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Raid counters

Every attacker in the Game Master, simulated against this boss move by move. Change the tier, level, weather, friendship or filters and the ranking re-runs; the URL is the share link. Same boss on pokebattler.com. How accurate is this?

Heatran
Shadow Tier 5 · CP 49,192
firesteel
HP
15,000
Raid timer
5:00
Attack / Defense
218 / 186
Difficulty rating
3.42

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Beating Heatran should take 3 trainers with level 40 counters of this strength. The Win % column is quoted at 3 trainers — the count the Estimator rounds up to, because at a full lobby every counter on this list wins every run and the column stops telling you anything. Set a lobby size below to ask a different question.

Weak to
ground 2.56xfighting 1.60xwater 1.60x
Resists
poison 0.39xbug 0.39xsteel 0.39xgrass 0.39xice 0.39xfairy 0.39xnormal 0.63xflying 0.63xpsychic 0.63xdragon 0.63x

The best Heatran counters at level 40 are Garchomp, Rhyperior, Excadrill, Hippowdon, Mamoswine & Krookodile.

  1. #1
    Garchomp
    dragonground
    Mud Shot / Earth Power
    Power
    38.5%
    Estimator
    2.93
    Time
    13:51
  2. #2
    Rhyperior
    groundrock
    Mud-Slap / Earthquake
    Power
    34.9%
    Estimator
    3.23
    Time
    15:16
  3. #3
    Excadrill
    groundsteel
    Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands
    Power
    32.4%
    Estimator
    3.48
    Time
    16:26
  4. #4
    Hippowdon
    ground
    Sand Attack / Earth Power
    Power
    30.8%
    Estimator
    3.67
    Time
    17:20
  5. #5
    Mamoswine
    iceground
    Mud-Slap / High Horsepower
    Power
    31.7%
    Estimator
    3.57
    Time
    16:51
  6. #6
    Krookodile
    grounddark
    Mud-Slap / Earthquake
    Power
    30.9%
    Estimator
    3.65
    Time
    17:14

Top pick: Garchomp — the only attacker inside 2.1% of the leader, so this one is a real verdict rather than a tie.

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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Garchomp
dragonground
Mud Shot / Earth Power
2.9313:5127.7
2
Rhyperior
groundrock
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
3.2315:1636.5
3
Excadrill
groundsteel
Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands
3.4816:2663.3
4
Hippowdon
ground
Sand Attack / Earth Power
3.6717:2042.4
5
Mamoswine
iceground
Mud-Slap / High Horsepower
3.5716:5168.0
6
Krookodile
grounddark
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
3.6517:1454.7
7
Rhydon
groundrock
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
3.7117:3349.5
8
Flygon
grounddragon
Sand Attack / Scorching Sands
3.7717:5049.0
9
Mudsdale
ground
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
3.8118:0050.3
10
Swampert
waterground
Mud Shot / Earthquake
3.9018:2640.8
11
Donphan
ground
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
3.8418:0851.5
12
Seismitoad
waterground
Mud Shot / Earth Power
4.0419:0647.9
13
Golurk
groundghost
Mud-Slap / Earth Power
3.9618:4463.9
14
Golem
rockground
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
4.0419:0555.3
15
Sandaconda
ground
Mud-Slap / Earth Power
4.0519:0658.0
16
Inteleon
water
Water Gun / Hydro Cannon
4.0819:1761.1
17
Ursaluna
groundnormal
Tackle / High Horsepower
4.3820:4245.4
18
Haxorus
dragon
Counter / Earthquake
4.3320:2856.8
19
Kingler
water
Mud Shot / Crabhammer
4.3220:2562.4
20
Gastrodon
waterground
Mud-Slap / Earth Power
4.5621:3355.1
21
Nidoqueen
poisonground
Mud-Slap / Earth Power
4.5021:1665.3
22
Torterra
grassground
Mud-Slap / Earthquake
4.4721:0772.7
23
Magmortar
fire
Karate Chop / Scorching Sands
4.5121:1768.4
24
Quaquaval
waterfighting
Water Gun / Hydro Cannon
4.6622:0157.5
25
Primarina
waterfairy
Waterfall / Hydro Cannon
4.7622:3062.2
26
Arcanine
fire
Snarl / Scorching Sands
4.7922:3862.7
27
Blaziken
firefighting
Counter / Aura Sphere
4.6622:0085.8
28
Greninja
waterdark
Bubble / Hydro Cannon
4.7722:3268.9
29
Lucario
fightingsteel
Force Palm / Aura Sphere
4.8823:03108.9
30
Nidoking
poisonground
Double Kick / Earth Power
5.0223:4288.8
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 (its Shadow boss page; the ordinary boss's page is a different, easier fight). Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

What the columns mean

Power and Estimator are printed on Pokebattler's own scale, converted from our simulated time to win by the per-tier constants measured off its published rows (Tier 5 / Mega / Shadow Tier 5: within ~3% of its numbers per attacker; Tier 1 and Tier 3 are a loose fit — read the ordering there, not the digits). Faints is our own solo-trainer count and is the column that still disagrees with Pokebattler's effectiveDeaths on which attackers are bulky — the same disagreement that puts a frail attacker a few places too high on this list; that is a simulator question, tracked in the accuracy report.

Overall is time to win discounted by how much damage the attacker deals per life, so a bulkier attacker can outrank a marginally faster glass cannon — Pokebattler's own published Overall blend (“Tier 5 Raids — 50% Power, 50% Time to Win. Time to Win goal is 300s. Raid size 8”) carried onto the one scale both simulators measure. It is the default sort, as on Pokebattler, and like Pokebattler's it is taken over a random boss moveset: each attacker's moveset is chosen, and every number on its row averaged, over the boss's whole movepool, not over one boss moveset. Power is the share of the boss one attacker removes in a single life. Estimator is the number of trainers of this attacker needed to finish inside the 5:00 raid timer — it is time to win ÷ timer, so sorting on it gives the same order as sorting on Time to win. Time to win, faints and TDO are one trainer soloing the boss with a party of six, relobbying after a wipe. Win % is the share of runs that beat the timer with 3 trainers of it. Open a moveset to see every alternative the simulator scored for that attacker.

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 movesetWin % (3)OverallPowerTime to winFaintsEstimator
Random (any moveset)showing29%32%32.8%16:156.03.44
Bug Bite / Fire Blast19%29%28.8%18:306.03.92
Fire Spin / Fire Blast21%28%30.8%17:186.03.66
Fire Spin / Earth Power19%29%32.3%16:316.03.50
Fire Spin / Iron Head33%32%33.4%15:596.03.38
Bug Bite / Iron Head33%35%33.7%15:506.03.35
Fire Spin / Flamethrower33%36%33.9%15:436.03.33
Bug Bite / Earth Power18%31%34.0%15:426.03.32
Bug Bite / Flamethrower36%37%34.0%15:406.03.32
Fire Spin / Stone Edge50%44%34.8%15:206.03.25
Bug Bite / Stone Edge47%51%35.6%14:596.03.17

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 3 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.

Custom raid

Raid bosses live right now

Schedule snapshot 2026-10-05 · 1 not in the Pokemon snapshot yet (Astronaut Pikachu)

Attackers allowed
Share these exact settings

Shadow, Mega and Legendary start unchecked because that is the filter state pokebattler.com serves a visitor. Ranked 30 attackers in 1.8 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1), moveset table 0.1 s. Update ranking re-reads the settings; Re-run simulation rolls a new seed on the same settings, so the difference between two runs is this table's own error bar. The same ranking, with the same cache and the same settings, is available as JSON at /api/raids/rank.