Crabrawler counters

#0739

fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

4,408

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Crabrawler should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 726-778.

Weak toflying1.6xpsychic1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Crabrawler counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Alakazam, Rayquaza & Necrozma (Dusk Mane).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Alakazam
Rayquaza
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)

11 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 / Psystrike0.040:07
3Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
4Mega MalamarMegaPsycho Cut / Psybeam+0.040:08
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.050:08
6Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Brave Bird0.050:09
7Mega StarmieMegaPsywave / Liquidation+0.050:09
8Mega LatiosMegaLegendaryZen Headbutt / Psychic0.050:09
9Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
10Mega DelphoxMegaZen Headbutt / Psychic0.050:09
13Shadow AlakazamShadowpartyConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
14RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:09
17Necrozma (Dusk Mane)LegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike0.060:10

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Crabrawler

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Top 15 Crabrawler 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	6228.9%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
4	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:08	0.04	5441.9%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:08	0.05	5165.9%
6	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingBrave Bird	3,590	0:09	0.05	4876.9%
7	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:09	0.05	4859.5%
8	Mega Latiosdragonpsychic	psychicZen HeadbuttpsychicPsychic	5,007	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
9	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
10	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	psychicZen HeadbuttpsychicPsychic	4,783	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
11	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
12	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,512	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
13	Shadow Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	3,057	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
14	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:09	0.05	4608.8%
15	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	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 Crabrawler.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Crabrawler'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%	1248%	4959.2%	0:09	0.05
Rock Smash / Payback	100%	1277%	4935.8%	0:09	0.05
Bubble / Payback	100%	1194%	4935.8%	0:09	0.05
Rock Smash / Power-Up Punch	100%	1297%	4955.3%	0:09	0.05
Rock Smash / Brick Break	100%	1299%	4955.3%	0:09	0.05
Bubble / Power-Up Punch	100%	1288%	4955.3%	0:09	0.05
Bubble / Crabhammer	100%	1157%	4978.9%	0:09	0.05
Bubble / Brick Break	100%	1338%	4982.9%	0:09	0.05
Rock Smash / Crabhammer	100%	1106%	4994.7%	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…

Crabrawler 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 psychic1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x poison1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x rock0.63x bug0.63x dark0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists rock0.625xbug0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Crabrawler throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingRock SmashSTAB	17	+12	1.5s	0.75s
waterBubble	10	+12	1.0s	0.55s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkPayback	95	-100	2.0s	0.90s
waterCrabhammer	85	-50	2.0s	1.60s
fightingBrick BreakSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.70s
fightingPower-Up PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.70s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	726	908
11/11/11	736	921
12/12/12	747	934
13/13/13	757	947
14/14/14	768	960
15/15/15hundo	778	973

Caught CP range 726 - 778, or 908 - 973 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.

Crabrawler 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 98 / Defense 71 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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

Share these exact settings

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 Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	6,428	87.3	611
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	92%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	6,112	80.8	606
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	88%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	89.5	716
4	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	82%	5441.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,143	83.8	671
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	74%	5165.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,178	81.7	689
6	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	71%	4876.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,590	71.2	636
7	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	71%	4859.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	71.5	641
8	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,007	67.5	607
9	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	68%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,510	77.8	700
10	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+23 more movesets	67%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	67.6	608
11	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,521	69.6	626
12	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,512	69.6	626
13	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	63%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,057	69.8	628
14	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	66%	4608.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,835	71.9	679
15	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,713	93.9	892
16	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	58%	4498.5%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	65.6	636
17	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike	Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	60%	4412.8%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,099	63.5	627
18	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	62%	4373.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,099	63.1	629
19	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Air Slash / Play Rough	Air Slash / Play Rough+7 more movesets	60%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,979	60.0	600
20	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	59%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,749	60.1	601
21	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	59%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,812	62.5	625
22	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	56%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,791	60.4	604
23	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	59%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,178	64.0	640
24	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	53%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,825	60.7	607
25	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	54%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,006	63.4	666
26	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	56%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,093	58.8	617
27	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	54%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,093	58.8	617
28	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+11 more movesets	55%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,014	57.8	607
29	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	54%	4082.2%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,680	64.5	688
30	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	50%	4014.6%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,689	65.0	712

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.