Cradily counters

#0346

rock grassTier 5

Lobby CP

29,568

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

131

Defense

165

Difficulty

1.46

Pokebattler scale

Beating Cradily should take 2 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,196-1,263.

Weak tofighting1.6xbug1.6xsteel1.6xice1.6x

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 Cradily counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Zacian (Crowned Sword), Necrozma (Dusk Mane), Zamazenta (Crowned Shield), Keldeo & Shadow Metagross.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
Zacian (Crowned Sword)
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
Keldeo
S. Metagross

5 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 XMegaLegendarypartyCounter / Dynamic Punch+1.225:38
2Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Aura Sphere1.466:42
3Zacian (Crowned Sword)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Blade1.486:49
4Necrozma (Dusk Mane)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Sunsteel Strike1.506:55
5Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash1.516:56
6Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere1.537:03
7Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+1.577:14
8Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+1.587:17
9Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Future Sight+1.637:29
10KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword1.707:48
11Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyFury Cutter / Meteor Mash1.737:59

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

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Top 15 Cradily 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	5:38	1.22	4.8	89.9%
2	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	6:42	1.46	5.0	75.6%
3	Zacian (Crowned Sword)fairysteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Blade	4,979	6:49	1.48	4.8	74.4%
4	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)psychicsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelSunsteel Strike	4,099	6:55	1.50	4.9	73.3%
5	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	6:56	1.51	3.4	73.2%
6	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	7:03	1.53	6.0	71.9%
7	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	7:14	1.57	6.0	70.0%
8	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	7:17	1.58	5.5	69.6%
9	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	7:29	1.63	5.6	67.7%
10	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	7:48	1.70	5.5	64.9%
11	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	bugFury CuttersteelMeteor Mash	3,791	7:59	1.73	5.7	63.5%
12	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	8:02	1.75	5.8	63.1%
13	Mega Metagrosssteelpsychic	bugFury CuttersteelMeteor Mash	4,911	8:05	1.76	4.5	62.6%
14	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	8:10	1.77	5.7	62.1%
15	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	8:13	1.78	6.0	61.7%

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 Cradily.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Cradily'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 % (2)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	167%	72.1%	7:02	5.0	1.53
Bullet Seed / Bulldoze	100%	134%	70.8%	7:10	5.9	1.56
Infestation / Bulldoze	100%	135%	70.8%	7:09	5.8	1.55
Acid / Bulldoze	100%	135%	71.0%	7:09	5.9	1.55
Infestation / Grass Knot	100%	151%	72.0%	7:03	5.5	1.53
Acid / Grass Knot	100%	151%	72.1%	7:02	5.5	1.53
Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	100%	151%	72.2%	7:01	5.5	1.53
Infestation / Stone Edge	100%	193%	72.3%	7:00	4.8	1.52
Infestation / Rock Slide	100%	209%	72.4%	7:00	4.5	1.52
Acid / Rock Slide	100%	207%	72.5%	6:59	4.4	1.52
Acid / Stone Edge	100%	191%	72.6%	6:59	4.9	1.52
Bullet Seed / Rock Slide	100%	206%	72.6%	6:59	4.5	1.52
Bullet Seed / Rock Tomb	100%	237%	72.6%	6:59	3.8	1.52
Bullet Seed / Stone Edge	100%	191%	72.7%	6:58	4.9	1.51
Acid / Rock Tomb	100%	238%	72.8%	6:58	3.7	1.51
Infestation / Rock Tomb	100%	242%	72.8%	6:58	3.8	1.51

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 2 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…

Cradily 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.

fighting1.6x bug1.6x steel1.6x ice1.6x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x ghost1x fire1x water1x grass1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (4)
Neutral (12)
Resists (2)

It resists normal0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Cradily throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonAcid	11	+10	1.0s	0.60s
bugInfestation	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s
grassBullet SeedSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockStone EdgeSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
grassGrass KnotSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
rockRock SlideSTAB	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s
rockRock TombSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	2.05s
groundBulldoze	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,196	1,495
11/11/11	1,209	1,512
12/12/12	1,223	1,529
13/13/13	1,236	1,545
14/14/14	1,249	1,562
15/15/15hundo	1,263	1,579

Caught CP range 1,196 - 1,263, or 1,495 - 1,579 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.

Cradily 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 131 / Defense 165 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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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	Faints	Win % (2)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	89.9%	1.22	5:38	5.5	100%	6,112	45.1	2364
2	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	81%	75.6%	1.46	6:42	8.1	100%	3,826	38.1	1825
3	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	81%	74.4%	1.48	6:49	6.9	100%	4,979	37.5	1957
4	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	79%	73.3%	1.50	6:55	7.1	100%	4,099	37.0	1893
5	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	82%	73.2%	1.51	6:56	4.8	100%	4,172	36.5	2834
6	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	73%	71.9%	1.53	7:03	12.6	100%	4,161	36.8	1096
7	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	69%	70.0%	1.57	7:14	16.8	100%	3,383	36.5	965
8	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	74%	69.6%	1.58	7:17	9.2	100%	3,670	35.3	1515
9	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Future Sight+	Counter / Future Sight++26 more movesets	72%	67.7%	1.63	7:29	9.0	100%	6,428	34.2	1485
10	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	67%	64.9%	1.70	7:48	10.8	100%	3,698	32.9	1373
11	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	66%	63.5%	1.73	7:59	10.7	100%	3,791	32.2	1332
12	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	64%	63.1%	1.75	8:02	12.7	100%	4,605	32.1	1140
13	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	68%	62.6%	1.76	8:05	7.3	100%	4,911	31.5	1842
14	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	65%	62.1%	1.77	8:10	10.7	100%	4,521	31.4	1306
15	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	60%	61.7%	1.78	8:13	20.5	100%	2,848	32.2	705
16	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	62%	59.1%	1.86	8:35	10.3	100%	4,814	29.9	1359
17	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	59%	58.1%	1.89	8:43	13.9	100%	3,337	29.7	1039
18	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	59%	58.1%	1.90	8:43	12.7	100%	2,703	29.5	1221
19	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	59%	58.0%	1.90	8:44	13.5	100%	4,605	29.5	1070
20	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	59%	57.7%	1.91	8:47	12.8	100%	3,677	29.3	1074
21	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	57%	55.4%	1.99	9:09	11.1	100%	4,038	28.0	1324
22	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	56%	55.3%	1.99	9:10	13.5	100%	3,698	28.1	1130
23	Metagross steelpsychic Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	58%	55.2%	2.00	9:11	10.3	100%	3,791	27.8	1353
24	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	56%	54.9%	2.01	9:14	11.8	100%	5,007	27.8	1158
25	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	54%	54.4%	2.02	9:19	16.4	100%	3,093	27.8	873
26	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	53%	54.0%	2.04	9:24	18.5	100%	2,848	27.8	755
27	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	55%	53.7%	2.05	9:26	11.4	100%	3,741	27.2	1265
28	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	54%	52.9%	2.08	9:35	13.0	100%	5,713	26.9	1402
29	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	52%	52.6%	2.09	9:38	16.5	98%	3,056	26.9	873
30	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+7 more movesets	53%	52.4%	2.10	9:41	14.5	94%	3,548	26.7	1091

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