Parasect counters

#0047

bug grassTier 1

Lobby CP

5,594

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

107

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Parasect should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,002-1,062.

Weak toflying2.56xfire2.56xpoison1.6xrock1.6xbug1.6xice1.6x

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 Parasect counters are Shadow Toucannon, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres, Mega Delphox, Shadow Staraptor & Shadow Blaziken.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Toucannon
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
M. Delphox
S. Staraptor
S. Blaziken

3 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 %

1Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.040:07
2Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.040:08
3Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.040:08
4Mega DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Flamethrower0.040:08
5Mega SalamenceMegaFire Fang / Fly0.040:08
6Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Flamethrower0.040:08
7Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Fly0.040:08
8Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Fly0.040:08
9Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08
10Shadow EmboarShadowEmber / Blast Burn0.050:08

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 Parasect

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Top 15 Parasect 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	Shadow Toucannonnormalflyingjoint top pick	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
2	Shadow Salamencedragonflyingjoint top pick	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:08	0.04	5737.0%
3	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:08	0.04	5633.2%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,783	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
5	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
6	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,455	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
7	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingFly	3,979	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
8	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
9	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,848	0:08	0.05	5165.9%
10	Shadow Emboarfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,982	0:08	0.05	5165.9%
11	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
12	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingAerial Ace	5,713	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
13	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
14	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	3,850	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
15	Shadow Charizardfireflying	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,889	0:08	0.05	5129.4%

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 Parasect.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Parasect'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”: 2 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%	1490%	5507.5%	0:08	0.04
Fury Cutter / Solar Beam	100%	1925%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Struggle Bug / Solar Beam	100%	1641%	5517.2%	0:08	0.04
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	100%	1426%	5546.4%	0:08	0.04
Struggle Bug / Cross Poison	100%	1332%	5556.2%	0:08	0.04
Struggle Bug / X-Scissor	100%	1415%	5556.2%	0:08	0.04
Fury Cutter / Cross Poison	100%	1308%	5585.9%	0:08	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…

Parasect 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.

flying2.56x fire2.56x poison1.6x rock1.6x bug1.6x ice1.6x normal1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x ground0.39x grass0.39x

Double weak (2)
Weak (4)
Neutral (7)
Resists (5)

It resists ground0.39xgrass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Parasect throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugStruggle BugSTAB	15	+15	1.5s	1.20s
bugFury CutterSTAB	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassSolar BeamSTAB	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
poisonCross Poison	40	-33	1.5s	0.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,002	1,252
11/11/11	1,014	1,267
12/12/12	1,026	1,282
13/13/13	1,038	1,297
14/14/14	1,050	1,313
15/15/15hundo	1,062	1,328

Caught CP range 1,002 - 1,062, or 1,252 - 1,328 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.

Parasect 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 107 / Defense 96 (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	Shadow Toucannon top picknormalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	93%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,689	83.9	629
2	Shadow Salamence top pickdragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	96%	5737.0%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,749	88.1	668
3	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	100%	5633.2%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,465	86.3	667
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+23 more movesets	91%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,783	79.5	636
5	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	99%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,031	80.0	640
6	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+29 more movesets	96%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,455	75.6	605
7	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+19 more movesets	97%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	77.5	620
8	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	86%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,825	78.1	625
9	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	85%	5165.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,848	77.9	657
10	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	85%	5165.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,982	76.2	643
11	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	90%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,161	87.2	741
12	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Aerial Ace	Air Slash / Aerial Ace+11 more movesets	88%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,713	74.5	633
13	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	94%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,754	73.1	621
14	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	86%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,850	73.2	622
15	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	84%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	72.7	618
16	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	81%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	72.7	618
17	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	78%	4915.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,590	69.7	618
18	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+17 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	67.8	610
19	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	78%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,749	68.0	612
20	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	83%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	90.0	810
21	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Sky Attack	Air Slash / Sky Attack+9 more movesets	87%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,741	67.8	610
22	Shadow Unfezant normalflyingshadow Air Slash / Sky Attack	Air Slash / Sky Attack+5 more movesets	73%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,734	66.7	600
23	Moltres fireflying Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	83%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,465	67.9	611
24	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	73%	4791.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,059	79.3	720
25	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	76%	4718.6%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,683	75.9	701
26	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Snarl / Brave Bird	Snarl / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	68%	4708.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,711	68.4	631
27	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	78%	4628.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,835	85.1	801
28	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Fusion Flare	Ice Fang / Fusion Flare+17 more movesets	74%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,605	66.8	634
29	Cinderace fire Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	72%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,018	67.0	636
30	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Drill Peck	Thunder Shock / Drill Peck+11 more movesets	75%	4574.9%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,527	63.6	606

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.