Grapploct counters

#0853

fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

7,299

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

133

Defense

105

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Grapploct should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,449-1,522.

Weak toflying1.6xpsychic1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Grapploct counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Staraptor, Shadow Galarian Articuno, Shadow Tornadus (Therian) & Shadow Moltres.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Staraptor
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Tornadus (Therian)
S. Moltres

6 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 / Future Sight+0.050:08
2Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.060:10
3Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.060:11
6Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Fly0.070:12
7Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Brave Bird0.070:12
8Shadow Tornadus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyGust / Bleakwind Storm0.070:12
9Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Future Sight0.070:13
10Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.070:13
12Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.070:13

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Grapploct 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 CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5388.1%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:10	0.06	4273.7%
3	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	3892.0%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:11	0.06	3831.1%
6	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:12	0.07	3550.3%
7	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicConfusionflyingBrave Bird	3,590	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
8	Shadow Tornadus (Therian)flying	flyingGustflyingBleakwind Storm	3,215	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
9	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight	4,510	0:13	0.07	3432.8%
10	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:13	0.07	3432.3%
11	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
12	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
13	Shadow Regigigasnormal	psychicZen HeadbuttnormalCrush Grip	4,346	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
14	Shadow Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	3,057	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
15	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:13	0.07	3317.9%

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 Grapploct.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Grapploct'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%	819%	3757.4%	0:12	0.06
Waterfall / Superpower	100%	859%	3693.3%	0:12	0.07
Waterfall / Surf	100%	709%	3712.9%	0:12	0.07
Waterfall / Brick Break	100%	803%	3719.5%	0:12	0.07
Rock Smash / Superpower	100%	855%	3728.4%	0:12	0.07
Waterfall / Ice Punch	100%	708%	3746.2%	0:12	0.06
Rock Smash / Brick Break	100%	892%	3757.4%	0:12	0.06
Rock Smash / Ice Punch	100%	812%	3773.2%	0:12	0.06
Rock Smash / Surf	100%	790%	3773.2%	0:12	0.06

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…

Grapploct 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 Grapploct 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
waterWaterfall	13	+7	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterSurf	60	-50	1.5s	1.20s
fightingSuperpowerSTAB	85	-50	3.0s	2.10s
fightingBrick BreakSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.70s
iceIce Punch	50	-33	2.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,449	1,812
11/11/11	1,464	1,830
12/12/12	1,478	1,848
13/13/13	1,493	1,866
14/14/14	1,508	1,885
15/15/15hundo	1,522	1,903

Caught CP range 1,449 - 1,522, or 1,812 - 1,903 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.

Grapploct 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 133 / Defense 105 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	5388.1%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	92.2	745
2	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	69%	4273.7%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,979	60.3	614
3	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	67%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	60.2	632
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	66%	3892.0%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,112	63.7	712
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	60%	3831.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,178	57.7	656
6	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	49%	3550.3%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,825	49.7	610
7	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Brave Bird	Confusion / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	53%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,590	48.4	605
8	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	51%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,215	48.2	602
9	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight	Confusion / Future Sight+17 more movesets	52%	3432.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,510	53.3	676
10	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	52%	3432.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,741	58.6	744
11	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	52%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,521	46.6	606
12	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	49%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	47.8	621
13	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	48%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,346	46.6	606
14	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	47%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,057	46.8	608
15	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	46%	3317.9%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,689	52.1	683
16	Mewtwo psychic Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	50%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	4,178	44.5	600
17	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	54%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,703	44.7	603
18	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	47%	3191.5%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,749	46.0	628
19	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Mystical Fire+	Zen Headbutt / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	47%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,783	44.4	622
20	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	46%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,548	43.1	604
21	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Charm / Zap Cannon+	Charm / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	43%	3069.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,780	46.7	662
22	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge	Zen Headbutt / Luster Purge+9 more movesets	46%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	5,007	42.5	616
23	Shadow Tornadus (Incarnate) flyingshadow Air Slash / Hurricane	Air Slash / Hurricane+7 more movesets	42%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,345	42.4	615
24	Tapu Lele psychicfairy Confusion / Nature's Madness	Confusion / Nature's Madness+11 more movesets	46%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,494	42.8	620
25	Galarian Articuno psychicflying Confusion / Fly	Confusion / Fly+7 more movesets	46%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,590	41.6	603
26	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	42%	2986.0%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,093	42.3	617
27	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	45%	2969.8%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,979	42.5	624
28	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Snarl / Sky Attack	Snarl / Sky Attack+7 more movesets	39%	2961.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	2,711	42.3	621
29	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	43%	2943.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,093	42.1	623
30	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Air Slash / Brave Bird	Air Slash / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	40%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,680	40.9	614

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.