Palpitoad counters

#0536

water groundTier 1

Lobby CP

3,900

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Palpitoad should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 742-795.

Weak tograss2.56x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Grass Mega — most top counters attack with Grass

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 Palpitoad counters are Mega Sceptile, Shadow Sceptile, Shaymin (Sky), Kartana, Zarude & Shadow Tangrowth.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Sceptile
S. Sceptile
Shaymin (Sky)
Kartana
Zarude
S. Tangrowth

2 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 SceptileMegapartyFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.030:06
2Shadow SceptileShadowpartyBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.040:06
3Shaymin (Sky)LegendarypartyMagical Leaf / Grass Knot0.040:07
4KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.040:07
5Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.040:07
6ZarudeLegendarypartyVine Whip / Power Whip0.040:07
7Mega VictreebelMegaRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.040:07
8Shadow TangrowthShadowpartyVine Whip / Power Whip0.040:07
9Mega VenusaurMegaVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.040:07
10Shadow ChesnaughtShadowVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.040:07

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 Palpitoad 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 Sceptilegrassdragonjoint top pick	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Shadow Sceptilegrass	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:06	0.04	6708.2%
3	Shaymin (Sky)grassflying	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	3,592	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
4	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
5	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	4,093	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
6	Zarudedarkgrass	grassVine WhipgrassPower Whip	3,833	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
7	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,505	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
8	Shadow Tangrowthgrass	grassVine WhipgrassPower Whip	3,030	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
9	Mega Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	3,698	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
10	Shadow Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,954	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
11	Shadow Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,720	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
12	Shadow Tangelagrass	grassVine WhipgrassGrass Knot	2,238	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
13	Shadow Meganiumgrass	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,410	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
14	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
15	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5315.9%

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 Palpitoad.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Palpitoad'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%	2022%	6228.9%	0:07	0.04
Mud Shot / Water Pulse	100%	2086%	6228.9%	0:07	0.04
Mud Shot / Earth Power	100%	2060%	6228.9%	0:07	0.04
Mud Shot / Sludge Wave	100%	2244%	6228.9%	0:07	0.04
Bubble / Water Pulse	100%	1835%	6228.9%	0:07	0.04
Bubble / Earth Power	100%	1816%	6228.9%	0:07	0.04
Bubble / Sludge Wave	100%	1992%	6228.9%	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…

Palpitoad 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.

grass2.56x normal1x fighting1x flying1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x water1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x poison0.63x rock0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x electric0.63x

Double weak (1)
Neutral (12)
Resists (5)

It resists poison0.625xrock0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Palpitoad throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterBubbleSTAB	10	+12	1.0s	0.55s
groundMud ShotSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonSludge Wave	105	-100	3.0s	1.80s
groundEarth PowerSTAB	100	-50	3.5s	2.60s
waterWater PulseSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	742	928
11/11/11	752	941
12/12/12	763	954
13/13/13	774	967
14/14/14	784	981
15/15/15hundo	795	994

Caught CP range 742 - 795, or 928 - 994 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.

Palpitoad 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 85 / Defense 74 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	100%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	4,056	100.9	605
2	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	85%	6708.2%	0.04	0:06	100%	2,757	92.5	601
3	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	83%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,592	91.3	639
4	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	65%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,677	100.4	753
5	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+20 more movesets	76%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,093	91.6	687
6	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	74%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,833	85.4	640
7	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	66%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,505	84.2	631
8	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	71%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,030	88.4	663
9	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	71%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,698	90.7	680
10	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	70%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,954	91.4	685
11	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	66%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,720	90.6	679
12	Shadow Tangela grassshadow Vine Whip / Grass Knot	Vine Whip / Grass Knot+7 more movesets	58%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,238	76.9	615
13	Shadow Meganium grassshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	61%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,410	75.3	602
14	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	70%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	76.0	608
15	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	69%	5315.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	82.1	673
16	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	52%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,431	76.3	648
17	Roserade grasspoison Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+29 more movesets	56%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,971	78.7	669
18	Shadow Shiftry grassdarkshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+15 more movesets	53%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,333	73.7	626
19	Tsareena grass Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+17 more movesets	58%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,964	72.7	618
20	Chesnaught grassfighting Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	59%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,954	72.7	618
21	Decidueye grassghost Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Magical Leaf / Frenzy Plant+19 more movesets	59%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,775	73.1	621
22	Venusaur grasspoison Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	57%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,720	70.8	602
23	Meowscarada grassdark Leafage / Grass Knot	Leafage / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	55%	5023.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,825	77.8	675
24	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb	Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb+11 more movesets	53%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,014	79.2	713
25	Shadow Alolan Exeggutor grassdragonshadow Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb	Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb+7 more movesets	54%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,014	77.8	700
26	Shadow Sirfetch'd fightingshadow Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade	Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade+7 more movesets	49%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,985	73.3	660
27	Arboliva grassnormal Razor Leaf / Trailblaze	Razor Leaf / Trailblaze+11 more movesets	52%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,959	66.7	600
28	Breloom grassfighting Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb	Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb+11 more movesets	50%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,628	68.0	612
29	Tangrowth grass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	53%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,030	68.2	614
30	Shadow Serperior grassshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+7 more movesets	51%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,277	68.9	620

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.