / Psycho Boost	Zen Headbutt / Psycho Boost+5 more movesets	47%	4284.2%	0.06	0:10	0.1	100%	2,580	59.3	572
25	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Blizzard	Ice Fang / Blizzard+17 more movesets	65%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,605	60.3	633
26	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	58%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,006	60.8	638
27	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Incinerate / Psychic	Incinerate / Psychic+11 more movesets	57%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,105	57.2	601
28	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	62%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,099	58.1	610
29	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike	Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	66%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	4,099	58.1	610
30	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	66%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,850	59.7	627

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 0.2 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.