Mewtwo counters

#0150

psychicTier 1

Lobby CP

10,829

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

188

Defense

117

Difficulty

0.08

Pokebattler scale

Beating Mewtwo should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,294-2,387.

Weak tobug1.6xghost1.6xdark1.6x

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 Ghost Mega — most top counters attack with Ghost

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 Mewtwo counters are Mega Gengar, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Chandelure, Shadow Hydreigon & Shadow Absol.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Gengar
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Darkrai
S. Chandelure
S. Hydreigon
S. Absol

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 GengarMegapartyLick / Shadow Ball0.070:13
2Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.070:13
3Mega HoundoomMegaSnarl / Dark Pulse+0.070:13
4Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Moongeist Beam0.080:14
5Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.080:15
6Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.080:15
7Mega BanetteMegaShadow Claw / Shadow Ball0.090:15
8Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartyFeint Attack / Foul Play0.090:15
9Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.090:16
10Shadow HydreigonShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing0.090:16
11Shadow AbsolShadowpartySnarl / Brutal Swing0.090:16

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 Mewtwo Mega Mewtwo X Mega Mewtwo Y

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Top 15 Mewtwo 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 Gengarghostpoisonjoint top pick	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:13	0.07	0.1	3402.9%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:13	0.07	0.2	3398.9%
3	Mega Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:13	0.07	0.0	3353.6%
4	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	ghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:14	0.08	0.0	3198.6%
5	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:15	0.08	0.2	2954.5%
6	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:15	0.08	0.0	2902.9%
7	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:15	0.09	0.1	2829.2%
8	Shadow Darkraidark	darkFeint AttackdarkFoul Play	3,739	0:15	0.09	0.2	2815.5%
9	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:16	0.09	0.2	2789.3%
10	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	0:16	0.09	0.1	2770.9%
11	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	0:16	0.09	0.3	2734.5%
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin)ghostdragon	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,683	0:16	0.09	0.0	2730.7%
13	Mega Pinsirbugflying	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	4,182	0:16	0.09	0.0	2722.1%
14	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	0:16	0.09	0.2	2692.9%
15	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:16	0.09	0.7	2663.1%

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 Mewtwo.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Mewtwo'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	418%	2936.9%	0:15	0.2	0.08
Psycho Cut / Focus Blast	100%	553%	2729.7%	0:16	0.3	0.09
Confusion / Focus Blast	100%	439%	2867.4%	0:15	0.3	0.08
Psycho Cut / Psychic	100%	501%	2906.7%	0:15	0.1	0.08
Confusion / Psychic	100%	448%	2913.6%	0:15	0.2	0.08
Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	100%	444%	2920.1%	0:15	0.1	0.08
Psycho Cut / Flamethrower	100%	486%	2928.6%	0:15	0.1	0.08
Confusion / Thunderbolt	100%	414%	2979.5%	0:15	0.1	0.08
Psycho Cut / Ice Beam	100%	450%	2997.6%	0:15	0.0	0.08
Confusion / Flamethrower	100%	457%	3007.3%	0:14	0.0	0.08
Confusion / Ice Beam	100%	397%	3069.4%	0:14	0.0	0.08

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…

Mewtwo 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 Mewtwo 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
fightingFocus Blast	140	-100	3.5s	3.00s
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
fireFlamethrower	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
electricThunderbolt	80	-50	2.5s	1.80s
iceIce Beam	95	-50	3.5s	1.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	2,294	2,868
11/11/11	2,312	2,891
12/12/12	2,331	2,914
13/13/13	2,350	2,937
14/14/14	2,368	2,961
15/15/15hundo	2,387	2,984

Caught CP range 2,294 - 2,387, or 2,868 - 2,984 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.

Mewtwo 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 188 / Defense 117 (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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Gengar top pickghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	88%	3402.9%	0.07	0:13	0.1	100%	4,336	49.5	605
2	Mega Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	85%	3398.9%	0.07	0:13	0.2	100%	3,383	47.8	556
3	Mega Houndoom top pickdarkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,842	46.7	607
4	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam	Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	96%	3198.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,099	50.6	688
5	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	77%	2954.5%	0.08	0:15	0.2	100%	3,301	42.8	566
6	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	77%	2902.9%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,814	44.9	664
7	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	73%	2829.2%	0.09	0:15	0.1	100%	3,594	43.3	639
8	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Feint Attack / Foul Play	Feint Attack / Foul Play+14 more movesets	75%	2815.5%	0.09	0:15	0.1	100%	3,739	40.3	570
9	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	71%	2789.3%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	3,268	40.1	575
10	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	75%	2770.9%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	3,625	41.9	632
11	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	69%	2734.5%	0.09	0:16	0.3	100%	2,526	41.0	553
12	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	75%	2730.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,683	38.8	614
13	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	70%	2722.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,182	38.6	605
14	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	74%	2692.9%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	3,834	40.3	599
15	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	62%	2663.1%	0.09	0:16	0.6	100%	2,878	39.8	475
16	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	71%	2658.3%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,739	38.9	637
17	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	77%	2651.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	5,347	41.4	679
18	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	77%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,428	37.2	613
19	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Shadow Ball	Counter / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	71%	2546.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	6,112	36.1	619
20	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	63%	2533.5%	0.10	0:17	0.3	100%	3,117	37.6	545
21	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	65%	2529.8%	0.10	0:17	0.2	100%	3,005	37.9	565
22	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	67%	2511.7%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	3,784	35.1	568
23	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	61%	2492.9%	0.10	0:17	0.4	100%	3,749	37.0	544
24	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	67%	2472.8%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,178	38.7	681
25	Lunala psychicghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+11 more movesets	70%	2463.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,042	34.7	614
26	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	62%	2416.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,510	36.3	645
27	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Quick Attack / Brave Bird+	Quick Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	60%	2408.7%	0.10	0:18	0.2	100%	3,979	33.9	549
28	Shadow Pinsir bugshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	58%	2398.3%	0.10	0:18	0.3	100%	2,959	35.1	526
29	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	59%	2375.8%	0.10	0:18	0.1	100%	3,057	34.5	576
30	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	61%	2354.4%	0.10	0:19	0.1	100%	2,994	39.9	705

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