Cresselia counters

#0488

psychicElite

Lobby CP

39,022

20,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

164

Defense

268

Difficulty

3.80

Pokebattler scale

Beating Cresselia should take 4 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,555-1,633.

Weak tobug1.6xghost1.6xdark1.6x

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 Dark Mega — most top counters attack with Dark

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 Cresselia counters are Mega Houndoom, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Tyranitar, Shadow Chandelure & Shadow Weavile.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Houndoom
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Darkrai
S. Tyranitar
S. Chandelure
S. Weavile

8 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 HoundoomMegapartySnarl / Dark Pulse+3.3515:25
2Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Moongeist Beam3.6716:52
3Mega GengarMegaLick / Shadow Ball3.7217:08
4Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+3.8517:42
5Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play3.8717:48
6Mega TyranitarMegaBite / Brutal Swing4.0618:41
7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball4.1118:54
8Shadow TyranitarShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing4.1619:10
9Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball4.2819:41
10Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball4.3419:58
14Shadow WeavileShadowpartySnarl / Foul Play4.6021:11

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

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Top 15 Cresselia counters in detail

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	15:25	3.35	5.5	32.9%
2	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	psychicPsycho CutghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	16:52	3.67	6.0	30.0%
3	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	17:08	3.72	6.0	29.6%
4	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	17:42	3.85	6.0	28.6%
5	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	17:48	3.87	6.0	28.5%
6	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	18:41	4.06	5.0	27.1%
7	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	18:54	4.11	6.0	26.8%
8	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	19:10	4.16	6.0	26.4%
9	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	19:41	4.28	6.0	25.8%
10	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	19:58	4.34	6.0	25.4%
11	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	20:28	4.45	6.0	24.8%
12	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	20:47	4.52	6.0	24.4%
13	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	20:57	4.55	6.0	24.2%
14	Shadow Weaviledarkice	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,005	21:11	4.60	6.0	23.9%
15	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishghostShadow Ball	3,297	21:13	4.61	6.0	23.9%

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 Cresselia.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Cresselia'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 % (4)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	76%	42%	27.6%	18:23	5.9	3.99
Confusion / Moonblast	76%	33%	26.7%	18:59	6.0	4.13
Psycho Cut / Moonblast	76%	33%	27.0%	18:47	6.0	4.08
Psycho Cut / Future Sight	67%	54%	27.9%	18:11	5.8	3.95
Confusion / Aurora Beam	83%	50%	28.1%	18:02	5.9	3.92
Confusion / Future Sight	81%	52%	28.2%	17:58	5.9	3.91
Psycho Cut / Aurora Beam	83%	51%	28.2%	17:58	5.9	3.91

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 4 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…

Cresselia 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.

bug1.6x ghost1.6x dark1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x fighting0.63x psychic0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (13)
Resists (2)

It resists fighting0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Cresselia throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
psychicPsycho CutSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.27s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicFuture SightSTAB	115	-100	2.5s	1.20s
fairyMoonblast	130	-100	4.0s	2.30s
iceAurora Beam	80	-50	3.5s	3.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,555	1,944
11/11/11	1,570	1,963
12/12/12	1,586	1,982
13/13/13	1,601	2,002
14/14/14	1,617	2,021
15/15/15hundo	1,633	2,041

Caught CP range 1,555 - 1,633, or 1,944 - 2,041 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.

Cresselia 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

Elite: 20,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 164 / Defense 268 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.985).

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#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Faints	Win % (4)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	32.9%	3.35	15:25	20.6	100%	3,842	22.3	961
2	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	90%	30.0%	3.67	16:52	24.2	100%	4,099	20.4	776
3	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	83%	29.6%	3.72	17:08	44.8	100%	4,336	20.7	466
4	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	78%	28.6%	3.85	17:42	62.2	76%	3,383	21.1	406
5	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	81%	28.5%	3.87	17:48	39.5	100%	3,739	19.7	521
6	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	81%	27.1%	4.06	18:41	23.9	100%	5,347	18.3	900
7	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	80%	26.8%	4.11	18:54	25.9	100%	6,428	18.2	728
8	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	75%	26.4%	4.16	19:10	37.3	98%	3,834	18.2	579
9	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	72%	25.8%	4.28	19:41	46.9	68%	3,268	17.9	428
10	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	72%	25.4%	4.34	19:58	39.1	60%	6,112	17.5	521
11	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	67%	24.8%	4.45	20:28	58.3	34%	3,594	17.4	335
12	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	67%	24.4%	4.52	20:47	52.0	34%	4,814	17.0	405
13	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	64%	24.2%	4.55	20:57	74.1	66%	3,301	17.6	374
14	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	66%	23.9%	4.60	21:11	49.4	0%	3,005	16.6	455
15	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	65%	23.9%	4.61	21:13	54.2	0%	3,297	16.7	373
16	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	67%	23.8%	4.63	21:19	43.1	0%	3,739	16.4	506
17	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	69%	23.5%	4.69	21:34	27.5	0%	4,783	15.9	699
18	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	64%	23.4%	4.70	21:38	53.0	0%	3,683	16.3	370
19	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Feint Attack / Surf+	Feint Attack / Surf++17 more movesets	66%	23.3%	4.73	21:47	39.7	0%	3,784	16.0	575
20	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	64%	23.2%	4.74	21:48	51.1	0%	2,994	16.1	400
21	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	65%	23.2%	4.74	21:50	42.8	0%	4,178	16.0	448
22	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	63%	23.0%	4.78	22:00	52.9	0%	4,182	16.0	359
23	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Shadow Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Shadow Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	69%	22.9%	4.81	22:08	23.1	0%	4,099	15.4	817
24	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	60%	22.9%	4.82	22:10	79.0	66%	3,625	16.8	417
25	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	60%	22.6%	4.87	22:24	68.3	0%	3,117	16.0	289
26	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	61%	22.5%	4.90	22:34	60.0	0%	5,713	15.7	328
27	Shadow Scizor bugsteelshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	63%	22.4%	4.91	22:36	46.2	0%	3,001	15.5	430
28	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	58%	22.4%	4.92	22:39	91.3	12%	2,878	16.5	251
29	Shadow Escavalier bugsteelshadow Bug Bite / Megahorn	Bug Bite / Megahorn+9 more movesets	63%	22.3%	4.93	22:41	43.0	0%	2,889	15.4	455
30	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	57%	22.0%	5.00	22:60	90.1	34%	2,526	16.2	269

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