Mankey counters

#0056

fightingTier 1

Lobby CP

3,932

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Mankey should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 616-665.

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 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 Mankey counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Galarian Articuno & Shadow Moltres.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Toucannon
S. Salamence
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Moltres

4 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 / Psystrike0.030:06
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
3Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
4Mega AlakazamMegaPsycho Cut / Psychic0.040:06
5Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.040:07
6Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyDragon Tail / Fly0.040:08
7Mega SalamenceMegaDragon Tail / Fly0.040:08
8Mega GalladeMegaPsycho Cut / Psychic0.040:08
9Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Fly0.040:08
10Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.040:08

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersShadow Mankey

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Top 15 Mankey 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	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
3	Shadow Mewtwopsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
4	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
5	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:07	0.04	5844.7%
6	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5533.1%
7	Mega Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingFly	5,031	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
9	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicConfusionflyingFly	3,590	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
10	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
11	Shadow Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	3,057	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
12	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingFly	3,979	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
13	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
14	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:08	0.05	5401.5%
15	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:08	0.05	5312.0%

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 Mankey.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Mankey'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.

“Joint top pick”: 3 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

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%	1681%	6037.2%	0:07	0.04
Karate Chop / Low Sweep	100%	1745%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Karate Chop / Brick Break	100%	1670%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Scratch / Cross Chop	100%	1630%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Scratch / Low Sweep	100%	1645%	6014.1%	0:07	0.04
Scratch / Brick Break	100%	1615%	6060.5%	0:07	0.04
Karate Chop / Cross Chop	100%	1618%	6072.3%	0:07	0.04

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…

Mankey 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 Mankey throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingKarate ChopSTAB	10	+13	1.0s	0.80s
normalScratch	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingCross ChopSTAB	50	-50	1.5s	0.80s
fightingBrick BreakSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.70s
fightingLow SweepSTAB	40	-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	616	770
11/11/11	626	782
12/12/12	636	795
13/13/13	645	807
14/14/14	655	819
15/15/15hundo	665	832

Caught CP range 616 - 665, or 770 - 832 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.

Mankey 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 97 / Defense 57 (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 top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	99%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,428	116.9	701
2	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	100%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,112	112.7	676
3	Shadow Mewtwo top pickpsychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	91%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	4,178	101.9	611
4	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	81%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	4,510	95.9	623
5	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	63%	5844.7%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,689	87.8	654
6	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	65%	5533.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	83.1	654
7	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	70%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,031	76.4	611
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	66%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,521	75.6	605
9	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Fly	Confusion / Fly+7 more movesets	70%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,590	86.9	695
10	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	64%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,465	78.6	629
11	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	60%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,057	75.9	607
12	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+19 more movesets	66%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	80.5	644
13	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	58%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,825	80.9	647
14	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	66%	5401.5%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,143	101.8	821
15	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	56%	5312.0%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,784	74.1	608
16	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Aerial Ace	Air Slash / Aerial Ace+11 more movesets	63%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,713	77.1	655
17	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	60%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,979	71.4	607
18	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	66%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,512	82.1	698
19	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	63%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,178	83.3	708
20	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	62%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,093	73.1	621
21	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	58%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,093	73.1	621
22	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	64%	5093.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,007	84.2	720
23	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	61%	5093.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,812	81.4	695
24	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	61%	5093.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,911	75.8	648
25	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	57%	5093.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,791	78.7	673
26	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Psychic	Fire Spin / Psychic+23 more movesets	63%	5058.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	75.5	650
27	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	56%	5011.5%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,006	82.7	718
28	Deoxys (Attack) psychic Zen Headbutt / Psycho Boost	Zen Headbutt / Psycho Boost+5 more movesets	45%	4887.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,580	78.4	699
29	Mega Latias dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+14 more movesets	61%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,801	71.5	643
30	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	56%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,548	69.2	623

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.